PRI's The World

The World brings one-of-a-kind international stories home to America.  Each weekday, host Lisa Mullins guides listeners through major issues and stories, linking global events directly to the American agenda.

The World's coverage is provided by a global network of international journalists.  The program also has access to the 250 BBC correspondents located around the world.  Unique in public radio, this network works in concert with the program's multinational team of producers and editors, and brings an exceptional depth of understanding and freshness of perspective to the program content.

The result is an award-winning hour of breaking news, in-depth features, hard-hitting commentaries, and thought-provoking interviews found nowhere else in U.S. news coverage.  The World — international news for an American audience.

Airs:  3 p.m. weekdays on KSTX 89.1 FM
Website:  www.theworld.org

About the Host

Lisa Mullins became chief anchor of the international radio news magazine PRI's The World in 1998. Since then, the program has doubled its audience and won critical acclaim for coverage of the war on terrorism and its implications worldwide. She has covered major news events around the United States and produced reports from mainland China, Hong Kong, Albania, Italy, Mexico, Slovakia and Northern Ireland.

During her years anchoring The World, Mullins has conducted more than 4,000 interviews with international newsmakers, including U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Mullins also hosts the American broadcast of the BBC documentary series "The Changing World," which covers such issues as the black market trade in guns and Muslims and modernity. She co-produced "The Vegetable Chronicles," an award-winning series of public radio documentaries about diet and disease. For six years, she hosted the American broadcast of the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Day concert.

Public radio program directors nationwide have praised Mullins as one of the best announcers in the public radio system. She received the bronze award for Best Network Anchor in the New York Festival's international radio competition, and "Boston Magazine" honored her with its Best Radio Voice award. In May 2005, she received an honorary Doctorate of Journalism from Simmons College in Boston.