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Marco Werman alternate host and senior producer on PRI's "The World." He oversees production of the program's daily Global Hit segment, and he serves as alternate host for the show. Werman has been working in journalism since he was 16 year-old copy boy at the "News and Observer" in Raleigh, N.C. He discovered radio journalism while working as a freelancer for two years just north of Togo in Burkina Faso for the BBC World Service, where he later worked as a producer. In 1990, he launched a new public radio station in New York State's Adirondacks and hosted a daily two-hour news and public affairs show there for four years. This was followed by a stint in Rome, Italy, where he was the correspondent for Monitor Radio. In 1995 he was invited to assist in creating the format for PRI's "The World." In 1997 he began providing its daily punctuation mark, the Global Hit segment, in which musicians and musical trends around the globe are linked to the news. Werman's experience includes documentary photography, print, radio and television. He co-produced and hosted "Nordic Rock," a 20-minute feature on cutting-edge electronic music in Iceland that appeared on PBS' "Frontline World." A 2007 Emmy Award-winner, he is currently developing a new series for PBS on global music called "Sound Tracks."

William McGlaughlin’s introduction to music came late; he was fourteen before he took his first piano lessons. “Happily, I understood immediately what a wonderful thing I’d stumbled into. I can remember thinking as I walked away from my second piano lesson – ‘Well, that’s it. I’ll be a musician.’ Of course, I had no idea what that decision meant exactly.” Over the years, McGlaughlin was to discover that ‘being a musician’ could embrace a great many paths. He has served as an educator, a performer, a trombonist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Pittsburgh symphony, and as a conductor – seven years as Associate Conductor with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, followed by periods as Music Director of orchestras in Eugene, OR, Tucson, AZ, and San Francisco, CA, and most recently, a twelve year engagement as Music Director of the Kansas City Symphony. He has also been active as a guest conductor, leading the Baltimore Symphony, Denver Symphony, Houston Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, National Symphony, New Orleans Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Opera Theatre St. Louis, American Music Theater Festival and San Antonio Festival. Bill McGlaughlin has also been active in broadcasting, serving as host of the popular public radio program St. Paul Sunday since its inception in 1980. In 1996 the program received the highest honor in broadcasting, the George Foster Peabody Award. McGlaughlin has also been active with PBS, the BBC and is now in his ninth season as co-host of the chamber music program Center Stage From Wolftrap. It was not until 1997 that McGlaughlin made a public debut in the role that he considers his most challenging – that of composer. His Three Dreams and a Question: Choral Songs on E.E. Cummings – a work dedicated to the memory of the young composer and pianist Kevin Oldham – was enthusiastically received by audiences, performers and press at its premiere with the Kansas City Symphony, and was quickly followed by five more premieres within a ten month span. Aaron’s Horizons, a work dedicated to the spirit of Aaron Copland, (with whom McGlaughlin worked in the 1970s), and has been heard nation wide in a broadcast with members of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. In the summer of 1998, Bill McGlaughlin signed a contract with Subito Music, which now publishes all of his work. His recent works include Walt Whitman’s Dream, for large chorus and orchestra, a work commissioned by Continental Harmony, a Millennium project sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Composers Forum. He has also composed a piece in collaboration with Garrison Keillor, Surveying Lake Wobegon, which has its premiere at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago on September 3, 2000, and has since been played by orchestras from coast to coast. In addition, he contributed a piece for a ‘quartet of neglected instruments’ for the December 23, 2000 Prairie Home Companion broadcast from Town Hall in New York. He composed a work in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Minneapolis Civic Orchestra, which was premiered on March 17, 2002. Three Pieces for Wind Trio was given its first performance at the Kemper Museum in Kansas City on June 1, 2002

Amy Walters is a producer for NPR based at NPR West in Los Angeles.

Geoff Nunberg is the linguist contributor on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross.

Ben Philpott covers politics and policy for KUT 90.5 FM. He has been covering state politics and dozens of other topics for the station since 2002. He's been recognized for outstanding radio journalism by the Radio and Television News Directors Association, Public Radio News Directors Incorporated, the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters and twice by the Houston Press Club as Radio Journalist of the Year. Before moving to Texas, he worked in public radio in Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, Ala., and at several television stations in Alabama and Tennessee. Born in New York City and raised in Chattanooga, Tenn., Philpott graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in broadcast journalism.

Composer and author Tom Manoff has been the classical music critic for NPR's All Things Considered since 1985.