138 - The Keepers - Archive Fever, with host Frances McDormand

The Kitchen Sisters Present

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The Keepers, from The Kitchen Sisters and PRX with host, Academy Award-winning actress Frances McDormand. Stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians. Guardians of history, large and small. Protectors of the free flow of information and ideas. Keepers of the culture and the culture and collections they keep.

In this hour, Bob Dylan’s Archive, Henri Langlois’ legendary Cinémathéque in Paris, The Keeper of the National Archives, Nancy Pearl: the first librarian action figure, The Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System and stories of Prince’s epic Vault in Minneapolis. All these tales and more.

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0:00.0	Radio Tophia, welcome to the Kitchen Sisters Present.
0:04.0	From PRX.
0:05.0	We're the Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nicki Silva.
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1:05.0	blowing blowing in the wind in 10 minutes, is that right?
1:08.0	You were blowing in the wind in 10 minutes, is that right?
1:11.0	Probably. Prince's epic vault in Minneapolis. A plan was to make a
1:16.5	proper vault in the basement of Paisley Park Studios and we did. That was the
1:22.0	baby fault.
1:23.0	On Rilangwais, legendary cinema tech in Paris.
1:26.0	The philosophy of Longla was to save everything.
1:29.0	The masterpiece, the unknown films, even the fascist films the National Archives and its official
1:36.4	Keeper the first librarian action figure the dark side of the Dewey Decimal
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