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The Vanishing of Harry Pace: Episode 5

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Natural Sciences, History, Documentary, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 2 July 2021

ā±ļø 42 minutes

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Summary

Roland Hayes and the Lost Generation:Ā EpisodeĀ Five fromĀ The Vanishing of Harry Pace,Ā a six-part series created by Jad Abumrad and Shima Oliaee.Ā  Here’s the extraordinary story of Roland Hayes, anotherĀ greatĀ (and largelyĀ forgotten) creator of new cosmologies.

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0:00.0

Wait, you're listening.

0:03.1

Okay.

0:04.4

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0:05.6

Okay.

0:07.0

All right.

0:08.5

You're listening to Radio Lab.

0:11.4

Radio Lab.

0:11.9

From W. N. Y.

0:13.9

C.

0:14.8

See?

0:15.1

Yeah.

0:19.2

Let's start. Let's start.

0:20.5

Okay. I'm J Ibumrod here with...

0:22.6

Shimonialiy. And this is The Vanishing of Harry Pace, a mini-series on Radio Lab.

0:28.1

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

0:31.6

Past and present.

0:32.7

And, uh, we're going to keep expanding outward. I know we call this series the vanishing of

0:36.6

Harry Pace, but he was not the only one to be vanished.

0:40.1

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

0:45.9

Now, one of the things that has been really frustrating for us in reporting this series, haunting even, is that our central guy...

0:55.7

We don't have Harry's voice. No. We don't have it. Harry got all of these other voices on

1:01.3

records, like Ethel Waters, Trixie Smith. I mean, yeah, take Ethel as an example. When you hear

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