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The Kitchen Sisters Present… Stories from the b-side of history. Lost recordings, hidden worlds, people possessed by a sound, a vision, a mission. The episodes tell deeply layered stories, lush with interviews, field recordings and music. From powerhouse producers The Kitchen Sisters (Hidden Kitchens, The Hidden World of Girls, The Sonic Memorial Project, Lost & Found Sound, Fugitive Waves and coming soon… The Keepers). The Kitchen Sisters Present is produced in collaboration with Nathan Dalton and Brandi Howell and mixed by Jim McKee. Part of PRX’s Radiotopia, a network of the best story-driven audio shows on the planet (and off…) — shows like 99% Invisible, The Truth, Theory of Everything, Mortified, Radio Diaries, Criminal, Song Exploder, the Allusionist, Memory Palace. Subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or your favorite podcasting app.
“The Kitchen Sisters have done some of best radio stories ever broadcast” —Ira Glass.
Episodes
The Pardoning of Homer Plessy
Arctic Ice, Extreme Weather
Finding Julia Morgan
The Braveheart Grandmothers and Yankton Sioux Coming of Age Ceremony
100 Years of Betty Reid Soskin
What Fire Reveals
Cry Me a River
Gert McMullin Sewing on the Frontline From the AIDS Quilt to COVID-19 PPE
Soul to Soul at 50
Danni Washington and The Genius Generation
Dave Brubeck & The Ambassadors of Jazz
Spotlight on Black-Owned Pet Businesses
Francis Coppola and North Beach Citizens
Tales from Vietnamese Nail Shops in America
The Osaka Ramones: The All-Girl Punk Band – Shonen Knife
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Can Do: Black Visionaries, Seekers, and Entrepreneurs with Host Alfre Woodard
Nomadland with Frances McDormand
A Plea for Peace: Leonard Bernstein Anti-Inauguration Concert of 1973
Chido Govera: The Mushroom Queen of Zimbabwe
The Amish Pandemic Sewing Frolic
Frances McDormand in Nomadland
Hunting & Gathering with Angelo Garro
The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Corporal Michael A. Baronowski
Winona LaDuke: First Born Daughter
Pearl Jam: It’s a Rock Band, Not The Smithsonian
Floating City: The Mirabeau Water Garden, New Orleans
The Sonic Memorial—Remembering 9/11 with host Paul Auster
The International Congress of Youth Voices
Kamal Mouzawak—A Lebanese Kitchen Vision
French Manicure—Tales from Vietnamese Shops in America
Louis Jones: Field Archivist, Detroit
95,000 Names: Gert McMullin: Sewing the Frontline
The McDonogh Three—First Day of School
Eel Pie Island
Pati Jinich’s Mexican Jewish Table
The Climate Underground with Al Gore and Alice Waters
Waiting for Joe DiMaggio
The Keepers – Archive Fever, with Host Frances McDormand
The Keepers – Archiving the Underground, with Host Frances McDormand
The Lou Reed Archive
Deep Fried Fuel – A Biodiesel Kitchen Vision – Celebrating Over the Road
WHER: 1000 Beautiful Watts
Theaster Gates: Keeping the South Side
The Pancake Years
Night of the Living Intern: First Stories from Kitchen Sisters Interns
Martin Scorsese — Try Anything
First Day of School, 1960, New Orleans
Robert Krulwich—Talking Story, The First Third Coast
Lawrence Weschler—Archivist of the Odd, the Marvelous, the Passionate and Slightly Askew
The Passion of Chris Strachwitz
The Brothers Burns—A Conversation with Filmmakers Ken & Ric Burns
San Francisco—Stories from the Model City, Part Three
Burning Man — Archiving the Ephemeral
San Francisco—Stories from the Model City, Part Two
San Francisco—Stories from the Model City, Part One
Nancy Pearl—Librarian Action Figure
THE NATION’S 10TH KEEPER–DAVID FERRIERO, ARCHIVIST OF THE UNITED STATES
Dieter Kosslick’s Last Red Carpet Ride
The Bob Dylan Archive
You Too Can Barbecue – Stubb’s Blues Cookbook Cassette & More
Chamelecon—Below the Border in Honduras with Scott Carrier
Agnés Varda – A Conversation
Lawrence Ferlinghetti – Celebrating 100 Years
Palaces for the People—Author Eric Klinenberg from The Librarian Is In
Wim Wenders: The Entire Caboodle
Linda Spalding: A Reckoning
The Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System
Bill Ferris—Keeper of Southern Folklife
21 Collections—Every Object has a Story
Bonus Episode – The Free-Range Archivist: Jason Scott
The Keepers: The Unrelenting Oral Histories of Eddie McCoy
The Keepers – Emily Dickinson’s Hidden Kitchen
The Keepers Story #4: The Lenny Bruce Archive
The Keepers Story #3: Archive Fever: Henri Langlois and the Cinémathèque Française
The Keepers Story #2: The Pack Horse Librarians of Eastern Kentucky
The Keepers Story #1: Archiving the Underground: The Hiphop Archive at Harvard
Lovers of Lost Fans
Lost & Found Sound and Voices of The Dust Bowl
Pan American Blues: The Birth of The Grand Ole Opry & “Harmonica Wizard” Deford Bailey
Cry Me a River — Keepers of the Environment
Give Space A Chance: Gastrodiplomacy in Orbit
The Tequila Chamber of Commerce
Prince and the Technician
The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel
Mimi Chakarova: Love, Art and Anger
Jorge Amado: The Ballad of Bahia
Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti — Celebrating 99 Years
Frances MCdormand Hosts Hidden Kitchens
Guillermo Cabrera infante: Memories of an Invented City
The Mardi Gras Indians—Stories from New Orleans
House of Night: The Lost Creation Songs of the Mojave People
Chicken Pills: A Hidden World of Jamaican Girls
First Day of School, 1960, New Orleans
Sonic Prayer Flags – New Orleans
Thad Vogler: A Short History of Spirits
Pati’s Mexican Jewish Table
The Galveston Hurricane of 1900: No Tongue Can Tell
New Orleans Visions – King’s Candy & Living with Water
Liberace & the Trinidad Tripoli Steelband
The Making Of… a Karaoke Ice Cream Truck and More Stories
What is it About Men and Meat and Midnight and a Pit?
The Sheepherder’s Ball
Warriors vs Warriors
Hidden Kitchen Gaza: A Palestinian Culinary Journey
The Egg Wars
The Romance and Sex Life of the Date
Tony Schwartz: 30,000 Recordings Later
The Hidden World of Girls with Tina Fey
Sugar in the Milk: A Parsi Hidden Kitchen
Sam Phillips, Sun Records and the Acoustics of Life
Kimchi Diplomacy
War and Food and Manga
Black Cake: Emily Dickinson’s Hidden Kitchen
Rattlesden
Milk Cow Blues: The Apple Family Farm and the Indiana Cow Share Association
Weenie Royale: The Impact of the Internment on Japanese American Cooking
The Kiosk Strategy
War and Peace and Coffee
Operation Hummus and More Stories of War and Peace and Food from Israel and Ramallah
Between Us, Bread and Salt – Kamal Mouzawak: A Lebanon Kitchen Vision
Walking High Steel
Garden Allotments: London’s Kitchen Vision
Hunting & Gathering with Angelo Garro
