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Featured story: Teenage Diaries Series
Since 1996, Radio Diaries has given tape recorders to young people around the country and worked with them to produce the Teenage Diaries series for NPR.
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Featured story: Teen Contender
At 16, Claressa Shields is the youngest woman to compete for a spot on the first-ever women’s Olympic boxing team.
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Featured story: Mandela: An Audio History
A five-part radio series documenting the struggle against apartheid.
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Diaries We give people tape recorders and help them document their own lives in their own words
Melissa’s Diary, Part 1: Teen Mom
Melissa never meant to get pregnant. But now, after 12 years of living in the foster care system, she’s trying to build the family she never had.
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Josh’s Diary, Part 1: Tourette’s
Josh has Tourette’s Syndrome, a neurological disorder that causes uncontrollable tics and involuntary verbal outbursts.
ListenPortraits Extraordinary stories from ordinary places
Selma Koch, Bra Saleswoman
94-year old Selma Koch runs the Town Shop, one of New York’s last old-style bra fitting shops.
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The Last Man on the Mountain
In the 1990s, Arch Coal began mining Pigeonroost Hollow. Now Jimmy Weekley is the last person left there.
ListenHistories Weaving together oral histories and archival tape to bring the past to life
The Last Man on the Mountain
In the 1990s, Arch Coal began mining Pigeonroost Hollow. Now Jimmy Weekley is the last person left there.
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Mexico ’68: A Movement, A Massacre, and the 40-Year Search for the Truth
The Massacre of Tlatelolco has become a defining moment in Mexican history, but for forty years the truth of that day has remained hidden.
Part of the Audio History Project Series
