First-person diaries, sound portraits, and hidden chapters of history from Peabody Award-winning producer Joe Richman and the Radio Diaries team. Majd Abdulghani is a teenager living in Saudi Arabia, one of the most restrictive countries for women in the world. This story originally aired on This American Life. Nine months later, Rosa Parks did the exact same thing. Bonus and ad-free content available with Stitcher Premium. Today, he lives in a senior apartment complex in Sarasota, Florida with his fiancé, Anita Sampson. The near-strangers took a leap of faith and are riding out quarantine in Joshua's apartment. When she was born, the life expectancy for people with CF was around 18 years. In the coming weeks we’ll be bringing you...There’s a long history in America of white people imagining black people’s lives - in novels, in movies, and sometimes in journalism. Both of Francesca's parents are essential workers - her mom is an ICU nurse at a hospital in Manhattan. From teenagers to octogenarians, prisoners to prison guards, bra saleswomen to lighthouse keepers. The war between politicians and the media has a long history. Today on the podcast, the story of Agnew’s speech. Naida Lavon was one of them. Studs went around the country in the 1970s interviewing people about their jobs.
Her family wants to arrange her marriage. In 1956, about a year after Colvin refused to...Nowadays we’re very accustomed to recording and hearing the sound of our own voices. Before founding Radio Diaries, he worked on the NPR programs All Things Considered, Weekend Edition Saturday, Car Talk, and Heat.
First-person diaries, sound portraits, and hidden chapters of history from Peabody Award-winning producer Joe Richman and the Radio Diaries team. Radio Diaries is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. We combed through a large collection of early voicemail at the Phono Post Archive, and we discovered that many of these audio letters have the same subject matter: love. Radio Diaries is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Their story is part of our series Hunker Down Diaries, a collaboration with...Joe Newman is 107 years old. She wants to be a scientist. Learn more at radiotopia.fm.First-person diaries, sound portraits, and hidden chapters of history from Peabody Award-winning producer Joe Richman and the Radio Diaries team. Love At First Quarantine: After A Single Date, Couple Hunkers Down Together. We first learned about Robinson from Studs Terkel's book Working. Naida is 67 and a former school bus driver. Parks, of course, became a powerful symbol of the civil rights movement. And for two years, she kept an audio diary of her battle with cystic fibrosis and her attempts...Back in the 1990s, Joe Richman gave tape recorders to a bunch of teenagers and asked them to report on their own lives. #RadiotopiaForeverFifty years ago, on November 13, 1969, Spiro Agnew delivered the most famous speech ever given by a vice president. Radio Diaries is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX.
Hunker Down Diaries is a new series from Radio Diaries, sharing short diaries and conversations between people thrown together by the pandemic. Radio Diaries is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. It may sound familiar, but we’re actually going back more than five decades on the show today, when Alabama Governor and four time presidential candidate George Wallace was perfecting the politics of resentment and race baiting. She survived.
Make your mark. Prisons are often overcrowded, social distancing is difficult, bathrooms and public spaces are shared by hundreds of inmates.
We got almost 1,000 submissions from around the world. Thank you!Sports, music, news and podcasts. New Yorkers Gali Beeri and Joshua Boliver met at a dance class in March as the city was about to lock down. #RadiotopiaForeverWe first met Thembi when she was 19 and living in one of the largest townships in South Africa. For the past few months, Naida’s been living in her car on the streets of Portland, Oregon. *** President Nixon was getting beaten up by the press, and in response, his administration had been trying to undercut the credibility of the media, especially television news.