The Last Archive

The Valley of the Dolls - ‘The Deadline’

This episode features an essay from Jill Lepore’s ‘The Deadline.’
Jill reads her essay on the tangled history of Barbie. And then, after, Ben and Jill talk about how the film fits in with the core concerns of the essay — the tangled web of intellectual property, IP theft, and the relationship between corporations and feminism.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

The Last Archive​ is a show about the history of truth, and the historical context for our current fake news, post-truth moment. It’s a show about how we know what we know, and why it seems, these days, as if we don’t know anything at all anymore. The show is written &amp; hosted by Ben Naddaff-Hafrey, and was created by the historian Jill Lepore. iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.