The Keepers, two new hour-long specials from The Kitchen Sisters and PRX with host, Academy Award-winning actress Frances McDormand. Stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians. Guardians of history, large and small. Protectors of the free flow of information and ideas. Keepers of the culture and the culture and collections they keep. The Hiphop Archive at Harvard, The Pack Horse Librarians of Eastern Kentucky, Lenny Bruce’s Archive, Bob Dylan’s Secret Archive, Prince’s Legendary Vault, The Nation’s Official Keeper at the National Archives. Striking and surprising stories of preservation and civic life. Available soon on PRX. Sound-rich, highly produced, hope-filled. Perfect for the holiday season and turn of the year.
Frances McDormand, the Academy, Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress, hosts The Keepers, two new radio specials from The Kitchen Sisters. McDormand has received two Best Actress Academy Awards for her performances in "Fargo" and "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" and was a producer of the Emmy Award-winning HBO mini-series, Olive Kitteridge for which she received an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress. Frances has appeared in some six Coen Brothers films as well as the films of Wes Anderson, Cameron Crowe, Lisa Cholodenko among others. This is Frances' third collaboration with The Kitchen Sisters.