The Kitchen Sisters Present… Stories from the b-side of history. Lost recordings, hidden worlds, people possessed by a sound, a vision, a mission. Deeply layered stories, lush with interviews, field recordings and music. From powerhouse NPR producers The Kitchen Sisters (The Keepers, Hidden Kitchens, The Hidden World of Girls, The Sonic Memorial Project, Lost & Found Sound, and Fugitive Waves). "The Kitchen Sisters have done some of best radio stories ever broadcast" —Ira Glass. The Kitchen Sisters Present is produced in by The Kitchen Sisters (Nikki Silva & Davia Nelson) in collaboration with Nathan Dalton and Brandi Howell and mixed by Jim McKee. A proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Learn more at radiotopia.fm.
The Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, are true broadcasting veterans. Together, they've been creating documentaries and more for over 40 years. The Kitchen Sisters Present podcast is their latest endeavour. Listeners can be sure they won't slow down anytime soon.
Nelson and Silva have a skill for all things history. They enjoy finding the little details in stories that others may overlook. That's how the "sisters" get new and unique insights on their subjects. This combination of smarts and storytelling makes The Kitchen Sisters Present mesmerizing. The hosts dissect another unassuming yet captivating piece of history in each episode. They find new ways to bring the stories to life. In one episode, they discover a blind Sheik who brought in a new era of Egyptian pop music. In another, they unveil the history of the first-ever three-day music festival in Monterey in 1967. They even get into the egg wars of the 1850s.
The hosts met in 1979. At the time, Nelson was producing oral histories for the broadcaster KUSP. Silva was curating history exhibitions. Their famous alias is the Kitchen Sisters. This alias originated from the subjects of one of their first radio productions. Since then, the pair has produced well over 200 stories together. They have also won several awards, including the Peabody Award and three Audie Awards. For The Kitchen Sisters Present, Nelson and Silva received a Webby for Best Documentary Podcast in 2017.
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