Podcast Episodes

Ken Auletta: Power and Abuse in the Movie Business

Season 18

How was Harvey Weinstein able to continue his abuse of women for so long – over four decades? Journalist Ken Auletta explores the enabling “culture o…

3 years, 9 months ago

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Charles Limb: To be Creative Don’t Think So Hard

Season 18

Combining his passion for music with his ability to peer inside the brain as it’s working, neuroscientist Charles Limb finds that creativity needs re…

3 years, 10 months ago

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Francis Collins: Bridging Science and Faith

Season 18

Head of the National Institutes of Health for 13 years and now interim science advisor to President Biden, Francis Collins is that rarity in the scie…

3 years, 10 months ago

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Molina, Garber and Alda: Together Again

Season 18

The actors Alfred Molina and Victor Garber and Alan reminisce about the play that first brought them together 24 years ago – an experience that chang…

3 years, 10 months ago

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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 18 trailer

Season 18

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, 10 months ago

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Phillip Dettmer: The World in a Nutshell

Season 17

A high school dropout who went on to create the immensely popular YouTube channel Kurtzgesagt (In a Nutshell) ignites curiosity about science in uniq…

3 years, 11 months ago

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Carl Bergstrom: Why Birds Don’t Lie and We Do

Season 17

Trying to figure out how to stop the spread of misinformation on social media, Carl Bergstrom draws from his studies of how birds stick to the truth …

3 years, 11 months ago

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Lucy Cooke: Where Females Call the Shots

Season 17

Are men more fit to lead, and more interested in sex than women? Lucy Cooke takes on these myths and more, telling Alan how she visited women biologi…

3 years, 11 months ago

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Frans de Waal: Gender, Apes, and Us

Season 17

Gender fluidity is tolerated a lot more among our cousins— chimpanzees and bonobos— than in our species. The famed primatologist Frans de Waal tells …

3 years, 11 months ago

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Paul Dooley: Movie Dad

Season 17

Alan and Paul Dooley started out as actors around the same time and in this conversation they have a reunion. In the years between, Paul has gone fro…

3 years, 11 months ago

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