Making

by WBEZ Chicago

WBEZ's critically-acclaimed bio-podcast series explores how icons, industries and newsmakers rose to the top.

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Becoming Bovino

Who is Gregory Bovino? For months, the Border Patrol Commander-at-Large led agents through Chicago on an aggressive immigration enforcement campaign, ...

33m

•Dec 23, 2025

A new era for daytime soaps operas: Beyond the Gates

A Chicago woman, Irna Phillips, birthed the daytime serial — and a Chicago woman, Michele Val Jean, is ushering in new interest in the genre. Val Jean...

38m

•May 20, 2025

Behind the curtain at ‘Days of Our Lives’: The lights, the sets, the pink coat

Go behind the scenes at Days of Our Lives in Burbank, California. Hear from actors, set designers and wardrobe as we pull back the curtain on how soap...

19m

•May 13, 2025

TV wouldn’t be TV without soap operas

Without soaps, we wouldn’t have melodramas or reality shows. Without soaps, we wouldn’t have many of the TV tropes and shows we love to stream and bin...

29m

•May 6, 2025

Soaps take the lead on nuanced storylines about queer life

Before the mainstreaming of Ellen and the hit show Will and Grace, soaps did their best to bring tenderness to LGBTQ+ storylines. That’s the nature of...

33m

•Apr 29, 2025

Black actors don’t want to be your sidekick

From Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee on The Guiding Light to the first Black super-couple, Jesse and Angie on All My Children, Black soap actors have been on...

40m

•Apr 22, 2025