NPR: Radio Diaries Podcast
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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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Teenage Diaries: Nick in Salt Lake City, Utah
Mon, Nov 09, 2009
A turbulent year in the life of Nick, a 15-year old who hates school but must somehow learn to make friends.
"If you could give me any advice or give me some potion that would make people my age start liking me, or, I don't know. I just need to know how to socialize or I'm gonna go nuts. As a child I was really happy, and I was really enthusiastic about everything I did. About cello, about my writing, about drawing, about school, friends, about everything. And since the beginning of Junior High, since I've gotten older, I'm not as idealistic as I used to be. I think I see life more as it is now and I'm not as dreamy and creative as I used to be. But, maybe it's just still in my brain, in storage."
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AIDS Diarist Thembi Ngubane Dies
Tue, Jul 07, 2009
We first met Thembi when she was 19 and living in one of the largest townships in South Africa. At a time when few South Africans were willing to say, "I have AIDS." Thembi carried a tape recorder for a year to document her life. Her diary eventually reached millions and she became a spokesperson traveling around the world to present her story.
On June 5th, 2009, Thembi died of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. She was 24. She leaves her daughter, Onwabo, her boyfriend Melikhaya, her mother, brother and sisters. She is greatly missed.
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Civil War Widows
Tue, Jun 02, 2009
Seven decades ago, Daisy Anderson and Alberta Martin were brand new brides. Both women got married in their early twenties, to men who were near 80. And as it happens, their husbands served on opposite sides of the Civil War.
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Identical Strangers
Sun, May 03, 2009
Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein were both born in New York City. Both girls were adopted as infants and raised by loving families. They met for the first time when they were 35 years old and found they were "identical strangers".
Paula and Elyse then discovered the reason they had been separated as infants: a research study of identical twins designed to examine the question of nature versus nurture. This documentary includes the first tape ever broadcast of Dr. Peter Neubauer describing his secret experiment.
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Prison Diaries
Tue, Apr 07, 2009
Sergeant Furman Camel is retiring after 27 years. Officer Alicia Covington remembers the day her son walked through the gate as an inmate. And other diaries from officers who work behind bars at Polk Youth Institution.
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The WASPs
Mon, Mar 02, 2009
In the early 1940s, the US Airforce faced a dilemma. Thousands of new airplanes were coming off assembly lines and needed to be delivered to military bases nationwide, yet most of America's pilots were overseas fighting the war. To solve the problem, the government launched an experimental program to train women pilots. They were known as the WASPs, the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
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Selma Koch, Bra Saleswoman
Thu, Feb 26, 2009
94-year old Selma Koch runs the Town Shop, one of New York's last old-style bra fitting shop. The Town Shop is a fourth-generation family business that emphasizes personal service and custom fitting. Selma still works every day alongside her son and grandson. Their motto: "We know your size."
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Selma Koch, Bra Saleswoman
Mon, Feb 02, 2009
94-year old Selma Koch runs the Town Shop, one of New York's last old-style bra fitting shop. The Town Shop is a fourth-generation family business that emphasizes personal service and custom fitting. Selma still works every day alongside her son and grandson. Their motto: "We know your size."
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My So-Called Lungs
Tue, Jan 06, 2009
Laura Rothenberg is 21 years old, but, as she likes to say, she already had her mid-life crisis a couple of years ago, and even then it was a few years late. Laura has cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that affects the lungs and other organs. People with CF live an average of 30 years. We gave Laura a tape recorder and, for two years, she kept an audio diary of her battle with the disease and her attempts to lead a normal life with lungs than often betray her.
My So-Called Lungs (22 min) aired on August 5, 2002 on NPR's All Things Considered.
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Mexico '68
Thu, Dec 18, 2008
In the summer of 1968, students in Mexico began to challenge the country's authoritarian government. But the movement was short-lived, lasting less than three months. It ended on October 2, 1968, ten days before the opening of the Olympics in Mexico City, when military troops opened fire on a peaceful student demonstration. The shooting lasted over two hours. The next day the government sent in cleaners to wash the blood from the plaza floor.
The official announcement was that four students were dead, but eyewitnesses said hundreds were killed. The death toll was not the only thing the government covered up about that event.
The Massacre of Tlatelolco has become a defining moment in Mexican history, but for forty years the truth of that day has remained hidden.
Broadcast on Monday, December 1st on NPR's All Things Considered.
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