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TED Radio Hour

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🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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What does it take to deliver a message, precious cargo, or vaccines — meant for exactly the right place in our bodies? This hour, TED speakers explore the often perilous journey of crucial deliveries. Guests include theater director Amir Nizar Zuabi, astrophysicist Erika Hamden, chemical engineer Kathryn Whitehead, and entrepreneur Keller Rinaudo.

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0:00.0	This is the Ted Radio Hour.
0:03.4	Each week, groundbreaking Ted Talks.
0:06.8	Our job now is to dream big.
0:08.1	Deliver it at Ted Conferences.
0:09.8	To bring about the future we want to see.
0:11.9	Around the world.
0:12.9	To understand who we are.
0:14.7	From those talks, we bring you speakers and ideas that will surprise you.
0:20.0	You just don't know what you're gonna find.
0:21.8	Challenge you.
0:22.7	We truly have to ask ourselves, like, why is it noteworthy?
0:25.1	And even change you.
0:26.2	I literally feel like I'm a different person.
0:28.4	Yes.
0:29.7	Do you feel that way?
0:31.1	Ideas worth spreading.
0:33.5	From Ted and NPR.
0:38.2	I'm Manouche Zamorodi.
0:40.4	We're here.
0:43.6	And today we're going to begin with a little girl on a long journey.
0:49.6	Amal.
0:52.6	She's called Amal, which in Arabic means hope.
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