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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Hosted by Alan Alda · EN
Learn to connect better with others in every area of your life. Immerse yourself in spirited conversations with people who know how hard it is, and yet how good it feels, to really connect with other people – whether it’s one person, an audience or a whole country. You'll know many of the people in these conversations – they are luminaries in our culture. Some you may not know. But what links them all is their powerful ability to relate and communicate. It's something we need now more than ever.
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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 32 Trailer
Dec 16Tap to summarizeAlan and executive producer Graham Chedd look ahead to the new season, which includes episodes on how babies who giggle become socially smarter; prizes for science that makes you both laugh and think; why truth is so elusive; and how Marlo Thomas kick started Alan’s movie career as well as helping her father found the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Transcribe →Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 30 Trailer
Jul 1, 2025Tap to summarizeAlan and Clear and Vivid’s executive producer Graham Chedd chat about and play clips from some of the shows coming up in season 30. Guests include actor Bob Odenkirk, scuba diver Tara Roberts, and some AI chatbots. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Transcribe →Eric Topol: Live Longer, Better
May 6, 2025Summary readyWhile promises of extending the human lifespan to 125 and beyond are premature, recent breakthroughs in the early detection of killer diseases of the major organs and brain offer a healthier old age – especially when paired with behavioral changes that Dr Topol calls “Lifestyle+.” Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
SummaryClear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 29 Trailer
Apr 8, 202500:28:18Tap to summarizeAlan and Clear and Vivid’s executive producer Graham Chedd chat about and play clips from some of the shows coming up in season 29. Guests include actor John Leguizamo, science writer Carl Zimmer, and astrophysicist Mario Livio. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Transcribe →Bill Pullman: From a Stage Fall to Curtain Calls
Apr 1, 202500:41:36Tap to summarizeA chat with an actor who does it all. After recovering from a near fatal fall on stage as his career was beginning, Bill Pullman has not only had a busy and award-winning career on stage, screen and television, he’s also getting into science communication – while working on a one-man play and making hard cider for his friends and neighbors.
Transcribe →Alison Wood Brooks: Talking About Talk
Mar 25, 202500:42:56Tap to summarizeHow the letters in the acronym TALK can have a profound effect on the next conversation you have.
Transcribe →Kafui Dzirasa: An Electrical Path to Mental Health?
Mar 18, 202500:39:00Tap to summarizeA psychiatrist, engineer and neuroscientist, Kaf Dzirasa is researching ways to reengineer the brain to make it better able to cope with stress and so improve mental health.
Transcribe →Shannon Vallor: The AI Illusion
Mar 11, 202500:41:21Tap to summarizeArtificial intelligence is poised to reshape our world, in many ways for the better. But the gains come with great risks – above all that its seductive appeal lulls us into believing that AI machines know better than we do.
Transcribe →Malcolm Gladwell: Tipping Points Old and New
Mar 4, 202500:39:25Tap to summarizeHis new book Revenge of The Tipping Point takes a fresh look at the tipping points of social change he opened our eyes to 25 years ago – and unearths unexpected explanations for such new questions as: what really drove the opioid crisis, why diversity matters, and why Harvard University has a women’s rugby team.
Transcribe →Ann Patchett: Bel Canto Revisited
Feb 25, 202500:42:09Tap to summarizeIn a remarkable and illuminating tour de force, the novelist recently took a fresh look at her best-known book, going through it line by line and annotating it with handwritten notes in the margins – notes on things she both loved and hated. “It shows,” she says, “a lot about how to write a novel.”
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