Live & Upcoming Programmes

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

2025-12-16 07:41:05 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-16 08:41:46 +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

2025-12-16 06:45:02 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-16 07:41:05 +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

2025-12-16 05:44:18 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-16 06:45:02 +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

2025-12-16 04:43:47 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-16 05:44:18 +0000 UTC (1h)

Your Purpose, Unlocked EP04

1) How motivation can fix public systems | Abhishek Gopalka 2) We have to stop destroying our future | Al Gore 3) A roadmap for young changemakers | Melati Wijsen 4) Can we regenerate heart muscle with stem cells? | Chuck Murry 5) How AI art could enhance humanity's collective memory | Refik Anadol

2025-12-15 22:47:08 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-15 23:46:58 +0000 UTC (59m)

Your Purpose, Unlocked EP03

1) How to enter flow state | TED-Ed 2) What are you willing to give up to change the way we work? | Martin Danoesastro 3) 2 questions to uncover your passion -- and turn it into a career | Noeline Kirabo 4) How to lead in a crisis | Amy C. Edmondson 5) Your invitation to disrupt philanthropy | Sara Lomelin 6) How reverse mentorship can help create better leaders | Patrice Gordon

2025-12-15 21:45:45 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-15 22:47:08 +0000 UTC (1h1m)

Morning Motivation EP04

1) 3 ways community creates a healthy life | Olivia Affuso 2) The benefits of good posture | Murat Dalkilinç 3) How to build your confidence -- and spark it in others | Brittany Packnett Cunningham 4) The puzzle of motivation | Dan Pink 5) Using your voice is a political choice | Amanda Gorman

2025-12-15 20:45:33 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-15 21:45:45 +0000 UTC (1h)

Morning Motivation EP03

1) A magical mantra for nurturing a blissful life | JayaShri Maathaa 2) 3 questions to build resilience -- and change the world | Sister True Dedication 3) What yoga does to your body and brain | Krishna Sudhir 4) How to motivate people to do good for others | Erez Yoeli 5) Are you a giver or a taker? | Adam Grant

2025-12-15 19:45:58 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-15 20:45:33 +0000 UTC (59m)

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

2025-12-15 18:46:27 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-15 19:45:58 +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

2025-12-15 17:44:27 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-15 18:46:27 +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

2025-12-15 16:46:01 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-15 17:44:27 +0000 UTC (58m)

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

2025-12-15 10:38:58 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-15 11:47:09 +0000 UTC (1h8m)

Did You Know ... ? EP61

1) Can steroids save your life? | Anees Bahji 2) What really happened to Oedipus? | Stephen Esposito 3) Why is it so dangerous to step on a rusty nail? | Louise Thwaites 4) When will the next mass extinction occur? - Borths, D'Emic, and Pritchard 5) Could we build a miniature sun on Earth? | George Zaidan 6) The most dangerous elements on the periodic table | Shannon Odell 7) Why don't companies want you to repair your stuff? | Aaron Perzanowski 8) The real reason polio is so dangerous | Dan Kwartler 9) How do kidney transplants work? | Alexander H. Toledo 10) The world's longest-burning fires | Emma Bryce

2025-12-15 09:30:59 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-15 10:38:58 +0000 UTC (1h7m)

Riddle Us This EP04

1) Can you steal the most powerful wand in the wizarding world? | Dan Finkel 2) Can you solve the killer robo-ants riddle? | Daniel Finkel 3) Can you solve the alien pyramid riddle? | Henri Picciotto 4) Can you solve the rebel supplies riddle? | Alex Gendler 5) Can you solve the counterfeit coin riddle? | Jennifer Lu 6) Can you solve the giant iron riddle? | Alex Gendler 7) Can you outsmart Fate and break her ancient curse? | Dan Finkel 8) Can you solve the human cannonball riddle? | Alex Rosenthal 9) Can you solve the temple riddle? | Dennis Shasha 10) Can you solve the river crossing riddle? | Lisa Winer 11) Can you solve the alien probe riddle? | Daniel Finkel 12) Can you solve the bridge riddle? | Alex Gendler

2025-12-15 08:21:01 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-15 09:30:59 +0000 UTC (1h9m)

The Mind Shift EP05

1) The counterintuitive way to be more persuasive | Niro Sivanathan 2) A new understanding of human history and the roots of inequality | David Wengrow 3) Are all of your memories real? | Daniel L. Schacter 4) How to tap into your awareness -- and why meditation is easier than you think | Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche 5) How video game skills can get you ahead in life | William Collis

2025-12-15 07:18:45 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-15 08:21:01 +0000 UTC (1h2m)

Did You Know ... ? EP06

1) The myth of Narcissus and Echo | Iseult Gillespie 2) The myth of the original star-crossed lovers | Shannon Zhao 3) How Thor got his hammer - Scott A. Mellor 4) The myth of Prometheus - Iseult Gillespie 5) The Egyptian myth of Isis and the seven scorpions - Alex Gendler 6) The Taino myth of the cursed creator | Bill Keegan 7) The myth of Anansi, the trickster spider | Emily Zobel Marshall 8) The myth of Pegasus and the chimera | Iseult Gillespie 9) The Hawaiian story of the king's betrayal | Sydney Iaukea 10) The Japanese folktale of the selfish scholar | Iseult Gillespie 11) The myth of Loki and the deadly mistletoe | Iseult Gillespie

2025-12-15 06:10:24 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-15 07:18:45 +0000 UTC (1h8m)

Did You Know ... ? EP05

1) The accident that changed the world - Allison Ramsey and Mary Staicu 2) Why is cotton in everything? - Michael R. Stiff 3) Why are earthquakes so hard to predict? | Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl 4) The kingdom hidden in Brazil | Marc Adam Hertzman and Flavio dos Santos Gomes 5) How do cancer cells behave differently from healthy ones? | George Zaidan and Charles Morton 6) The bizarre world of parasitic wasps | Miles Zhang 7) Why do people have seasonal allergies? | Eleanor Nelsen 8) What's the fastest way to alphabetize your bookshelf? | Chand John 9) How dangerous was it to be a jester? | Beatrice K. Otto 10) What happens during a heart attack? | Krishna Sudhir 11) Why your phone battery gets worse over time | George Zaidan

2025-12-15 05:00:39 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-15 06:10:24 +0000 UTC (1h9m)

Say What? EP05

1) Evolution's great mystery: Language | Michael Corballis 2) Who counts as a speaker of a language? | Anna Babel 3) How interpreters juggle two languages at once - Ewandro Magalhaes 4) How I'm using LEGO to teach Arabic | Ghada Wali 5) A history of Indigenous languages -- and how to revitalize them | Lindsay Morcom 6) The race to decode a mysterious language | Susan Lupack 7) A brief history of Spanish | Ilan Stavans

2025-12-14 22:30:02 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-14 23:32:52 +0000 UTC (1h2m)

Legends of Design EP02

1) How Romans flooded the Colosseum for sea battles | Janelle Peters 2) How we need to remake the internet | Jaron Lanier 3) The mind behind Linux | Linus Torvalds 4) Will there ever be a mile-high skyscraper? - Stefan Al 5) How one design flaw almost toppled a skyscraper | Alex Gendler

2025-12-14 21:32:08 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-14 22:30:02 +0000 UTC (57m)

Legends of Design EP01

(1) The architectural mastermind behind modern Singapore | Liu Thai Ker (2) Why isn't the Netherlands underwater? (3) Pirates, nurses and other rebel designers | Alice Rawsthorn (4) Why doesn't the Leaning Tower of Pisa fall over? | Alex Gendler (5) The genius behind some of the world's most famous buildings | Renzo Piano

2025-12-14 20:32:31 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-14 21:32:08 +0000 UTC (59m)