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Feb 20, 2025 30 min

John Barth on Bill Siemering

from The Lives They're Living Hosted by Ben Yagoda

John Barth has a long and distinguished career in public broadcasting, which started in earnest in the very early 1980s when he got a peculiar and life-changing phone call from Bill Siemering. Siemering--at left in the photo (Barth is at right)--is one of the Founding Fathers of National Public and, it could be argued, has done more than anyone else to shape NPR's identity. Audio from the first broadcast of "All Things Considered," May 3, 1971. "National Public Radio Purposes," mission statement written by Siermring in 1970. 2022 interview with Siemering.

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