Radiolab

Radiolab, from WNYC, is Jad Abumrad and the show’s producers turning a question about science, philosophy, or a strange fact into a scored story.

Lulu Miller, Latif Nasser, and a deep bench have hosted as the show has aged. The sound design is not decoration. A stutter edit or a musical bed is part of how the idea is explained.

The series taught a generation that a reported feature could feel like a composition. Later years widened into politics and the body without dropping the obsession with how something works.

Older episodes are often the purest version of the method. Newer ones may be a season with a single theme. The episode page usually tells you which you are holding.