Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
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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.
Location:
Chesilhurst , NJ
Description:
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.
Twitter:
@alda
Language:
English
Contact:
917-775-0160
Episodes
Leanne Guy: A New Eye on Space
9/15/2025
Perched on a mountain top in Chile, the new Vera Rubin Observatory’s telescope will view the universe as it’s never been seen before, seeking answers to cosmic mysteries like dark energy and dark matter, but also helping keep Earth safe from potentially dangerous asteroids.
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Duration:00:34:55
Michael Osterholm: Can We Stop The Big One?
9/9/2025
With lessons learned from the Covid pandemic, he points to how we might better tackle the next, inevitable, global pandemic — at a time when science has been all but discarded from the leading government agencies responsible for public health.
Duration:00:39:55
Herman Pontzer: Diversity: Humanity’s Superpower
9/1/2025
Unlike most other land animals, we can live almost anywhere – from deserts, to mountains, rain forests, even the arctic. We are supremely adaptable, and that adaptability has led to our diversity – not only in our biology but also in our cultures.
Duration:00:41:08
Stephen Hall: Snakes: Do they Deserve Our Dread?
8/26/2025
Along with revelations about snake sex, their contributions to medicine, that flickering tongue and why slithering is a secret to their success, Stephen Hall goes at least some way to convincing Alan that snakes – “the ultimate other” – deserve our respect as well as our dread.
Duration:00:36:34
Kyra Davis Lurie: Reimagining Gatsby
8/19/2025
She’s had a love-hate relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald since she was a teenager. And she’s now written a wonderful new take on The Great Gatsby, reimagining the story with a cast of the Black elite in post-war Los Angeles.
Duration:00:38:28
Robert Sapolsky: Why Do We Do That?
8/12/2025
An old friend of Clear and Vivid is back to enlighten Alan on some of the oddities of human behavior – both good and bad – and to talk about his entertaining new podcast, Father Offspring Interviews, hosted by his daughter.
Duration:00:39:49
Bob Odenkirk: Comedy? Action? Drama? Better Call Bob!
8/5/2025
From his long running role as Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, to his recent Broadway appearance in Glenngary Glen Ross, and his new incarnation as an off-beat action hero in the movies Nobody and Nobody 2, Bob Odenkirk does it all.
Duration:00:37:37
Tara Roberts: Diving for Stories
7/28/2025
With her Black scuba-diving companions she has sought to reveal the appalling cost in lives lost in sunken slave ships, while at the same time honoring those lives by telling their stories.
Duration:00:38:51
Roger Rosenblatt: Rules for Aging
7/21/2025
Alan joins his old friend to compare notes on staying happy when old; and Roger shares tips from a forthcoming book, including some that may seem counterintuitive – like don’t use common sense, believe everyone, and don’t pay attention to people in your way.
Duration:00:38:48
Tina Fey: The Return of The Four Seasons
7/14/2025
Tina Fey’s reimagining of a movie Alan made over 40 years ago has been a big hit for Netflix. She and Alan have fun talking about how she went about updating the story for a new generation.
Duration:00:39:49
If Robots Had a Podcast
7/8/2025
Alan lets bots mostly run the show to see how much they can do and still be under human control. For a while, it seems to go well, but then dangers start to emerge— and it gets a little scary.
Duration:00:31:42
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 30 Trailer
6/30/2025
Alan 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.
Duration:00:28:50
Carly Anne York: Taking “Silly Science” Seriously
6/23/2025
Research often derided for being a waste of money has led to world-changing breakthroughs, ranging from GPS to Ozempic.
Duration:00:41:00
Paul McCartney: Dreams, Dickens… and Oobleys
6/17/2025
To celebrate Sir Paul’s 83rd birthday June 18th we are reprising a wonderful conversation recorded five years ago. Alan and Paul exchange their experiences writing and performing; and McCartney demonstrates how some of the Beatles’ greatest hits began with what he calls “oobley” chords on the piano.
Duration:01:02:18
Itzhak Perlman: Encore! Encore!
6/9/2025
Reaching back to the first season of Clear and Vivid, a replay of the July 2018 episode when the violin virtuoso tells Alan why he likes to talk to his audience as well as play for them; why he plays Bach very differently from Tchaikovsky; and why the first time he played the Stradivarius that was to become his 30 years later, “I thought that I'd died and went to heaven.”
Duration:00:46:12
Adam Kucharski: Truth in a World of Falsehoods
6/3/2025
A mathematician and epidemiologist, his research helped save lives during the Covid pandemic in the UK by predicting the effectiveness of interventions like social distancing and masks. In his new book, he tackles the thorny problem of how you find truth in a world awash with falsehoods.
Duration:00:39:54
Noah Wyle: Learning fromThe Pitt
5/27/2025
Playing attending physician “Robby” Robinson in the hit HBO Max series The Pitt has given him insights into how the harrowing world of the emergency room could be improved in real life.
Duration:00:40:59
Mario Livio: Hello? Anybody Out There?
5/19/2025
The recent discovery on a distant planet of a chemical that could be a sign of life has this astrophysicist intrigued if not convinced. But if it turns out to be real it would mean that not only are we not alone – “It would really mean that our Galaxy is teeming with life.”
Duration:00:40:31
Colman Domingo: Magnetic. Fearless. Unstoppable.
5/12/2025
Now starring in the Netflix series The Four Seasons – based on Alan’s 1981 movie – he’s won an Emmy and has been nominated for two Oscars and two Tony awards. In 2024, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. And you surely didn’t miss him at this year’s Met Gala!
Duration:00:40:38
Eric Topol: Live Longer, Better
5/6/2025
While 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+.”
Duration:00:40:19