But her exit, after more than 30 years, will not be immediate, and no date has been set, according to NPR.
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Diane Rehm, host of WAMU-produced “The Diane Rehm Show”, says she plans to retire from the daily airwaves after next year’s presidential election.
Rehm is exploring a continuing relationship with WAMU after her retirement from her show, she told The Post.
Yore said that “Diane, WAMU and NPR are working together closely on what comes next, and we are in active conversations about WAMU’s plans for a successor program for the public radio morning audience”.
The blend of interviews with public interviews and listener call-ins has a loyal fanbase and, according to NPR, is one of the top shows on the network with 2.4 million weekly listeners. We are excited about the ideas we are developing and the talent we are considering. Six years later, she was tapped to host midday talk show Kaleidoscope, eventually renamed after her in 1984.
For years, Rehm has hosted her show as she also fought spasmodic dysphonia, which her website describes as “a neurological voice disorder that causes strained, hard speech”.
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Over the decades, Ms. Rehm has interviewed numerous nation’s leading political figures, including presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and such cultural luminaries as Toni Morrison and Fred Rogers of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood”. The host issued a correction and apologized for the mistake. Immediately afterward, she will begin a month-long tour to promote a new memoir, “On My Own”, about the year since the death of her husband, John, a former State Department official, and about the “right to die” or assisted-suicide movement, of which she is an advocate.
