Live & Upcoming Programmes

Riddle Us This EP02

1) Can you solve the troll's paradox riddle? - Dan Finkel 2) Can you solve the dragon jousting riddle? - Alex Gendler 3) Can you solve the secret sauce riddle? | Alex Gendler 4) Can you solve the birthday cake riddle? | Marie Brodsky 5) Can you solve the Alice in Wonderland riddle? | Alex Gendler 6) Can you solve the monster duel riddle? | Alex Gendler 7) Can you solve the world's most evil wizard riddle? 8) Can you solve Dongle's Difficult Dilemma? | Dennis E. Shasha 9) Can you solve the multiplying rabbits riddle? - Alex Gendler 10) Can you solve the secret werewolf riddle? - Daniel Finkel 11) Can you solve the giant spider riddle? | Dan Finkel 12) Can you solve the sorting hat riddle? | Dan Katz and Alex Rosenthal

2026-01-07 14:30:47 +0000 UTC→2026-01-07 15:41:55 +0000 UTC(1h11m)

Riddle Us This EP01

1) Can you solve the unstoppable blob riddle? | Daniel Finkel 2) Can you solve the Ragnarok riddle? | Dan Finkel 3) Can you solve the three gods riddle? - Alex Gendler 4) The Infinite Hotel Paradox - Jeff Dekofsky 5) Can you solve the jail break riddle? - Dan Finkel 6) Can you solve "Einstein's Riddle"? - Dan Van der Vieren 7) Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle? - Alex Gendler 8) Can you cheat death by solving this riddle? | Shravan S K 9) Can you solve the Leonardo da Vinci riddle? - Tanya Khovanova 10) The famously difficult green-eyed logic puzzle - Alex Gendler 11) Can you solve the cheating royal riddle? | Dan Katz 12) Can you solve the cuddly duddly fuddly wuddly riddle? | Daniel Finkel

2026-01-07 13:19:41 +0000 UTC→2026-01-07 14:30:47 +0000 UTC(1h11m)

The Business Angle EP62

1) Is safety worth the loss of privacy? | Sarah Stroud and Michael Vazquez 2) Can salad dressing transform capitalism? | Alex Amouyel 3) How distributed work can unlock your potential | Avani Prabhakar 4) The economic opportunity hidden in the climate transition | Marielle Remillard 5) How much does it cost to fly private? | Rachel Yang 6) The clever trick used by sports betting apps | Shannon Odell

2026-01-07 12:19:01 +0000 UTC→2026-01-07 13:19:41 +0000 UTC(1h)

The Business Angle EP61

1) Break the bad news bubble (Part 2) | Angus Hervey 2) Why spending smarter beats bigger budgets | Karthik Muralidharan 3) Forget the corporate ladder — winners take risks | Molly Graham 4) Ask dumb questions, embrace mistakes — and other lessons on innovation | Dave Raggio 5) The art of marketing — for good | Raja Rajamannar

2026-01-07 11:20:21 +0000 UTC→2026-01-07 12:19:01 +0000 UTC(58m)

Justice By (Re)design EP10

1) What obligation do social media platforms have to the greater good? | Eli Pariser 2) A new approach to defending the human rights of migrants | Itamar Mann 3) Africa's great carbon valley -- and how to end energy poverty | James Irungu Mwangi 4) A guide to collaborative leadership | Lorna Davis

2026-01-07 10:23:27 +0000 UTC→2026-01-07 11:20:21 +0000 UTC(56m)

Justice By (Re)design EP09

1) Why are drug prices so high? Investigating the outdated US patent system | Priti Krishtel 2) The humans at the center of the US immigration debate | Ali Noorani 3) A safe pathway to resettlement for migrants and refugees | Becca Heller 4) What a world without prisons could look like | Deanna Van Buren

2026-01-07 09:26:20 +0000 UTC→2026-01-07 10:23:27 +0000 UTC(57m)

How The Brain Works EP02

1) Why do we dream? | Amy Adkins 2) Can we edit memories? | Amy Milton 3) How your brain's executive function works -- and how to improve it | Sabine Doebel 4) What happens when you remove the hippocampus? - Sam Kean 5) What investigating neural pathways can reveal about mental health | Kay M. Tye 6) What happens in your brain when you pay attention? | Mehdi Ordikhani-Seyedlar

2026-01-07 08:21:19 +0000 UTC→2026-01-07 09:26:20 +0000 UTC(1h5m)

Food for Thought EP08

1) One of the world's oldest condiments | Dan Kwartler 2) The unsung heroes fighting malnutrition | Shruthi Baskaran-Makanju 3) A transparent, easy way for smallholder farmers to save | Anushka Ratnayake 4) How humanity got hooked on coffee | Jonathan Morris 5) The "greenhouse-in-a-box" empowering farmers in India | Sathya Raghu Mokkapati 6) The next big thing is coming from the Bronx, again | Jon Gray 7) How you can make a fruit fly eat veggies | Greg Gage

2026-01-07 03:10:45 +0000 UTC→2026-01-07 04:16:16 +0000 UTC(1h5m)

The Creative Zone EP10

1) Why tech needs the humanities | Eric Berridge 2) The evolution of the book - Julie Dreyfuss 3) How storytelling helps parents in prison stay connected to their kids | Alan Crickmore 4) The power of diversity within yourself | Rebeca Hwang 5) How we can teach computers to make sense of our emotions | Raphael Arar

2026-01-07 02:11:33 +0000 UTC→2026-01-07 03:10:45 +0000 UTC(59m)

The Creative Zone EP09

1) How video games turn players into storytellers | David Cage 2) A different way to visualize rhythm - John Varney 3) Why the pencil is perfect | Caroline Weaver 4) A firework ladder to the sky — and the magic of explosive art | Cai Guo-Qiang 5) The 3,000-year history of the hoodie | Paola Antonelli 6) When technology can read minds, how will we protect our privacy? | Nita Farahany

2026-01-07 01:16:36 +0000 UTC→2026-01-07 02:11:33 +0000 UTC(54m)

Your Body, Explained EP16

1) Should you be able to patent a human gene? | Tania Simoncelli 2) Why it's so hard to cure HIV/AIDS - Janet Iwasa 3) We can start winning the war against cancer | Adam de la Zerda 4) This scientist makes ears out of apples | Andrew Pelling 5) How you could see inside your body — with a micro-robot | Alex Luebke, Vivek Kumbhari

2026-01-07 00:17:52 +0000 UTC→2026-01-07 01:16:36 +0000 UTC(58m)

Your Body, Explained EP15

1) What if all US health care costs were transparent? | Jeanne Pinder 2) Why does hitting your funny bone feel so horrible? | Cella Wright 3) My quest to cure prion disease — before it's too late | Sonia Vallabh 4) What happens in your body during a miscarriage? | Nassim Assefi and Emily M. Godfrey 5) Can we cure genetic diseases by rewriting DNA? | David R. Liu

2026-01-06 23:21:26 +0000 UTC→2026-01-07 00:17:52 +0000 UTC(56m)

Overlooked History EP02

1) The mysterious life and death of Rasputin - Eden Girma 2) The forgotten queen of Egypt | Abdallah Ewis 3) The world's most mysterious book - Stephen Bax 4) Did Ancient Troy really exist? - Einav Zamir Dembin 5) History's deadliest king | Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja 6) Why was India split into two countries? | Haimanti Roy 7) A day in the life of a Mongolian queen - Anne F. Broadbridge 8) History vs. Sigmund Freud - Todd Dufresne 9) The dark history of bananas | John Soluri 10) The first and last king of Haiti | Marlene Daut 11) The history of Tea - Shunan Teng

2026-01-06 22:07:45 +0000 UTC→2026-01-06 23:21:26 +0000 UTC(1h13m)

Overlooked History EP01

1) History's "worst" nun | Theresa A. Yugar 2) A day in the life of a teenage samurai | Constantine N. Vaporis 3) History vs. Napoleon Bonaparte - Alex Gendler 4) The treadmill's dark and twisted past - Conor Heffernan 5) Did the Amazons really exist? - Adrienne Mayor 6) History's deadliest colors - J. V. Maranto 7) What really happened during the Salem Witch Trials 8) The murder of ancient Alexandria's greatest scholar - Soraya Field Fiorio 9) Mansa Musa, one of the wealthiest people who ever lived - Jessica Smith 10) The history of chocolate - Deanna Pucciarelli 11) Who were Las Mariposas, and why were they murdered? | Lisa Krause

2026-01-06 20:59:04 +0000 UTC→2026-01-06 22:07:45 +0000 UTC(1h8m)

How to Be a Better You EP07

1) Why specializing early doesn't always mean career success | David Epstein 2) Why people fall for misinformation | Joseph Isaac 3) 6 tips for better sleep | Matt Walker 4) How to tame your wandering mind | Amishi Jha 5) What kids can teach adults about asking for help | YeYoon Kim

2026-01-06 14:57:59 +0000 UTC→2026-01-06 15:56:57 +0000 UTC(58m)

Ocean Wonders EP03

1) What's at the bottom of the ocean -- and how we're getting there | Victor Vescovo 2) The wild sex lives of marine creatures | Luka Seamus Wright 3) The discoveries awaiting us in the ocean's twilight zone | Heidi M. Sosik 4) Could you survive the real Twilight Zone? | Philip Renaud and Kenneth Kostel 5) The deep sea's medicinal secrets | Sam Afoullouss 6) The dangers of a noisy ocean -- and how we can quiet it down | Nicola Jones

2026-01-06 13:54:53 +0000 UTC→2026-01-06 14:57:59 +0000 UTC(1h3m)

Ocean Wonders EP02

1) These squids can fly... no, really | Robert Siddall 2) The astonishing hidden world of the deep ocean | Robert Ballard 3) The survival of the sea turtle | Scott Gass 4) What ocean microbes reveal about the changing climate | Angelicque White 5) This sea creature breathes through its butt | Cella Wright 6) Underwater astonishments | David Gallo

2026-01-06 12:54:58 +0000 UTC→2026-01-06 13:54:53 +0000 UTC(59m)

Under the Microscope EP04

1) Hacking bacteria to fight cancer | Tal Danino 2) The mysterious microbes living deep inside the earth -- and how they could help humanity | Karen Lloyd 3) You are your microbes - Jessica Green and Karen Guillemin 4) How synthetic biology can improve our health, food and materials | Emily Leproust 5) What can DNA tests really tell us about our ancestry? 6) Why healthy soil matters now more than ever | Jane Zelikova

2026-01-06 11:57:04 +0000 UTC→2026-01-06 12:54:58 +0000 UTC(57m)

Under the Microscope EP03

1) How our microbes make us who we are | Rob Knight 2) How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains | Mary Lou Jepsen 3) Meet the microscopic life in your home -- and on your face | Anne Madden 4) Meet the microbes that could eat your trash | Tierney Thys and Christian Sardet

2026-01-06 11:01:17 +0000 UTC→2026-01-06 11:57:04 +0000 UTC(55m)

Get Smart(er) EP02

1) What a planet needs to sustain life | Dave Brain 2) The wars that inspired Game of Thrones | Alex Gendler 3) A stellar history of modern astronomy | Emily Levesque 4) How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | Steven Johnson 5) Would you raise the bird that murdered your children? | Steve Rothstein

2026-01-06 10:00:02 +0000 UTC→2026-01-06 11:01:17 +0000 UTC(1h1m)