Division Street Revisited: A Podcast Series

FAIN: TR-293093-23

PRX, Inc. (Boston, MA 02135-1054)
Jason Saldanha (Project Director: January 2023 to present)

Production of a seven-episode podcast series and a one-hour public radio special using oral histories from Studs Terkel’s book “Division Street: America” to explore social history from the late 1960s to today. 

"Division Street Revisited" is a seven-episode podcast, plus a 1-hour opening special for airing on public radio, written and narrated by 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary Mary Schmich. In it, we will revisit Studs Terkel's seminal debut oral history collection, "Division Street: America," by finding and talking with the children and grandchildren of the original participants to explore what their lives tell us about the country today. Each of the seven episodes will stand on its own and focus on a primary theme: race, work, labor rights, indigenous rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, conservation and poverty. These episodes will be full stories that will show how and why each of the original portraits was created, and how those same themes echo and evolve in the present.