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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.

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.

Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm.

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.

Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm.

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.

Music

• On-ness by Tom Rogerson and Eno.
• Etude by Joep Beving
• Ebb Tide by Houston & Dorsey