The Diane Rehm Show

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Diane Rehm (born September 21, 1936 in Washington, D.C.) is an American public radio talk show host. Her program, The Diane Rehm Show, is distributed nationally and internationally by National Public Radio. It is produced at WAMU, which is licensed to American University in Washington, D.C. It is also available online and via Sirius satellite radio. Rehm was born to Wadie Aed, a Turkish Eastern Orthodox father and Eugenie Zouekie, a Christian Egyptian mother. She attended William B. Powell Elementary and Roosevelt High School in Washington, D.C. In her autobiography, Rehm recounted her childhood molestation by an unnamed politician in a Washington room. To date, she has refused to reveal the identity of this person. Upon graduation, she was employed by the city's highways department, where she took a liking to working as a radio dispatcher. Rehm married John Rehm, her second husband, in 1959. She has two grown children, David and Jennifer. Trouble with her voice forced Rehm to take a hiatus from vocal broadcasting in 1998. Rehm was later diagnosed with spasmodic dysphonia. Rehm began her radio career in 1973 as a volunteer for WAMU's The Home Show. In 1979, she took over as the host of WAMU's morning talk show, Kaleidoscope, which was renamed The Diane Rehm Show in 1984. Rehm has interviewed high-profile political and cultural figures, including Bill Clinton, John McCain, Barack Obama, Madeleine Albright, Sandra Day O'Connor, Ralph Nader, Arlo Guthrie, Mary Chapin Carpen

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