Bob Edwards
Bob Edwards
Robert Alan "Bob" Edwardsis a Peabody Award-winning member of the National Radio Hall of Fame. He was the first broadcaster with a large national following to join the field of satellite radio. He gained fame as the first host of National Public Radio's flagship program, Morning Edition. Starting in 2004, Edwards then became the host of The Bob Edwards Show on Sirius XM Radio and Bob Edwards Weekend distributed by Public Radio International to more than 150 public radio stations...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth16 May 1947
CityLouisville, KY
CountryUnited States of America
Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.
But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.
I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.
One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.
People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?
Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.
Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.
I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.
With radio, the listener absorbs everything.
Public radio has always been so powerless.
I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.
At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.