Susan Stamberg
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I was so formal.
And in those early days when there weren't a whole lot of women on the air, in fact, none doing news, I was the first to anchor a nightly national news program.
1972 was all things considered.
We were imitating men.
So I was lowering my voice to sound as authoritative as I could.
And I hear in those tapes my getting looser and more relaxed with it.
I hear in more recent work speeding up to a point where it's almost too fast sometimes.
I've got to start slowing myself down again.
I hear those changes in music.
in voice, voice per se, but also, you know, a growth of confidence, which I hope happens to you.
I used to feel that radio, you keep doing it till you get it right.
You know, you practice it every day and someday it'll kick in.
And I hope that that happens too over the years.
Yes, I sat in.
I have to say, Terry, there's a lot of first women and feminist stuff in this book because I'm a believer in it.
But men gave me breaks every inch of the way.
He wasn't the first host of All Things Considered.
That was a man named Robert Conley.
But he was the second one, I think.
Mike Waters was doing the program.