Dispatches from 1918

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WNYC Studios

Science, Natural Sciences, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 43.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

It’s hard to imagine what the world will look like when COVID-19 has passed. So in this episode, we look back to the years after 1918, at the political, artistic, and viral aftermath of the flu pandemic that killed between 50 and 100 million people and left our world permanently transformed.

This episode was reported and produced by Rachael Cusick, Tad Davis, Tracie Hunte, Matt Kielty, Latif Nasser, Sarah Qari, Pat Walters, Molly Webster, with production assistance from Tad Davis and Bethel Habte.

Special thanks to the Radio Diaries podcast for letting us use an excerpt of their interview with Harry Mills. You can find the original episode here. For more on Egon Schiele’s life, check out the Leopold Museum’s biography, by Verena Gamper.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:07.0	I'm listening to Radio Lab.
0:11.0	Radio Lab.
0:12.0	From WNYC.
0:20.0	Chad?
0:21.0	Hey.
0:22.0	Hey.
0:23.0	How's it going?
0:24.0	Good.
0:25.0	I'm Chad Abin-Rom.
0:26.0	This is Radio Lab with dispatches 6 through 10 pat Walters senior editors.
0:29.0	I think the Walters senior editor is going to start us off.
0:31.0	Okay.
0:32.0	Okay.
0:33.0	So you and Molly had this idea to do an episode about the 1918 flu.
0:37.8	And whenever I get into something historical, I go to the newspaper archives.
0:43.8	I just, I think they're so cool.
0:46.0	You know, coronavirus isn't the news everywhere.
0:48.0	We've been talking about this on the show.
0:49.4	And I thought, like, oh, what did this look like in 1918?
0:52.4	But yeah, so I decided to just like go to the New York Times archive, start.
0:58.9	In October, which was like the peak of the second wave of the 1918 flu.
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