This Sunday is National Radio Day, the annual commemoration of the contributions the radio industry has made.
Today, a look back at an interview I did about one of the legends of radio. And the person I interviewed was, and is, a stalwart figure in modern day radio.
For a dozen years the pioneering radio sports broadcaster Red Barber called in every Friday to NPR’s Morning Edition show, for an unscripted 4 minute talk with host Bob Edwards.
Listeners loved those segments. Even those listeners who seem to have little or no knowledge of baseball.
But Barber died in 1992.The following year, Bob Edwards wrote a memoir of those memorable conversations, a book he called Fridays With Red. And that’s when I met him.
So here now, from 1993, Bob Edwards
Bob Edwards, who is 76 now, left NPR in 2004. He currently hosts a podcast produced by AARP.
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