Listen "Episode 221: Ken Allen "
Episode Synopsis
Pre-order The Memory Palace book now, pal. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House.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 and independent media, 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
Pure (Ride the World) by (the extraordinary) Brendan Eder Ensemble
Violette... from Philippe Sarde's score to Violette et Francois
Merry-go-Round and People on Sunday by Domenique Dumont
Dane by Nils Frahm
Two different versions of Debussy's Passepied, the piano one is performed by Seong-Jin Cho, the synth one by Isao Tomita
Love from Matthew Herbert
Memorial Park from Bernard Herrmann's score to Obsession.
Phantom Signals by Tvarvargen
NotesThere's plenty written about Ken Allen, but I particularly appreciated Jason Hribal's book Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
More episodes of the podcast the memory palace
Public Domain Theater 2026
03/01/2026
Episode 239: Blank Pages
06/12/2025
Episode 238: The Crypt of Thornwell Jacobs
06/11/2025
A Teach-In for History
23/10/2025
Episode 237: Vigil
02/10/2025
Episode 133: Antidisestablishmentarianism
19/09/2025
Episode 236: The Times
07/09/2025
ZARZA We are Zarza, the prestigious firm behind major projects in information technology.