Here are five things you should know about NPR’s new six-part series, hosted by Radiolab and This American Life expats.

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A man settles on the couch next to his wife to watch a movie. As the plot begins to thicken and violence erupts on screen, graphic thoughts suddenly swarm his mind.

What if he hurt someone? Worse yet, what if he turned on his wife and stabbed her?

That's one of the places Invisibilia goes: a crypt where we stash impulses, beliefs, and other invisible things that shape us. But hosts Alix Spiegel (left) and Lulu Miller aren't the kind to back away from a cobwebbed filing cabinet. They'll don a headlamp and happily spelunk through any spider fluff to get to the goods.

As the premiere nears on Jan. 9, here are some things you should know about Invisibilia.

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In a creative radio-making way, that is. "We met at something called Third Coast, which is a place for radio dorks such as ourselves," said Miller of the Chicago festival, where a hum of radio-wave storytellers congregate every year — kind of like the Sundance of radio.

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