The Keepers—With Host Frances McDormand

The Keepers, from The Kitchen Sisters and PRX with host, Academy Award-winning actress Frances McDormand. Stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians. Guardians of history, large and small. Protectors of the free flow of information and ideas. Keepers of the culture and the culture and collections they keep. In this hour Henri Langlois’ legendary Cinémathéque in Paris, The Keeper of the National Archives, Nancy Pearl: the first librarian action figure, The Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System and stories of Prince’s epic vault in Minneapolis and the Lenny Bruce Archive.

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The Keepers—With Host Frances McDormand is an episode from The Kitchen Sisters Present by The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia.

This episode is 55:16 long.

This episode was published on Dec 2, 2025.

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