Nate DiMeo

In this episode of The Memory Palace, the most famous actor in American mounts a comeback after his little brother shoots Abraham Lincoln.

In this episode of The Memory Palace, the passenger pigeon dwindles from five-billion strong in the first quarter of the 19th Century down to one lonely widow in the Cincinnati Zoo in less than a hundred years.

In this episode of The Memory Palace, Guglielmo Marconi, the Father of Radio, dreams of a super-radio that would allow him to hear every sound ever made. Melancholy ensues.

As we near the end of a violent summer of 2014, we look back to the summer of 1964. Late afternoon, New York City: a group of kids hangs out on a stoop after a day of summer school, just kicking it, like they always do.

One hundred years ago, shipboard technicians listening for Morse code messages on their newly installed wireless telegraphs heard something incredible: music.

This hour stories of black lives caught in the cross hairs of injustice.

This hour we look at the ups and downs of confinement.

This week: dreams and dreamers of all kinds - lucid, fictional, public and elusive.

This hour audio air conditioning — we’re turning down the thermostat and ushering in stories that give us the chills.

Can you give us a brief genesis of the Memory Palace podcast?

This hour: We dedicate most of the show to a profile of Mavis Gallant, who at 90, is looking back on an extraordinary life.

This hour: Storied pasts and double lives.

This hour: looking for the intangible. What's lost and what might be found.

This hour: the story (and the story behind the story) of Willie McGee.

This hour, Mother’s Day, in all its beautiful, complicated glory.

This year we honored the best audio work in the following categories: Best Documentary (Gold, Silver, Bronze, Honorable Mention), Directors Choice, Best New Artist, Best News Feature and Radio Impact. Additionally, Ira Glass of This American Life created The Little Mermaid Award to honor beautifully produced work that is out for fun.