Radio lab is celebrating its 20th birthday with a special tribute. A listener tells us who they want to dedicate a song to and why. And then jad, who listens to esoteric music that mostly only robots like a, picks out the song to play for that person. This week we pay homage to queen of late night radio, delilah With an tst.
Back in 2002, Jad Abumrad started Radiolab as a live radio show. He DJ’d out into the ether and 20 years later we do the same. To commemorate the 20-year anniversary of the show, the Radiolab team went old school and took over WNYC Radio, live on the FM band. We answered the phones, played some wonderfully weird audio, including one piece where Kurt Vonnegut—yes, that Kurt Vonnegut—interviews the dead, took part in some games and tomfoolery, and did everything we could to have and to share in our good time.