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Shakespeare's First Home

Season 5 Episode 559

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George:
Stratford-upon-Avon is not London. Not even close.
London is noise—argument, urgency, ambition. London is a place where a man c…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

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Transitions

Season 5 Episode 558

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Welcome to Celebrate Creativity. I’m George Bartley. 

For the next section of this podcast, I’m beginning a new series I’m calling Con…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

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We Need to Talk

Season 5 Episode 557

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NARRATOR:
New Year’s Day.
The museum is quiet the way a room gets quiet after somebody says,
“We need to talk.”

Last night the toys lit u…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

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The Patio Rebellion

Season 5 Episode 556

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NARRATOR:
The Night Watchman rises from his desk and follows the sound—past the exhibits, past the quiet corridors, toward the patio d…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

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Blank Slate

Season 5 Episode 555

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NARRATOR:
In the museum, toys do not age the way people age.
They don’t get older, exactly.
They get… remembered.
And on the last nights …

8 months, 3 weeks ago

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String Theory

Season 5 Episode 554

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NIGHT WATCHMAN (to mic, mock-host energy):
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Late Night at the Toy Museum.

Tonight’s t…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

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The Color of Thinking

Season 5 Episode 553

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NARRATOR:
Welcome back to the Metropolitan Museum of Toys and Childhood Artifacts—where the lights dim, the doors lock, and the exhibi…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

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Lite-Brite, Artist in Residence

Season 5 Episode 552

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NIGHT WATCHMAN (mildly amused, to himself):
All right, Museum. Let’s see what you’ve got tonight. No stampedes. No… spontaneous karaok…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

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Furby After Dark

Season 5 Episode 551

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NIGHT WATCHMAN (EBENEZER, cheerful):
All right, toys—another calm, orderly night.

Nothing’s going to—

SFX: A sudden electronic WHIRR fro…

8 months, 4 weeks ago

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More Joy

Season 5 Episode 550

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NARRATOR:
It’s Christmas Eve at the Metropolitan Museum of Toys and Childhood Artifacts—
after the last visitor has gone,
after the gift…

8 months, 4 weeks ago

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