Lucy
Radiolab
05/17/24
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Chimps. Bonobos. Humans. We're all great apes, but that doesn’t mean we’re one happy family.
This episode, a mashup of content stretching all the way back to 2010, asks the question, is cross-species co-habitation an utterly stupid idea? Or might it be our one last hope as more and more humans fill up the planet? A chimp named Lucy teaches us the ups and downs of growing up human, and a visit to The Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa highlights some of the basics of bonobo culture (be careful, they bite).
EPISODE CITATIONS -
Photos:
Photo of Lucy and Janis hugging. (https://zpr.io/U7qRdYDqxbGj)
Videos:
Lucy throughout the years (https://vimeo.com/9377513)
Slideshow produced by Sharon Shattuck.
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Selected Shorts
May 10, 2024
•48m
A selection of short flights of fact and fancy performed live on stage.
Usually we tell true stories at this show, but earlier this spring we were invited to guest host a live show called Selected Shorts, a New York City institution that presents short fiction performed on stage by great actors (you’ll often find Tony, Emmy and Oscars winners on their stage). We treated the evening a bit like a Radiolab episode, selecting a theme, and choosing several stories related to that theme. The stories we picked were all about “flight” in one way or another, and came from great writers like Brian Doyle, Miranda July, Don Shea and Margaret Atwood. As we traveled from the flight of a hummingbird, to an airplane seat beside a celebrity, to the mind of a bat, we found these stories pushing us past the edge of what we thought we could know, in the way that all truly great writing does.
Special thanks to Abubakr Ali, Becca Blackwell, Molly Bernard, Zach Grenier, Drew Richardson, Jennifer Brennan and the whole team at Selected Shorts and Symphony Space.
EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by - Maria Paz Gutierrez
Fact-checking by - Natalie Middleton
and Edited by - Pat Walters
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Mixtapes to the Moon
May 24, 2024
•37m
They promised to change you. They ended up changing all of us.
On July 20, 1969 humanity watched as Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon. It was the dazzling culmination of a decade of teamwork, a collective global experience unlike anything before or since, a singular moment in which every human being was invited to feel part of something larger than themself. There was however, one man who was left out.
This week on Radiolab we explore what it means to be together and - of course - the cassette tapes that changed it.
Special thanks to WBUR and the team at City Space for having us and recording this event, all the other folks and venues that hosted us on tour, Sarah Rose Leonard and Lance Gardner at KQED for developing this show with us and Alex Overington for musically bringing it to life.
EPISODE CREDITS:
Reported by - Simon Adler
Produced by - Simon Adler
Original music and sound design contributed by - Alex Overington
Fact-checking by - Emily Krieger
and Edited by - Soren Wheeler
EPISODE CITATIONS:
Videos -
Check out Zack Taylor’s beautiful documentary CASSETTE: A Documentary Mixtape (https://vimeo.com/127216590)
Mall videos referenced in the episode - https://youtu.be/bPrZOk1DgGY?si=l8dE8_GUxHznuqHL
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