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...Lydon has had an eclectic media career, but it’s radio that always draws him back. In 1993, after decades in the print and television journalism industry and an unsuccessful run for Mayor of Boston, Lydon moved to Boston’s largest National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate, WBUR, where he created the syndicated radio show “The Connection...
...years ago, in a much-publicized battle with WBUR, host Lydon and his senior producer Mary McGrath walked out on their top-rated radio show, along with nearly their entire staff. In a battle to control ownership and a share of future growth in revenue, Lydon’s and McGrath’s salaries, at that time the highest in public radio, were leaked...
...built that show from scratch, and it became really, really nasty. When they realized that they couldn’t win, they basically threw money at us to make us look bad,” Lydon says...
...Lydon is back, with a seven-part show called “The Whole Wide World,” which Public Radio International aired across the country starting last month...
Born in Boston in 1940, he is the third of six children in a second-generation Irish Catholic family. He attended Roxbury Latin School and then Yale, graduating in 1962. After seven years at the Boston Globe, Lydon moved to New York Times’ Washington bureau, where he covered presidential campaign politics for almost a decade. He then migrated to the Ten o’Clock News on WGBH-TV in Boston, and then...