Radio Diaries NPR Audio Programs

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...

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

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...

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

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

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."

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

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