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Sep 2023
14m 2s

Episode 207: The Six Triple Eight

NATE DIMEO
About this episode

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.

Music

  • Inception by radio.string.quintet.vienna

  • Julie With by Group Listening

  • Nice Breeze Isn’t It? by friend of the show, Simon Rackham

  • Wet by Taylor Deupree

  • Times Like This II by Jean Kopperud and Stephen Gosling

  • Broad Channel by Bing and Ruth

  • Cradle (with Akira) by ghost and tape

  • Lithosphere by Caoimhin O Raghellagh

  • and by Caoimhin O Raghelagh and Thomas Bartlett

Notes

  • You can find the website I mentioned here; it’s a one-stop shop, really, for information on the 6888t. .
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