Listen Again: Pure Joy

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Technology

4.3 • 21.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Original broadcast date: April 17, 2020. More than ever, we need to make time for joy. This hour, Manoush and TED's Head Curator Helen Walters explore talks that surprise, inspire, and delight.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Manou Shire and I just want to let you know that the Ted Radio Hour team and I are spending
0:05.5	these last few weeks of summer working hard on new episodes for the autumn. We're going to be
0:11.6	diving into topics like how we hear sound and the role of deception in our lives and so much more.
0:19.0	I can't wait for you to hear these shows because we want to keep giving you space to think big
0:24.4	picture and sometimes even escape from everything that's going on in the world. That's actually what
0:30.7	we had in mind with the episode I've got for you today. It's called Pure Joy. We taped it back in
0:37.4	April but if you didn't hear the episode then or you could use another dose of joy right now,
0:43.1	please relax and get immersed in these amazing and sometimes silly ideas. Thank you as always for
0:51.8	listening. This is the Ted Radio Hour. Each week groundbreaking Ted Talks. Our job now is to
1:03.9	dream big. Deliver it at Ted Conferences to bring about the future we want to see around the world
1:09.2	to understand who we are. From those talks we bring you speakers and ideas that will surprise you.
1:16.3	You just don't know what you're going to find. Challenge you. We truly have to ask ourselves
1:20.2	like why is it noteworthy? And even change you. I literally feel like I'm a different person.
1:24.8	Yes. Do you feel that way? Ideas worth spreading. From Ted and NPR. I'm Anouche Zamorodi and on the show
1:35.8	today Pure Joy. Ted Talks that spark the most pleasure, delight and frankly relief from thinking
1:43.0	about COVID-19 for this woman. My name is Helen Walters and I am the head of curation at Ted.
1:49.5	Helen has handpicked a selection of Ted speakers for you. Some of them have been on the show before
1:55.1	but others you'll be hearing about for the first time. All of them will surprise, inspire and maybe
2:01.4	even soothe you. Because as we spend our days muddling through this tough period,
2:06.8	lots of us might be feeling discouraged, depleted. So let's take a break from the all-consuming
2:12.8	headlines and treat ourselves to some more therapeutic ideas and emotions. And let's begin
2:19.4	by getting to know Ted's lovely and incredibly sharp Helen Walters and understanding her criteria
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