With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.
That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world.
If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.
Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.
I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.
I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.
After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big aerial system to listen to radio programmes all over the world.
I have to thank country radio for believing in me.
I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.