Radio Diaries Audio

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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...

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

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...

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

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