We want to welcome a new show to the Radiotopia family. It's called Never Post. Have you ever looked at an internet trend and thought, how did we get here? Well, so has the team at Never Post. That's why every episode Never Post explores why the internet is the way it is. Alongside historians, content creators, linguists, and more, the show deep dives into various topics, like why so many

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From PRX.

From PRX's Radiotopia, this is Radio Diaries.

I'm Joe Richmond.

Every once in a while, we like to feature other people's work on the show,

work that feels like it has the same spirit as our own.

This week, we're sharing a story from a very

cool project. It's a brand new audio magazine called Signal Hill. It's named after a hill

in Newfoundland, Canada, where the very first transatlantic radio signal was received.

The story features oral history interviews with farm workers and communist party members who

organized a sharecroppers union

in Alabama during the Great Depression. The interviews were recorded by a historian named Robin

Kelly for his book, Hammer and Ho. Professor Kelly has actually been an advisor here at Radio Diaries

on a few of our history projects. You'll hear him listening to these interviews, which he hadn't

heard in years, and sharing the memories that came back to him as he listened.

Here's Pie Down Here by producer Connor Gillies.

I was born in Douglas County on May the 3rd, 1900.

How did your mother and father meet?

That I don't know.

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