TED Radio Hour

Hosts

• Manoush ZomorodiHost of NPR's TED Radio Hour

Frequent guests

• Yiyun Kang · 1 episodeSeoul-based multimedia installation artist working at the intersection of art and technology
• Paule Joseph · 1 episodeChemosensory researcher and senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health, co-director of the National Smell and Taste Center
• Mark Whittle · 1 episodeProfessor of astronomy at the University of Virginia who sonifies the early universe
• Joshua Roman · 1 episodeAmerican cellist, composer, and TED speaker, former principal cellist of the Seattle Symphony
• Jiaying Zhao · 1 episodeUniversity of British Columbia behavioral scientist and climate researcher (called Jay-Z), co-author of Leave the Lights On, heard via her TED Talk
• Elizabeth Dunn · 1 episodeSocial psychologist and happiness researcher at the University of British Columbia, co-author of Leave the Lights On
• Ken Robinson · 1 episode
• Yancey Strickler · 1 episodeCo-founder and former CEO of Kickstarter, writer and musician
• Anne Lamott · 1 episodeAmerican writer and essayist, author of Bird by Bird, Operating Instructions and Somehow: Thoughts on Love

Topics

• Long COVID
• Christianity
• University of Virginia
• Artificial intelligence and art
• Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
• Planck (spacecraft)
• 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28)
• Freshwater scarcity
• Light Architecture
• Passage of Water
• National Smell and Taste Center
• GLP-1 receptor agonists
• Frontotemporal dementia
• Parosmia
• Olfaction and sniff training

Recently covered

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  Big mysteries explained through your senses

  Sep 18, 2026 · 50 min

  Manoush Zomorodi talks with astronomer Mark Whittle, smell researcher Paule Joseph and artist Yiyun Kang about perceiving hidden realities through the senses.

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

  Sep 11, 2026 · 50 min

  Manoush Zomorodi talks with cellist Joshua Roman about how long COVID upended his lifelong devotion to the cello, his faith, and his debut album Immunity.

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  Less guilt, more joy: A new chapter for climate action

  Sep 4, 2026 · 50 min

  Manoush Zomorodi talks with social psychologist Elizabeth Dunn about climate actions that also increase happiness, featuring co-author Jiaying Zhao's TED Talk.

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  The price of creativity

  Aug 14, 2026 · 50 min

  Manoush Zomorodi talks with Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler about the history of creativity, the creator economy, and his proposed artist corporation (A Corp).

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  Addiction, motherhood and Jesus with writer Anne Lamott

  Jul 31, 2026 · 50 min

  Writer Anne Lamott talks with Manoush Zomorodi about writing, alcoholism and recovery, faith, single motherhood, her son's addiction, death and turning 70.

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