Radio Diaries
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Dee Courtney
Dec 26, 2020
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Oct 22, 2019
Description
First-person diaries, sound portraits, and hidden chapters of history from Peabody Award-winning producer Joe Richman and the Radio Diaries team. From teenagers to octogenarians, prisoners to prison guards, bra saleswomen to lighthouse keepers. The extraordinary stories of ordinary life. Radio Diaries is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Learn more at radiotopia.fm
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Mandela's Election: 30 Years Later
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Working, Then and Now
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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My Iron Lung (Revisited)
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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My So-Called Lungs (Revisited)
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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The Rise and Fall of Black Swan Records
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Guest Spotlight: Parakeet Panic
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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The Drum Also Waltzes
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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The Unmarked Graveyard: Live at WNYC
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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The Man on the President's Limo
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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The Unmarked Graveyard: LaMont Dottin
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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The Unmarked Graveyard: Hisako Hasegawa
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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The Unmarked Graveyard: Cesar Irizarry
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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The Unmarked Graveyard: Dawn Powell
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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The Unmarked Graveyard: Documenting an Invisible Island
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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The Unmarked Graveyard: Angel Garcia
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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The Unmarked Graveyard: Noah Creshevsky
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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The Unmarked Graveyard: Neil Harris Jr.
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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TRAILER: The Unmarked Graveyard
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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The Longest Game
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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The Girls of the Leesburg Stockade
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Busman's Holiday
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Guest Spotlight: Buffalo Extreme
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May 12, 2023 |
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The Gospel Ranger
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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The Longest Game
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Meet Miss Subways
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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The Ski Troops of WWII
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Sofia's Choice: A Ukrainian Diary, One Year Later
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Living with Dying
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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The Rise and Fall of Black Swan Records
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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The Real Refugees of Casablanca
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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The History Of Now
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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A Guitar, A Cello and the Day that Changed Music
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Banging on the Door: The Election of 1872
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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The Square Deal
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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The Massacre at Tlatelolco
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Guest Spotlight: Ear Hustle
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Working, Then And Now
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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The Longest Game
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Rumble Strip: Finn and the Bell
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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The Almost Astronaut
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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The General Slocum
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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The End of Smallpox
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May 19, 2022 |
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The Story of Jane
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May 05, 2022 |
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The Greatest Songwriter You've Never Heard Of
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Identical Strangers
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Sofia's Choice: A Ukrainian Diary
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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The Forgotten Story of Clinton Melton
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Claudette Colvin: Making Trouble Then and Now
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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A Voicemail Valentine
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Diary of a Saudi Girl: Then & Now
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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A Museum of Sound
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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A Real Life West Side Story
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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A Guitar, A Cello, and the Day that Changed Music
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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A Wrench in the Works
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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My Iron Lung
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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When Borders Move
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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The Two Lives of Asa Carter
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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When Ground Zero was Radio Row
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Last Witness: The Kerner Commission
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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Prisoners of War
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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The Gospel Ranger
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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The Rise and Fall of Black Swan Records
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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From the Archive: Josh's Diary
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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The Tulsa Race Massacre, 100 Years Later
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May 27, 2021 |
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Juan, 25 Years Later
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May 13, 2021 |
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25 Years of Radio Diaries
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Busman's Holiday
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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The Last Place: Diary of a Retirement Home
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Fly Girls
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Burma '88: Buried History
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Living with Dying
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Feb 14, 2021 |
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Teen Contender: Then & Now
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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America Vs. America
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Jan 16, 2021 |
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Love from Six Feet Apart (Revisited)
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Love at First Quarantine, The Sequel
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Centenarians (Still) in Lockdown
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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How to Lose an Election: A History
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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When Nazis Took Manhattan
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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March of the Bonus Army
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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The Forgotten Story of Clinton Melton
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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The Infamous Words of George Wallace
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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The Final Frontline
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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Quarantined in the Pizzeria
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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Lockdown in Lockup
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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Home is Where You Park Your Mini Van
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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The Words of Renault Robinson, Then and Now
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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Love at First Quarantine
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May 15, 2020 |
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Love from Six Feet Apart
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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Centenarians in Lockdown
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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Soul Sister
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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The Long Haul: Busman's Holiday
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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History Had Me Glued to the Seat
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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Voicemail Valentine
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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My So-Called Lungs
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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The Teenage Diaries Revisited Hour Special
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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Thembi's Diary, Revisited
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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The Last Witness
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Nov 29, 2019 |
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The Press is the Enemy
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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The View from the 79th Floor
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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The Dropped Wrench
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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Prisoners of War
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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Stories from a Vanishing New York
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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Shirley Chisholm: Unbought and Unbossed
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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The Square Deal
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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Amanda's Diary: Revisited
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Jun 06, 2019 |
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Last Witness: Surviving the Tulsa Race Riot
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May 20, 2019 |
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Juan's Diaries: Undocumented, Then and Now
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May 02, 2019 |
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The Bonus Army
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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The Working Tapes
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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The Story of Jane
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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The Ski Troops of WWII
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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When Nazis Took Manhattan
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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A Voicemail Valentine
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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The Border Wall
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Jan 16, 2019 |
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Thembi's Diary
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Dec 19, 2018 |
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Bonus Episode: Hear the World Differently
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Dec 10, 2018 |
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A Guitar, A Cello, and the Day that Changed Music
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Nov 15, 2018 |
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The Song That Crossed Party Lines
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Nov 01, 2018 |
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Campaigning While Female
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Oct 18, 2018 |
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Serving Time 9-5: Diaries from Prison Guards
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Oct 04, 2018 |
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Matthew and the Judge
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Sep 20, 2018 |
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Prisoners of War
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Aug 29, 2018 |
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Last Witness: Mission to Hiroshima
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Aug 06, 2018 |
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Nelson Mandela at 100
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Jul 17, 2018 |
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Busman’s Holiday
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Jun 21, 2018 |
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Last Witness: The General Slocum
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Jun 14, 2018 |
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Last Witness: Surviving the Tulsa Race Riot
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May 31, 2018 |
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Fly Girls
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May 03, 2018 |
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Strange Fruit, Revisited
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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Crime Pays
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Apr 06, 2018 |
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The Green Book
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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Deported: Weasel’s Diary
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Mar 08, 2018 |
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Nine Months Before Rosa Parks
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Feb 28, 2018 |
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A Voicemail Valentine
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Feb 14, 2018 |
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The Story of Jane
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Jan 19, 2018 |
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The Dropped Wrench
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Dec 23, 2017 |
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Majd’s Diary: Two Years in the Life of a Saudi Girl
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Nov 21, 2017 |
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Under the Radar
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Nov 02, 2017 |
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Juan’s Story, Live at the Moth
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Oct 23, 2017 |
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The Two Lives of Asa Carter
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Oct 05, 2017 |
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The Last Place
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Sep 21, 2017 |
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The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel (Hour Special)
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Sep 03, 2017 |
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Willie McGee and The Traveling Electric Chair
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Aug 17, 2017 |
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Miss Subways
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Jul 27, 2017 |
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Mexico ’68 and the Tlatelolco Massacre
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Jun 27, 2017 |
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The Rubber Room
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Jun 02, 2017 |
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The Oddest Town in America
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May 19, 2017 |
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Radio Diaries Live at the Moth
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May 04, 2017 |
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The Gospel Ranger
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Apr 13, 2017 |
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Remembering Robben Island
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Mar 31, 2017 |
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The Vietnam Tapes of Michael A. Baronowski
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Mar 16, 2017 |
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Weasel’s Diary, Revisited
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Mar 02, 2017 |
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The Last Civil War Widows
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Feb 13, 2017 |
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The Border Wall (Updated)
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Feb 02, 2017 |
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Strange Fruit (Updated)
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Jan 19, 2017 |
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Busman’s Holiday
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Dec 20, 2016 |
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The Working Tapes – Part 4
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Dec 06, 2016 |
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March of the Bonus Army
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Nov 22, 2016 |
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The Song that Crossed Party Lines
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Nov 04, 2016 |
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The Working Tapes – Part 3
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Oct 25, 2016 |
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The Working Tapes – Part 2
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Oct 12, 2016 |
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The Working Tapes – Part 1
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Sep 30, 2016 |
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The Working Tapes – A Preview
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Sep 24, 2016 |
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From Flint to Rio
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Jul 27, 2016 |
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Contenders: The Veep
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Jul 14, 2016 |
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Contenders: Say it Like You Mean it
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Jul 07, 2016 |
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Contenders: Women Who Fought for the White House
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Jun 24, 2016 |
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Majd’s Diary: Two Years in the Life of a Saudi Girl
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Jun 01, 2016 |
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A Mother, Then and Now
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Apr 28, 2016 |
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Radio Diaries Turns 20!
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Apr 08, 2016 |
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The Man in the Zoo
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Mar 25, 2016 |
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Claudette Colvin: “A Teenage Rosa Parks”
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Mar 02, 2016 |
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Identical Strangers
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Feb 18, 2016 |
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Frankie’s Second Chance (Updated)
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Feb 05, 2016 |
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Friday Night Lights
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Jan 22, 2016 |
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The Ski Troops of WWII
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Jan 07, 2016 |
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From Prison to President
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Dec 24, 2015 |
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The Last Place
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Dec 03, 2015 |
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A Guitar, A Cello, And The Day That Changed Music
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Nov 19, 2015 |
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The Story of ‘Ballad for Americans’
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Nov 05, 2015 |
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Serving 9-5: Diaries from Prison Guards
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Oct 22, 2015 |
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The Man Who Put the ‘P’ in NPR
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Oct 08, 2015 |
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Crime Pays
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Sep 11, 2015 |
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Strange Fruit
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Aug 06, 2015 |
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Mandela’s Prison Years
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Jul 09, 2015 |
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A Visit to the Memory Palace
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Jun 18, 2015 |
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Matthew and the Judge
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Jun 05, 2015 |
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Seeing the Forrest Through the Little Trees
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May 22, 2015 |
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The Traveling Electric Chair
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May 07, 2015 |
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From Bullets to Balance Sheets
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Apr 25, 2015 |
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The Square Deal
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Apr 02, 2015 |
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Fly Girls
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Mar 19, 2015 |
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Claudette Colvin – A “Teenage Rosa Parks”
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Mar 05, 2015 |
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First Kiss
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Feb 12, 2015 |
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The Greatest Songwriter You’ve Never Heard Of
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Feb 03, 2015 |
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George Wallace and the Legacy of a Sentence
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Jan 23, 2015 |
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The View from the 79th Floor
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Jan 08, 2015 |
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Miss Subways
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Dec 22, 2014 |
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Last Man on the Mountain – Updated
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Dec 11, 2014 |
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Busman’s Holiday
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Nov 13, 2014 |
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Weasel’s Diary, Revisited
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Nov 07, 2014 |
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When Ground Zero was Radio Row
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Oct 17, 2014 |
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When Borders Move
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Oct 06, 2014 |
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Working, Then and Now
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Sep 01, 2014 |
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Strange Fruit – Voices of a Lynching
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Aug 25, 2014 |
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The Gospel Ranger
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Jul 17, 2014 |
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“Halfrican” Revisited
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Jun 23, 2014 |
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Walter the Seltzerman – It’s Not Easy Being Last
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Jun 02, 2014 |
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The Long Shadow of Forrest Carter
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May 12, 2014 |
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The Day Nelson Mandela Became Nelson Mandela
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Apr 20, 2014 |
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Frankie’s Teenage Diary, Revisited
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Mar 20, 2014 |
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Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair
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Feb 18, 2014 |
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Teenage Diaries Revisited 1-Hour Special
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Jan 13, 2014 |
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A Guitar, A Cello, and the Day that Changed Music
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Dec 20, 2013 |
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Mandela: An Audio History
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Dec 05, 2013 |
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The Last Man on the Mountain
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Nov 14, 2013 |
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The View From the 79th Floor
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Oct 16, 2013 |
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Teenage Diaries Revisited: Juan
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Aug 19, 2013 |
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Burma ’88: Buried History
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Aug 08, 2013 |
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Teenage Diaries Revisited: Melissa
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Jun 12, 2013 |
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Teenage Diaries Revisited: Josh
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May 30, 2013 |
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Teenage Diaries Revisited: Amanda
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May 17, 2013 |