The Bob Edwards Show

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The Bob Edwards Show is an American radio program presented by XM Satellite Radio every weekday morning at 8 AM Eastern, with repeats at 8 AM Central, 7 AM Pacific, 6 PM Mountain, and the next morning at 7 AM Eastern.

Hosted by Bob Edwards, once the co-host of All Things Considered and who hosted Morning Edition from the first episode, a job he initially took on a temporary basis when a shake-up in production and on-air staff occurred ten days before the show's premiere, to April 30, 2004 when he was removed against listener wishes. Fortunately, Hugh Panero, CEO of XM, offered Edwards a daily show when NPR executives decided they were no longer interested.

The Bob Edwards Show continues the tradition of interviewing interesting people in all walks of life Edwards exemplified on Morning Edition, but now with the freedom of time. Edwards told the NewsHour with Jim Leher's Terrance Smith, "The longest interview I could do on the air for Morning Edition was eight minutes. Now I can interview someone for up to an hour. So it's a freer, more open, more relaxed and enjoyable conversation. The program's really about conversation." The show's first broadcast was on October 4, 2004, staffed by experienced public radio veterans. The first program included weekly political commentator Washington Post columnist David S. Broder, USA Today Supreme Court reporter Joan Biskupic, former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, and Eugene Robinson, author of Last Dance in Havana.