Making: Stories Without End

A podcast by WBEZ Chicago

Categories:

Society & Culture

46 Episodes

  1. Making Toni Morrison

    Published: 3/21/2024

  2. Making Fred Hampton

    Published: 2/29/2024

  3. Maya Angelou: Going from Strength to Strength

    Published: 1/18/2024

  4. Making Derrick Rose

    Published: 12/14/2023

  5. Rihanna: Mother and Mogul

    Published: 11/16/2023

  6. Making Virgil Abloh

    Published: 10/19/2023

  7. BONUS: Hyphy Kids Got Trauma

    Published: 10/2/2023

  8. Serena Williams: The Blueprint

    Published: 9/21/2023

  9. Making Whoopi Goldberg

    Published: 8/10/2023

  10. RuPaul: ‘Empress of Drag’

    Published: 7/6/2023

  11. Making Shonda

    Published: 6/1/2023

  12. Making Jordan Peele

    Published: 5/18/2023

  13. Making Kanye

    Published: 5/4/2023

  14. Unmaking Kanye

    Published: 5/4/2023

  15. The life-changing moments that make an icon

    Published: 12/15/2022

  16. Making Ida B. Wells

    Published: 12/8/2022

  17. Making Jesse Owens

    Published: 12/1/2022

  18. Making Frederick Douglass

    Published: 11/24/2022

  19. Making RuPaul

    Published: 11/17/2022

  20. Making Maya Angelou

    Published: 11/10/2022

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Making: Stories Without End takes you on a journey to learn about daytime soap operas and their broad reach on television. From the early radio days in the 1930s through the invention of TV to streaming, this way of telling immersive stories has endured. There are intergenerational family stories, discussions about divorce and abortion, groundbreaking storylines dealing with queer representation. And all these threads go back to one Chicago woman, Irna Phillips. The queen of soaps originated, wrote or supervised more than a dozen daytime serials for more than 40 years… and left a lasting mark on the television industry. You’ll hear the story behind the stories from scholars, actors, writers – from the past and now – as well as fans.