Invisibilia

Invisibilia

Running time	approximately 60 minutes
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
Syndicates	National Public Radio
Hosted by	Kia Miakka Natisse Yowei Shaw Alix Spiegel (former) Hanna Rosin (former) Lulu Miller (former)
Produced by	Abby Wendel Andrew Mambo Ariana Gharib Lee
Edited by	Neena Pathak
Senior editor(s)	Anne Gudenkauf
Original release	2015 – 2023
No. of series	9
No. of episodes	62
Audio format	Stereophonic
Website	www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/
Podcast	Invisibilia Podcast Directory

Invisibilia was a radio program and podcast from National Public Radio, which debuted 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 "the invisible things."^[1] The Guardian ranked Invisibilia among "the 10 best new podcasts of 2015."^[2] In its seventh season, the program was hosted by Kia Miakka Natisse and Yowei Shaw;^[3] previous season hosts included Lulu Miller, Alix Spiegel and Hanna Rosin.

Background

Alix Spiegel was a founding producer of This American Life and freelanced for NPR's Science Desk covering psychology and human behavior.^[4] 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.^[5] Hanna Rosin from The Atlantic joined as cohost for the second season, which premiered in June 2016 and ran for seven episodes.^[6][7] The third season debuted in June 2017 with Spiegel and Rosin as hosts.^[1] The Atlantic included the episode "How to Become Batman" on their list of "The 50 Best Podcast Episodes of 2015".^[8]

In June 2020, NPR announced that Spiegel and Rosin would relinquish their roles by early 2021, and Kia Miakka Natisse and Yowei Shaw were named the new co-hosts of the program, which aired its seventh season in April 2021.^[9] The show aired its eighth season in September 2021.^[10]

In March 2023, NPR announced the cancellation of Invisibilia as part of larger effort to cut costs. ^{[11] [12]} The final episode titled The Goodbye Show, was released on April 27, 2023.

Awards

Award	Year	Category	Result	Ref.
Academy of Podcasters Awards	2017	Science & Medicine	Finalist	[13]
	2016		Won	[14]
iHeartRadio Podcast Awards	2022	Best Science Podcast	Nominated	[15]
	2021		Nominated	[16]
	2020		Nominated	[17]
Peabody Awards	2015	Podcasts & Radio	Nominated	[18]

Episodes

Season 1 (2015)

1. The Secret History of Thoughts
2. Fearless
3. How to Become Batman
4. Entanglement
5. The Power of Categories
6. Our Computers, Ourselves

Season 2 (2016)

1. The New Norm
2. The Personality Myth
3. The Problem with the Solution
4. Frame of Reference
5. Flip the Script
6. The Secret Emotional Life of Clothes
7. Outside In

Season 3 (2017)

1. True You
2. Future Self
3. The Culture Inside
4. Reality
5. Bubble-Hopping (Reality Part 2)
6. Emotions
7. High Voltage (Emotions Part 2)

Season 4 (2018)

1. I, I, I. Him
2. The Other Real World
3. What Was Not Said
4. The Pattern Problem
5. Everything Good
6. The Callout

Season 5 (2019)

1. The Fifth Vital Sign
2. Post, Shoot
3. The Weatherman
4. The Remote Control Brain
5. A Very Offensive Rom-Com
6. The End of Empathy
7. Kraftland
8. The Profile
9. Back When I Was Older
10. Love and Lapses
11. Raising Devendra

Season 6 (2020)

1. Two Heartbeats a Minute
2. The Confrontation
3. An Unlikely Superpower
4. White v. White?
5. The Reluctant Immortalist
6. The Last Sound
7. Trust Fall

Season 7 (2021)

1. Eat the Rich
2. The Chaos Machine: An Endless Hole
3. The Chaos Machine (part 2): Wrathful Lord
4. The Chaos Machine (part 3): A Looping Revolt
5. The Great Narrative Escape
6. American Slow Radio (Bonus Episode)

Season 8 (2021)

1. A Friendly Ghost Story
2. Nun of Us Are Friends
3. International Friend of Mystery
4. Friends with Benefits
5. Poop Friends
6. Therapy, with Friends

Season 9 (2022)

1. The P-Word
2. A Little Bit Pregnant
3. Therapy Ghostbusters
4. Freedom Diving
5. Power Tools

Finale (2023)

• The Goodbye Show

References

1. "About Invisibilia". npr.org. National Public Radio. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
2. Locker, Melissa (11 December 2015). "The 10 best new podcasts of 2015". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
3. "Season 7: New Stories. New Hosts. : Invisibilia". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
4. "Alix Spiegel: Correspondent, Science Desk and Co-Host, Invisibilia". NPR.org. National Public Radio. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
5. Larson, Sarah. ""Invisibilia" and the Evolving Art of Radio". The New Yorker. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
6. Locker, Melissa (2016-06-17). "Invisibilia: the podcast exploring the unseen forces that govern us". The Guardian. Retrieved 2016-06-28.
7. "The New Norm". NPR. 2016-06-17. Retrieved 2016-06-28.
8. Standley, Laura Jane; McQuade, Eric; Taylor, Devon (December 22, 2015). "The 50 Best Podcast Episodes of 2015". The Atlantic. Emerson Collective. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved September 26, 2021.
9. "NPR Says 'Invisibilia' Will Be 'Reinvented' With Two New Hosts". Insideradio.com. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
10. "New Season of 'Invisibilia' on Friendship". npr.org. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
11. Folkenflik, David; Yang, Mary (2023-03-23). "NPR cancels 4 podcasts amid major layoffs". NPR. Archived from the original on 2023-03-24. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
12. Farhi, Paul (2023-03-23). "NPR cancels 4 podcasts in biggest wave of layoffs in decades". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2023-03-24. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
13. "2017 Finalist". Academy of Podcasters. Podcast Movement. August 23, 2017. Archived from the original on February 5, 2019.
14. "Academy of Podcasters: Past Winners". Academy of Podcasters. Archived from the original on October 3, 2017.
15. "2022 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards: See The Full List of Winners". iHeart. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
16. "2021 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards: Full List of Winners". iHeart. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
17. "2020 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards: Full List of Winners". iHeart. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
18. "Invisibilia". The Peabody Awards. Retrieved 2022-04-28.

External links

• Official website