Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Learn to connect better with others in every area of your life. Immerse yourself in spirited conversations with people who know how hard it is, and yet how good it feels, to really connect with other people – whether it’s one person, an audience or a whole country. You'll know many of the people in...
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Erica Chenoweth: A Better Way to Protest?
Not only are non-violent protests more effective than armed resistance, but a surprisingly small percentage of the population – around three and a hal...
Nicky Clayton: Why Crows Are “Feathered Apes”
With long memories and the ability to figure out what other crows are thinking – then plot to outdo them, using what Nicky Clayton calls “sleight of...
Steven Pinker: When You Know That I Know That You Know…
It then becomes “common knowledge,” and can be both beneficial – like cementing friendships or empowering peaceful protests – or destructive, causing...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 31 Trailer
Alan and Executive Producer Graham Chedd look ahead to next season and some unexpected connections between our first guests. They include best-selling...
Leanne Guy: A New Eye on Space
Perched on a mountain top in Chile, the new Vera Rubin Observatory’s telescope will view the universe as it’s never been seen before, seeking answers...
Michael Osterholm: Can We Stop The Big One?
With lessons learned from the Covid pandemic, he points to how we might better tackle the next, inevitable, global pandemic — at a time when science h...
Herman Pontzer: Diversity: Humanity’s Superpower
Unlike most other land animals, we can live almost anywhere – from deserts, to mountains, rain forests, even the arctic. We are supremely adaptable, a...
Stephen Hall: Snakes: Do they Deserve Our Dread?
Along with revelations about snake sex, their contributions to medicine, that flickering tongue and why slithering is a secret to their success, Steph...
Kyra Davis Lurie: Reimagining Gatsby
She’s had a love-hate relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald since she was a teenager. And she’s now written a wonderful new take on The Great Gatsby,...
Robert Sapolsky: Why Do We Do That?
An old friend of Clear and Vivid is back to enlighten Alan on some of the oddities of human behavior – both good and bad – and to talk about his enter...
Bob Odenkirk: Comedy? Action? Drama? Better Call Bob!
From his long running role as Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, to his recent Broadway appearance in Glenngary Glen Ross, and his new...
Tara Roberts: Diving for Stories
With her Black scuba-diving companions she has sought to reveal the appalling cost in lives lost in sunken slave ships, while at the same time honorin...
Roger Rosenblatt: Rules for Aging
Alan joins his old friend to compare notes on staying happy when old; and Roger shares tips from a forthcoming book, including some that may seem coun...
Tina Fey: The Return of The Four Seasons
Tina Fey’s reimagining of a movie Alan made over 40 years ago has been a big hit for Netflix. She and Alan have fun talking about how she went about u...
If Robots Had a Podcast
Alan lets bots mostly run the show to see how much they can do and still be under human control. For a while, it seems to go well, but then dangers st...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 30 Trailer
Alan and Clear and Vivid’s executive producer Graham Chedd chat about and play clips from some of the shows coming up in season 30. Guests include act...
Carly Anne York: Taking “Silly Science” Seriously
Research often derided for being a waste of money has led to world-changing breakthroughs, ranging from GPS to Ozempic.
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Paul McCartney: Dreams, Dickens… and Oobleys
To celebrate Sir Paul’s 83rd birthday June 18th we are reprising a wonderful conversation recorded five years ago. Alan and Paul exchange their experi...
Itzhak Perlman: Encore! Encore!
Reaching back to the first season of Clear and Vivid, a replay of the July 2018 episode when the violin virtuoso tells Alan why he likes to talk to hi...
Adam Kucharski: What’s True to You?
In a world awash with misinformation, how do we know what’s true? How can we be certain about anything? It turns out one of the most effective ways be...
Noah Wyle: Learning from The Pitt
Playing attending physician “Robby” Robinavitch in the hit HBO Max series The Pitt has given him insights into how the harrowing world of the emergenc...
Mario Livio: Hello? Anybody Out There?
The recent discovery on a distant planet of a chemical that could be a sign of life has this astrophysicist intrigued if not convinced. But if it turn...
Colman Domingo: Magnetic. Fearless. Unstoppable.
Now starring in the Netflix series The Four Seasons – based on Alan’s 1981 movie – he’s won an Emmy and has been nominated for two Oscars and two Tony...
Eric Topol: Live Longer, Better
While promises of extending the human lifespan to 125 and beyond are premature, recent breakthroughs in the early detection of killer diseases of the...
Sarah Bell: Alexa’s Ancestors
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 t...
Carl Zimmer: The Living Sky
Stories of the discovery that the air is full of invisible life – and how that discovery was tragically overlooked when the covid pandemic struck.
John Leguizamo: Meticulously Spontaneous
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...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 29 Trailer
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 act...
Bill Pullman: From a Stage Fall to Curtain Calls
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 bu...
Alison Wood Brooks: Talking About Talk
How the letters in the acronym TALK can have a profound effect on the next conversation you have.
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Kafui Dzirasa: An Electrical Path to Mental Health?
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...
Shannon Vallor: The AI Illusion
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 seductiv...
Malcolm Gladwell: Tipping Points Old and New
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 unearth...
Ann Patchett: Bel Canto Revisited
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 anno...
Matt Strassler: What Are You Made Of?
The answer, regrettably, is unbelievable. That is, unbelievable to most of us, because we cannot imagine a universe – including ourselves – made of wa...
Julie Sedivy: How Language Shapes Us
Her new book, Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love is an ode to the power of language to both shape us and be shaped by us. It’s informed by her own e...
Mala Murthy: From a Fly’s Brain to Yours
The 500 feet of wiring packed into fruit fly’s brain has been fully mapped – giving insights into how the more that 300,000 miles of wiring packed int...
Brenda Wineapple: When Evolution Was on Trial
In 1925, a trial in a small town in Tennessee riveted the nation. In the dock was a young man named John Scopes, charged with violating a state law ou...
Daniel Levitin: Music as Medicine
Music can lift our spirits, bring us to tears, spark our creativity, pace our workouts. Neuroscientist and musician Daniel Levitin explores all these...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 28 trailer
Alan and Clear and Vivid’s executive producer Graham Chedd chat about and play clips from some of the shows coming up in season 28. A major theme of t...