Radio Diaries Audio

Back in 1919, listening to radio was more like a science experiment than entertainment. There were no professional radio stations, and most radio receivers were homemade.

"I've been banished from the U.S., you know. Like they used to do in the medieval days. They used to ban fools."

At one time Gibsonton, Florida was considered the oddest town in America.

My name is Alberta Martin and I was born in nineteen hundred and six, the first day of December. I'm the last Confederate widow living as far as anybody knows...

It was assumed many years ago, when you got old you lived with the family. And I guess there's something to be said for that.

A five-part radio series to mark the 10th anniversary of South Africa's first democratic election in April 1994...

21-year-old Laura Rothenberg has always tried to live a normal life...

Ninety-four-year old Selma Koch runs one of New York's last old-style bra fitting shops. Walter Backerman still delivers seltzer along the same route worked by his father and grandfather...

Radio Diaries is a non-profit organization helping people document their own lives for public radio.

An unprecedented, first-person look at life inside penitentiary walls through the intense radio series, Prison Diaries. Five inmates, four correctional officers and a judge were given tape recorders...