TED Radio Hour

Airs: Tuesday 9:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.; Sunday 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Host: Alison Stewart
Produced by: NPR and TED
Official Website: www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/
E-mail: Contact us

An idea is the one gift that you can hang onto even after you've given it away. Welcome to TED Radio Hour – a journey through fascinating ideas: astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, new ways to think and create.

Based on Talks given by riveting speakers on the world-renowned TED stage, each show is centered on a common theme – such as the source of happiness, crowd-sourcing innovation, power shifts, or inexplicable connections – and injects soundscapes and conversations that bring these ideas to life. Host Alison Stewart talks with each speaker to probe how ideas make waves and get inside people's heads to open up a whole new picture.

TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences -- the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh UK each summer -- TED includes the award-winning TED Talks video site, the Open Translation Project and TED Conversations, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize. The world's most fascinating thinkers and doers are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes or less).

Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com and through TED distribution partners. Follow TED on Twitter or on Facebook.