Accessibility links
TED Radio Hour A journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, and new ways to think and create. Based on riveting TEDTalks from the world's most remarkable minds.

TED Radio HourTED Radio Hour

A journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, and new ways to think and create. Based on riveting TEDTalks from the world's most remarkable minds.

Past Shows

Previous Shows

Failure Is An Option

Failure can be devastating, but it can also make us stronger and smarter. This week, TED speakers explore how failure clears the way for success, in our everyday work, and our innermost lives.

Failure Is An Option

"Failure is a part of all of us." - Lidia Yuknavitch osmanpek/Getty Images/iStockphoto hide caption

toggle caption
osmanpek/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Changing The World

What does it take to change the world for the better? This hour, TED speakers explore ideas on activism—what motivates it, why it matters, and how each of us can make a difference.

Changing The World
iStockphoto

How Things Spread

What makes an idea, a brand, or a behavior catch fire? This hour, TED speakers explore the mysteries behind the many things we spread: laughter and sadness, imagination, viruses and viral ideas.

How Things Spread

What makes one idea spread over another? iStock hide caption

toggle caption
iStock

Confronting Racism

Racism isn't always obvious, but it can be found almost everywhere. This hour, TED speakers explore the effects of everyday and systemic racism in America—and how we can work to defeat it.

Confronting Racism

TED speakers on confronting racism. Dian Lofton/iStock hide caption

toggle caption
Dian Lofton/iStock

Shifting Time

We live our lives by the calendar and the clock, but time is also an abstraction, even an illusion. In this hour, TED speakers explore how our sense of time changes depending on who and where we are.

Shifting Time

"Maybe our universe is just one of those things that happens from time to time," says theoretical physicist Sean Carroll. iStockphoto hide caption

toggle caption
iStockphoto

TED Radio HourTED Radio Hour

A journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, and new ways to think and create. Based on riveting TEDTalks from the world's most remarkable minds.