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111 - Palaces for the People—Author Eric Klinenberg from The Librarian Is In
As part of our series, The Keepers, The Kitchen Sisters Present an episode of the New York Public Library’s podcast The Librarian Is In featuring Eri…
7 years, 3 months ago
110 - Filmmaker Wim Wenders - The Entire Caboodle
Filmmaker Wim Wenders talks about his early influences — Cinémathèque Française, Henri Langlois, Lotte Eisner — and tells stories of Werner Herzog an…
7 years, 4 months ago
109 - Linda Spalding - A Reckoning
Best selling author Linda Spalding is a keeper. A keeper of her family history, a keeper of words, a keeper of truth. In this episode of The Kitchen …
7 years, 4 months ago
108 - The Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System
Melvil Dewey, the father of library science and the inventor of the most popular library classification system in the world, was a known racist and s…
7 years, 5 months ago
107 - William Ferris—Keeper of Southern Folklife
Folklorist and Professor Bill Ferris, a Grammy nominee this year for his "Voices of Mississippi" 3 CD Box set, has committed his life to documenting …
7 years, 5 months ago
106 - 21 Collections—Every Object has a Story
Paper airplanes, photographs of men in rows, birds nests, gay bar matchbooks, dolls hats —an untraditional take on what warrants our attention. As p…
7 years, 6 months ago
Bonus Episode - The Free-Range Archivist: Jason Scott
We've got something extra for you today as part of the Radiotopia fundraiser that is happening now. You can join the Radiotopia community and support…
7 years, 7 months ago
105 - The Keepers: The Unrelenting Oral Histories of Eddie McCoy
After a devastating car accident that made his work as a janitor impossible, civil rights activist Eddie McCoy, picked up a scavenged tape recorder a…
7 years, 7 months ago
104 - The Keepers: Emily Dickinson's Hidden Kitchen
Deep in the hidden archives of Harvard’s Houghton Library are the butter stained recipes of Emily Dickinson. Who knew? Emily Dickinson was better kn…
7 years, 7 months ago
103 - The Keepers: The Lenny Bruce Collection
One of the most controversial, outspoken men of the last century, comedian Lenny Bruce spent much of his life in court defending his freedom of speec…
7 years, 8 months ago