Nellie Gilles
Nellie Gilles (@nelliegiles) joined Radio Diaries in 2013.
She's produced stories for NPR's All Things Considered and the Radio Diaries Podcast, including: Surviving the Tulsa Race Riot, Working: Then & Now, Mission to Hiroshima, The Story of Jane, and Hunker Down Diaries. Before Radio Diaries, she was a contributing producer with The Radio Foundation, WNYC and WBAI.
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Their daughter has twelve fingers, twelve toes, some fused together and some set askew – ain't nothing but a family thing.
Without further ado... here are the eleven extraordinary stories reflect the finest work in the narrative audio industry & push the boundaries of audio storytelling, selected by these 20 judges, and in the categories of... Best New Artist, Radio Impact, Best News Feature, Audio Unbound, Best Documentary: Short, Best Documentary: Non-English Language, Best Serialized Story, Best Documentary (Gold, Silver, Bronze), and Directors’ Choice:
Producer Centenarians in Lockdown
When the 1918 flu pandemic broke out, Joe Newman was 5 years old. Today, he's 107. He lives in a community for seniors in Sarasota, Fla., with his fiancée, Anita Sampson.