23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Magazine
'The Memory Palace' Is on The 100 Best Podcasts of All Time
History
We tend to think about history through the lens of major events, notable names, and distinguishable causes and effects. But Memory Palace , created and produced by Nate DiMeo and part of the Radiotopia collective, puts a poetic wrinkle into that framework. The storytelling podcast and occasional radio segment features short, narrative, nonfiction essays and vignettes told in DiMeo's solemn voice and set to soft background music, shedding light on the forgotten moments and people of America's past—the second woman to cross the English Channel, the laborers who built the Brooklyn Bridge, the structures on Coney Island. Since it debuted in 2008, Memory Palace has earned widespread acclaim and drawn steady praise for its time-travel storytelling. In 2016, DiMeo was named a Peabody finalist and, last year, compiled the best stories from his hundreds of episodes into a book.
