Radio Diaries

Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

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 to prison guards, bra saleswomen to lighthouse keepers. The extraordinary stories of ordinary life. Radio Diaries is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Learn more at radiotopia.fm

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Radio Diaries

Episodes (259)

Thu Feb 12th Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier 1: The Bus Ride
Mon Feb 9th TRAILER: Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier
Jan 14th Remembering Claudette Colvin

Radio Diaries

Feb 12, 2026
12¼ minutes
9 MB

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 one knew the identity of the police officer. No one even knew the town where it happened. When the famous radio host Orson Welles heard about the crime, he pledged to solve the mystery, week-by-week, on the air. Today, episode 1 of our new series Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier, about an incident in a small, southern town that led to the desegregation of the U.S. military. --- <...

Radio Diaries

Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier 1: The Bus Ride

Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

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