Radio Diaries

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Radio Diaries, Inc. is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization committed to producing a new kind of oral history. Radio Diaries is grounded in the simple faith that everyone has a story to tell, and that extraordinary stories can be found in ordinary places. Since 1996, Radio Diaries has pioneered a model for working with people to document their own lives and personal histories for public radio: teenagers, seniors, prison inmates, and others whose voices are rarely heard. We help people share their stories - and their lives - in their own words, creating documentaries that are powerful, surprising, intimate, and timeless. Radio Diaries has also established a reputation as a leading producer of historical documentaries. Our work has won almost every journalism award, including The RFK Journalism Award and The Casey Journalism Award and the Sigma Delta Chi Journalism Award. We also publish an oral history guide for young people, the Teen Reporter Handbook, which is used in schools and community radio stations across the country.

Previous and current Radio Diaries projects have received funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Council for the Humanities, the Kaiser Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts.

Radio Diaries work can be heard on NPR's All Things Considered, and on our website at www.radiodiaries.org. Contact us for more information.



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On the morning of July 28, 1945 a B-25 bomber left Massachusetts and headed to New York City on a routine ferry mission. Lost in the fog over Manha...

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2011
  • Length: 00:11:47
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Bridgette McGee holds a photo of her grandfather, Credit: Teri Havens
In 1951, Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's traveling electric chair for raping a white woman. Six decades later, his granddaughter is on a...

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2010
  • Length: 00:22:59
  • Purchases: 6
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In the summer of 1968, students in Mexico began to challenge the country's authoritarian government. But the movement was short-lived, lasting less...

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2009
  • Length: 00:22:25
  • Purchases: 5
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A portrait of Nelson Mandela in the years before he was sent to prison

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2008
  • Length: 00:12:02
  • Purchases: 3
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Introduction by Nelson Mandela to the series, Mandela: An Audio History

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Jul 11, 2008
  • Length: 00:01:01
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A year in the life of a South African teenager.

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  • Added: May 30, 2006
  • Length: 00:23:28
  • Purchases: 16

  • Added: Jun 26, 2004
  • Length: 00:16:53
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One of the last fishermen left in the Brooklyn Harbor

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  • Added: Jun 26, 2004
  • Length: 00:07:40
  • Purchases: 8
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Hour version of Mandela: An Audio History

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  • Added: Jun 26, 2004
  • Length: 00:58:44
  • Purchases: 25
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Part 5 of a five-part series on South Africa's struggle against apartheid.

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  • Added: May 03, 2004
  • Length: 00:12:46
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Part 4 of a five-part series on South Africa's struggle against apartheid.

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  • Added: May 03, 2004
  • Length: 00:12:46
  • Purchases: 8
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Part 3 of a five-part series on South Africa's struggle against apartheid.

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  • Added: May 03, 2004
  • Length: 00:12:53
  • Purchases: 8
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Part 2 of a five-part series on South Africa's struggle against apartheid.

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  • Added: May 03, 2004
  • Length: 00:15:17
  • Purchases: 8
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Part 1 of a five-part series on South Africa's struggle against apartheid.

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  • Added: May 03, 2004
  • Length: 00:14:01
  • Purchases: 10
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Amanda's family is Catholic. Amanda is bisexual.

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 00:09:41
  • Purchases: 8
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Josh has Tourette's Syndrome, a neurological disorder that causes uncontrollable tics and involuntary verbal outbursts.

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 00:12:24
  • Purchases: 11
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Melissa didn't mean to get pregnant. But now, after 12 years of living in the foster care system, she's trying to build the family she never had.

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 00:11:49
  • Purchases: 10
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Juan and his family crossed the Rio Grande illegally into Texas four years ago.

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 00:10:00
  • Purchases: 6
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More and more these days Jeff finds himself thinking about race and being forced to answer the question "What are you?"

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 00:13:12
  • Purchases: 17
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In Josh's second diary, he packs his tape recorder for his first summer away from home.

Bought by KFAI, Public Radio Remix, Remix Radio, and WYBC


  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 00:13:47
  • Purchases: 4