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Doug Moe: New chapter begins for Karl Schmidt, WPR’s ‘Chapter a Day’ reader

Karl Schmidt puts images in people?s heads. His vivid reading of great books across seven decades on public radio has seen to that. The thing is, Schmidt himself occasionally fixes on an image he can?t shake. One involved a longtime listener to the Wisconsin Public Radio “Chapter a Day” program Schmidt has handled off and on, mostly on, since 1941.