TED Radio Hour
Saturdays at 2:00pm
TED Radio Hour is a journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions and new ways to think and create.
Each episode includes riveting excerpts from the renowned TED stage where some of the world's deepest thinkers and innovators are invited to give the 18-minute "talk of their lives."
Host Guy Raz interviews the guests, delving deeper, dissecting the speaker's ideas and posing probing questions you'd like to hear answered.
Topics the series explores include mankind's place in the universe and space, how the sounds around us affect our behavior and why there is power in failure.
Holly Herndon: How AI can transform your voice
Artist Holly Herndon created an AI clone of her voice that can sing in any languages and in any tone. In her music, Holly shows how AI can enhance the power and artistry of the voice.
Erika Hamden: What does it take to send a telescope into the stratosphere?
Astrophysicist Erika Hamden spent 10 years building FIREBall, a telescope that reaches the stratosphere and looks for clues to how stars form. Launching it was more challenging than she ever imagined.
Kathryn Whitehead: How can we safely deliver vaccines to the right cells?
mRNA vaccines are groundbreaking—but the mRNA inside them is fragile. Kathryn Whitehead explains how scientists have created the right "packing material" to safely deliver these to the right cells.
Amir Nizar Zuabi: How one puppet's 5,000 mile journey delivers a message of hope
Amal is a nine-year-old Syrian refugee. She's also a giant puppet. Theater director Amir Nizar Zuabi discusses how art can deliver a new message on the plight of refugees in his project "The Walk."