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"Funny, when I moved to Alaska I thought I was coming to the end of the world. I had no idea that with the flick of a switch, the world would come to me. I just had to learn that my private Alaska was right there on the air, on public radio."
Transcript
Morning Edition
Commentary: Public Radio in Alaska
On-Air Fundraising Partnership
My Own Private Alaska
by Geo Beach
[Host Intro:
When commentator Geo Beach lived in Boston and New York City, he never listened to public radio. Then he moved to Alaska. ]
My own private Alaska is simple: a plain house whose most beautiful aspect is what's not there - a square hole where the window lets in what's outside.
That's one of the lessons of Alaska - even if you're a rugged individualist, you don't want to get walled off, you want to let the world in. When I came here almost 20 years ago from a big fast back-east city, I didn't bring many things. But the empty cabin I moved into had a transistor radio, and one night in a Joni Mitchell whisper it called to me You turn me on I'm a radio.
And public radio became the soundtrack to Alaska. Public radio played in my cabin...
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Review of My Own Private Alaska
Want something a little different for pledge drive? listeners fed up with "call in your pledge now please... send us money etc..?" well here is a homage to public radio, combined with some lovely writing on what life is all about in small town Alaska. Part commentary, part extended funder spot, makes you glad your in the business of public radio. Whether it will make the phones ring, that is another question...! HW.