Destination Freedom Black Radio Days
ABOUT
A live radio show picks up where the first nationwide African-American radio drama, produced in Chicago by Richard Durham more than sixty years ago, left off. The show walked a daring line between reform and revolution, and was shut down by its network in 1950, as McCarthyism and anti-communism tightened its grip on American broadcasting.
As well as drawing on the archive of Destination Freedom (now branded Black Radio Days classic) this program illuminates a largely unknown, but important chapter in the history of human rights and tells how radio played its part from the very beginning. That boundary-breaking program, Destination Freedom, dramatized the lives of great figures in African-American and other people of color past and present, continues in its spirit with all-new scripts.
Produced by donnie l. betts.
WAYS TO SUBSCRIBE
Episodes
S3 EP9 Grave Diggers Handicap, The Story of Isaac Murphy
S3 EP8 The Eclectic – Conversation with Marla and Angela Gibbs
S3 EP7 I AM, an audio drama written by Kenya Fashaw, produced and directed by donnie l. betts, co-produced, edited, and mixed by Maurice Smith
S3 EP6 Cages, an audio drama written by Kenya Fashaw, directed by donnie l. betts, co-produced, edited and mixed by Maurice Smith
S3 EP5 The Eclectic – Interview with co-creator of Theatre of The Mind and musical great, David Byrne
S3 EP4 The Eclectic – Interview with Director of Theatre of The Mind, Andrew J. Scoville
