Making: Stories Without End
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Making: Stories Without End
Making: Stories Without End takes you on a journey to learn about daytime soap operas and their broad reach on television.
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53 EpisodenA new era for daytime soaps operas: Beyond the Gates
A Chicago woman, Irna Phillips, birthed the daytime serial — and a Chicago woman, Michele Val Jean, is ushering in new interest in the genre.
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Behind the curtain at ‘Days of Our Lives’: The lights, the sets, the pink coat
Go behind the scenes at Days of Our Lives in Burbank, California. Hear from actors, set designers and wardrobe as we pull back the curtain on how soap...
TV wouldn’t be TV without soap operas
Without soaps, we wouldn’t have melodramas or reality shows. Without soaps, we wouldn’t have many of the TV tropes and shows we love to stream and bin...
Soaps take the lead on nuanced storylines about queer life
Before the mainstreaming of Ellen and the hit show Will and Grace, soaps did their best to bring tenderness to LGBTQ+ storylines. That’s the nature of...
Black actors don’t want to be your sidekick
From Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee on The Guiding Light to the first Black super-couple, Jesse and Angie on All My Children, Black soap actors have been on...
In the world of soaps, women’s issues take front-burner status
Irna Phillips created the cliff-hanger in broadcast storytelling and perfected the serial drama, first in radio, then on television. She mentored the...
Meet Irna Phillips: The Queen of Daytime
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...
TRAILER: Stories Without End
Soap operas are the foundation of American television storytelling.
From early radio days in the 1930s to the invention of TV to stream...
Making Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison is widely considered one of America’s greatest writers. She published 11 novels and is the recipient of a Pulitzer, a Nobel and a Presid...
Making Fred Hampton
“I don’t believe I’m going to die slipping on a piece of ice. I don’t believe I’m going to die because I got a bad heart…I believe that I will be able...
Maya Angelou: Going from Strength to Strength
In just 86 years Maya Angelou lived dozens of lives.
Perhaps best known for her seminal autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings,...
Making Derrick Rose
“Why can’t I be MVP of the league?” Derrick Rose said.
With unimpressive statistics and an unselfish playing style, sports media did no...
Rihanna: Mother and Mogul
With 36 billion streams on Spotify, 14 No. 1 hits and 9 Grammys, Rihanna is regarded as one of the most well-known artists of the 21st Century. But sh...
Making Virgil Abloh
Virgil Abloh changed fashion in the 21st century. His brand Off-White redefined streetwear and youth culture for a notoriously elite and inaccessible...
BONUS: Hyphy Kids Got Trauma
Hyphy Kids Got Trauma is an exploration of a transformative year in Bay Area music history, 2006, through the eyes and ears of Pendarvis Harshaw. A co...
Serena Williams: The Blueprint
In early September, 19-year-old Coco Gauff won the U.S. Open. She is the first American teenager to win the tournament since 1999, when 17-year-old Se...
Making Whoopi Goldberg
Over the course of her climb to the Hollywood A-List, Whoopi Goldberg has worn many hats: stand-up comedian, Broadway star, screen actress, and daytim...
RuPaul: ‘Empress of Drag’
Since November, dozens of states have introduced legislation that could criminalize drag performances, including Florida, Tennessee and North Carolina...
Making Shonda
Shonda Rhimes has been called TV’s greatest. With groundbreaking shows like Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder, she became one of...
Making Jordan Peele
Jordan Peele is responsible for modern classics in the horror genre, including the films Us, Nope and the Oscar-winning Get Out. Before all that, he w...
Unmaking Kanye
Part 2: It all falls down.
Ye becomes a mouthpiece for the more sinister parts of American society. In the second episode of our two-p...
Making Kanye
Part 1: Touch the sky.
Before becoming a cultural lightning rod, Kanye West was a self-confident teenager, handing out mixtapes on the...
The life-changing moments that make an icon
Robyn Rihanna Fenty was just a 15 year-old student in Barbados when she showed up late for her audition with record producer Evan Rogers. Fortunately,...
Making Ida B. Wells
When Ida B. Wells was just 21 years old, authorities kicked her off a train for sitting in the all-white “ladies’ car.” She sued. She wrote about the...
Making Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens’ four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin is the stuff of legend.
“A man who's a second class citizen at home, son o...
Making Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass’ journey out of slavery and into the most powerful rooms in the country is a story of tenacity, luck and self-liberation. Hear the...
Making RuPaul
When RuPaul’s mother was pregnant, she went to a psychic who said RuPaul would be famous.
That psychic was right. With Emmys, Tonys and...
Making Maya Angelou
Perhaps best known for her seminal autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou is one of the most celebrated literary minds in history...
Making Kobe
Hear the story of how a legendary athlete climbed the NBA's mountaintop of greats. It's a story that takes asymmetrical turns before ending tragically...
Making Jesse Jackson
Before there was Barack Obama on the ballot, there was Jesse Jackson. Preacher, civil rights soldier and activist, Jackson ran two memorable campaigns...
Making Rihanna
Robyn Rihanna Fenty was just 16 when she signed a record deal with Jay-Z. She was 19 when her smash hit “Umbrella” took the world by storm. Now at 34,...
Making Serena
Serena Williams is a household name. The recently retired tennis legend has won 23 Grand Slam titles – more than any player in the Open era. But befor...
Obama BONUS: Redefining Masculinity
Former President Barack Obama recently spoke with Aarti Shahani, host of WBEZ's Art of Power podcast, about masculinity in the post-Donald Trump era....
Beyoncé BONUS: Fearlessly Herself
In the lead up to Beyoncé's solo album debut, Dangerously in Love, a lot was at stake. She was hoping to break out not only as a solo artist, but as a...
Beyoncé 3: Destiny Begins
After Girls Tyme dissolves, Beyoncé and the other girls begin building their new group, Destiny’s Child. Finally, things start to click.
Beyoncé 2: Star Search
After failing to secure a record deal, Beyoncé and the members of Girls Tyme try another avenue to success: a TV talent competition. The girls are poi...
Beyoncé 1: Girls Tyme
Before the Grammys, before the platinum records, before Destiny’s Child, there was just a shy girl growing up in Houston. We follow Beyoncé Knowles fr...
Trailer: Making Beyoncé
From the makers of Making Obama, WBEZ Chicago presents Making Beyoncé, a new three-part bio-podcast series that explores Beyoncé Knowles’ rise from lo...
Obama BONUS: The Decision
Just two and a half years after his 2004 Democratic National Convention speech, Barack Obama announced he was running for president.
Obama 6: Yes We Can!
Barack Obama burst onto the national stage during his U.S. Senate run. Hear how ambition and luck propelled him to Washington.
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