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Latest Episodes

12 - The Nights of Edith Piaf
December 16, 2014

She rose every day at dusk and rehearsed, performed, ate and drank until dawn. Then slept all day, woke up and began to create and unravel again as the sun went down. Nearly every song Edith Piaf sang came from a moment of her life on the streets of Par

11 - Cigar Stories: El Lector—He Who Reads
November 25, 2014

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 early 19th century.

10 - Dissident Kitchens
November 12, 2014

Part 3 of Hidden Kitchens World Trifecta with host Frances McDormand: Hidden Kitchens Russia, stories of the role of the kitchen in the downfall of the Soviet Union.

9 - Atomic Wine
October 29, 2014

Part 2 of the Hidden Kitchens World Trifecta with host Frances McDormand and special guests Werner Herzog, Gael Garcia Bernal and Stories of Atomic Wine and The Romance and Sex Life of the date.

8 - The Pizza Connection
October 13, 2014

Fugitive Waves presents a Hidden Kitchens World Podcast Trifecta with Frances McDormand and The Kitchen Sisters. In this episode Salman Rushdie talks about his Hidden Kitchen. We travel to Sicily for The Pizza Connection—a story of fighting the mafia th

7 - Just Girls: The Hidden World of Patti Smith and Judy Linn
September 02, 2014

Just about anytime we walk out of The Kitchen Sisters office in San Francisco we stop and stare in the windows of City Lights bookstore, soaking in the covers of the new arrivals. Awhile back, we were stopped in our tracks by a book of photographs of Pat

6 - Cry Me A River: A story of three pioneering river activist and the damming of wild rivers in the west
July 31, 2014

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-founder of Friends of the River, Earth Day and International Rivers Network, began as a river guide who ope

5 - The Making of the Homobile: A Story of Transportation, Civil Rights & Glitter (and further stories of making…)
June 24, 2014

In this episode of Fugitive Waves, The Kitchen Sisters ride the nightshift with The Homobile. Homobiles is a non-commercial, volunteer, 24/7 ride service created by Lynnee Breedlove for the "LGBTQRXT and transgender community and others around San Francis

4 - The French Manicure - The Long Shadow of Shirley Temple
May 15, 2014

"I left Vietnam in 1972. I listen the radio when I was in high school. I still in Vietnam at that time. I left with US troops during the Vietnam War. I really love the song, you know, played by Glen Campbell, "Wichita Lineman." And all the song from the B

3 - Eel Pie Island
April 11, 2014

We were in London, searching for hidden kitchens, when we came upon an Eel Pie and Mash shop. These shops are now a dying breed, along with the eels they serve. Our search for the source of these vanishing eels led us to southwest London, to Eel Pie Isl