Stay ConnectedA Podcast About Wonderful & Unexpected Things
Want to listen to something nice for a change? Love Letters to… is a short burst of celebration, delivered to your phone twice a week. Alicia and Melissa shine their prodigious light on the most interesting and impactful people, events, and ideas throughout time.
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On April 15, 1947, baseball great Jackie Robinson broke the color line when he took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers. As momentous an achievement as this was, it opened the door to truly despicable abuse from opposing teams and spectators that Robinson had to endure. It was on the Dodgers' first road trip with Robinson that today's Dynamic Duo emerged. In Cincinnati, as Robinson was heckled by the crowd, shortstop Pee Wee Reese, the Dodgers' captain, walked out to Robinson and put his arm around his shoulder, silencing the crowd. The men would remain friends for the rest of their lives.
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In today's episode, it is a love letter to Queen Victoria, and her consort Prince Albert. These two first cousins celebrated a successful marriage, nine children, and changed the tides of Europe with their lasting legacies.
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They say that old friends are the best, and today's Dynamic Duo makes a strong case. Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King have been besties since 1976, and four and a half decades later, it's impossible to think of one without thinking of the other.
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In today's episode of Love Letters to... it is a different kind of a dynamic duo, as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reside in one being. It is a tale of the individual human struggle that lives within us all.
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Relationships are complicated, especially among celebrities, but few have had as many ups and downs as that of the most famous Muppet pairing, Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog.
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Today's dynamic duo put 29 singles into the US Top 40 between 1974 and 1991. There's a reason that Darryl Hall and John Oates are inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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Television in the 1980s spent a lot of time exploring the social changes that recent decades had produced. From 1984 to 1989, Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin were America's favorite divorced moms, teaming up to raise their kids together in a Greenwich Village brownstone.
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Not every Dynamic Duo will net 34 Tony Awards, 15 Academy Awards, two Pulitzer Prizes, and two Grammy Awards, but musical theater masters Rodgers and Hammerstein did. Today, they round out their awards with this Love Letters to....
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Not a Love Letter to... seasonings, but rather, the First Ladies of Rap and Hip Hop! Cheryl James (Salt) and Sandra Denton (Pepa), along with Deidra Roper as DJ Spinderella, changed rap and hip hop forever when they stormed onto the scene in the 1980s.
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In today's episode of Love Letters to.... we celebrate our favorite dynamic duo from Sesame Street, Bert and Ernie.
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