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Introducing... Making: Stories Without End

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Introducing a new podcast from WBEZ Chicago, Making: Stories Without End. Soap operas have long been trivialized as low-brow women’s entertainment. Even the term “soap” is pejorative when describing television. But there’s a deeper story to tell about the genre that changed storytelling on the small screen.

In this episode, you’ll hear about Irna Phillips, the Chicago woman who birthed the daytime serial for radio in the 1930s and ushered it onto television in the 1950s. Phillips established staples in the genre like the cliff-hanger; she was a prolific writer who knew the daytime audience wanted to see their own problems in stories. As she summed it up in 1947: “[T]heir own conflicts, their own heartache, their hopes and their own dreams. Everything isn't happiness, is it? No.”

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Manage episode 486460408 series 3620729
Content provided by Pushkin Industries. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Pushkin Industries or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://podcastplayer.com/legal.

Introducing a new podcast from WBEZ Chicago, Making: Stories Without End. Soap operas have long been trivialized as low-brow women’s entertainment. Even the term “soap” is pejorative when describing television. But there’s a deeper story to tell about the genre that changed storytelling on the small screen.

In this episode, you’ll hear about Irna Phillips, the Chicago woman who birthed the daytime serial for radio in the 1930s and ushered it onto television in the 1950s. Phillips established staples in the genre like the cliff-hanger; she was a prolific writer who knew the daytime audience wanted to see their own problems in stories. As she summed it up in 1947: “[T]heir own conflicts, their own heartache, their hopes and their own dreams. Everything isn't happiness, is it? No.”

Follow the rest of the season by searching Making: Stories Without End.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  continue reading

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