Elah Feder

Audio Producer and Journalist

Canada

Hello! I'm a producer and journalist, living in Toronto. My work has appeared on NPR, CBC, and Science Friday, where I was the senior producer in charge of narrative podcasts. Over the years, I've been an editor, an intern, a new show developer, and a host. These days, I'm a freelance producer and mostly make narrative non-fiction audio. Selected stories below.

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Atlas Obscura
05/30/2025
A Disappearance from the Ocean View Hotel

Celebrity pastor Aimee Semple McPherson was presumed drowned in 1926 after a swim on Venice Beach. Then reports of sightings started trickling in.

Atlas Obscura
The Mystery Man of Marree

In 1998, the businesses in a tiny Outback community got a series of anonymous faxes, letting them know they had a gift waiting for them. It was a miles-long drawing of a man, etched into a plateau. Some people were delighted, others wanted it destroyed, and everyone wanted to know who did it.

Atlas Obscura
Are Wild Birds Singing Human Music?

[Producer / Voice] In cool, misty forests along the coast of New South Wales Australia, a group of lyrebirds is suspected of singing human songs they learned in the 1920s. A team of researchers sets out to investigate.

Atlas Obscura
Searching for wonder in the most boring mall in Canada

An audio guide to the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places. Co-founder Dylan Thuras and a neighborhood of Atlas Obscura reporters explore a new wonder every day, Monday through Thursday. In under 15 minutes, they'll take you to an incredible place, and along the way, you'll meet some fascinating people and hear their stories.

Lost Women of Science | Scientific American | PRX
The Devil in the Details

(Senior Producer with host, Katie Hafner, and producer, Sarah Wyman) A five-part series about Frances Kelsey, the doctor who said no to thalidomide. We won an International Women's Podcast Award for this!

Atlas Obscura
The Female Alphas of Yellowstone

(Producer/Voice) Decades after eradicating its wolves, Yellowstone decided to reintroduce them, and the wolves were thriving—until one wolf decided to make life hell for everyone around her.

Planet Money (NPR)
The Cost Of Getting Your Money Back

(Producer) Accidentally sending $1,500 to a stranger on Venmo reveals just how hard it is to get your money back in the new economy.

Lost Women of Science | Scientific American
The Doctor & The Fix

(Senior Producer) In this five-part series, we tell the story of 1960s psychiatrist, Marie Nyswander, and her controversial approach to addiction. In 1965, a team of doctors at Rockefeller University announced what sounded like a miracle: they'd found a treatment for heroin addiction. Patients who'd dropped out of school were suddenly reconnecting with families and graduating from college. So why were so many people opposed to this treatment?

Science Diction (WNYC Studios)
The Rise Of The Myers-Briggs

(Senior Producer) A mother sets out to raise the perfect child. The first in a three-part series about the Myers-Briggs.

Lost Women of Science | Scientific American
Flemmie Kittrell and the Preschool Experiment

(Senior Producer) A 1960s home economist runs a radical experiment in her preschool laboratory - with big implications for millions of kids living in poverty. Producer: Danya AbdelHameid

This is Critical
This Is Critical

(Producer) I produced a bunch of episodes for this talk show hosted by Virginia Heffernan, covering everything from a cultural history of public pools to the economics of home ownership.

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The TED AI Show
AI May Take Our Jobs - But Not Our Creativity

Like many new, exciting artistic technologies before it, the development of AI is begging us to ask: what counts as art? In a provocative conversation, Claire Silver, an anonymous AI collaborative artist, sits down with Bilawal to talk about how AI has revolutionized her own mixed media practice, and why she thinks that AI may be an inextricable part of human creativity in the near future.

Science Diction (WNYC Studios)
10/16/2020
Hydrox: How A Cookie Got A Name So Bad

(Senior Producer/ Editor) Before Oreo, there was a nearly identical cookie on the market. A much-loved cookie with a terrible name.

Undiscovered (WNYC Studios)
10/16/2018
Turtle v. Snake

(Producer, Host) A rookie scientist finds out he's been scooped by a faraway stranger with a big reputation. Co-produced with Alexa Lim & co-hosted with Annie Minoff.

Undiscovered (WNYC Studios)
05/30/2017
Sick and Tired

(Producer, Host) When researchers publish a new study on chronic fatigue syndrome, a group of patients cry foul-and decide to investigate for themselves.

Undiscovered (WNYC Studios)
05/23/2017
Born This Gay

(Producer, Host) A turn of the century German doctor sets out to prove that homosexuality is rooted in biology--but how useful was that to gay people?

Sunday Edition (CBC Radio)
2012
Tell Me Everything

(Producer, Voice) My first ever radio story. Before she was launched to fame, the trans writer, producer and activist, Janet Mock and her partner, shared their love story, starting with the moment she first came out to him.