Live & Upcoming Programmes

Overlooked History EP61

1) The tragedy of the one guy who was right about the Trojan Horse | Noah Charney 2) Why did people wear powdered wigs? | Stephanie Honchell Smith 3) Ugly History: The Armenian Genocide | Ümit Kurt 4) The woman who broke the Great Wall of China | Juwen Zhang 5) The tragic romance of Tristan and Isolde | Iseult Gillespie 6) The dark history of arsenic | Neil Bradbury 7) The history of the world according to rats | Max G. Levy 8) A day in the life of a martial artist in medieval China | Peter Lorge 9) One of the most controversial medical procedures in history | Jenell Johnson

2025-12-07 22:17:01 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-07 23:22:26 +0000 UTC (1h5m)

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

2025-12-07 21:19:38 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-07 22:17:01 +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

2025-12-07 20:24:47 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-07 21:19:38 +0000 UTC (54m)

Legends of Design EP09

1) How to fix fashion and protect the planet | Amy Powney 2) Why can't you put metal in a microwave? | Aaron Slepkov 3) Fashion and creativity | Isaac Mizrahi 4) How do bulletproof vests work? | Max G. Levy 5) The art of first impressions -- in design and life | Chip Kidd

2025-12-07 19:24:01 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-07 20:24:47 +0000 UTC (1h)

Legends of Design EP08

1) The joy of shopping -- and how to recapture it online | Nimisha Jain 2) Small rockets are the next space revolution | Peter Beck 3) How does your smartphone know your location? - Wilton L. Virgo 4) A futuristic vision for Latin America, rooted in ancient design | Catalina Lotero 5) Origami robots that reshape and transform themselves | Jamie Paik

2025-12-07 18:24:28 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-07 19:24:01 +0000 UTC (59m)

How The Brain Works EP04

1) A new way to study the brain's invisible secrets | Ed Boyden 2) How menopause affects the brain | Lisa Mosconi 3) How puberty changes your brain | Shannon Odell 4) How sleep affects your emotions | Matt Walker 5) This is your brain on communication | Uri Hasson

2025-12-07 17:29:01 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-07 18:24:28 +0000 UTC (55m)

How The Brain Works EP03

1) The brain may be able to repair itself -- with help | Jocelyne Bloch 2) What causes migraines? | Marianne Schwarz 3) Could we treat Alzheimer's with light and sound? | Li-Huei Tsai 4) How memories form and how we lose them | Catharine Young 5) What is so special about the human brain? | Suzana Herculano-Houzel 6) How the food you eat affects your brain | Mia Nacamull

2025-12-07 16:28:02 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-07 17:29:01 +0000 UTC (1h)

The Poetry Corner EP03

1) The danger of silence | Clint Smith 2) All the World's a Stage | William Shakespeare 3) The Nutritionist by Andrea Gibson 4) Why people need poetry | Stephen Burt 5) On time and water | Andri Snær Magnason 6) Being Human | Naima Penniman 7) New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 8) A love poem for lonely prime numbers | Harry Baker 9) Two poems about what dogs think (probably) | Billy Collins

2025-12-07 10:37:46 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-07 11:38:22 +0000 UTC (1h)

The Good Life EP04

1) Why thinking about death helps you live a better life | Alua Arthur 2) Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast 3) Would you opt for a life with no pain? - Hayley Levitt and Bethany Rickwald 4) Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

2025-12-07 09:42:21 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-07 10:37:46 +0000 UTC (55m)

The Good Life EP03

1) Why having fun is the secret to a healthier life | Catherine Price 2) The philosophy of cynicism - William D. Desmond 3) How cohousing can make us happier (and live longer) | Grace Kim 4) Why do our bodies age? | Monica Menesini 5) What really matters at the end of life | BJ Miller

2025-12-07 08:42:37 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-07 09:42:21 +0000 UTC (59m)

The Future of Cities EP04

1) 7 principles for building better cities | Peter Calthorpe 2) The city planting a million trees in two years | Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr 3) How much electricity does it take to power the world? | TED-Ed 4) How to revitalize a neighborhood -- without gentrification | Bree Jones 5) The billion-dollar campaign to electrify transport | Monica Araya 6) Detroit's climate crisis -- and how to build a resilient future everywhere | Anika Goss

2025-12-07 07:41:26 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-07 08:42:37 +0000 UTC (1h1m)

The Future of Cities EP03

1) The rise of boring architecture -- and the case for radically human buildings | Thomas Heatherwick 2) Could a DAO build the next great city? | Scott Fitsimones 3) Urbanization and the future of cities - Vance Kite 4) Could we build a wooden skyscraper? | Stefan Al 5) Buildings that blend nature and city | Jeanne Gang 6) The surprisingly long history of electric cars | Daniel Sperling and Gil Tal

2025-12-07 06:41:44 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-07 07:41:26 +0000 UTC (59m)

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)