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Podcast: Today In History with The Retrospectors
Episode: Meet Donald Duck
Description: The Wise Little Hen’, the Silly Symphonies short from was released on 9th June, 1934 and introduced a new Disney character: Donald Duck.
With his distinctive strangled quacking (born from the unique talents of Clarence Nash - a man who’d spent his childhood mimicking barnyard sounds), Donald's hot-tempered, accident-prone slapstick sensibilities brought a welcome unpredictability to the sanitised world the studio had constructed around their hero, Mickey Mouse.
But Donald wasn’t just a cartoon character. He soon became a symbol of resilience during World War II, when he starre...