Radio Diaries "Mandela: An Audio History"

Specials | Jul 20, 2018

Mandela: An Audio History is the award-winning radio series documenting the struggle against apartheid through intimate first-person accounts of Nelson Mandela himself, as well as those who fought with him, and against him.

Featuring:

  • A lost recording of the 1964 trial that resulted in Mandela's life sentence
  • A secret tape of a visit between Mandela and his family on Robben Island, saved for more than two decades by a prison guard
  • Marching songs of guerilla soldiers
  • Government propaganda films
  • Pirate radio broadcasts from the African National Congress
  • First-person accounts from former ANC activists, National Party politicians, army generals, Robben Island prisoners, and ordinary witnesses to history. A range of voices from Desmond Tutu to former President F.W. de Klerk to Nelson Mandela himself.

Airs Friday July 20 at 9pm on WNYC-FM

Airs Saturday July 21 at 10pm on AM820 and NJPR

Airs Sunday July 22 at 11am on AM820 and NJPR

 

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