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The Progress City Radio Hour – Episode 52 – Doris Hardoon Town Hall, Part I

Disney Legend Doris Hardoon poses with the carpeted mural in the preshow area of EPCOT’s Harvest Theater

As we continue our celebration of EPCOT’s 40th anniversary, our newest Progress City Radio Hour Town Hall features an interview with a Disney Legend who was there for it all. We’re so happy to bring to you the first […]

The Progress City Radio Hour – Episode 51 – Communications!

Marty Sklar, John DeCuir Jr., and John Hench discuss an early model of Spaceship Earth

With the recent celebration of EPCOT’s 40th anniversary, it’s time for the Progress City Radio Hour to begin our series of EPCOT-themed episodes! And as befits the park’s main icon, the first episode in our series is all about […]

The Progress City Radio Hour – Episode 31 – Scott Girard Town Hall, Part I

Disney landscapers lower the Liberty Oak into place in Liberty Square in 1971. Among the crew are Scott Girard (to the left, in orange shirt), Charlie Sepulveda (the yellow shirt, center), and Bill Evans (the mint green shirt, far right).

Today! The Progress City Radio Hour presents part one of our Town Hall […]

This Month’s Podcasts: Into the Wilderness!

Bob Baranick and Phantom Manor

Another month means another wave of Progress City Radio Hour episodes! This month we head off into the wilderness with a wide range of frontier discussion and yet another interview with a veteran theme park designer.

First comes our Wilderness episode. Here we grab our musket and […]

New Podcasts: Interviews and Snowy Things!

Frank Stanek

The podcast train keeps on rolling, as we have some new episodes of The Progress City Radio Hour for you. For starters, we have an extensive two-part interview with former Disney executive Frank Stanek, who began by flipping pancakes at Disneyland in 1961. He went on to work at the 1964/65 […]