Pat Walters

Senior Editor, Radiolab

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...
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Who's Bad?

Monday, January 09, 2012

What would it take to make you do something truly awful?

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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...
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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.

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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'.

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Radiolab Reads: Friday Night Lights

Monday, July 18, 2011

Friday Night Lights -- This is one that's worth consuming in its original form.

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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.

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You v. You

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Zelda Gamson tried for decades to stop smoking.

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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.
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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.
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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?

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Fate and Fortune

Friday, October 15, 2010

Stories about the tug of war between force of will and fate.

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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.

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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?
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Words that Change the World

Monday, August 09, 2010

Meet a man who grew up without language.

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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.

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New Words, New World

Monday, August 09, 2010

In the late 1970s, a new language was born.

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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.
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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.

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Parasites

Monday, September 07, 2009

Tales of lethargic farmers, zombie cockroaches, and even mind-controlled humans (kinda, maybe).

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