Project Audion Episode 37: Little Ham from Harlem
Feb 12, 2023•46 min•Ep 144•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
Larry Groebe is back with Project Audion's look into African American Month. Black poet Langston Hughes, who did write a few special radio programs, also tried to sell a full-fledged Black soap opera. Times being what they were, there were no takers. But his two pilot scripts got stashed away in an archive, and over Christmas I requested and received copies. And so, for the first time, we can hear his proposed show "Little Ham from Harlem" - a comedic soap opera set at a shoe shine stand. Yes, a radio soap opera - but one about Black lives in the 1940s. It's a glimpse at an alternate radio universe with people of color in leading roles - in fact, in ALL roles.
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