I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still

watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,

soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,

Stories Without End from WBEZ Chicago.

Join me as I share how the genre began, their social impact, and why these stories endure.

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From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette.

I'm Greta Johnson.

We did it.

We made it to another weekend.

Coming up, I talk with the editors of an excellent new collection of short stories about why they wanted remixes of Arthurian legends.

There's just so much there there. Like you have underdog stories and you have stories about power balance and then you have these love stories and there's battle, there's politics, like what isn't there? Plus Anna North takes down the myth that we were supposed to treat lockdown as a time to be productive and awesome and amazing. This was always the

strange argument to me and I was surprised to see it just persist and persist and persist and

persist and still be there today. But first, it's our panel on the week that was. Both panelists this week are friends of the show.

We have Meha Ahmed, senior producer for WB Easy's Midday Talk Show Reset. Hey, Meha. Hey, Greta. And we have Ari on Nettles. She's the deputy editor at City Bureau here in Chicago. Ari, hello.

Hello. I love your singing. Hello. They always just make me so happy.

I know. I know. You know, that's how I get ready for today. Like, every time we talk, I do, I get on the mic and I do a little hello, hello.

It's nice. It is. It's beautiful. Thank you.

So I think we should kick things off with the Euro Cup final.

You see what I did there?

Kick things off.

I'm the worst.

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