08-11-2021, 07:21 PM
Big Island resident Neal Conan was a name familiar to every listener of Hawaii Public Radio, and National Public Radio.
He tried out for the job (Talk of the Nation) the week that began Sept. 10, 2001. His second day was Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists attacked in New York and Washington.
Neal Conan, a radio virtuoso who as a rigorous journalist and congenial raconteur anchored NPR’s flagship call-in program, “Talk of the Nation,” for 12 years, died on Tuesday at his farm in Hawi, Hawaii. He was 71.
He joined Hawaii Public Radio in 2014, and in 2017 he began a radio program and podcast called “Truth, Politics and Power” from Hawaii, where he had settled to farm macadamia nuts. He also produced “Pacific News Minute” for Hawaii Public Radio until November 2019.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/11/busin...-dead.html
From his friend and fellow announcer Robert Siegel:
https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/npr-ne...dies-at-71
He tried out for the job (Talk of the Nation) the week that began Sept. 10, 2001. His second day was Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists attacked in New York and Washington.
Neal Conan, a radio virtuoso who as a rigorous journalist and congenial raconteur anchored NPR’s flagship call-in program, “Talk of the Nation,” for 12 years, died on Tuesday at his farm in Hawi, Hawaii. He was 71.
He joined Hawaii Public Radio in 2014, and in 2017 he began a radio program and podcast called “Truth, Politics and Power” from Hawaii, where he had settled to farm macadamia nuts. He also produced “Pacific News Minute” for Hawaii Public Radio until November 2019.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/11/busin...-dead.html
From his friend and fellow announcer Robert Siegel:
https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/npr-ne...dies-at-71