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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…
4 months, 3 weeks 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…
5 months, 1 week 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 …
5 months, 3 weeks 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…
6 months, 1 week 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…
6 months, 3 weeks 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…
7 months, 1 week ago
The Women's School of Planning and Architecture: Not Only Survive but Flourish
The Women’s School of Planning and Architecture, popularly known as WSPA, ran for four summers from 1974 to 1979.
You could learn woodworking in t…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Kibbe at the Crossroads - Lebanese Immigrants and Cooking in the Mississippi Delta
Episode 269
We travel to the Mississippi Delta and the world of Lebanese immigrants, where barbecue and the blues meet kibbe, a kind of traditional Lebanese raw …
8 months, 1 week ago
The Honesty Boxes of Scotland
Episode 268
“Some people might think that honesty boxes are from the past, from a different age, a simpler age, a more honest age, but I would say they're a futu…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Hidden Kitchens Texas — Hosted by Willie Nelson
Episode 267
Willie Nelson and Dallas-born actress Robin Wright, along with some wild and extraordinary tellers, take us across Texas and share some of their Hidd…
9 months, 1 week ago