If my memory serves me, the first time I was asked the proverbial What do you want to be when you grow up? The answer was, “An astronaut.” Later it became a drawer. Then a guy who makes television commercials. By middle school I decided I wanted to be an environmental engineer, before stints hoping to be a photographer and then filmmaker. In high school, after dreaming of being a teacher, I was certain I’d be a professional jazz saxophone player. In college, I jumped from humanitarian aid worker, to psychotherapist, to indie rock musician. After graduating I wanted to be a writer. Now, I make radio. Email me at sadler@wnyc.org
Simon Adler appears in the following:
The Flight Before Christmas
Friday, December 23, 2022
Tales of the endurance test that is flying on a commercial airliner with your fellow human.
The Weather Report
Friday, October 28, 2022
The story of how one man and one woman changed the weather forever.
Neanderthal's Revenge
Friday, June 10, 2022
A tale of guts, genes, and gratitude. Also, watching videos on your phone while on the toilet.
Hello, My Name Is
Friday, April 29, 2022
This week, we're talking names. They're some of the first labels we get, and they can both reveal and conceal. Do they shape us? Or the other way around?
The Tapes That Sparked the Iranian Revolution
Friday, April 15, 2022
How one man's voice upended a country's politics and continues to echo around the globe today.
How the Cassette Tape Helped Create the Internet
Friday, April 15, 2022
It started in 1983 with British programmer Simon Goodwin.
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Friday, April 15, 2022
A story about folks who’ve disappeared and the computers that deleted them.
BONUS: The Walkman Effect
Friday, December 10, 2021
In our first-ever member's feed podcast bonus, we have three unreleased interviews from our Mixtape series.
How the Cassette Tape Helped Create the Internet
Friday, November 26, 2021
It started in 1983 with British programmer Simon Goodwin.
The Tapes That Sparked the Iranian Revolution
Friday, November 26, 2021
How one man's voice upended a country's politics and continues to echo around the globe today.
The Wandering Soul
Thursday, November 25, 2021
On many nights during the Vietnam War, if you listened closely, you’d swear you could hear a ghost. Today, The Experiment explores the story of that ghost and how it still haunts us.
Mixtape: Help?
Friday, November 19, 2021
Three stories of cassette tapes as peculiar helpers, carrying self-help, a village's history and lost love.
Mixtape: Cassetternet
Friday, November 12, 2021
How the cassette tape created the internet.
Mixtape: The Wandering Soul
Friday, November 05, 2021
Many nights during the Vietnam war, if you listened closely, you’d swear you heard a ghost. Today, the story of that ghost and how it still haunts us today.
Radiolab's New Series: 'Mixtape'
Wednesday, November 03, 2021
Mixtape, a new special series from Radiolab, focuses on the cassette tape, tracing its legacy and the ways it revolutionized how we listen.
Mixtape: Jack and Bing
Friday, October 29, 2021
Bing Crosby and some stolen Nazi technology won his audience back and changed media forever.
Mixtape: Dakou
Friday, October 22, 2021
Cassette tapes trashed as scrap brought western rock music to China and created a cultural remix on the grandest possible scale.
The Supreme Court of Facebook
Friday, February 12, 2021
Mark Zuckerberg has outsourced crucial decisions about free speech to a new body called the Oversight Board. In collaboration with Radiolab, we look at how and why it came to be.
