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Cabinet Of Wonders A variety show with celebrated musicians, writers and comedians hosted by John Wesley Harding.
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Cabinet of Wonders

Cabinet Of Wonders: Episode Five

A feast of words written for song, for print and for laughs on this episode of Cabinet of Wonders. New music, duets, and a stand against the drum machine. Then, novelist Colson Whitehead, on the trauma he survived at the hands of Coca Cola.

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Cabinet of Wonders: Episode Four

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Cabinet of Wonders: Episode Four

John Hodgman, master raconteur, will expand your spiritual horizons, with his compendium of lesser-known geists and ghosts. Then the Cabinet doors open wider with great music, comedy, and a true travel tale... worthy of a bad road-trip movie.

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Cabinet Of Wonders: Episode Three

When the house band features Peter Buck (REM), The Decemberists, and Scott McCaughey (The Minus 5)— you're in for a show. Also on this episode: Nicole Atkins, Ted Leo, Eugene Mirman, and more.

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Cabinet Of Wonders: Episode Two

A feast of music, stories and comedy, featuring Craig Finn, Rosanne Cash, John Darnielle, and Hamilton Leithauser. A reading from Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding and comedian Eugene Mirman on the secret messages he leaves on bar napkins.

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Cabinet Of Wonders: Episode One

John Wesley Harding laments the Starbucks-ization of America, great music from Josh Ritter, Edie Brickell, and Punch Brothers. Then questionable life advice from Sarah Vowell and Eugene Mirman, topped with Haley Tanner's homage to a favorite writer.

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