Tim Berge
General Manager of ICRT (International Community Radio Taiwan) and host of the Taiwan Talk podcast; longtime American radio broadcaster in Taipei since 1988.
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Aug 12, 2026
5:11
So I'd like to ask you what first brought you to Taiwan in the late 70s and early 80s and what your initial impressions of Taiwan were at that time.
Tim BergeGUEST
Okay, so my journey to Taiwan, there's maybe two things that started my journey in Taiwan.
Tim BergeGUEST
First, growing up in Minneapolis and the church that my family went to, they sponsored a missionary who was here in Taiwan.
Tim BergeGUEST
You know, and every four or five years they have furlough and they go back to the States.
Tim BergeGUEST
And so from a young age, I grew up learning these stories about, as they would always say back then, Formosa.
26 MINS LATER
31:55
What do you see as the broader importance of English language radio to the people of Taiwan today?