Live & Upcoming Programmes

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

2026-05-05 13:21:15 +0000 UTC→2026-05-05 14:19:09 +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

2026-05-05 12:25:28 +0000 UTC→2026-05-05 13:21:15 +0000 UTC(55m)

Get Smart(er) EP04

1) Why you think you're right -- even if you're wrong | Julia Galef 2) How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas | Manoush Zomorodi 3) Who decides what's in the dictionary? | Ilan Stavans 4) Where do your online returns go? | Aparna Mehta 5) The secret weapon that let dinosaurs take over the planet | Emma Schachner 6) Why is yawning contagious? - Claudia Aguirre

2026-05-05 11:20:57 +0000 UTC→2026-05-05 12:25:28 +0000 UTC(1h4m)

Get Smart(er) EP03

1) Aliens built the pyramids and other absurdities of pseudo-archaeology | Sarah Kurnick 2) How architecture helped music evolve | David Byrne 3) Math is the hidden secret to understanding the world | Roger Antonsen 4) The mathematical secrets of Pascal's triangle | Wajdi Mohamed Ratemi 5) Why should you listen to Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"? - Betsy Schwarm

2026-05-05 10:19:44 +0000 UTC→2026-05-05 11:20:57 +0000 UTC(1h1m)

Did You Know ... ? EP04

1) Ancient Rome's most notorious doctor - Ramon Glazov 2) Turbulence: one of the great unsolved mysteries of physics | Tomás Chor 3) What can Schrödinger's cat teach us about quantum mechanics? | Josh Samani 4) What's a squillo, and why do opera singers need it? | Ming Luke 5) The epidemics that almost happened | George Zaidan 6) Is there any truth to the King Arthur legends? - Alan Lupack 7) How do cigarettes affect the body? - Krishna Sudhir 8) Do larger animals take longer to pee? | David L. Hu 9) How do airplanes actually fly? | Raymond Adkins 10) How does chemotherapy work? | Hyunsoo Joshua No

2026-05-05 09:10:13 +0000 UTC→2026-05-05 10:19:44 +0000 UTC(1h9m)

Did You Know ... ? EP62

1) Have we reached the limit of computer power? | Sajan Saini and George Zaidan 2) Why don't we get our drinking water from the ocean? | Manish Kumar 3) What would happen if the Amazon Rainforest disappeared? | Anna Rothschild 4) How are microchips made? | George Zaidan and Sajan Saini 5) Why are there two tides a day? | Elise Cutts 6) Rocks could save the world (Yes, rocks) | Elise Cutts 7) One of the animal kingdom's strangest relationships | Niko Zlotnik 8) What Earth in 2125 could look like | Iseult Gillespie 9) How much would it cost to buy the Sun? | Cella Wright 10) How reliable is fingerprint evidence? | Theodore E. Yeshion

2026-05-05 08:02:03 +0000 UTC→2026-05-05 09:10:13 +0000 UTC(1h8m)

The Business Angle EP63

1) Solar energy is even cheaper than you think | Jenny Chase 2) The rise of China's homegrown brands — and why they matter | Roger Hu 3) Why joy and flexibility are good for business | Rosie Sargeant 4) How to handle grief at work and beyond | Meredith Wilson Parfet 5) How to finance the future of farming | Berry Marttin 6) How industrial fishing sinks communities | Lamin Jassey

2026-05-05 02:07:19 +0000 UTC→2026-05-05 03:08:00 +0000 UTC(1h)

The Art of Being Human EP64

1) How some friendships last — and others don't | Iseult Gillespie 2) An ethicist's guide to living a good life | Ira Bedzow 3) A new vision of healthy masculinity | Davonte Green 4) Are we still human if robots help raise our babies? | Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

2026-05-05 01:11:16 +0000 UTC→2026-05-05 02:07:19 +0000 UTC(56m)

The Art of Being Human EP63

1) Why friendship can be just as meaningful as romantic love | Rhaina Cohen 2) How to be an "apocalyptic optimist" | Dana R. Fisher 3) Can you love your body — and still want to change it? | Gabriella Lascano 4) 5 signs you're a good driver | Iseult Gillespie 5) Parkour! How the sport keeps your body and mind fit | Taylor Lynn Carpenter 6) Why does uncertainty bother us so much? | Adam Kucharski

2026-05-05 00:10:32 +0000 UTC→2026-05-05 01:11:16 +0000 UTC(1h)

Afternoon Snack EP04

1) Go ahead, dream about the future | Charlie Jane Anders 2) How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason 3) The most Martian place on Earth | Armando Azua-Bustos 4) The myth of Loki's monstrous children | Iseult Gillespie 5) Why monkeys (and humans) are wired for fairness | Sarah Brosnan 6) 6 myths about the Middle Ages that everyone believes | Stephanie Honchell Smith

2026-05-04 23:10:01 +0000 UTC→2026-05-05 00:10:32 +0000 UTC(1h)

Afternoon Snack EP03

1) What it's like to live on the International Space Station | Cady Coleman 2) How centuries of sci-fi sparked spaceflight | Alexander MacDonald 3) My love letter to cosplay | Adam Savage 4) When you're an ant but also a fungus tycoon | Charles Wallace 5) How I use sonar to navigate the world | Daniel Kish

2026-05-04 22:11:56 +0000 UTC→2026-05-04 23:10:01 +0000 UTC(58m)

Lead the Way EP02

1) Why great leaders take humor seriously | Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas 2) We need leaders who boldly champion inclusion | June Sarpong 3) The breathtaking courage of Harriet Tubman - Janell Hobson 4) Great leadership is a network, not a hierarchy | Gitte Frederiksen 5) How great leaders innovate responsibly | Ken Chenault

2026-05-04 21:10:50 +0000 UTC→2026-05-04 22:11:56 +0000 UTC(1h1m)

Lead the Way EP62

1) The key to navigating change with confidence | Kristy Ellmer 2) Why joy is a serious way to take action | Pattie Gonia 3) The "hot shot rule" to help you become a better leader | Kat Cole 4) My Big Idea (Ep. 2): Can a boxing gym transform a community? | Percy Tussamba

2026-05-04 20:12:35 +0000 UTC→2026-05-04 21:10:50 +0000 UTC(58m)

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

2026-05-04 12:10:41 +0000 UTC→2026-05-04 13:12:41 +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

2026-05-04 11:12:15 +0000 UTC→2026-05-04 12:10:41 +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

2026-05-04 10:09:46 +0000 UTC→2026-05-04 11:12:15 +0000 UTC(1h2m)

Art of the Future EP04

1) What's an algorithm? - David J. Malan 2) How bad data keeps us from good AI | Mainak Mazumdar 3) Design at the intersection of technology and biology | Neri Oxman 4) Why I draw with robots | Sougwen Chung 5) This app makes it fun to pick up litter | Jeff Kirschner 6) Is there a limit to technological progress? - Clément Vidal

2026-05-04 09:08:23 +0000 UTC→2026-05-04 10:09:46 +0000 UTC(1h1m)

Art of the Future EP03

1) Everyone can participate in building the metaverse | Sutu 2) Can robots be creative? - Gil Weinberg 3) How film transforms the way we see the world | Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy 4) How to build a resilient future using ancient wisdom | Julia Watson 5) Floating cities, the LEGO House and other architectural forms of the future | Bjarke Ingels

2026-05-04 08:09:44 +0000 UTC→2026-05-04 09:08:23 +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

2026-05-04 07:10:27 +0000 UTC→2026-05-04 08:09:44 +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

2026-05-04 06:13:23 +0000 UTC→2026-05-04 07:10:27 +0000 UTC(57m)