Radio Diaries
Radio Diaries & RadiotopiaFirst-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
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 268 | Founded | 20 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | DocumentarySociety & Culture | |||
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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 fin... more
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 ca... more
This week we're bringing you a story from our friends at History This Week, a podcast from the History Channel.
April 3, 1951. A man who escaped slavery is grabbed off the streets of Boston and thrown into a carriage. He fights back, shouting to the... more
Last week, Leqaa Kordia, young Palestinian woman from Paterson, New Jersey, walked out of an ICE detention center in Texas. Kordia had been held for more than a year.
Radio Diaries has been following her story and recorded Kordia while detention. N... more
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- The stories you bring
Thank you for what you bring and share with your listeners, the stories you find are brilliant. I wonder, do you publish these stories in longer format in text or audio?
Cheers!
Apple Podcasts53*game
United States4 months ago - Consistently great
Perfect short stories
Apple Podcasts5BigJuice123
Canada7 months ago - Bias?
I don’t know if this could be called reporting. At least not in a professional way. I ‘m not that intetested in hearing how hard it was for the interviewer or that she felt like throwing up. There were times that the interviewer and her experience and opinions was the story - not the people she was reporting on. Wish she would step back and stick to reporting on the events - her drama and emotions seem out of place for one that wasn’t a part of it.
Apple Podcasts3lindafbirdUnited States2 years ago - Loved this program
Well done always. I loved this last series about unmarked graves. Profound.
Apple Podcasts5eg portlandUnited States2 years ago - Unmarked Graveyard
I’m sad that the Unmarked Graveyard series has ended. It is a deeply engaging series that looked at the lives of the anonymous people who surround us and reminds us that we are all only a heartbeat away from becoming an unknown, anonymous body in the eyes of authorities—lost with no past and buried in an unmarked mass grave, little more than biological waste. I genuinely wish the series would continue restoring names and lives to the dead by telling their stories.
Apple Podcasts5kimberjsUnited States3 years ago
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Apple Podcasts | #67 | United States/Society & Culture/Documentary |
Apple Podcasts | #187 | Canada/Society & Culture/Documentary |
Apple Podcasts | #108 |  Australia/Society & Culture/Documentary |
Apple Podcasts | #160 |  Italy/Society & Culture/Documentary |
Apple Podcasts | #28 |  Saudi Arabia/Society & Culture/Documentary |
Apple Podcasts | #44 |  Hong Kong/Society & Culture/Documentary |
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What is Radio Diaries about and what kind of topics does it cover?
This series offers intimate, audio-first storytelling drawn from personal diaries, interviews, and archival materials to illuminate overlooked moments in history and everyday life. Episodes frequently center on civil rights, immigration, war-era events, and cultural memory, often weaving firsthand voices from families, witnesses, and historians to unpack complex social issues with empathy and rigorous context. A few distinctive strengths stand out: meticulously crafted sound design that serves the subject's humanity, a strong emphasis on personal perspective over traditional reporting, and historical narratives that connect individual experiences to larger movements. Listeners who value human-centered history, oral storytelling, and thought... more
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Recent guests on Radio Diaries include:
1. Bridgette McGee Robinson
2. Leqaa Kordia
3. Hamza Abushaban
4. Beatrice Wells
5. Laura Williams
6. Bobby Donaldson
7. James L. Felder Sr.
8. Richard Gergel
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