Radiotopia.

From PRX.

From PRX is Radiotopia.

This is Radio Diaries.

I'm Joe Richmond.

This is the final episode of our mini-series, Making Waves.

Profiles of three controversial radio personalities,

who pushed the boundaries,

had huge audiences in their time, but who today

are largely forgotten.

In 1939, Time magazine called Dorothy Thompson a woman who thinks, talks, and sleeps world

problems and scares men half to death.

They weren't wrong. Thompson was a foreign correspondent in Germany

in the years leading up to World War II, and she broadcast to millions of listeners around the world.

She became known for her bold commentaries on the rise of Hitler. The Nazis even created a Dorothy

Thompson emergency squad to monitor her work. She was an eloquent and opinionated advocate

for the principles of democracy, but by the end of the war, those strong opinions put her

career in jeopardy. Today, the story of the woman who tried to warn the world.

The National Broadcasting Company brings you at this time a talk by the noted woman commentator Dorothy Thompson. Miss Thompson.

I don't know how you feel, but I feel as though I'd like to take a little time off to think over and digest what's happened in these last days.

My name is Leslie Dorothy Lewis.

I'm 63 and I'm hearing my grandmother's voice for the first time.

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