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Jean Shepherd tells his first WGBH story

December 6, 2010 | Posted by Jay Collier
Jean Shepherd
This entry is part 7 of 12 in the series The Fred Barzyk Collection

From Fred Barzyk: I first heard Jean on the radio in Boston. It was 1961. I was babysitting my young son and, while idly scanning radio stations, I heard this person, this intense personal voice, talking to me. | Read more.

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June Judson, 81, actress-director

November 12, 2010 | Posted by Jay Collier

Many actors and playwrights who started in Boston’s theater community in the 1980s and ’90s shared June Judson as a mentor. She was a gifted nurturer of new talent and theatrical works, most notably through Theatre-in-Process, a laboratory- workshop she founded in the early 1980s. | Read more.

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Remembering the original WGBH

November 5, 2010 | Posted by Jay Collier
84 Massachusetts Avenue

From Art Singer: Fifty one years ago this past September, on several late afternoons a week, I would take the twenty minute walk from BU across the Charles to the station’s studios on the MIT campus for a night’s work. | Read more.

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Recording Buckminster Fuller (1963)

October 20, 2010 | Posted by Jay Collier
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This facilities request was found in a 2” videotape box as this program, featuring the renowned architect/inventor Buckminster Fuller, was being dubbed in 2010 to a modern tape format. | Read more.

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A reel deal for blind, deaf

October 18, 2010 | Posted by Jay Collier
MOPIX

WGBH staffers in Brighton and in Burbank, Calif., caption on average 110 movies for the deaf and hearing-impaired annually and narrate 70 films a year for blind moviegoers. | Read more.

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