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Jad Abumrad, the creator and co-host of the podcast Radiolab, is leaving after 20 years hosting the show. His last episode will be released on February 18th. Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser will become sole hosts.
“For the last few years – since 2016 really – I’ve told myself that there’d come a point when the team would be ‘ready’ for me to leave. When they might even need me to. I wasn’t sure when that would be or how I’d know, but I made a pact with myself to stay watchful, to create space rather than filling it, and to listen rather than talk…. We’re at that point,” Abumrad said in his statement.
“The two of us have spent countless hours with Jad: first as producers learning and making, and in the last few months in our secret co-host lair, thinking about the future,” said Miller and Nasser in a statement. “And we’re so excited.”
Abumrad created _Radiolab _in 2002. The show first began as a three hour local radio show that featured short audio documentaries from around the world, but also drew upon Abumrad’s background in music composition and film scoring.
**Miller **and **Nasser **– both of whom got their start in audio at _Radiolab – _were first named co-hosts in September 2020. Miller was hired as _Radiolab’s _first-ever producer in the mid-2000s, going on to become the creator and host of NPR’s Invisibilia before returning to _Radiolab; _Nasser started as _Radiolab’s _Director of Research and hosted the show’s critically-acclaimed, Columbia-duPont award-winning serialized mini-series, The Other Latif.