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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#11: Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair
On the night of May 7th, 1951, in the small ...
On the night of May 7th, 1951, in the small town of Laurel, Mississippi, close to a thousand people gathered around the courthouse. They came to witness an execution. Willie McGee was a young black man who had been accused of raping a white woman...
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#10: Teenage Diaries Revisited 1-Hour Special
A lot of life happens in 16 years.
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#9: A Guitar, A Cello, and the Day that Changed Music
What would it sound like if one of the world's ...
What would it sound like if one of the world's greatest classical cellists, and the most legendary blues guitarist of all time...jammed together?
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#8: Mandela: An Audio History
The struggle against apartheid, told by the people who lived ...
The struggle against apartheid, told by the people who lived it.
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#7: The Last Man on the Mountain
A profile of the last man standing.
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#6: The View From the 79th Floor
On July 28, 1945 an army bomber pilot on a ...
On July 28, 1945 an army bomber pilot on a routine ferry mission found himself lost in the fog over Manhattan. Stories from the day a plane crashed into the Empire State Building.
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#5: Teenage Diaries Revisited: Juan
16 years ago, Juan reported on his life as a ...
16 years ago, Juan reported on his life as a recent Mexican immigrant living in poverty in Texas. In his new diary, Juan takes us on a tour of the life he has built since he first crossed the Rio Grande.
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#4: Burma ’88: Buried History
25 years ago, university students in Burma sparked a countrywide ...
25 years ago, university students in Burma sparked a countrywide uprising. They called for a nationwide strike on 8/8/88, a date they chose for its numerological power.
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#3: Teenage Diaries Revisited: Melissa
Melissa's Teenage Diary and her new 'grown-up' diary from Teenage ...
Melissa's Teenage Diary and her new 'grown-up' diary from Teenage Diaries Revisited.
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#2: Teenage Diaries Revisited: Josh
Josh’s audio diaries about trying to live a normal life ...
Josh’s audio diaries about trying to live a normal life with a brain that often betrays him.
