All Things Considered Senior Host

Noah Adams, a senior host of National Public Radio's^® (NPR) award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered^®, brings more than three decades of radio experience to audiences across the country.

Adams' career in radio began in 1962 at WIRO/Ironton, Ohio, across the river from his native Ashland, Kentucky. He was a "good music" DJ on the morning shift, and played rock 'n' roll on Sandman's Serenade from 9 p.m. to midnight. Between shifts, he broadcast everything from basketball games to sock hops. From 1963 to 1965, Adams was on the air from WCMI/Ashland, WSAZ/Huntington, West Virgina, and WCYB/Bristol, Virginia.

After other radio work in Georgia and Kentucky, Adams left radio and spent six years working at various jobs: with a construction company, an automobile dealership and an advertising agency.

In 1971, he discovered public radio at WBKY-FM at the University of Kentucky. He began there as a part-time rock 'n' roll announcer but soon became involved in other projects including documentaries and a weekly bluegrass show. In 1974, he joined the staff full-time as host of a morning news and music program.

In 1975, Adams came to National Public Radio where he worked behind the scenes, editing and writing, for the next three years. He became co-host of Weekend All Things Considered^® in 1978 and, in September 1982, he was named weekday co-host.

During 1988, Adams hosted Minnesota Public Radio's Good Evening, a weekly show that blended music with storytelling. He returned to All Things Considered^® in February, 1989.

Over the years Adams has often reported from overseas; he covered the Christmas Eve uprising against the Ceausescu government in Romania, and his work from Serbia was honored by the Overseas Press Club in 1994.

He wrote and narrated the 1981 documentary, "Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown," which received the Prix Italia, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University, and Major Armstrong awards.

W.W. Norton published a 1990 collection of Adams' essays from Good Evening entitled "Saint Croix Notes: River Mornings, Radio Nights." In 1992, Norton published Adams' second book, Noah Adams on All Things Considered^®: A Radio Journal. Delacorte is the publisher of his most recent work, Piano Lessons: Music, Love and True Adventures, released in March, 1996. His latest book, also from Delacorte, is Far Appalachia: Following the New River North (April 2001).