NPR: Radio Diaries
Historical documentaries weaving together home recordings, archival news audio, and first-person accounts to bring the past to life. Extraordinary stories from ordinary places. To find out more visit: www.radiodiaries.org
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#38: Crime Pays
This month's podcast is about what it takes to get ...
This month's podcast is about what it takes to get people to change. We focus on a group of people that might be the hardest to change - or at least they’ve had the most money thrown at them in hopes of change: Criminals.
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#18: Strange Fruit
An eerie photograph, a famous song, and the man who ...
An eerie photograph, a famous song, and the man who lived to tell the story.
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#37: Mandela’s Prison Years
Chapter 3 of our documentary (and 2015 Audiobook of the ...
Chapter 3 of our documentary (and 2015 Audiobook of the Year) Mandela: An Audio History.
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#36: A Visit to the Memory Palace
Do you remember the first podcast you ever fell in ...
Do you remember the first podcast you ever fell in love with?
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#35: Matthew and the Judge
Audio diaries from a repeat offender, and his judge.
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#34: Seeing the Forrest Through the Little Trees
The true story of the untrue story of The Education ...
The true story of the untrue story of The Education of Little Tree.
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#11: The Traveling Electric Chair
Bridgette McGee grew up knowing nothing about her grandfather, Willie ...
Bridgette McGee grew up knowing nothing about her grandfather, Willie McGee. Now she is on a quest to unearth everything she can about his life – and his death.
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#33: From Bullets to Balance Sheets
As a teenager, Kamari Ridgle was a drug dealer and ...
As a teenager, Kamari Ridgle was a drug dealer and drive-by shooter until a near-death experience led him to his true love…accounting.
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#32: The Square Deal
Meet George F. Johnson, one of America's first 'welfare capitalists.'
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#31: Fly Girls
In the early 1940s, the government launched an experimental program ...
In the early 1940s, the government launched an experimental program to train women pilots. They were known as the WASPs, the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
