I have been looking forward to reading/hearing this story since I saw a review of an animated film of the story on scifi.com (the review was fairly negative, but doled out great respect for the story).
I ended up running errands while I listened to this piece.
At about the 27 minute mark I got out of the car where my mp3 player was plugged into the radio.
With the ability to stop and reflect about the story partway through, I walked about my errand and thought to myself that although Steve gave the tear jerker warning I did not see how the information about the person and robot we should care about, provided in 3rd hand information, from a narrator who is in no way a compassionate person, could cause me to tear up within the few minutes I had left to listen.
Of course by the end, the tears were flowing.
Good Job, Mike.