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 2002
Voices of Hurricane Andrew, Bill Dudley, Eugene Provenzo, and Asterie Baker Provenzo
Zora Neale Hurston - Anthropologist, Bill Dudley, Irma McClaurin, and Zora Neale Hurston
Submissions from 2001
A Land Remembered, Bill Dudley and Patrick Smith
Edward Bok and Bok Tower Gardens, Bill Dudley, David Price, Joanna Lombard, and Pirjo Restina
Florida's Rock and Roll Heritage, Bill Dudley, William McKeen, Bob McNeil, and Hughie Thomasson
Henry Flagler's Railroad, Bill Dudley and Seth Bramson
Historian John Hope Franklin, Bill Dudley and John Hope Franklin
History of the Highwaymen Painters, Bill Dudley, Gary Monroe, and James Gibson
Journalism and the Language of Race, Bill Dudley and Keith Woods
Newspaper Columnist Bill Maxwell, Bill Dudley and Bill Maxwell
Questions from the Harlem Renaissance, Bill Dudley, Lee D. Baker, Maria Vesperi, Leroy Mitchell, and Phyllis McEwen
Remembering the Bay of Pigs, Bill Dudley, Rafael Montalvo, and Victor Triay
Robert Saunders and the NAACP in Florida, Bill Dudley, Robert Saunders, Richard Matthews, and Raymond Arsenault
Uncovering a Black Seminole Village, Bill Dudley, Terrance Weik, and Brent Weisman
Submissions from 2000
Florida and the Disputed 1876 Presidential Election, Bill Dudley and Jerrell Shofner
Florida's Early Railroads, Bill Dudley, Larry Brennan, and Edward Mueller
Henry B. Plant - Florida Empire Builder, Bill Dudley and Kelly Reynolds
Library of Congress's WPA Florida Folklore Audio Recordings, Bill Dudley, Robert Cornwall, G. G. Albritton, Peggy Bulger, Alan Jabbour, Stetson Kennedy, and Harold B. Hazelhurst
Ocoee - A Reconciliation, Bill Dudley, Jerry Gurley, Bryan Stamper, and Lester Dabbs Jr.
Writers Remember Florida, Bill Dudley, Connie May Fowler, Bill Maxwell, Ben Bova, and Rita Ciresi
Submissions from 1999
Chief of the Miccosukee, Bill Dudley, Buffalo Tiger, and Harry Kersey
Florida's Tuskegee Airmen, Bill Dudley, Hiram Mann, Thomas Reilly, Lynn Homan, Maury Reid, Yenwith Whitney, and Arque Dickerson
James Weldon Johnson, Bill Dudley, Leroy Mitchell, and Charles Haiger
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Zora Neale Hurston, Bill Dudley, Betty Jean Steinhauser, and Phyllis McEwen
Remembering the 1951 Murder of Harry T. Moore, Bill Dudley and Ben Green
Submissions from 1998
African-American Church Architecture in Florida, Bill Dudley and Richard Dozier
Black Miami in the 20th Century, Bill Dudley, Marvin Dunn, and Paul George
Carl Hiaasen Talks about Writing, Bill Dudley and Carl Hiaasen
Florida's Back to Africa Movement, Bill Dudley, David Jackson, and Jo Harbin
John Hope Franklin & the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Bill Dudley and John Hope Franklin
Reenacting Zora Neale Hurston, Bill Dudley and Phyllis McEwen
Remembering the Harlem Renaissance, Bill Dudley, Akin Babatunde, Michael Parola, and Natalie King-Pedrosso
Rights to Indigenous Artifacts, Bill Dudley, Cynthia Casey, Daniel Penton, and Nancy White
Submissions from 1997
Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Seminole Museum, Bill Dudley, Betty Mae Jumper, David Blackard, and Billy Cypress
Airplane Pilot Tony Jannus, Bill Dudley, Tom Reilly, and Ed Hoffman
Listening to Miccosukee Leader Buffalo Tiger, Bill Dudley, Maurice O'Sullivan, and Buffalo Tiger
Rosewood Revisited, Bill Dudley, Minnie Lee Langley, Navita James, David Colburn, Darryl Paulson, and David Welch
The Black Seminoles, Bill Dudley, Canter Brown, and Alcione Amos
The Undiscovered Zora Neale Hurston, Bill Dudley, Robert Hemenway, and Sybil Johnson
Women in Florida Politics, Bill Dudley, Ruth Whitney, and Jeanne Malchon
Ybor City and the Spanish Civil War, Bill Dudley, Willie Garcia, Ana Varela-Lago, Fraser Ottanelli, Angel Rañon, Jose O'Rao, and Gus Jimenez
Submissions from 1996
Actor Charles Pace as W.E.B. DuBois, Bill Dudley
Comparing the Seminole and Vietnam Wars, Bill Dudley
Florida's Lighthouses, Bill Dudley, Kevin McCarthy, Kathy Fleming, David Nolan, and Cardell Daniels
Frank Lloyd Wright in Florida, Bill Dudley, Maris Dale, Dan Fowler, and Tom Mack
Mary McLeod Bethune, Bill Dudley, Ernest Ponder, Keturah Creel, David Colburn, Joseph Taylor, and Mary McLeod Bethune
Negro League Baseball in Florida, Bill Dudley, Monte Irvin, and James Riley
Remembering Florida Governor Leroy Collins, Bill Dudley, Leo Sandon, and Thomas Leroy Collins
The Highwaymen, Bill Dudley, Jim Fitch, Corrine Gale, Zanobia Jefferson, James Gibson, and Mary Ann Carroll
Submissions from 1995
African Americans in Reconstruction Florida, Bill Dudley, Canter Brown, and Larry Rivers
Florida African American History, Bill Dudley, Maxine Jones, Kevin McCarthy, and David Colburn
Michael Gannon's Book, Florida: A Short History, Bill Dudley and Michael Gannon
Slave Narratives, Bill Dudley, Alexander Proctor, Charles Hegler, and Phyllis McEwen-Taylor
The Federal Writers Project in Florida, Bill Dudley, Richard Gray, Margaret Gibbons Wilson, Cornelia Mitchell, Isabel Barnwell, A. J. Manning, and Stetson Kennedy
Submissions from 1994
1994 Interview with Clyde Butcher, Bill Dudley and Clyde Butcher
40 Years After the Supreme Court's Brown Decision, Bill Dudley and James Horton
African American Storytellers, Bill Dudley, Uwezo Sudan, Vivian Filer, Myron Jackson, Mildred Hill-Lubin, and Ajamu Mutima
An Interview with Journalist Jeff Klinkenberg, Bill Dudley and Jeff Klinkenberg
Changing Role of Women in Seminole History, Bill Dudley, Jeanette Cypress, Patsy West, and Agnes Nanette Cypress
Florida Poet Peter Meinke, Bill Dudley and Peter Meinke
Seminole Storytellers, Bill Dudley, Betty Mae Jumper, Peter B. Gallagher, and Moses Jumper
The Florida Dream, Bill Dudley, Gary Mormino, and Maurice O'Sullivan
The Tallahassee Bus Boycott, Bill Dudley, Greg Padgett, Laura Dixie, and Sam Dixie
Submissions from 1993
1993 Stetson Kennedy Interview, Bill Dudley and Stetson Kennedy
Claude Pepper, Bill Dudley, Claude Pepper, Gary Mormino, and Kelly Reynolds
Early Seminole Native American Photographs, Bill Dudley, Allison Devine Nordstrom, and Tina Osceola
Growing Up with Rockets: Early U.S. Space Program, Bill Dudley, Nancy Yasecko, and Gordon Patterson
Harry Truman in Key West, Bill Dudley, Arva Moore Parks, Mary Spottswood, and Jim Horgan
Hemingway in Florida, Bill Dudley, Richard Parrish, Bernice Dixon, and Lauren Bacall
José Marti, Bill Dudley, José Iglesias, Neale Ronning, Louis Pérez, and Gerald Poyo
Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Bill Dudley and Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Myths in Florida History, Bill Dudley, James Horgan, Michael Gannon, Robert Gold, and Nick Wynne
Remembering Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Bill Dudley, Sally Morrison, and Anne E. Rowe
The Books of Patrick D. Smith, Bill Dudley, Patrick D. Smith, and Maurice O'Sullivan
