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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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The Vanishing of Harry Pace: Episode 6
Episode Date: July 10, 2021Lift Every Voice. Black Swan Records was first to record the anthem Lift Every Voice and Sing. From a family's Thanksgiving dinner, we portal through...
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The Vanishing of Harry Pace: Episode 5
Episode Date: July 2, 2021Roland Hayes and the Lost Generation. Here’s the extraordinary story of Roland Hayes, another great (and largely forgotten) creator of new cosmologie...
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The Vanishing of Harry Pace: Episode 4
Episode Date: June 29, 2021Our Harlem Moon. In this spin-off tale, Ethel Waters hijacks a degrading song and makes the music her own. The Vanishing of Harry Pace was created an...
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The Vanishing of Harry Pace: Episode 3
Episode Date: June 26, 2021Black No More, White No More. We follow Harry's grandkids and great grandkids as they grapple with his legacy in their own lives. The Vanishing of H...
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The Vanishing of Harry Pace: Episode 2
Episode Date: June 19, 2021Dreams Deferred. The story of the post Black Swan years. We follow Harry’s Supreme Court battle to desegregate the South Side of Chicago, and then th...
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The Vanishing of Harry Pace: Episode 1
Episode Date: June 18, 2021The Rise and Fall of Black Swan. It was Motown before Motown, FUBU before FUBU: Black Swan Records, the record company founded by Harry Pace. The Van...
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The Rhino Hunter
Episode Date: May 28, 2021Back in 2014, Corey Knowlton paid $350,000 for a hunting trip to Namibia to shoot and kill an endangered species. He’s a professional hunter, who gui...
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The Dirty Drug and the Ice Cream Tub
Episode Date: May 21, 2021This episode, a tale of a wonder drug that will make you wonder about way more than just drugs. Doctor-reporter Avir Mitra follows the epic and fant...
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Kleptotherms
Episode Date: May 5, 2021In this episode, we break the thermometer watch the mercury spill out as we discover temperature is far stranger than it seems. Five stories that run...
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The Septendecennial Sing-Along
Episode Date: April 16, 2021Every 17 years, a deafening sex orchestra hits the East Coast -- billions and billions of cicadas crawl out of the ground, sing their hearts out, then...
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What Up Holmes?
Episode Date: April 2, 2021Love it or hate it, the freedom to say obnoxious and subversive things is the quintessence of what makes America America. But our say-almost-anything...
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Escapescape
Episode Date: March 19, 2021As we hit the one year mark since the first U.S. state (California) issued a stay-at-home order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we put out a call t...
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Dispatch 14: Covid Crystal Ball
Episode Date: March 12, 2021Last summer, at a hospital in England, a man in his 70s being treated for complications with cancer tested positive for covid-19. He had lymphoma, and...
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The Ceremony
Episode Date: February 26, 2021In November of 2016, journalist Morgen Peck showed up at her friend Molly Webster's apartment in Brooklyn, told her to take her battery out of her pho...
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Red Herring
Episode Date: February 19, 2021It was the early 80s, the height of the Cold War, when something strange began happening off the coast of Sweden. The navy reported a mysterious sound...