Last night on our way to a birthday party David and I were listening to This American Life on NPR. The first story that was told was about the popular TV show This is Your Life from the 1950s and it really shocked us. If you have a moment I would suggest that you listen to the first part of this program as it's quite crazy/insightful/(fill in the blank)/emotional. Listen here:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/428/oh-you-shouldnt-have
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I heard the program on NPR and wondered about the "controversy". I used to LOVE this show . . . and as a child, fantasized about being on it.
I thought it was a great piece and I even want to buy the box set now. The shocking part for David and I was when they brought on the Japanese Reverend with the Hiroshima Maidens and then behind curtain was the magical voice of the pilot who dropped the atomic bomb! We were even talking about this with our friends after we heard it and as shocking as it was we debated that nowadays it would be done much worse, so there's that. I'm really curious to actually see an actual episode!
This might be a great (less-threatening) example of how things change in context with the times. I'd love to talk about that sometime. Meaning that we are often horrified, amused, angered, etc by what older people say and do (I guess now some of us are those older people). Some things clearly are human wrongs that need to be rectified, but others, well, it was just a different time ... I, too, remember this show only fondly, in real time. Of course we didn't see the 1953 show since I was only 1 and Uncle Henry was -2
Just wait 50 years til they start talking about our embarrassing realty tv shows. Jersey Shore? Agh!
and Uncle Henry was two. Yeah. If I'm not mistaken, this was the same year you were brought home from the Valley Forge Foundling Hospital
oh wait a minute. MINUS two. He was being serious. I'm sorry about the foundling hospital comment.
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