42.3 MORE from The Secret Files of Nellie Bly: "The Eighteen Who Survive"
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🗓️ 8 April 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
"The Eighteen Who Survive" was recorded live on February 24th, 2019\. It continues our adventures from the archives of **MORE from The Secret Files of Nellie Bly**.
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Featured in this episode:
David Linton as Arthur Brisbane
Eirik Davey-Gislason as Tudor
Ali Silva as Nellie Bly
Alain Laforest as Joseph Pulitzer
Michael Pate as George Saunders
Mary Murphy as Gertrude Rapp
James Rieser as Henrici
Kacie Laforest as Vera
James Kleinmann as Tobias
Song:
“She May Have Seen Better Days” by James Thornton
Performed by Martina DaSilva
accompanied by Nico Sleator
Radio play by Courtenay Gillean Cholovich
Directed by Holly Payne-Strange
Musical score improvised by Nico Sleator
Sound Effects Designer and Engineer: Joe Jung
Technical Director at The Slipper Room: Johnny Goddard
Production Assistant: Brontis Shane Orengo
Theme music by Jason Graves
Post-production audio by Ali Silva
Produced by Gustavo Rodriguez & Ali Silva for Fireside Mystery Productions
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| 0:00.0 | A renegade of the newsroom and liberator of the literary lady. |
| 0:09.0 | Of course, I speak of none other than our muse for this series, Ms. Nellie Bly. |
| 0:15.0 | Nellie took center stage in shaping the world of investigative journalism |
| 0:20.0 | and fascinated her readers with her exploits into the |
| 0:22.4 | unknown. But it wasn't easy. She had to brand herself and turn the very markers that barred her |
| 0:28.8 | from being a traditional journalist in a male-dominated field into the critical elements of a new |
| 0:34.3 | kind of journalism. At the time, hers was a writing style quite unprecedented, |
| 0:39.7 | where she made herself the focus of every story. Without Nellie, there wouldn't be a story, |
| 0:44.4 | and so they couldn't be anyone else's but her own. Nellie very cleverly developed what was |
| 0:50.1 | then an unconventional brand of reporting, in order to circumvent the boys' club of the |
| 0:55.1 | newspaper world, and to overcome the extreme prejudice against female reporters. We conjecture that |
| 1:01.5 | not all of her stories could be shared, and it was not just due to censorship or editing or the |
| 1:06.8 | discrimination of a patriarchal system. No, some horrors run too deep to be spoken. |
| 1:13.8 | That is, if you're even lucky enough to live through them. |
| 1:17.5 | More from the secret files of Nellie Bly. |
| 1:20.1 | We have just such a tale for you in which Miss Bly encounters the 18 who survive. |
| 1:26.3 | It was taped live in New York City on Sunday, February 24th, 2019. |
| 1:50.1 | The girl nearly did my head in at every encounter. Never have I met someone so naturally inclined to trouble. To some trouble just seems to occur, like an accidental slip on a wet floor or a, |
| 1:57.6 | like a misplaced wallet. But no, Nellie, trouble was oxygen to her bread and butter. |
| 2:04.7 | She sought it out the way some seek love. |
| 2:07.7 | Maybe it was her own bizarre form of affection in some way, |
| 2:11.4 | giving attention, shedding light where there was dark. |
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