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Tue, Mar 29, 2022 9:00 PM

THE FILMS OF ROSEMARIE REED: WOMEN IN SCIENCE

On tonight’s Women’s History Month program, we’ll be joined again by filmmaker Rosemarie Reed, this time to discuss two of her films on the great accomplishments of women in science, The Path to Nuclear Fission: The Story of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn and Out From the Shadows: The Story of Irene Joliot-Curie and Frederic Joliot-Curie, both focusing on  persevering women scientists whose discoveries helped usher in the atomic age.

Rosemarie Reed began her career in radio at WBAI, starting as a volunteer, and advancing to General Manager. After five years at WBAI, she became an independent radio producer, under grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, to produce dramatic readings from little known books on human rights. Subsequently she was awarded a CPB grant to make a film on the presidency of Mickhail Gorbachev, filmed in Moscow, and resulting in the documentary Converations with Gorbachev and two more documentaries about Russia. She was with us two weeks ago to celebrate the release of her new film Playing in the FM Band: The Steve Post Story, about New York radio’s beloved curmudgeon. Currently in post-production is Reed’s Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing which addresses the United Kingdom’s anti-gay laws, originating in the times of Henry XIII and still on the books to this day in the UK and Nigeria (a former member of the British Commonwealth).

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

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