On Saturday, I was interviewed on the John and Ken Show on KFI Radio in Los Angeles about “Whatever It Takes” and the Harlem Children’s Zone. Click here for audio. Added bonus: From about 2:30 to about 2:50 on this audio file, you can hear nine-day-old E.M. Tough crying in the background of the phone interview. Sorry about that, John and Ken.
Posts Tagged ‘interviews’
Los Angeles Radio
Monday, July 20th, 2009Dispatches audio
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Audio of my interview with the CBC Radio program “Dispatches” is now posted on the show’s website. Right-click here to download the podcast version (my interview starts at about 30 minutes in, after the story on the cheese bank), or click here and scroll down to listen to the interview alone. The “Dispatches” site summarizes the interview, conducted by host Rick MacInnes-Rae:
What’s the story on this Harlem Children’s Zone that’s captured the imagination of a president?
After all, for the longest time, the corner of 125th and Madison in Harlem was the intersection of poverty and failure.
But these days, for 97 blocks around, you’re in The Zone, a great big social experiment in education and hope.
More than 7,000 kids and their parents are being taught that just because they’re broke or living in public housing, it doesn’t mean they can’t succeed.
The program isn’t just trying to solve problems in education. It’s trying to bust poverty in America, according to journalist Paul Tough.
He’s the author of the new book Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest To Change Harlem And America.
CBC Radio
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Attention Canadians: Next Monday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m., I’ll be on “Dispatches,” on CBC Radio One, talking with the host, Rick MacInnes-Rae, about Whatever It Takes and the Harlem Children’s Zone. A few days after that, audio should be posted here.
Wine Country radio
Thursday, February 26th, 2009Earlier this week, I did an interview with Jeff Schechtman on KVON radio in Napa, California. Audio is now online. Here’s Jeff’s blog post about our talk:
The President said last night that when kids, especially inner city kids, drop out of school they are not only letting themselves down, but they are letting down their country. A noble thought, but what does it take to get these often poor children to to compete with their middle-class peers? Geoffrey Canada, asked himself that question, and proceeded to found the Harlem Children’s Zone, where he is testing ideas about education, poverty and parenting and trying to turn around the lives of Harlem’s children.
Santa Fe radio
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009Earlier this week, I spent a half-hour on the air with Diego Mulligan, host of the “Journey Home” program on Santa Fe Public Radio, talking about Whatever It Takes and the Harlem Children’s Zone.
Audio of our interview is here.
Dallas radio
Monday, February 23rd, 2009This afternoon I was interviewed for an hour on “Think,” with Krys Byrd, on KERA radio in Dallas.
Audio is here, but it will only be available for the next five days, they tell me.
Tumblon interview
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009Here’s an interview I did recently with Graham Scharf, one of the founders of a new parenting web site called Tumblon. We talked mostly about the parenting research I wrote about in chapter two of Whatever It Takes.
WAMU audio
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009is now up. My interview starts at about 30:00.
Kojo Nnamdi Show
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009Tomorrow at about 12:30 pm, I’ll be on the Kojo Nnamdi show on WAMU public radio in Washington, D.C., talking about Barack Obama’s urban-policy plans and the Harlem Children’s Zone.
To the Point audio
Friday, December 19th, 2008Audio of today’s discussion is now online. Click “listen.” We start about nine minutes in.