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Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts, Culture & Humanities, Film & Video, Media & Communications, Radio
Mission: Radio Diaries uncovers extraordinary stories found in ordinary places. Using radio’s unique power to reveal the poetry of everyday existence, we believe that one person documenting their own story can help us rethink our assumptions; remind us of our shared humanity; and make us truly feel what it would be like to live someone else’s life.
Target demographics: tell the extraordinary stories of ordinary life.
Geographic areas served: public radio
Programs: Teenage Diaries Revisited, Prison Diaries, My So-Called Lungs, New York Works, Thembi's AIDS Diary, Mandela: An Audio History, and Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair, and Teen Contender. Radio Diaries has won every major award in broadcast journalism and produced some of the most memorable documentaries ever heard on public radio. Our stories are broadcast on NPR’s All Things Considered, This American Life, BBC, and on The Radio Diaries Podcast.