Radiolab co-host to depart podcast after 15 years

Robert Krulwich, left, is departing Radiolab after co-hosting the radio series for 15 years with Jad Abumrad, right. (credit: Jad Abumrad / WNYC)

Radiolab, the WNYC radio show that became the pop-science cornerstone of most podcast directories throughout the 2010s, announced a major shakeup on Thursday to fans via its official newsletter. Longtime co-host Robert Krulwich will soon leave the show, with his announcement hinting to only a pair of episodes left before he moves on to other independent projects.

In his not-quite-goodbye to fans, Krulwich appears to declare that the series' producers and staff have succeeded in the mission he'd begun with the series years ago: to create a pipeline (a self-perpetuating one, arguably) for compelling science-based radio accessible to new audiences. After the show caught on with radio listeners nationwide, "the next question we asked ourselves is what's Radiolab to become, other than the two of us delighting each other?" Krulwich writes. "The answer came literally through the door as one wonderfully talented person after another came and joined us until we now have pretty much the strongest bench in the business, a gang of people who, in their very different ways, have learned to tell stories that grab audiences, sort of like we did but more and more in their own voices with their own musics and their own styles."

Krulwich then describes a moment from roughly a year ago where it dawned upon him that his time at Radiolab was drawing to a close:

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