Making: Stories Without End

A podcast by WBEZ Chicago - Thursdays

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Society & Culture

50 Episodes

  1. Black actors don’t want to be your sidekick

    Published: 4/22/2025

  2. In the world of soaps, women’s issues take front-burner status

    Published: 4/15/2025

  3. Meet Irna Phillips: The Queen of Daytime

    Published: 4/8/2025

  4. TRAILER: Stories Without End

    Published: 3/6/2025

  5. Making Toni Morrison

    Published: 3/21/2024

  6. Making Fred Hampton

    Published: 2/29/2024

  7. Maya Angelou: Going from Strength to Strength

    Published: 1/18/2024

  8. Making Derrick Rose

    Published: 12/14/2023

  9. Rihanna: Mother and Mogul

    Published: 11/16/2023

  10. Making Virgil Abloh

    Published: 10/19/2023

  11. BONUS: Hyphy Kids Got Trauma

    Published: 10/2/2023

  12. Serena Williams: The Blueprint

    Published: 9/21/2023

  13. Making Whoopi Goldberg

    Published: 8/10/2023

  14. RuPaul: ‘Empress of Drag’

    Published: 7/6/2023

  15. Making Shonda

    Published: 6/1/2023

  16. Making Jordan Peele

    Published: 5/18/2023

  17. Making Kanye

    Published: 5/4/2023

  18. Unmaking Kanye

    Published: 5/4/2023

  19. The life-changing moments that make an icon

    Published: 12/15/2022

  20. Making Ida B. Wells

    Published: 12/8/2022

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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.