the memory palace

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November 05Episode 250: That One Photograph of Margaret Hamilton
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Music
Midori by Felbm
Lisiere by Laurie Torres
Fields by Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes
Sound Image by Lynn Avery and Cole Pulice
Notes
Read MIT's obituary of Margaret here.
Download your own copy of the photograph to take up an infinitesimal amount of your own storage here.
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11 min
October 15Episode 249: The Case of The Box
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Music
A couple from Quincy Jones' score to The Mirage: Turtle's Last Leap and Boobie Baby.
The Jeweler from Bernard Hermann's score to The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Topsy from the might Chico Hamilton Quintet.
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11 min
October 01Episode 125: Snakes!
This episode was originally released in April of 2018.

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Music
We hear Ferris Wheel by Gabor Szabo from one of his better late sixties records.
Herman's Malt from Jeff Russo's score to Fargo Season 2.
David Goes Hunting from Larry Groupe's score to Straw Dogs.
Double Portrait by Double Edge from the album, U.S. Choice.
A snippet of Idea of Order at Kyson Point from an album Brian Eno did with Tom Rogerson.
Bicycles and Flasks by Dan Romer.
A bit of Il Tamoure dei Bambini from Piero Umiliani's score to Le Isole Dell'amore
A Naga Swaram-Snake Charmers Melody from Folk Music of India
Finishes out on Completely Gone from Ludwig Goransson's score to Everything Everything.
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16 min
September 17Episode 248: The Last Game
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Music
Why, Buzzardman, Why? by the great Alabastar DePlume.
Plantwood (Day) by Lynn Avery and Cole Pulice
Shut Up World (Extended) from Ben Sollee's gorgeous score to a movie called Maidentrip.
Notes
I really enjoyed reading Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero by Leigh Montville.
If you're ever researching old baseball stuff, you want to head over to the site maintained by the fine folks at the Society for Baseball Research. There, you can read about Frank Howard, for instance.
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18 min
September 03Episode 247: Babies
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Music
Yes/And plays In My Heaven, All My Faucets are Fountains
Two from Andrew Hewitt's score to Submarine: Jill Tate and Pamphlet
Plantasia by Mort Gerson
Steve Reich's Music for Pieces of Wood as performed by Smoke and Mirrors Percussion Ensemble
Library Chant from Michael Andrews' wonderful score to Me and You and Everyone We Know
Takahiro Kido's 3-Sized PF
Notes
If you want to dive super deep into this topic, there's a fantastic history done by Patrick Feaster for the National Park Service.
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17 min
August 20Episode 246: Last Standing
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Music
Migratory Birds by Western Skies Motel
Artifact 3 by Ryan Teague
Barcelona by Alex Kozobolis
Feel First Life by Jon Hopkins

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17 min
August 07 A Song of Myself
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Flashing back a decade to the recording of A Song of Myself Nate did in a hotel room in Phoenix ahead of the 2016 Presidential election.
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1 hr 41 min
July 22 Episode 66: White Heat/White Lights
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This episode was originally produced in July of 2015.
Music

* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.
* The opening loop is from Mr. Knight from Coltrane Plays the Blues, which you should own.
* The violin piece is Occam II for Violin, a piece by Silvia Tarozzi, played by Pauline Oliveros.
* Next up is Mikuro's Blues from the mighty David S. Ware' mighty Go See the World.
* The amazing orchestral pieces is Triumph by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Carlos Nino from Fill the Heart- Shaped Cup
* Finally, there's 13 Ghosts II by Nine Inch Nails from Ghosts I-IV
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11 min
July 02Rush, Hall, Bartlett, and Thornton
This is a special episode commissioned by Aspen Ideas: Health and originally performed at the 2026 festival in Aspen, Colorado.
Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm.
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate.
Music
The Barr Brothers play Static Orphans
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22 min
June 12 A White Horse
This episode was originally released in 2016 in the days after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. It is re-released every year on the anniversary of the incident.

Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm.
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate.
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14 min