Diane Rehm started her career at WAMU 52 years ago as a volunteer. 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 decided to step away from daily live radio, and brought her unique mix of curiosity, honesty, intimacy and four decades of hosting experience to the podcast world with On My Mind.
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 met monthly on Zoom and featured panel discussions, as well as author interviews. Guests included Ann Patchett, Isabel Wilkerson, Anthony Doerr and Isabel Allende.
Now, she takes the microphone one last time at WAMU to say farewell.
You can find an archive of interviews from The Diane Rehm Show and On My Mind at dianerehm.org.
You can find an archive of book club discussions on Diane's YouTube channel.