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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a big NPR and WAMU fan.  Sure, some of the reporters have weird vocal tics, but, I just find them amusing.  And, yeah, some of the programming is on the dull side (I'm talking to you, Metro Connection producers), but, you know, that's why God made XM (loove Outlaw Country and the 40s station).

What's interesting to me is that this thread has generated so many strong responses.  Wade Goodwyn fans of the world, unite!  He is the iconic NRP reporter -- great stories and a great voice.  Wade, take me to the Hill Country with you, please!

Eleanor Beardsley fascinates me -- I picture her growing up in Birmingham -- her dad was a doctor and they lived in a split-level.  In the summers, her mom drove Eleanor and her sister to the club every morning at 9 and picked her up at 4.  Eleanor was supposed to play tnnis and go to swim team, but, instead she spent the day sitting under a magnolia tree, reading.  Much to her parents' dismay, she turned down Duke and Vanderbilt in favor of Barnard because she wanted to live in NYC.  Of course her parents were right, she hated Barnard, and was repulsed by Columbia men.  She escaped to the Sorbonne for junior year abroad, and, in Paris she felt completely at home for the first time in her life.  Her parents had to send her older sister over to bring her home 2 weeks before the start of senior year.

After college, she spent a year slaving away at Vogue (she didn't make the cut for the Bloomingdale's buyer training program because she never did get the hang of percents and decimals).  She quit to nanny in Paris for a Times reporter and his family, and they introduced her to Alice Furlaud, NPR's Paris correspondent.  Alice hired her as a stringer and equipment-schlepper, and under Alice's tutelage, Eleanor started reporting stories on her own.  When Alice retired to Cape Cod, she fought hard for Eleanor to get a chance as correspondent (despite the fact that she found Eleanor's French accent just a touch too self-consciously nasal).  The rest is history.             [/quote]

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