MY SO-CALLED LUNGS

Mr. Richman's recorded "Diaries" are sometimes eerily intimate, with the audience entering into a closer bond with the person on tape than is possible perhaps in any other medium, including documentary film.
-- The New York Times

Rothenberg's candor is disarming.
-- US News & World Report

Charming portraits...
-- The New York Times

PRISON DIARIES

An eye-opening revelation.
-- Time Out New York

Prison Diaries takes the listener inside the criminal justice system. The voices are conversational and confessional. The sounds range from harsh to heartbreaking.
-- Columbia Journalism Review

Bitter moments, sweetly told.
-- Time Magazine

Richman, a kind of Studs Terkel of the airwaves, has elicited intimate, disarming radio documentaries.
-- Los Angeles Times

Whether it's teenagers or prisoners, the broadcasts allow listeners to eavesdrop on the aural journal entries of people they might not ordinarily meet. And because these personal revelations come without fanfare, the immediacy of each solitary voice can be startling.
-- The New York Times

TEENAGE DIARIES

Warning: listening in on Teenage Diaries may prove habit-forming.
-- Teen Beat Magazine

The characters grab you, their stories crackling with passion and truth.
-- The Washington Post

Teenage Diaries ... is an engaging and nuanced portrait of adolescence. Whoever said children should be seen, and not heard, got it backward ...
-- Newsweek