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National Public Radio personalities
Ira Flatow, Tavis Smiley, Bill McGlaughlin, Nina Totenberg, Roxana Saberi, Cokie Roberts, List of National Public Radio personnel, Bob Edwards, Daniel Schorr, Terry Gross, Andrei Codrescu, Joe Frank, Delano Lewis, Anna Turner
ISBN/EAN: 9781155467450
Umbreit-Nr.: 3420551
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Englisch
Umfang: 76 S.
Format in cm: 0.4 x 24.6 x 18.9
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Erschienen am 02.02.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
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- Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 76. Chapters: Ira Flatow, Tavis Smiley, Bill McGlaughlin, Nina Totenberg, Roxana Saberi, Cokie Roberts, List of National Public Radio personnel, Bob Edwards, Daniel Schorr, Terry Gross, Andrei Codrescu, Joe Frank, Delano Lewis, Anna Turner, Marian McPartland, Ben Abell, John Feinstein, Ira Glass, Andy Carvin, Randy Cohen, T.R. Reid, Will Shortz, Brian Lehrer, Oscar Brand, Sarah Chayes, Jake Warga, Vivian Schiller, Scott Simon, Tom Magliozzi, Diane Rehm, Margot Adler, Luke Burbank, Frank Deford, Kim Williams, Davar Ardalan, Robert Krulwich, Alison Stewart, Bill Siemering, Farai Chideya, Fiona Ritchie, Michael Krasny, Patt Morrison, Askia Muhammad, Ron Christie, Carl Kasell, Kojo Nnamdi, Robert Conley, Ketzel Levine, Laura Sullivan, Ari Shapiro, Michele Norris, Brooke Gladstone, Linda Wertheimer, Dina Temple-Raston, Peter Sagal, Susan Stamberg, Ellen Weiss, Renée Montagne, Fred Child, Elna Baker, Ray Magliozzi, Bailey White, Kevin Klose, Liane Hansen, Michel Martin, Maria Hinojosa, Tony Kahn, Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, Noah Adams, Robert Siegel, Tony Cox, Sylvia Poggioli, Elaine Fantham, Lee Frischknecht, The Kitchen Sisters, Neal Conan, Joe Bevilacqua, David Folkenflik, Roderick MacLeish, Mary Kay Magistad, Mara Liasson, Alex Blumberg, Jad Abumrad, Kenneth Turan, Rebecca Roberts, Bob Garfield, Daniel Zwerdling, Jen Banbury, Jay Allison, Steve Curwood, Alex Chadwick, Emil Guillermo, Madeleine Brand, Lisa Mullins, Tom Ashbrook, Rose Aguilar, Lauretta Hannon, Steve Proffitt, Ken Rudin, Ken Stern, Lynn Neary, Don Quayle, Mike Pesca, Melissa Block, Kevin Kling, Nell Greenfieldboyce, Lakshmi Singh, Russell Roberts, Adam Felber, Nikki Silva, Amy Walters, Charisse Jones, Doualy Xaykaothao, Frank Stasio, Andrea Seabrook, Steve Inskeep, Judy Muller, Steve Post, Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, David Kestenbaum, Dan Gediman, William J. Drummond, Tom Gjelten, Baxter Black, Jacki Lyden, Bob Boilen, Jon Hamilton, Don Gonyea, Michael D. Sullivan, Ann Taylor, Debbie Elliott, Bill Littlefield, Barbara Bogaev, Craig Windham, Annie Baxter. Excerpt: Tavis Smiley (pronounced; born September 13, 1964) is a talk show host, author, political commentator, entrepreneur, advocate and philanthropist. Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi and grew up in Kokomo, Indiana. After attending Indiana University, he worked during the late 1980s as an aide to Tom Bradley, the mayor of Los Angeles. Smiley became a radio commentator in 1991, and starting in 1996 he hosted the talk show BET Talk (later renamed BET Tonight) on BET. Controversially, after Smiley sold an exclusive interview of Sara Jane Olson to ABC News in 2001, BET declined to renew Smiley's contract that year. Smiley then began hosting The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR from 2002 to 2004 and currently hosts Tavis Smiley on PBS on the weekdays and "The Tavis Smiley Show" from PRI. Most recently, he and best friend Dr. Cornel West have joined forces for their own radio talk show, "Smiley & West". Tavis Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, the son of Joyce Marie Roberts, a single mother who first became pregnant at age 18. On September 13, 1966, just shy of his second birthday, his mother married Emory Garnell Smiley, a non-commisioned officer in the U.S. Air Force. It would not be until a few years later that Tavis would learn the identity of his biological father, whom he identifies in his autobiography, What I Know For Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America only as "T." His fami.