After Girls Tyme dissolves, Beyoncé and the other girls begin building their new group, Destiny’s Child. Finally, things start to click. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wbez-making/~4/1nIx17dSkgo" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

After Girls Tyme dissolves, Beyoncé and the other girls begin building their new group, Destiny’s Child. Finally, things start to click. 

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Beyoncé 3: Destiny Begins

From the makers of&nbsp;Making Obama, WBEZ Chicago presents&nbsp;Making Beyoncé, a new three-part bio-podcast series that explores Beyoncé Knowles’ rise from local talent shows to global musical icon.&nbsp;Find episodes of&nbsp;Making Beyoncé right here beginning Friday, Nov. 15, 2019. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wbez-making/~4/YjcPjHxeCVA" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

From the makers of&nbsp;Making Obama, WBEZ Chicago presents&nbsp;Making Beyoncé, a new three-part bio-podcast series that explores Beyoncé Knowles’ rise from local talent shows to global musical icon.&nbsp;Find episodes of&nbsp;Making Beyoncé right here beginning Friday, Nov. 15, 2019. 

Trailer: Making Beyoncé

Just two and a half years after his 2004 Democratic National Convention speech, Barack Obama announced he was running for president.  <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wbez-making/~4/GNZFRolwWfg" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

Just two and a half years after his 2004 Democratic National Convention speech, Barack Obama announced he was running for president. 

Obama BONUS: The Decision

Barack Obama burst onto the national stage during his U.S. Senate run. Hear how ambition and luck propelled him to Washington.  <a href="http://wbez.org/making">wbez.org/making</a> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wbez-making/~4/HhkRiupV8vA" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

Barack Obama burst onto the national stage during his U.S. Senate run. Hear how ambition and luck propelled him to Washington. wbez.org/making

Obama 6: Yes We Can!

Former president Barack Obama has only lost one election in his life. It was in 2000, and that defeat set him on the course for his eventual U.S. Senate run. Making Obama is a production of listener-supported WBEZ Chicago. Support WBEZ and the future of podcasts like this at <a href="https://wbez.org/making" target="">https://wbez.org/making</a> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wbez-making/~4/HXdccb8FNrM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

Former president Barack Obama has only lost one election in his life. It was in 2000, and that defeat set him on the course for his eventual U.S. Senate run. Making Obama is a production of listener-supported WBEZ Chicago. Support WBEZ and the future of podcasts like this at https://wbez.org/making

Obama 5: Up Or Out

In 2000, Barack Obama ran for Congress against a Chicago political legend. It became a contest about race and identity.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wbez-making/~4/YZGLkIZnHEI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

In 2000, Barack Obama ran for Congress against a Chicago political legend. It became a contest about race and identity.

Obama 4: Wait Your Turn

Former President Barack Obama won his first political seat in 1996. Hear what he had to learn, and the conflicts he faced, to get there.&nbsp;<a href="http://wbez.org/making" target="">wbez.org/making</a> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wbez-making/~4/Th3FsBKdr1w" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

Former President Barack Obama won his first political seat in 1996. Hear what he had to learn, and the conflicts he faced, to get there.&nbsp;wbez.org/making

Obama 3: You Don’t Say No To Barack

When Barack Obama first came to Chicago, a political transformation was happening in the city. Hear how that change inspired him.  <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wbez-making/~4/49I1nBuToQM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

When Barack Obama first came to Chicago, a political transformation was happening in the city. Hear how that change inspired him. 

Obama 2: Chicago Politics Ain’t Beanbag

Before he was the 44th President, Barack Obama worked as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago. Hear how the city shaped his political ambitions.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wbez-making/~4/NmiLbL6VRzY" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

Before he was the 44th President, Barack Obama worked as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago. Hear how the city shaped his political ambitions.

Obama 1: The Man In The Background

Former President Barack Obama — along with friends, mentors, and rivals — tells the story of his climb from Chicago to the national stage. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/making-oprah/id1171160683?mt=2" target="">Subscribe now</a> and don’t miss the first episode on February 8. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wbez-making/~4/gOY6Tlk7d4s" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

Former President Barack Obama — along with friends, mentors, and rivals — tells the story of his climb from Chicago to the national stage. Subscribe now and don’t miss the first episode on February 8.

Obama: Preview of Making Obama

In our final bonus installment, the Making Oprah production team revisits an extended interview with daytime talk show legend Phil Donahue. His pioneering show, Donahue, aired from 1967 to 1996 and laid the groundwork for Oprah’s program. It tackled heady, controversial issues - and landed frothy exclusives with A-list celebrities. Donahue also used his studio audience and callers in ways that were both innovative and intimate.&nbsp;Join host Jenn White, producer Colin McNulty, and executive producer Joel Meyer as they listen back to one of their favorite non-Oprah interview from the dozens of interviews conducted for Making Oprah.&nbsp;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wbez-making/~4/DwgBMPYohlI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

In our final bonus installment, the Making Oprah production team revisits an extended interview with daytime talk show legend Phil Donahue. His pioneering show, Donahue, aired from 1967 to 1996 and laid the groundwork for Oprah’s program. It tackled heady, controversial issues - and landed frothy exclusives with A-list celebrities. Donahue also used his studio audience and callers in ways that were both innovative and intimate.&nbsp;Join host Jenn White, producer Colin McNulty, and executive producer Joel Meyer as they listen back to one of their favorite non-Oprah interview from the dozens of interviews conducted for Making Oprah.&nbsp;

Oprah BONUS: Making Donahue

For more than 10 years after the launch of the Oprah Winfrey Show, Oprah deliberately avoided having politicians on her show, particularly during election seasons. In this bonus episode of Making Oprah, host Jenn White talks to Oprah about the role politics played - and didn’t play - in the history of the Oprah Winfrey show. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wbez-making/~4/zAHoaWxWXZA" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

For more than 10 years after the launch of the Oprah Winfrey Show, Oprah deliberately avoided having politicians on her show, particularly during election seasons. In this bonus episode of Making Oprah, host Jenn White talks to Oprah about the role politics played - and didn’t play - in the history of the Oprah Winfrey show. 

Oprah BONUS: Oprah Gets Political

If you look at any image from the Oprah Winfrey Show, you can pretty much figure out what decade it’s from by looking at Oprah’s hairstyle.&nbsp;In this short bonus episode, host Jenn White talks to Oprah’s longtime stylist Andre Walker about the high stakes of doing the hair of the most watched woman on television.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wbez-making/~4/JGvckn8TUx0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

If you look at any image from the Oprah Winfrey Show, you can pretty much figure out what decade it’s from by looking at Oprah’s hairstyle.&nbsp;In this short bonus episode, host Jenn White talks to Oprah’s longtime stylist Andre Walker about the high stakes of doing the hair of the most watched woman on television.

Oprah BONUS: Let's Talk About Oprah's Hair

In the show’s final decade, Oprah and her team staged massive spectacles of increasing grandiosity, from the infamous car giveaway to a 21,000-person flash mob that shut down part of Chicago.&nbsp;“It had become increasingly more difficult to top what you’d done the year before,” Oprah told WBEZ’s Jenn White. “I mean, to the point where we literally sat in a room saying ‘What about outer space?’ ”&nbsp;That’s what we look at now: Oprah living her life at the top, pushing the boundaries of what could be done with the world’s most powerful talk show, and why it all had to end after 25 years. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wbez-making/~4/4-tfOMhPAOs" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

In the show’s final decade, Oprah and her team staged massive spectacles of increasing grandiosity, from the infamous car giveaway to a 21,000-person flash mob that shut down part of Chicago.&nbsp;“It had become increasingly more difficult to top what you’d done the year before,” Oprah told WBEZ’s Jenn White. “I mean, to the point where we literally sat in a room saying ‘What about outer space?’ ”&nbsp;That’s what we look at now: Oprah living her life at the top, pushing the boundaries of what could be done with the world’s most powerful talk show, and why it all had to end after 25 years.

Oprah 3: YOU GET A CAR!

In the second episode of Making Oprah, we explore how The Oprah Winfrey Show elevated itself out of the heap of trash TV and into a show that intentionally embraced spirituality and positivity.&nbsp;The early years of Oprah’s show often relied on sensational, tabloidy topics – cheating husbands, sexy clothes, and murderers. It was not yet the ‘Live Your Best Life’ Oprah we would come to know and love.&nbsp;&nbsp;“It was during those shows where I just thought, ‘What are we doing?’ ” Oprah tells WBEZ’s Jenn White. “This is a platform that is speaking to people, and what are we saying?”&nbsp;&nbsp;As the Oprah Winfrey Show reached maturity -- or at least, its college years -- the program conducted the on-air experiments that would allow this talk show to become something more than a talk show<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wbez-making/~4/MtTW-c7WtXA" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

In the second episode of Making Oprah, we explore how The Oprah Winfrey Show elevated itself out of the heap of trash TV and into a show that intentionally embraced spirituality and positivity.&nbsp;The early years of Oprah’s show often relied on sensational, tabloidy topics – cheating husbands, sexy clothes, and murderers. It was not yet the ‘Live Your Best Life’ Oprah we would come to know and love.&nbsp;&nbsp;“It was during those shows where I just thought, ‘What are we doing?’ ” Oprah tells WBEZ’s Jenn White. “This is a platform that is speaking to people, and what are we saying?”&nbsp;&nbsp;As the Oprah Winfrey Show reached maturity -- or at least, its college years -- the program conducted the on-air experiments that would allow this talk show to become something more than a talk show

Oprah 2: Skinheads And Scented Candles

Former President Barack Obama — along with key advisers, mentors, and rivals — tells the story of his climb from Chicago to the national stage. Season One of Making told the story of how Oprah built a media empire. Now, the story of how Chicago shaped the country's first African-American president.

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Making Obama

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