Fugitive Waves

Series produced by The Kitchen Sisters

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Fugitive Waves --  Lost recordings and shards of sound, along with new tales of remarkable people from around the world. Stories from the flip side of history.

Today, we join an esteemed and eccentric group of producers in launching "Radiotopia" from PRX.  Radiotopia is a gathering of the best story-driven, creative, cutting-edge radio shows on earth. Shows like 99% Invisible, The Truth, Strangers, Theory of Everything, Love and Radio, Radio Diaries and our new podcast, "Fugitive Waves."  Producers Roman Mars, Jonathan Mitchell, Lea Thau, Benjamin Walker, Joe Richman and The Kitchen Sisters have banded together with PRX to create this new experiment in storytelling.

From Peabody Award-winning producers, The Kitchen Sisters (Hidden Kitchens, Lost & Found Sound, The Hidden World of Girls), this new podcast mines the Sisters deep archive of stories, lost recordings and shards of sound, along with new tales from remarkable people around the world. Stories from the flip side of history.   Hide full description
Today, we join an esteemed and eccentric group of producers in launching "Radiotopia" from PRX.  Radiotopia is a gathering of the best story-driven, creative, cutting-edge radio shows on earth. Shows like 99% Invisible, The Truth, Strangers, Theory of Everything, Love and Radio, Radio Diaries and our new podcast, "Fugitive Waves."  Producers Roman Mars, Jonathan Mitchell, Lea Thau, Benjamin Walker, Joe Richman and The Kitchen Sisters have banded together with PRX to create this new experiment in storytelling.

From Peabody Award-winning producers, The Kitchen Sisters (Hidden Kitchens, Lost & Found Sound, The Hidden World of Girls), this new podcast mines the Sisters deep archive of stories, lost recordings and shards of sound, along with new tales from remarkable people around the... Show full description

57 Pieces

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Spotlight on Black-Owned Pet Businesses
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Inspired by a blackboard sign on the street in Davia’s neighborhood announcing “Spotlight on Black Entrepreneurs,” we enter the creative and growin...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Apr 27, 2021
  • Length: 36:38
  • Purchases: 1
Burning Man — Archiving the Ephemeral
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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A deep dive into the legendary Burning Man Archives. How do you archive an event when one of its driving principles is "leave no trace."

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, RadioFreePalmer, KFAI Minneapolis, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KWMR and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2019
  • Length: 18:58
  • Purchases: 6
WILLIAM FERRIS – KEEPER OF SOUTHERN FOLKLIFE
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Folklorist and Professor Bill Ferris, a Grammy nominee this year for his "Voices of Mississippi" 3 CD Box set, has committed his life to documentin...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jan 09, 2019
  • Length: 32:00
  • Purchases: 3
Prince and the Technician
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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In 1983 Prince hired LA sound technician, Susan Rogers, one of the few women in the industry, to move to Minneapolis and help upgrade his home reco...

Bought by ABC, KFAI Minneapolis, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, PRX Remix, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 23:17
  • Purchases: 5
Sonic Prayer Flags
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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A string of sonic prayer flags — voices and sounds from New Orleans and Bayou Road, the oldest street in the city. Local visionaries, neighborhood ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMUN, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 25, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 5
Basque Sheepherders Ball
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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In the 1930s and 40s, hundreds of Basques were brought to the western United States to do the desolate work that no one else would do—herding sheep...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KWMR, PRX Remix, Boise State Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Oct 11, 2017
  • Length: 21:14
  • Purchases: 6
What Is It About Men and Meat and Midnight and a Pit?
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Barbecue, burgoo, mopping the mutton, the fellowship of stirring. Stories of conflict, competition and resolution in the backyards and fire pits of...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, KZYX, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 11, 2017
  • Length: 35:52
  • Purchases: 4
The Making Of a Karaoke Ice Cream Truck and More Stories
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Stories of creativity and invention— the making of a jar of jam, the making of a fashionable 3-D printed covering for an artificial limb, Muttville...

Bought by KWMR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 11, 2017
  • Length: 23:24
  • Purchases: 3
New Orleans Visions - King's Candy & Living with Water
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Robert King Wilkerson was imprisoned at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola for 31 years, twenty-nine of those years in solitary confinement. Du...

Bought by KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 11, 2017
  • Length: 15:55
  • Purchases: 3
Thad Vogler: A Short History of Spirits
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Thad Vogler, creator of San Francisco's Bar Agricole and Trou Normand, travels the world in search of hand made spirits — rum, scotch, cognac, mesc...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 11, 2017
  • Length: 13:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Galveston Hurricane of 1900: No Tongue Can Tell
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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The Great Galveston Hurricane arrived on a Saturday, September 8, 1900 — almost without warning. Galveston, the grand dame of Texas, a vibrant port...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, KWMR, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 21:09
  • Purchases: 5
Liberace and the Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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In 1967, the Esso Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band performed at the Montreal World's Fair and caught the ear of one of the most popular entertainers of ...

Bought by KZYX, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KWMR


  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 19:30
  • Purchases: 3
Warriors
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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For the last five years The Golden State Warriors have been going inside San Quentin, the legendary maximum security California State prison, to ta...

Bought by KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 12, 2017
  • Length: 11:40
  • Purchases: 3
Tony Schwartz: 30,000 Recordings Later
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Cab drivers, children's jump rope rhymes, folk songs, dialects, controversial TV ads, interviews with blacklisted artists and writers during the Mc...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 23:13
  • Purchases: 2
The Hidden World of Girls with Tina Fey
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Stories from The Hidden World of Girls with host Tina Fey: Nigerian writer Chris Abani tells about his English-born mother enlisting him at age 8 t...

Bought by KWMR and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 25:13
  • Purchases: 2
The Egg Wars
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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A hidden Gold Rush kitchen when food was scarce and men died for eggs... We travel out to the forbidding Farallon Islands, 27 miles outside San Fra...

Bought by KZYX and KALW


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 18:24
  • Purchases: 2
Kimchi Diplomacy
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Kimchi in space. The Kimchi Bus. Korean government-sponsored chefs and restaurants spreading the word of Kimchi around the globe. A story of “Gastr...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZYX, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 21:18
  • Purchases: 5
War and Food and Manga
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Manga, the ubiquitous Japanese comic books written on just about every subject—sports, music, sex, shooting pool—represent about 40% of all books p...

Bought by KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: 23:26
  • Purchases: 3
Carmen Miranda: The Life and Fate of the Brazilian Bombshell
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Carmen Miranda—Brazil's Ambassador of Samba, the highest paid woman entertainer in the world in the 1940s—her iconic turban piled high with fruit, ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, ABC, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KHNS, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 13, 2016
  • Length: 28:47
  • Purchases: 5
Harvest on Big Rice Lake
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Each fall, the Ojibwe tribes of northern Minnesota harvest wild rice by hand. It's a long process that begins with families in canoes venturing int...

Bought by WHFR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 13, 2016
  • Length: 22:00
  • Purchases: 3

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