Radio Diaries NPR Audio Programs

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

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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.