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.

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance.

I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.