Christopher Lydon

Christopher Lydon (Children of Herakles moderator) has been a distinctive voice in print, television, and radio journalism for more than thirty years. In the '70s he covered the McGovern, Humphrey, Reagan, and Carter presidential campaigns for the New York Times Washington Bureau. In the '80s he anchored public television news on WGBH, Boston. In the '90s he founded "The Connection," smart talk radio also known as "Rush Limbaugh for Grown-ups"on WBUR Boston and seventy-five public stations around the country. In Jamaica, West Africa, and Southeast Asia in the past year, he has been developing a new local-global conversation, "Wide World", for broadcast and Internet transmission on his website, christopherlydon.org.