Signal Hill — Push Up Contest
Producer Zoe Kurland's father, costume designer Jeffrey Kurland, talks about designing the iconic push up bra for actress Julia Roberts for...
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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, l...
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20 of 297 episodesThe Sonic Memorial - 25th Anniversary of 9/11
To mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11, we present the Peabody Award winning Sonic Memorial Project with a post script recorded on the 10th An...
The Tom Luddy Connection: The Man, The Movies, The Rolodex
Tom Luddy was a quiet titan of cinema. He presided over the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley for some 10 years, co-founded and directed the...
The Keepers - Archiving the Underground
The Hip Hop Archive at Harvard, the Pack Horse Librarians of Eastern Kentucky, the Lenny Bruce Archive, the Internet Archive and more surpri...
Cigar Stories: He Who Reads
Narrated by Andy Garcia. At the turn of the century until the 1930s in the cigar factories of Tampa and Ybor City, a well dressed man in a p...
Quilts as Monuments: Gert McMullin - Mother of the AIDS Quilt
As part of our Quilts as Monuments series we revisit the story of Gert McMullin and the AIDS Memorial Quilt, the gay rights movement in San...
Olivia Wilde: The Invite
Olivia Wilde. Actor. Director. Producer. Olivia comes from a long line of journalists, a British father and an American mother, who have mad...
Quilts as Monuments: Sew Their Names
Perhaps it was the AIDS Quilt that redefined what a monument could look like and who could create it. Or maybe it was the quilters of Gee's...
100 years of Route 66
John Steinbeck called it “The Mother Road.” Songwriter Bobby Troup said it was where to go to get your kicks. Mickey Mantle swore, “If it ha...
The Brave Heart Women’s Society
Today we’re celebrating Faith Spotted Eagle, an Ihanktonwan Oyate elder who has just received an honorary doctorate from South Dakota State...
Come Life, Shaker Life: From the Cradle to the Cradle
The Shakers. An offshoot sect of The Quakers, born in England in 1747. In worship they were known to break into states of ecstatic trembling...
Requiem for Larry Massett
Pioneering radio artist Larry Massett, a producer's producer, who led listeners into unexpected worlds and influenced so many in public radi...
Lutah Maria Riggs Designs the American Riviera
Stucco arches, red tile floors, exposed beams — the look and feel of the houses in the oceanfront towns of Santa Barbara and Montecito can b...
Have a Seat, The Casting Director Will See You Shortly – The Legends of Juliet Taylor & Ellen Lewis
On Sunday the first Oscar for Achievement in Casting will be given in the 98-year history of the Academy Awards. Today, The Kitchen Sisters...
Everyone's a Casting Director – The First-Ever Academy Award for Achievement in Casting with Host Frances McDormand
Who discovered Diane Keaton and put her in Annie Hall? Who found Dustin Hoffman and made sure he played Ratso Rizzo in Midnight Cowboy? Who...
Louis Jones - Activist Archivist, Detroit
Louis Jones is a keeper— working as a Field Archivist at the Reuther Library at Wayne State University in Detroit, he cares for the largest...
Betty Reid Soskin - Sign My Name to Freedom - 1921-2025
On December 21, 2025, activist and trailblazer Betty Reid Soskin passed away in Richmond, California. She was 104. Over the years we've chro...
The Giving Game: Andrew Carnegie and the Evils of Wealth
The Gilded Age was a time of unparalleled wealth and prosperity in America—but it was also a time of staggering inequality, corruption, and...
Marion Cunningham: Late Bloomer, Agoraphobic, Food Pioneer
They don't make 'em like Marion Cunningham these days. Food writer, home cook, Fannie Farmer's new incarnation, James Beard’s sidekick, wiza...
Hidden Kitchens World—With Host Frances McDormand
Host Frances McDormand leads us through this rich international story collection of land, community and food. From the organic olive groves...