Radio Diaries

When you spend so much of your life getting to the next stage, thinking about the next move, what is it like to find you... Read more

Majd Abdulghani is a teenager living in Saudi Arabia, one of the most restrictive countries for women in the world. She ... Read more

As an 18-year-old raised in the foster care system, Melissa took NPR listeners along when she gave birth to her son Issa... Read more

Polk Youth Institution in Butner, North Carolina is a prison for young men between the ages of 19-25. For our series Pri... Read more

Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein were both born in New York City and adopted as infants. When they were 35 years old, th... Read more

Every day, we go about our lives doing thousands of routine, mundane tasks. And sometimes, we make mistakes. Human error... Read more

25 years ago, university students in Burma sparked a countrywide uprising. They called for a nationwide strike on 8/8/88... Read more

In the early 1970s, radio host and oral historian Studs Terkel went around the country, tape recorder in hand, interview... Read more

On July 28, 1945 an Army bomber pilot on a routine ferry mission found himself lost in the fog over Manhattan. A dictati... Read more

On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time a nucl... Read more

The images coming out of Ferguson, MO this summer have reminded us of another upsetting image of race in America. It’s a... Read more

Fifty years ago, on November 13, 1969, Spiro Agnew delivered the most famous speech ever given by a vice president. His ... Read more

This month’s podcast is about what it takes to get people to change. We focus on a group of people that might be the har... Read more

On February 20th, 1939, 20,000 people streamed into Madison Square Garden in New York City. Outside, the marquee was lit... Read more

Back in the 1990s, Joe Richman gave tape recorders to a bunch of teenagers and asked them to report on their own lives. ... Read more

What happens when, instead of people crossing the border, the border crosses the people? In this episode of the Radio Di... Read more

An auto union worker, a switchboard telephone operator, a press agent… In the early 1970’s, author Studs Terkel went aro... Read more

The story of William Cimillo, a New York City bus driver who snapped one day in 1947, left his regular route in the Bron... Read more

Josh Cutler has Tourette’s syndrome, a neurological disorder that causes uncontrollable tics and involuntary verbal outb... Read more

In 1974, oral historian Studs Terkel published a book with an unwieldy title: "Working: People talk about what they do a... Read more