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The Kitchen Sisters Present

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 i... Read more

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67 – The Hidden World of Girls with Tina Fey

67 – The Hidden World of Girls with Tina Fey

Stories from The Hidden World of Girls with host Tina Fey: Nigerian writer Chris Abani tells about his English-born moth... Read more

27 Mar 2017

25mins

Ranked #2

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123- San Francisco—Stories from the Model City, Part Three

123- San Francisco—Stories from the Model City, Part Three

In the late 1930s, during the depths of the Depression, 300 craftspeople came together for two years to build an enormou... Read more

27 Aug 2019

25mins

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92 - The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel

92 - The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel

In the early 1970’s, radio producer and author Studs Terkel wrote a book called Working. He went around the country wi... Read more

7 May 2018

37mins

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79 – Pati’s Mexican Jewish Table

79 – Pati’s Mexican Jewish Table

A walk through Oaxaca’s Ethnobotanical Garden with chef and cookbook author Pati Jinich, host of the Emmy and James Bear... Read more

25 Sep 2017

18mins

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122 - Burning Man — Archiving the Ephemeral

122 - Burning Man — Archiving the Ephemeral

"Hello Kitchen Sisters, I am a rogue archivist, the archivist for Burning Man.  Come to Burning Man headquarters and I’l... Read more

21 Aug 2019

18mins

Ranked #6

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3 – Eel Pie Island

3 – Eel Pie Island

The Kitchen Sisters  take us to a little-known, hidden corner of London — to Eel Pie Island, a tiny slice of land in the... Read more

12 Apr 2014

18mins

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4 – The French Manicure – The Long Shadow of Shirley Temple

4 – The French Manicure – The Long Shadow of Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple died on February 10. 2014. Watching the parade of clips from her 1930s movies on TV that night brought ba... Read more

15 May 2014

22mins

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96 - Cry Me a River — Keepers of the Environment

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 a... Read more

9 Jul 2018

33mins

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95 - Give Space A Chance: Gastrodiplomacy in Orbit

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 creat... Read more

25 Jun 2018

19mins

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93 - Prince and the Technician

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... Read more

22 May 2018

24mins

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94 - Tequila Chamber of Commerce & The Birth of the Frozen Margarita

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 climat... Read more

12 Jun 2018

13mins

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108 - The Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System

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 wo... Read more

22 Jan 2019

22mins

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138 - The Keepers - Archive Fever, with host Frances McDormand

138 - The Keepers - Archive Fever, with host Frances McDormand

The Keepers, from The Kitchen Sisters and PRX with host, Academy Award-winning actress Frances McDormand. Stories of act... Read more

24 Mar 2020

55mins

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36 – Tupperware

36 – Tupperware

“Somewhere in the world there’s a Tupperware Party starting every 10 seconds.” And we’re going to one with The Kitchen S... Read more

8 Dec 2015

18mins

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133 - Theaster Gates — Keeping the South Side

133 - Theaster Gates — Keeping the South Side

The Archive House, The Listening House, The Stony Island Arts Bank, The Dorchester Projects. Theaster Gates is a keeper ... Read more

14 Jan 2020

14mins

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107 - William Ferris—Keeper of Southern Folklife

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 commi... Read more

8 Jan 2019

32mins

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106 - 21 Collections—Every Object has a Story

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... Read more

11 Dec 2018

26mins

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50 – An Unexpected Kitchen: The George Foreman Grill

50 – An Unexpected Kitchen: The George Foreman Grill

Sometimes life without a kitchen leads to the most unexpected hidden kitchen of all—the George Foreman Grill. How immigr... Read more

12 Jul 2016

20mins

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12 – The Nights of Edith Piaf

12 – The Nights of Edith Piaf

She rose every day at dusk and rehearsed, performed, ate and drank until dawn. Then slept all day, woke up and began to ... Read more

16 Dec 2014

29mins

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100 - The Keepers: Archiving the Underground—The Hip Hop Archive

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, coll... Read more

5 Sep 2018

32mins

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