Making: Stories Without End

A podcast by WBEZ Chicago - Thursdays

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Society & Culture

50 Episodes

  1. Making Jesse Owens

    Published: 12/1/2022

  2. Making Frederick Douglass

    Published: 11/24/2022

  3. Making RuPaul

    Published: 11/17/2022

  4. Making Maya Angelou

    Published: 11/10/2022

  5. Making Kobe

    Published: 11/3/2022

  6. Making Jesse Jackson

    Published: 10/27/2022

  7. Making Rihanna

    Published: 10/20/2022

  8. Making Serena

    Published: 10/13/2022

  9. Trailer: WBEZ’s Making podcast is back

    Published: 10/6/2022

  10. Obama BONUS: Redefining Masculinity

    Published: 5/14/2021

  11. Beyoncé BONUS: Fearlessly Herself

    Published: 3/6/2020

  12. Beyoncé 3: Destiny Begins

    Published: 11/27/2019

  13. Beyoncé 2: Star Search

    Published: 11/22/2019

  14. Beyoncé 1: Girls Tyme

    Published: 11/15/2019

  15. Beyoncé: Preview of Making Beyoncé

    Published: 11/1/2019

  16. Obama BONUS: The Decision

    Published: 4/10/2018

  17. Obama 6: Yes We Can!

    Published: 3/15/2018

  18. Obama 5: Up Or Out

    Published: 3/8/2018

  19. Obama 4: Wait Your Turn

    Published: 3/1/2018

  20. Obama 3: You Don’t Say No To Barack

    Published: 2/22/2018

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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.