Rough Translation

Host: Gregory Warner
Category:
News & Politics > News
Storytelling > Original Stories
Podcast Samples:
The Mind Of The Mark


About the Podcast

NPR’s award-winning podcast presents perspective-shifting stories from abroad, hosted by Gregory Warner and featuring stories from correspondents in NPR’s 17 international bureaus. Nothing tells us more about the rules we follow than stories of people who break them. How are the things we're talking about being talked about somewhere else in the world? Gregory Warner tells stories that follow familiar conversations into unfamiliar territory. Stories that are shared range from an Iraqi nurse who dares to pull ISIS bodies from Mosul’s rubble, to an Indonesian addiction counselor who says abstinence is overrated, to a French immigrant who got his education at an out-of-the-way McDonald’s and is using it to keep the place open; and other everyday rebels from India, Israel, China, and the U.S. At a time when the world seems small but it’s as hard as ever to escape our echo chambers, Rough Translation takes you places.

About the Host

Gregory Warner

Gregory Warner is the host of NPR's Rough Translation, a podcast about how things we're talking about in the United States are being talked about in some other part of the world. Whether interviewing a Ukrainian debunker of Russian fake news, a Japanese apology broker navigating different cultural meanings of the word "sorry," or a German dating coach helping a Syrian refugee find love, Warner's storytelling approach takes us out of our echo chambers and leads us to question the way we talk about the world. Rough Translation has received the Lowell Thomas Award from the Overseas Press Club and a Scripps Howard Award. In his role as host, Warner draws on his own overseas experience. As NPR's East Africa correspondent, he covered the diverse issues and voices of a region that experienced unparalleled economic growth as well as a rising threat of global terrorism. Before joining NPR, he reported from conflict zones around the world as a freelancer. He climbed mountains with smugglers in Pakistan for This American Life, descended into illegal mineshafts in the Democratic Republic of Congo for Marketplace's "Working" series, and lugged his accordion across Afghanistan on the trail of the "Afghan Elvis" for Radiolab. Warner has also worked as senior reporter for American Public Media's Marketplace, endeavoring to explain the economics of American health care. He's used puppets to illustrate the effects of Internet diagnostics on the doctor-patient relationship, and composed a Suessian poem to explain the correlation between health care job growth and national debt. His musical journey into the shadow world of medical coding won a Best News Feature award from the Third Coast International Audio Festival. Warner has won a Peabody Award and awards from Edward R. Murrow, New York Festivals, AP, and PRNDI. He earned his degree in English from Yale University.

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