Florida Humanities is proud to have sponsored and helped create a series of short radio programs from 1993 - 2008. We hope you enjoy these approximately five-minute long reports on Florida’s cultural heritage, history, people, fascinating places, literary life, art, and much more.
Submissions from 2008
An Artist Discovers the Florida Scrub, Bill Dudley, Mollie Doctrow, Carol Mahler, and Steve Morrison
Early Florida Film Makers, Bill Dudley, Sidney Vaughn, Shawn Bean, and Richard Alan Nelson
Environmentalist Marjorie Harris Carr, Bill Dudley, Peggy MacDonald, and Jack Davis
Everglades National Park at 60, Bill Dudley, Jack Davis, Von Seal Davidson, and Michael Grunwald
Florida Immigration: Rights and Wrongs, Bill Dudley and Alex Stepick
Florida's New Deal Legacy, Bill Dudley, John Stack, and John Stuart
Floridians in the Ice Age, Bill Dudley, Barbara Purdy, and Al Goodyear
Four Rivers and a Swamp, Bill Dudley, Ed Woodward, Thomas Hallock, Merle Allshouse, Terry Tomalin, and Monica Roland Kyle
Glades County Voices, Bill Dudley, Akin Babatunde, Margo Emory, and Andrew Frank
Painting the Past on Marco Island, Bill Dudley, Bob Carr, Betsy Perdichizzi, Rachel Kennedy, Paul Arsenault, and Stephen Muldoon
Stetson Kennedy in Key West, Bill Dudley, Stetson Kennedy, and Peggy Bulger
Weedon Island's Ancient Dugout Canoe, Bill Dudley, Bob Austin, and Phyllis Kolianos
Why St. Augustine, Bill Dudley, Susan Parker, Michael Gannon, and Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Zora Neale Hurston in the Turpentine Camps, Bill Dudley, Zora Neale Hurston, Robert Cassanello, Stetson Kennedy, Tiffany Ruby Patterson, and Marianne Popkins
Submissions from 2007
African Americans Betrayed after Emancipation, Bill Dudley, Paul Ortiz, and Patricia Hilliard Nunn
An Actor/Scholar Portrays Mark Twain, Bill Dudley and George Frein
Bertram Wyatt-Brown: A Question of Honor, Bill Dudley, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, and James M. Denham
Carl Hiaasen's Book: Nature Girl, Bill Dudley, Carl Hiaasen, and Maurice O'Sullivan
Cuban Independence Leader Jose Marti, Bill Dudley, Chaz Mena, and Paul Dorsal
Florida History in 40 Minutes, Bill Dudley, Mike Gannon, and Gary Mormino
Florida in the Movies, Bill Dudley, Susan Fernández, Robert Ingalls, David Morrow, and Susan Doll
Florida's Seminoles in the 21st Century, Bill Dudley, Betty Mae Jumper, James Billy, Tina Osceola, and Patsy West
Florida's Space Program: The Shuttle Program, Bill Dudley, Pat Duggins, and Kenneth Lipartido
Florida's Vanishing Water, Bill Dudley, Cynthia Barnett, and Jack Davis
Harold Newton: An Original Highwayman, Bill Dudley, Gary Monroe, and Irvin Lipman
Historical Archaeology, Bill Dudley, Uzi Baram, Barbara Little, and Kathleen Deegan
Letters from the Great Depression, Bill Dudley, Elna Green, and Marylou Ruud
Marjory Stoneman Douglas's Cottage, Bill Dudley, Jack Davis, William Toby Muir, and Joe Browder
Mary McLeod Bethune: Demanding Democracy, Bill Dudley, Ursula Odom, and Stephanie Evans
Ray Arsenault's Book, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, Bill Dudley, Raymond O. Arsenault, David Myers, and Winona Myers
The Quilters of Eatonville, Bill Dudley, Josephine Burns, Ella Dinkins, Shelly McKinney, Susan Rosoff, and Elaine Zorn
World War II: Wings Over Florida, Bill Dudley, Dale Alexander, Bill Emerson, Ed Leary, Gary Mormino, Harold Weekley, and Rob Paris
Submissions from 2006
C.K. Steele and the Tallahassee Bus Boycott, Bill Dudley, Henry Marion Steele, Greg Padgett, Mike Pope, and Laura Dixie
Classic Florida Books, Bill Dudley, Jeff Klinkenberg, and Maurice O'Sullivan
Florida Folk Singer Gamble Rogers, Bill Dudley, Harold Fethe, Bob Patterson, and Margaret Longhill
Florida Governor Leroy Collins, Bill Dudley, Martin Dyckman, and David Colburn
Florida in 1491, Bill Dudley, Charles Mann, and Raymond Arsenault
Florida's First Major Leaguers, Bill Dudley, Wes Singletary, and Kevin McCarthy
Henry Flagler's Key West Railroad, Bill Dudley, Les Standiford, Tom Hambright, George Born, and Seth Bramson
Southern Journalists during the Civil Rights Movement, Bill Dudley, Hank Klibanoff, Howell Raines, and Diane Roberts
The Black Archives Museum, Bill Dudley, Sally Watt, and Doris Smith
The Florida Everglades, Bill Dudley, Michael Grunwald, and Jack Davis
The Fort Pierce Home of Zora Neale Hurston, Bill Dudley, Sally Watt, Arlena Benton, and Marjorie Harrell
Virgil Hawkins's Fight to Study and Practice Law in Florida, Bill Dudley, Martin Dyckman, and David Coburn
William Bartram in Florida, Bill Dudley, Kathryn Holland Braund, and Thomas Slaughter
Submissions from 2005
Carl Hiaasen's Children's Books, Bill Dudley, Carl Hiaasen, and Jeff Klinkenberg
Democracy and the Florida Supreme Court, Bill Dudley and Fred Lewis
Florida Civil Rights Leader Harry T. Moore, Bill Dudley, Ben Green, Jim Clark, and Raymond Arsenault
Florida's Environmental History, Bill Dudley, Jack Davis, Raymond Arsenault, and Bruce Stevenson
Florida's Silver Springs, Bill Dudley, Wendy Adams King, Willie Bell Cannon, Leon Cheatham, and Mark Newman
Gary Mormino's Book, Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams, Bill Dudley and Gary Mormino
Gatorland Theme Park, Bill Dudley and Sally Watt
Jackie Robinson in Florida, Bill Dudley, Chris Lamb, and Raymond Arsenault
Photographer Clyde Butcher, Bill Dudley and Clyde Butcher
The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, Bill Dudley, Max Frankel, and Raymond Arsenault
The Architecture of James Gamble Rogers, Bill Dudley, Deborah McClane, Patrick McClane, and Elizabeth Gordon
The Stetson Kennedy Story, Bill Dudley, Stetson Kennedy, Peggy Bulger, and Glenda Hood
Submissions from 2004
Ernest Hemingway and Photographer Walker Evans, Bill Dudley, Claudia Pennington, Brewster Chamberlin, Benjamin Dink Bruce, Steve Pratt, and Norman Eberly
Florida - A Dream State, Bill Dudley, Diane Roberts, and Gary Mormino
Florida Foods - Old and New, Bill Dudley, Monica Morfin, Roberta Baer, Chris Sherman, and Tina Bucuvalas
Florida Freedom Riders, Bill Dudley, Raymond Arsenault, Gordon Carey, and Israel Dresner
History of Florida Hurricanes, Bill Dudley and Raymond Arsenault
History of Trailers and Mobile Homes, Bill Dudley, Gary Mormino, Raymond Arsenault, Mario Vieira, and Sydney Adler
Jeff Klinkenberg's Real Florida, Bill Dudley, Jeff Klinkenberg, Clyde Butcher, Ruby Williams, and Thomas B. Mack
John Hope Franklin and the Brown Decision of 1954, Bill Dudley and John Hope Franklin
Researchers Study Cuban Archives, Bill Dudley, Eugene Lyon, and Bruce Chappell
South of the South: Civil Rights in Miami, Bill Dudley, Bobbi Graff, Ray Mohl, Thalia Stern Broudy, and Marvin Dunn
Spring Training in Florida, Bill Dudley, Jack Davis, and Kevin McCarthy
St. Augustine 1964: Voices from the Civil Rights Movement, Bill Dudley, Samuel White, Fred Shuttlesworth, Joanne Anderson, Nell Edwards, Gene Chalmers, Dan Warren, Willie Bolden, and Clennon King
The Civil Rights Movement in Jacksonville, Bill Dudley, Iona Godfrey King, Abel Bartley, and Rodney Hearst
The Image of Florida, Bill Dudley, Steve Whitfield, and Mark Greenberg
The Seminole Wars, Bill Dudley, John Missall, Mary Lou Missall, and John K. Mann
The St. Johns River, Bill Dudley, Gary Monroe, Mallory O'Connor, and Bill Belleville
WPA Artists and Writers in Florida, Bill Dudley, Nance Frank, Stetson Kennedy, Margaret Gibbons Wilson, and Alan Jabbour
Submissions from 2003
Buffalo Tiger of the Miccosukees, Bill Dudley, Buffalo Tiger, and Harry Kersey
Florida and the Harlem Renaissance, Bill Dudley, Leroy Mitchell, Phyllis McEwen, and Bob Devin Jones
Florida's Migrant Farmworkers, Bill Dudley, Juan Corona, Margarita Romo, Davida Johns, Jack Davis, and Nano Riley
North Florida Blues, Bill Dudley, Randall Webster, Charles Atkins, Mikel Rouse, and Gary Anton
Orange Journalism, Bill Dudley, Julian Pleasants, Diane McFarlin, Carl Hiaasen, and Tommy Greene
Stetson Kennedy and Woody Guthrie, Bill Dudley, Stetson Kennedy, and Woody Guthrie
The Culture of Weedon Island, Bill Dudley, Brent Weisman, and Sheila Stewart
The Florida Folk Festival Story, Bill Dudley, David Reddy, Jon Kay, and Barbara Beecham
The Florida Hurricane of 1928, Bill Dudley, Eliot Kleinberg, and Russell Pfost
The Last Slave Ships, Bill Dudley, Corey Malcom, and Madeleine Burnside
The Women of Florida Noir, Bill Dudley, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, Edna Buchanan, and Christine Jackson
Submissions from 2002
Early Florida African-American History, Bill Dudley and Jane Landers
Everglades Exploitation and Conservation, Bill Dudley, Rebecca Smith, and David McCally
Florida Beaches, Bill Dudley, Gary Mormino, Howard Kleinberg, and Marsha Dean Phelts
Forgotten Florida Women, Bill Dudley, Doris Weatherford, and Nancy Hewitt
Fort Mose: Colonial Period Free African American Settlement, Bill Dudley and Kathleen Deagan
Immigrants in Central Florida, Bill Dudley, Maria Padilla, and Alex Stepick
Jack Davis's Book about Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Bill Dudley, Jack Davis, and Rosemary Orlando
Looking at Tolerance and Diversity after 9/11, Bill Dudley, Carol Berkin, Valerie Boyd, and Bruce Feiler
Racial Unrest in 1964 St. Augustine, Bill Dudley, Claudia Slate, John Herbers, and David Colburn
Reenacting Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Bill Dudley, Joan Wolfberg, and Helen Muir
Shipyard Women in WWII, Bill Dudley, Joanne Stokes, Gary Mormino, Neva Todd, Barbara Lois Ward, Helen Eckart Gonzalez, and Bobby Joyce Ward
Sicilians in Florida, Bill Dudley, Clive Webb, Joe Caltagerone, Mark Greenberg, and Evelyn Dorigo
The Changing South of Gene Patterson, Bill Dudley, Eugene Patterson, Raymond Arsenault, and Roy Peter Clark
The Civil War in Florida, Bill Dudley and Paul Taylor
Trolley Tracks in Florida, Bill Dudley, Seth Bramson, James Crooks, and Leland Hawes
