Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

    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.

  • Jasmin Graham: She’s Down with Sharks

  • Craig Foster: Life Lessons from an Octopus

  • Joshua Greene: Games That Build Bridges

  • Dan Heath: In Someone Else’s (Working) Shoes

  • Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods: How to Raise a Great Dog

  • Backstage at The West Wing

  • Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 27 trailer

  • Lynnae Quick: Could an Icy Moon Harbor Life?

  • Terry Szuplat: Speak Your Mind

  • Steve Martin: Portrait of the Artist

  • Ayana Johnson: We Can Do This!

  • Frank Barry: Taking the Lincoln Highway to America

  • Randy Fertel: Improv Everywhere

  • Roger Rosenblatt: Wounds and Other Blessings

  • Lisa Kaltenegger: Alien Hunter

  • Mark Rank: As Luck Would Have It

  • Anne Curzan: Say What? Says Who?

  • Mo Rocca: Late Comebacks

  • Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 26 trailer

  • David Toomey: Want to play?

  • Sanjana Curtis: Sprinkling Stardust on TikTok

  • Chris French: Would you believe it?

  • Cady Coleman: Sharing Space

  • Charles Duhigg: Connecting and Communicating

  • When Small is Big News

  • David Charbonneau and Doris Tsao: Looking for Something Familiar

  • David Jewitt and Jane Luu: Is Pluto All Alone Out There?

  • Carla Shatz and Marcus Raichle: Brainwaves

  • Fred Guttenberg and Joe Walsh: Two Dads Defending Democracy

  • Craig Venter: Oceans of Genes

  • Adam Moss: What Makes it Art?

  • Kelly and Zach Weinersmith: A Second Home on Mars?

  • Rebecca Boyle: Moonstruck

  • Doris Kearns Goodwin: In the Rooms Where it Happened

  • Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 25 trailer

  • Stephen Dubner: Feynman on Our Mind

  • Remembering Frans de Waal

  • Justice Stephen Breyer: Understanding What They Meant

  • Shohini Ghose: Women’s Time and Space

  • Tali Sharot: Take Another Look

  • Keith Houston: There’s More to Writing Than Words.

  • Terry Greiss: Acting to Connect

  • Robert Sapolsky: You Have No Choice

  • Tom Hanks: Making a Book About Making a Movie

  • Paul Bloom: Can AI be Moral?

  • Eric Schmidt: AI: The Good, the Bad and the Scary.

  • Fei-Fei Li: The Godmother of AI

  • Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 24 trailer

  • Cynthia Breazeal: Her Robots Have Warmth!

  • Abraham Amiri: From Afghanistan to the Stars

  • Steve Inskeep: Lessons from Lincoln

  • Leslie Odom Jr: Bursting Out

  • Kate Cohen: Asks if You Need God to be Good

  • Peter Hotez: The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science

  • Heather Cox Richardson: She’ll Write You a Letter

  • David Brooks: How to Know a Person

  • Marcus du Sautoy: Around the World in 80 Games

  • How "Maid" Was Made

  • Frank Felberbaum: Don’t Forget!

  • Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 23 trailer

  • Walter Isaacson: Shadowing Elon Musk

  • Laurel Braitman: Writing Wrongs

  • Carl Safina: Wisdom from a Baby Owl

  • Joe Henrich: How Culture Has Shaped Our Bodies and Brains

  • Kashmir Hill: Your Face Belongs to Us

  • Matthew Walker: Sleep REALLY Matters

  • Maya Shankar: Beginning from an Ending

  • Adam Mastroianni: Why You So Often Get It Wrong

  • Nancy Kanwisher: Your Brain is a Swiss Army Knife

  • Elizabeth Rush: Journey to the Doomsday Glacier

  • Robert Klein: He Observes, We Laugh

  • Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 22 trailer

  • Dan Dennett: Fake People Aren’t Funny

  • Steve Sloman and Phil Fernbach: How Do You Know That?

  • Aomawa Shields: When an Actor is Starstruck

  • Alan Lightman: Can Science Explain Spirituality?

  • Steve Israel: Disagreeing Without the Hate

  • Dan Levitt: You Are Stardust. Really

  • Adam Gopnik: The Joy of Getting Good at Something Hard

  • Brenna Hassett: Why We Are Weird

  • Michael Turner: The Dazzling Cosmos

  • Daniel Libeskind: His buildings speak for themselves

  • Eric Topol: A Covid Reckoning

  • Clear + Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 21 trailer

  • Ken Duckworth: Navigating mental illness

  • Susan Goldin-Meadow: Thinking with your hands

  • Valerie Fridland: English evolves, like it or not

  • Dava Sobel: The Women Who Brought the Stars to Earth

  • Judd Apatow: Funny, With a Side of Feeling

  • Kieran Setiya: Facing up to Life

  • Nita Farahany: The Battle For Your Brain

  • Liev Schreiber: The Ukrainian Connection

  • Alan chats with the bots

  • Kevin Kelly: Help Wanted – AI Whisperers

  • Sy Montgomery: For the love of hawks… and turtles

  • Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 20 trailer

  • Cassandra Quave: Hunting Plants That Heal

  • Sara Seager: Is There Life Out There?

  • Pamela Adlon: Getting Better All the Time

  • Karen Bakker: The Sounds of Life

  • Daniel Lubetzky: On a Mission to Spread Kindness

  • Kathy Kleiman: The six women who programmed the first modern computer

  • Thomas Boothby: On a Tough Little Guy With Secrets

  • Alison Gopnik: Making AI more childlike

  • Les Johnson: Sailing to the Stars

  • Kate Klonick: Can Social Media Not Be So Anti-Social?

  • Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone: Married – and loving it.

  • Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 19 trailer

  • Lindy Elkins-Tanton: What’s at the Core?

  • James Zimring: Fuzzy thinking and the Big Whopper

  • Scott Hershovitz: Little Kids Asking Big Questions

  • Gregory Berns: Does your dog know you better than you know yourself?

  • John and Julie Gottman: Welcome to the Love Lab

  • Kate Marvel: Human fingerprints on Hurricane Ian

  • Jay Baruch: In the ER, your story matters

  • Ken Auletta: Power and Abuse in the Movie Business

  • Charles Limb: To be Creative Don’t Think So Hard

  • Francis Collins: Bridging Science and Faith

  • Molina, Garber and Alda: Together Again

  • Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 18 trailer

  • Phillip Dettmer: The World in a Nutshell

  • Carl Bergstrom: Why Birds Don’t Lie and We Do

  • Lucy Cooke: Where Females Call the Shots

  • Frans de Waal: Gender, Apes, and Us

  • Paul Dooley: Movie Dad

  • Katie Mack: When Time’s Totally Up

  • Ed Yong and Liz Neeley: They Have Storytelling Down to a Science

  • Arthur Brooks: Investing in Happiness

  • Mónica Guzmán: She Never Thought of It That Way

  • Emanuel Ax: Reaching Out Through Music

  • James Burrows: He Gave Us Thousands of Reasons to Laugh

  • Conny Aerts and George Whitesides: Starquakes and Tiny, Tiny Factories

  • Huda Zoghbi and Christopher Walsh: Hunting Genes that Damage our Brains

  • Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 17 trailer

  • Ardem Patapoutian and Emmanuelle Charpentier: Touching the Horizon

  • Mike Brown and Millie Dresselhaus: Exploring the very big and the very small

  • Kashmir Hill: Reporting from the Future

  • David Linden: How Come You’re So Special?

  • Bette Midler: How She Became Divine

  • Saul Perlmutter: The Man Who Upended the Universe

  • Hope Jahren: What You Can Do to Save the Planet

  • Billy Collins: When Words Have a Mind of Their Own

  • Chris Hadfield: Song of an Astronaut

  • Sarah Ruhl: What if you couldn’t smile?

  • Gal Beckerman: How Quiet Whispers Lead to Radical Roars

  • Natalie and Natasha Batalha: Looking for Life on Alien Worlds

  • Michael Keaton: From Standup to Drama

  • Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 16 trailer

  • Kate Crawford: Artificial Intelligence – neither artificial nor intelligent

  • Stephon Alexander: Einstein, Coltrane… and the Universe

  • Mary Roach: When Animals Break the Law

  • Thor Hanson: How Nature Struggles with a Warming Planet

  • Nancy Padilla-Coreano: Knowing Your Place

  • Robin Dunbar: Circles of Friendship

  • Bianca Jones Marlin: Preparing Kids for Survival

  • Kate Bowler: Living With The Certainty of Uncertainty

  • Diego Bohórquez: Gut to Brain – Listen Up!

  • Mel Brooks: On Love, Life and Punchlines

  • Max Brooks: How Zombies May Save Us

  • Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 15 Trailer

  • Holland Taylor: The Role of a Lifetime She Wrote Herself

  • Marcia Rieke: Peering Back to the Cosmic Dawn

  • The LaPook Effect: Empathy for doctors

  • Karl Deisseroth: Lighting up The Brain

  • Lee McIntyre: Talking to Science Deniers

  • Marin Alsop: A Woman Who Leads

  • Scott Small: The Point of Forgetting

  • Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer: When Politics are a Peril

  • Roger Rosenblatt: A Writer on Writing

  • Mayim Bialik: How Acting Led to Science and Science to Acting

  • Kevin Bacon’s Six Degrees

  • Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 14 Trailer

  • Dennis Overbye: Reporting the Universe

  • Robert Lefkowitz: A Soldier of Science

  • Hank Greely: The Experiment that Shocked Science

  • Jacqueline Novogratz: More Than Money Alone

  • Michio Kaku: Seeking the Mind of God

  • Cynthia Kenyon: Living Longer?

  • Paul Rudd: In the Moment with Ant-Man

  • Sue Black: Forensic Supersleuth

  • Dan Lieberman: Why You Hate Exercise

  • Herman Pontzer: Burn Those Calories Better

  • Helen Mirren: Queen of Stage and Screen

  • Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 13 Trailer

  • Neil Shubin: Why Would a Fish Have Fingers?

  • Anna Deavere Smith: She’s Been Hundreds of People

  • John Colapinto: Speaking of the Voice…

  • Does your doctor care about you?

  • How to Explain Almost Everything

  • The Empathy Diaries

  • Space Rocks

  • He Put the Dark in Energy

  • Getting to Here and Now

  • Making the End a Beginning

  • From DaVinci to CRISPR

  • Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 12 / Science Clear+Vivid - Season 2 Trailer

  • Deborah Tannen – The Stories We Tell

  • Ash Sanders and Sarah Ventre – Life in a Cult

  • Reisa Sperling – Making Alzheimer’s a Memory

  • Sanjeev Bhaskar – The Joy of Blooming Later

  • Rebecca Wragg Sykes – Our Neanderthal Kin

  • Malcolm Gladwell – Those Dangerous First Impressions

  • Emily Levesque – The Romance of the Night Sky

  • Eric Lander – Decoding Life

  • Penn Jillette – Magic, Tricks, and Us

  • Robert Stickgold – Why do we dream?

  • Anthony Fauci - The Soldiers of Science who saved our lives

  • Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 11 Trailer

  • Two Actors Talk Acting

  • How oskar the gene invented sex

  • Testaments to Writing

  • The Ever Fonky Lowdown

  • What poker can teach us about life

  • How to Make Funny People Funnier

  • Life on Venus?

  • Can we save the planet?

  • What makes you happy?

  • Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown

  • Dr. Fauci looks forward

  • Leslie Vosshall – Why Mosquitoes Choose You

  • Goldie Hawn – She’s Got Your Brain on Her Mind.

  • James Rothman – on Discovering the ‘FedEx trucks’ in our Cells

  • Brian Hare & Vanessa Woods – on Humanity’s Essential Ingredient

  • Carla Shatz – Making an Old Brain Young

  • Sharon Begley – on Keeping up with Covid

  • Max Tegmark – When Our Machines Are Smarter Than Us

  • Lynn Sherr & Ellen Goodman – She Votes!

  • Pardis Sabeti – Racing Against Covid, Racing Against Time

  • Rafael Reif – on the Greatest Threat to Our National Security

  • Brené Brown – on Empathy, Courage and Where They Come From

  • Jared Diamond – How it Can All Fall Apart

  • Alan Guth – How it All Began

  • Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue – How Marriages Can Last

  • Jake Tapper – Turns the Tables

  • Cori Bargmann – The Toughest Job in the World?

  • Steven Pinker – Talking About Talking

  • The MASH Gang – Confined to Quarters

  • Jennifer Doudna and the Power of CRISPR

  • Kavli Prize winners 2020

  • Kip Thorne Listened – and the Universe Chirped

  • Brian Greene is a Grateful Collection of Particles

  • He Knows a Lot About Very Little Things

  • "Houston, do we ever have a problem!" Alan Alda Talks with NASA's Chief Scientist

  • How Lack of Diversity and Inclusion in Science Hurts Us All

  • Thinking Globally - Fareed Zakaria and Alan Alda

  • They've Filled Our Lives with Laughter - Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner

  • Why Everyday Should be Science Friday

  • How to Interview an Octopus and Other Creatures

  • Betty White and Alan Alda Fall Desperately in Love

  • On Modern Manhood in the #MeToo Generation

  • The Science Guy on Science and Uncertainty

  • Direct from the NIH: Dr. Anthony Fauci on the Coronavirus - what we face and what we can do

  • Paul McCartney: On the Magic of Music - From the Magician Himself

  • Tom Hanks and Alan Alda on the Human Element

  • Welcome to a Preview of Season 7 of Clear+Vivid

  • Conan O’Brien: Still Curious after 10,000 Interviews

  • Carl Safina on the Thoughts and Feelings of the Other Animals

  • Siddhartha Mukherjee on Getting Personal with Our Genes

  • Lisa Kaltenegger: Looking for Life on Other Earths

  • Jo Handelsman on the Surprising News That the Earth is Running Out of Dirt

  • All Shook Up: Dr. Lucy Jones on How to Tell People the Big One is Coming

  • Human Connection Through Nature: Discussing Seven Worlds, One Planet

  • Jamil Zaki on Empathy and How to Hack It

  • Ben Stiller on Directing and His Escape at Dannemora

  • Noah Baumbach: The Acclaimed Film Director on Giving Directions

  • Julie Andrews and Daughter Emma Walton Hamilton on the Hard Work of Home Work

  • It's Not Just You: Curiosity Daily Explains Quirks of Human Behavior

  • How to Live Better: Curiosity Daily Shares Scientific Life Hacks

  • Alan Alda Speaks with Ashley Hamer and Cody Gough from Curiosity Daily

  • Isabel Allende on the Essential Element - Passion

  • What Happens When an Economist Walks Into a Brothel?

  • Say It With Funny. Frank Santopadre, Alan Zweibel, and Alan Alda on Comedy

  • Is There a Revolution for Women In Science? Are Things Finally Changing?

  • Pat Metheny: Discovering Spontaneity in Music and Everything Else

  • Dr. Robert Sapolsky: What Does It Take to Really Understand Our Decisions?

  • Brian Greene: Can the Rest of Us See the Beauty of Nature That Scientists See?

  • Yo-Yo Ma: On Bringing the World Together - Through Listening

  • Laura Brown: How Did She Become a Badass Woman? And what is it?

  • Melinda Gates: Can Listening Change the World?

  • Producer's Cut: Exclusive Sneak Peek at Season 5

  • Katie Couric on How to Make People Truly Care and Engage

  • Katharine Hayhoe on How to Talk About Climate Change

  • Henry Schleiff on How to Lead a TV Network, Have an Impact, and Still Have Fun

  • Dr. Eric Topol on How Artificial Intelligence Can Improve the Doctor-Patient Relationship

  • Frans de Waal on What Chimps Can Teach Us About Ourselves

  • Adam Driver on How Theatre Can Help Heal Some Wounds of War

  • Hope Jahren on How It Actually Seems Possible to Have Empathy for Plants

  • Who Cares What Science Says? Chris Volpe on Why Some of Us Care and Some Don't

  • How Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor Create One of the World's Most Fascinating Podcasts

  • Carol Burnett: A Life of Comedy, Characters, and Connection

  • Madeleine Albright on the Uses and Abuses of Empathy and Power

  • Official Trailer: Exclusive Sneak Peak of Season 4

  • Tribalism: How we overcome the "Us" vs. "Them" Mentality

  • Empathy: What good is it anyway?

  • Our Favorite Answers By Listeners to the 7 Questions

  • The Best Guest Answers to Alan’s 7 Questions

  • Alan Alda and Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

  • David Flink on How We Can All Think Differently About Learning

  • Pardis Sabeti on How Science Can Be Infectious

  • Steven Johnson on the Importance of Play and the Decisions We Make

  • Steven Strogatz Bonus - What to Do When Things Keep Changing!

  • Steven Strogatz Says You Can Understand Math

  • Jonathan Haidt on Why We're So Divided and What to Do About It

  • Michael Tomasello On the Surprising Origins of Communication and Cooperation

  • Sarah Vowell on Writing with Clarity (and Shenanigans)

  • Sherry Turkle on How We're Losing Touch With One Another and What We Can Do About It

  • Stephen Fry On How Our Myths Help Us Know Who We Are

  • Dr. Ruth on Communicating Under the Covers and Above

  • The Actors from M*A*S*H — On How M*A*S*H Changed Our Lives

  • Sheila Nevins on Age, Sex, Love, Life, and Everything Else

  • Official Trailer - The Actors from M*A*S*H — On How M*A*S*H Changed Our Lives

  • Senator Bill Bradley on How We Can All Do Better

  • Christian Picciolini on Escaping the Neo-Nazi Movement and Helping Others Leave It Behind

  • Jaron Lanier on Why You Should Delete Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

  • Rachael Ray on Communicating Through the Medium of Food

  • W. Kamau Bell on How He Communicates with Racists

  • How the Alda Center Teaches Empathy in Science, and Medicine (Part 3)

  • Dr. Karl VanDevender: Empathy and the Doctor-Patient Relationship (Part 2)

  • Dr. Helen Riess on Empathy and the Science of Emotion (Part 1 of 3)

  • Marc Maron on What Podcasting Has Taught Him About Relating

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson on Communicating Science So We Actually Get It

  • Michael J. Fox: How to Keep Going When Life Gives You Speed Bumps

  • Behind the Scenes Table Talk with Alan Alda and the Production Team

  • Katie Couric and Sheryl Sandberg Take Over the Pod

  • Katie Couric and Bryan Stevenson Take Over the Pod

  • Season 2 of Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda Starts Nov 13th - Official Trailer

  • Hostage Crisis: How to Negotiate Through the Unthinkable with Chris Voss

  • Father Greg Boyle on Compassion, Kinship, and Real Ways to Help Others

  • Isabella Rossellini on Communicating the Wonder of Nature

  • The Quest to Understand Ourselves Through Art and Mind

  • Cheryl Strayed Shares Her Advice on How to Give Advice

  • George Mitchell on Bringing Together Enemies - Part 2 Northern Ireland

  • Tina Fey and the Transformative Power of Improv

  • Ann Patchett on Novelists and the Sources of Empathy in Story

  • Bringing Together Enemies - Part 1: The Middle East

  • Is Empathy Good or Bad? A Conversation with Paul Bloom

  • Renée Fleming and the Healing Power of Music

  • Judge Judy on How to Figure Out Who’s Telling the Truth

  • Kate Bowler and How to Handle the Worst News of All

  • Itzhak Perlman on the Spontaneity and Connection of Performance

  • Sarah Silverman and the Joy of Enjoying People You Don't Agree With

  • Clear + Vivid™ with Alan Alda - Official Trailer

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