TED Radio Hour Big problems need audacious solutions. This hour, TED speakers use data and common sense to make laws more effective, reform the foster care system and hold environmental offenders accountable.

TED Radio HourTED Radio Hour

Life's biggest questions, explored.
Pict Rider/Getty Images/iStockphoto
TED Radio Hour: Audacious Solutions
Pict Rider/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Audacious Solutions

Big problems need audacious solutions. This hour, TED speakers use data and common sense to make laws more effective, reform the foster care system and hold environmental offenders accountable.

Ryan Lash / TED

A bounced check, a police arrest, and the fight to give millions a second chance

  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1185025497/1185306796" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
  • Transcript
Gilberto Tadday / TED

How placing kids with family can radically change the way foster care works in the US

  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1185025494/1185306852" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
  • Transcript

TED Radio HourTED Radio Hour

Life's biggest questions, explored.

Previous Shows

Natural Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is powerful, but what about natural intelligence? This hour, TED speakers explore the intrinsic genius in animal language, insect behavior, plant anatomy and our immune system.

Shutterstock/piotreknik

Memory and the Brain

Our brains are magnificently complex - and highly fallible. This hour, neuroscientist and novelist Lisa Genova explains how to keep our brains healthy and what to do when something goes wrong.

GoodStudio/Shutterstock

Retracing Their Steps

To move forward, the United States must confront its history of racial inequality. This hour, three perspectives on looking to the past to build a better future for Black Americans.

Getty Images/iStockphoto/francescoch

Heartache

When stress, fear or sadness weigh on us, our hearts can suffer — even break. But there are ways to mend our broken hearts. This hour, TED speakers share stories and ideas about soothing heartache.

Katya Polnoch/Shutterstock

Doppelgangers

The term can refer to a double, a ghost, a shadow. But it can mean much more. From our online mirror world to digital simulators, to the Earth's twin—TED speakers learn from the uncanny second self.

Shutterstock/cybermagician