The Longest Game
In the spring of 1981, the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings met for a minor league baseball game of little importance. But over...
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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 t...
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The Last Man on the Mountain
In the 1990s, Arch Coal began mountaintop removal mining in a corner of West Virginia called Pigeonroost Hollow. There used to be dozens of...
Signal Hill: What's Inside the Moon
This week we're sharing a story from the audio magazine Signal Hill . The story, "What's Inside the Moon," is about the poet Kenneth Koch an...
Guest Spotlight: Phonograph
This week we're featuring an episode of Phonograph , a podcast that deconstructs the history and art of audio storytelling. The hosts of Pho...
My Iron Lung: Remembering Martha Lillard
A few years ago we did a story about Martha Lillard, a woman who had spent most of her life sleeping in a device called an iron lung. Martha...
Soweto 1976
Fifty years ago, a group of schoolchildren in South Africa changed history. For decades, the whites-only government of South Africa had brut...
30 Years of Teenage Diaries
This year marks 30 years since we first worked with teenagers to record stories about their lives. Over the years, people have often asked u...
The Almost Astronaut
When it comes to the space race, we all know names like Neil Armstrong and Yuri Gagarin. But in most moments in history, there are a few nam...
Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair
This episode includes topics and archival audio that some people will find disturbing. Seventy-five years ago, on the night of May 7th, 1951...
Sealab: A Home on the Ocean Floor
From ancient myths of sea monsters lurking below to Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the ocean has long been both a sour...
Guest Spotlight: William Parker's War on Slave Catchers
This week we're bringing you a story from our friends at History This Week , a podcast from the History Channel. April 3, 1951. A man who es...
Detained: A Homecoming
Last week, Leqaa Kordia, young Palestinian woman from Paterson, New Jersey, walked out of an ICE detention center in Texas. Kordia had been...
The Real Refugees of Casablanca
When the Hollywood classic, Casablanca, was released in 1943, moviegoers were thrilled by the love story. Humphrey Bogart stars as the cynic...
Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier 3: The Trial
This is the final episode of our series about Isaac Woodard, a Black soldier who was beaten and blinded by a white police officer in 1946. I...
Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier 2: Officer X
Last week, we shared the story of Isaac Woodard, a Black soldier who was brutally beaten by a white police officer in South Carolina. No one...
Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier 1: The Bus Ride
On February 12, 1946, a Black soldier was heading home from WWII when he was brutally beaten by a white police officer in South Carolina. No...
TRAILER: Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier
On February 12, 1946, an African American soldier heading home from WWII was attacked by a white police officer somewhere in South Carolina....
Remembering Claudette Colvin
A little over a decade ago, we went to interview a woman at her small one-bedroom apartment in a sprawling complex in the Bronx. She was liv...
The First Computer Dating Service: Operation Match
Looking for love is an art, not a science. People have been trying to crack the code, with mixed success, for a long time. This week we're g...
This Short Life
Today on the show, we sit down with photographer Andrew Lichtenstein to discuss his new book, THIS SHORT LIFE, which combines photo essays w...