The DNA Files, an award-winning NPR-distributed series that explores the intriguing world of genetics and its impact on life in the 21st century, returns this fall for the series' third season.

Produced by Berkeley, California-based SoundVision Productions®, the shows are anchored by Peabody-and Emmy-winning correspondent John Hockenberry whose engaging presence and quirky humor have helped define the series. Hockenberry has been on NPR’s All Things Considered and NBC’s Dateline, and has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker and Wired magazine. The five one-hour documentaries—for which globetrotting reporters traveled to New Zealand, India, Mexico and Australia—will air on Chicago Public Radio in November. Beginning October 3, Chicago Public Radio's Lynette Kalsnes prepares for the series with five reports exploring genetics research in Chicago. They will air on Morning Edition and Eight Forty-Eight.

The documentaries explore tales of food in the age of biotechnology; how environment works in concert with genetics; the interplay between the inner mind and the outer world; comparative genomics (what do animals tell us about ourselves?); and the pressure of climate change on the species of our planet.

The DNA Files is made possible with funding from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.