What Was That For?

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Elseaen: Why would the king of spain commemorate his son's revival by making a little automatic doll like what was that for? Elseaen: There's really no way to know for sure. But one interpret on certainly could be that, you know, the king had this amazing, miraculous thing happened to his son and now he had a way of sharing that with his subjects. This was a machine that was built to pray.

We’re all in a tizzy here at Radiolab on account of our 20-year anniversary. And, as one does upon passing a milestone, we’ve been looking back in all kinds of ways. Two weeks ago, we went out over the airwaves, “Live on your FM dial,” a callback to our origins as a radio show. We revamped our logo and redid our website (get your Freq on, people!). More recently, Lulu's and Latif’s first stories came up in a meeting. They weren’t always the intrepid hosts of our collective journey in wonder. Soren Wheeler, our editor, thought it would be fun to highlight those firsts for you.

So here they are, baby Latif and Lulu, doing their darndest to make audio magic.

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