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Nate DiMeo

the memory palace

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This episode originally dropped in 2018.

 • We start with 
Facing the Obstacles • , from Robert Simonson's score to The Final Member.

 • 
Nice Breeze Isn't It? • by Simon Rackham

 • 
The Things Left Unsaid • , by Caleb Burhans.

 • 
View from a Balcony • by Isorinne.

 • 
1979 • by Deru.

 • The Julianna Barwick remix of This Will Destroy You's 
The Puritan. • 

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Episode 122: Hercules

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Music

 • Marisa Anderson plays He is Without His Guns

 • Bing & Ruth play Broad Channel (Solo Piano)

 • Greg Haines plays Peter's Advice

Notes

 • You can listen to the full recording 
here. • 

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Episode 241: Stay Gold

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Music

 • Unseen Forces by Justin Walter

 • Peperomia Seedling by Green-House

 • Ebb Tide by Houston & Dorsey

 • Little Miss Echo by Raymond Scott

 • Stellify by Francesco Albanese

 • Chain Home by Rogerson and Eno

 • Luna by Digitonal

 • Caroline Shaw plays The Orangery from Plan & Elevation

Notes

The place to start with all of this is here. It'll lead you out to the Bishop Museum's work, the lovely documentary produced by Hawai'ian Public Television, everywhere where you'd want to go. 

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Episode 240: Islanders

With Nate surprisingly sidelined, his friends and fellow Radiotopians at This Day save (This) day. 

Here's the show description: 

In our new series "50 Weeks That Shaped America," we're headed to January 1920 and the first night of Prohibition. Hide your booze! Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss the long road to prohibition, going back decades, and the political forces that led to the ban of alcohol.

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Our team: Jacob Feldman, Researcher/Producer; Khawla Nakua, Transcripts; music by Teen Daze and Blue Dot Sessions; Audrey Mardavich is our Executive Producer at Radiotopia.

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Pinch hitting!

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Starting off the year with a new tradition: the first annual Public Domain Theater, in which Nate reads an important work of American literature that entered the public domain on January 1st of a given year. First up, the first Nancy Drew mystery, The Secret of the Old Clock. 

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Public Domain Theater 2026

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Music

 • Sincerely Yours by LLLL

 • Across the Other Side by Infinite Scale

 • Sunset by Resavoir

 • Mammoth by Golden Brown

 • Unassigned by Vernon Spring

 • Swimming by Explosions in the Sky

 • Pure (Ride the World) by The Brendan Eder Ensemble

 • Le Tunnel by Sylvain Chauveau

 • Floating Away by Lullatone

Notes

 • There's a ton written about Emma Rowena Gatewood but so much of it, including this story, owes a huge debt to Ben Montgomery's book, 
Grandma Gatewood's Walk, • which excavated the story of her life with her husband. Besides that, it is wonderfully written. Totally recommend it. 

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Nate's Favorite Episode of the Year: Emma and the Trail

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Music

 • The Lady With the Golden Stockings from the Sun Ra Arkestra

 • The Sage from the Chico Hamilton Quintet

 • Falling in Love with a New York Pigeon by Birb

 • Bocherini's fourth quintet as performed by the Ensemble of St. Martin of the Fields

 • From a Dream by Oregon

 • Jaybird from the great Charlie Parr

 • Pool of Love by Les Baxter

 • And House Tuner Theme from Will Bates' gorgeous score to The Sound of Silence.

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Episode 239: Blank Pages

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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. I have recently launched a newsletter. You can subscribe to it at thememorypalacepodcast.substack.com. 

Audio excerpted courtesy of Random House Audio from THE MEMORY PALACE by Nate DiMeo, read by a full cast. Excerpt read by Nate DiMeo, © 2024 Nate DiMeo, ℗ 2024 Penguin Random House, LLC. All rights reserved.

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From The Memory Palace Audiobook: Fine New England Granite

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Music

 • Kara-Lis Coverdale's A480

 • Palimpsest from Will Bate's score to The Sound of Silence

 • Harriett Smith and Robert Martin Meet in the Rain from Isobel Waller Bridge's score to Emma.

 • The Play from Dan Romer's score to (the terrific) Station Eleven.

 • Cutting Branches from a Temporary Shelter from the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.

 • Sustainable from H. Takahashi.

Notes

 • There's a particularly good 
article • by Colin Dickey about Jacobs and The Crypt in American Scholar. 

 • You can read all 1100 pages of Jacobs' autobiography 
here • , if you haven't already.

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Episode 238: The Crypt of Thornwell Jacobs

On Sunday, October 26th, 2025, Nate DiMeo of this here show, The Memory Palace, and his friends and colleagues at his fellow Radiotopia show, This Day, will be holding a good, old-fashioned teach-in in defense of history and museums currently targeted by the Trump Administration. Readings and lectures from sun-up to sundown on the National Mall in Washington D.C. 

Learn more here. 

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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. 

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A Teach-In for History

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This episode was originally released in December of 2016

A note on notes: We’d much rather you just went into each episode of The Memory Palace cold. And just let the story take you where it well. So, we don’t suggest looking into the show notes first.

Music

Starts with Christope Beck and DeadMono’s theme to Charlie Countryman.

Prelude for HS by Hakon Stene.

Tezeta (Nostalgia) from Malatu Astatke, from Ethiopiques vol. 4, one of my favorite pieces of music in the world.

Marian Lapansky plays Camille Saint-Saens “Le Sygne.”

Which fights with Piero Umiliani’s Danza Primitiva.

Warren Ellis rounds it out with his Lale’s Theme from his terrific score to Mustang (which you should totally see).

The Hazel Scott pieces can be found here and here.

Notes

I first heard about Hazel Scott while reading Rad American Women from A to Z to my daughter. It’s a wonderful book. You should buy it for any kid in your life.

I read a lot about Hazel, but Karen Chilton’s biography, Hazel Scott: A Pioneering Jazz Pianist from Cafe Society to HUAC was essential.

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Episode 101: Promise

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