In the first of two episodes, NPR international correspondent Rob Schmitz looks back at his decade in China, first as a Peace Corps volunteer and later as a reporter for "Marketplace" and NPR.

Rob recounts his life as one of few Westerners in Sichuan province in the 1990s; traveling with Arnold Schwarzenegger on a China trade trip; and moving to Germany for a new NPR assignment a few weeks before COVID-19 exploded across China.

For nearly 30 years, Chery Glaser kept morning commuters in LA up-to-date - first on commercial radio, and later on Southern California public radio powerhouse KCRW.

She was so well-known as KCRW's local host of NPR's "Morning Edition" that a Santa Monica kid who listened before school put Chery's name on her punk rock band.

Chery Glaser talks about public radio news - and that namesake punk band Cherry Glazerr.

Jane Lindholm's life in public radio began as a kid in the backseat of her dad's car, listening to Click & Clack on NPR's "Car Talk." Backseat kids still listen today, but now Jane does the talking in her "But Why?" children's podcast for Vermont Public Radio.

We'll talk with Jane about "But Why?" - and about her years reporting local news as the "Vermont Edition" host. She'll also look back at the time she listened to hours of elephant grunts for an NPR story!