Delaney Hall

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  • Username: delaneyh
  • Producer
  • Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent

Recent Pieces from Delaney Hall

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99% Invisible #325-The Worst Way To Start A City (Director's Cut) (22:19)
From: Roman Mars

In the 1860s and 1870s, white settlers from the areas around Indian Territory — like Kansas and Texas — started to realize that there was vast piece of land in the middle of ...
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99% Invisible #322-The First Straw (Director's Cut) (19:00)
From: Roman Mars

A straw is a simple thing. It’s a tube, a conveyance mechanism for liquid. The defining characteristic of the straw is the emptiness inside it. This is the stuff of tragedy, ...
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99% Invisible #277-Ponte City Tower (Director's Cut) (24:15)
From: Roman Mars

Ponte City has towered over Johannesburg for decades, but over time it has gone from a symbol of white opulence to something far more complicated. It's multifaceted -- a ...
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99% Invisible #274-The Age of the Algorithm (Director's Cut) (19:45)
From: Roman Mars

Computer algorithms shape our world in profound and mostly invisible ways. And their creators often like to talk about how objective they are, claiming algorithms remove ...
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99% Invisible #261- Squatters Of The Lower East Side (Director's Cut) (22:51)
From: Roman Mars

The building had been abandoned and was now owned by the city, but it remained empty and unmaintained. It was full of rubble. Some of the walls were rotten and falling down. ...
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99% Invisible #250-State (Sanctuary Part 2) (Director's Cut) (27:52)
From: Roman Mars

In response to a mass migration across the U.S. border in the 1980s, a network of churches declared themselves “sanctuaries,” offering shelter to Central Americans who were ...
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99% Invisible #249-Church (Sanctuary Part 1) (Director's Cut) (26:45)
From: Roman Mars

In the 1980s, a small church in Arizona helped spark a new and controversial social movement based on an ancient religious concept. In this two-part series producer Delaney ...
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99% Invisible #208-Vox Ex Machina (Director's Cut) (22:14)
From: Roman Mars

Attendees at the 1939 NYC World's Fair were stunned to hear the first synthesized voice. Its inventor would go on to develop the Vocoder, which, in turn, would help win a war ...
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99% Invisible #216-The Blazer Experiment (Director's Cut) (21:37)
From: Roman Mars

A gun, a badge, and a blazer: how one of the most conspicuous rebranding efforts in police history is still relevant today.
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99% Invisible #201-The Green Book (Director's Cut) (19:49)
From: Roman Mars

The story of a guide to safe travels.