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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The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall of Thomas Alva Edison
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Look around your daily life.  There's a little piece of Thomas Edison almost everywhere.

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, XRAY.fm, KMUZ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Feb 05, 2014
  • Length: 23:26
  • Purchases: 7
Tennessee Williams: The Pennyland Recordings
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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In 1947 Tennessee Williams and his lover Pancho stepped into a recording booth at a penny arcade in New Orleans and create some Fugitive Waves.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, KALW, XRAY.fm, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 28, 2014
  • Length: 21:25
  • Purchases: 5
Fugitive Waves: The Making of the Homobile: A Story of Transportation, Civil Rights & Glitter ( and further stories of making...)
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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In this episode of Fugitive Waves, The Kitchen Sisters ride the nightshift with The Homobile. Homobiles is a non-commercial, volunteer, 24/7 ride ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KZYX, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 24, 2014
  • Length: 21:17
  • Purchases: 5
Fugitive Waves - French Manicure: The Long Shadow of Shirley Temple
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Tales from Vietnamese Manicurist Shops in America: A story of memory and manicuring. Tens of thousands of Vietnamese immigrants work as manicurists...

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 24, 2014
  • Length: 23:04
  • Purchases: 4
Tennessee Williams: The Pennyland Recordings
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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In 1947 Tennessee Williams and his lover Pancho stepped into a recording booth at a penny arcade in New Orleans and recorded 8 cardboard discs. Lo...

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


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 21:16
  • Purchases: 4
Just Girls: The Hidden World of Patti Smith & Judy Linn
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Patti Smith was an aspiring poet, not yet launched into the world of rock and roll. Judy Linn was just beginning her work as a photographer. The tw...

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


  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 13:13
  • Purchases: 6
Cry Me a River
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Fugitive Waves: Episode 6: Cry Me a River: A story of three pioneering river activist and the damming of wild rivers in the west.  Mark Dubois, co-...

Bought by WHFR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZYX, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZYX and more


  • Added: Aug 01, 2014
  • Length: 33:19
  • Purchases: 13
The Green Street Mortuary Band
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote a poem about them. Amy Tan’s mother was serenaded by them as she lay in state. Jessica Mitford’s memorial procession ...

Bought by KWMR, XRAY.fm, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 15:44
  • Purchases: 4
ELECTRONIC MEMORIES: R.A. COLEMAN’S MEMPHIS
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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In the early 1950s, at the same time legendary record producer Sam Phillips was making recordings of the pageants and events happening in Memphis’ ...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Feb 25, 2015
  • Length: 16:56
  • Purchases: 1
Unfinished Business: Ali vs Frazier VI, Daughters of Destiny
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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In 2001, a quarter-century after boxing's celebrated "Thrilla in Manila," Ali and Frazier were once again poised to enter the ring. But this time i...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 10, 2015
  • Length: 25:50
  • Purchases: 2
Cigar Stories: El Lector—He Who Reads
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Narrated by Andy Garcia, the story of the men who read to the cigar rollers as they worked in the cigar factories of Ybor City and Tampa in the ear...

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


  • Added: Mar 13, 2015
  • Length: 26:28
  • Purchases: 6
Sam Phillips and the Early Years of the Memphis Recording Service: We Record Anything, Anywhere, Anytime
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Before Elvis walked through the door, before Sun Studios put Memphis on the map—Sam Phillips, a young man with a tape recorder, lived by the motto,...

Bought by WDCB, Prairie Public, and WABE


  • Added: Mar 13, 2015
  • Length: 31:12
  • Purchases: 3
Taylor Negron: Portrait of an Artist as an Answering Machine
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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A look into the life of Taylor Negron— actor, comedian, and telephone message hoarder— told through the voicemails on his machine. We produced thi...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 13, 2015
  • Length: 19:02
  • Purchases: 1
America Eats: A Hidden Archive
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Potlucks, church picnics, fish fries, family reunions — during the 1930s writers were paid by the government to chronicle local food, eating custom...

Bought by WCNY, KZYX, XRAY.fm, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 17, 2015
  • Length: 18:16
  • Purchases: 5
The Birth of Rice-A-Roni: The San Francisco-Italian-Armenian Treat
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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The worlds of a young Canadian immigrant, an Italian pasta-making family, and a 70-year-old survivor of the Armenian Genocide converge in this stor...

Bought by WCNY and WABE


  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 19:31
  • Purchases: 2
The Secret (and not so Secret) Life of Theresa Sparks
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Theresa Sparks has lived more than one life. Born a guy’s guy, a man’s man, cowboy boots, motorcycles, a stint in the army, married his childhood s...

Bought by XRAY.fm, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 12, 2015
  • Length: 15:06
  • Purchases: 3
WAR AND SEPARATION: LIFE ON THE HOMEFRONT DURING WORLD WAR II
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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For Memorial Day —a portrait of life on the homefront during World War II featuring 4 women’s stories, rare home recorded letters sent overseas to ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, 90.5 WESA, Spokane Public Radio, WFHB, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 24:56
  • Purchases: 16
EEL PIE ISLAND
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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The Kitchen Sisters take us to a little-known, hidden corner of London — to Eel Pie Island, a tiny slice of land in the middle of the Thames. Now a...

Bought by KWMR, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 15, 2015
  • Length: 30:50
  • Purchases: 3
ROUTE 66—THE MOTHER ROAD, PART I
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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The birth of the Main Street of America—songwriter Bobby Troup tells the story of his 1946 hit Get Your Kicks on Route 66; Gladys Cutberth, aka Mr...

Bought by KPIK-LP, XRAY.fm, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 22, 2015
  • Length: 34:05
  • Purchases: 4
Hidden Kitchens Texas with host Willie Nelson
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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Willie Nelson and Dallas-born actress Robin Wright, along with some wild and extraordinary tellers, take us across Texas and share some of their hi...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, KVNF, XRAY.fm, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 17, 2015
  • Length: 26:02
  • Purchases: 4

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