Frank Stasio
sot@wunc.org
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.From there he went to National Public Radio, where he rose from associate producer to newscaster for All Things Considered. He left that job in 1990 to help start an alternative school in Washington, DC. Frank returned to NPR as a freelance news anchor, guest host of Talk of The Nation and other national programs, and host of special news coverage.
He also presents audio theater workshops for children and teachers and conducts radio journalism workshops for broadcasters in former Soviet-bloc countries. He lives in Durham.
Reports and features by Frank Stasio
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"Going Away Shoes"
Tuesday, February 09 2010 Frank Stasio and Susan DavisAuthor Jill McCorkle stops by to read from her latest collection and reflect on the writing life of a Southern woman.
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Meet the Taylor Women
Monday, February 08 2010 Frank Stasio and Katy BarronThree generations of Taylors: sister Kate along with her daughter, Liz Witham, and her mother, Trudy Taylor, join host Frank Stasio to talk about the lasting impact their time in North Carolina has had on the family and its music.
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Schooner
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"Who Was This Man?"
Friday, February 05 2010 Frank Stasio and Lindsay ThomasAl Letson is the host of the Public Radio Exchange program "The State of the Re: Union." The show captures glimpses of American life as it travels from state-to-state to document interesting people and events. For Black History Month, Letson and his team assembled a special program featuring the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin.
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Existed
Friday, February 05 2010 Frank Stasio and Lindsay ThomasThe work of visual artist Leonardo Drew is being honored at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro with a mid-career retrospective of his pieces called "Existed."
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Wilderness and the American Mind
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Septima Clark
Thursday, February 04 2010 Frank Stasio and Katy Barron


