Host Brooke Gladstone talks with <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/emily-nussbaum">Emily Nussbaum</a>, television critic for The New Yorker, about the forgotten story of Gertrude Berg, the woman behind the television sitcom, and the anti-communism campaign that clouded her legacy. 
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