Pat Walters appears in the following:
Murder on the Mind
Friday, January 13, 2012
For our episode, The Bad Show, Pat Walters reported a piece about a psychologist who found that 91% of men and 84% of women have had at least one serious homicidal fantasy. So P...
Romania, Bears and an Old Friend
Monday, December 05, 2011
When Pat Walters traveled to Romania with a few American reporters to teach some classes on narrative journalism to a group of Romanian writers, he had a coincidental run-in with a Ra...
On the Winning Side
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
In movies and daydreams, winning changes everything. But in real life, it's not always so easy to pin down which ending is the happiest, or who deserves the glory.
Radiolab Reads: All Over but the Shoutin'
Monday, August 22, 2011
Later this week, Radiolab goes to northeastern Alabama in our new hour-long podcast. For more on that part of our country, and for one of the most honest American memoirs out there, pick up Rick Bragg's All Over but the Shoutin'.
Radiolab Reads: Friday Night Lights
Monday, July 18, 2011
Friday Night Lights -- This is one that's worth consuming in its original form.
A Form of Hope
Friday, April 01, 2011
We begin in the middle of a phone call with Lulu Miller, who tells us the story of a couple with a seemingly unsolvable problem.
A Flock of Two
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
In today's short, we get to know a man who struggles, and mostly fails, to contain his violent outbursts...until he meets a bird who can keep him in check.
The Universe Knows My Name
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Questions of fate and free will come up all the time on Radiolab, whether we're telling a story or talking to a scientist.
The Good Show
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
If natural selection boils down to survival of the fittest, how do you explain why one creature might stick its neck out for another?
Fate and Fortune
Friday, October 15, 2010
Stories about the tug of war between force of will and fate.
Singled Out
Friday, October 15, 2010
Malcolm Gladwell complicates the tug of war between destiny and determination. Michael Barrier is the guy you call if you have a big profound question about Looney Tunes.
Voices in Your Head
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Jad talks to Charles Fernyhough about the connection between thought and the voice in your head. How did it get there? And what's happening when people hear voices in their head?
Words
Monday, August 09, 2010
It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words, but in this hour we try to do just that.
The Luckiest Lobster
Monday, July 12, 2010
An unlikely escape story begins in a supermarket, and ends in a boat off the coast of Maine.
Oops
Monday, June 28, 2010
Stories of unintended consequences, from a psychologist who may have helped create a terrorist, to a toxic lake that spawned new life.
Parasites
Monday, September 07, 2009
Tales of lethargic farmers, zombie cockroaches, and even mind-controlled humans (kinda, maybe).