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Grandma's Been There
Host and creator Siobhan Barry takes listeners back to the 1950s and 1960s. Her stories, sometimes funny and sometimes serious, are time traveling trips through the days of penny candies, neighborhood ice cream parlors, fifty-cent movie tickets, air raid drills, summers without air conditioning, street games, homemade toys, football weddings, transistor radios, Beatlemania, and a cultural revolution.
Grandma's Been There
World Without End Part 1
October 16th marked the 63rd anniversary of the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This week's episode is a work of fiction based on actual events. "World Without End" is the story of a little girl who challenges the validity of 1960s Cold War propaganda by refusing to take cover during an air raid drill. I've divided it into two parts which I'm releasing simultaneously so you can listen to it all in one sitting or come back for the second half when your schedule permits.
