Simon Adler

Senior Producer, Radiolab

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.
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The Weather Report

Friday, October 28, 2022

The story of how one man and one woman changed the weather forever.
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Neanderthal's Revenge

Friday, June 10, 2022

A tale of guts, genes, and gratitude. Also, watching videos on your phone while on the toilet.
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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?
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Did Cassettes Help Bring Down the Iron Curtain?

Friday, April 15, 2022

Explaining 'Sneakernet.'

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.
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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.
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Did Cassettes Help Bring Down the Iron Curtain?

Friday, November 26, 2021

Explaining 'Sneakernet.'

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.
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Mixtape: Cassetternet

Friday, November 12, 2021

How the cassette tape created the internet.
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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.
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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.

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Mixtape: Jack and Bing

Friday, October 29, 2021

Bing Crosby and some stolen Nazi technology won his audience back and changed media forever. 
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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.
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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.