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Episode 250: That One Photograph of Margaret Hamilton
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Music
- Midori by Felbm
- Lisiere by Laurie Torres
- Fields by Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes
- Sound Image by Lynn Avery and Cole Pulice
Notes
- Read MIT's obituary of Margaret here.
- Download your own copy of the photograph to take up an infinitesimal amount of your own storage here.
Episode 249: The Case of The Box
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Music
- A couple from Quincy Jones' score to The Mirage: Turtle's Last Leap and Boobie Baby.
- The Jeweler from Bernard Hermann's score to The Day the Earth Stood Still.
- Topsy from the might Chico Hamilton Quintet.
Episode 125: Snakes!
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This episode was originally released in April of 2018.
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- We hear Ferris Wheel by Gabor Szabo from one of his better late sixties records.
- Herman's Malt from Jeff Russo's score to Fargo Season 2.
- David Goes Hunting from Larry Groupe's score to Straw Dogs.
- Double Portrait by Double Edge from the album, U.S. Choice.
- A snippet of Idea of Order at Kyson Point from an album Brian Eno did with Tom Rogerson.
- Bicycles and Flasks by Dan Romer.
- A bit of Il Tamoure dei Bambini from Piero Umiliani's score to Le Isole Dell'amore
- A Naga Swaram-Snake Charmers Melody from Folk Music of India
- Finishes out on Completely Gone from Ludwig Goransson's score to Everything Everything.
Episode 248: The Last Game
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Music
- Why, Buzzardman, Why? by the great Alabastar DePlume.
- Plantwood (Day) by Lynn Avery and Cole Pulice
- Shut Up World (Extended) from Ben Sollee's gorgeous score to a movie called Maidentrip.
Notes
- I really enjoyed reading Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero by Leigh Montville.
- If you're ever researching old baseball stuff, you want to head over to the site maintained by the fine folks at the Society for Baseball Research. There, you can read about Frank Howard, for instance.
Episode 247: Babies
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Music
- Yes/And plays In My Heaven, All My Faucets are Fountains
- Two from Andrew Hewitt's score to Submarine: Jill Tate and Pamphlet
- Plantasia by Mort Gerson
- Steve Reich's Music for Pieces of Wood as performed by Smoke and Mirrors Percussion Ensemble
- Library Chant from Michael Andrews' wonderful score to Me and You and Everyone We Know
- Takahiro Kido's 3-Sized PF
Notes
- If you want to dive super deep into this topic, there's a fantastic history done by Patrick Feaster for the National Park Service.
Episode 246: Last Standing
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Music
- Migratory Birds by Western Skies Motel
- Artifact 3 by Ryan Teague
- Barcelona by Alex Kozobolis
- Feel First Life by Jon Hopkins
A Song of Myself
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Flashing back a decade to the recording of A Song of Myself Nate did in a hotel room in Phoenix ahead of the 2016 Presidential election.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesEpisode 66: White Heat/White Lights
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This episode was originally produced in July of 2015.
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 the Blues, which you should own.
* The violin piece is Occam II for Violin, a piece by Silvia Tarozzi, played by Pauline Oliveros.
* Next up is Mikuro's Blues from the mighty David S. Ware' mighty Go See the World.
* The amazing orchestral pieces is Triumph by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Carlos Nino from Fill the Heart- Shaped Cup
* Finally, there's 13 Ghosts II by Nine Inch Nails from Ghosts I-IV
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesRush, Hall, Bartlett, and Thornton
This is a special episode commissioned by Aspen Ideas: Health and originally performed at the 2026 festival in Aspen, Colorado. Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com …
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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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Music
- The Barr Brothers play Static Orphans
A White Horse
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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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Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesEpisode 245: The Self-Believer, or Hasting by Musket and Sextant
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Music
- The Barr Brothers play Static Orphans
- Resavoir plays Facets
- We hear Le mort de l'enfant from Hikaru Hayashi's score to The Naked Island.
- South Seas by David Pike
- Trust in Me from Sould Flutes
- Flowering Jasmine from Gidon Kremer
- Tesko Mi Je Zabrovit Tebe from Branko Mataja.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesEpisode 244: Pathways
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Music
- 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.
Episode 243: The Brothers Switzer
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Music
- 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 Ashtrays
- Ellen'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.
A Story and a Song (A Memory Palace/Song Exploder Crossover Event)
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Music
- Halcyon and Photosynteses and Embryo by H. Takehashi
- Intro by Library Tapes
- The Florist Wears Knee Breeches by M. Sage
Notes
- 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.
Episode 242: The Handwriter
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Music
- Drywall from Johann Johannson's score to Sicario.
- Castle Song by Green-House
- Tea by Resevoir
- La Valse du Progres by Delphine Dora
- Arrival by Domenique Dumont
- Sarah in Bath from Kryzystof Komeda's score to Fearless Vampire Killers
- Thread of Light by Golden Retriever
- In Some Spirit World by Geotic
Notes
- 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.
Episode 122: Hercules
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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 Rackham
- The 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.
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Music
- Marisa Anderson plays He is Without His Guns
- Bing & Ruth play Broad Channel (Solo Piano)
- Greg Haines plays Peter's Advice
Notes
- You can listen to the full recording here.
Episode 240: Islanders
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Music
- Unseen Forces by Justin Walter
- Peperomia Seedling by Green-House
- Ebb Tide by Houston & Dorsey
- Little Miss Echo by Raymond Scott
- Stellify by Francesco Albanese
- Chain Home by Rogerson and Eno
- Luna by Digitonal
- Caroline Shaw plays The Orangery from Plan & Elevation
Notes
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. Here's the show description: In our new series "50 Weeks That Shaped America," we're headed to January 1920 and …
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With Nate surprisingly sidelined, his friends and fellow Radiotopians at This Day save (This) day.
Here's the show description:
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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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.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesNate's Favorite Episode of the Year: Emma and the Trail
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Music
- Sincerely Yours by LLLL
- Across the Other Side by Infinite Scale
- Sunset by Resavoir
- Mammoth by Golden Brown
- Unassigned by Vernon Spring
- Swimming by Explosions in the Sky
- Pure (Ride the World) by The Brendan Eder Ensemble
- Le Tunnel by Sylvain Chauveau
- Floating Away by Lullatone
Notes
- 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.
Episode 239: Blank Pages
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Music
- The Lady With the Golden Stockings from the Sun Ra Arkestra
- The Sage from the Chico Hamilton Quintet
- Falling in Love with a New York Pigeon by Birb
- Bocherini's fourth quintet as performed by the Ensemble of St. Martin of the Fields
- From a Dream by Oregon
- Jaybird from the great Charlie Parr
- Pool of Love by Les Baxter
- And House Tuner Theme from Will Bates' gorgeous score to The Sound of Silence.
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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.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesEpisode 238: The Crypt of Thornwell Jacobs
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Music
- Kara-Lis Coverdale's A480
- Palimpsest from Will Bate's score to The Sound of Silence
- Harriett 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.
A Teach-In for History
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 …
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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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Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesEpisode 237: Vigil
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Music
- On-ness by Tom Rogerson and Eno.
- Etude by Joep Beving
- Ebb Tide by Houston & Dorsey
Episode 133: Antidisestablishmentarianism
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This episode was originally released in October of 2018.
Music
- 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.
Episode 236: The Times
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Notas do episódio
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.
Music
- A couple by C. Diab: Tiny Umbrellas and Crypsis
- The beginning of Cats Cradle (Iris) by Hannah Epperson
- Dawning and Wind by Shida Shihabi
- A couple from Ceeys: Neighbour II and Union
Notes
- 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 Rolfe
- As an, at this point, long-time Angeleno, I highly recommend visiting the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Summer Reading: Two Transcendent Poems About Public Transportation
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 …
Notas do episódio
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.
While Nate takes a little summer break, he reads you two poems.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesEpisode 235: The Girls, their Teachers, their Parents
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 …
Notas do episódio
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.
Music
- Joy, by Jeffrey Cantu-Ledesma
- The Cradle by Frederico Albanese
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