Jad and Amil Abumrad
Jad Abumrad, the award winning creator of Radiolab, More Perfect and Dolly Parton’s America is joined by his 14 year old son Amil, an Orwell fanatic and himself a writer of speculative fiction, for a totally unique live show investigating what 1984 means to young people today.
Date
Jun 18, 2023, 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Featuring
Jad Abumrad
Jad Abumrad is a Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, composer, and storyteller, best known as the creator of Radiolab and More Perfect. His other acclaimed audio projects include Dolly Parton’s America, UnErased, The Vanishing of Harry Pace, and Fela Kuti: Fear No Man, which won a 2025 Peabody Award. Across his work, Abumrad has helped redefine the possibilities of narrative audio, blending journalism, music, and ideas in ways that are both intellectually ambitious and formally inventive. He is the recipient of three Peabody Awards and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2011. He is currently a Distinguished Research Professor at Vanderbilt University.
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