Live & Upcoming Programmes

Secrets of the Wild EP02

1) Hidden miracles of the natural world | Louie Schwartzberg 2) These animals are also plants ... wait, what? | Luka Seamus Wright 3) The coolest animal you know nothing about ... and how we can save it | Patrícia Medici 4) The three different ways mammals give birth - Kate Slabosky 5) Moral behavior in animals | Frans de Waal 6) Why I love vultures | Munir Virani

2025-12-07 05:40:42 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-07 06:41:44 +0000 UTC (1h1m)

Secrets of the Wild EP61

1) A bold plan to rewild the Earth — at massive scale | Kristine McDivitt Tompkins 2) Why did it take so long to find giant squids? | Anna Rothschild 3) Why animals help each other | Ashley Ward 4) No one really knows what a tree is | Max G. Levy 5) The surprising power of your nature photos | Scott Loarie 6) Can AI help us speak with wolves? | Jeffrey T. Reed

2025-12-07 04:42:21 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-07 05:40:42 +0000 UTC (58m)

Larger-Than-Life Art EP03

1) How symbols and brands shape our humanity | Debbie Millman 2) The strange history of the world's most stolen painting | Noah Charney 3) A project of peace, painted across 50 buildings | eL Seed 4) Why books are here to stay | Chip Kidd 5) Why should you read Toni Morrison's "Beloved"? | Yen Pham 6) Portraits that transform people into whatever they want to be | Uldus Bakhtiozina 7) Gyotaku: The ancient Japanese art of printing fish - K. Erica Dodge

2025-12-06 22:30:45 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-06 23:29:38 +0000 UTC (58m)

Art and Science of Love EP03

1) A better way to talk about love | Mandy Len Catron 2) The Chinese legend of the butterfly lovers | Lijun Zhang 3) The mathematics of love | Hannah Fry 4) Why should you read "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy? | Laura Wright 5) How understanding divorce can help your marriage | Jeannie Suk Gersen

2025-12-06 21:31:28 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-06 22:30:45 +0000 UTC (59m)

Art and Science of Love EP02

1) Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron 2) 3 ways to build a happy marriage and avoid divorce | George Blair-West 3) The wicked wit of Jane Austen | Iseult Gillespie 4) Rethinking infidelity ... a talk for anyone who has ever loved | Esther Perel

2025-12-06 20:34:24 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-06 21:31:28 +0000 UTC (57m)

Universe of Mystery EP11

1) How humans could evolve to survive in space | Lisa Nip 2) The journey to Pluto, the farthest world ever explored - Alan Stern 3) Let's clean up the space junk orbiting Earth | Natalie Panek 4) Why is NASA sending a spacecraft to a metal world? - Linda T. Elkins-Tanton 5) 3 moons and a planet that could have alien life | James Green 6) What it takes to launch a telescope | Erika Hamden

2025-12-06 19:36:13 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-06 20:34:24 +0000 UTC (58m)

Universe of Mystery EP10

1) Why are scientists shooting mushrooms into space? | Shannon Odell 2) My search for proof aliens exist | Avi Loeb 3) Why Earth may someday look like Mars | Anjali Tripathi 4) How small are we in the scale of the universe? - Alex Hofeldt 5) The mission to create a searchable database of Earth's surface | Will Marshall 6) Just how small is an atom? - Jonathan Bergmann

2025-12-06 18:37:47 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-06 19:36:13 +0000 UTC (58m)

How to Be a Better You EP01

1) How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are | Andrew Solomon 2) How changing your story can change your life | Lori Gottlieb 3) The power of vulnerability | Brené Brown

2025-12-06 17:36:59 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-06 18:37:47 +0000 UTC (1h)

How to Be a Better You EP63

1) Embrace your main character energy with Natasha Rothwell | On the Spot | Natasha Rothwell 2) How to make anxiety your friend | David H. Rosmarin 3) The science behind dramatically better conversations | Charles Duhigg 4) Your inner fire is your greatest strength | Xiye Bastida

2025-12-06 16:40:54 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-06 17:36:59 +0000 UTC (56m)

Tales from the Edge EP03

1) What I learned about freedom after escaping North Korea | Yeonmi Park 2) My descent into America's neo-Nazi movement -- and how I got out | Christian Picciolini 3) Escaping the Khmer Rouge | Sophal Ear 4) What happened to the lost Kingdom of Kush? | Geoff Emberling 5) Why stay in Chernobyl? Because it's home. | Holly Morris 6) The biggest mistakes in mapmaking history | Kayla Wolf

2025-12-06 10:46:31 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-06 11:51:05 +0000 UTC (1h4m)

School Smarts EP04

1) The exploitation of US college athletes | Tim Nevius 2) Lessons on leaving the world better than you found it | Sophie Howe 3) Why should you read “Fahrenheit 451”? - Iseult Gillespie 4) What COVID-19 revealed about US schools -- and 4 ways to rethink education | Nora Flanagan 5) How dirt bikes and STEM ignite ingenuity in Baltimore | Brittany Young 6) Let's teach for mastery -- not test scores | Sal Khan 7) How to choose your news | Damon Brown

2025-12-06 09:43:16 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-06 10:46:31 +0000 UTC (1h3m)

School Smarts EP03

1) The board game getting kids excited about school | Joel Baraka 2) Technology can't fix inequality -- but training and opportunities could | 'Gbenga Sesan 3) Can stereotypes ever be good? | Sheila Marie Orfano and Densho 4) Sex education should start with consent | Kaz 5) The power of creative constraints - Brandon Rodriguez 6) How can we support the emotional well-being of teachers? | Sydney Jensen

2025-12-06 08:39:01 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-06 09:43:16 +0000 UTC (1h4m)

Say What? EP04

1) What makes a word "real"? | Anne Curzan 2) One of the most difficult words to translate... - Krystian Aparta 3) Beautiful new words to describe obscure emotions | John Koenig 4) What do all languages have in common? | Cameron Morin 5) The gift of words | Javed Akhtar 6) How to save a language from extinction | Daniel Bögre Udell

2025-12-06 07:41:38 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-06 08:39:01 +0000 UTC (57m)

Say What? EP03

1) The linguistic genius of babies | Patricia Kuhl 2) Ingenuity and elegance in ancient African alphabets | Saki Mafundikwa 3) A word game to communicate in any language | Ajit Narayanan 4) The enchanting music of sign language | Christine Sun Kim

2025-12-06 06:46:47 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-06 07:41:38 +0000 UTC (54m)

Psych Out EP05

1) How do personality tests work? | Merve Emre 2) Why you feel anxious socializing (and what to do about it) | Fallon Goodman 3) The psychology of narcissism - W. Keith Campbell 4) How to turn climate anxiety into action | Renée Lertzman 5) Why we get mad -- and why it's healthy | Ryan Martin

2025-12-06 05:47:16 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-06 06:46:47 +0000 UTC (59m)

Psych Out EP04

1) Why some people are more altruistic than others | Abigail Marsh 2) Do you really know why you do what you do? | Petter Johansson 3) The counterintuitive psychology of insurance | Orit Tykocinski 4) Can you outsmart a troll (by thinking like one)? | Claire Wardle 5) Can you spot the problem with these headlines? (Level 1) | Jeff Leek and Lucy McGowan

2025-12-06 04:45:16 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-06 05:47:16 +0000 UTC (1h2m)

Best of the Best EP04

1) Fly with the Jetman | Yves Rossy 2) Meet the SixthSense interaction | Pattie Maes + Pranav Mistry 3) Robots that fly ... and cooperate | Vijay Kumar 4) What will future jobs look like? | Andrew McAfee

2025-12-06 03:45:31 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-06 04:45:16 +0000 UTC (59m)

Best of the Best EP03

1) Why do cats act so weird? - Tony Buffington 2) Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger? | David Epstein 3) What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? | Nick Bostrom 4) What causes hallucinations? - Elizabeth Cox 5) What you need to know about stalkerware | Eva Galperin

2025-12-06 02:43:15 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-06 03:45:31 +0000 UTC (1h2m)

Climate Action, Now! EP61

1) The tipping points of climate change — and where we stand | Johan Rockström 2) Luxury, not landfill — the waste-free future of fashion | Joon Silverstein 3) Why violence is rising with global temperatures | Peter Schwartzstein 4) I'm a conservative — and I care about the climate, too | Danielle Butcher Franz 5) What if the climate movement felt like a house party? | Matthew Phillips

2025-12-05 21:49:05 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-05 22:47:30 +0000 UTC (58m)

Climate Action, Now! EP63

1) Collagen's dirty secret — and its clean future | Fei Luo 2) A concrete plan for sustainable cement | Ryan Gilliam 3) Why are we sending critical metals to the dump? | Jeff More 4) Norse mythology's climate lessons for the future | Lauren Fadiman 5) How to make climate stories impossible to ignore | Katherine Dunn 6) A new lifeline for the world's coral reefs | Theresa Fyffe 7) This is how nomadic farmers live | TED-Ed

2025-12-05 20:46:36 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-05 21:49:05 +0000 UTC (1h2m)