The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum presents LISTENING TO THE ROOSEVELTS: ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, "FIRST LADY OF RADIO" in the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home. Hosted by Library Director Paul Sparrow -- in conversation with Anya Luscombe of University College Roosevelt -- this program will include selected audio recordings of Mrs. Roosevelt as she talks about the United Nations and a range of public issues during some of her early Cold War broadcasts.
Anya Luscombe is Associate Professor of Media at University College Roosevelt, the Netherlands (in the province of Zeeland from which the Roosevelt ancestors came). A former BBC journalist, her research interests are media history and Eleanor Roosevelt's use of media. She is the author of FORTY YEARS OF BBC RADIO NEWS: FROM THE SWINGING SIXTIES TO THE TURBULENT NOUGHTIES and several articles on Eleanor Roosevelt and Radio.
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