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Radio Diaries — 266 episodes

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1

Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair

2

Sealab: A Home on the Ocean Floor

3

Guest Spotlight: William Parker's War on Slave Catchers

4

Detained: A Homecoming

5

The Real Refugees of Casablanca

6

Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier 3: The Trial

7

Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier 2: Officer X

8

Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier 1: The Bus Ride

9

TRAILER: Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier

10

Remembering Claudette Colvin

11

The First Computer Dating Service: Operation Match

12

This Short Life

13

Detained: The Last Columbia Protester

14

Identical Strangers

15

The Gospel Ranger

16

The Working Tapes, Revisited

17

The Last Place

18

The View from the 79th Floor

19

Two Years in the Life of a Saudi Girl, Revisited

20

The End of Smallpox

21

The Detainees of Crystal City

22

Prisoners of War

23

March of the Bonus Army

24

The Girls of the Leesburg Stockade

25

Guest Spotlight: Signal Hill

26

Making Waves: The Woman Who Warned The World

27

Making Waves: The Original Angry Talker

28

Making Waves: The Happy-Am-I Preacher

29

Sealab: A Home on the Ocean Floor

30

Guest Spotlight: The Memory Palace with Nate DiMeo

31

Teen Contender

32

Last Witness: The Kerner Commission

33

A Guitar, A Cello and the Day that Changed Music

34

The John Birch Society

35

American Migrant

36

The Longest Game

37

When Borders Move

38

Guest Spotlight: The Phantom of the World's Fair

39

HOUR SPECIAL: Stories from the Unmarked Graveyard

40

The Almost Astronaut (Revisited)

41

The End of Smallpox

42

Meet Miss Subways

43

The Gospel Ranger

44

Mandela's Election: 30 Years Later

45

Working, Then and Now

46

My Iron Lung (Revisited)

47

My So-Called Lungs (Revisited)

48

The Rise and Fall of Black Swan Records

49

Guest Spotlight: Parakeet Panic

50

The Drum Also Waltzes

51

The Unmarked Graveyard: Live at WNYC

52

The Man on the President's Limo

53

The Unmarked Graveyard: LaMont Dottin

54

The Unmarked Graveyard: Hisako Hasegawa

55

The Unmarked Graveyard: Cesar Irizarry

56

The Unmarked Graveyard: Dawn Powell

57

The Unmarked Graveyard: Documenting an Invisible Island

58

The Unmarked Graveyard: Angel Garcia

59

The Unmarked Graveyard: Noah Creshevsky

60

The Unmarked Graveyard: Neil Harris Jr.

61

TRAILER: The Unmarked Graveyard

62

The Longest Game

63

The Girls of the Leesburg Stockade

64

Busman's Holiday

65

Guest Spotlight: Buffalo Extreme

66

The Gospel Ranger

67

The Longest Game

68

Meet Miss Subways

69

The Ski Troops of WWII

70

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

71

Living with Dying

72

The Rise and Fall of Black Swan Records

73

The Real Refugees of Casablanca

74

The History Of Now

75

A Guitar, A Cello and the Day that Changed Music

76

Banging on the Door: The Election of 1872

77

The Square Deal

78

The Massacre at Tlatelolco

79

Guest Spotlight: Ear Hustle

80

Working, Then And Now

81

The Longest Game

82

Rumble Strip: Finn and the Bell

83

The Almost Astronaut

84

The General Slocum

85

The End of Smallpox

86

The Story of Jane

87

The Greatest Songwriter You've Never Heard Of

88

Identical Strangers

89

Sofia's Choice: A Ukrainian Diary

90

The Forgotten Story of Clinton Melton

91

Claudette Colvin: Making Trouble Then and Now

92

A Voicemail Valentine

93

Diary of a Saudi Girl: Then & Now

94

A Museum of Sound

95

A Real Life West Side Story

96

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

97

A Wrench in the Works

98

My Iron Lung

99

When Borders Move

100

The Two Lives of Asa Carter

101

When Ground Zero was Radio Row

102

Last Witness: The Kerner Commission

103

Prisoners of War

104

The Gospel Ranger

105

The Rise and Fall of Black Swan Records

106

From the Archive: Josh's Diary

107

The Tulsa Race Massacre, 100 Years Later

108

Juan, 25 Years Later

109

25 Years of Radio Diaries

110

Busman's Holiday

111

The Last Place: Diary of a Retirement Home

112

Fly Girls

113

Burma '88: Buried History

114

Living with Dying

115

Teen Contender: Then & Now

116

America Vs. America

117

Love from Six Feet Apart (Revisited)

118

Love at First Quarantine, The Sequel

119

Centenarians (Still) in Lockdown

120

How to Lose an Election: A History

121

When Nazis Took Manhattan

122

March of the Bonus Army

123

The Forgotten Story of Clinton Melton

124

The Infamous Words of George Wallace

125

The Final Frontline

126

Quarantined in the Pizzeria

127

Lockdown in Lockup

128

Home is Where You Park Your Mini Van

129

The Words of Renault Robinson, Then and Now

130

Love at First Quarantine

131

Love from Six Feet Apart

132

Centenarians in Lockdown

133

Soul Sister

134

The Long Haul: Busman's Holiday

135

History Had Me Glued to the Seat

136

Voicemail Valentine

137

My So-Called Lungs

138

The Teenage Diaries Revisited Hour Special

139

Thembi's Diary, Revisited

140

The Last Witness

141

The Press is the Enemy

142

The View from the 79th Floor

143

The Dropped Wrench

144

Prisoners of War

145

The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel

146

Stories from a Vanishing New York

147

Shirley Chisholm: Unbought and Unbossed

148

The Square Deal

149

Amanda's Diary: Revisited

150

Last Witness: Surviving the Tulsa Race Riot

151

Juan's Diaries: Undocumented, Then and Now

152

The Bonus Army

153

The Working Tapes

154

The Story of Jane

155

The Ski Troops of WWII

156

When Nazis Took Manhattan

157

A Voicemail Valentine

158

The Border Wall

159

Thembi's Diary

160

Bonus Episode: Hear the World Differently

161

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

162

The Song That Crossed Party Lines

163

Campaigning While Female

164

Serving Time 9-5: Diaries from Prison Guards

165

Matthew and the Judge

166

Prisoners of War

167

Last Witness: Mission to Hiroshima

168

Nelson Mandela at 100

169

Busman’s Holiday

170

Last Witness: The General Slocum

171

Last Witness: Surviving the Tulsa Race Riot

172

Fly Girls

173

Strange Fruit, Revisited

174

Crime Pays

175

The Green Book

176

Deported: Weasel’s Diary

177

Nine Months Before Rosa Parks

178

A Voicemail Valentine

179

The Story of Jane

180

The Dropped Wrench

181

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

182

Under the Radar

183

Juan’s Story, Live at the Moth

184

The Two Lives of Asa Carter

185

The Last Place

186

The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel (Hour Special)

187

Willie McGee and The Traveling Electric Chair

188

Miss Subways

189

Mexico ’68 and the Tlatelolco Massacre

190

The Rubber Room

191

The Oddest Town in America

192

Radio Diaries Live at the Moth

193

The Gospel Ranger

194

Remembering Robben Island

195

The Vietnam Tapes of Michael A. Baronowski

196

Weasel’s Diary, Revisited

197

The Last Civil War Widows

198

The Border Wall (Updated)

199

Strange Fruit (Updated)

200

Busman’s Holiday

201

The Working Tapes – Part 4

202

March of the Bonus Army

203

The Song that Crossed Party Lines

204

The Working Tapes – Part 3

205

The Working Tapes – Part 2

206

The Working Tapes – Part 1

207

The Working Tapes – A Preview

208

From Flint to Rio

209

Contenders: The Veep

210

Contenders: Say it Like You Mean it

211

Contenders: Women Who Fought for the White House

212

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

213

A Mother, Then and Now

214

Radio Diaries Turns 20!

215

The Man in the Zoo

216

Claudette Colvin: “A Teenage Rosa Parks”

217

Identical Strangers

218

Frankie’s Second Chance (Updated)

219

Friday Night Lights

220

The Ski Troops of WWII

221

From Prison to President

222

The Last Place

223

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

224

The Story of ‘Ballad for Americans’

225

Serving 9-5: Diaries from Prison Guards

226

The Man Who Put the ‘P’ in NPR

227

Crime Pays

228

Strange Fruit

229

Mandela’s Prison Years

230

A Visit to the Memory Palace

231

Matthew and the Judge

232

Seeing the Forrest Through the Little Trees

233

The Traveling Electric Chair

234

From Bullets to Balance Sheets

235

The Square Deal

236

Fly Girls

237

Claudette Colvin – A “Teenage Rosa Parks”

238

First Kiss

239

The Greatest Songwriter You’ve Never Heard Of

240

George Wallace and the Legacy of a Sentence

241

The View from the 79th Floor

242

Miss Subways

243

Last Man on the Mountain – Updated

244

Busman’s Holiday

245

Weasel’s Diary, Revisited

246

When Ground Zero was Radio Row

247

When Borders Move

248

Working, Then and Now

249

Strange Fruit – Voices of a Lynching

250

The Gospel Ranger

251

“Halfrican” Revisited

252

Walter the Seltzerman – It’s Not Easy Being Last

253

The Long Shadow of Forrest Carter

254

The Day Nelson Mandela Became Nelson Mandela

255

Frankie’s Teenage Diary, Revisited

256

Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair

257

Teenage Diaries Revisited 1-Hour Special

258

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

259

Mandela: An Audio History

260

The Last Man on the Mountain

261

The View From the 79th Floor

262

Teenage Diaries Revisited: Juan

263

Burma ’88: Buried History

264

Teenage Diaries Revisited: Melissa

265

Teenage Diaries Revisited: Josh

266

Teenage Diaries Revisited: Amanda