Taki Telonidis has been producing public radio for more than 20 years, first with NPR in Washington D.C. and more recently with collaborator Hal Cannon of the Western Folklife Center. Their work has appeared on NPR's Weekend Edition and PRI's Marketplace and The Savvy Traveler. From 1994 to 1998, Taki was Senior Producer of NPR's Weekend All Things Considered. Telonidis has received the CPB’s Gold and Silver Awards.
From Sagebrush to Steppe
By Hal Cannon & Taki Telonidis
Two years ago a group of Mongolian herdsmen and musicians traveled to Elko, Nevada, to participate in the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. (more)
Interview
By Hal Cannon & Taki Telonidis
With a little savvy and practice, magic can happen between two people and a microphone. Taki Telonidis and Hal Cannon outline the basic elements of conducting an interview, both in technical and human terms, by playing great examples and bringing in the wisdom of master interviewers on public radio. (more)
Healing the Wound of Wounded Knee
By Hal Cannon & Taki Telonidis
Leonard Little Finger is the great-great grandson of Chief Big Foot, whose band of Lakota Sioux Indians were killed at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890. (more)
Dental Deja Vu
By Gwen Macsai & Taki Telonidis
Producer Gwen Macsai was 31 when, for the second time in her life, she was subjected to that ubiquitous teenage torture device . . . the dental retainer. (more)
