Live & Upcoming Programmes

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)

How The Brain Works EP06

1) Seeing things that aren't there? It's pareidolia | Susan G. Wardle 2) How we're reverse engineering the human brain in the lab | Sergiu P. Pasca 3) How do you explain consciousness? | David Chalmers 4) Could your brain repair itself? - Ralitsa Petrova 5) Can I have your brain? The quest for truth on concussions and CTE | Chris Nowinski

2025-12-14 19:36:07 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-14 20:32:31 +0000 UTC (56m)

How The Brain Works EP05

1) The brain science (and benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard 2) How sound can hack your memory while you sleep | Greg Gage 3) What color is Tuesday? Exploring synesthesia - Richard E. Cytowic 4) What is melatonin -- and should you take it to fall asleep? | Matt Walker 5) Why helmets don't prevent concussions -- and what might | David Camarillo 6) This is your brain on air pollution | María Neira

2025-12-14 18:37:27 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-14 19:36:07 +0000 UTC (58m)

The Future Ahead EP02

1) Civilization on the Moon -- and what it means for life on Earth | Jessy Kate Schingler 2) Yes, scientists are actually building an elevator to space | Fabio Pacucci 3) A sci-fi vision of life in 2041 | Chen Qiufan 4) A brain implant that turns your thoughts into text | Tom Oxley 5) The awesome potential of many metaverses | Agnes Larsson 6) Why are airplanes slower than they used to be? | Alex Gendler

2025-12-14 17:33:03 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-14 18:37:27 +0000 UTC (1h4m)

The Future Ahead EP01

(1) Super speed, magnetic levitation and the vision behind the hyperloop | Josh Giegel (2)The future of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy | Rick Doblin (3) The world's biggest battery looks nothing like a battery | TED-Ed (4) Siri, Alexa, Google ... what comes next? | Karen Lellouche Tordjman (5) How AI can save our humanity | Kai-Fu Lee

2025-12-14 16:30:01 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-14 17:33:03 +0000 UTC (1h3m)

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

2025-12-14 10:30:59 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-14 11:26:24 +0000 UTC (55m)

The Future of Cities EP06

1) Why working from home is good for business | Matt Mullenweg 2) What if cracks in concrete could fix themselves? - Congrui Jin 3) The case for a new Great Migration in the US | Charles M. Blow 4) How much land does it take to power the world? | TED-Ed 5) 5 steps for clean air in India | Arunabha Ghosh 6) A smog vacuum cleaner and other magical city designs | Daan Roosegaarde 7) The next wave of innovation in freight | Oren Zaslansky

2025-12-14 09:27:48 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-14 10:30:59 +0000 UTC (1h3m)

The Future of Cities EP05

1) How the water you flush becomes the water you drink | Francis de los Reyes 2) Cities are driving climate change. Here's how they can fix it | Angel Hsu 3) You don't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one | Majora Carter 4) The material that could change the world... for a third time | TED-Ed 5) How to transform sinking cities into landscapes that fight floods | Kotchakorn Voraakhom 6) How do self-driving cars "see"? | Sajan Saini

2025-12-14 08:26:43 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-14 09:27:48 +0000 UTC (1h1m)

Secrets of the Wild EP04

1) Why don't poisonous animals poison themselves? - Rebecca D. Tarvin 2) The loves and lies of fireflies | Sara Lewis 3) This weird trick will help you summon an army of worms | Kenny Coogan 4) How we found the giant squid | Edith Widder 5) Vultures: The acid-puking, plague-busting heroes of the ecosystem | Kenny Coogan 6) The colorful, shapeshifting wonder of the Amazon's praying mantises | Leo Lanna and Lvcas Fiat 7) Why can parrots talk? | Grace Smith-Viduarre and Tim Wright

2025-12-14 07:22:54 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-14 08:26:43 +0000 UTC (1h3m)

Secrets of the Wild EP03

1) How we're saving one of Earth's last wild places | Steve Boyes 2) Are we interrupting the kinky sex lives of fish? | Marah J. Hardt 3) The evolution of animal genitalia - Menno Schilthuizen 4) Unseen footage, untamed nature | Karen Bass 5) Grief and love in the animal kingdom | Barbara J. King

2025-12-14 06:23:38 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-14 07:22:54 +0000 UTC (59m)

Your Body, Explained EP08

1) Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild 2) How a wound heals itself - Sarthak Sinha 3) The truth about yeast in your body | Jen Gunter 4) How to have a healthier, positive relationship to sex | Tiffany Kagure Mugo and Siphumeze Khundayi 5) Why do women have periods? 6) The virginity fraud | Nina Dølvik Brochmann and Ellen Støkken Dahl 7) What causes bad breath? - Mel Rosenberg

2025-12-14 05:22:12 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-14 06:23:38 +0000 UTC (1h1m)

Your Body, Explained EP07

1) Why can't we talk about periods? | Jen Gunter 2) An aerialist on listening to your body's signals | Adie Delaney 3) The surprising reason you feel awful when you're sick - Marco A. Sotomayor 4) Why skin disease is often misdiagnosed in darker skin tones | Jenna C. Lester 5) The way we think about biological sex is wrong | Emily Quinn 6) A campaign for period positivity | Ananya Grover

2025-12-14 04:20:58 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-14 05:22:12 +0000 UTC (1h1m)

Art of the Future EP06

1) How to design a library that makes kids want to read | Michael Bierut 2) Fake videos of real people -- and how to spot them | Supasorn Suwajanakorn 3) Can machines read your emotions? - Kostas Karpouzis 4) Inside Africa's thriving art scene | Touria El Glaoui 5) Why must artists be poor? | Hadi Eldebek 6) What is color? | Colm Kelleher 7) 3 creative ways to fix fashion's waste problem | Amit Kalra

2025-12-13 23:09:13 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-14 00:10:02 +0000 UTC (1h)

Art of the Future EP05

1) 24 hours on Earth -- in one image | Stephen Wilkes 2) The power of an image -- and the mind behind it | Misan Harriman 3) In the age of AI art, what can originality look like? | Eileen Isagon Skyers 4) Test yourself: Can you tell the difference between music and noise? | Hanako Sawada 5) How to 3D print human tissue | Taneka Jones 6) The forgotten art of the zoetrope | Eric Dyer 7) How AI can help shatter barriers to equality | Jamila Gordon 8) How will AI change the world? | TED-Ed

2025-12-13 22:06:21 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-13 23:09:13 +0000 UTC (1h2m)

Universe of Mystery EP02

1) What is the universe expanding into? | Sajan Saini 2) Is our universe the only universe? | Brian Greene 3) The most detailed map of galaxies, black holes and stars ever made | Juna Kollmeier 4) Can a black hole be destroyed? | Fabio Pacucci 5) What Saturn's most mysterious moon could teach us about the origins of life | Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle

2025-12-13 21:05:15 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-13 22:06:21 +0000 UTC (1h1m)