Neal Conan, Longtime Host Of NPR's 'Talk Of The Nation,' Dies At 71

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Neal Conan, who spent 36 years with National Public Radio and 11 years as the host of the network's Talk of the Nation died Tuesday in Hawaii of glioblastoma at the age of 71.

"I met Neal almost 50 years ago, at a small, hopeless FM radio station in New York City, WRVR. Neal spent much of what would have been his college years, if he'd attended, working at New York's Pacifica noncommercial radio station, WBAI, where he took his first radio job as an engineer.

When I first knew him, while we hosted a WRVR news program together, he used to wear a railroad engineer's cap. "They don't make announcer's caps," he'd explain.

The Neal I knew was funny, smart and 100% radio, with an incurable curiosity and the silvery voice of an Irish tenor".