Red for Revolution from Radiotopia Presents

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Fiction, Drama

4.5 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

We’d like to share another fiction podcast we think you’ll like, Radiotopia Presents: Red for Revolution, a six-part audio drama centering intergenerational stories of Black women, queer love, and liberation.

Meet Jazmine, an 18-year-old grappling with her queer identity, first crush, and the delicate task of mending her relationship with her homophobic mother. As she seeks solace and guidance from her grandmother, listeners are transported back to 1971, to follow the passionate love affair between jazz singer Lorraine Giovanni and activist Ella Ali. Two remarkable women from vastly different backgrounds, with opposing political views and living oceans apart, embark on a romance that defies all conventions.

Red for Revolution stars Jordan Hull, Loretta Devine, S. Epatha Merkerson, Rutina Wesley, Renée Wilson, Alimi Ballard, Jennifer Beals, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Danny Glover, Vanessa E. Williams, adrienne maree brown, Caro Guzmán, Don Daniels, and many others.

Learn more at radiotopiapresents.fm and discover more shows from across the Radiotopia network at radiotopia.fm.

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0:00.0	Before we start today's show, we want to shout out another show in the Radiotopia family, Radio Diaries.
0:07.0	For over 25 years, Radio Diaries has been creating sound-rich, personal stories on history and beyond.
0:14.0	They have a new mini-series called Making Waves, stories about three controversial broadcasters in American history.
0:26.6	They each used the microphone in different ways, one to warn, one to rile, one to preach. And today they're largely forgotten.
0:28.6	There's the black preacher who reached millions on the airwaves before the civil rights movement,
0:33.6	the woman who tried to warn the public of Hitler's rising power,
0:41.1	and the talk show host who first proved that outrage sells.
0:45.7	Sometimes we get people on there who disagreed with him and had fight with him.
0:47.0	Actually, he liked that.
0:49.5	I mean, if you were a Broadway play, you'd be a flop.
0:52.1	I'm not a Broadway play, but you're a flop.
0:57.7	Listen to all three episodes of Making Waves on the Radio Diaries podcast, available wherever you listen.
0:59.1	The New Yorker calls Radio Diaries a venerable and remarkable audio documentary project.
1:04.7	Subscribe to Radio Diaries wherever you get your podcasts or visit them at Radiodieries.org.
1:11.7	Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time and the arena and the manner of our revolution.
1:21.0	But more usually, we must do battle where we are standing.
1:26.2	Audrey Lord.
1:34.3	This is Adri Mary Brown, and you are listening to Red for Revolution, the audio drama. I invite you to travel across time for a multi-generational story of love and liberation.
1:41.3	For accessibility, transcripts are available at red for revolution.com. Testing, one, two, three. Testing, one, two, three.
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