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Bob Edwards
 
Date of birth: 16 May 1947
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: America
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   Robert Alan Edwards (born May 16, 1947 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an award-winning American public radio broadcaster. He gained fame as the first host of National Public Radio's flagship program, Morning Edition, and can currently be heard on The Bob Edwards Show on XM Satellite Radio and Bob Edwards Weekend from Public Radio International on select public radio stations.

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" A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. "

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" After each program I'm fixing it, because we're on in other time zones, and when the news changes, I have to update it. "

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" Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it. "

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" 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. "

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" Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep. "

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" 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. "

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" For one thing, you can get old, fat, bald and nobody knows and nobody cares. So there's great longevity in radio, more security there. "

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" I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again. "

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" I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time. "

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" I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth. "

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" I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother. "

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" I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5. "

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" I wanted to be one of the voices in the box. "

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" I was 3 in 1950. And I loved the radio. "

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" I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize. "

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