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Mad Women | The Age of Persuasion

Terry O’Reilly’s radio show Age of Persuasion is always a fascinating half-hour of social history regardless of whether you are interested in advertising or not.

In this recent episode, O’Reilly looks at the great women of the advertising world, including the first advertising woman ever, the woman who created the first images of wives as “Happy Homemakers”, the woman who revolutionized the retail business, and the female creative director who inspired the “I Love New York” campaign.

 

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Hitchcock and the History of Movie Trailers

If you are still stewing over last night’s lacklustre Oscars (or even if your not), take a listen to Terry O’Reilly’s entertaining history of movie trailers for The Age of Persuasion. He kicks it off with this genius trailer for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds:

And, for it’s worth, movie trailers were originally created to get people OUT of theatres, not into them. Brilliant.

Listen to The Age of Persuasion podcast:

CBC RADIO: AOP GOES TO THE MOVIES

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