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Believe It
FromThe Last Archive
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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
May 6, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! was one of the most popular radio shows of the 1930s, and for good reason: Early radio, not unlike the Internet of nearly a century later, was obsessed with doubt about belief. On this episode of The Last Archive, Jill Lepore spins the dial and takes a tour of 1930s radio — from Robert Ripley to Charlie Chan, from Mexican broadcaster Pedro González to the shows of Orson Welles: the full spectrum of true and false on the air.
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Released:
May 6, 2021
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Podcast episode
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