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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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Kelsey Padgett is a producer for Radiolab. She was instrumental in researching and developing the episode 'Sex, Ducks and the Founding Feud,' guiding the hosts through the complex historical and legal narratives.
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Alison Kock is a marine biologist known for her work on shark conservation and research in South Africa.
Kathryn Ayres is acknowledged in the episode for her contributions, but specific biographical details are not provided in the description.
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Andrew Fox is associated with Rodney Fox Shark Expeditions, known for their work in shark research and expeditions.
John Long is an author of 'The Secret History of Sharks' and a researcher with a focus on shark history and biology.
Greg Skomal is a marine biologist known for his work studying white sharks, and author of 'Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark'.

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Subscribers: 96,400
Total Videos: 396
Total Views: 9,137,716
Joined: Jan 30, 2008
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Radiolab is one of the most beloved podcasts and public radio programs in the world. The show is known for its deep-dive journalism and innovative sound design.

Created in 2002 by Jad Abumrad, Radiolab began as an exploration of science, philosophy and ethics using innovative composition and sound design. Today, Radiolab has expanded and evolved to become a platform for long-form journalism and storytelling. The show challenges its listeners’ preconceived notions about how the world works. Radiolab provokes, it moves, it delights and it asks its audience to see the world around them anew.

Radiolab is co-hosted by Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser. Longtime co-host Robert Krulwich retired in February 2020, and Jad Abumrad retired in 2022.

You can find Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Episodes

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0:00 25:08

Sex, Ducks and the Founding Feud

Guests
Kelsey Padgett
Keywords
legal history constitutional law federalism international treaties historical disputes personal revenge legal ethics government power historical context legal precedent

Jilted lovers and disrupted duck hunts provide a very odd look into the soul of the US Constitution.

What does a betrayed lovers revenge have to do with an international chemical weapons treaty? More than youd think. From poison and duck hunts to our feuding fathers, we step into a very odd tug of war between local and federal law.

When Carol Anne Bond found out her husband had impregnated her best friend, she took revenge. Carol's particular flavor of revenge led to a US Supreme Court case that puts into question a part of the US treaty power.

Producer Kelsey Padgett drags Jad and Robert into Carol's poisonous web, which starts them on a journey from the birth of the US Constitution, to a duck hunt in 1918, and back to the present day. Its all about an ongoing argument that might actually be the very heart and soul of our system of government.

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Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing [email protected].

Leadership support for Radiolabs science programming is provided by the Simons Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

0:00 28:12

Baby Shark

Guests
Jaime Penads Suay
Keywords
sharks reproduction marine biology investigative journalism sound design

This is episode five of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks.

Today, the strange, squirmy magic behind how sharks make more sharks. Drills. Drama. Death. Even a coliseum of baby sharks duking it out inside mom’s womb. And a man on a small island in the Mediterranean trying, against all odds, to give baby sharks a chance in a little plastic aquarium in his living room. Can a human raise a shark? And if so, what good is that for sharks? And for us? Doo doo doo doo doo doo.

Special thanks to Jaime Penadés Suay and la Fundación Azul Marino.

EPISODE CREDITS: 
Reported by - Rachael Cusick
Produced by - Rachael Cusick
with mixing help from - Jeremy Bloom
Fact-checking by - Diane Kelly
and Edited by  - Pat Walters

EPISODE CITATIONS:

Articles - 
Claudia’s original reporting that inspired the episode

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Leadership support for Radiolab’s science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

0:00 21:01

Mystery Bay

Guests
Alison Kock Kathryn Ayres
Keywords
sharks False Bay Great White Sharks apex predators marine biology

This is episode four of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks.

Alison Kock was working at a car wash in Cape Town when she made a discovery that completely changed the course of her life. Inside a customer’s trunk, she found photographs of white sharks flying so high above the water they looked like airplanes. She followed those photographs to False Bay, “the Great White Capital of the World.” These sharks, in this place, are the apex of apex predators. Or they were. Until they mysteriously began to disappear.

Special thanks to Kathryn Ayres.

EPISODE CREDITS: 
Reported by - Rachael Cusick 
Produced by - Simon Adler and Maria Paz Gutierrez
with help from - Rebecca Laks 
Original music from - Simon Adler and Maria Paz Gutierrez
Sound design contributed by - Jeremy Bloom
with mixing help from - Jeremy Bloom
Fact-checking by - Diane A. Kelly
and Edited by  - Pat Walters

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Leadership support for Radiolab’s science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

0:00 28:53

The Shark Inside You

Guests
Mike Criscitiello David Schatz Mary Rose Madden Ryan Ogilvie Margot Wohl Sofi LaLonde Isabelle Brub
Keywords
shark antibodies cancer cure molecular superhero sharks investigative journalism science

This is episode three of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks.

Today, we take a trip across the world, from the south coast of Australia to … Wisconsin. Here, scientists are scouring shark blood to find one of nature’s hidden keys, a molecular superhero that might unlock our ability to cure cancer: shark antibodies. They’re small. They’re flexible. And they can fit into nooks and crannies on tumors that our antibodies can’t.

We journey back 500 million years to the moment sharks got these special powers and head to the underground labs transforming these monsters into healers. Can these animals we fear so much actually save us? 

Special thanks to Mike Criscitiello, David Schatz, Mary Rose Madden, Ryan Ogilvie, Margot Wohl, Sofi LaLonde, and Isabelle Bérubé.

EPISODE CREDITS: 
Reported by - Becca Bressler
Produced by - Becca Bressler and Matt Kielty
Original music from - Matt Kielty and Jeremy Bloom
Sound design contributed by - Matt Kielty, Jeremy Bloom, and Becca Bressler
with mixing help from - Jeremy Bloom
Fact-checking by - Diane Kelly
and Edited by  - Pat Walters

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Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing [email protected].
Leadership support for Radiolab’s science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

0:00 18:22

The Cage

Guests
Andrew Fox John Long Greg Skomal
Keywords
sharks marine biology extinction great white shark ocean creatures

This is episode two of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks.

Jaws spawned a thousand imitators: sharks in tornados, sharks in avalanches, sharks that battle giant octopuses. Hollywood has officially turned sharks into monsters of every shape and size. And yet, somehow, there will always be more.

But drop below the surface, into the cold, quiet blue, and another creature appears. One that has survived mass extinctions, outlasted ancient predators and pre-dates Mount Everest, the existence of trees, even the rings of Saturn. A shark that is somehow even more remarkable than sharks in tornadoes.

Today, we go visit that shark. 

Special thanks to Andrew Fox, the entire team at Rodney Fox Shark Expeditions, John Long whose book The Secret History of Sharks inspired our obsession with sharks, and Greg Skomal, whose wonderful new book on his life studying white sharks is Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark.

EPISODE CREDITS: 
Reported by - Rachael Cusick
with help from - Pat Walters
Produced by - Rachael Cusick and Simon Adler
with help from - Pat Walters
Sound design contributed by - Jeremy Bloom
with mixing help from - Jeremy Bloom
Fact-checking by - Natalie Middleton
and Edited by  - Pat Walters

EPISODE CITATIONS:
Videos - 
Loved learning about all the different kinds of sharks there are? Check out even more Jaida Elcock’s videos on sharks.

Book - 
The Secret History of Sharks by John Long 

Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark by Greg Skomal

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Leadership support for Radiolab’s science programming is provided by the Simons Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Ratings

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USA

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Canada

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4.8 ratings 274 reviews

Ireland

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South Africa

4.6 ratings 136 reviews

Singapore

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