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This is a special episode commissioned by Aspen Ideas: Health and originally performed at the 2026 festival in Aspen, Colorado.
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The Barr Brothers play Static OrphansLearn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices -
This episode was originally released in 2016 in the days after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. It is re-released every year on the anniversary of the incident.
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The Barr Brothers play Static OrphansResavoir plays FacetsWe hear Le mort de l'enfant from Hikaru Hayashi's score to The Naked Island.South Seas by David PikeTrust in Me from Sould FlutesFlowering Jasmine from Gidon KremerTesko Mi Je Zabrovit Tebe from Branko Mataja. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices -
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Two (Duvet and Correspondences) from Laurie Torres' gorgeous album, Après coup.Notes
I implore you to get lost in the interactive map at livingnewdeal.org. And then go out in the woods.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices -
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The Skydiver from the great Lalo Schiffrin's score to the quite poor, The Mask of Sheba.Charlie Megira plays The Girl Who was Frightened of AshtraysEllen's Image from the great Lalo Schiffrin's score to the quite excellent, The Fox.What if... from Keegan Dewitt's score to the quite charming, Heart Beats Loud.Notes
There was a very good article in Cabinet Magazine by Christopher Turner about the Switzer Brothers that includes excerpts from an unpublished autobiography from Bob. I also really enjoyed this one from Liz Stinson about the science and art of Day Glo. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices -
Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm.
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate.
You can hear Rollercoaster and more of Hrishi's music at Hrishikesh.co. Pre-order his new album wherever you do that sort of thing!
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Halcyon and Photosynteses and Embryo by H. TakehashiIntro by Library TapesThe Florist Wears Knee Breeches by M. SageNotes
I found Andrew Isenberg's book, The Destruction of the Bison, An Environmental History, completely fascinating.If you want to do a deep dive on Madison Grant, I'd recommend Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant by John Peter Spiro.If you want to do a deep dive on the Catalina Buffalo, this site is a fun place to start.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices -
Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm.
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate.
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Drywall from Johann Johannson's score to Sicario.Castle Song by Green-HouseTea by ResevoirLa Valse du Progres by Delphine DoraArrival by Domenique DumontSarah in Bath from Kryzystof Komeda's score to Fearless Vampire KillersThread of Light by Golden RetrieverIn Some Spirit World by GeoticNotes
This one was pulled together with tiny threads of information, much provided by the NCRA's website itself. You can find links to three fascinating (really!) studies on the brains of transcribers here, here, & here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices -
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This episode originally dropped in 2018.
We start with Facing the Obstacles, from Robert Simonson's score to The Final Member.Nice Breeze Isn't It? by Simon RackhamThe Things Left Unsaid, by Caleb Burhans.View from a Balcony by Isorinne.1979 by Deru.The Julianna Barwick remix of This Will Destroy You's The Puritan.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices -
Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm.
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate.
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Marisa Anderson plays He is Without His GunsBing & Ruth play Broad Channel (Solo Piano)Greg Haines plays Peter's AdviceNotes
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Unseen Forces by Justin WalterPeperomia Seedling by Green-HouseEbb Tide by Houston & DorseyLittle Miss Echo by Raymond ScottStellify by Francesco AlbaneseChain Home by Rogerson and EnoLuna by DigitonalCaroline Shaw plays The Orangery from Plan & ElevationNotes
The place to start with all of this is here. It'll lead you out to the Bishop Museum's work, the lovely documentary produced by Hawai'ian Public Television, everywhere where you'd want to go.
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With Nate surprisingly sidelined, his friends and fellow Radiotopians at This Day save (This) day.
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In our new series "50 Weeks That Shaped America," we're headed to January 1920 and the first night of Prohibition. Hide your booze! Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss the long road to prohibition, going back decades, and the political forces that led to the ban of alcohol.
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Our team: Jacob Feldman, Researcher/Producer; Khawla Nakua, Transcripts; music by Teen Daze and Blue Dot Sessions; Audrey Mardavich is our Executive Producer at Radiotopia.
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Starting off the year with a new tradition: the first annual Public Domain Theater, in which Nate reads an important work of American literature that entered the public domain on January 1st of a given year. First up, the first Nancy Drew mystery, The Secret of the Old Clock.
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The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. I have recently launched a newsletter. You can subscribe to it at thememorypalacepodcast.substack.com.
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Sincerely Yours by LLLLAcross the Other Side by Infinite ScaleSunset by ResavoirMammoth by Golden BrownUnassigned by Vernon SpringSwimming by Explosions in the SkyPure (Ride the World) by The Brendan Eder EnsembleLe Tunnel by Sylvain ChauveauFloating Away by LullatoneNotes
There's a ton written about Emma Rowena Gatewood but so much of it, including this story, owes a huge debt to Ben Montgomery's book, Grandma Gatewood's Walk, which excavated the story of her life with her husband. Besides that, it is wonderfully written. Totally recommend it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices -
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The Lady With the Golden Stockings from the Sun Ra ArkestraThe Sage from the Chico Hamilton QuintetFalling in Love with a New York Pigeon by BirbBocherini's fourth quintet as performed by the Ensemble of St. Martin of the FieldsFrom a Dream by OregonJaybird from the great Charlie ParrPool of Love by Les BaxterAnd House Tuner Theme from Will Bates' gorgeous score to The Sound of Silence.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices -
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Audio excerpted courtesy of Random House Audio from THE MEMORY PALACE by Nate DiMeo, read by a full cast. Excerpt read by Nate DiMeo, © 2024 Nate DiMeo, ℗ 2024 Penguin Random House, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm.
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate.
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Kara-Lis Coverdale's A480Palimpsest from Will Bate's score to The Sound of SilenceHarriett Smith and Robert Martin Meet in the Rain from Isobel Waller Bridge's score to Emma.The Play from Dan Romer's score to (the terrific) Station Eleven.Cutting Branches from a Temporary Shelter from the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.Sustainable from H. Takahashi.Notes
There's a particularly good article by Colin Dickey about Jacobs and The Crypt in American Scholar. You can read all 1100 pages of Jacobs' autobiography here, if you haven't already.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices -
On Sunday, October 26th, 2025, Nate DiMeo of this here show, The Memory Palace, and his friends and colleagues at his fellow Radiotopia show, This Day, will be holding a good, old-fashioned teach-in in defense of history and museums currently targeted by the Trump Administration. Readings and lectures from sun-up to sundown on the National Mall in Washington D.C.
Learn more here.
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On-ness by Tom Rogerson and Eno.Etude by Joep BevingEbb Tide by Houston & DorseyLearn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices -
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This episode was originally released in October of 2018.
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We start with the very English, Voluntary No. 4 in b-flat Minor, by Margaret Phillips.Hear Nero’s Nocturne from Chilly Gonzales.Some of The Stars vs. Creatures by Colleen.Abide with Me from the Thelonious Monk Septet off his Monk’s Music album.Walzer fur Robert by Anne Muller off of Erased Tapes Volume 5.Evening at Eight by Keith Kenniff.and Berceuse by Alexandra Streliski.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices -
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A couple by C. Diab: Tiny Umbrellas and CrypsisThe beginning of Cats Cradle (Iris) by Hannah EppersonDawning and Wind by Shida ShihabiA couple from Ceeys: Neighbour II and UnionNotes
I really enjoyed reading both Lew Irwin's Deadly Times: the 1910 Bombing of the L.A. Times and America's Forgotten Decade of Terror, and Bread and Hyacinths: the Rise and Fall of Utopian Los Angeles, by Lionel RolfeAs an, at this point, long-time Angeleno, I highly recommend visiting the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices - Show more
