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NPR: Radio Diaries Podcast

NPR: Radio Diaries Podcast




Radio Diaries is a non-profit organization helping people document their own lives for public radio. Award-winning NPR series include Teenage Diaries, Prison Diaries, Mandela: An Audio History and Thembi's AIDS Diary. To find out more and listen to all our stories, visit www.radiodiaries.org. Back in 1919, Walter Backerman's grandfather delivered seltzer by horse and wagon on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Today, Walter continues to deliver seltzer around the streets of New York. Some customers, like Mildred Blitz, have been on the family route for more than 50 years. When Walter's grandfather drove his cart there were thousands of seltzer men in the city; today Walter is one of the last.

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15 Years of Stories


Thu, Dec 22, 2011


Fifteen years ago, we began giving people tape recorders and helping them tell their own stories for NPR. To mark our anniversary, today's podcast takes a look back at some of our favorites stories from the last fifteen years. It's hosted by Ira Glass, and there's a video version available on our website at www.radiodiaries.org. Thanks for listening.



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A Guitar, A Cello, and the Day That Changed Music


Thu, Dec 15, 2011


November 23, 1936 was a good day for recorded music. Two men – an ocean apart – sat before a microphone and began to play. One was a cello prodigy who had performed for the Queen of Spain; the other played guitar and was a regular in the juke joints of the Mississippi Delta.

But on that day, Pablo Casals and Robert Johnson both made recordings that would change music history.



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The March of the Bonus Army


Wed, Dec 14, 2011


In the summer of 1932, a group of World War I veterans in Portland, Oregon hopped a freight train and started riding the rails to Washington DC. They were demanding immediate payment of a cash bonus the government had promised them after the war – but delayed until 1945. Desperate for relief in the worst year of the Depression, the vets wanted their bonuses now. They called themselves the Bonus Army.

By July, more than 20,000 veterans and their families had arrived in the nation’s capital. They established a tent city and vowed to stay until their demands were met. But finally, in a historic confrontation, General Douglas MacArthur’s Army troops routed the Bonus Army and burned their camp to the ground.



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The Last Man on the Mountain


Wed, Aug 17, 2011


Retired miner Jimmy Weekley has lived in Pigeonroost Holler, West Virginia for 70 years. Like most West Virginians, Weekley saw coal as the economic lifeblood of his community. But in the 1990s, Arch Coal moved into his area and began work on one of the largest mountaintop removal mining sites ever proposed: virtually in Weekley's backyard. Weekley sued to stop the mine and won a temporary restraining order.

Over the last decade, Weekley has watched his family and neighbors take buyouts from Arch Coal and leave the area. But Weekley refuses to sell.



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Becoming Nelson Mandela


Mon, Jul 18, 2011


Today is Nelson Mandela's birthday.

In 1964, facing a possible death sentence for treason, Nelson Mandela stood up in front of a packed courtroom in South Africa and delivered what would later be called his "I am prepared to die" speech. In many ways, that speech turned Mandela into the leader he was to become. These were the last words the world would hear from Mandela for 27 years:

"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison before being released in 1990. Four years later he was President of a new South Africa.

Happy birthday, Nelson Mandela.



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Remembering Bernie Greenhouse


Tue, Jul 12, 2011


Last month, renowned cellist Bernard Greenhouse died at the age of 95. Greenhouse spent almost his entire life playing and teaching the cello.  Radio Diaries profiled him in 2008.

Today, we remember Greenhouse's life, and his music.



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The Gospel Ranger


Thu, Jun 16, 2011


One of the last songs Johnny Cash recorded before he died was called Ain't No Grave (Gonna Hold My Body Down). But the song isn't a Johnny Cash original. Ain't No Grave was actually written in 1934, by a twelve year old boy named Claude Ely. Ely went on to become an itinerant Pentecostal preacher known to his followers as Brother Claude, the Gospel Ranger. Brother Claude was a fiery speaker and an electrifying singer. Outside the Appalachian mountains, his name was barely known. But his music helped influence some of the pioneers of rock and roll.



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The Soweto Uprising


Thu, Jun 16, 2011


Today, June 16th, is the 35th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising, when a group of schoolchildren changed South Africa forever. What started as a student demonstration exploded across the country, helping to galvanize the struggle to dismantle apartheid.



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Josh in New York City


Thu, Mar 24, 2011


Josh has Tourette's Syndrome, a neurological disorder that causes uncontrollable tics and involuntary verbal outbursts. "It feels like there's a big balloon inside my stomach. And the balloon keeps growing bigger and bigger, like every second extra the tic stays inside it feels like somebody blows up the balloon another notch, until I let it out."

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Amanda from New York: Girlfriend


Thu, Mar 24, 2011


Amanda is gay. But she's having a hard time getting her parents to accept that.

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