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2024-04-18

  Mandela's Election: 30 Years Later

This month marks 30 years since Nelson Mandela became South Africa's first democratically elected president. However, the story of Mandela's rise to the presidency isn't all that simple. The four years between Mandela’s release from prison and his elec... 		  Mycah Hazel author
2024-04-04

  Working, Then and Now

50 years ago, radio broadcaster Studs Terkel published a book called WORKING: People Talk About What They Do All Day, and How They Feel About What They Do. Terkel went around the country with a tape recorder and had conversations with ordinary American... 		  Radio Diaries & Radiotopia author
2024-03-21

  My Iron Lung (Revisited)

Paul Alexander, one of two people in the U.S. still relying on an iron lung to survive, died on March 11, 2024 at the age of 78. Paul contracted polio in 1952 at six years old, and has had to rely on an iron lung — a big metal ventilator that encases t... 		  Radio Diaries & Radiotopia author
2024-03-07

  My So-Called Lungs (Revisited)

We’re revisiting one of our favorite stories from years ago — with a new twist. Laura Rothenberg spent most of her life knowing she would die young. She had cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that affects the lungs. She documented her life in an audio... 		  Radio Diaries & Radiotopia author
2024-02-15

  The Rise and Fall of Black Swan Records

In 1921, a man named Harry Pace started the first major Black-owned record company in the United States. He called it Black Swan Records. In an era when few Black musicians were recorded, the company was revolutionary. It launched the careers of Ethel... 		  Radio Diaries & Radiotopia author
2024-02-01

  Guest Spotlight: Parakeet Panic

This week, we’re featuring an episode of a podcast we’re big fans of: The Last Archive! The Last Archive tells little known histories and how they affect our modern lives. Today’s story, “Parakeet Panic,” explores when invasive parakeets began to sprea... 		  Radio Diaries & Radiotopia author
2024-01-10

  The Drum Also Waltzes

At the age of 16, he played with the Duke Ellington Orchestra. He went on to make landmark recordings with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk. He’s considered one of the most important drummers in history — and he would’ve turned 100 y... 		  Radio Diaries & Radiotopia author
2023-12-19

  The Unmarked Graveyard: Live at WNYC

We bring you a lot of stories each year, but we don’t often get to share the work behind them. We recently held an event at WNYC’s The Greene Space in New York City, where our subjects and producers reflected on the challenges, and joys, of telling the... 		  Radio Diaries & Radiotopia author
2023-11-22

  The Man on the President's Limo

Today marks 60 years since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. There are many photos from that day in 1963, but one image in particular caught people’s attention, spreading in newspapers across the country: a photo of a Secret Service agent... 		  Radio Diaries & Radiotopia author
2023-11-21

  The Unmarked Graveyard: LaMont Dottin

Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local police precinct to try to report him missing, and his name was added to a list of thousands of cases tha... 		  Radio Diaries & Radiotopia author