Some podcasts come together in a day or a week, but the newest series from Wonder Media Network says its latest series is 15 years in the making. The narrative series Divine Intervention delves into one of the most tumultuous periods in the history of the Catholic Church, the U.S., and the personal lives of ten revolutionaries.
Divine Intervention tells the previously untold story of a group of radical nuns in combat boots, wild-haired priests and their unusual friends and allies who became accomplished cat-burglars as part of their effort to sabotage the Vietnam War. Many wound up in jail, others betrayed their friends, while some even fell in love. Across 10 episodes, host Brendan Patrick Hughes uncovers their audacious illegal acts like scaling walls, picking locks, destroying draft cards, harboring a draft fugitive in a church sanctuary, and trading blows with former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. The series is a joint production between Wonder Media Network and iHeartPodcasts.
“Working on this project for so many years meant that I was able to capture a lot of important voices that have since left us,” says Hughes. “This has been a decades-long labor of love about the people I grew up with — outlandish and fiercely political Boston Irish Catholics out to save the world.”
Divine Intervention is the first podcast for Hughes, who is a filmmaker, stage director, performance artist, and professor of Film and Media at Pace University’s Sands College of Performing Arts in New York. His feature film “Dindin” premiered in October and is currently playing on Amazon Prime and Apple TV. His documentary “The Metal Detector” is now streaming on PBS.
The first episode of Divine Intervention has just been released by Wonder Media Network, the female-founded, audio-first creative studio based in New York. It was acquired by Acast in December.
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