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Meet Irna Phillips: The Queen of Daytime
Soap operas have long been trivialized as low-brow women’s entertainment. Even the term “soap” is pejorative when describing television. But there’s a deeper story to tell about the genre that changed storytelling on the...
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Meet Irna Phillips: The Queen of Daytime is an episode from Making by WBEZ Chicago. Soap operas have long been trivialized as low-brow women’s entertainment. Even the term “soap” is pejorative when describing television. But there’s a deepe...
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