Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
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.
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Jan 12, 2021 • 43min
Robert Stickgold – Why do we dream?
We not only need to sleep, we need to dream, too. Robert Stickgold explains why we must go to the movies every night when we sleep – it’s to make sense of our waking world. And it’s all in his book When Brains Dream.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid
Jan 5, 2021 • 47min
Anthony Fauci - The Soldiers of Science who saved our lives
They did their military service, not in Vietnam, but in the world's largest research hospital – and over the years their work has saved millions of lives. You’ve probably never heard this story, even though someday yours may be a life that is saved by the Soldiers of Science.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid
Dec 29, 2020 • 34min
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 11 Trailer
An in-depth preview of the upcoming eleventh season of Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid
Dec 22, 2020 • 41min
Two Actors Talk Acting
Two old friends who have played together on stage and on camera have a chat. And not only discover new things about each other’s approach to acting, but also share their joy of connecting on stage – and the role the audience plays in those moments of spontaneity that make a live performance magical.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid
Dec 15, 2020 • 44min
How oskar the gene invented sex
A leading scientist who studies how genes make bodies, Cassandra Extavour almost became a musician and still sings professionally. She works with an extraordinary insect gene called oskar. Hundreds of millions of years ago oskar borrowed a fragment of a bacterial DNA that made sexual reproduction possible in the vast majority of animals– including you, me, and scientists who sing.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid
Dec 8, 2020 • 38min
Testaments to Writing
The author of The Handmaid's Tale and its sequel, The Testaments, lets us in on her process of storytelling, involving both a “panoramic view ” and rolling revisions: “I’m more of a downhill skier – just get to the end and then you can go back and see where you screwed up along the way, count the trees you’ve hit.”Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid
Dec 1, 2020 • 39min
The Ever Fonky Lowdown
In his new album, The Ever Fonky Lowdown, Wynton Marsalis offers a passionate musical take on what ails our democracy. His conversation with Alan also ranges over his early career, his dedication to education and why Louis Armstrong really was the greatest.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid
Nov 24, 2020 • 44min
What poker can teach us about life
In exploring the role that chance plays in our lives – and how to understand and control it – psychologist and author Maria Konnikova set out to learn how to play poker, a game she knew nothing about. She succeeded so well that she won hundreds of thousands of dollars on the professional poker circuit.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid
Nov 17, 2020 • 43min
How to Make Funny People Funnier
As a 12-year-old, multiple Emmy winner Alan Zweibel decided that Rob in TV’s The Dick van Dyke show led the life he wanted to live. Since then he’s written for funny people from Borscht Belt comedians, to the cast of Saturday Night Live, to stars like Billy Crystal and Larry David. It’s all in his new book Laugh Lines. In a way, his life has been a history of modern comedy.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid
Nov 10, 2020 • 43min
Life on Venus?
She studies what may be the most disgusting molecule known to humankind. And that’s made Clara Sousa-Silva a key member of the team that may have detected life in the clouds of Venus. Her foul (and lethal) molecule has been discovered in those clouds – and the only current explanation for its presence is that it is being made by living organisms.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid
