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Episode 167: A Brief Eulogy for a Minor League Baseball Team
July 22nd, 2020
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Episode 166: The Silent Room
July 4th, 2020
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A White Horse
June 12th, 2020
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Episode 165: A Park
June 5th, 2020
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Episode 164: Dora Salter
May 26th, 2020
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Episode 163: Freds
May 9th, 2020
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Episode 162: A Strange Land
April 21st, 2020
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Episode 161: Stories to Wash Hands By
April 3rd, 2020
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20 stories, each 20 seconds, to …
Episode 160: Wong Kim Ark
March 19th, 2020
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Episode 159: The Newest News
March 8th, 2020
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Episode 158: Life's Work
February 24th, 2020
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Episode 157: The House of Lowe
February 11th, 2020
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Episode 156: That's How it Goes Whenever it Snows
January 19th, 2020
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Episode 155: Lost Bulls
January 4th, 2020
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Nate's Favorite Episode of 2019
December 26th, 2019
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Episode 154: Dotting I's
December 13th, 2019
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A Conversation About the Memory Palace with Robert Krulwich
December 9th, 2019
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Episode 153: Dinner at Jefferson's
December 6th, 2019
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Episode 152: Let it Snow
November 15th, 2019
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Episode 151: The Story of Maria Barberi
November 1st, 2019
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Episode 150: Late One Night
October 21st, 2019
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Episode 149: Dance by the Ocean
October 4th, 2019
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Episode 148: Safe Passage
September 19th, 2019
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Episode 147: Shipwreck Kelly
September 5th, 2019
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A Welcome! And Dreamland!
August 28th, 2019
Here in its tenth year in operation, the Memory Palace just got a star turn in the wonderful podcast and radios show, Radiolab. We couldn’t be more …
Episode 146: Two Memorials, Last Week of July, 2019
August 8th, 2019
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Music
- Absence by Matti Bye.
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Episode 145: Stories about the St. Louis
July 20th, 2019
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On-ness by Tom Rogerson and …
Episode 144: Nature Naturally
June 22nd, 2019
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Duet for Ghosts by Ed Harcourt …
A White Horse
June 12th, 2019
As on every year, here is an episode I released a few days after the murders at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida on June 12, 2016.
Episode 143: The Only One
June 8th, 2019
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We hear both Baracolle and Ice …
Episode 142: Private Robinson on Pawnee Rock
May 20th, 2019
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- We hear Concierto Para Piano Y …
Episode 141: This Story Climbed Mount Washington
May 3rd, 2019
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We start off with a touch of …
Rebroadcast: Origin Stories
April 20th, 2019
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Episode 140: Jackie Mitchell
April 9th, 2019
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We start off with Chez Thomas, …
Episode 139: 1,347 Birds
March 23rd, 2019
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Episode 138: Sixty Starlings
March 9th, 2019
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Blink from Hiroshi Yoshimura
Which comes in and out of Bjolukor Tonlisterakoli …
A Memory Palace/Radio Diaries Crossover Event
February 20th, 2019
On the 80th Anniversary of the night 20,000 Americans attended a Nazi Rally in the heart of Manhattan, the Memory Palace is teaming up with Radio Diaries. We’ll hear their new story about that rally after we listen back …
Episode 137: Swans
February 7th, 2019
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Music
Sarah in Bath from Krysztof Komeda's score to the Fearless Vampire Killers.
Episode 136 (Ten Fingers, Ten Toes)
January 17th, 2019
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Music
Only in the Dark by Ben Lukas Boysen
Dream House III: After Dust by Mary Ellen Childs and …
Nate's Episode of the Year for 2018
December 18th, 2018
Each year for the last three years, Nate picks his personal favorite. Here’s 2018. See you in 2019.
Episode 135: Revolutions
December 5th, 2018
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We start off with an absolute banger from my old friends in Lightning Bolt, their track …
2018 Fundraiser Bonus Episode!
November 27th, 2018
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Election Eve Rebroadcast (In Line)
November 5th, 2018
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Episode 134 (The Dress in the Closet)
October 27th, 2018
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We hear both Easter and The …
Episode 133: Antidisestablishmentarianism
October 13th, 2018
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Music
We start with the very English, Voluntary No. 4 in b-flat Minor, by Margaret Phillips.
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Episode 132 (Ida Lewis)
September 26th, 2018
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Music
We hear Waltz from the score to Angels & Insects.
Movements IV and II from David …
Episode 131 (Lost Locusts)
September 11th, 2018
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Music
- The music on this one comes from High Aura'd, a project from my old friend, John Kolodij. …
Episode 130 (Independence Hall 2: The Legend of Walter Knott)
August 22nd, 2018
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Music
- We start with Penguins from Michael Hurley.
- Hit Lullaby (the 1st) by the legendary, …
Summer Re-run: Episode 68 (White Heat, White Light)
August 8th, 2018
Music
* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score. * The opening loop is from Mr. Knight from Coltrane Plays …
Episode 129: Uplift
July 26th, 2018
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Music
- The Bundt Diaries from Ludwig Goransson's score to Everything, Everything.
- Kola …
Episode 128 (Patience)
July 4th, 2018
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Music
- Drunken Aviator by Ida.
- Back to Paris by Cyril Morin.
Notes
- There's a great resource …
A White Horse, re-released on the second anniversary of the shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando.
June 12th, 2018
This piece was originally released a few days after the shooting deaths of 49 people at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. It is re-released …
No Summer (Episode 127)
June 4th, 2018
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Music
- White Light by Chihei Hatekeyama
- Between the Trees by Akira Kosemura
- Clockwork Toccatta, …
Episode 126 (The 8th Story)
May 17th, 2018
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Episode 125: Snakes!
April 25th, 2018
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Music
- We hear Ferris Wheel by Gabor Szabo from one of his better late sixties records.
- …
Episode 124 (Junk Room)
April 6th, 2018
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Music
- We start off with Theme de Simon from Georges Delerue.
- Go to Alpine Sketch from …
A quick update and a bonus episode
March 27th, 2018
A quick update and a brief little bonus episode.
Episode 123: Outliers
March 12th, 2018
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- We hear Valentine My …
Big Block of Cheese - Bonus episode
February 23rd, 2018
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Episode 122 (Hercules)
February 12th, 2018
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- We start with Facing …
Episode 121 (The Nickel Candy Bar)
January 28th, 2018
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- We hit two sections …
Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat)
January 13th, 2018
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- We move between three …
Nate's Episode of the Year: If You Have to be a Floor
December 26th, 2017
Show Notes
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Episode 119 (John C. Calhoun from the Opposite Side of the Line that Divides the Living from the Dead)
December 16th, 2017
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Music
- Sad Seine by Lambert.
Episode 118 (On the Shores of Assawompset)
November 20th, 2017
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Music
- Musica Seqenza play …
Episode 117 (Elizabeth)
November 7th, 2017
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- Up Niek Mountain by …
Episode 116 (Hoover)
October 23rd, 2017
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Music
- Afkald by Bremer/McCoy
Episode 115 (A Brief Eulogy for a Commercial Radio Station)
October 4th, 2017
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Sometimes the Rain Just Doesn't Stop
September 15th, 2017
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Two Small Sculptures (The Met Residency Episode 8)
September 5th, 2017
Show Notes
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Orbes Cintilantes - A special summer episode
August 21st, 2017
In lieu of your standard end-of-summer re-run, here is a very special re-run. No! Wait! I mean it. It's pretty cool. Here's the thing: Todavia, a new …
"Relics": A Special Bonus Episode
August 9th, 2017
This special, bonus episode was commissioned by Freepoint Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It's intended to be listened to while walking around Fresh Pond, across the street from the hotel, though it can be enjoyed …
A Scavenger Hunt (The Met Residency Episode 7)
August 7th, 2017
Show Notes
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Episode 113 (Elmer McCurdy Rides Again and Again)
July 19th, 2017
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- We …
Episode 112 (The Taking of Tom Sawyer's Island)
July 3rd, 2017
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- Max Och's Ain't Nobody …
A White Horse, re-released on the second anniversary of the shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando.
June 12th, 2017
This piece was originally released a few days after the shooting deaths of 49 people at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. It is re-released …
Episode 111 (Cipher, or Greenhow Girls)
June 10th, 2017
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If You Have to be a Floor (The Met Residency Episode 6)
June 9th, 2017
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Episode 110 (Lost Camels)
May 27th, 2017
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- We hear a bunch of …
Episode 109 (The Year Hank Greenberg Hit 58 Home Runs)
May 11th, 2017
Music, Footnotes & Ephemera
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Notes on a Plaque, Still Imagined
April 26th, 2017
This episode was originally released in August of 2015. It was re-released upon hearing that the city of New Orleans has begun the process of removing four monuments to the confederacy and post-civil war era, starting …
Episode 108, Met Residency #5: Temple
April 18th, 2017
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Episode 107 (Roots and Branches and Wind-Borne Seeds)
April 1st, 2017
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- We open with Mary …
Episode 106 (A Washington Monument)
March 17th, 2017
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- We hear three pieces of …
Episode 105: Amok
February 27th, 2017
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- This piece has two …
Episode 104, Met Residency #4 (A Portrait)
February 15th, 2017
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Episode 103 (The Rose of Long Island)
February 4th, 2017
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- We start and end with …
Episode 102 (The Presidency of William Henry Harrison, or Back in the Saddle)
January 20th, 2017
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- We start with (and …
Nate's Episode of the Year: Local Channels
December 30th, 2016
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Episode 101 (Promise)
December 19th, 2016
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Episode 100 (Peregrinar)
December 1st, 2016
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Episode 99, Met Residency #3 (Full Circle)
November 21st, 2016
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An odd, pre-election bonus episode: a full reading of Song of Myself
November 7th, 2016
As counter-programming to the clamor and nonsense of these last days before the American Presidential election, here is Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" in its entirety. Really.
VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE …
Episode 98 (Under Our Feet)
October 28th, 2016
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Episode 97 (In Line)
October 14th, 2016
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The Met Residency Episode M2: One Bottle, Any Bottle
October 6th, 2016
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The Met Residency Episode 1: Recent Acqusition
October 6th, 2016
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Episode 96 (Canali)
September 30th, 2016
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Notes * I’ve read a bunch about the canals over the years, but the most …
Episode 95 (Haunting)
September 17th, 2016
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Notes * Like anyone else, I became fascinated by Washington Phillip’s …
Episode 94 (Numbers)
August 27th, 2016
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From the Vault: Dreamland
August 8th, 2016
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MusicMusic in this one is track 6 in Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts I then a …
Episode 93 (Local Channels)
July 30th, 2016
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Episode 92 (Oil, Water)
July 14th, 2016
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Episode 91 (Natural Habitat)
July 2nd, 2016
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Episode 90 (A White Horse)
June 16th, 2016
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Episode 89 (Family Snapshot)
June 4th, 2016
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Music * First up is The Homeless Wanderer from Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou off …
Episode 88 (Open Road)
May 19th, 2016
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Music
* Up top, looped, is the first bit of the great, Foreign Fields, by Kacy Hill. * Then we hear some of Sun Will Set, by Zoe Keating. * The song on the …
From the Vault: A Special Mother's Day Re-Run
May 7th, 2016
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Episode 87 (Victory)
April 23rd, 2016
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Episode 86 (Finishing Hold)
April 8th, 2016
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Episode 85 (AKA Leo)
March 25th, 2016
Notes Research for this story was largely culled from contemporary newspaper accounts. Check back for a list.
Music * We start off (and end) with …
Episode 84 (Homesteading)
March 9th, 2016
Notes * I first came the story of Ross, North Dakota, while reading Muslims in America: A Short History, by Edward E. Curtis. * The full WPA …
Episode 83 (Overland)
February 25th, 2016
Notes Nearly all the research for this one comes straight out of the highly-readable, Cap’n George Fred, G.F. Tilton’s 1925 autobiography. I got my copy at a used bookstore for $11. It’s easy to find on eBay and Amazon …
Episode 82 (The Wheel)
February 11th, 2016
Music * Julia Rovinsky plays Phillip Glass’ Metamorphosis I, from her album Dusk. * There’s an excerpt from Paul Drescher’s “Casa Vecchia,” from the …
Episode 81 (Below, from Above)
January 27th, 2016
Music
* We start off with Wien, by Labradford. * The guys head out to the work site to Piano 3, from Jon Brion's score to Synecdoche, New York. * Then we hear a bit of Metamorphosis by Vladamir Ussachevsky before being …
Episode (M): Gallery 742
December 17th, 2015
A special episode of the Memory Palace commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to coincide with the opening of Rockefeller-Worsham Dressing …
Episode 80 (Shore Leave)
November 19th, 2015
Music* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.* First up is one of my very favorite recordings of all time: Andromeda from Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath. One of the …
Episode 79 (Artist in Landscape)
November 12th, 2015
Music * Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score. * They first meet to a piece called Brouillard (version 1) …
Episode 78 (no. 116,842)
November 5th, 2015
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Episode 77 (Butterflies)
October 27th, 2015
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Episode 76 (Mary Walker Would Wear What She Wanted)
October 19th, 2015
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Episode 75 (The Ballad of Captain Dwight)
August 28th, 2015
The finale of the 2015 Summer Season.
Music
* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.
* There's …
Episode 74 (Craning)
August 20th, 2015
Episode 9 of the 2015 Summer Season.
Music
* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.
* There're too pieces from Per Storby Jutbring's album, …
Episode 73 (Notes on an Imagined Plaque to be Added to the Statue of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Upon Hearing that the Memphis City Counci has Voted to Move it and the Exhumed Remains of General Forrest and his Wife, Mary Ann Montgomery Forrest, from
August 13th, 2015
Episode 8 of the 2015 Summer Season
Music
* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.
* First up (and returning at the end) is Sandra's Theme, from …
Episode 72 (Run-of-the-River)
August 3rd, 2015
Episode 7 of the 2015 Summer Season.
Music
* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.
* First up (and returning a bit later) is Mr. Reincarnation
Episode 71 (Zulu Charlie Romeo)
July 27th, 2015
Episode 6 of the 2015 Summer Season.
Music
* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.
Episode 70 (Developments in the Design and Manufacture of American Menswear 1840-1860, a Fable)
July 20th, 2015
Episode 5 of the 2015 Summer Season.
Music
* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.
* The main mountain theme is Mort D'Eurydice, by Pierre Favre as …
Episode 69 (Charlie: God of Rain)
July 13th, 2015
Episode 4 of the 2015 Summer Season.
Music
* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.
* …
Episode 68 (White Heat, White Lights)
July 6th, 2015
Episode 3 of the Summer Season.
Music
* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.
* The opening …
Episode 67 (Every Night Ever)
June 29th, 2015
Music
* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.
* Then, we have the most obvious crickets/summer …
Episode 66 (The Pirate Queen)
June 21st, 2015
The music:
*Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's great, ridiculous Modesty Blaise score.
*The recurring piano theme is …
HIgh Above Lake Michigan: Special Platinum Edition
May 27th, 2015
Something to listen to while you wait for the new season of The Memory Palace, launching June 21st with weekly episodes through the whole summer.
Forgotten Things: A Failed Pilot
May 7th, 2015
Did a pilot for Fox Digital Studios some time ago. Didn't actually go anywhere (except for a film festival or two).
Itty Bitty Bombs: Special Platinum Edition
April 16th, 2015
While you wait until June 21st for the Season of the Memory Palace, here's a new version of an old favorite.
The Brothers Booth Schmancy Platinum Remaster Edition
April 9th, 2015
While you wait until June 21st for the Season of the Memory Palace, here's a new version of an old favorite.
Episode 65 (Two-Dimensional Projectile Motion Problems)
March 16th, 2015
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Episode 63 (Other Bodies)
October 16th, 2014
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The music in this one: "An Ending, A Beginning" by Dustin O'Halloran. "I am Piano" by Peter Broderick. Two songs from the …
Episode 62 (We've Forgotten James Powell)
July 17th, 2014
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The music pulled from "Blue Sands" by the Chico …
Episode 61 (The Glowing Orbs)
June 8th, 2014
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Episode 60 (400,000 Stars)
March 23rd, 2014
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Episode 59 (Harriet Quimby)
January 31st, 2014
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Episode 58 (Shadowboxing)
December 17th, 2013
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Episode 57 (I'm Still Alive)
October 31st, 2013
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Episode 56 (The Rush of the River and the Roar of the Falls)
September 20th, 2013
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There are two pieces of music in this: one is a tweaked loop from "To Here Knows When" by MBV. The other is "Stereo Music …
Episode 55 (O, How We Danced)
July 30th, 2013
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Episode 54 (Origin Stories)
June 29th, 2013
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Episode 53 (Guinea Pigs)
May 8th, 2013
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Episode 52 (Six Stories)
April 1st, 2013
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Episode 51 (Giants in Those Days)
March 7th, 2013
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Episode 50 (Fifty Words Written After Learning That the Arctic Bowhead Whale Can Live up to 200 Years)
January 29th, 2013
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Episode 49 (Dreamland)
December 14th, 2012
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Episode 48 (Picture a Box)
November 20th, 2012
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Episode 47 (The Rise and Fall of Rising and Falling) *NOTE: semi-adult language in this one.
October 15th, 2012
Note: there is some semi-adult language in this one.
Episode 46 (After Party)
September 14th, 2012
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Episode 45 (Heard, Once)
July 26th, 2012
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Episode 44 (Distance)
March 25th, 2012
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Episode 43 (Far Below Lake Michigan)
December 6th, 2011
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Episode 42 (What They Saw)
November 8th, 2011
This piece was originally commissioned by Slate.com.
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Episode 41 (Mary, Mary, and Mercy)
October 28th, 2011
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Episode 40 (Crazy Bet)
September 29th, 2011
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Episode 39 (Road Trip)
August 23rd, 2011
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Episode 38 (A Stretch)
July 6th, 2011
This piece was originally commissioned by 99% Invisible.
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Episode 37 (Natural Curiosity)
January 27th, 2011
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Episode 36 (Six Scenes in the Life of William J. Sidis, Wonderful Boy)
January 7th, 2011
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Episode 35 (A Brief Eulogy for a Consumer Electronics Product)
October 27th, 2010
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Episode 34 (Soldier Frum)
September 20th, 2010
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Episode 33 (Lost Lobsters)
August 25th, 2010
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Episode 32 (Gigantic)
July 3rd, 2010
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Episode 31 (Looking Up)
June 15th, 2010
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Episode 30 (Nee Weinberg)
May 11th, 2010
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Episode 29 (OMG!!! JKP!!!)
April 14th, 2010
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Episode 28 (Babysitting)
April 1st, 2010
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Episode 27 (The Sisters Fox)
March 13th, 2010
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Episode 26 (Citius, Altius, Fortius, Horrendius)
February 25th, 2010
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Episode 25 (I Have Not Yet Begun to Rot)
February 1st, 2010
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Episode 24 (The Moon in the Sun)
January 15th, 2010
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Episode 23 (400 Words for 79th Street)
December 11th, 2009
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Episode 22 (You Know You’re Sick)
November 20th, 2009
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Episode 21 (A Gas Gas Gas)
October 28th, 2009
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Episode 20 (This Ungainly Fowl)
October 16th, 2009
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Episode 19 (Dam!)
September 28th, 2009
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Episode 18 (Dig Set Spike)
August 28th, 2009
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Episode 17 (Plummeting Approval)
August 7th, 2009
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Episode 16 (Secret Kitty)
July 24th, 2009
No animals were harmed in the making of this episode.
Episode 15 (Presidente Walker)
July 16th, 2009
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Episode 14 (The Messrs. Craft)
July 6th, 2009
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Episode 13 (High Above Lake Michigan)
June 16th, 2009
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Episode 12 (These Words, Forever)
June 1st, 2009
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Episode 11 (The Brothers Booth)
May 22nd, 2009
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Episode 10 (International Brotherhood of Mothers)
May 10th, 2009
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Episode 9 (Ben Franklin Death Ray)
April 11th, 2009
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Episode 8 (The World Within the World)
March 26th, 2009
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Episode 7 (Li’l Nipper)
March 9th, 2009
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Episode 6 (The Saddest President)
February 17th, 2009
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Episode 5 (Oh My!)
January 30th, 2009
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Episode 4 (Itty Bitty Bombs)
January 22nd, 2009
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Episode 3 (High Societies)
January 13th, 2009
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Episode 2 (Lost Pigeons)
December 20th, 2008
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Episode 1 (Horrible Deaths)
November 12th, 2008
This is the very first episode of The Memory Palace. Done a gajillion years ago to test out a theory about radio storytelling. You do not have to …
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