Podcast Episodes

Alan Lightman: Can Science Explain Spirituality?

Season 21

A physicist whose world has no room for spirits, but who has experienced many eerily transcendent moments – both in nature and in his work – sets out…

3 years ago

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Steve Israel: Disagreeing Without the Hate

Season 21

A member of the US House of Representatives for 16 years before retiring – unindicted and undefeated as he likes to say – Steve Israel knows the valu…

3 years ago

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Dan Levitt: You Are Stardust. Really

Season 21

Every atom in your body – and there are more than all the grains of sand in the world­ – came from outer space, many of them created moments after th…

3 years, 1 month ago

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Adam Gopnik: The Joy of Getting Good at Something Hard

Season 21

The New Yorker essayist explores the mystery of mastery as he tackles skills he believed he could never learn. Including boxing, figure drawing and –…

3 years, 1 month ago

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Brenna Hassett: Why We Are Weird

Season 21

Of all the attributes that make us humans unique – or in archeologist Brenna Hassett’s view, weird – the weirdest of all is our extraordinarily long …

3 years, 1 month ago

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Michael Turner: The Dazzling Cosmos

Season 21

When funding for the James Webb Space Telescope was in doubt, cosmologist Michael Turner argued passionately that it would transform our understandin…

3 years, 1 month ago

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Daniel Libeskind: His buildings speak for themselves

Season 21

The prizewinning architect has designed some of the world’s most dramatic, daring, and memorable buildings. Inspired by optimism, wonder, music, and …

3 years, 2 months ago

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Eric Topol: A Covid Reckoning

Season 21

With the national state of emergency for Covid-19 now officially over, we invited physician and author Topol to reflect on his experience writing a r…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Clear + Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 21 trailer

Season 21

Alan and Executive Producer Graham Chedd chat about and play excerpts from Alan's conversations with some of the guests in the new season, beginning …

3 years, 2 months ago

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Ken Duckworth: Navigating mental illness

Season 20

Chief medical officer of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Dr Duckworth has written a guide for those with mental health problems that along w…

3 years, 2 months ago

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