A biography for Bob Edwardshasn’t been written yet.
“Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance.”
“Public radio has always been so powerless.”
“I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.”
“It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.”
“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.”
“With radio, the listener absorbs everything.”
“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.”
“Good things just keep happening.”
“People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.”
“I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.”
“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.”
“I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time.”