TED Radio Hour cover art

All Episodes

TED Radio Hour — 292 episodes

#
Title
1

How to feel alive in an exhausting world

2

How to mend a broken heart

3

Can we preserve knowledge … forever?

4

Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

5

Could AI help us, not replace us?

6

How does your brain perceive the world?

7

The TED talk that put writer Pico Iyer in “Marty Supreme”

8

Curious stories of coexistence

9

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

10

Three mothers who shaped American history

11

Did social media break a generation — or just change it?

12

How you see yourself

13

How to talk about peace

14

The future of our memories

15

What can you control in this chaotic world?

16

What we — and AI — can learn from nature's intelligence

17

The secrets in your baby's genes

18

Navigating uncertainty

19

Who counts as a significant other?

20

Who is really shaping the future of AI?

21

Soundtracks of our lives

22

Remembering a maestro through 'New World Symphony'

23

Finding your bliss

24

Decoding nature’s hidden patterns

25

How to repair your most important relationships

26

How the creator economy is making you talk like the internet

27

The price of creativity

28

Move fast...and fix democracy?

29

The great food rescue

30

The art of choosing what to do

31

Head of TED, Chris Anderson, on TED’s new chapter

32

Future You

33

How companies use AI to choose who gets hired and fired

34

What this musician’s identity crisis teaches us about navigating change

35

The lab behind Waymo and Google Glass that wants to reshape your life

36

Are the kids alright? Part 2

37

Are the kids alright? Part 1

38

How deserted places find a second life

39

The skin we're in

40

How to find joy and success as a late bloomer

41

Prophets of Technology: The Biotech Visionaries

42

Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media

43

Prophets of Technology: Bot Believer vs. Bot Skeptic

44

Prophets of Technology: The OG influencers

45

The state of fashion

46

How taking a second look can change your everything

47

Uncovering the mysteries of the animal kingdom

48

Escaping the modern world and your noisy mind

49

How AI is using your data to influence you

50

How we experience time

51

The day the dinosaurs died

52

The hidden forces shaping your choices

53

Biotech is about to change your world

54

Addiction, motherhood, and Jesus with writer Anne Lamott

55

How you see yourself

56

How the brain interprets pain — and new ways to manage it

57

Curious stories of coexistence

58

Decoding the secret messages of data, biology and music

59

A neuroscientist's guide to managing our emotions

60

Soundtracks of our lives

61

Retracing the steps of their ancestors

62

Who counts as a significant other?

63

The shocking power of tiny things

64

The future of our memories

65

Your brain is the next tech frontier

66

Navigating uncertainty in 2025

67

Learning from what others leave behind

68

Searching for paradise

69

New year, new habits: How to start writing with author Kelly Corrigan

70

What one founder's past says about AI's future

71

New year, new habits: Fixing time management mistakes in 2025

72

We resist change and surprises—but shock can shift our lives for the better

73

The great food rescue

74

Living Longer ... And Better

75

Life can be so awkward. Here's how to embrace the embarrassing

76

Making sense of the sun

77

What we—and AI—can learn from nature's intelligence

78

A guide to being brave in relationships

79

The mysteries that lie beneath

80

Approaches to life: Improvise, pivot or plan

81

Monday — Friday: Making the most of the workweek

82

Augmenting Humans

83

The double-edged nature of parenting, mental health and artificial intelligence

84

Secrets to successful teamwork

85

The hidden role of friction in our lives

86

The state of fashion

87

Unapologetically loud women who push boundaries — but not without pushback

88

How we repair and strengthen our most important relationships

89

The day the dinosaurs died

90

Short Wave: Big Bang Revisited

91

Going incognito, where nothing is as it seems

92

How our relationships are changing in the age of 'artificial intimacy'

93

Investigating true crime in the animal kingdom

94

Sports psychology for everyday life

95

DIY: There's a problem and only you can fix it

96

Body Electric: If a bot relationship FEELS real, should we care that it's not?

97

What we'll eat on a warmer planet

98

Bringing abandoned places back to life

99

What's driving generations apart—and ideas to bring them together

100

Our oceans are in danger ... but it's not too late.

101

Body Electric: Type, tap, scroll, BREATHE! How our tech use impacts our breath

102

Pain Relief: New approaches to how we live with pain

103

A Love Letter to the Ocean: Life, death and mating in the sea

104

Body Electric: Your earbuds and you—what all that listening is doing to us

105

They/Them, LatinX, Rigged: The history behind three words

106

The Future of Sustainability: Repair, repurpose, reimagine

107

Our Tech has a Climate Problem: Here's we solve it

108

Changing Our Minds: Why we should admit when we're wrong

109

The Public Commons: Building public spaces that actually serve the public

110

So Awkward: How to embrace the embarrassing

111

What's In A Face: How technology uses our faces

112

Addiction, Motherhood, and Jesus with writer Anne Lamott

113

Animal Enigmas: Uncovering the mysteries of the animal kingdom

114

A More Walkable World: Ideas to get us moving

115

Audacious Solutions

116

Natural Intelligence: What we and AI can learn from nature

117

Memory And The Brain

118

Retracing Their Steps

119

Heartache

120

Doppelgangers

121

What Leadership Looks Like

122

Brain Hacks

123

Take Care

124

Flip the Script

125

Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris: How to Start A Meditation Practice

126

Stay Resolved

127

Future You

128

Daily habits of a longevity expert

129

Living Longer ... And Better

130

What it takes to be an Antarctic explorer today

131

Found In Translation

132

Shock Value

133

For All Eternity

134

What Topples Democracies

135

The Food Connection

136

Paradise Lost And Found

137

Body Electric Part 6: Walk Into The Future

138

Small But Mighty

139

Body Electric Part 5: The Mind-Body-Tech Connection

140

Leaving A Mark

141

Body Electric Part 4: Below the Belt

142

Loudmouths

143

Body Electric Part 3: Why Our Eyes Are Elongating

144

Life Stages of the Brain

145

Body Electric Part 2: When Human Met Desk

146

Relationship Repair

147

Body Electric Part 1: The Body Through The Ages

148

Introducing Body Electric

149

Crimes in the Wild

150

Monday — Friday

151

Sound And Silence

152

Abandoned Places

153

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

154

We Contain Multitudes

155

Cuts Both Ways

156

What Lies Beneath

157

The Age of Fraud

158

Through the Looking Glass

159

Animal Enigmas

160

Migration

161

Audacious Solutions

162

The Rhythm and Rhyme of Memory

163

Future You

164

Breathe

165

When Stories Collide

166

Incognito

167

Found in Translation

168

Writing For A Better Future

169

DIY

170

Friction

171

The Birds and The Bees

172

Artist in Exile

173

Mind, Body, Spirit - Part 3

174

Mind, Body, Spirit - Part 2

175

Mind, Body, Spirit - Part 1

176

Why We're Living Longer

177

Humor Us

178

Small But Mighty

179

Bucking the System (2021)

180

New Family Values

181

The Forgotten Mothers of Civil Rights History (2022)

182

For All Eternity

183

Stay Resolved

184

Repair, Repurpose, Reimagine (2022)

185

The Language Of Harmony (2022)

186

Bonus: ReThinking with Adam Grant

187

Memory And The Brain

188

The Gratitude Chain (2021)

189

What's In A Face

190

An SOS From The Ocean

191

A Love Letter To The Ocean (2021)

192

Late Bloomers

193

Life Stages Of The Brain (2021)

194

Leaving A Mark

195

How To Be A Citizen

196

Crimes in the Wild

197

Finding Another Way (2020)

198

Friction

199

Special Delivery (2021)

200

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

201

Changing Our Minds (2021)

202

We Contain Multitudes

203

Listen Again: The Public Commons

204

Incognito

205

Listen Again: Work, Play, Rest - Part 3

206

Listen Again: Work, Play, Rest - Part 2

207

Listen Again: Work, Play, Rest - Part 1

208

Rosanne Cash: The Rhythm and Rhyme of Memory

209

Listen Again: A Century Of Money (2020)

210

The Birds And The Bees

211

Searching For Alien Life

212

Listen Again: Revitalize (2021)

213

Listen Again: Saleem Reshamwala: Far Flung Places

214

Jacob Collier: The Language Of Harmony

215

Listen Again: Heartache

216

Humor Us

217

Repair, Repurpose, Reimagine

218

Listen Again: Sound And Silence

219

Anna Malaika Tubbs: The Three Mothers

220

What Leadership Looks Like

221

Listen Again: The Power Of Spaces

222

Listen Again: The Biology Of Sex

223

Take Care

224

Listen Again: The Food Connection

225

Steven Johnson: Why We're Living Longer

226

Listen Again: Warped Reality (2020)

227

What Lies Beneath

228

Listen Again: Migration

229

Listen Again: Jason Reynolds - The Antidote To Hopelessness

230

Work, Play, Rest - Part 3

231

Work, Play, Rest - Part 2

232

Work, Play, Rest - Part 1

233

Listen Again: The Life Cycles Of Cities (2020)

234

Dave Eggers: Writing For A Better Future

235

Listen Again: Through The Looking Glass

236

Reshaping Evolution

237

Listen Again: An SOS From The Ocean

238

Bonus Episode: Kelp Farming, for the Climate

239

Listen Again: A Love Letter To The Ocean

240

Amy Webb: A Glimpse Into The Future

241

Listen Again: The Artist's Voice

242

Changing Our Minds

243

Listen Again: Making Amends

244

Listen Again: Jen Gunter: Body Talk

245

Bonus Episode: Robin Steinberg

246

Bucking The System

247

Listen Again: Nora McInerny: Life's Rough Edges

248

Special Delivery

249

Shoham Arad: Ideas Into Action

250

Listen Again: Revitalize

251

Listen Again: Life Stages Of The Brain (10.8.2021)

252

Heartache

253

Listen Again: School Of Life (2020)

254

Jason Reynolds: The Antidote To Hopelessness

255

Listen Again: The Gratitude Chain: A.J. Jacobs

256

The Food Connection

257

Listen Again — Esther Perel: Building Resilient Relationships (2020)

258

Elise Hu: The Beauty Ideal

259

Listen Again: It Takes Time

260

Listen Again: Finding Another Way

261

Saleem Reshamwala: Far Flung Places

262

The Public Commons

263

Listen Again: The Biology Of Sex

264

Listen Again: The Power Of Spaces

265

Listen Again: Uncharted (2020)

266

An SOS From The Ocean

267

Listen Again: Our Relationship With Water

268

A Love Letter To The Ocean

269

Bonus Episode: Jon M. Chu

270

Listen Again: Clint Smith

271

Jen Gunter: Body Talk

272

Listen Again: Breathe

273

The Artist's Voice

274

Listen Again: Warped Reality

275

Migration

276

Nora McInerny: Life's Rough Edges

277

Listen Again: A Century Of Money

278

Bonus Episode: ZigZag - The Pulse

279

Revitalize

280

Listen Again: The Life Cycles Of Cities

281

Listen Again - Baratunde Thurston: How To Citizen

282

Through The Looking Glass

283

Listen Again: Sound And Silence

284

Life Stages Of The Brain

285

Black History ... And The Future

286

The Gratitude Chain: A.J. Jacobs

287

Listen Again — Esther Perel: Building Resilient Relationships

288

It Takes Time

289

Listen Again: Our Relationship With Water

290

TED's Idea Search: Cloe Shasha Brooks

291

Breathe

292

Listen Again: School Of Life