From Uptalk To Downtown 'New Yawk,' Robert Siegel Explored How We Speak
The longtime All Things Considered host describes how being a New Yorker, and his parents' experiences as first-generation English speakers, helped shape his interest in language and voice.
For 30 years, Robert Siegel has pretty much been the voice of All Things Considered. He steps down from the host chair on Jan. 5.
During his career, one of the recurrent themes of his reporting has been language — and how we speak.
Back in 1993, he reported on what he heard as something new in speech.
"I heard it mostly from young women, but it was spreading among men, too: the phenomenon of making co-host Audie Cornish.
