Radiolab

Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of someone halfway across the world. The show is known for innovative sound design, smashing information into music. It is hosted by Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser.

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Terrestrials: Stumpisode

Episode Date: October 4, 2024

As dead as they seem, tree stumps are hubs of life and relationships. Co-host Lulu Miller is back with another season of her hit spinoff show Terrestr...

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Octomom

Episode Date: September 27, 2024

A mile under the ocean, we get to watch an octopus perform a heroic act of heart and determination.First aired back in 2020, this episode follows the...

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Big Little Questions

Episode Date: August 30, 2024

First aired back in 2017, here’s a show of questions and, sometimes, answers. Cause, we get a lot of questions. Like, A LOT of questions. Tiny questio...

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Uneasy as ABC

Episode Date: August 23, 2024

February 1976. A flight out of California turned catastrophic when it crashed into a farm in rural Nebraska. What happened that night at the local hos...

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More Perfect: The Gun Show

Episode Date: August 16, 2024

Given that we’re all gearing up for the Presidential race, and how gun rights and regulations are almost always centerstage during these times. Today,...

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Up in Smoke

Episode Date: August 9, 2024

Two scenes. In the first, a doctor gets a call — the hospital she works at is having an outbreak of unknown origin, in the middle of the worst wildfir...

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Sleep

Episode Date: August 2, 2024

We had a question back in 2007, about a thing every creature on the planet does--from giant humpback whales to teeny fruit flies. Why do we all sleep?...

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Terrestrials: The Trio

Episode Date: July 26, 2024

High above the banks of the Mississippi river, a nest holds the secret life of one of America’s most patriotic creatures. Their story puzzles scientis...

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Lose Lose

Episode Date: July 19, 2024

To celebrate the imminent start of the Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France we have an episode originally reported in 2016. No matter what sport you...

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How to Save a Life

Episode Date: July 12, 2024

We get it… the world feels too bleak and too big for you to make a difference. But there is one thing - one simple tangible thing - you can do to make...

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The Alford Plea

Episode Date: June 28, 2024

In 1995, a tragic fire in Pittsburgh set off a decades-long investigation that sent Greg Brown Jr. to prison. But, after a series of remarkable twists...

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Birdie in the Cage

Episode Date: June 21, 2024

People have been doing the square dance since before the Declaration of Independence. But does that mean it should be THE American folk dance? That qu...

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Aphantasia

Episode Date: June 14, 2024

Close your eyes and imagine a red apple. What do you see? Turns out there’s a whole spectrum of answers to that question and Producer Sindhu Gnanasamb...

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Argentine Invasion

Episode Date: May 31, 2024

From a suburban sidewalk in southern California, Jad and Robert witness the carnage of a gruesome turf war. Though the tiny warriors doing battle cloc...

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Mixtapes to the Moon

Episode Date: May 24, 2024

They promised to change you. They ended up changing all of us. On July 20, 1969 humanity watched as Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon. It was th...

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Lucy

Episode Date: May 17, 2024

Chimps. Bonobos. Humans. We're all great apes, but that doesn’t mean we’re one happy family.This episode, a mashup of content stretching all the way b...

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Selected Shorts

Episode Date: May 10, 2024

A selection of short flights of fact and fancy performed live on stage.Usually we tell true stories at this show, but earlier this spring we were invi...