I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.
I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.
It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.
With radio, the listener absorbs everything.
But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.
One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.