Co-Host, Neal Conan

Neal Conan may be best known as the long time host of “Talk of the Nation,” where he also played a key role as an anchor of NPR’s live coverage of 9/11 and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Previously, he served as Bureau Chief in New York and London and covered wars in the Middle East and Northern Ireland. He served as editor, producer and executive producer of NPR’s flagship news magazine “All Things Considered” and filled in as Foreign Editor, Managing Editor and News Director. Conan’s work has been honored with DuPont-Columbia, Major Armstrong and Peabody awards. On leave in 2000, Conan worked as the play-by-play announcer of the Aberdeen Arsenal of the independent Atlantic league and wrote a book, “Play by Play: Baseball, Radio and Life in the Last Chance League.” He now splits time between Big Timber, Montana and the Big Island of Hawaii, where he farms macadamia nuts and files “The Pacific News Minute” for Hawaii Public Radio.