Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Hosted by Alan Alda · Alan Alda
4.7from 4,135 ratings
- 436
- Episodes
- 108
- Transcribed
- 4,135
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
About Clear+Vivid with 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.
- Publisher
- Alan Alda
- Category
- comedy · science · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 23 May 2018
- Latest episode
- 22 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
108 of 436 episodes have a transcript.
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Dame Sue Black: Science on trial
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Antonio Damasio: Consciousness starts in a surprising place
8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Lisa Margulis: Music shares our daydreams
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Dame Sue Black: Science on trial
Published 22 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And the fact is we shed hair and we shed hair all the time. So just because you find hair and you can match it to someone doesn't mean that necessarily they were at the crime scene because we know very little about transfer and persistence. So how does a body tissue or a body fluid transfer from one person to another? Can there be secondary transfer to somebody else? And once it's on you, how long does it stay? And so if we can't answer those, then just because we find the hair doesn't necessarily mean that the person we suspect was even at the crime scene, their hairs at the crime scene, but not necessarily them. […]
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- Dame Sue Black
- Antonio Damasio
- Lisa Margulis
- Joanna Stern
- Graham Chedd
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 3,647 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 488 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 92 / 100
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- Quality
- 96
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 72
- Engagement
- 100
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