Diane Rehm Biography

Diane Rehm is a native Washingtonian who began her radio career in 1973 as a volunteer for WAMU 88.5 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 1979 she began hosting WAMU’s local morning talk show Kaleidoscope which was renamed The Diane Rehm Show in 1984. The Diane Rehm Show grew from a local program to one with international reach and a weekly on-air audience of more than 2.8 million.
Diane now brings her unique mix of curiosity honesty intimacy and nearly 40 years as host of WAMU and NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show to the podcast world. Listen weekly to On My Mind for Diane’s 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.
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 authors have appeared on her program including then-Sen. Barack Obama former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter former Vice President Dick Cheney former secretaries of State Colin Powell and Hillary Clinton retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison.

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