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Dec 2023
18m 14s

Episode 210: Smoky and Bill

NATE DIMEO
About this episode

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

Music

  • I Believe in the Night by Keith Kenniff

  • Improvisations sur les folies d’Espagne (extraits) from Marin Marais and Jordi Savall

  • Finally by Lambert

  • Voltige by Marin Lizotte

  • Violin Solo no. 1 by Peter Broderick

  • Fratres fur violin und klavier by Avro Part as played by Ursula Schloch and Marcel Worms

  • Dungen by Henrik Lindstom

Notes

  • There are plenty of places to go to read about Smoky and Bill but why would want to go anywhere else than his book, Yorkie Doodle Dandy?
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