The Kitchen Sisters Present

The Kitchen Sisters Present


Latest Episodes

220 - Archiving the Underground — Hip Hop at Harvard & Cornell
August 15, 2023

In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop we visit the Hip Hop Archive and Research Center at Harvard and Hip Hop Collection at Cornell University

219 - Edith Warner's Atomic Tea Room
August 01, 2023

A little known hidden kitchen in the desert mountains of Los Alamos where Edith Warner and her Tea Room provided respite for the men and women creating the world's first weapons of mass destruction.

218 - Remembering "The Day After Trinity - J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb"
July 18, 2023

In a rare 1981 interview, filmmaker Jon Else talks with The Kitchen Sisters about the making of his Academy Award nominated documentary about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the making of the atomic bomb.

217 - International Congress of Youth Voices—Youth on Fire
July 04, 2023

Young people from around the globe gather together at the International Congress of Youth Voices to share ideas and change the world.

216 - Amaza Lee Meredith, African American Architect: Love & Home
June 20, 2023

Amaza Lee Meredith designed a subdivision and vacation destination for African Americans in Sag Harbor in 1947. She lived with her life-long partner, in an openly gay relationship, in the house she de

215—Prince and the Technician
June 06, 2023

The story of Prince and his sound technician, Susan Rogers, who engineered some of his best known works in the early 1980s including Purple Rain and Sign o' the Times.

214 - The Passion of Chris Strachwitz 1931-2023 —Arhoolie Records
May 16, 2023

A tribute to Chris Strachwitzfounder of Arhoolie Records, producer, ethnomusicologist, song catcher who passed on May 5, 2003.

213 - Ada Louise Huxtable, Architecture Critic: The Art We Must Live With
May 02, 2023

Ada Louise Huxtable, architectural critic for the New York Times and later the Wall Street Journal, set out to separate the dull from the great. A few architects tried to argue with her. They never wo

212 - Tony Schwartz Centennial- 30,000 Recordings Later
April 18, 2023

In celebration of the life and work of Tony Schwartz, one of the great audio pioneers, sound recordists and collectors of the 20th Century.

211 - House/Full of Black Women
March 28, 2023

Performances, pop-up processions, rituals, all-night song circles, in the storefronts, galleries, warehouses, and streets of Oakland. For almost a decade House/Full of Black Women have been creatively