Judith Vecchione - Summer Staff Picks

Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin

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Tv & Film, Music, Music Interviews, Arts, Performing Arts, Film Interviews

4.4 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Our summer tradition at Here’s the Thing continues, as staff members choose their favorite conversations from the archives for our Summer Staff Pick series.This week in our Summer Staff Pick series, we revisit Alec’s interview with Judith Vecchione, Emmy- and Peabody-winning producer of the landmark PBS series Vietnam: A Television History, which premiered 40 years ago. Vecchione discusses the immense responsibility of telling the story of the Vietnam War through a 13-part documentary, the behind-the-scenes process of crafting such a comprehensive project, and how the experience shaped her decades-long career at WGBH. She also speaks with Alec about her work on Eyes on the Prize, the stories that drive her, and how she’s mentoring the next generation of documentary storytellers.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.4	The Stuff You Should Know guys have made their own summer playlist of their must listen podcasts on movies.
0:10.2	It's me, Josh, and I'd like to welcome you to the Stuff You Should Know summer movie playlist.
0:15.1	What Screams Summer?
0:16.1	More than a nice, darkened, air-conditioned theater, and a great movie playing right in front of you.
0:20.8	Episodes on James Bond, special effects, stunt men and women, disaster films. darkened air-conditioned theater and a great movie playing right in front of you.
0:27.5	Episodes on James Bond, special effects, stunt men and women, disaster films, even movies that change filmmaking, and many more.
0:34.3	Listen to the stuff you should know summer movie playlist on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:40.5	I'm Bob Crawford, host of American History Hotline, a different type of podcast.
0:43.8	You, the listener, ask the questions.
0:46.2	Did George Washington really cut down a cherry?
0:48.4	Were JFK and Marilyn Monroe having an affair?
0:50.1	And I find the answers.
0:52.2	I'm so glad you asked me this question.
0:53.9	This is such a ridiculous story.
1:02.4	You can listen to American History Hotline on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:07.2	Adventure should never come with a pause button.
1:44.5	Remember Movie Pass? All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks? I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of Movie Pass, who got pushed out of the company he built. Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. And then boom, it's everywhere. And that was that moment. Listen to there. No girls on the internet on the IHurt Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Summer's here and with the kids home and off to camp, it's easy for moms to get lost in the shuffle. On good mom's bad choices, we're making space to center ourselves with joy, rest, and pleasure.
1:49.6	Take the kids to camp. You know what? It was expensive. But I was also thinking,
1:55.7	you have my kid, this is kind of priceless. Take her, feed her, make core memories. I don't have to do anything. Main thing, I don't have to do anything. To hear this and more, listen to Good Mom's Bad Choices from Black Effect Podcast Network on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.
2:09.5	This is Alec Baldwin, and you're listening to Here's the Thing from Iheart Radio.
2:15.7	It's summer, and that means it's time for our tradition
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