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 WB EZ 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 and to another installment of our special series, Undercover,

where we are going all in on the different ways a book comes to life.

Last week, we uncovered the thorny business of book blurbs,

and today we are talking all about the audiobook, which I

happen to be obsessed with. It can be such a pleasure when a great audiobook narrator just

reads you a story. I love that I can listen while I'm walking the dog or doing dishes or

sitting in terrible traffic, so much so, in fact, that I have probably pressured most

of the people in my life into listening to audiobooks, too. For me, there's nothing like a book

on tape, as they used to be called, to really bring a text to life. I spent much of my childhood

listening to the sound of striving.

To Harry Potter, the boy who lived.

I ran to the living room to see what was wrong, and I found you struggling to free your

arm from what seemed to be a hole in the wall.

The idea of an audiobook, of course, is super simple.

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