Country United States Syndicates National Public Radio | Language(s) English Senior editor(s) Anne Gudenkauf | |
Running time approximately 60 minutes Hosted by Alix Spiegel
Hanna Rosin
Lulu Miller | ||
Invisibilia is a radio program and podcast produced and hosted by Alix Spiegel, Lulu Miller, and Hanna Rosin for National Public Radio. The show began its first season in early 2015, and "explores the intangible forces that shape human behavior—things like ideas, beliefs, assumptions and emotions." The program's title comes from Latin, meaning "all the invisible things". The Guardian ranked Invisibilia among "the 10 best new podcasts of 2015."
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Background
Alix Spiegel was a founding producer of This American Life and freelanced for NPR's Science Desk covering psychology and human behavior. At Chicago's Third Coast International Audio Festival, Spiegel met former Radiolab producer Lulu Miller and asked her to co-produce a piece she was working on. The two began collaborating on radio stories and conceived of a new long-form program that would become Invisibilia. The show's first six-episode season aired from January to February 2015, with excerpts occasionally running on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Radiolab and This American Life. This extra exposure and Miller and Spiegel's track record helped Invisibilia debut at #1 on the iTunes podcast chart and to maintain a consistent top-ten ranking in the months following its launch. Hanna Rosin from The Atlantic joined as cohost for the second season, which premiered in June 2016 and ran for seven episodes.
Season 1
- The Secret History of Thoughts
- Fearless
- How to Become Batman
- Entanglement
- The Power of Categories
- Our Computers Our Selves
Season 2
- The New Norm
- The Personality Myth
- The Problem with the Solution
- Frame of Reference
- Flip the Script
- The Secret Emotional Life of Clothes
- Outside In