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Featured story: 25 Years of Radio Diaries
This week marks 25 years of Radio Diaries! On the podcast, we bring you an update on our very first diarist.
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Featured story: Busman’s Holiday
In 1947, a NYC bus driver took an impromptu 1,300-mile road trip in his municipal bus.
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Featured story: The Last Place
Audio diaries from inside a retirement home in Evanston, Illinois. Stories of love, life, and loneliness.
Diaries We give people tape recorders and help them document their own lives in their own words
My So-Called Lungs
Laura Rothenberg tried to live a normal life, with lungs that betrayed her and the awareness that she might not live to see her 30th birthday.
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Going Home: Cristel’s Diary
At 15, Cristel attacked a classmate with a razor blade. After 3 years of incarceration, she’s being released.
ListenPortraits Extraordinary stories from ordinary places
Selma Koch, Bra Saleswoman
94-year old Selma Koch runs the Town Shop, one of New York’s last old-style bra fitting shops.
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The Last Man on the Mountain
In the 1990s, Arch Coal began mining Pigeonroost Hollow. Now Jimmy Weekley is the last person left there.
ListenHistories Exploring the past to tell the History of Now.
The Gospel Ranger
Outside the Appalachian mountains, his name was barely known. But Claude Ely influenced some of the pioneers of rock & roll.
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How to Lose an Election: A History
In every U.S. presidential election since 1896, the losing candidate has given a concession speech.
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