Diane rehm age
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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 nearly 3 million.
In 2016, 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 2020, 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 an
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Diane Rehm
“The Diane Rehm Show” has been described by Newsweek as one of the most interesting talk shows in the country. Rehm’s listeners and peers regularly praise her intelligent and probing, yet unfailingly civil manner. During each hour, she invites listeners to join the conversation by opening the phones to their questions and comments on the topic at hand. The award-winning program has been distributed by National Public Radio since 1995 to stations across the nation and the world to more than 1.4 million listeners.
Rehm has also forged a successful career as a writer, publishing two autobiographical books. In Finding My Voice, the host talks about her childhood, marriage, broadcast career, and vocal difficulties. Together with her husband John, she co-authored Toward Commitment: A Dialogue about Marriage, a book focusing on the art of building and maintaining a strong relationship.
In 1998, Rehm was diagnosed with spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological condition that causes strained, difficult speech. After finding treatment, she wrote several
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Books
Life With Maxie
Diane Rehm. Gibbs Smith (2010).
Diane gives an inside look into her life through the story of Maxie, her long-haired Chihuahua. Illustrated with color photos of Diane and her dog, My Life with Maxie tells the story of how Maxie’s presence and sweet personality have profoundly impacted Diane’s life. Fans of Diane’s show and pet lovers everywhere will love this heartwarming story.
Toward Commitment: A Dialogue About Marriage
Diane and husband, John Rehm. Knopf (2002).
Diane teamed up with her husband, retired attorney John Rehm, for Toward Commitment, a frank series of essays on marriage.
With extraordinary candor and generosity, they open up for the reader their decades-long marriage, revealing the strong and passionate bond between them as well as the conflicts and turmoils that can overtake a relationship. They grapple with their pronounced differences of background, attitude, and expectation, so that the reader actually watches them working to understand each other and themselves, and to resolve issu
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