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102 - Archive Fever: Henri Langlois and the Cinémathèque Française
Keepers: people possessed with a passion for preservation, individuals afflicted with a bad case of Archive Fever. The Keepers continues with the sto…
7 years, 8 months ago
The Pack Horse Librarians of Eastern Kentucky—The Keepers
Episode 101
During the Depression, those horrible years after 1929, the Appalachians were hit hard. Coal mines were being shut down. Many people were living in d…
7 years, 9 months ago
100 - The Keepers: Archiving the Underground—The Hip Hop Archive
This is the first episode in our new series THE KEEPERS—stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians—Keepers…
7 years, 10 months ago
99 - Lovers of Lost Fans
In 2000 we received a call to the NPR Lost & Found Sound Hotline from Willard Mayes, a member of the Antique Fan Collectors Association, who was conc…
7 years, 10 months ago
98 - Lost & Found Sound and Voices of The Dust Bowl
Fish mongers recorded on the streets of Harlem in the 1930s. An 8-year-old girl’s impromptu news cast made on a toy recorder in a San Diego store. Ly…
7 years, 10 months ago
97 - Pan American Blues: The Birth of The Grand Ole Opry & "Harmonica Wizard" DeFord Bailey
The story of the birth of the Grand Ole Opry on radio station WSM in Nashville, TN and the story of “Harmonica Wizard” DeFord Bailey, the Opry’s firs…
7 years, 11 months ago
96 - Cry Me a River — Keepers of the Environment
The dramatic stories of three pioneering “Keepers” and environmental activists—Ken Sleight, Katie Lee, and Mark Dubois and the damming of wild rivers…
7 years, 11 months ago
95 - Give Space A Chance: Gastrodiplomacy in Orbit
Russians preparing dinner for Americans in space? Sounds good to us.
There’s been a lot of jabber these days about creating a “Space Force,” a sixth …
8 years ago
94 - Tequila Chamber of Commerce & The Birth of the Frozen Margarita
The Agave Goddess with 200 breasts; jimadors stripping lethal thorny leaves off agaves; farmers battling cambio climatico (climate change); distil…
8 years ago
93 - Prince and the Technician
In 1983 Prince hired LA sound technician, Susan Rogers, one of the few women in the industry, to move to Minneapolis and help upgrade his home record…
8 years, 1 month ago