Aggie & Walter Murch — Family, Farming & Filmmaking
Muriel "Aggie" Murch and her husband, Academy Award winning film editor and sound designer Walter Murch, have lived on Blackberry Farm in Bolinas for some five decades, along with their children, chickens, and horses. The two just celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.
They both have newly pu...
Remembering Marcyliena Morgan - Keeper of the Hip Hop Archive at Harvard
Today, we're thinking about Marcyliena Morgan, a keeper extraordinaire, a linguistic anthropologist who founded and championed the Hip Hop Archive at Harvard.
Marcyliena Hazel Morgan was born in Chicago, May 8, 1950 and passed away September 28, 2025. We were fortunate to interview her in 2018 a...
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 and vineyards being grown on confiscated Mafia land in Sicily, to secret night clubs embedded in Soviet dissident kitchens. From tales of "cooking dogs" in M...
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 saw Jason Schwartzman and made sure Wes Anderson knew about him for Rushmore? Casting Directors, that’s who. When the 98th Oscar ceremony airs on March 15, t...
Lost and Found
On today's episode: Home recordings, people recording their friends, neighbors, and strangers — for a look at how we live, and who we are, by listening closely. Featuring a 5-year-old Sofia Coppola, and Patti Smith before she recorded her first album. Lost & Found Sound is the work of Nikki Silva...
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. Trembling Quakers. Shaking Quakers. The Shakers. They came to America in 1774 with a utopian vision, egalitarian ideals, a belief in the equality of the se...
10. Davia Nelson (The Kitchen Sisters)
Davia Nelson is half of The Kitchen Sisters, along with Nikki Silva.They have been producing radio stories since the late 1970s. They are the producers of two Peabody Award-winning NPR series, Lost & Found Sound and The Sonic Memorial Project, as well as the series Hidden Kitchens on NPR's Mornin...
Episode 42: Sew Their Names
The Kitchen Sisters, together with The Jule Museum, present "Quilts as Monuments: Sew Their Names" an episode to document the story behind our 2026 exhibition "Sew Their Names: Quilting, Creativity and Activism" at The Jule Museum.
Presented as part of The Jule’s year of exhibitions celebrating t...
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 panama hat with a loud and beautiful voice sat atop a platform and read to the cigar workers as they rolled. These readers, known as Lectores de Tabaqueres, r...
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 surprising stories of preservation and civic life.
With host, Academy Award-winning actress, Frances McDormand.
The Kitchen Sisters Present Archiving the Undergr...
