My Car Plays Tapes is a tale of captivating storytelling, focusing on John Osborne’s life as a support worker and a nostalgic look at what happens when you listen to old tapes from the 1990s. Getting older, jobs, cars that don’t really work, and how to make big decisions with your life are all thematically linked in the rearview mirror of Osborne’s life, as told through this prose pamphlet.