John O'Brien
Senior Producer, All Things Considered
About
John O’Brien is KUOW's All Things Considered Senior Producer. He spends his days setting up interviews with newsmakers on subjects from politics and public health to arts and culture. John learned to make radio starting in 2006 as an intern on KUOW’s The Conversation with Ross Reynolds.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English
Pronouns: he/him
Podcasts
Stories
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When theatres went dark, stagehands worked to keep their unique community protected
‘Every time you let out an ooh or an aah because you've seen something on stage, there's someone backstage who worked really, really hard to make that happen. They live for those moments.’
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Poet’s search for grace, justice amid historic and current anti-Asian hate
Brian Komei Dempster’s ‘poetry of remembering, and the reverberations of our ancestors.’
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Jess Zimmerman subverts the dominant monster myth paradigm
‘These are the bedtime stories the patriarchy tells itself.’
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Glowing bunnies and climate change denial. What could go wrong?
Nathaniel Rich considers ‘the horrific interconnectedness of all things’
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Raising boys the non-toxic way: a how-to manual
‘I want him to be able to have those qualities that I saw men wanting, but not being able to have. Like being able to cry.’
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A visionary constellation of poetry, five decades in the making
Lyric World presents the celebrated poet Arthur Sze
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Bill Gates is bullish on climate change mitigation, but warns ‘We don’t have time to waste’
How to unmake a man-made global disaster
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Becoming Rebecca Solnit: a room and a life of her own
‘I was trying not to be the subject of someone else’s poetry and not to get killed.’
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Lawrence Wright looks for America through the lens of Covid-19
How the acclaimed writer and investigative journalist saw it coming
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Seattle leaders talk gender inequality, and the ‘glass cliff’ problem
On suffering and surviving the slings and arrows of a woman leader’s fortune