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From the Archives: "All Things Considered" Hosts Linda Wertheimer and Robert Siegel.

A Host of NPR's All Things Considered Linda Wertheimer. She has been with NPR since the network first went on the air with All Things Considered, May 3, 1971. Wertheimer recently came out with a book that looks back at some of the key events in American history as they were covered by NPR stations: Linda Wertheimer's Listening to America: Twenty-Five years in the Life of a Nation as Heard on National Public Radio (Houghton Mifflin). It was released May 29, 1995. The book marked the 25th Anniversary of the founding of NPR not ATC. (REBROADCAST FROM 4/5/95)

All Things Considered host Robert Siegel. He has co-anchored the show since 1987. He opened NPR's London Bureau in 1979, and was appointed as director of the News and Information Department in 1983. Siegel has recently edited The NPR Interviews, 1994 (Houghton Mifflin). (REBROADCAST FROM 11/21/94)

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Other segments from the episode on July 14, 1995

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, July 14, 1995: Interviews with Linda Wertheimer and Robert Siegel; Interview with Noah Adams; Commentary on the term "French" in the English language.

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