Episode 232: Oh, Herbert Morrison

第232集:哦,赫伯特·莫里森

the memory palace

2025-05-16

22 分钟
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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. On June 13th, 2025, I'll do a special, one-night-only live show at the Tribeca Audio Festival in New York City, joined by two of the audiobook's readers: Carrie Coon and Lili Taylor! www.thememorypalace.us/events. 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.  Music Pale by Akira Koresuma The Things Left Unsaid by Caleb Burhans VIII. Juliet by Matthew Bourne Dream House III: After Dust from Mary Ellen Child's beautiful album, Ethel. Here I Am, Two Warships, by Spirituals Notes You can listen to the whole, original recording here, and an enhanced, speed corrected version, here.  One of the best places to learn about Herb's life is this documentary.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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  • Hey,

  • if you are going to be or want to be in the New York City area on June 13th I'm gonna be doing a special live show to close out the Tribeca audio festival me reading stories from the memory palace with animation and slides and music including reading a story that is in my audiobook that only exists in my audiobook that I will only perform once at this very special event and I will also be joined by two of my audiobooks readers the wonderful actresses Carrie Coon and Lily Taylor.

  • Couldn't be more excited about this and hope you will join me.

  • You can find a link to tickets at thememorypalace.us slash event.

  • This is The Memory Palace.

  • I'm Nate Dimaio.

  • It wasn't live.

  • It was never going to be.

  • It could have been live theoretically.

  • It was 1937.

  • Bigger stations at that point could manage the technical and logistical hurdles to broadcast from places other than radio stations.

  • They could do remote broadcasts from an important event, a presidential speech.

  • But this wasn't that.

  • You can hear it in the recording.

  • Hear Herbert Morrison attempting to puff up the significance of the event he was sent to New Jersey to cover.

  • that the Hindenburg made its first regular passenger flight to America,

  • the flight that inaugurated the first air service across the Atlantic.

  • So this occasion is doubly significant.

  • It is the first anniversary of the inauguration of the service and marks the first flight of this year.

  • And so Herb Morrison, a 31-year-old Chicago radio host,