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From the Radiolab podcast: Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser weren’t always the intrepid co-hosts of our collective journey in wonder. They had to start somewhere.

We’re all in a tizzy here at Radiolab on account of our 20-year anniversary. And, as one does upon passing a milestone, we’ve been looking back in all kinds of ways — including when Lulu's and Latif’s first Radiolab stories came up in a meeting. Soren Wheeler, our editor, thought it would be fun to highlight those firsts for you. So here they are, baby reporters Latif and Lulu, doing their darnedest to make audio magic.

Episode Segments:
0:00 Intro
1:10 A Clockwork Miracle
19:26 Musical Hallucinations

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Guests in this episode include: Elizabeth King, a professor in the sculpture department at Virginia Commonwealth University; Carlene Stevens, a curator at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.; Leo Rangell, author of “Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border"; Tim Griffith, a professor of Cognitive Neurology at Newcastle University; Diana Deutsch, a psychologist at the University of California San Diego; Michael Chorost, author of “Rebuilt: My Journey Back to the Hearing World"; and neurologist, writer and long time friend of the show Oliver Sacks.

Video by Kim Nowacki and Anna Rascouët-Paz.

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