Diane Rehm is a native Washingtonian who began her radio career in as a volunteer for WAMU , the NPR member station in Washington, D.C. She was hired as an assistant producer and later became the host and producer of two health-oriented programs.
In , she began hosting WAMU’s local morning talk show, Kaleidoscope, which was renamed The Diane Rehm Show in The Diane Rehm Show grew from a local program to one with international reach and a weekly on-air audience of nearly 3 million.
In , Diane brought her unique mix of curiosity, honesty, intimacy and four decades of hosting experience to the podcast world with On My Mind. On her weekly interview program, Diane talks to newsmakers, writers, artists and thinkers on the biggest issues of the day, with a focus on cutting through the noise in Washington to reveal the issues beneath the politics. New episodes are posted on Thursday afternoons.
In , during the heart of the pandemic, Diane launched a new project to help engage an audience stuck at home. The Diane Rehm Book Club meets monthly on Zoom and features panel discussions and author interviews. Guests include Ann Patchett, Isabel Wilkerson, Anthony Doerr and Isabel A
Diane Rehm is a native Washingtonian who began her radio career in as a volunteer for WAMU , the NPR member station in Washington, D.C. She was hired as an assistant producer and later became the host and producer of two health-oriented programs. In , she began hosting WAMU’s local morning talk show,Kaleidoscope, which was renamedThe Diane Rehm Showin The Diane Rehm Showgrew from a local program to one with international reach and a weekly on-air audience of more than million.
Diane now brings her unique mix of curiosity, honesty, intimacy and nearly forty years as host of WAMU and NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show to the podcast world: Listen in to her weekly conversations with newsmakers, writers, artists and thinkers on the issues she cares about most: what’s going on in Washington, ideas that inform, and the latest on living well as we live longer. You can hear the podcast through her website or iTunes.
You can also listen to archived Diane Rehm Show interviews (on air from ) using the search function on this site. Topics range from the U.S. economy and foreign affairs to literature, science and the arts. Many of the nation’s prominent newsmakers, journalists, and author
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For illuminating the people and stories behind the headlines. In probing interviews with pundits, poets, and Presidents, Ms. Rehm’s incisive, confident, and curious voice has deepened our understanding of our communities and our culture.
Diane Rehm didn’t go to college. The brainy, eloquent, probing host of one of the best shows on radio, an interviewer of presidents, authors, and experts of many stripes, took a job straight out of high school, working for D.C.’s highway department. The best part was using the department’s two-way radio to send instructions to supervisors on the street.
How did she become educated?
She got married, for the second time, and became pregnant, quitting a job at the State Department. At home, she learned to do many things: to cook, to play the piano, and, for the first time, “to read and understand what I was reading.” She credits her late husband with being a “superb teacher,” who, no matter what she asked him, “would treat my question as though it was the most interesting question he had ever heard.”
An Ivy League-trained lawyer, John B. Rehm, Diane’s husband of fifty-four years, passed away last month. “He was my
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