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0101Famous Tumours2017060420190602 (BBC7)Co-presenters Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich take an unflinching look at the good, bad, and ugly side of tumours.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich take a look at the good, bad and ugly side of tumours.

0102Words2017061120190526 (BBC7)
It's almost impossible to imagine a world without words. Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich explore the possibility.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich explore a world without words.

0103Falling2017061820190609 (BBC7)There are so many ways to fall - in love, asleep, even flat on your face. Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich explore beyond the fall.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

0104Talking To Machines2017062520190616 (BBC7)Chatbots, robot therapists, robots that learn and an electronic robotic toy. Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich talk to machines.

~Radiolab is a Peabody award-winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

0105After Life2017070220190623 (BBC7)
~Radiolab stares down the very moment of passing, and speculates about what may lie beyond. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

0106Defying Odds2017070920190630/4) (BBC7)~Radiolab with stories of foolhardy flipping and derring-dos. Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich explore the world of risk-taking.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

0107Wild Things2017071620190707 (BBC7)~Radiolab asks: What does conservation really mean in the 21st century? With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

0108Bliss2017072320190714 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores why people chase moments of total, world-shaking bliss. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

0201The Good Show2017092420191006 (BBC7)
~Radiolab asks is 'survival of the fittest' compatible with animals helping each other out? With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

0202The Bad Show2017100120190922 (BBC7)~Radiolab wrestles with the dark side of human nature. Can we ever understand or escape it? With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

0203To See Or Not To See2017100820190929 (BBC7)~Radiolab asks should the last moments of life be captured, seen, and shared? With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

~Radiolab asks if the last moments of life should be captured, seen and shared?

0204Emergence2017101520190915/4) (BBC7)~Radiolab asks what happens in life when there is no leader? With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

0205Placebo2017102220191013 (BBC7)
~Radiolab examines the chemical consequences of belief and imagination. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2007.

0206Black Box2017102920191020 (BBC7)~Radiolab examines three very different kinds of black boxes - spaces for strange creation. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2014.

0207Patient Zero2017110520191027/4) (BBC7)~Radiolab explores how you find out who Patient Zero is - the heart of any kind of outbreak. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody Award-winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

0208Lost And Found2017111220191103 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores stories of getting lost - how do our brains and hearts help us get home? With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody Award-winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

~Radiolab asks: 'How do our brains and hearts help us get home?

0301Stress20180401~Radiolab takes a long hard look at the body's system for getting out of trouble: stress. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

~Radiolab takes a long hard look at the body's system for getting out of trouble.

0302Games20180408~Radiolab asks what is it about sports games that make them feel so pivotal? With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

What is it about sports games that makes them feel so pivotal?

0303Birthstory20180415~Radiolab explores a story featuring a sperm and an egg, two wombs and four countries. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

0304Colours2018042220200412 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores why something so intangible as colour can pack such a visceral punch? With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody Award-winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

~Radiolab explores why something so intangible as colour can pack such a visceral punch.

0305Blame2018042920200419 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores blame - why do we need it and can we push pass it to forgiveness? With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

~Radiolab explores blame - why do we need it, and can we push past it to forgiveness?

0306Ghost Stories2018050620200426 (BBC7)~Radiolab hears from people try to pin down, and make peace with, mysterious figures that haunt them. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

People trying to pin down, and make peace with, the mysterious figures that haunt them.

0307Things2018051320200503 (BBC7)~Radiolab investigates the objects, their power to move us and our desire to acquire. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

~Radiolab investigates objects, their power to move us and our desire to acquire them.

0308Saving Animals2018052020200510 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores what it means to be special when it comes to saving a particular animal. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

0309Nukes2018052720200517 (BBC7)~Radiolab investigates what it actually means to be ordered to launch a nuclear attack? With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2017.

What it actually means to be ordered to launch a nuclear attack.

0310Oliver Sipple2018060320200524 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores the impact on one man's life when he saved the life of President Ford. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

~Radiolab explores the impact on one man's life after he saved the life of President Ford.

0401Memory And Forgetting2018081920200802 (BBC7)~Radiolab look behind the curtain of how memories are made...and forgotten. With Jad Abumrad, Robert Krulwich and neurologist, Oliver Sacks.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA. in 2007.

~Radiolab looks behind the curtain of how memories are made... and forgotten.

0402Cities2018082620200726 (BBC7)~Radiolab asks what makes cities tick? Can you measure a city's personality? With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2010.

0403Apocalyptical2018090220200809 (BBC7)~Radiolab turns its gaze to the topic of endings, both blazingly fast and agonisingly slow. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2013.

0404Guts2018090920200823 (BBC7)~Radiolab dives into the messy mystery in the middle of us. What's going on down there? With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

0405Buried Bodies2018091620200830 (BBC7)~Radiolab asks how far lawyers should go to provide the best defence to the worst people?

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2016.

~Radiolab asks how far lawyers should go to provide the best defence to the worst people.

0406Hello2018092320200906 (BBC7)~Radiolab tries to make contact with some of the strangest strangers on Earth: dolphins. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

~Radiolab tries to make contact with some of the strangest strangers on Earth - dolphins.

0407Deception2018093020200913 (BBC7)~Radiolab asks if it's possible for anyone to lead a life without deception? With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

0408Stochasticity2018100720200920 (BBC7)~Radiolab's Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich explore stochasticity, a word which means randomness, and the role it plays in our lives.

From a woman suddenly consumed by a gambling addiction, to a meeting which seems to defy pure chance, and some very noisy bacteria, they consider chance and patterns in sport, lotteries, and the cells in our own body.

~Radiolab is an award winning show about curiosity, where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy and the human experience.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2009.

~Radiolab explores the role of chance and sheer randomness in all our lives.

0501Translation2019020320201122 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores ‘translation' - how can it help led us to a deeper understanding? With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

~Radiolab explores 'translation' - how can it help led us to a deeper understanding?

~Radiolab explores ‘translation' – how can it help led us to a deeper understanding? With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

0502Worth2019021020201129 (BBC7)~Radiolab makes three, possibly foolhardy, attempts to put a price on the priceless. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

~Radiolab: Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

0503Elements2019021720201206 (BBC7)~Radiolab messes up what it took 300 years to lay out: the Periodic Table of the Elements. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA.

~Radiolab messes up what it took 300 years to lay out: the Periodic Table of elements.

0504Playing God2019022420201213 (BBC7)When people are dying and you can only save some, how do you choose? Maybe you save the youngest. Or the sickest. Maybe you even just put all the names in a hat and pick at random. Would your answer change if a sick person was standing right in front of you?

In this episode, we follow New York Times reporter Sheri Fink as she searches for the answer. In a warzone, a hurricane, a church basement, and an earthquake, the question remains the same. What happens, what should happen, when humans are forced to play god?

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

~Radiolab asks when people are dying and you can only save some, how do you choose?

0505Laughter2019030320201220 (BBC7)~Radiolab asks what makes us laugh - and does humour have that much to do with it? With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

Aristotle thought that laughter is what separates us from the beasts, and that a baby does not have a SOUL, until the moment it laughs for the first time. Historian Barry Sanders, author of Sudden Glory, says that according to Aristotle, this moment of 'human ensouling' is supposed to happen when a baby is 40 days old. We follow radio producer Amanda Aronczyk as she tests this theory on her newborn baby.

Then we go to Bowling Green State University in Ohio, to tickle rats with psychobiologist Dr. Jaak Panksepp. It's his notion that laughter is found all across the animal kingdom. Boom, Aristotle! Then Dr. Robert Provine, author of Laughter: A Scientific Investigation, shows us chimps who seem to be laughing. And we travel to Tanzania to investigate an outbreak of contagious laughter.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

First broadcast in the USA in 2008.

~Radiolab asks what makes us laugh – and does humour have that much to do with it? With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

0506Looking Back2019031020201227 (BBC7)~Radiolab takes an intimate peek into the life, and death, of those who came before.

Our desire to find our beginnings has led to unprecedented discoveries. Here are three stories that provide an intimate peek into the life, and death, of those who came before.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2015.

~Radiolab: Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

050723 Weeks 6 Days2019031720210103 (BBC7)~Radiolab follows the story of a very premature baby and the questions her parents face. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

A couple is stuck on the line between life and death, caught in a tug of war between two basic moral touchstones: doing no harm, and doing everything in our power to help.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

From WNYC, first broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2013.

0508Post No Evil2019032420210110 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores how to define hate speech in the age of social media giants? With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

How do you define hate speech? Where's the line between a joke and an attack? Facebook has tried to answer these questions in a rulebook that all 2.2 billions of us are expected to follow. What does this mean for the future of free speech?

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2018.

0601Blood2020010520220102 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores why are we - from horrifying movies to the holy - obsessed by blood? With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

From medicine to the movies, the horrifying to the holy, and history to the present day — Radiolab considers the power and magic of the red liquid that runs through our veins. We meet an artist who opened his veins and got labeled a terrorist, douse ourselves in the meat and metaphors of blood in Shakespeare, wonder if clues to a gory fountain of youth could be lurking in the red blood cells of mice, and trace the complicated supply chain that gets blood from arms to operating tables.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2013.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world of....blood.

From medicine to the movies, the horrifying to the holy, and history to the present day — Radiolab considers the power and magic of the red liquid that runs through our veins. We meet an artist who opened his veins and got labeled a terrorist, douse ourselves in the meat and metaphors of blood in Shakespeare, wonder if clues to a gory fountain of youth could be lurking in the red blood cells of mice, and trace the complicated supply chain that gets blood from arms to operating tables.

0602For Whom The Cowbell Tolls2020011220220109 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores what does it mean and what does it take to belong to a place? With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2019.

0603Apologetical2020011920220116 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores a sea of sorry-not-sorries - what does it truly mean to make amends? With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

How do you fix a word that's broken? A word we need when we bump into someone on the street, or break someone's heart. In our increasingly disconnected secular world, “sorry ? has been stretched and twisted, and in some cases weaponised. But it's also one of the only ways we have to piece together a sense of shared values and beliefs. Through today's sea of sorry-not-sorries, empty apologies, and just straight up non-apologies, we wonder what it looks like to make amends.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2018.

~Radiolab explores what it means to truly make amends

0604I Hart K-pop2020012620220123 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores how much do you want to know about the people you idolise, and when is enough enough?

We peer back at the moment when poking into the private lives of political figures became standard practice in the American media. In 1987, Gary Hart was a young charismatic Democrat, poised to win his party's nomination and possibly the presidency.

Then, we travel to South Korea where the first-ever paparazzi photos turned the world of K-pop upside down and introduced sort of a puzzle -

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2016.

~Radiolab explores how much do you want to know about the people you idolise?

0605When Brains Attack2020020220220130 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores strange stories of brains that lead their owners astray. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

In this episode, strange stories of brains that lead their owners astray, knock them off balance, and, sometimes, propel them to do amazing things.

We hear from a kid whose voice was disguised from himself, relive a surreal day in the life of a young researcher hijacked by her own brain, and try to keep up with an ultra-athlete who, after suffering terrible seizures, gained extraordinary abilities by removing a chunk of her brain.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2012.

06063 Questions2020020920220206 (BBC7)In this episode we ride along on New York City's poop train to find out what happens to poop once it's, well, pooped. Then, we travel to Kenya where legions of athletes, sports gurus, and scientists have tried to figure out why a specific tribe has long-dominated long-distance running. And lastly, we ask why quicksand -once a real fear - no longer scares an 8-year-old.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2015.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate three very different stories.

0607What's Left When You're Right2020021620220213 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores the benefits - and costs - of seeing something from a different side. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

From WNYC, first broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2014.

0608Bit Flip2020022320220220 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores how tiny changes can have cosmic effects on us unwitting humans. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

Back in 2003, Belgium was holding a national election. One of their first where the votes would be cast and counted on computers. Thousands of hours of preparation went into making it unhackable. And when the day of the vote came, everything seemed to have gone well. That was, until a cosmic chain of events caused a single bit to flip and called the outcome into question.

In this episode of Radiolab, we travel from a voting booth in Brussels to the driver's seat of a runaway car in the Carolinas, exploring the massive effects tiny bits of stardust can have on us unwitting humans.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2019.

0701Dispatches From 19182021031420221205 (BBC7)~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

It's hard to imagine what the world will look like when COVID-19 has passed. So in this episode, we look back to the years after 1918, at the political, artistic, and viral aftermath of the flu pandemic that killed between 50 and 100 million people and left our world permanently transformed.

With Jad Abumrad. This episode was reported and produced by Rachael Cusick, Tad Davis, Tracie Hunte, Matt Kielty, Latif Nasser, Sarah Qari, Pat Walters, Molly Webster, with production assistance from Tad Davis and Bethel Habte.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2020.

~Radiolab draws on the experiences of 1918 to explore a post COVID-19 world.

0702The Cataclysm Sentence2021032120221212 (BBC7)~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

One day in 1961, the famous physicist Richard Feynman stepped in front of a Caltech lecture hall and posed this question to a group of undergraduate students: “If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence was passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? ?

~Radiolab explores, when in peril, what's the one sentence you would want to pass on to the next generation?

Jad Abumrad and the Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2020.

~Radiolab explores what's the one sentence you would want to pass on?

0703Damn Bugs2021032820221219 (BBC7)~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

~Radiolab explores what would be the cost of wiping out mosquitoes and other pesky insects from the world? With Jad Abumrad.

If you could wipe mosquitoes, ticks, and other pesky insects from the face of the Earth...would you? On this hour of Radiolab, we speak with the difficulties of sharing a planet with these pests and what they might actually be doing to help our world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2018.

~Radiolab explores what's the hidden cost of wiping out the world's most pesky insects?

0704The Great Vaccinator2021040420221226 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores the work Maurice Hilleman, who created over 40 vaccines, including one for mumps. With Jad Abumrad.

Until now, the fastest vaccine ever made - for mumps - took four years. And while our current effort to develop a covid-19 vaccine involves thousands of people working around the clock, the mumps vaccine was developed almost exclusively by one person: Maurice Hilleman. Hilleman cranked out more than 40 other vaccines over the course of his career, including 8 of the 14 routinely given to children. He arguably saved more lives than any other single person. And through his work, Hilleman embodied the instincts, drive, and guts it takes to marshall the human body's defenses against a disease. But through him we also see the struggle and the costs of these monumental scientific efforts.

This episode was reported by Matt Kielty and Heather Radke, and produced by Matt Kielty.

From WNYC first broadcast in 2020 on NPR in the USA.

~Radiolab explores the work of vaccine researcher, Maurice Hilleman

0705Slippery Mystery2021041120210509 (BBC7)
~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

~Radiolab explores a question that's flummoxed minds from Aristotle to Sigmund Freud: where do eels come from? With Jad Abumrad.

Jad Abumrad and the Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2020.

~Radiolab explores a question that's been around since Aristotle: where do eels come from?

0706The Wubi Effect2021041820230206 (BBC7)~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

When we think of China today, we think of a technological superpower. From Huawei and 5G to TikTok and viral social media, China is stride for stride with the United States in the world of computing. However, China's technological renaissance almost didn't happen. And for one very basic reason: The Chinese language, with its 70,000 plus characters, couldn't fit on a keyboard.

This is the story of Professor Wang Yongmin, a hard-headed computer programmer who solved this puzzle and laid the foundation for the China we know today.

Jad Abumrad and the Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2020.

~Radiolab on Prof. Wang Yongmin: keyboards, 70,000 Chinese characters & economic revolution

0707Right To Be Forgotten2021042520230213 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores an online world where that story about you lives forever. Can we shake our internet past?

In an online world, that story about you lives forever. The tipsy photograph of you at the college football game? It's up there. That news article about the political rally you were marching at? It's up there. A DUI? That's there, too. But what if ... it wasn't.

In Cleveland, Ohio, a group of journalists are trying out an experiment that has the potential to turn things upside down: they are unpublishing content they've already published. Photographs, names, entire articles. Every month or so, they get together to decide what content stays, and what content goes. On today's episode, reporter Molly Webster goes inside the room where the decisions are being made, listening case-by-case as editors decide who, or what, gets to be deleted. It's a story about time and memory; mistakes and second chances; and society as we know it.

This episode was reported by Molly Webster, and produced by Molly Webster and Bethel Habte.

Special thanks to Kathy English, David Erdos, Ed Haber, Brewster Kahle, Imani Leonard, Ruth Samuel, James Bennett II, Alice Wilder, Alex Overington, Jane Kamensky and all the people who helped shape this story.

~Radiolab explores what does it mean and what does it take to belong to a place? With Jad Abumrad.

From WNYC. First broadcast on national public radio in the USA in 2019.

~Radiolab explores an online world where that story about you lives forever...

0708Plant Parade2021050220230220 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores whether you need a brain to experience the world by looking at the sensory life of plants. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Jad Abumrad and the Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2018.

0801Breath2021091220230501 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores life's rhythmic dance partner, breath, with the help of scientists, musicians and activists.

With Annie McEwen and Matt Kielty.

The boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience as Jad Abumrad and the Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2021.

~Radiolab explores life's rhythmic dance partner, breath.

0802Asking For A Friend2021091920230508 (BBC7)~Radiolab looks to answer some of life's big little questions, taking in time and outer and inner space. With Jad Abumrad.

The boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Jad Abumrad and the Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2019.

0803Blood And Beauty2021092620230515 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores a different way of looking at evolution with exciting implications.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Jad Abumrad, Robert Krulwich and the Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2019.

0804Loops2021100320230529 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores when things happen again and again.

How do we deal with life's loops?

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Jad Abumrad, Robert Krulwich and the Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2019.

~Radiolab explores when things happen again and again. How do we deal with life's loops?

0805Ashes On The Lawn2021101020230605 (BBC7)A global pandemic. An afflicted, angry group. A seemingly indifferent government.

Reporter Tracie Hunte wanted to understand this moment of pain and confusion by looking back 30 years, and she found a complicated answer to a simple question:

When nothing seems to work, how do you make change?

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity.

Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2020.

~Radiolab explores another time of pandemic and social unrest - 1989 and the AIDS crisis.

0806Staph And Gamma2021101720230612 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores the incredible stories of two seemingly simple scientific discoveries.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Jad Abumrad, Robert Krulwich and the Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2021.

0807Man V Machine2021102420230619 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores whether new ideas and new inventions are inevitable?

What's the inspiration?

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Jad Abumrad, Robert Krulwich and the Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2017.

0808Inner Voices2021103120230626 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores how the inner voices in our heads shape us, for better and worse.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Jad Abumrad, Robert Krulwich and the Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2013.

0901Mixtape 1, Dakou2022042420230904 (BBC7)~Radiolab is a Peabody-award-winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

~Radiolab Mixtape is a special 4 part series

Mixtape 1: Dakou - explores how musicians who took the damaged plastic scraps of Western music, changed the musical landscape of China.

Through the 1980s, the vast majority of people in China had never heard Western music, save for John Denver, the Carpenters, and a few other artists included on the hand-picked list of songs sanctioned by the Communist Party. But in the late 90s, a mysterious man named Professor Ye made a discovery at a plastic recycling center in Heping.

~Radiolab talks to Chinese historians, music critics, and the musicians who took the damaged plastic scraps of Western music, changed the musical landscape of China, and reimagined rock and roll in ways we never could've imagined.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2021.

How music on cassette tape changed China's musical landscape.

0902Mixtape 2, The Wandering Soul2022050120230911 (BBC7)~Radiolab is a Peabody-award-winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

~Radiolab Mixtape, continuing a special 4 part series featuring the impact of the cassette tape

~Radiolab Mixtape 2 The Wandering Soul: an exploration of the Vietnam War and the ghosts it left behind haunting survivors today.

As the Vietnam war dragged on, the US military began desperately searching for any vulnerability in their North Vietnamese enemy. In 1964, they found it. It was an old Vietnamese folktale involving a ghost, eternal damnation and fear - a tailor made weaponizable myth. And so, armed with tape recorders and microphones, the military set out to win the war by bringing this ghost story to life.

The story of these efforts and their ghosts still haunt people today.

~Radiolab Mixtape is reported, produced, scored and sound designed by Simon Adler.

This episode was produced by Annie McEwen, with original music by Annie. Original reporting was contributed by Trung Dung Vo and NguyỀ...n Vân Hà.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2021.

0903Mixtape 3, Cassetternet2022050820230918 (BBC7)~Radiolab is a Peabody-award-winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

~Radiolab Mixtape, a special 4 part series featuring the impact of the cassette tape

~Radiolab Mixtape 3 Cassetternet: exploring how the cassette tape helped to create the internet.

In 1983, Simon Goodwin had a strange thought. Would it be possible to broadcast computer software over the radio? If so, could listeners record it off the air and onto a cassette tape? This experiment and dozens of others in the early 80s created a series of cassette fueled, analog internets. They copied and moved information like never before, upended power structures and created a poisonous social network that brought down a regime.

~Radiolab examines how these early internet came about, and how the societal and cultural impacts of these analog information networks can still be felt today.

~Radiolab Mixtape is reported, produced, scored and sound designed by Simon Adler.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2021.

Cassetternet: how the the cassette tape helped to create the internet.

0904Mixtape 4, Help?2022051520230925 (BBC7)~Radiolab is a Peabody-award-winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

~Radiolab Mixtape, a special 4 part series featuring the impact of the cassette tape.

~Radiolab Mixtape 4 Help? Stories of cassette tapes as peculiar helpers, self-help, village history and lost love.

Three stories: first, a tale of how the cassette tape supercharged the self-help industry. Second, cassettes filled with history make an epic journey across Africa with a group of Lost Boys. And finally, Simon meets up with fellow Radiolabber David Gebel to dig through an old box of mixtapes and rediscover the unique power of these bygone love letters.

~Radiolab Mixtape was reported, produced, scored and sound designed by Simon Adler.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2021.

Help? Three stories of the peculiar impact of the cassette tape

0905Heavy Metal2022052220231002 (BBC7)~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Latif Nasser and the Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

A story about the sometimes obvious but sometimes sneaky effects of the way that we humans rearrange the elemental stuff around us. Reporter Avir Mitra and science journalist Lydia Denworth bring us a story about how one man's relentless pursuit of a deep truth about the Earth led to an obsession that really changed the very air we breathe.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2021.

~Radiolab explores the effects when we humans rearrange the elemental stuff around us.

0906Flop Off2022052920231016 (BBC7)~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

The Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

~Radiolab explores when the best of effort and intention is not enough – the world of flops.

With:

Lulu Miller

Latif Nassir

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2021.

~Radiolab explores when the best of intentions is not enough - the world of flops.

~Radiolab explores when the best of effort and intention is not enough – the world of flops. With Lulu Miller and Latif Nassir.

0907Life In A Barrel2022060520231023 (BBC7)~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

The Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

~Radiolab explores the chaos of life through a barrel of seawater, a 70s era computer, and underwater geysers.

With Latif Nasser.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2022.

~Radiolab explores the chaos of life through a barrel of seawater.

~Radiolab explores the chaos of life through a barrel of seawater, a 70s era computer, and underwater geysers. With Latif Nasser.

0908Dusty Docs2022061220231030 (BBC7)~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

~Radiolab explores British imperial rule in Kenya, and the power documents to prove grave historical wrongs

Jad Abumrad and the Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2015 and 2021.

~Radiolab explores the power of hidden documents to prove historical wrongs.

~Radiolab explores British imperial rule in Kenya, and the power documents to prove grave historical wrongs. With Jad Abumrad.

1001Escape2022081420231106 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores what happens when you've got no way out, and then, suddenly, you escape! With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Jad Abumrad and the Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2012.

~Radiolab explores what happens when you've got no way out and then you escape!

1002Hello, My Name Is2022082120231113 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores the importance of names and our need to name everything around us. With Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Lulu Miller, Latif Nasser and the Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on national public radio in the USA in 2022.

~Radiolab explores the importance of names and our need to name everything.

1003Yellow Fluff And Other Curious Encounters2022082820231120 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores the pursuit of knowledge which leads to answers, failure and invariably to more questions. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

The Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2009.

~Radiolab explores the pursuit of knowledge leading to answers, failure and more questions

~Radiolab explores the pursuit of knowledge which leads to answers, failure and invariably to more questions. With Jad Abumrad.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2008.

1004Lose Lose2022090420231127 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores what it would be like if everyone played not to win, but to lose? With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

The Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2016.

1005Lucy2022091120221009 (BBC7)
Chimps. Bonobos. Humans. We're all great apes, but that doesn't mean we're one happy family. A chimp named Lucy teaches us the ups and downs of growing up human.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

The Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2010.

A chimp named Lucy teaches us the ups and downs of growing up human. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

1006The War On Shore2022091820231211 (BBC7)Two stories dating back nearly 70 years ago, when something happened that nobody seems to ever talk about it. This is an episode of mysterious balloons, cowboy sheriffs, and Nazi prisoners of war living right next door.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

The Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

From WNYC.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2017.

~Radiolab explores two historical stories featuring balloons, sheriffs and war

~Radiolab explores two historical stories featuring balloons, sheriffs and war. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

~Radiolab explores two historical stories. featuring balloons, sheriffs and war

100760 Words2022092520231218 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores one sentence, written in the hours after September 11th, 2001, that led to the longest war in U.S. history. We examine how just 60 words of legal language have blurred the line between war and peace.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

The Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

From WNYC.

First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2014.

~Radiolab explores 60 words written hours after 9/11 that led to USA's longest war.

~Radiolab pulls apart one sentence, written hours after 9/11, that led to the USA's longest war. With Jad Abumrad.

1008The Helen Keller Exorcism2022100220231225 (BBC7)~Radiolab explores the real story of Deafblind American author and rights activist, Helen Keller. With Jad Abumrad, Lulu Miller and Elsa Sjunneson.

Fantasy writer Elsa Sjunneson has been haunted by Helen Keller for nearly her entire life. Like Helen, Elsa is Deafblind, and growing up she was constantly compared to her. But for a million different reasons she hated that, because she felt different from her in a million different ways. Then, a year ago, an online conspiracy theory claiming Helen was a fraud exploded on TikTok, and suddenly Elsa found herself drawing her sword and jumping to Helen's defense, setting off a chain of events that would bring her closer to the disability icon than she ever dreamt. For over a year, Elsa, Lulu and the Radiolab team dug through primary sources, talked to experts, even visited Helen's birthplace Ivy Green, and discovered the real story of Helen Keller is far more complicated, mysterious and confounding than the simple myth of a young Deafblind girl rescued by her teacher Annie Sullivan. It's a story of ghosts, surprises, a few tears, a bit of romance, some hard conversations, and a possibly psychic dog.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

The Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2022.

~Radiolab explores the life Deafblind American author and rights activist, Helen Keller

~Radiolab explores the real story of Deafblind American author and rights activist, Helen Keller. With Jad Abumrad.

Then, a year ago, an online conspiracy theory claiming Helen was a fraud exploded on TikTok, and suddenly Elsa found herself drawing her sword and jumping to Helen's defence, setting off a chain of events that would bring her closer to the disability icon than she ever dreamt.

1101Under The Sea20240226~Radiolab travels under and across the oceans, to find vigilante whales and heroic octopi. First, humpbacks who refuse to back down when other creatures are being attacked. And then, a simple act of motherhood that becomes a heroic feat that has never been equalled by any known species on Earth.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

The Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

Presenters: Jad Abumrad, Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2022.

~Radiolab explores the oceans, discovering vigilante humpback whales and heroic octopi

~Radiolab explores the oceans, discovering vigilante humpback whales and heroic octopi. With Jad Abumrad and Lulu Miller.

1102Untrue Tales20240304~Radiolab challenges beliefs with some super cool scieence, and a deep-sea Cold war mystery with subs and bombs.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

The Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

Presenters: Jad Abumrad and Lulu Miller.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2022.

~Radiolab challenges beliefs with super cool science and a deep-sea Cold war mystery

~Radiolab challenges beliefs with some super cool science, and a deep-sea Cold war mystery. With Jad Abumrad and Lulu Miller.

1103The Average Show20240311~Radiolab explores the idea of being average, with stories about space and the human body.

~Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

The Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

With Soren Wheeler and Alex Neason.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2022.

~Radiolab explores the idea of being average, with stories about space and the human body. With Soren Wheeler and Alex Neason.