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Radiolab for Kids
Radiolab, one of the most beloved podcasts in the world, reaches into its archives to create Radiolab for Kids. It’s a place where we’ve collected Radiolab’s most family-friendly content.
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Episode One: The Mastermind: An Octopus Heist
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Created by: WNYC Studios
Started: September 22nd, 2022
Status: Active, 51 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
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Episodes
Build-A-Dragon (Replay)
00:26:32 | Episode: 14 | February 12th, 2026
On February 17, in places like China, Malaysia, Korea and Chinatowns across the globe, dragons will rise in the form of massive puppets. Today we bring you a special Terrestrials episode on dragons to understand what they have to do with the New Year, what the dragon myth means, and explore the tiny chance that dragons could have ever been real.
The Portal: Groundhogs Lead Us Into an Underrealm of HOLES
00:31:28 | Episode: 30 | January 29th, 2026
Holes are full of a whole lot of nothin’. Pure, hollow emptiness. At least that’s what Songbud Alan thought before he fell down a rabbit hole of, well, HOLES! In honor of Groundhog Day, he takes Lulu to a fossil-filled pit behind a Chick-fil-A to dig up 66-million-year-old treasure, and deep down to an underwater hole where blobs of colorful microbes reveal a time when Earth’s days were only 6 hours long. We discover eyeless cave fish, fall into a sinkhole of Corvettes, and go house hunting for the perfect animal hole to cozy up in… which leads us to one of the coziest holes of all: a groundhog’s burrow.
The Spellbook: Ancient Recipes for Animals
00:24:52 | Episode: 29 | January 15th, 2026
Where do animals come from? That’s something people have been trying to explain for thousands of years. And for a while, scientists and philosophers believed that any ol’ person could create creatures if they just had the right recipe. A touch of sand, maybe a drop of blood and POOF: you could create life. That idea was believed to be true for generations until one brave scientist decided to look more closely at an unlikely bug and change the course of science forever. Lulu calls up our biology correspondent, Dr. Avir Mitra, to solve this ancient mystery.
The Slowpoke: How Sloths Grow Invisibility
00:33:14 | December 18th, 2025
Sloths are the slowest mammals on Earth. How can a creature that moves so slowly survive in a world that moves so fast? Zoologist Lucy Cooke helps us rethink everything we know about sloths and their slowness. We follow a sloth named Nacho from a rainforest to a nightclub, trek deep into mangrove swamps to find a rare pygmy sloth and uncover the secret that allows sloths to evade even the deadliest predators. Hint: it has to do with a special kind of invisibility.
The Bridge: How Rainbows Connect Worlds
00:28:49 | Episode: 28 | December 11th, 2025
What is a rainbow? An optical illusion? Or a thing out there in the world? For centuries, cultures around the world believed that rainbows were bridges – pathways to gods and to the afterlife. Then in 1665, during a plague, a young Isaac Newton made a discovery that changed everything : sunlight is made of many colors. He counted 7. But artists, poets and curious children weren’t convinced. How could a rainbow only have seven colors? Their skepticism led to a far stranger discovery that would revolutionize how we understand the universe. – In the end, we learn that rainbows are kind of a bridge – between our outer and inner worlds.
A Podcast Turducken: With Wow in the World, Terrestrials and Circle Round
00:37:20 | Episode: 27 | November 17th, 2025
Lulu is hosting a holiday meal. She’s invited the characters from her extended kids podcast family – Wow in the World and Circle Round – for an epic kids podcast crossover special. It’s a potluck of stories and on the table is a turducken. Yes, a turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken. Each show brings a wild story about one of these creatures. We learn about a chicken’s unexpected journey back home, a duck mystery in the middle of the Arctic Ocean and an indigenous folktale about how the turkey got its gobble, culminating in a giant singalong.
The Night Flyer: How Bats sPOOkily Revive Forests
00:26:20 | Episode: 26 | October 30th, 2025
This Halloween, we’re going to the dark side. Deep in the darkest tropical forests, some of the world’s most elusive bats hang upside down in their winged sleeping bags. On a quest to find one of these flying mammals, Producerbud Ana ventures into a Puerto Rican forest and the back corridors of the American Museum of Natural History with Dr. Angelo Soto-Centeno. Why? Because while they may be scary and look kinda like Dracula, with their sharp fangs and beady eyes, these bats hold something crucial for humanity – the ability to repair entire ecosystems after some of the most destructive hurricanes ever.
Maggies: The Healing Power of Baby Flies
00:28:28 | Episode: 25 | October 16th, 2025
Maggots are disgusting, right? Lulu has a hard time even saying the word maggot.
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Created by: WNYC Studios
Started:
September 22nd, 2022
Status: Active, 51 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
