Radiolab
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| Genre | Scientific, philosophical investigation |
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| Running time | approximately 60 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | WNYC |
| Syndicates | Public Radio Exchange |
| Hosted by |
Jad Abumrad Robert Krulwich |
| Senior editor(s) | Soren Wheeler |
| Produced by | Simon Adler Brenna Farrell Dylan Keefe Matt Kielty Annie McEwen Latif Nasser Kelsey Padgett Arianne Wack Molly Webster Jamie York |
| Air dates | since 2002 |
| No. of series | 13 |
| No. of episodes | 58 (List of episodes) |
| Audio format | Stereophonic |
| Website | www |
| Podcast | Radiolab Podcast Index |
Radiolab is a radio program produced by WNYC, a public radio station in New York City, and broadcast on public radio stations in the United States. The show is nationally syndicated and is available as a podcast. In 2008, Radiolab began offering live shows.
Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, the show focuses on topics of a scientific and philosophical nature. The show attempts to approach broad, difficult topics such as "time" and "morality" in an accessible and light-hearted manner and with a distinctive audio production style.
Radiolab received a 2007 National Academies Communication Award "for their imaginative use of radio to make science accessible to broad audiences". The program has received two Peabody Awards; first in 2010 and again in 2014. In 2011, Abumrad received the MacArthur grant.
Although Radiolab is a "limited run series", 12 seasons of five to ten episodes each have been produced. The 15th season is currently airing.
Having majored in experimental music composition and production at Oberlin College, Jad Abumrad worked for New York City Pacifica affiliate WBAI before landing a job freelancing for National Public Radio (NPR). In 2002 he produced a series of post-9/11 radio documentaries called 24 Hours at the Edge of Ground Zero, and regularly contributed material to Studio 360, both for WNYC. The first weekly episodes of Radiolab aired in May 2002, and each compiled two hours worth of NPR stories around a particular theme with between-story commentary from Jad Abumrad. These themes were not necessarily science-related, but tackled issues such as the death penalty, religious fundamentalism and politics in Africa and the Middle East.
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