Interchange – Welles Before Glass: Intimacy and Propaganda in Radio

Published: March 8, 2017, 12:18 a.m.

This is a special 90-minute Interchange focusing on Orson Welles in his less-appreciated role as an innovator in the WWII-era radio feature, a genre of radio mixing fact and drama that is a (largely forgotten and unacknowledged) forerunner of the radio documentary, as we know it now. (Think Ira Glass and This American Life.) We’ll …