Live & Upcoming Programmes

Overlooked History EP04

1) A 5,300-year-old murder mystery | Albert Zink 2) The dark history of Mount Rushmore | Ned Blackhawk and Jeffrey D. Means 3) The infamous and ingenious Ho Chi Minh Trail | Cameron Paterson 4) The movement that inspired the Holocaust | Alexandra Minna Stern and Natalie Lira 5) The rise of the Ottoman Empire | Mostafa Minawi 6) Who were the Vestal Virgins, and what was their job? - Peta Greenfield 7) How Phillis Wheatley captured the attention of the world | Charita Gainey 8) Ugly History: The Spanish Inquisition | Kayla Wolf 9) History vs. Thomas Jefferson | Frank Cogliano 10) The ancient origins of the Olympics | Armand D'Angour 11) The rise and fall of the Mughal Empire | Stephanie Honchell Smith

2025-12-29 04:58:59 +0000 UTC→2025-12-29 06:06:11 +0000 UTC(1h7m)

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

2025-12-28 22:55:40 +0000 UTC→2025-12-28 23:52:03 +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

2025-12-28 21:57:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-28 22:55:40 +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

2025-12-28 20:52:36 +0000 UTC→2025-12-28 21:57:00 +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

2025-12-28 19:49:34 +0000 UTC→2025-12-28 20:52:36 +0000 UTC(1h3m)

The Business Angle EP04

1) How online marketplaces can help local economies, not hurt them | Amane Dannouni 2) What happens inside those massive warehouses? | Mick Mountz 3) The life cycle of a pair of jeans | Madhavi Venkatesan 4) 4 myths and misunderstandings about doing business in Africa | Nomava Zanazo 5) How to build a business that lasts 100 years | Martin Reeves

2025-12-28 18:46:23 +0000 UTC→2025-12-28 19:49:34 +0000 UTC(1h3m)

The Business Angle EP03

1) Got a wicked problem? First, tell me how you make toast | Tom Wujec 2) 7 tools for building a business people trust | Marcos Aguiar 3) Why do competitors open their stores next to one another? - Jac de Haan 4) The power of purpose in business | Ashley M. Grice 5) How do investors choose stocks? | Richard Coffin 6) What causes an economic recession? | Richard Coffin 7) Why people and AI make good business partners | Shervin Khodabandeh

2025-12-28 17:41:12 +0000 UTC→2025-12-28 18:46:23 +0000 UTC(1h5m)

The Poetry Corner EP04

1) For Estefani, Third Grade, Who Made Me A Card | Aracelis Girmay 2) How many lives can you live? | Sarah Kay 3) High School Training Ground | Malcolm London 4) Why should you read "A Midsummer Night's Dream?" - Iseult Gillespie 5) What will you tell your daughters about 2016? | Chinaka Hodge 6) Everyday moments, caught in time | Billy Collins 7) Please don't take my Air Jordans | Lemon Andersen

2025-12-28 16:44:51 +0000 UTC→2025-12-28 17:41:12 +0000 UTC(56m)

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

2025-12-28 10:42:27 +0000 UTC→2025-12-28 11:46:16 +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

2025-12-28 09:43:11 +0000 UTC→2025-12-28 10:42:27 +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

2025-12-28 08:41:45 +0000 UTC→2025-12-28 09:43:11 +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

2025-12-28 07:40:31 +0000 UTC→2025-12-28 08:41:45 +0000 UTC(1h1m)

What in the World? EP05

1) The one thing stopping jellyfish from taking over | Mariela Pajuelo and Javier Antonio Quinones 2) The life cycle of a neutron star - David Lunney 3) The 4 greatest threats to the survival of humanity | TED-Ed 4) Could human civilization spread across the whole galaxy? | Roey Tzezana 5) Cicadas: The dormant army beneath your feet - Rose Eveleth 6) Why can't we see evidence of alien life? | Chris Anderson 7) Dead stuff: The secret ingredient in our food chain | John C. Moore and Eric Berlow 8) How big is infinity? - Dennis Wildfogel 9) How advanced is whale talk? | David Gruber and Shane Gero 10) What is the universe made of? - Dennis Wildfogel 11) Is space trying to kill us? - Ron Shaneyfelt

2025-12-28 06:35:22 +0000 UTC→2025-12-28 07:40:31 +0000 UTC(1h5m)

What in the World? EP04

1) How tsunamis work | Alex Gendler 2) Whoever builds something here will be rich beyond measure | Fabio Pacucci 3) How to grow a glacier | M Jackson 4) How light technology is changing medicine | Sajan Saini 5) How do ocean currents work? | Jennifer Verduin 6) What makes volcanoes erupt? | Steven Anderson 7) If superpowers were real: Immortality | Joy Lin 8) The science of symmetry | Colm Kelleher 9) Why is this 2,500 year old shipwreck so well-preserved? | Helen Farr and Jon Adams 10) Dark matter: The matter we can't see | James Gillies 11) The sonic boom problem | Katerina Kaouri

2025-12-28 05:27:38 +0000 UTC→2025-12-28 06:35:22 +0000 UTC(1h7m)

Larger-Than-Life Art EP06

1) How to support and celebrate living artists | Swizz Beatz 2) Why should you read "Kafka on the Shore"? | Iseult Gillespie 3) Life lessons from Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 | Benjamin Zander 4) Wild, intricate sculptures — made out of my hair | Laetitia Ky 5) An architect's subversive reimagining of the US-Mexico border wall | Ronald Rael

2025-12-28 04:28:07 +0000 UTC→2025-12-28 05:27:38 +0000 UTC(59m)

How to Be a Better You EP03

1) What's your happiness score? | Dominic Price 2) This tool will help improve your critical thinking | Erick Wilberding 3) The gift and power of emotional courage | Susan David 4) Grit: The power of passion and perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth 5) The power of believing that you can improve | Carol Dweck

2025-12-27 21:23:39 +0000 UTC→2025-12-27 22:24:14 +0000 UTC(1h)

Food for Thought EP04

1) History through the eyes of a chicken | Chris A. Kniesly 2) The urgent case for antibiotic-free animals | Leon Marchal 3) What's a food allergy -- and what's not? | Jen Gunter 4) The ingredient in almost everything you eat | Francesca Bot 5) Climate change is becoming a problem you can taste | Amanda Little 6) How quinoa can help combat hunger and malnutrition | Cedric Habiyaremye 7) Without farmers, you'd be hungry, naked and sober | Eric Sannerud

2025-12-27 20:22:23 +0000 UTC→2025-12-27 21:23:39 +0000 UTC(1h1m)

Food for Thought EP03

1) The chemistry of cookies | Stephanie Warren 2) Why you should shop at your local farmers market | Mohammad Modarres 3) How corn conquered the world | Chris A. Kniesly 4) What foods did your ancestors love? | Aparna Pallavi 5) The many reasons to eat a plant-based diet | Derek Sarno 6) Why not eat insects? | Marcel Dicke 7) How do carbohydrates impact your health? | Richard J. Wood

2025-12-27 19:15:11 +0000 UTC→2025-12-27 20:22:23 +0000 UTC(1h7m)

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

2025-12-27 18:12:09 +0000 UTC→2025-12-27 19:15:11 +0000 UTC(1h3m)

The Future Ahead EP69

1) How light and code can transform a city | Leo Villareal 2) Is this the time of monsters — or miracles? | Angus Hervey 3) The catastrophic risks of AI — and a safer path | Yoshua Bengio 4) This is what the future of media looks like | Hamish McKenzie 5) How close can we actually get to the Sun? | TED-Ed

2025-12-27 17:13:20 +0000 UTC→2025-12-27 18:12:09 +0000 UTC(58m)