About this episode

This episode discusses the theme of babies within a historical context.

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 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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

People in this episode

Host: Nate DiMeo

Topics covered

• history
• babies
• music
• podcasting
• support
• donation

Keywords

• babies
• history
• podcast
• Radiotopia
• PRX
• support
• music

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Radiotopia, PRX, National Park Service

Books & works: In My Heaven, All My Faucets are Fountains Two, Submarine, Plantasia, Music for Pieces of Wood, Me and You and Everyone We Know, 3-Sized PF Notes

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