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Featured story: Making Waves (mini-series)
Three controversial broadcasters who used the microphone in different ways… one to warn, one to rile, one to preach.
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Featured story: Sealab: A Home on the Ocean Floor
While NASA was making headlines for its quest to send a man to the moon, Captain Bond was quietly building homes for “aquanauts” on the ocean floor.
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Featured story: Teen Contender
At 16, Claressa Shields was the youngest woman to compete for a spot on the first-ever women’s Olympic boxing team.
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Diaries We give people tape recorders and help them document their own lives in their own words
Going Home: Cristel’s Diary
At 15, Cristel attacked a classmate with a razor blade. After 3 years of incarceration, she’s being released.
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Melissa: 16 Years Later
As an 18 year old raised in the foster care system, Melissa took NPR listeners along when she gave birth to her son Issaiah. Sixteen years later she chronicles her life as a working single mother.
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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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Centenarians in Lockdown
Winner of the 2020 Third Coast Festival Award! Joe Newman is 107 years old. He recorded himself and his fiancé, Anita Sampson on her 100th birthday.
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The Chamizal: A Town Between Borders
When the U.S. and Mexico chose the Rio Grande as an international border, they didn’t expect the river to move.
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The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
A weekly series untangling the mysteries of Hart Island, America’s largest public cemetery.
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