Mike Flynn (NPR radio host)

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Mike Flynn, the host of The Folk Sampler grew up in sparsely populated rural Kansas. Before starting what is now a nationally syndicated radio show, he retired as a professor from John Brown University, and worked as a news anchor and weatherman on the Tulsa, Oklahoma station KOTV Channel 6, for 17 years. Flynn eventually moved to Chicago before heading to the foothills of the Ozarks. In Chicago he worked at radio stations WMBI, KBEZ, & KRAV. In 1977 he and his wife moved to Siloam Springs bordering the Arkansas Ozarks. In 1993 His wife, and co-producer of The Folk Sampler Sandy Flynn died and although he threatened to quit doing music if she died before him, she was able to convince him that carrying on the folk music tradition would be just what he needed. And he continues to carry the tradition with each week's broadcast.