'Amplify' interview

On sunday, 9 February 2025, I was interviewed by Fr. Ron Lengwin for his "Amplify" programme over Pittsburgh radio station KDKA. The topic was, of course, my new book, Citizenship Without Illusions. This was almost certainly the longest interview I have given, lasting from 9 pm until 11 pm with three breaks at the hour and half hour marks. Fr. Ron has been on the air for 50 years, and "Amplify" has run for 52 years. You may be able to listen to the interview here if you live inside the United States, although I don't know whether this link will remain active indefinitely.

As a boy I was fascinated with radio broadcasting, especially after my father gave me a shortwave radio enabling me to tune in the world. Thus I found it a minor thrill to be on what may be the oldest commercial radio station in the US, whose call letters antedate the assignment of initial "W" call letters to stations east of the Mississippi. KDKA went on the air in November 1920, only two years after the end of the Great War and before radio began to make its way into the homes of North Americans