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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

By: 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.Alan Alda Science Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Shermin Kruse: When empathy becomes a strategy

    Shermin Kruse: When empathy becomes a strategy
    Mar 17 2026

    Her mother’s skillful use of empathy to defuse a potentially dangerous encounter on the streets of Tehran when she was nine has stayed with her ever since. It led to her developing the concept of stoic empathy as a way to navigate challenges.


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    38 mins
  • Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 33 Trailer

    Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 33 Trailer
    Mar 10 2026

    Alan and Executive Producer Graham Chedd look ahead to the new season with clips from episodes on empathy – both helping defuse a dangerous situation in Tehran and its role in the very different circumstances of a doctor’s office; why chatbots can still be exasperating; Harriet Tubman’s key role in a daring raid freeing 700 slaves; and why accents are so revealing.


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    27 mins
  • Carol Burnett: A favorite conversation

    Carol Burnett: A favorite conversation
    Mar 3 2026

    At age 92, Carol Burnett still graces our screens with her presence and humor. Alan revisits a 2019 conversation that explores with her what made The Carol Burnett Show a comedy masterpiece and recalls the time she played his wife in his movie The Four Seasons.


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    36 mins
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A pleasure to hear Alan Alda's humor while exploring this powerful topic with Rabbi Leder.

Simply Wonderful!

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I have been listening to this podcast while I walk every morning, I thought it might be time to give a quick review! I love this podcast because the guests and topics are varied and so interesting! Alan’s comfortable and insightful style brings out great things in every conversation. Just a great way to start my day.

Always engaging and entertaining

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Listening to these intimate conversations between smart, evolved, thoughtful and interesting people never gets old. Or at this point, even optional in my life - that’s how much I get out of this podcast. All of them unique in every way too! Thank you for the inspiration, the motivation, and most of all - at times even restoring my faith in human kind.

Seriously do yourself a favor, listen to ALL!

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I could have listened to this for another 12 hours. It was just a lovely homecoming at the end the there was a disappointment and a longing to give each of them a hug of thanks.

A much to short family reunion

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Been an Alan Alda fan as long as I can remember,so listening to him talk is just so cozy. The fact that I learn while indulging makes it worth all five stars. I hope this goes on for ages more

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