# RIP Ed Walker

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**Created:** [October 26, 2015, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-walker/735827 "2015-10-26T23:04:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 26, 2015, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-walker/735827/1 "2015-10-26T23:04:04Z")

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Ed Walker, who hosted the Washington DC area radio program “The Big Broadcast” (a 4-hour program broadcasting classic radio drama and comedy each week on Sunday night) for 25 years, and who was one half of the “Joy Boys” comedy team with Willard Scott ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy\_Boys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Boys)) passed away this morning, shortly after listening to his farewell broadcast (which he had recorded from his hospital bed). He was 83.

> **[Ed Walker, WAMU personality who burnished radio’s golden age, dies at 83](https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/ed-walker-wamu-personality-who-burnished-radios-golden-age-dies-at-83/2015/10/26/373c905c-7be2-11e5-b575-d8dcfedb4ea1_story.html)**
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> Mr. Walker was a fixture of the airwaves, as half of the “Joy Boys” with Willard Scott and later as host of “The Big Broadcast.”