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Hosted by Alan Alda · society · EN · 439 episodes
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 is hosted by Alan Alda. The show has published 439 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Jeremy Faust: An ER doctor speaks his mind" (20 October 2026, 37 minutes), "Joy Behar: Her third act" (13 October 2026, 36 minutes), and "Kelly McGonigal: Why joy is so joyful" (6 October 2026, 38 minutes).
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 36 minutes across 439 episodes.
Booking probability for Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda is 38%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda's contact route on record: verified email.
Alan Alda hosts Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda, a society show with 439 episodes published.
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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
His influential newsletter Inside Medicine regularly challenges the misinformation coming from the current Health and Human Services Administration. Yet the busy ER doctor still finds time for music. Hosted by...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Standup comedian, long time co-host of ABC’s The View, she is now entering what she calls her third act – as a playwright, with her play My First Ex-Husband, a hit in New York and London. Hosted by Simplecast, an...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Joy is not just a fleeting emotion or feeling. It's an entire response system that includes changes in your body and your brain, preparing you to take in the good in life. And that response is even...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
The younger brother of tennis champion John – and himself ranked number three in the world in doubles – he shares connecting and communicating secrets, both on the court and in his present career as a tennis...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Britain’s best known expert witness tells of trials where crime scene evidence has led not only to successful prosecutions but also in too many cases to people being punished for crimes they didn’t commit. Hosted...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Rather than being a feature of our complex brains, he argues that consciousness begins in the feelings and emotions generated by our bodies . Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Letting your mind wander while listening to music can open you up to rewarding daydreams. Surprisingly, there is a good chance that your musical daydream is shared by others. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
She spent twelve months trying out the best and the worst that AI has to offer, from the creepy (an AI boyfriend), to the helpful (an AI-powered mammogram) to the weird (a robot masseuse) and the downright annoying (a...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Alan and executive producer Graham Chedd introduce season 35 of Clear and Vivid. Topics include how music inspires daydreams, the mind games of championship tennis, a year living with robots, the challenges of an expert...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
There is more to successful communication than picking the right words. We need to understand that our understanding of others is shaped by factors we are mostly unaware of, ranging from our upbringing to how well we...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Opposition to vaccines goes back to their invention. And while doubts about vaccine safely may have been justified 300 years ago, those same doubts have lingered among those opposing vaccines today – vaccines that are...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
An encounter on his commuter train led to 20 years of research that changed his life for the better. You too can be friendlier, kinder, more open, more curious – and the first step could be a smile and a hello to the...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
A neuroscientist who also writes novels – including one that became an award-winning movie – Lisa Genova lets us experience the stories lived by people with brain diseases ranging from Alzheimer's to bipolar disorder...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Vivid stories of scientists whose claims were ignored or ridiculed, from Galileo to Kati Karikó – the woman whose work was critical in developing the mRNA Covid vaccine that saved millions of lives. Hosted by...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Mutations sound scary. But the DNA that shaped us is has been mutating since we were born. Some mutations are bad for our health while others are helping us stay alive, sprucing up our livers and fighting off germs...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Today an MS NOW host, in 2004 he was writer/producer on the popular NBC series The West Wing tasked with introducing a new character – a Republican Senator running for president. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
On the eve of our nation's 250th, Walter Isaacson takes a deep dive into the second sentence of the Declaration of Independence. It's what he calls "the greatest sentence ever written." Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
A decade on from being diagnosed with a deadly cancer – and eight years since her first visit with Clear and Vivid – she tells of the many ways she has been taken by surprise by joy, as recounted in her new book –...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
<p>Alan and Executive Producer Graham Chedd look ahead to season 34. Episodes include one of Alan’s favorite topics – humor, and its power to connect; finding joy in unexpected places; why telling stories makes for...
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
<p>Alan revisits a conversation with his old friend to compare notes on staying happy when old, as Roger’s new book, More Rules for Aging: Making the Most of Your Ridiculous, Wondrous Life, hits the...
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experimental social psychologist, University of California, Riverside
founder of the Constructive Disagreement Lab, author of How to Disagree Better, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
professor of linguistics, University of Nevada, Reno
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