This American Life

October 13, 2006 3:20 PM

Radio Lab! Already listened to everything This American Life offers or maybe looking for something a bit smarter and full of science? Maybe you'll like Radio Lab. Maybe you'll like the mind-blowing and historically expanding episode on music. Maybe older history is your cup of tea -- how about biblical times and how they sit in shoeboxes in Oxford. A stack of shows available via podcast, MP3 download (and some .RAM, sorry).
posted by Ogre Lawless (11 comments total)

Oo, this looks interesting. Thanks Og.
posted by storybored at 3:27 PM on October 13, 2006

i listened to their program on tonal language & perfect pitch the other night ... pretty amazing stuff.
posted by luriete at 4:13 PM on October 13, 2006

I JUST heard this for the first time last week, and it was riveting! And I'm not even a science nerd, I'm a pop culture junkie - yet, I was completely entertained! Awesome, thanks.
posted by tristeza at 4:14 PM on October 13, 2006

RadioLab is fantastic. There was a good article on hosts Robert Krulwich and Jad Abumrad last week in the Washington Post.
posted by digaman at 5:23 PM on October 13, 2006

RadioLab was broadcast here in Chicago several months ago - I'm not sure what the context was. It was an amazing program and it's always great to hear Krulwich.

I wrote to them immediately saying that I wish they'd offer a podcast or some other means of online distribution. Great to see that realized now.

I've downloaded the MP3 files from the podcast but am a bit bummed that many episodes are only available in Real. Why does anyone still use that crap?
posted by aladfar at 5:51 PM on October 13, 2006

Holy crap, this is awesome. Thanks!
posted by anomie at 6:59 PM on October 13, 2006

RadioLab is one of my all-time favorite shows. Thanks for posting.
posted by mattbucher at 8:15 PM on October 13, 2006

Radio lab is great - if only they'd produce more shows per season! I'm tired of waiting for new ones!
posted by lpqboy at 11:31 PM on October 13, 2006

I just listened to the first episode, and it was a fucking delight. Thank you for posting this, Ogre! At last, something to break up my steady stream of This American Life episodes by internet!
posted by Greg Nog at 2:58 PM on October 14, 2006

thank you!
posted by dydecker at 3:01 PM on October 14, 2006

As aladfar mentions, season 2 (2006) is available in its entirety as high-quality, full-length, downloadable MP3s on the feed page.
posted by Western Infidels at 8:08 AM on October 15, 2006