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." ⬇️
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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...
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?
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...
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🎧 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:
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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
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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...
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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
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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
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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...
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
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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
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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.
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Thank you for reading AND listening @flyingawaynow.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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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
hey @micahloewinger.bsky.social ! thanks for this list. Radio Diaries just joined Bluesky, excited to be here.
