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 a.m. Eastern, with repeats at 8 a.m. Central, 7 a.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Mountain, and the next morning at 7 a.m. Eastern. The program is available 24/7 on XM Radio Online.

The show is hosted by Bob Edwards, once the co-host of National Public Radio's All Things Considered and who hosted NPR's Morning Edition from the first episode to April 30, 2004 when he was re-assigned to another position within NPR, despite vocal objection from thousands of listeners. Edwards left his new assignment almost immediately, as Hugh Panero, CEO of XM Radio, offered Edwards a daily show.

The Bob Edwards Show continues the tradition of interviewing interesting people in all walks of life that Edwards exemplified on Morning Edition, but now in long form. 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.

XM Radio also produces the compilation program, Bob Edwards Weekend distributed by Public Radio International for use by "terrestrial" public radio stations. It premiered on January 6-8, 2005, consisting of re-edited interviews from the weekdaily program.