Bob Edwards Show

by Dan Bloom Mary Travers will be remembered in a memorial service tonight at Riverside Church in New York City, located at 490 Riverside Drive.  Doors will open at 6 PM, half the tickets have been designated for family, friends and special guests, the other half will be given to the public on a f...

Monday, November 9, 2009   In her new book, The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood has created a dystopian world that can be read as a commentary on religion, politics, science and the environment.  Atwood has authored 15 books of poetry but she’s best-known for her novels including The Handmai...

Each week Bob is joined by Dan Gediman, the Executive Director of This I Believe, Inc. to discuss one of the original essays from the 1950s radio series. This week’s featured essay is by General Lucius D. Clay. D...

Monday, November 9, 2009  In her new book, The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood has created a dystopian world that can be read as a commentary on religion, politics, science and the environment.  Atwood has authored 15 books of poetry but she’s best-known for her novels including The Handmai...

Bob Edwards Weekend Highlights – November 7-8, 2009   HOUR ONE   Paul D. Mil...

Mano Suave is Israeli musician Yasmin Levy’s first release in the U.S. and to help spread her powerful sound, Levy is touring the country.  Here is a link to see if you can go hear Yasmin Levy in a concert hall near you.

 - Andy Kubis, Producer Despite being the best-selling pop duo of all-time, Daryl Hall and John Oates are not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The fact so dismayed the effervescent, ever-present celebrity cook, Rachel Ray, that she started a petition on her website. And ...

By Chad Campbell, Senior Producer Patricia Murphy writes The Capitolist column for the online newspaper Politics Daily. Click here to read her column on Louisiana Republican Senator David Vitter’s proposal to add an 11th question to the US Census form for 2010. ...

By Cristy Meiners, producer I was a little like director Joe Berlinger when I was first approached with doing the documentary Crude for the show: I knew it was a good topic, but I had so many other things on my plate at the time that I initially refused the interview.  But, the publicist ...

Bob Edwards Weekend Highlights – October 31 – November 1, 2009   HOUR ONE   Beginning in the late 1960s, Charles Kuralt headed out with a small crew to document unusual and overlooked stories from America’s back roads.  Logging more than a million miles and going through several motor homes, t...

Each week Bob is joined by Dan Gediman, the Executive Director of   This I Believe, Inc. to discuss one of the original essays from the 1950s radio series. This week’s featured essay is by Robbins Milbank. A P...

 By Andy Kubis, Producer Charles Kuralt wrote in his autobiography that “working with a cameraman over a period of weeks or months is like having a love affair. You have to like him to begin with. And...

Here’s the list of books discussed by Salon.com book critic Laura Miller, starting with the one she suggested would make a good book club selection:    Michelle Huneven: Blame A S Byatt: The Children’s Book Jonathan Lethem: Chronic City Lev G