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Anita Rao Joins Frank Stasio As Regular Host Of The State Of Things

WUNC | By Frank Stasio,
Anita Rao
Published October 9, 2019 at 12:26 PM EDT
The State of Things Managing Editor Anita Rao will now regularly host the program and feature conversations from the recurring series 'Embodied' about sex, relationships and your health.
The State of Things Managing Editor Anita Rao will now regularly host the program and feature conversations from the recurring series 'Embodied' about sex, relationships and your health.

Managing Editor Anita Rao joined The State of Things as a producer in 2014. Since then, she has produced a wide range of conversations for the show and led the team’s efforts to broaden the program's scope and diversity of voices.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Managing Editor Anita Rao about becoming a regular host of The State of Things and launching the series Embodied.

Now she will continue that effort on the other side of the microphone as a regular host of the show.On a weekly basis,Rao will moderate discussions important to North Carolinians, including the new seriesEmbodied, which features candid conversations about sex, relationships and health. Host Frank Stasio talks with Rao about the series and her becoming a regular presence on the show. 

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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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Anita Rao
Anita Rao is the host and creator of "Embodied," a live, weekly radio show and seasonal podcast about sex, relationships & health. She's also the managing editor of WUNC's on-demand content. She has traveled the country recording interviews for the Peabody Award-winning StoryCorps production department, founded and launched a podcast about millennial feminism in the South, and served as the managing editor and regular host of "The State of Things," North Carolina Public Radio's flagship daily, live talk show. Anita was born in a small coal-mining town in Northeast England but spent most of her life growing up in Iowa and has a fond affection for the Midwest.
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