Live & Upcoming Programmes

How The Brain Works EP01

1) What hallucination reveals about our minds | Oliver Sacks 2) What is consciousness? - Michael S. A. Graziano 3) What we'll learn about the brain in the next century | Sam Rodriques 4) How stress affects your brain - Madhumita Murgia 5) The brain benefits of deep sleep -- and how to get more of it | Dan Gartenberg 6) The mysterious science of pain - Joshua W. Pate

2025-12-10 10:20:08 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-10 11:22:18 +0000 UTC (1h2m)

Good Talk EP04

1) How to connect with depressed friends | Bill Bernat 2) 3 steps to turn everyday get-togethers into transformative gatherings | Priya Parker 3) The science of hearing - Douglas L. Oliver 4) How to write less but say more | Jim VandeHei 5) 3 strategies for effectively talking about climate change | John Marshall

2025-12-10 09:20:26 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-10 10:20:08 +0000 UTC (59m)

Good Talk EP03

1) How miscommunication happens (and how to avoid it) - Katherine Hampsten 2) How to foster productive and responsible debate | Ishan Bhabha 3) How do you know whom to trust? | Ram Neta 4) Can beauty open our hearts to difficult conversations? | Titus Kaphar 5) What happened when we paired up thousands of strangers to talk politics | Jochen Wegner 6) How to use rhetoric to get what you want | Camille Langston 7) How do our brains process speech? | Gareth Gaskell

2025-12-10 08:14:50 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-10 09:20:26 +0000 UTC (1h5m)

Food for Thought EP01

(1) How sugar affects the brain - Nicole Avena (2) A guerrilla gardener in South Central LA | Ron Finley (3) Teach every child about food | Jamie Oliver (4) Got millet? How marketing could improve the lives of African farmers | Zoë Karl-Waithaka (5) Will the ocean ever run out of fish? - Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Jennifer Jacquet

2025-12-10 07:14:55 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-10 08:14:50 +0000 UTC (59m)

Food for Thought EP61

1) Our savory, spicy, significant relationship with food | June Jo Lee 2) The foods humanity forgot — and how we're bringing them back | Helianti Hilman 3) A menu of foods we might lose forever | Sam Kass 4) The food that fertilizes itself | Giles E.D. Oldroyd 5) The delicious potential of rescuing wasted food | Jasmine Crowe-Houston

2025-12-10 06:15:05 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-10 07:14:55 +0000 UTC (59m)

The Creative Zone EP01

1) Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert 2) How craving attention makes you less creative | Joseph Gordon-Levitt 3) The neuroscience of imagination | Andrey Vyshedskiy 4) The surprising habits of original thinkers | Adam Grant

2025-12-10 05:16:55 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-10 06:15:05 +0000 UTC (58m)

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

2025-12-09 22:50:22 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-09 23:55:22 +0000 UTC (1h5m)

How The Brain Works EP01

1) What hallucination reveals about our minds | Oliver Sacks 2) What is consciousness? - Michael S. A. Graziano 3) What we'll learn about the brain in the next century | Sam Rodriques 4) How stress affects your brain - Madhumita Murgia 5) The brain benefits of deep sleep -- and how to get more of it | Dan Gartenberg 6) The mysterious science of pain - Joshua W. Pate

2025-12-09 21:48:11 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-09 22:50:22 +0000 UTC (1h2m)

Revolutionary Women! EP02

1) Why women should tell the stories of humanity | Jude Kelly 2) Me Too is a movement, not a moment | Tarana Burke 3) The hidden life of Rosa Parks | Riché D. Richardson 4) To future generations of women, you are the roots of change | Gloria Steinem 5) The electrifying speeches of Sojourner Truth | Daina Ramey Berry

2025-12-09 20:48:46 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-09 21:48:11 +0000 UTC (59m)

Revolutionary Women! EP01

(1) How moms shape the world | Anna Malaika Tubbs (2) How one person saved over 2,000 children from the Nazis | Iseult Gillespie (3) How to overcome apathy and find your power | Dolores Huerta (4) How one journalist risked her life to hold murderers accountable - Christina Greer (5) A hilarious celebration of lifelong female friendship | Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin

2025-12-09 19:49:16 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-09 20:48:46 +0000 UTC (59m)

How to Be a Better You EP62

1) How do you stop caring what others think? A filmmaker and a therapist answer | Baron Ryan and Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile 2) Confessions of a recovering people pleaser | Baron Ryan 3) Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson 4) Let your ambition light you up, not burn you out | Tarveen Forrester

2025-12-09 18:52:53 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-09 19:49:16 +0000 UTC (56m)

How to Be a Better You EP61

1) What you miss when you focus on the average | Sharon Zicherman 2) Listen to your intuition — it can help you navigate the future | Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir 3) Your relationship expectations could be holding you back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile 4) How to reclaim your life from work | Simone Stolzoff 5) 3 reasons to take risks like a teenager | Adriana Galván 6) Is perfectionism just procrastination in disguise? | Jon Youshaei 7) Why you feel stuck — and how to get motivated | Shannon Odell

2025-12-09 17:51:19 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-09 18:52:53 +0000 UTC (1h1m)

Ocean Wonders EP06

1) A shark-deterrent wetsuit (and it's not what you think) | Hamish Jolly 2) The "dead zone" of the Gulf of Mexico | Nancy Rabalais 3) Human sperm vs. the sperm whale - Aatish Bhatia 4) Why the octopus brain is so extraordinary - Cláudio L. Guerra 5) How a handful of fishing villages sparked a marine conservation revolution | Alasdair Harris 6) Why you should care about whale poo | Asha de Vos

2025-12-09 16:51:36 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-09 17:51:19 +0000 UTC (59m)

Get Smart(er) EP01

(1) Can you really tell if a kid is lying? | Kang Lee (2) The fascinating science of phantom limbs - Joshua W. Pate (3) A beginner's guide to quantum computing | Shohini Ghose (4) The paradox at the heart of mathematics: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem | Marcus du Sautoy (5) How racial bias works -- and how to disrupt it | Jennifer L. Eberhardt (6) The fascinating history of cemeteries - Keith Eggener

2025-12-09 11:41:55 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-09 12:44:49 +0000 UTC (1h2m)

Did You Know ... ? EP03

1) The world's most painful insect sting | Justin Schmidt 2) The greatest mathematician that never lived | Pratik Aghor 3) The physics of surfing - Nick Pizzo 4) How do crystals work? - Graham Baird 5) A day in the life of a Cossack warrior - Alex Gendler 6) Why do we have hair in such random places? | Nina G. Jablonski 7) The hidden network that makes the internet possible | Sajan Saini 8) Can you survive nuclear fallout? - Brooke Buddemeier and Jessica S. Wieder 9) Why a sausage can do what your gloves cannot | Charles Wallace and Sajan Saini 10) Why can't some birds fly? | Gillian Gibb 11) Can you outsmart this logical fallacy? | Alex Gendler

2025-12-09 10:31:40 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-09 11:41:55 +0000 UTC (1h10m)

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

2025-12-09 09:23:41 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-09 10:31:40 +0000 UTC (1h7m)

Close Up and Personal EP10

1) Education is a fundamental right for every child | Makhtoum Abdalla 2) The journey through loss and grief | Jason B. Rosenthal 3) Ugly History: Japanese American incarceration camps | Densho 4) Restoring human dignity at the US southern border | Norma Pimentel 5) A foster care system where every child has a loving home | Sixto Cancel

2025-12-09 08:24:10 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-09 09:23:41 +0000 UTC (59m)

Close Up and Personal EP09

1) A love story about the power of art as organizing | Aja Monet and phillip agnew 2) Why is this painting so shocking? | Iseult Gillespie 3) Why I photograph the quiet moments of grief and loss | Caroline Catlin 4) How a blind astronomer found a way to hear the stars | Wanda Diaz Merced 5) How to preserve your private life in the age of social media | Bryce Dallas Howard

2025-12-09 07:24:47 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-09 08:24:10 +0000 UTC (59m)

Best of the Best EP01

(1) 3 secrets of resilient people | Lucy Hone (2) The danger of a single story | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (3) The power of introverts | Susan Cain

2025-12-09 06:27:17 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-09 07:24:47 +0000 UTC (57m)

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

2025-12-09 05:26:37 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-09 06:27:17 +0000 UTC (1h)