25 Years of Radio Diaries

Radio Diaries

Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week marks a very special anniversary for Radio Diaries. It’s been 25 years since we first started giving people tape recorders to report on their own lives.

To celebrate, we recently checked in with our very first diarist, Amanda. Amanda was 17 when we first gave her a clunky cassette recorder and asked her to record her life for a few months. Her story about coming out of the closet as gay and clashing with her Catholic parents was part of a series called Teenage Diaries that aired on NPR in 1996.

Now, 25 years later, Amanda is married with kids, and her relationship with her parents has evolved. On this episode we air her original diary and more recent conversations with her parents and her new family.

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Radio Diaries is a small non-profit organization. We make this show with support from listeners like you. You can hear all our stories, sign up for our newsletter, and donate on our website www.radiodiaries.org. Thank you for a quarter century of support.

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0:00.0	I'm David Remnikin, each week on the New Yorker Radio Hour.
0:03.9	My colleagues and I unpack what's happening in a very complicated world.
0:08.6	You'll hear from the New Yorker's award-winning reporters and thinkers, Jalani Cobb on race
0:13.2	and justice, Jill Lapor on American history, Vincent Cunningham and Geo Tolentino on culture,
0:19.2	Bill McKibbin on climate change and many more.
0:22.5	To get the context behind events in the news, listen to the New Yorker Radio Hour wherever
0:27.7	you get your podcasts.
0:31.0	Radio Tapia.
0:34.0	From PRX.
0:36.0	From PRX's Radio Topia, this is Radio Diaries, I'm Joe Richmond.
0:41.0	This week marks a very special anniversary for our show.
0:45.0	It's been 25 years since I first started giving people tape recorders to report on their own lives.
0:50.0	Hello, no wrong button. There, hello.
0:53.0	Over the next couple weeks we're going to be celebrating that milestone by checking in with a couple of people
0:57.0	who are part of our very first series.
1:00.0	Back then it was called Teenage Diaries.
1:02.0	Let me do the introduction now.
1:04.0	There was Melissa, a teen mom living on her own.
1:07.0	We would have recorded the birth, but it happened so fast.
1:10.0	About half a night.
1:12.0	Josh who had Tourette Syndrome.
1:14.0	Most of the time I can't control what comes out of my mouth.
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