You're listening to Radio Diaries. This is Joe and I want to tell you about a new show from Radio Topia Presents.

It's called Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative.

In the show, Documentarian Jess Shane follows four documentary subjects. Together they pull back the

curtain on non-fiction stories showing what it takes to make riveting stories about real people's

lives. Here's a clip.

Documentarians and journalists frame telling your story as an opportunity, as a platform for subjects that doesn't cost them anything but time.

But it's way more complicated than that.

And everyone who works in this industry knows it.

Check out shocking, heartbreaking transformative from Radiotopia presents or ever get your

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From PRX is Radiotopia, this is Radio Diaries. I'm Joe Richmond.

At the age of 16, he played with the Duke Ellington Orchestra. He went on to make

landmark recordings with Charlie Parker, Desi Gillespie, and Valonius Monk. He's

considered one of the most important drummers in history,

and he would have turned 100 years old this week.

Today on the show, The Life and Music of Jazz Great Max Roach.

And so once again, ladies and gentlemen, we take our WMCA microphones right down with the

Royal Ruth, bringing you the new sounds, Charlie Parker and the All-Stars.

Miles Davis on trumpet, the great Max Roach, on drum. The drum also waltzes is a new film about Max Roach. It's the culmination of decades of

work by two award-winning filmmakers. Sam Pollard is a director, producer and editor,

with tons of films, including Eyes on the Prize

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