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Public Book Signing Follows Presentation; Event will be broadcast on 89.3 KPCC

Los Angeles, May 4 - Ardent NPR News listeners will want to be on hand when 89.3 KPCC presents award-winning NPR Morning Edition Senior Correspondent Bob Edwards in conversation with Talk of the City host Kitty Felde on Sunday, May 16th at 3 p.m. at The Museum of Television & Radio, at 465 N. Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills. Edwards recently gave his last broadcast as host of NPR's Morning Edition, a position he held for almost 25 years. The event will be broadcast on 89.3 KPCC on Monday, May 17th, at 7 p.m.

Bob Edwards is in town as part of a nationwide tour promoting his book, Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism. The event is free but reservations are required due to limited seating. To reserve your tickets, call 213-621-3499. The public is welcome to meet Edwards, who will greet listeners and sign books after 4 p.m. in the lobby.

Since his first day on the air with NPR in 1974, public radio listeners have made Bob Edwards an essential part of their radio day. For millions, his deep, authoritative voice is the sound of NPR. For the last three decades, from the hostage crisis in Iran to Sept. 11, 2001 to the current warfare in Iraq, listeners have turned to Bob Edwards for insight, perspective, and companionship. With Bob at the helm, Morning Edition became the most-listened-to program in public radio. Thirteen million people tune in every week. Over the years, Edwards has conducted more than 20,000 interviews, with everyone from President Clinton to Hans Blix to Johnny Cash.

Edwards joined NPR in February 1974 as NPR's only newscaster. Six months later, he became co-host of NPR's flagship evening news program, All Things Considered. Then in 1979, NPR executives borrowed him from that show for "a couple of weeks" to help launch a new morning program. Bob never made it back to the evening newsmagazine -- instead, he stuck around and helped Morning Edition become what it is today.

Edwards grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, attended the University of Louisville and began his radio career at a small station in New Albany, Indiana, where he was deejay, covered the news, sold ads, and even fixed the plumbing. In the Army, he produced and anchored TV and radio news programs for the American Forces Korea Network (AFKN) in Seoul.

After his service in the Army, Edwards moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked as anchorman for WTOP-AM, an all-news CBS affiliate, and earned a master's degree in broadcast journalism from The American University.

Edwards and Morning Edition have earned dozens of awards, most recently a 1999 George Foster Peabody Award. Edwards is the recipient of the 1984 Edward R. Murrow Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for "outstanding contributions to public radio."

Edwards began his new role as senior correspondent with NPR News on May 3, with a report on the new World War II memorial in Washington, D.C. Then he immediately hit the road to spend the summer visiting member stations and talking with listeners about his new book, Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism.

The Museum of Television & Radio, with locations in New York and Los Angeles, was founded by William S. Paley to collect and preserve television and radio programs and advertisements and to make them available to the public. Since opening in 1976, the Museum has organized exhibitions, screening and listening series, seminars, and education classes to showcase its preeminent collection of over 100,000 television and radio programs and advertisements. Programs in the Museum's collection are selected for their artistic, cultural, and historic significance. Visit the MTR on the Web for more information.

89.3 KPCC is the flagship station of Southern California Public Radio. In the past three years KPCC has won more awards for excellence in journalism than any other radio station in Southern California. KPCC is also the fastest-growing public radio station in the country, airing the signature public radio news and talk programs from NPR, along with Air Talk with Larry Mantle weekdays from 10 a.m.- 12 Noon, and Talk of the City with Kitty Felde weekdays from 2-3 p.m.