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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#20: When Borders Move
What happens when, instead of people crossing the border, the ...
What happens when, instead of people crossing the border, the border crosses the people?
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#19: Working, Then and Now
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Studs Terkel's "Working," we ...
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Studs Terkel's "Working," we bring you two of the lost interviews that never made it into the book: Helen Moog, a taxi driver and grandmother of five who happened to drive Studs to the Youngstown,
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#18: Strange Fruit – Voices of a Lynching
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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#17: The Gospel Ranger
Outside the Appalachian mountains, his name was barely known. But ...
Outside the Appalachian mountains, his name was barely known. But Brother Claude Ely influenced some of the pioneers of rock & roll.
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#16: “Halfrican” Revisited
When Jeff Rogers was 16 years old he started referring ...
When Jeff Rogers was 16 years old he started referring to himself as a “halfrican.” Jeff has a black father and a white mother. And like many teenagers, he was trying to figure out who he was.
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#15: Walter the Seltzerman – It’s Not Easy Being Last
Once there were thousands of seltzer men in New York ...
Once there were thousands of seltzer men in New York City. Today, Walter Backerman is one of the last.
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Video Podcast: Help Kickstart Our New Season
Check out our Kickstarter video. (Ira Glass has a cameo! ...
Check out our Kickstarter video. (Ira Glass has a cameo! ) If we reach our goal, we'll put out the Radio Diaries Podcast twice as often. Biweekly! bit.ly/RDKickstarter
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#14: The Long Shadow of Forrest Carter
Asa Carter and Forrest Carter couldn't have been more different. ...
Asa Carter and Forrest Carter couldn't have been more different. But they shared a secret.
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#13: The Day Nelson Mandela Became Nelson Mandela
The moment Nelson Mandela really became Nelson Mandela was on ...
The moment Nelson Mandela really became Nelson Mandela was on April 20th, 1964 - fifty years ago today. It happened when he stood up in a stuffy South African courtroom and gave a speech.
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#12: Frankie’s Teenage Diary, Revisited
"I went from being on the front page for football, ...
"I went from being on the front page for football, representing my itty-bitty school, to being on the front page as a thief and a meth head." - Frankie Lewchuck
