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Radio Diaries — 271 episodes

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1

Guest Spotlight: Phonograph

2

My Iron Lung: Remembering Martha Lillard

3

Soweto 1976

4

30 Years of Teenage Diaries

5

The Almost Astronaut

6

Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair

7

Sealab: A Home on the Ocean Floor

8

Guest Spotlight: William Parker's War on Slave Catchers

9

Detained: A Homecoming

10

The Real Refugees of Casablanca

11

Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier 3: The Trial

12

Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier 2: Officer X

13

Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier 1: The Bus Ride

14

TRAILER: Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier

15

Remembering Claudette Colvin

16

The First Computer Dating Service: Operation Match

17

This Short Life

18

Detained: The Last Columbia Protester

19

Identical Strangers

20

The Gospel Ranger

21

The Working Tapes, Revisited

22

The Last Place

23

The View from the 79th Floor

24

Two Years in the Life of a Saudi Girl, Revisited

25

The End of Smallpox

26

The Detainees of Crystal City

27

Prisoners of War

28

March of the Bonus Army

29

The Girls of the Leesburg Stockade

30

Guest Spotlight: Signal Hill

31

Making Waves: The Woman Who Warned The World

32

Making Waves: The Original Angry Talker

33

Making Waves: The Happy-Am-I Preacher

34

Sealab: A Home on the Ocean Floor

35

Guest Spotlight: The Memory Palace with Nate DiMeo

36

Teen Contender

37

Last Witness: The Kerner Commission

38

A Guitar, A Cello and the Day that Changed Music

39

The John Birch Society

40

American Migrant

41

The Longest Game

42

When Borders Move

43

Guest Spotlight: The Phantom of the World's Fair

44

HOUR SPECIAL: Stories from the Unmarked Graveyard

45

The Almost Astronaut (Revisited)

46

The End of Smallpox

47

Meet Miss Subways

48

The Gospel Ranger

49

Mandela's Election: 30 Years Later

50

Working, Then and Now

51

My Iron Lung (Revisited)

52

My So-Called Lungs (Revisited)

53

The Rise and Fall of Black Swan Records

54

Guest Spotlight: Parakeet Panic

55

The Drum Also Waltzes

56

The Unmarked Graveyard: Live at WNYC

57

The Man on the President's Limo

58

The Unmarked Graveyard: LaMont Dottin

59

The Unmarked Graveyard: Hisako Hasegawa

60

The Unmarked Graveyard: Cesar Irizarry

61

The Unmarked Graveyard: Dawn Powell

62

The Unmarked Graveyard: Documenting an Invisible Island

63

The Unmarked Graveyard: Angel Garcia

64

The Unmarked Graveyard: Noah Creshevsky

65

The Unmarked Graveyard: Neil Harris Jr.

66

TRAILER: The Unmarked Graveyard

67

The Longest Game

68

The Girls of the Leesburg Stockade

69

Busman's Holiday

70

Guest Spotlight: Buffalo Extreme

71

The Gospel Ranger

72

The Longest Game

73

Meet Miss Subways

74

The Ski Troops of WWII

75

Sofia's Choice: A Ukrainian Diary, One Year Later

76

Living with Dying

77

The Rise and Fall of Black Swan Records

78

The Real Refugees of Casablanca

79

The History Of Now

80

A Guitar, A Cello and the Day that Changed Music

81

Banging on the Door: The Election of 1872

82

The Square Deal

83

The Massacre at Tlatelolco

84

Guest Spotlight: Ear Hustle

85

Working, Then And Now

86

The Longest Game

87

Rumble Strip: Finn and the Bell

88

The Almost Astronaut

89

The General Slocum

90

The End of Smallpox

91

The Story of Jane

92

The Greatest Songwriter You've Never Heard Of

93

Identical Strangers

94

Sofia's Choice: A Ukrainian Diary

95

The Forgotten Story of Clinton Melton

96

Claudette Colvin: Making Trouble Then and Now

97

A Voicemail Valentine

98

Diary of a Saudi Girl: Then & Now

99

A Museum of Sound

100

A Real Life West Side Story

101

A Guitar, A Cello, and the Day that Changed Music

102

A Wrench in the Works

103

My Iron Lung

104

When Borders Move

105

The Two Lives of Asa Carter

106

When Ground Zero was Radio Row

107

Last Witness: The Kerner Commission

108

Prisoners of War

109

The Gospel Ranger

110

The Rise and Fall of Black Swan Records

111

From the Archive: Josh's Diary

112

The Tulsa Race Massacre, 100 Years Later

113

Juan, 25 Years Later

114

25 Years of Radio Diaries

115

Busman's Holiday

116

The Last Place: Diary of a Retirement Home

117

Fly Girls

118

Burma '88: Buried History

119

Living with Dying

120

Teen Contender: Then & Now

121

America Vs. America

122

Love from Six Feet Apart (Revisited)

123

Love at First Quarantine, The Sequel

124

Centenarians (Still) in Lockdown

125

How to Lose an Election: A History

126

When Nazis Took Manhattan

127

March of the Bonus Army

128

The Forgotten Story of Clinton Melton

129

The Infamous Words of George Wallace

130

The Final Frontline

131

Quarantined in the Pizzeria

132

Lockdown in Lockup

133

Home is Where You Park Your Mini Van

134

The Words of Renault Robinson, Then and Now

135

Love at First Quarantine

136

Love from Six Feet Apart

137

Centenarians in Lockdown

138

Soul Sister

139

The Long Haul: Busman's Holiday

140

History Had Me Glued to the Seat

141

Voicemail Valentine

142

My So-Called Lungs

143

The Teenage Diaries Revisited Hour Special

144

Thembi's Diary, Revisited

145

The Last Witness

146

The Press is the Enemy

147

The View from the 79th Floor

148

The Dropped Wrench

149

Prisoners of War

150

The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel

151

Stories from a Vanishing New York

152

Shirley Chisholm: Unbought and Unbossed

153

The Square Deal

154

Amanda's Diary: Revisited

155

Last Witness: Surviving the Tulsa Race Riot

156

Juan's Diaries: Undocumented, Then and Now

157

The Bonus Army

158

The Working Tapes

159

The Story of Jane

160

The Ski Troops of WWII

161

When Nazis Took Manhattan

162

A Voicemail Valentine

163

The Border Wall

164

Thembi's Diary

165

Bonus Episode: Hear the World Differently

166

A Guitar, A Cello, and the Day that Changed Music

167

The Song That Crossed Party Lines

168

Campaigning While Female

169

Serving Time 9-5: Diaries from Prison Guards

170

Matthew and the Judge

171

Prisoners of War

172

Last Witness: Mission to Hiroshima

173

Nelson Mandela at 100

174

Busman’s Holiday

175

Last Witness: The General Slocum

176

Last Witness: Surviving the Tulsa Race Riot

177

Fly Girls

178

Strange Fruit, Revisited

179

Crime Pays

180

The Green Book

181

Deported: Weasel’s Diary

182

Nine Months Before Rosa Parks

183

A Voicemail Valentine

184

The Story of Jane

185

The Dropped Wrench

186

Majd’s Diary: Two Years in the Life of a Saudi Girl

187

Under the Radar

188

Juan’s Story, Live at the Moth

189

The Two Lives of Asa Carter

190

The Last Place

191

The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel (Hour Special)

192

Willie McGee and The Traveling Electric Chair

193

Miss Subways

194

Mexico ’68 and the Tlatelolco Massacre

195

The Rubber Room

196

The Oddest Town in America

197

Radio Diaries Live at the Moth

198

The Gospel Ranger

199

Remembering Robben Island

200

The Vietnam Tapes of Michael A. Baronowski

201

Weasel’s Diary, Revisited

202

The Last Civil War Widows

203

The Border Wall (Updated)

204

Strange Fruit (Updated)

205

Busman’s Holiday

206

The Working Tapes – Part 4

207

March of the Bonus Army

208

The Song that Crossed Party Lines

209

The Working Tapes – Part 3

210

The Working Tapes – Part 2

211

The Working Tapes – Part 1

212

The Working Tapes – A Preview

213

From Flint to Rio

214

Contenders: The Veep

215

Contenders: Say it Like You Mean it

216

Contenders: Women Who Fought for the White House

217

Majd’s Diary: Two Years in the Life of a Saudi Girl

218

A Mother, Then and Now

219

Radio Diaries Turns 20!

220

The Man in the Zoo

221

Claudette Colvin: “A Teenage Rosa Parks”

222

Identical Strangers

223

Frankie’s Second Chance (Updated)

224

Friday Night Lights

225

The Ski Troops of WWII

226

From Prison to President

227

The Last Place

228

A Guitar, A Cello, And The Day That Changed Music

229

The Story of ‘Ballad for Americans’

230

Serving 9-5: Diaries from Prison Guards

231

The Man Who Put the ‘P’ in NPR

232

Crime Pays

233

Strange Fruit

234

Mandela’s Prison Years

235

A Visit to the Memory Palace

236

Matthew and the Judge

237

Seeing the Forrest Through the Little Trees

238

The Traveling Electric Chair

239

From Bullets to Balance Sheets

240

The Square Deal

241

Fly Girls

242

Claudette Colvin – A “Teenage Rosa Parks”

243

First Kiss

244

The Greatest Songwriter You’ve Never Heard Of

245

George Wallace and the Legacy of a Sentence

246

The View from the 79th Floor

247

Miss Subways

248

Last Man on the Mountain – Updated

249

Busman’s Holiday

250

Weasel’s Diary, Revisited

251

When Ground Zero was Radio Row

252

When Borders Move

253

Working, Then and Now

254

Strange Fruit – Voices of a Lynching

255

The Gospel Ranger

256

“Halfrican” Revisited

257

Walter the Seltzerman – It’s Not Easy Being Last

258

The Long Shadow of Forrest Carter

259

The Day Nelson Mandela Became Nelson Mandela

260

Frankie’s Teenage Diary, Revisited

261

Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair

262

Teenage Diaries Revisited 1-Hour Special

263

A Guitar, A Cello, and the Day that Changed Music

264

Mandela: An Audio History

265

The Last Man on the Mountain

266

The View From the 79th Floor

267

Teenage Diaries Revisited: Juan

268

Burma ’88: Buried History

269

Teenage Diaries Revisited: Melissa

270

Teenage Diaries Revisited: Josh

271

Teenage Diaries Revisited: Amanda