All Episodes
The Kitchen Sisters Present — 291 episodes
The Keepers - Archiving the Underground
Cigar Stories: He Who Reads
Quilts as Monuments: Gert McMullin - Mother of the AIDS Quilt
Olivia Wilde: The Invite
Quilts as Monuments: Sew Their Names
100 years of Route 66
The Brave Heart Women’s Society
Come Life, Shaker Life: From the Cradle to the Cradle
Requiem for Larry Massett
Lutah Maria Riggs Designs the American Riviera
Have a Seat, The Casting Director Will See You Shortly – The Legends of Juliet Taylor & Ellen Lewis
Everyone's a Casting Director – The First-Ever Academy Award for Achievement in Casting with Host Frances McDormand
Louis Jones - Activist Archivist, Detroit
Betty Reid Soskin - Sign My Name to Freedom - 1921-2025
The Giving Game: Andrew Carnegie and the Evils of Wealth
Marion Cunningham: Late Bloomer, Agoraphobic, Food Pioneer
Hidden Kitchens World—With Host Frances McDormand
The Keepers—With Host Frances McDormand
Remembering Marcyliena Morgan - Keeper of the Hip Hop Archive at Harvard
The Birth of Rice-A-Roni
Bone Music - A Collaboration with 99% Invisible
Aggie & Walter Murch — Family, Farming & Filmmaking
The Real Ambassadors — A Jazz Opera for Louis Armstrong by Dave & Iola Brubeck
The Women's School of Planning and Architecture: Not Only Survive but Flourish
Kibbe at the Crossroads - Lebanese Immigrants and Cooking in the Mississippi Delta
The Honesty Boxes of Scotland
Hidden Kitchens Texas — Hosted by Willie Nelson
America Eats - 1930s WPA Chronicle of Food, Ritual and Celebration at The Library of Congress
The National Archives – The What and the Why
E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial - The Worst Video Game Ever?
Radio Pacific - A New Show From KALW San Francisco
Plessy AND Ferguson—Activism and the Fight for Justice and Equal Rights
Pie Down Here: Listening Back—Alabama Sharecroppers and Communist Organizers, 1930s
A Tribute to George Foreman: An Unexpected Kitchen—The George Foreman Grill
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston - Revisiting Manzanar
The Tom Luddy Connection: The Man, The Movies, The Rolodex
House/Full of Black Women
Spotlight on Black Pet Care Entrepreneurs
The Anti-Inaugural Concert: Leonard Bernstein, Richard Nixon and the "Plea for Peace" music of 1973 Inauguration
Edna Lewis: Christmas in Freetown
Cecilia Chiang Spills the Tea
Catherine Bauer Wurster, Housing Advocate: A Thoroughly Modern Woman
Beyond Architecture: The Fantasy Worlds of Phyllis Birkby
Constellation Prize: Nightwalking
The Hope and the Scope: Young People and the Political Moment
Tupperware
Manny's: A Civic Gathering Place
Oprah, Kamala, and The New Orleans Four
Burning Man: Archiving the Ephemeral
Henri Langlois and the Cinémathèque Française
Linda Ronstadt Day
Traveling Route 66 — The Mother Road
Laying the Groundwork: Women in American Architecture, Spring 1977
A Floating City Vision - Mirabeau Water Garden, New Orleans
Dissident Kitchens
Eleanor Coppola: Notes on a Life
Cool Hair, Great Smile: Remembering Knox Phillips
The Romance and Sex Life of the Date
Parsi New Year—First Day of Spring
Buildings Speak: Stories of Pioneering Women Architects hosted by Frances McDormand
Black Chef, White House—African American Chefs in the President's Kitchen
The Mardi Gras Indians—Stories from New Orleans
230 - Architecture, Family Style – Sarah Harkness & Jean Fletcher
229 - The Pancake Years - For Lenny on Christmas Eve
Emily Dickinson's Hidden Kitchen—Black Cake
Lou Reed's Tai Chi
226 - Kimchi Diplomacy—Hidden Kitchens: War & Peace and Food
Architect Anna Wagner Keichline: The Legacy of Invention
224 - Make Coffee Black Again
223 - Losing Lincoln
222 - Filmmaker Wim Wenders—The Entire Caboddle
221 - Lena Richard - America's Unknown Celebrity Chef
220 - Archiving the Underground — Hip Hop at Harvard & Cornell
219 - Edith Warner's Atomic Tea Room
218 - Remembering "The Day After Trinity - J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb"
217 - International Congress of Youth Voices—Youth on Fire
216 - Amaza Lee Meredith, African American Architect: Love & Home
215—Prince and the Technician
214 - The Passion of Chris Strachwitz 1931-2023 —Arhoolie Records
213 - Ada Louise Huxtable, Architecture Critic: The Art We Must Live With
212 - Tony Schwartz Centennial- 30,000 Recordings Later
House/Full of Black Women
210-Ray Eames—Industrial Designer & Artist: Beauty in the Everyday
209 - Black Reconstruction in America - W.E.B. Du Bois' 1935 Groundbreaking / Myth-Busting Book
208 - Never a Man Spake Like This Man: The Black Preacher As Performing Artist
207 - The Golden Arches in Black America
206 - Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll - The Stock Market Wizard of San Quentin is Released!
205-Silent Echoes: Sound Artist Bill Fontana —The Bells of Notre Dame
204 - Library of Congress Acquires Kitchen Sisters' Audio Collection - KQED Forum Interview
203 - A San Quentin Wedding
202 — Harvesting Wild Rice—White Earth Ojibwe Land Recovery Project
201- From Nashville to Nairobi: A History of Country Western Music in Kenya
200 - Manny’s: A Civic Gathering Place
Linda Ronstadt: Feels Like Home - A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands
198 - The Real Ambassadors: Dave Brubeck, Iola Brubeck, and Louis Armstrong
197 - What Fire Reveals: Stories from the Amah Mutsun, Big Basin and the Lightning Fires in the Santa Cruz Mountains
196 - Afghan Women Refugees in America (Rebroadcast)
195 - Sheikh Imam: Egypt's Voice of Dissent
194 - From Pinoy to Punk — The Rise of the Mabuhay Gardens
193 - Afghan Women Refugees in America
192 - Monterey Pop Festival Revisited
The Egg Wars and the Farallon Islands
190 - Florence Knoll: Total Design
189 - Hillary and Huma
188 - Fast Food and Radical Rooflines: Helen Fong Shapes Los Angeles Coffee Shops
187 - Norma Sklarek: An Extremely Bold Hand
186 - Coal + Ice: Visualizing the Climate Crisis
185 - Natalie de Blois — To Tell the Truth
184 - The Road Ranger—My Business Is Trouble
183 - That Cheap, Delicious, Rotisserie Chicken
182 - "The porters were fed up." C.L. Dellums and the rise of America's first Black union
181 - The Accidental Archivist—Keeping the Wooster Group
180 - The Great Amish Pandemic Sewing Frolic
179 - The Nights of Edith Piaf
178- Hidden Kitchens - With Host Frances McDormand
177 - The Pardoning of Homer Plessy
176-Arctic Ice, Extreme Weather—Activist Photographer Camille Seaman
175 - Finding Julia Morgan
174 - The Braveheart Grandmothers and Yankton Sioux Coming of Age Ceremony
173 - Betty Reid Soskin, Celebrating the 100th Birthday of the Oldest Park Ranger in America
172 - The Sonic Memorial—The 20th Anniversary of 9/11m], Narrated by Paul Auster
171—What Fire Reveals: Stories from the CZU August Lightning Fires in The Santa Cruz Mountains
170—Route 66—The Mother Road
169—Cry Me A River
169-Gert McMullin—Sewing on the Frontline—From the AIDS Quilt to COVID-19 PPE
168-Soul to Soul at 50 — A Homecoming Festival in Ghana for African American Artists, 1971
166—Danni Washington and The Genius Generation
166-Dave Brubeck & The Ambassadors of Jazz
165—Spotlight on Black-Owned Pet Business Entrepreneurs
164 - Francis Coppola and North Beach Citizens—A Neighborhood Vision
163—Tales from Vietnamese Nail Shops in America
162—The Osaka Ramones: The All-Girl Punk Band - Shonen Knife
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
160—Can Do: Black Visionaries, Seekers, and Entrepreneurs-with Host Alfre Woodard
159 — Nomadland with Frances McDormand
158 — A Plea for Peace: Leonard Bernstein, Richard Nixon, and the Music of the 1973 Inauguration
157 — Chido Govera—The Mushroom Queen of Zimbabwe
156 — The Amish Pandemic Sewing Frolic
155 - Frances McDormand in Nomadland
154 — Hunting & Gathering with Angelo Garro
153 — The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Corporal Michael A. Baronowski
152 — Winona LaDuke—First Born Daughter
151 - Pearl Jam: It's a Rock Band, Not The Smithsonian
150 — Floating City - The Mirabeau Water Garden, New Orleans
149 - The Sonic Memorial—Remembering 9/11 with host Paul Auster
148 - Youth on Fire—The International Congress of Youth Voices
147 - Kamal Mouzawak—A Lebanese Kitchen Vision
146 — French Manicure—Tales from Vietnamese Shops in America
145 - Louis Jones, Field Archivist, Detroit
144 - 95,000 Names—Gert McMullin, Sewing the Frontline
143 - The McDonogh Three—First Day of School
142—From King Henry the VIII to the Rolling Stones on Eel Pie Island
141—Pati Jinich's Mexican Jewish Table
140 -The Climate Underground with Al Gore and Alice Waters
139 - Waiting for Joe DiMaggio
138 - The Keepers - Archive Fever, with host Frances McDormand
137- The Keepers - Archiving the Underground, with Host Frances McDormand
136 - The Lou Reed Archive with Laurie Anderson
135 - Deep Fried Fuel - A Biodiesel Kitchen Vision - Celebrating Over the Road
133 - WHER - 1000 Beautiful Watts, The First All-Girl Radio Station in the Nation
133 - Theaster Gates — Keeping the South Side
132 - The Pancake Years
131 - Night of the Living Intern: First Stories from Kitchen Sisters Interns
130 - Lipstick Traces — Dreaming in Public
129 - Martin Scorsese — Try Anything
128 - First Day of School—1960, New Orleans
127 - Robert Krulwich—Talking Story, The First Third Coast
126 - Lawrence Weschler—Archivist of the Odd, the Marvelous, the Passionate and Slightly Askew
125 - The Passion of Chris Strachwitz—Arhoolie Records
124 - The Brothers Burns — A Conversation with Filmmakers Ken & Ric Burns
123- San Francisco—Stories from the Model City, Part Three
122 - Burning Man — Archiving the Ephemeral
121 - San Francisco—Stories from the Model City, Part Two
120 - San Francisco—Stories from the Model City, Part One
119 - Nancy Pearl—Librarian Action Figure
118 - The Nation's 10th Keeper—David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States
117 - Dieter Kosslick’s Last Red Carpet Ride
The Bob Dylan Archive - A Curveball Comes To Tulsa
115 - You Too Can Barbecue - Stubb's Blues Cookbook Cassette & More
114 - Chamelecon—Below the Border in Honduras with Scott Carrier
113 - Filmmaker Agnés Varda — A Conversation
112 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Celebrating 100 years
111 - Palaces for the People—Author Eric Klinenberg from The Librarian Is In
110 - Filmmaker Wim Wenders - The Entire Caboodle
109 - Linda Spalding - A Reckoning
108 - The Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System
107 - William Ferris—Keeper of Southern Folklife
106 - 21 Collections—Every Object has a Story
Bonus Episode - The Free-Range Archivist: Jason Scott
105 - The Keepers: The Unrelenting Oral Histories of Eddie McCoy
104 - The Keepers: Emily Dickinson's Hidden Kitchen
103 - The Keepers: The Lenny Bruce Collection
100 - The Keepers: Archiving the Underground—The Hip Hop Archive
99 - Lovers of Lost Fans
98 - Lost & Found Sound and Voices of The Dust Bowl
97 - Pan American Blues: The Birth of The Grand Ole Opry & "Harmonica Wizard" Deford Bailey
96 - Cry Me a River — Keepers of the Environment
95 - Give Space A Chance: Gastrodiplomacy in Orbit
94 - Tequila Chamber of Commerce & The Birth of the Frozen Margarita
92 - The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel
91 - Mimi Chakarova: Love, Art and Anger
90 - Jorge Amado: The Ballad of Bahia
89 - Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti — Celebrating 99 Years
88 - Frances McDormand Hosts Hidden Kitchens
87—Guillermo Cabrera Infante: Memories of an Invented City
86 - The Mardi Gras Indians—Stories from New Orleans
House of Night - The Lost Creation Songs of the Mojave People
84 - Levee Stream Live from New Orleans
83 - Chicken Pills - A Hidden World of Girls Story from Jamaica
82 - First Day of School—1960, New Orleans
81 - Sonic Prayer Flags - New Orleans
80 – Thad Vogler: A Short History of Spirits
79 – Pati’s Mexican Jewish Table
78 – The Galveston Hurricane of 1900: No Tongue Can Tell
New Orleans Visions – King’s Candy & Living with Water
Liberace and the Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band
75 – The Making Of a Karaoke Ice Cream Truck and More Stories
74 – What Is It About Men and Meat and Midnight and a Pit?
73 – Basque Sheepherders Ball
72 – Warriors vs Warriors
71 – Hidden Kitchen Gaza: A Palestinian Culinary Journey
70 – The Egg Wars
69 – The Romance and Sex Life of the Date
68 – Tony Schwartz: 30,000 Recordings Later
67 – The Hidden World of Girls with Tina Fey
66 – Sugar in the Milk: A Parsi Hidden Kitchen
65 – Sam Phillips, Sun Records, and the Acoustics of Life
64 – Kimchi Diplomacy: Hidden Kitchens – War and Peace and Food
63 – War and Food and Manga
62 - Black Cake: Emily Dickinson’s Hidden Kitchen
61 – Rattlesden
60 – Milk Cow Blues: The Apple Family Farm and the Indiana Cow Share Association
59 – Weenie Royale: The Impact of the Internment on Japanese American Cooking
58 – The Kiosk Strategy, Lisbon — Hidden Kitchens: War & Peace & Food
57 – War and Peace and Coffee
56 – Operation Hummus and More Stories of War and Peace and Food from Israel and Ramallah
55 – Between Us, Bread and Salt: Lebanon Hidden Kitchens with Kamal Mouzawak
54 — Walking High Steel: Mohawk Ironworkers at the World Trade Towers
53 — Garden Allotments—London’s Kitchen Vision
Hunting & Gathering with Angelo Garro
Harvest on Big Rice Lake
An Unexpected Kitchen: The George Foreman Grill
49 – The Cabyard Kitchen
48 – Kibbe at the Crossroads: Lebanese Cooking in the Mississippi Delta
47 – The Chili Queens of San Antonio
46 – Stubb Stubblefield: The Archangel of BBQ
45 – Hidden Kitchen Mama
44 – Black Chef, White House: African American Cooks in the President’s Kitchen
43 – Carmen Miranda: The Life and Fate of the Brazilian Bombshell
42 – Hidden World of Traveller Girls
41 – A Secret Civil Rights Kitchen: Georgia Gilmore and the Club from Nowhere
40 – New Orleans—Cowboys, Indians, Broncos & Boudin
39 – One Big Self: The Hidden World of Deborah Luster & C. D. Wright
Walkin’ Talkin’ Bill Hawkins
37 – Bone Music: A Collaboration with 99% Invisible
36 – Tupperware
35 – Way To Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake
34 – The Vietnam Tapes of Michael A. Baronowski
33 – WHER: 1000 Beautiful Watts—The First All Girl Radio Station in the Nation—Part 2
32 – WHER: 1000 Beautiful Watts—The First All Girl Radio Station in the Nation—Part 1
31 – Waiting for Joe DiMaggio
30 – The Building Stewardesses: Construction Guides at the World Trade Center
29 – King’s Candy: A New Orleans Prison Kitchen Vision
28 – Wall Street: San Quentin’s Stock Market Wizard
27 – Braveheart Women’s Society: Coming of Age in South Dakota
26 – Horses, Unicorns & Dolphins
25 – Hidden Kitchens Texas with host Willie Nelson
24 – Route 66: The Mother Road, Part 2
23 – Route 66: The Mother Road, Part I
22 – War and Separation: Life on the Homefront During World War II
21 – The Secret (and Not So Secret) Life of Theresa Sparks
20 – The Birth of Rice-A-Roni: The San Francisco, Italian, Armenian Treat
19 – America Eats: A Hidden Archive
18 – A Man Tapes his Town: The Unrelenting Oral Histories of Eddie McCoy
17 – Unfinished Business: Ali vs Frazier VI, Daughters of Destiny
16 – The Green Street Mortuary Band
15 – Electronic Memories: R.A. Coleman’s Memphis
14 – Taylor Negron: Portrait of an Artist as an Answering Machine
13 – Sam Phillips and the Early Years of the Memphis Recording Service: We Record Anything, Anywhere, Anytime
The Nights of Edith Piaf
11 – Cigar Stories: El Lector—He Who Reads
10 – Dissident Kitchens
9 – Atomic Wine
The Pizza Connection + Turnspit Dogs
Just Girls: The Hidden World of Patti Smith and Judy Linn
6 – Cry Me A River: A story of three pioneering river activists and the damming of wild rivers in the west
5 – The Making of the Homobile: A Story of Transportation, Civil Rights & Glitter (and further stories of making…)
4 – The French Manicure – The Long Shadow of Shirley Temple
3 – Eel Pie Island
2 – Tennessee Williams: The Pennyland Recordings
1 – The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall and Rise of Thomas Alva Edison