Early childhood and the Barnard family household

This is a new series where Bob Sansevere interviews Tom Barnard, one-on-one, about his life. It's a focused show whose ultimate goal is to be compiled into a memoir. In essence, it's a mini-series with a beginning and an end. When will that end come? We won't know until we get there.

• Growing up poor in North Minneapolis
• Tom's grandparents and complicated family history
• Childhood memories of his mother and father
• Growing up with his brothers and sisters
• Working from a young age to help support the family
• Tom's relationship with his father and their eventual reconciliation
• Neighborhood life and the communities Tom grew up around
• Early jobs and learning to make his own money
• Discovering his voice and getting his start in radio
• The beginnings of the career that would eventually take him to KQRS