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Sedge Thomson is an American radio personality, impresario, writer and film producer. He is best known as the host of the popular Saturday morning radio variety show West Coast Live.

West Coast Live was named "Most Innovative Radio Show" by NY Radio Festival Thomson has become known for his likeable and ever-curious personality, and also for his red shoes.^[1][2][3][4]

Career

Radio interviewer

Thomson is from Berkeley, California.^[2] In the late s and early s he was the principal Bay Area interviewer for such groups as City Arts and Lectures.

More than forty of his on-stage conversations are archived in the Bancroft Library collection at the University of California.^[5] One of his interviews with Jonathan Miller was adapted as an essay called "Among Chickens" in Granta Home.

In the summers and winters of , Thomson served as the guest host on "Fresh Air" for Terry Gross when she was on vacati