My Almost Brilliant Radio Career
7 min readOct 3, 2021
My brilliant career in radio hasn’t happened (yet). Recently, Hurricane Ida nearly decimated the recordings of my earliest national broadcast appearances. Now I’m expediting a salvage dive of materials dating back to my days in high school.
When it comes to preservation, the performing arts have always had a spotty record. Motion pictures were seen as such a transient industry that thousands of silent…