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Betty Reid Soskin - Sign My Name to Freedom - 1921-2025
On December 21, 2025, activist and trailblazer Betty Reid Soskin passed away in Richmond, California. She was 104. Over the years we've chronicled Be…
5 months ago
The Giving Game: Andrew Carnegie and the Evils of Wealth
Episode 278
The Gilded Age was a time of unparalleled wealth and prosperity in America—but it was also a time of staggering inequality, corruption, and unchecked…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Marion Cunningham: Late Bloomer, Agoraphobic, Food Pioneer
Episode 277
They don't make 'em like Marion Cunningham these days. Food writer, home cook, Fannie Farmer's new incarnation, James Beard’s sidekick, wizard of waf…
6 months ago
Hidden Kitchens World—With Host Frances McDormand
Episode 276
Host Frances McDormand leads us through this rich international story collection of land, community and food. From the organic olive groves and viney…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Keepers—With Host Frances McDormand
Episode 275
The Keepers, from The Kitchen Sisters and PRX with host, Academy Award-winning actress Frances McDormand. Stories of activist archivists, rogue libra…
7 months ago
Remembering Marcyliena Morgan - Keeper of the Hip Hop Archive at Harvard
Episode 274
Today, we're thinking about Marcyliena Morgan, a keeper extraordinaire, a linguistic anthropologist who founded and championed the Hip Hop Archive at…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
The Birth of Rice-A-Roni
Episode 273
The worlds of a young Canadian immigrant, an Italian pasta-making family, and a 70-year-old survivor of the Armenian Genocide converge in this story …
8 months ago
Bone Music - A Collaboration with 99% Invisible
Episode 272
In the 1950s, some ingenious Russians, hungry for jazz, boogie woogie, rock n roll, and other music forbidden in the Soviet Union, devised a way to r…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Aggie & Walter Murch — Family, Farming & Filmmaking
Episode 271
Muriel "Aggie" Murch and her husband, Academy Award winning film editor and sound designer Walter Murch, have lived on Blackberry Farm in Bolinas for…
9 months ago
The Real Ambassadors — A Jazz Opera for Louis Armstrong by Dave & Iola Brubeck
The Real Ambassadors is a poignant tale of cultural exchange, anti-racism, and jazz history. And it's a love story — between life-long husband and wi…
9 months, 3 weeks ago