🔔TODAY NPR @ 5:39 PM EST Leqaa Kordia's first interview since her release from ICE Detention. 🔔 Radio Diaries first recorded with Leqaa in detention last year. Today, we share her release. @npr.org @nprextra.bsky.social @radiotopia.bsky.social www.radiodiaries.org/post/detaine...

Detained: A Homecoming

Leqaa Kordia was freed from ICE detention after more than a year.

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NEW ON THE PODCAST 🎧 Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier: The Trial We just dropped the last episode in our series about Isaac Woodard, a Black man who was beaten and blinded by a white police officer in 1946. This week, the officer goes to trial, and the President of the United States takes notice.

#TDIH 1946 Black WWII vet Isaac Woodard beaten & blinded by white SC police chief. Learn how Woodard & NAACP organized, and Orson Welles took up his case on the air, in new @radiodiaries.bsky.social series. They galvanized support for Army desegregation." ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/is...

Feb. 12, 1946: Isaac Woodard Blinded by Police

Isaac Woodard Jr., a Black army sergeant, was beaten and left blind in both eyes by white police officers within hours of being discharged from the army.

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Our new series ORSON WELLES AND THE BLIND SOLDIER is out now! Our series follows how a racial crime 80 years ago today, led to a radio investigation by Orson Welles — and the desegregation of the U.S. military. Listen to ep 1: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier 1: The Bus Ride

Podcast Episode · Radio Diaries · 02/12/2026 · 10m

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We're nominated for Best Indie Podcast at this year's Ambies! Thanks to all who've listened!

🎧 NEW ON THE PODCAST We're going back to the 1960s, when a couple Harvard students had an idea. Businesses were using a new technology called "the computer" to, say, match a client with the right type of insurance. What if these same computers could be used to get a date?

The First Computer Dating Service: Operation Match

Podcast Episode · Radio Diaries · 18/12/2025 · 10m

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Our story "Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair" is on Radiotopia's SELECTS podcast this week! Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... @prx.org

🎧 NEW ON THE PODCAST: "THIS SHORT LIFE" We sat down with photographer Andrew Lichtenstein to discuss his new book THIS SHORT LIFE, which tells the story of 12 Americans through photos and interviews. Hear from Andrew and some of the people in the book: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r... @prx.org

This Short Life

Podcast Episode · Radio Diaries · 11/20/2025 · 14m

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🔊NEW on the podcast: "Detained: The Last Columbia Protester" Last year, Leqaa Kordia was arrested during protests at Columbia calling for Gaza ceasefire. Now, she's been in ICE detention for over 7 months. From detention, she shares her story. @prx.org podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Detained: The Last Columbia Protester

Podcast Episode · Radio Diaries · 11/03/2025 · 9m

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MA folks! Radio Diaries is having a live event at Wellfleet Preservation Hall this Sat 8/16 ! We'll share audio from upcoming stories, and discuss the value of storytelling in an era of mistrust. Should be a lovely conversation. Get tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/radio-diar... @prx.org

Our series MAKING WAVES is featured on @onthemedia.bsky.social this week! Listen to episode 1 on Elder Michaux, the Black preacher who feuded with MLK @brookegladstone.bsky.social @micahloewinger.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The Famous Black Preacher Who Feuded With MLK

Podcast Episode · On the Media · 08/13/2025 · 16m

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Our fellow Radiotopians @earhustlesq.com start tour THIS WEEK! Hear stories from in and out of prison brought to life through music and live storytelling. Grab tickets here: www.earhustlesq.com/tour @prx.org

Tour — Ear Hustle

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80 years ago today, a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building, leaving 14 people dead. The story has largely faded from memory, but for some New Yorkers, the day remains in their mind. This week on the podcast, we revisit that day in 1945. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The View from the 79th Floor

Podcast Episode · Radio Diaries · 07/28/2025 · 14m

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President Trump has invoked the Alien Enemies Act for mass deportations. In our new episode on @npr.org we look at the last time the Act was used: to detain Latin Americans and use them to exchange for prisoners of war www.npr.org/2025/06/27/n...

Inside the U.S. plan to detain immigrants in Latin America as bargaining chips in WWII

During World War II, the United States arrested hundreds of Japanese, German and Italian immigrants from Latin America and deported them to the U.S. where they lived in camps.

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"We knew NEH cuts were coming, but we’re still in shock at the sudden gutting of the agency," said Joe Richman, founder and EP of the Audio History Project by @radiodiaries.bsky.social @current.org #NEH #humanities #archives #documentary current.org/2025/04/doge...

DOGE restructuring of NEH hits documentary and archival projects - Current

Forthcoming series from Ken Burns and Sam Pollard and biopics from “American Masters” are among the productions listed in a database tracking cancelled grants from the National Endowment for the Human...

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TODAY on NPR @ 5:45 pm. During WWII, thousands of men, women & children were taken from Latin America by the U.S. and held in detention camps. The plan? To exchange them for American prisoners of war. This week, we tell you a few of their stories. podcasts.apple.com/.../radio-di....

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Beautifully written and produced Radio Diaries piece. The article is good, but adding in audio of Dorothy Thompson takes it to the next level @npr.org @radiodiaries.bsky.social

We're big fans of @radiodiaries.bsky.social and we're honored that this week they're sharing Conor Gillies' Issue One profile of historian Robin D. G. Kelley, "Pie Down Here." Kelley listens back — for the first time in decades! — to his 1980s oral histories with sharecropper organizers.

TODAY -- In 1939, Time Magazine called Dorothy Thompson a woman who “thinks, talks and sleeps world problems — and scares men half to death.” They weren’t wrong. Part II of Making Waves airs on NPR and @npr.org.

TODAY -- Making Waves launches on NPR @npr.org We’re used to media that thrives on conflict, that amplifies the most outrageous voices in the room. We often trace it back to Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern, but before all those guys, there was Joe Pyne. * Tune in 4:20 pm on your local NPR station.

What's it like to live at the bottom of the ocean? Meet the men who went down to find out. The incredible and tragic story of "Sealab." Thx to Richard Blackburn, Ben Hellwarth, & Kris Stoever @krisstoever.bsky.social for sharing this story. www.radiodiaries.org/sealab-a-hom...

Sealab: A Home on the Ocean Floor - Radio Diaries

While NASA was making headlines for its quest to send a man to the moon, Captain Bond was quietly building homes for “aquanauts” on the ocean floor.

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Do listen to the Radio Diaries "Sealab" broadcast on NPR. I will add a few threaded posts on a historic and now-forgotten USN experiment in underwater habitation. I was asked to contribute because my dad commanded Sealab II, during which he set a record (30 days) for living underwater.

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Before today's broadcast, check out Sarah Kate Kramer's article, including incredible photos of the Navy's experimental program to build habitats on the ocean floor. www.npr.org/2025/01/28/g...

Before today's broadcast, check out Sarah Kate Kramer's article, including incredible photos of the Navy's experimental program to build habitats on the ocean floor. www.npr.org/2025/01/28/g...

The Navy's experimental underwater habitat

While NASA was trying to put a man on the moon, the Navy was quietly conducting a series of tests to see if humans could live and work on the deep seafloor.

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NEW on the podcast. Sealab: A Home on the Ocean Floor The ocean has long been both a source of fear and fascination. Today: the story of the U.S. Navy’s little-known experiment to train “aquanauts” to live and work in the deep sea. Listen Here: bit.ly/3E9IDcK

Sealab: A Home on the Ocean Floor

Podcast Episode · Radio Diaries · 01/16/2025 · 18m

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Hello bluesky. Thrilled to be here. An introduction to Radio Diaries... we are: ⭐ an award-winning public radio show and podcast. ⭐ an independent, non-profit organization. ⭐ a small, but mighty team => 4 producers, 2 editors, 1 admin. ⭐ dedicated to making great audio stories