Hannah Jaffe-Walt

But I think of the voice memos differently now.

I think it's possible they're documenting a massive, frightening change.

That story was produced by Diane Wu.

Our program was produced today by Diane Wu and edited by Nancy Updike.

Roxana Saberi and Fatima Jamalpour collected the voice memos for us.

They're both journalists and authors.

Fatima's book, For the Sun, After Long Nights.

You can find a link to Roxana and Fatima's excellent reporting on what happened in January in Iran at our website.

The people who put together today's show include Fia Benen, Zoe Chase, Dana Chivas, Aviva de Kornfeld, Emmanuel Jochi, Cassie Howley, Valerie Kipnis, Adrienne Lilly, Seth Lind, Tobin Lowe, Stowe Nelson, Molly Marcello, Catherine Raimondo, Nadia Raymond, Ryan Rummery, Alyssa Shipp, Ike Streis-Konduraja, Lily Sullivan, and Christopher Switala.

Our managing editor is Sara Abdurrahman, senior editor David Kestenbaum, and our executive editor is Emmanuel Berry.

the actors who performed the voice memos for us.

Our wonderful casting director, Sabrina Hyman.

Special thanks today to everyone in Iran who sent us voice memos for this story.

And also special thanks to Sardar Peshayi, Kaveh Dasture, Hossein Hafazian, Duri Buskaran, Amir Rashidi, Nargis Bajoli, Ahmad Ahmadian, and Mahsa Ali Mardani.

Shirin Jafari, who you heard at the start of the show, is a reporter on the public radio show The World.

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