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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.

Website ↗ Last published 30 October 2026 677 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Radiolab

“It's a really tough job to be a defense lawyer. You have a very particular part to play. You have a role. And that role isn't what you think as a person is good and right and what you would do for your friend or your family member in that situation. What your role is, is to play this part of a system in which you're the one who stands up for the guy that everybody else hates. Even if everybody hates you, even if maybe you hate yourself a little bit, you have to do your job.” — Lisa Luhrmann, Radiolab
Lisa Luhrmann · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The tragic truth is that when the Luftwaffe bombed the Harvey, they bombed our mustard gas shells. We poisoned, in effect, our own men… Even worse is that the nurses, in wrapping the sailors in blankets, unwittingly trapped the mustard and oil mixture from the harbor water close to their skin, allowing the men to marinate in the poison.” — Jennet Conant, Radiolab
Jennet Conant · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Our nose can pick up some sulfur compounds at as little as 0.5 parts per billion in the air. And if that doesn't mean anything to you, if you were to imagine 8 billion people of Earth all squished together, that'd be the equivalent of being able to pick out four individuals inside that massive humanity… We've evolved to be that sensitive because sulfur is death. It is rot. It is decay.” — Matt Kielty, Radiolab
Matt Kielty · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →
“This year, 2026, will be remembered either as a miracle year, an annus mirabilis, or a horrible year, annus horribilis, for the history of mathematics. And I don't know yet which one it's going to be.” — Steve Strogatz, Radiolab
Steve Strogatz · 9 Oct 2026 Listen →
“We're going to start dealing with oracles that are infallible but opaque. They'll tell us the truth, but we won't know why.” — Steve Strogatz, Radiolab
Steve Strogatz · 9 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Radiolab is hosted by Latif Nasser , Lulu Miller , Matt Kielty , Molly Webster , Simon Adler , Jad Abumrad , Annie McEwen , Pat Walters , Tracie Hunte , Sarah Qari , Rachael Cusick and Bethel Habte .

Recent Episodes

  1. 30 Oct 2026

    The Buried Bodies Case

    With Brenna Farrell , Frank Armani , Lisa Luhrmann and Jim Tracy

  2. 23 Oct 2026

    Octomom

  3. 16 Oct 2026

    The Smell of Hell

    With Jennet Conant

  4. 9 Oct 2026

    Math Vs Machine

    With Steve Strogatz

  5. 2 Oct 2026

    A 4-Track Mind

    With Anissa Vitza , Jessica Benko and Bob Milne

  6. 25 Sep 2026

    Grass Apes

    With Anisa Vietze and David George Haskell

  7. 18 Sep 2026

    The Sweetest Thing

    With Grant DuBois , Claire Saffitz , Danielle Reed , Cynthia Graber , Nicola Twilley , Sarah Berry and Charles Spence

  8. 11 Sep 2026

    23 Weeks 6 Days

    With Tom French , Nita Farahani , Diane Loisel , Keith Barrington and Kelley Benham

  9. 4 Sep 2026

    60 Words

    With Peter Gross , Ray Wynne Grant , Barbara Lee , Ron Dellums , John Bellinger , Nathan Baxter , Benjamin Wittes and Gregory Johnsen

  10. 28 Aug 2026

    Dolly Parton's America: Sad Ass Songs

    With Joe Strogas , Helen Morales and Dolly Parton

  11. 21 Aug 2026

    Patient Zero

    With Sean Cole , Selma Dritz , Beatrice Hahn and Carl Zimmer

  12. 14 Aug 2026

    Nigel and the Real Gannet

    With Chris Bell

Guests

Avir Mitra (6 episodes), Carl Zimmer (6 episodes), Gregory Warner (5 episodes), Oliver Sacks (5 episodes), Robert Sapolsky (4 episodes), Dan Engber (4 episodes), Steve Strogatz (3 episodes), Dina Temple-Raston (3 episodes), Manoush Zomorodi (3 episodes), brooke gladstone (3 episodes), Jason De León (3 episodes), Dolly Parton (3 episodes), and 284 more.