Robin Hilton
Robin Hilton is a producer for the popular NPR Music show All Songs Considered and host of NPR Music's Second Stage, a daily online feature and podcast presenting unsigned artists and bands. Hilton joined All Songs Considered as its producer after co-founding Small Good Thing Productions, a non-profit production company for independent film, radio and music in Athens, GA. Before that, he lived and worked in Japan as a translator for the government, and taught English as a second language to junior high school students.
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Desperate to learn the language, Japanese schools, businesses, and government agencies offer small fortunes to just about anyone who can help teach English.
This hour: we head to the south side of Chicago and Japan.