I learned some interesting information about Gloria Steinem's life that I didn't know before, and basically I agree with her beliefs. She reads well -- the piece seems to suffer a bit from shortening to fit the format, five minutes isn't really very long. I didn't think the tone in which the introduction was read was very inviting -- too neutral and uninvolved for this kind of feature in this day and age -- I suspect beliefs are mostly more subtle and less dogmatic now than they were when the original series ran.

I think my expectations about how announcers should sound have changed a lot since living in Canada. I prefer the more personal, humble and inviting tones of Canadian announcers to the more distant, authoritative and ungiving ones of most US public radio announcers.