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Radio Diaries

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

Episodes

A Mother, Then and Now

28 Apr 2016

41m

Radio Diaries Turns 20!

08 Apr 2016

21m

AI processed

Radio Diaries marks its 20th anniversary by revisiting the story of Amanda Brand, the program's inaugural teenage diarist. Two decades after recording her experiences as a gay teenager in Queens, Brand reflects on original tapes that captured the friction between her identity and her parents' traditional Catholic upbri...

Public radio’s original mission, drafted by Bill Siemering in 1969, continues to serve as a foundational blueprint for audio storytelling despite the shift from traditional broadcast to on-demand podcasting. Siemering envisioned a medium that celebrates human diversity, promotes personal growth, and treats listeners as...