ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
First-person diaries, sound portraits, and hidden chapters of history from Peabody Award-winning producer Joe Richman and the Radio Diaries team. From teenagers to octogenarians, prisoners to prison guards, bra saleswomen to lighthouse keepers. The extraordinary stories of ordinary life. Radio Diaries is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Learn more at radiotopia.fm
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every 18 days
Average audio length:
22 minutes
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English
United States
274 episodes
since May 17, 2013
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~55.26% of listeners are from United States.
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US
55.26%
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GB
10.50%
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CA
6.13%
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ZA
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SG
3.84%
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AU
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IE
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SK
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DE
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IL
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PH
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IN
0.84%
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JP
0.73%
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DK
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XX
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HK
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NO
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BR
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PK
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LV
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IT
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Others
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
In the spring of 1981, the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings met for a minor league baseball game of little importance. But over the course of 33 innings—8 hours and 25 minutes—the game made history. It was the longest professional baseball game ever played.
This story was produced in …
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
In the 1990s, Arch Coal began mountaintop removal mining in a corner of West Virginia called Pigeonroost Hollow. There used to be dozens of houses in the area, but within a few years there was just one. It belonged to Jimmy Weekley.
This story originally aired on NPR in 2011.
Learn about your ad c…
This week we're sharing a story from the audio magazine Signal Hill.
The story, "What's Inside the Moon," is about the poet Kenneth Koch and a group of elementary school students he taught to write poetry in the 1960s. Half a century later, producer Jess Shane tracked down the students to ask what …
This week we're featuring an episode of Phonograph, a podcast that deconstructs the history and art of audio storytelling.
The hosts of Phonograph recently invited Radio Diaries' Joe Richman on their show to talk about "24 Hours at the Golden Apple," a classic episode of This American Life that he …
A few years ago we did a story about Martha Lillard, a woman who had spent most of her life sleeping in a device called an iron lung. Martha had caught polio in the early 1950s, and, like many polio survivors, she had difficulty breathing on her own. Her iron lung was a big metal ventilator that fi…
Fifty years ago, a group of schoolchildren in South Africa changed history.
For decades, the whites-only government of South Africa had brutally enforced a policy of racial segregation known as apartheid—and had crushed any opposition just as ruthlessly. By the 1970s, an entire generation of anti-a…
This year marks 30 years since we first worked with teenagers to record stories about their lives.
Over the years, people have often asked us, whatever happened to them? What happened to Juan, Amanda, Melissa, Frankie, and Josh?
We’re going to find out.
In honor of three decades, we’re setting out…
When it comes to the space race, we all know names like Neil Armstrong and Yuri Gagarin. But in most moments in history, there are a few names that fall through the cracks. One of those names is Ed Dwight.
When Ed Dwight was selected to train to become an astronaut, many thought he would become the…
This episode includes topics and archival audio that some people will find disturbing.
Seventy-five years ago, on the night of May 7th, 1951, close to a thousand people gathered around the courthouse in the small town of Laurel, Mississippi. They came to witness an execution. Willie McGee was a you…
From ancient myths of sea monsters lurking below to Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the ocean has long been both a source of fear and fascination. For Captain George Bond, a Navy medical officer in the 1960s, the deep sea was humanity's next frontier. Undersea agriculture, deep…
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