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My Iron Lung: Remembering Martha Lillard

Radio Diaries by Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

Jul 16, 202614:52Society & Culture

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 had caught polio in the early 1950s, and, like many polio survivors, she had di...

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My Iron Lung: Remembering Martha Lillard is an episode from Radio Diaries by Radio Diaries & Radiotopia. 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. M...

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Published Jul 16, 2026, 14:52 long, audio available.