LAST WORD with John Meyer, Part I

I grew up in an FM radio station in Berkeley called KPFA.

I first started going there when I was seven. It was an educational station, and they’d do live theatrical broadcasts of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. I could memorise the lines, so I got some bit parts.

At 11, I got my own program telling fairy tales. I had speech coaches teach me how to tell a story on radio, create emotion and suspense.

I’d do one for 15 minutes and use the spare 15 minutes to interview kids around the station. Kids of famous people in