
Radio Diaries
by Radio Diaries & Radiotopia
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Estimated from 27 chart positions in 27 markets.
By chart position
- 🇺🇸US · Documentary#9330K to 100K
- 🇨🇦CA · Documentary#1075K to 30K
- 🇬🇧GB · Documentary#1435K to 30K
- 🇦🇺AU · Documentary#1665K to 30K
- 🇧🇷BR · Documentary#7610K to 30K
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Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
59K to 233K🎙 ~2x weekly·264 episodes·Last published 2w ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
117K to 466K🇺🇸21%🇰🇪21%🇨🇦6%+24 more - Active Followers
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35K to 140K
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Guest Spotlight: Phonograph
Aug 13, 2026
Unknown duration
My Iron Lung: Remembering Martha Lillard
Jul 16, 2026
14m 52s
Soweto 1976
Jun 16, 2026
15m 50s
30 Years of Teenage Diaries
Jun 4, 2026
16m 04s
The Almost Astronaut
May 21, 2026
21m 31s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 8/13/26 | Guest Spotlight: Phonograph | This week we're featuring an episode of Phonograph, a podcast that deconstructs the history and art of audio storytelling.The hosts of Phonograph recently invited Radio Diaries' Joe Richman on their show to talk about "24 Hours at the Golden Apple," a classic episode of This American Life that he helped produce. The Golden Apple is a diner in Chicago, and back in 2000, a group of producers took shifts hanging out there over 24 hours and talking to as many people as they could. Joe's story focused on the friendship between two high school students, Danielle and Allison, who he met during his shift.Here's an excerpt of Phonograph where Joe talks about making this story, and what it's like to listen back to it more than two decades after it first aired. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 7/16/26 | polioiron lung+3 | — | — | — | Martha Lillardiron lung+3 | — | 14m 52s | ||
| 6/16/26 | apartheidprotest+5 | — | — | South AfricaSoweto | Soweto1976+6 | — | 15m 50s | ||
| 6/4/26 | teenage diarieslife stories+4 | — | Radio Diariesdovetail.prx.org+1 | — | teenagersdiaries+5 | Radiotopia | 16m 04s | ||
| 5/21/26 | space raceastronauts+3 | — | — | — | Ed Dwightastronaut+5 | — | 21m 31s | ||
| 5/7/26 | executionracial injustice+3 | Bridgette McGee | — | Laurel, Mississippi | Willie McGeeBridgette McGee+5 | — | 27m 39s | ||
| 4/23/26 | ocean explorationundersea agriculture+3 | — | U.S. NavyTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | — | Sealabocean floor+5 | — | 20m 21s | ||
| 4/2/26 | slaveryresistance+4 | William Parker | History This WeekHistory Channel | BostonPennsylvania | Fugitive Slave ActWilliam Parker+6 | — | 38m 41s | ||
| 3/27/26 | immigrationdetention+3 | Leqaa Kordia | Radio DiariesRadiotopia | Paterson, New JerseyTexas | ICE detentionPalestinian woman+3 | — | 16m 14s | ||
| 3/19/26 | film historyrefugees+3 | — | NazisCasablanca | CasablancaMorocco | Casablancarefugees+5 | — | 12m 30s | ||
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| 2/26/26 | justiceracial violence+4 | — | Jim Crow South | — | Isaac WoodardOrson Welles+6 | — | 18m 23s | ||
| 2/19/26 | civil rights movementhistorical investigation+3 | — | Indiana University’s Lilly LibraryUnexampled Courage | — | Isaac WoodardOrson Welles+5 | — | 13m 12s | ||
| 2/12/26 | racial violencedesegregation+3 | — | Indiana University’s Lilly Library | South Carolina | Orson WellesBlack soldier+5 | — | 12m 19s | ||
| 2/9/26 | crimemilitary+4 | — | Radio DiariesRadiotopia | South Carolina | Orson WellesIsaac Woodard+5 | — | 4m 35s | ||
| 1/14/26 | Civil RightsHistory+3 | — | — | Montgomery, AlabamaBronx | Claudette ColvinRosa Parks+5 | — | 11m 41s | ||
| 12/18/25 | The First Computer Dating Service: Operation Match | Looking for love is an art, not a science. People have been trying to crack the code, with mixed success, for a long time. This week we're going back to the 1960s, when a couple Harvard students had an idea.Businesses had started using a new technology called the computer to process payroll or match a client with the right type of insurance. What if these same computers could be used to get a date? This is the story of the very first computer dating service, Operation Match. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 11/20/25 | This Short Life | Today on the show, we sit down with photographer Andrew Lichtenstein to discuss his new book, THIS SHORT LIFE, which combines photo essays with audio testimonies about 12 Americans, from a West Virginia coal miner to a Maine farmer, all united by how the struggles of their past have shaped their present. You'll hear audio testimony from some of the people in the book.Buy THIS SHORT LIFE here. If you liked this story, find more of our work at radiodiaries.org and follow us on Bluesky, Instagram and Facebook @radiodiaries.To support our work, go to www.radiodiaries.org/donate. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 11/3/25 | Detained: The Last Columbia Protester | In April 2024, over 100 students were arrested during protests outside Columbia University, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Leqaa Kordia, a young Palestinian woman living in Paterson, New Jersey, was one of them.Kordia was let go after the protests. But months later, ICE officials took her into custody and put her on a plane to a detention facility in Texas. Kordia has now been detained there for more than seven months. She is the last Columbia protestor still in detention.Kordia's cousin, Hamzah Abushaban, talks to Kordia through a detention phone line almost every day. Today on the show, we'll hear one of those phone calls. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 10/23/25 | Identical Strangers | Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein were both born in New York City and adopted as infants. When they were 35 years old, they met and found they were “identical strangers.”This story originally aired on NPR in 2007. Liked this story? Donate and find more of our stories at www.radiodiaries.org. Follow us @radiodiaries on Bluesky and Instagram. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 10/2/25 | The Gospel Ranger | This is the story of a song, "Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down." It was written by a 12-year-old boy on what was supposed to be his deathbed. But the boy didn't die. Instead, he went on to become a Pentecostal preacher, and later helped inspire the birth of Rock & Roll. The boy's name was Brother Claude Ely, and he was known as The Gospel Ranger. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 9/18/25 | The Working Tapes, Revisited | In the early 1970s, author Studs Terkel interviewed the owners of Duke & Lee's Auto Repair in Geneva, Illinois, for his bestselling book, Working. He went to talk to them about fixing cars. What he found was a story about fathers and sons working together, and the tensions within a family business. We went back to Duke & Lee's four decades later and found the family business still intact—tensions and all.That was nine years ago. Recently, we heard that the family, and the auto shop, had gone through some big changes. So we got back in touch.This week, the story of a family and their business at three moments in history. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 8/7/25 | The Last Place | When you spend so much of your life moving around, getting to the next chapter, what's it like to find yourself in the last place?This week, we revisit audio diaries from a retirement home. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 7/28/25 | The View from the 79th Floor | Eighty years ago, on July 28, 1945, an Army bomber pilot on a routine ferry mission found himself lost in the fog over Manhattan. A dictation machine in a nearby office happened to capture the sound of the plane as it hit the Empire State Building at the 79th floor.Fourteen people were killed. Debris from the plane severed the cables of an elevator, which fell 79 stories with a young woman inside. She survived. The crash prompted new legislation that—for the first time—gave citizens the right to sue the federal government. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 7/17/25 | Two Years in the Life of a Saudi Girl, Revisited | When we first met Majd Abdulghani, she was 19 years old, living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. We gave her a recorder to keep an audio diary about her life. Majd chronicled her dreams of being a scientist, her resistance to having an arranged marriage, and what it was like to be a teenage girl living in one of the most restrictive countries in the world for women. Her story first aired in 2016.A lot has changed in Majd’s life over the past nine years. Last year, she completed her doctorate at Oxford University, where she was Saudi Arabia’s first Rhodes Scholar. She and her husband have a four-year-old daughter, and they recently moved home to Saudi Arabia after several years abroad.Saudi Arabia has changed a lot, too. Back in 2016, women weren’t even allowed to drive. Now they can. And many more women have careers now—including Majd. She’s now a successful scientist working for a company based in Riyadh.We recently met up with Majd while she was in Boston for a conference. Here's her diary from 2016, along with our conversation about how things have changed since then. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 6/30/25 | The End of Smallpox | Vaccines have been in the news recently. Over the last few weeks, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has changed vaccination recommendations and gutted an influential committee that recommends which shots Americans should get. Some experts worry that these changes could lead to outbreaks of diseases the US has long had under control.So this week, we're revisiting a story we made a few years ago about the world's very first vaccine, and the disease it helped eradicate: smallpox.Smallpox was around for more than 3,000 years and killed at least 300 million people in the 20th century. Then, by 1980, it was gone.Rahima Banu was the last person in the world to have the deadliest form of smallpox. In 1975, Banu was a toddler growing up in a remote village in Bangladesh when she developed the telltale bumpy rash. Soon, public health workers from around the world showed up at her home to try to keep the virus from spreading. This is her story. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
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Chart history for Radio Diaries
Peaked at #19 in KE, currently #19 in KE.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE | — | #19 | #19 | — |
| SA | — | #43 | #43 | — |
| VN | — | #68 | #68 | — |
| RO | — | #71 | #71 | — |
| Brazil | — | #76 | #76 | — |
| Ireland | — | #91 | #91 | — |
| United States | — | #93 | #93 | — |
| TW | — | #97 | #97 | — |
| TH | — | #106 | #106 | — |
| Canada | — | #107 | #107 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #119 | #119 | — |
| TR | — | #119 | #119 | — |
| Finland | — | #127 | #127 | — |
| MY | — | #128 | #128 | — |
| South Africa | — | #131 | #131 | — |
| IL | — | #137 | #137 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #143 | #143 | — |
| Sweden | — | #150 | #150 | — |
| SG | — | #150 | #150 | — |
| HU | — | #157 | #157 | — |
Chart Positions
28 placements across 27 markets.
Chart Positions
28 placements across 27 markets.