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Episode 141: This Story Climbed Mount Washington May 03, 2019

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The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts.

Music

We start off with a touch of Hills in the Rain, by Simon Rackham.
Go to a bit of Narkopop 1 by Gas.
Then gaze in wonder to Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite: Sunrise, as performed by the Cincinatti Pops Orchestra
We listen to two versions of Trying Something Again, Again by our friends in Lullatone.
And go out on Jaybird, by Charlie Parr

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Rebroadcast: Origin Stories Apr 20, 2019

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Episode 140: Jackie Mitchell Apr 09, 2019

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Music

We start off with Chez Thomas, by Charles Delarue
Go to The Graceful Ghost, one of William Bolcom's 3 Ghost Rags.
Then Krzysztof Komeda's Ballet Edude II
A touch of Ellington playing A Single Petal on a Rose.
Then Concerto no. 5 en la minuer: Allegro ma non molto, as performed by Wilhelm Friedeman Bach and Brigitte Haudbebourg frames...
Philharmonics - Piano Sessions found on the Deluxe Edition of Agnes Obel's Philharmonics album.
Then we go to Nathaniel Johnson's gorgeous, Penelope's Theme from the score to the delightful film, The Brothers Bloom.
Sneeuwland by Oskar Schuster.
Judith by Jacob David.

Notes

I read a bunch of articles on Jackie, but if you're looking for one-stop-shopping that can send you off in other research avenues, I'd probably suggest this article by Zack Harold in Lapham's Quarterly.

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Episode 139: 1,347 Birds Mar 23, 2019

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Music

First up is Requiem from Nico Muhly's score to How to Talk to Girls at Parties.
November by Colleen.
Edward Hong's arrangement of Sleep from the Smoke and Mirrors Percussion Ensemble.
The solo version of Broad Channel by Bing & Ruth
Won't Be a Thing to Become by Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld

Notes

Here's Shane Dubay and Carl Fuldner's study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, including Fuldner's remarkable photographs.

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Episode 138: Sixty Starlings Mar 09, 2019

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Music

Blink from Hiroshi Yoshimura
Which comes in and out of Bjolukor Tonlisterakoli Reykjanesbaejar's version of Sigur Ros' Hoppipolla.
Love Token by Elena Kats-Chernin, performed by Tamara Anna Cislowska
And Joanna Brouk playing Maggi's Flute - Lifting Off

Notes

There's
a ton out there about the sixty starlings, the most comprehensive comes
from Stephen Marche's book, How Shakespeare Changed Everything.
I also found Kim Todd's [Tinkering with Eden,](http://%22Tinkering%20With%20Eden:%20A%20Natural%20History%20of%20Exotic%20Species%20in%20America) particularly useful.

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A Memory Palace/Radio Diaries Crossover Event Feb 20, 2019

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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 to a Memory Palace episode that took place on that same evening, in which some Nazis get punched.

Learn more about this evening at www.radiodiaries.org.

For info on the original Memory Palace episode, head here.

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Episode 137: Swans Feb 07, 2019

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Music

Sarah in Bath from Krysztof Komeda's score to the Fearless Vampire Killers.
Adagio for Glass Harmonica, K617a as performed by Vienna Glass Armonia Duo.
Mr. Death Angel Flanders from John Barry's score to Boom!
And a bit of Imaginary Building from Elana Katz-Cherwin and Tamara-Anna Cislowska

Notes

There's a great American Heritage article on the history of Delmonico's.
There's a nice write up on the Swan Dinner in American Phoenix: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, by Sarah S. Kilborne
Society as I Have Found It, Ward McAllister's memoir of the Gilded Age is appropriately bonkers.

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Episode 136 (Ten Fingers, Ten Toes) Jan 17, 2019

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The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia.

Music

Only in the Dark by Ben Lukas Boysen
Dream House III: After Dust by Mary Ellen Childs and Ethel
Cello Gonzalez by Chilly Gonzalez

Notes

A Brief History of Teratology to the Early 20th Century by Mark V. Barrow
Environment and Birth Defects by James G. Wilson
Six Principals of Teratology by James G. Wilson

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Nate's Episode of the Year for 2018 Dec 18, 2018

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Each year for the last three years, Nate picks his personal favorite. Here’s 2018. See you in 2019.

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Episode 135: Revolutions Dec 05, 2018

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Music

We start off with an absolute banger from my old friends in Lightning Bolt, their track King Kandy.
Then an old favorite, Blues to Elvin from the unstoppable, Coltrane Plays the Blues.
We move to Everything is an Illusion by Kaada
Hear Rolling by Collectress
And finish out on The Dog by Group Listening.

Notes

I read quite a bit for this one but nothing was more helpful (or more charming) than Save Womens Lives History of Washing Machines by Lee Maxwell, who bills himself on the cover as "Collector of Old and Unusual Washing Machines." God bless Lee and his patient wife.

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