AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:
You may not know this, but this podcast has a kind of parent program - a radio show here at NPR called All Things Considered. See what we did there? And 50 years ago this week in May of 1971, that show, All Things Considered, was born.
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LINDA WERTHEIMER: I hate that job. It was the worst job I ever had.
CORNISH: Linda Wertheimer was hired to direct the show, which sounded like this.
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