Welcome to It Was Said, with Jon Meacham
MLK Jr., The Last Speech
RFK, A Eulogy for King
President Obama's Charleston Sermon
Meghan McCain, and Her Father’s America
Ronald Reagan’s Farewell Address
Edward R. Murrow Fights for Free Press
Barbara Jordan, Your Keynote Speaker
Hillary Clinton, Women’s Rights Are Human Rights
SERIES SUMMARY
It Was Said is a limited documentary podcast series looking back on some of the most powerful, impactful and timeless speeches in American history. Written and narrated by Pulitzer Prize winning and best-selling author-historian Jon Meacham, and created, directed and produced by Peabody-nominated C13Originals Studios in association with HISTORY, this series will take you through 10 speeches for the inaugural season. Meacham will offer expert insight and analysis into their origins, the orator, the context of the times they were given, why they are still relevant today, and the importance of never forgetting them. Each episode of this documentary podcast series will also bring together some of the top historians, authors and journalists relevant to each respective speech and figure.
In association with HISTORY
JON MEACHAM - Host
Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. His latest work is His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope (Penguin Random House). He is the author of #1 New York Times bestselling books including The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross; The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels; Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power; American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House; Franklin and Winston; Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush; and Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation. He is the host the C13Originals documentary podcast franchise It Was Said and the Cadence13 podcast docuseries Hope, Through History. He is a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University, a contributing writer for The New York Times Book Review, and a fellow of the Society of American Historians. Meacham lives in Nashville with his wife and children.
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About C13Originals
C13Originals is the division of Cadence13 focused on original storytelling and developing a slate of IP through a new premium level in-house production studio, and creators of top podcast series Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia and the white-collar crime docuseries Gangster Capitalism.
Credits
Executive Producers: Jon Meacham and Chris Corcoran
Director: Lloyd Lochridge
Editor, Producer, Engineer: Chris Basil
Production Support and Research: Bill Schultz and John McDermott
Research Assistant: Ian Mandt
Creative Consultation: Eli Lehrer and Jessie Katz
Graphic Design, Marketing and Publicity: Josefina Francis, Curt Courtenay and Hillary Schupf
Web Development: Ben Messer
Theme Song: I Can Almost See You by Hammock
Closing Credits Song: Light by Michael Kiwanuka
About C13Originals
C13Originals is the division of Cadence13 focused on original storytelling and developing a slate of IP through a new premium level in-house production studio, and creators of top podcast series Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia and the white-collar crime docuseries Gangster Capitalism.
Credits
Executive Producers: Jon Meacham and Chris Corcoran
Director: Lloyd Lochridge
Editor, Producer, Engineer: Chris Basil
Production Support and Research: Bill Schultz and John McDermott
Research Assistant: Ian Mandt
Creative Consultation: Eli Lehrer and Jessie Katz
Graphic Design, Marketing and Publicity: Josefina Francis, Curt Courtenay and Hillary Schupf
Web Development: Ben Messer
Theme Song: I Can Almost See You by Hammock
Closing Credits Song: Light by Michael Kiwanuka