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Neal Conan
Host, NPR's 'Talk of the Nation'

Award-winning journalist Neal Conan is the host of Talk of the Nation, the national news-talk call-in show from NPR News. Conan brings 25 years of news and radio experience to the show.

Conan is familiar to listeners from his long involvement with NPR as a division-wide reporter for NPR News, anchoring NPR live events coverage, and work hosting NPR's Weekly Edition: The Best of NPR News. Before becoming the host of Talk of the Nation, Conan served as an NPR producer and editor, as NPR bureau chief in New York and London, and as NPR's defense correspondent.

Immediately after he became defense correspondent in February 1991, Conan went to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and later to Kuwait, to cover the Persian Gulf War. During this assignment, Conan was one of three-dozen journalists held in Iraq by the Republican Guard. He was released unharmed and returned to the United States in March 1991.

Conan was part of the NPR team honored with the 1992 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for coverage of the Gulf War. He also played a key role in NPR's coverage of Sept. 11, 2001 -- winner of the Overseas Press Club Award as well as the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award.

Among Conan's other honors: the 1987 Armstrong Award for his coverage of U.S. military actions in the Persian Gulf and two Citations of Excellence from the Overseas Press Club. During his tenure as producer and executive producer of All Things Considered, the show won numerous awards, including the Washington Journalism Review's Best in the Business Award.

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Robin Lustig
Host, BBC's 'Talking Point'

Born in 1948, Robin Lustig began his career as a print journalist. As a correspondent for Reuters news agency, he reported from Madrid, Paris and Rome. Lustig was also a writer and editor for Britain's oldest Sunday newspaper, The Observer. While with The Observer, Lustig reported from the Middle East.

Lustig began working at the BBC in 1989, hosting programs such as News Stand, a current affairs radio program. Currently, he hosts Talking Point, an Internet-linked global call-in show. He also hosts BBC World Service's Newshour and The World Tonight.

Lustig has won many awards, including a Sony Silver Radio Award as talk/news presenter of the year 1998 and a British Press Award commendation for coverage of the assassination of the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984. Lustig also won the New York Festival Gold Medal for live presentation from Moscow on the last day of the Soviet Union in December 1991.

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