The Kitchen Sisters Present
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The Kitchen Sisters Present… Stories from the b-side of history. Lost recordings, hidden worlds, people possessed by a sound, a vision, a mission. Deeply layered stories, lush with interviews, field recordings and music. From powerhouse NPR producers The Kitchen Sisters (The Keepers, Hidden Kitchens, The Hidden World of Girls, The Sonic Memorial Project, Lost & Found Sound, and Fugitive Waves). "The Kitchen Sisters have done some of best radio stories ever broadcast" —Ira Glass. The Kitchen Sist...
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Episodes (296)
46 – Stubb Stubblefield: The Archangel of BBQ
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45 – Hidden Kitchen Mama
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44 – Black Chef, White House: African American Cooks in the President’s Kitchen
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43 – Carmen Miranda: The Life and Fate of the Brazilian Bombshell
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42 – Hidden World of Traveller Girls
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41 – A Secret Civil Rights Kitchen: Georgia Gilmore and the Club from Nowhere
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40 – New Orleans—Cowboys, Indians, Broncos & Boudin
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39 – One Big Self: The Hidden World of Deborah Luster & C. D. Wright
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Walkin’ Talkin’ Bill Hawkins
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37 – Bone Music: A Collaboration with 99% Invisible
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36 – Tupperware
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35 – Way To Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake
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34 – The Vietnam Tapes of Michael A. Baronowski
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33 – WHER: 1000 Beautiful Watts—The First All Girl Radio Station in the Nation—P...
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32 – WHER: 1000 Beautiful Watts—The First All Girl Radio Station in the Nation—P...
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31 – Waiting for Joe DiMaggio
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30 – The Building Stewardesses: Construction Guides at the World Trade Center
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29 – King’s Candy: A New Orleans Prison Kitchen Vision
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28 – Wall Street: San Quentin’s Stock Market Wizard
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27 – Braveheart Women’s Society: Coming of Age in South Dakota
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26 – Horses, Unicorns & Dolphins
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25 – Hidden Kitchens Texas with host Willie Nelson
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24 – Route 66: The Mother Road, Part 2
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23 – Route 66: The Mother Road, Part I
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22 – War and Separation: Life on the Homefront During World War II
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21 – The Secret (and Not So Secret) Life of Theresa Sparks
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20 – The Birth of Rice-A-Roni: The San Francisco, Italian, Armenian Treat
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19 – America Eats: A Hidden Archive
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18 – A Man Tapes his Town: The Unrelenting Oral Histories of Eddie McCoy
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17 – Unfinished Business: Ali vs Frazier VI, Daughters of Destiny
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16 – The Green Street Mortuary Band
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15 – Electronic Memories: R.A. Coleman’s Memphis
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14 – Taylor Negron: Portrait of an Artist as an Answering Machine
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13 – Sam Phillips and the Early Years of the Memphis Recording Service: We Recor...
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The Nights of Edith Piaf
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11 – Cigar Stories: El Lector—He Who Reads
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10 – Dissident Kitchens
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9 – Atomic Wine
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The Pizza Connection + Turnspit Dogs
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Just Girls: The Hidden World of Patti Smith and Judy Linn
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6 – Cry Me A River: A story of three pioneering river activists and the damming...
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5 – The Making of the Homobile: A Story of Transportation, Civil Rights & Glitte...
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4 – The French Manicure – The Long Shadow of Shirley Temple
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3 – Eel Pie Island
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2 – Tennessee Williams: The Pennyland Recordings
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1 – The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall and Rise of Thomas Alva Edison
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