Recipient of the Edward R. Murrow Award

There are 1.3 million homeless children on their own in America every year and the fastest growing segment of homeless are families. There are more homeless families in New York City than ever. Washington, DC is the worst place for children in the nation, where one in three live under the poverty line. The challenges facing this young group are crippling, often lifelong, and sometimes deadly. Homeless kids suffer more abuse, abandonment, health problems, learning disabilities, and emotional disorders than other children. That makes it harder for them to learn and do well in school and that makes them more susceptible to homelessness as adults. Bob Edwards spent hours interviewing homeless parents and children in shelters and on the street and lets them tell their own stories of abuse and abandonment in the award-winning radio documentary The Invisible: Children without Homes.

Schedule:
Friday, July 4 at 8-9 AM, 9-10 AM, 10-11 AM, and 8-9 PM ET

Saturday, July 5 at 8-9 AM ET

Monday, July 7 at 7-8 AM ET

Liz Phair on The Bob Edwards Show

"Exile in Guyville" was Liz Phair's debut album. She said at the time that it was a song-by-song reply to the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street. Fifteen years later, Phair is re-issuing the ground-breaking album with four never-before-released songs from the original recording sessions.

Tune in on Tuesday at 8AM, 9AM, 10AM and 8PM as well as Wednesday morning at 7AM. All times eastern.

Let's Consider The Source

Let's Consider The Source is XM Public Radio's weekly program dedicated to journalism and media issues. This week the show examines a new exhibit at the Neweum in DC called "G-men and journalism." The guest is Cathy Trost, Director of Exhibit Development. The interview goes beyond the Newseum piece and looks at the relationship of reporters,cops and criminals throughout U.S. history. The exhibit in Washington has just opened and will run through June 2009.

Selected Shorts, now on XM PR!

Hosted by Isaiah Sheffer, "Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story" presents some of the finest artists in American theater and screen reading short fiction by classic, contemporary and bold new writers.

Schedule:
Tune in at 11PM Eastern/8PM Pacific Saturday evenings on XM Public Radio, channel 133