Alexander Graham Bell’s patent on the telephone was granted 150 years ago today. Richard Thompson sings Bell’s bio! Phil Henry offers a historical portrait of an “Extraordinary Woman.” Mother Banjo covers John Prine and we spin the original recording of Prine’s “Hello in There.”
Can We Talk?

"Hello Girls" were the Women Signal Corps Operators during WWI speeding up military communications. (Photo: War Department, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

