Hula with Teeth
One Saturday night in the 90s, Patrick Makuakāne and about 15 other hula dancers showed up to a club in San Francisco they called Old Dreamland. "It didn’t feel like taking risks. Because no one was t...
21 Aug 202434min
Nurse BokHee
Nurse BokHee is in the background of every season of "Grey’s Anatomy." She’s become one of the show’s most beloved characters – but she's only had a few lines. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Insta...
7 Aug 202428min
A Day at the Crematory
Gabrielle Gatto works at one of the most famous cemeteries in the country. Recently, she recorded a day in her life for the podcast Finally! A Show, for an episode called “Finally! A Show about a Crem...
24 Juli 202436min
Switched-On
The synthesizer was invented in the 1890s. But for people to really start using it, it took half a century, a musician named Wendy Carlos, and an album called Switched-On Bach. Charlie Harding and Nat...
10 Juli 202437min
To Know the Dark
The night sky is getting brighter almost everywhere in the world. We visit a place that is trying to stay dark. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Pod...
19 Juni 202434min
You Can't Promise to Love Forever
Folk singer Peggy Seeger and her partner, Irene Pyper-Scott, live on different continents. Peggy has written dozens of poems and songs for Irene, and one for the man she spent 33 years with before tha...
5 Juni 202443min
The Most Romantic Place in Philadelphia
McGillin’s Olde Ale House is the oldest bar in Philadelphia, and it also claims to be the most romantic place in the city. The Philadelphia Inquirer says: “McGillin’s has matchmaking magic.” Special t...
15 Maj 202428min
At the Drawing Board
Curtis was one of the first nationally-syndicated comic strips with a mostly-Black cast of characters. Ray Billingsley has been drawing it for newspapers every day for the past 35 years. Say hello on ...
1 Maj 202437min
