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Okay, I'm Chad Abelmerad here with.

Shemolyai and this is the vanishing of Harry Pace, a mini-series on Radio Lab.

So we've finished our trilogy on the many lives of Harry.

Hashtag present.

And we're going to keep expanding outward.

I know we call this series the vanishing of Harry Pace, but he was not the only one to

be vanished.

There are others like him who were similarly vanished, sometimes by their own design.

Now one of the things that has been really frustrating for us in reporting this series

haunting even is that our central guy.

We don't have Harry's voice.

No, we don't have it.

Harry got all of these other voices on records like Ethel Waters, Trixie Smith.

I mean, yeah, take Ethel as an example when you hear her voice.

I come along in that era.

I was working in nightclubs.

Like when you hear her speak, it makes all the difference.

You know her.

I could sing dance, talk and whistle, I make you laugh, I make you cry.

But Harry's kind of lost to us.

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