The Memory Palace Joins Radiotopia. (June Is A Great Month.)

In The Memory Palace, Nate DiMeo breathes new life into little-known corners of history with his finely crafted, minimalist storytelling. He’s been doing this since before most of you even knew what a podcast was.

Many of us here at PRX and Radiotopia are longtime fans of Nate’s show. Radio Diaries just featured their favorite Memory Palace episode.

So we are especially delighted to welcome The Memory Palace to Radiotopia! Today is the launch of the summer season, with “tales of love, heat, and outdoor adventure, the perfect soundtrack for road trips or the beach.” You can subscribe here.

First Song Exploder, and now The Memory Palace… Here in Radiotopia, we’re calling it the June of our dreams.

Now we are thirteen wonderful, varied, and compelling radio shows, banded together to take our craft even further.

99% Invisible
Theory of Everything
Love + Radio
Criminal
Mortified
Strangers
Fugitive Waves
Radio Diaries
The Truth
The Heart
The Allusionist
Song Exploder
The Memory Palace

PRESS RELEASE
THE MEMORY PALACE, THE PODCAST THAT SPINS LITTLE-KNOWN BITS OF HISTORY INTO AMAZING TALES, JOINS PRX’S RADIOTOPIA

Premieres on Radiotopia on June 22nd with 10-episode season of summer-themed stories,
followed by 3-city live tour to Seattle, Portland, and Los Angeles

Cambridge, MA (June 22, 2015) – The Memory Palace, the popular, long-running podcast featuring bite-sized, gorgeously produced stories about little-known events and people from the corners of history, today becomes the latest series to join Radiotopia, the podcast network from PRX.

The longtime labor of love from Nate DiMeo, the award-winning public radio producer (Marketplace, NPR), Thurber Prize finalist, and television writer (Parks and Recreation, Astronaut Wives Club), The Memory Palace launches with its first-ever themed season – 10 episodes for the summertime—tales of love, heat, and outdoor adventure, the perfect soundtrack for road trips or the beach.

DiMeo will also take his brand of short, surprising stories from the past – sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes hysterical, often a bit of both – on the road, with a brand-new live performance of storytelling, music, and short films, before live audiences in Seattle (The Vera Project, 8/6), Portland (Mississippi Studios, 8/7) and Los Angeles (The Masonic Temple at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 9/11).

The Memory Palace was an early entrant to the podcasting world, launching its first episode in 2008. The show has built a large following among fans of great storytelling, expert sound design, and little-known stories from history. The Memory Palace also appears as a segment on NPR’s Weekend Edition.

The addition of The Memory Palace to Radiotopia caps a string of high-profile acquisitions for Radiotopia, including Song Exploder and The Mortified Podcast. It also comes on the heels of a $1 million investment from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, enabling the network to continue its expansion with new programs that push the boundaries of storytelling. Radiotopia features five shows among the Top 50 most popular podcasts in the country, including flagship program 99% Invisible, The Memory Palace, Criminal, Song Exploder and The Mortified Podcast.

Radiotopia was launched in February 2014 by PRX, the award-winning public media company, and has quickly become the leader in today’s audio storytelling renaissance by helping independent podcast producers develop sustainable business models and find new ways to engage audiences.

“The Memory Palace’s quirky, fascinating, and well-crafted stories are a natural fit for Radiotopia,” said Jake Shapiro, CEO of PRX. “We are thrilled to bring Nate’s work to an even broader audience.”

Another inventive way The Memory Palace will use live events to connect modern listeners to the past is in an unprecedented gallery-based collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the fall of 2015. DiMeo will unveil an episode commissioned by the Museum, accompanied by a live performance of the episode at the Met. Additional details will be announced at a later date.

“The Memory Palace uses artistic elements to bring history to life, giving it a place in people’s busy lives,” said DiMeo. “Our episodes are meant to be played on repeat, because they’re so short – like songs. With our new season, you might be surprised to discover your new summer jam is…a podcast.”

Radiotopia will soon announce the hiring of an executive producer to provide leadership and promote collaboration across and beyond the network. It will also establish a new pilot fund to identify and nurture diverse emerging producers and hosts. PRX has a track record of introducing innovative new programs such as The Moth Radio Hour, Snap Judgment and Michael Ian Black’s How to Be Amazing to millions of listeners across broadcast and digital platforms.

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