Bob Edwards Show Marathon
May 12-14
XM Public Radio - XM 133
The Bob Edwards Show Marathon will feature nearly 50 interviews with some of the most notable personalities from the worlds of politics, entertainment, publishing and the arts, including among many others:
- Actors/Directors George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alan Alda, Peter Bogdanovich.
- Best-selling authors David McCullough, Maya Angelou, Malcolm Gladwell, Jared Diamond.
- Political figures Al Gore, Bob Dole, George McGovern, Al Franken.
- Journalists Walter Cronkite, Terry Gross, Bill Moyers, Susan Stamberg.
- Musicians David Crosby, Dave Brubeck, John Prine, Leonard Cohen, Jeff Tweedy of Wilco.
- Humorists Harry Shearer, Garrison Keillor, Calvin Trillin, Andy Borowitz, Christopher Buckley.
- Bob's own reporting from Oklahoma City, the Arizona/Mexico border, east Los Angeles, and the Appalachian region of Kentucky.
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And don't miss new episodes every weekday!
The Bob Edwards Show
On XM 133
Weekdays 8-9AM ET
Encores 7AM / 9AM /10AM / 8PM ET
Weekly Schedule
| Marathon Schedule | |
| Saturday, May 12 | |
| Time | Guest |
| 8 AM | First BES ever - 10/4/04 - Broder/Biscupic/Walter Cronkite/Eugene Robinson |
| 9 AM | Arlo Guthrie |
| 10 AM | Father Gregory Boyle (Gabriel Award-winning interview with a man who saves east-L.A. gang bangers from lives of crime) |
| 11 AM | Dick Cavett |
| 12 PM | Border Shows #1 (Bob reports from Arizona's border with Mexico about immigration) |
| 1 PM | Border Show #2 |
| 2 PM | Phil Ramone |
| 3 PM | Susan Stamberg (she and Bob were hosts of NPR's All Things Considered 30 years ago) |
| 4 PM | Bob Dole/George McGovern |
| 5 PM | Mavis Staples |
| 6 PM | Brian Lamb/ Garrison Keillor |
| 7 PM | Eugene Jarecki |
| 8 PM | Dave Brubeck |
| 9 PM | Al Franken/James Hand |
| 10 PM | Jared Diamond |
| 11 PM | David Crosby |
| Sunday, May 13 | |
| Time | Guest |
| 12 AM | Calvin Trillin |
| 1 AM | Billy Bragg |
| 2 AM | Norman Corwin |
| 3 AM | Joyce Carol Oates/Kaki King |
| 4 AM | Jeffrey Sachs |
| 5 AM | Steven Greenblatt/ Mose Allison |
| 6 AM | Franz Wisner/Mrs. Rogers |
| 7 AM | Sister Helen Prejean |
| 8 AM | Leonard Cohen |
| 9 AM | Alan Alda |
| 10 AM | Stewart Udall/Al Gore |
| 11 AM | John Prine |
| 12 PM | Buckley & Borowitz/ Rabbi Bob & Ahmed Ahmed |
| 1 PM | Exploding Heritage (Bob's award-winning documentary on mountaintop removal coal mining in eastern Kentucky) |
| 2 PM | Maya Angelou/Jake Shimabukuru |
| 3 PM | George Clooney, David Strathairn, Grant Heslov |
| 4 PM | Leonard Slatkin |
| 5 PM | Buck O'Neil/Laura Boswell/Steve Fishell |
| 6 PM | Oklahoma City (Bob reports from the site of the Murrah Federal Building on the 10-year anniversary of the bombing there) |
| 7 PM | Malcolm Gladwell |
| 8 PM | Ralph Keyes/Carl Hancock Rux/Leon Fleisher |
| 9 PM | David McCullough/Tom Bodett |
| 10 PM | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 11 PM | Jeff Tweedy |
| Monday, May 14 | |
| Time | Guest |
| 12 AM | Alex Gibney/ Jane Elliott |
| 1 AM | Bill Moyers/ Terry Gross |
| 2 AM | Chuck Leavell |
| 3 AM | Stetson Kennedy |
| 4 AM | Harry Shearer |
| 5 AM | Clarence Jones/Ramblin' Jack Elliott |
| 6 AM | Peter Bogdanovich |