Series for Radio Diaries

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8 Pieces

Off the coast of the Bronx is a narrow strip of land where over one million people are buried. Hart Island is America's largest public cemetery. For over 150 years, the island has been mostly off limits. The Umarked Graveyard shares seven stories of individual buried there, the lives they lived and the people they left behind.

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Surprising stories of people thrown together by the pandemic.

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4 Pieces

Portraits of history's last surviving witnesses.

Caption: Studs Terkel
12 Pieces

In the early 1970’s, author Studs Terkel went around the country with a reel-to-reel tape recorder interviewing people for his book "Working." But until now, few of these interviews have ever been heard before.

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10 Pieces

The extraordinary stories of ordinary life.

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The extraordinary stories of ordinary life.

Caption: Josh Cutler in Teenage Diaries Revisited., Credit: David Gilkey/NPR
5 Pieces

16 years ago, Radio Diaries gave a group of young people tape recorders to report on their own lives for our NPR series, Teenage Diaries. Five of the diarists return to chronicle their grown-up lives in Teenage Diaries Revisited. A lot of life happens in 16 years.

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13 Pieces

Weaving together oral histories and archival tape to bring the past to life.

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8 Pieces

Portraits of some of America’s most original presidential candidates.

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9 Pieces

The story of South Africa's struggle against apartheid.

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17 Pieces

Since 1996, the Teenage Diaries series has been giving tape recorders to young people around the country to report on their own lives.

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4 Pieces

Five inmates, four correctional officers and a judge were given tape recorders.

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6 Pieces

Audio Portraits of a Vanishing City