I'm Alan Alda and this is clear and vivid conversations about connecting and communicating. Welcome to a preview of season 23 of Clear and Vivid.

I'm here with Graham Sheder, producer, and we're going to give you a taste of what's to come this season

We have a fascinating lineup of guests. Wouldn't you say Graham? Well, of course otherwise we wouldn't be clear and vivid would we?

This is actually going to be a preview of a few of the dozen or so shows we've got half a dozen we're going to be

playing today clips of and you know one of the things that strikes me about these about the whole season in fact is that while each of your guests is full of information and facts

they're also great storytellers and all of that information is embedded often in wonderful

personal stories and I think you'll get a taste of that listening to the next few minutes.

And as always our conversations are mostly about relating and communicating,

sometimes from an unexpected angle.

For instance, it's hard to have a conversation with someone if you can't remember who you're

talking to.

And that's where memory expert Frank

Belberbaum comes in. Graham and I first met Frank a couple of decades ago in

the television series we did called Scientific American Frontiers.

The things Frank can do with his memory are amazing, like learning the names of 100 people

in just a few minutes.

And he can show us how he does it. Is there a trick that I can employ to

remember a feature of a face or is it easier to remember one feature than the

whole face? Yes, if you try to remember the entire face,

then you have multiple features coming at you.

What you want to do is hone in and focus on one area, like I told you to focus on my nose. I could

focus on your nose you know or or your forehead you know whatever and you could do the

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