Letters

By Liane Hansen

Published December 29, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Host Liane Hansen reads from listeners' comments about the CD Wish List feature from earlier this month. Included are selections from Remi Gassmann's Music to the Ballet "Electronics", Del Close's How To Speak Hip, and Root Boy Slim & the Sex Change Band's self-titled debut.

Liane Hansen

Liane Hansen has been the host of NPR's award-winning Weekend Edition Sunday for 20 years. She brings to her position an extensive background in broadcast journalism, including work as a radio producer, reporter, and on-air host at both the local and national level. The program has covered such breaking news stories as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the capture of Saddam Hussein, the deaths of Princess Diana and John F. Kennedy, Jr., and the Columbia shuttle tragedy. In 2004, Liane was granted an exclusive interview with former weapons inspector David Kay prior to his report on the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The show also won the James Beard award for best radio program on food for a report on SPAM.