Podcast Episodes

Sarah Bell: Alexa’s Ancestors

Season 29

AI generated voices like Alexa and Siri are now so much a part of our everyday experience that disembodied chatbots that talk are edging ever closer to being accepted as real. And not for the first t…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Carl Zimmer: The Living Sky

Season 29

Stories of the discovery that the air is full of invisible life – and how that discovery was tragically overlooked when the covid pandemic struck.

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Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

John Leguizamo: Meticulously Spontaneous

Season 29

His far-reaching career acting, writing and producing on television and film spans voicing a sloth in the movie Ice Age to hosting a PBS series on the untold history of Latinos in the US. He’s fast t…

Published on 5 months ago

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 29 Trailer

Season 29

Alan and Clear and Vivid’s executive producer Graham Chedd chat about and play clips from some of the shows coming up in season 29. Guests include actor John Leguizamo, science writer Carl Zimmer, an…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Bill Pullman: From a Stage Fall to Curtain Calls

Season 28

A chat with an actor who does it all. After recovering from a near fatal fall on stage as his career was beginning, Bill Pullman has not only had a busy and award-winning career on stage, screen and …

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Alison Wood Brooks: Talking About Talk

Season 28

How the letters in the acronym TALK can have a profound effect on the next conversation you have.

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Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Kafui Dzirasa: An Electrical Path to Mental Health?

Season 28

A psychiatrist, engineer and neuroscientist, Kaf Dzirasa is researching ways to reengineer the brain to make it better able to cope with stress and so improve mental health.

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Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Shannon Vallor: The AI Illusion

Season 28

Artificial intelligence is poised to reshape our world, in many ways for the better. But the gains come with great risks – above all that its seductive appeal lulls us into believing that AI machines…

Published on 6 months ago

Malcolm Gladwell: Tipping Points Old and New

Season 28

His new book Revenge of The Tipping Point takes a fresh look at the tipping points of social change he opened our eyes to 25 years ago  –­ and unearths unexpected explanations for such new questions …

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Ann Patchett: Bel Canto Revisited

Season 28

In a remarkable and illuminating tour de force, the novelist recently took a fresh look at her best-known book, going through it line by line and annotating it with handwritten notes in the margins –…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago