Radio Diaries NPR Audio Programs

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...

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...

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

Since 1996, the Teenage Diaries series has been giving tape recorders to young people around the country to report on their own lives.

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

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

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.

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...

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...