Joe Richman Audio Books

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.

Back in 1946, when the National Basketball League was known as the Basketball Association of America, all the players were white, many of them from poor, immigrant neighborhoods...

In the early 1940s, the US Airforce faced a dilemma...

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...

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

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

Since 1996 the Teenage Diaries series has given tape recorders to young people around the country.

This is an interesting audio documentary on the founding of broadcast radio. From Frank Conrad's garage he began what are considered the first regular radio broadcasts.

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

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...