PRI'S THE WORLD

About the Show

The first global radio news program developed specifically for an American audience, The World is co-produced by Public Radio International, BBC World Service, and WGBH-FM Boston. This one-hour weekday news program provides reports on science and technology, business, environment, sports, and music from around the globe to explore the complexity of geopolitics on a vast scale. Providing focus and context, it informs the American audience with an international perspective.

About the Host

Lisa Mullins is the anchor and senior producer of The World. In addition to hosting from the Boston studios, Mullins has produced and reported from China, Albania, Italy, Mexico, and Northern Ireland. She anchored the program from Hong Kong when the territory was handed back to China in 1997 and in 1996, she covered the Republican National Convention in San Diego and anchored that year’s presidential election coverage from Washington.

Her reports have aired on NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Performance Today. She co-produced The Vegetable Chronicles, an award-winning series of public radio documentaries about diet and disease. For 6 years, she hosted the American broadcast of the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Day concert, performed in the Austrian capital.

Public radio program directors across the United States named Mullins one of the best announcers in the public radio system. She has received the bronze award for Best Network Anchor in the New York Festival’s international radio competition, and Boston Magazine honored her with its Best Radio Voice award. Her interview with the Episcopal bishop of Honduras, Leo Frade, won The World the Golden Reel Award from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters in the National News and Public Affairs category.

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