Five Minutes in America is a weekday, five-minute radio storytelling feature hosted by Tony Michaels.
Each episode begins with an ordinary place, person, object, or memory—and follows the story toward something lasting about character, citizenship, dignity, liberty, work, and neighborliness.
Some stories live in Coffman’s Landing, a fictional Missouri lake town filled with front porches, bait shops, workshops, courthouse squares, and people still learning how to live beside one another. Other stories travel wherever an American life has something worth passing along.
About Tony Michaels
Tony Michaels is a broadcaster, publisher of The Coffman Chronicle, and American storyteller based in central Missouri. His work draws on working people, family memory, small-town life, constitutional principles, and the ordinary moments that reveal who we are.
Five Minutes in America is written, voiced, sound-dressed, and delivered for radio—five days a week, five minutes at a time.