Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 12 / Science Clear+Vivid - Season 2 Trailer
A look ahead at the people we have in the new seasons of both C+V and SC+V, starting next week.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm...
23 Mars 202132min
Deborah Tannen – The Stories We Tell
Deborah Tannen, author of the hugely influential best seller, You Just Don’t Understand, swaps stories with Alan about conversations that went wrong; and talks about her new book, Finding My Father: H...
16 Mars 202141min
Ash Sanders and Sarah Ventre – Life in a Cult
Embedding themselves in a fundamentalist Mormon community, journalists Sarah Ventre and Ash Sanders wove together the stories of both those in thrall to its all-powerful prophet and others seeking esc...
9 Mars 202144min
Reisa Sperling – Making Alzheimer’s a Memory
Propelled by events in her own life, Reisa Sperling is working hard to defeat this disease that cruelly destroys brains and crushes families. As we live longer lives, more of us are in danger of contr...
2 Mars 202139min
Sanjeev Bhaskar – The Joy of Blooming Later
The British actor, Sanjeev Bhaskar, started his career later in life and is glad he did. He didn’t try to portray human experience until he actually had some. It’s led to useful wisdom, both on the st...
23 Feb 202142min
Rebecca Wragg Sykes – Our Neanderthal Kin
They walk among us. Some percentage of the genes of many modern humans have been handed down to us from Neanderthals. Alan, who has about 2% of those genes, is more than a little excited to hear from ...
16 Feb 202140min
Malcolm Gladwell – Those Dangerous First Impressions
First impressions are supposed to tell us a lot, and they often do. Problem is, as Malcolm Gladwell explains in his latest book Talking to Strangers, sometimes what they tell us is wrong – dangerously...
9 Feb 202143min
Emily Levesque – The Romance of the Night Sky
A passionate astronomer and a vivid writer, Emily Levesque describes a life of watching what’s out there in the universe so vividly, you may want to run out and get a telescope. Her new book is The La...
2 Feb 202143min
