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David
 Oct 27, 2020
Excellent range of thinkers and doers.

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How To Academy is London's home of big thinking. From Nobel laureates to Pulitzer Prize winners, we invite the world’s most influential voices to share new ideas for changing ourselves, our communities, and the world. Our biweekly podcast is your chance to hear in-depth from the most exciting thinkers in global culture.

Episode Date
Neuroscientist Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston - How and Why We Should Abolish Death
Dec 17, 2024
Vanity Fair’s Lili Anolik - Joan Didion v. Eve Babitz
Dec 13, 2024
Lucy Hughes-Hallett - The Brief & Brilliant Life of the Duke of Buckingham
Dec 10, 2024
Andrew Roberts - 150 Years of Winston Churchill
Dec 06, 2024
Dr Guy Leschziner - A Neuroscientist's Guide to the Seven Deadly Sins
Dec 03, 2024
Rory Stewart Meets Saad Mohseni - The Fight for a Free Press in Kabul
Nov 29, 2024
Dr Mithu Storoni - How To Transform the Way You Work
Nov 26, 2024
Cambridge Professor David Spiegelhalter - How to Navigate Change, Ignorance, Risk and Luck
Nov 22, 2024
Psychologist Alison Fragale - How Women Can Get the Success They Deserve
Nov 18, 2024
WATCHMEN author Alan Moore - Twenty Six Letters, Infinite Worlds
Nov 14, 2024
SAPIENS author Yuval Noah Harari - Humanity in the Age of AI
Nov 14, 2024
Robyn Davidson - Journeys of a Lifetime
Nov 09, 2024
Award winning novelist Rebecca Kuang - Yellowface
Nov 01, 2024
Historian of Science Natalie Lawrence - Why Monsters Matter
Nov 01, 2024
Yale Historian Sunil Amrith - How Humanity Reshaped the Planet
Oct 29, 2024
Harvard Historian Serhii Plokhy - Chernobyl Under Russian Occupation
Oct 21, 2024
Pulitzer Prize winners Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig - How Donald Trump Squandered His Fortune
Oct 15, 2024
Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk - When the Body Keeps the Score
Oct 11, 2024
Anthropologist Webb Keane - Animals, Robots, Gods
Oct 07, 2024
Psychologist Mary Anderson - How to be a Happy High-Achiever
Oct 04, 2024
David Olusoga and Alan Lester - The Truth About the British Empire
Oct 03, 2024
Psychotherapist and Bestselling Author Anna Mathur - How to Tame Your Mind's Greatest Fears
Sep 28, 2024
Sam Leith and Amy Jeffs - Tales of Wonder, Myth and Magic
Sep 24, 2024
Oliver Burkeman - How to Live a Meaningful Life in an Age of Bewilderment
Sep 20, 2024
Novelist Rumaan Alam - on Wealth, Power, and Entitlement
Sep 16, 2024
Superstar election forecaster Nate Silver - The Art of Risking Everything
Sep 10, 2024
Stefan Stern - The Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition
Sep 06, 2024
Mark Galeotti - Putin, Prigozhin and the Future of Russia
Sep 03, 2024
Senior Jewellery Curator at the V&A Helen Molesworth - The Dazzling History of Gems
Aug 30, 2024
Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith - How Animal Minds Transformed Planet Earth
Aug 27, 2024
Yuval Noah Harari Meets Katherine Rundell - Unstoppable Us (Summer Repeat)
Aug 22, 2024
Fern Academy Prize winner Gabriela Denise Frank - Fear and Loathing in White Collar America
Aug 20, 2024
Dr Emily Leeming - The Life Changing Science of Gut Health
Aug 16, 2024
William Dalrymple and Sathnam Sanghera – British Imperialism in India (Summer Repeat)
Aug 13, 2024
Henry Oliver - How To Find Success in Midlife
Aug 09, 2024
Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum - The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Aug 06, 2024
World Record Breaking Mountaineer Lhakpa Sherpa and Filmmaker Lucy Walker
Jul 31, 2024
Neuroscientist Patrick House - How to Make Sense of Consciousness
Jul 29, 2024
Pioneering Biologist J Craig Venter - The Future of Life on Earth
Jul 23, 2024
New York Times Bestseller Paolo Bacigalupi - Money and Power in the Fantasy Renaissance
Jul 19, 2024
Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell - When the Wild Things Returned
Jul 16, 2024
Neuroscientist Kelly Clancy - How Games Change Reality
Jul 12, 2024
Bestselling Sociologist Sarah Thornton - Why Breasts Matter
Jul 09, 2024
Stephanie Harrison - How to Get Happiness Right in a World That’s Got it Wrong
Jul 05, 2024
Ruchir Sharma - How Capitalism Went Wrong
Jul 02, 2024
Olympic Gold medallist and entrepreneur Mark Tuitert – How Stoic Philosophy Can Change Your Life
Jun 28, 2024
Yanis Varoufakis - The Rise of Technofeudalism
Jun 25, 2024
Bestselling Science Writer David Robson - The Laws of Social Connection
Jun 21, 2024
Naomi Klein - The Mirror World of Conspiracists and the Far-Right
Jun 19, 2024
Clover Stroud - On Home, Belonging, and Letting Go
Jun 14, 2024
Anna Funder - Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life
Jun 11, 2024
Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan - On Love, Memory, and History
Jun 07, 2024
My Octopus Teacher star Craig Foster - How to be Wild
Jun 05, 2024
Charles Duhigg - How to be a Supercommunicator
May 31, 2024
George Monbiot Meets Nish Kumar - The Secret History of Neoliberalism
May 28, 2024
Africa Brooke and Jameela Jamil - How To Break Free From Self-Sabotage
May 23, 2024
Haemin Sunim - When Things Don't Go Your Way
May 21, 2024
Mo Gawdat & Alice Law - A Guide to Stress-Free Living
May 17, 2024
James O'Brien Meets Ian Dunt - How They Broke Britain
May 14, 2024
Slavoj Zizek Meets Ash Sarkar - A 75th Birthday Celebration
May 10, 2024
Robin Sharma Meets Ali Abdaal - How to Be Truly Wealthy
May 07, 2024
George the Poet - Me Music and the War on Blackness
May 03, 2024
Economist Andrew Scott — How We Can Sustain Longer, Healthier Lives
Apr 30, 2024
Rebecca Boyle - The Story of Our Moon
Apr 26, 2024
Neuroscientist Clayton Page Aldern and Dr Xand van Tulleken - How the Climate Crisis Affects Our Brains and Bodies
Apr 24, 2024
Psychotherapist Emma Reed Turrell - How to Overcome Your Blind Spots
Apr 19, 2024
Christiana Figueres - Our Story of Nature
Apr 17, 2024
Philip Ball – How Life Works
Apr 12, 2024
Gary Stevenson – Confessions of a Trader
Apr 09, 2024
Classicists Mary Beard and Jo Quinn - Who Made The West?
Apr 05, 2024
Neuroscientist Charan Ranganath meets Robin Ince - Why We Remember
Apr 02, 2024
Harvard's Christopher Palmer - Metabolism and Mental Health
Mar 26, 2024
Diplomat Christiana Figueres and former Unilever CEO Paul Polman - How to Fight the Climate Crisis
Mar 22, 2024
Justin Webb Meets Brian Klaas - Why Everything We Do Matters
Mar 20, 2024
Neuroscientist Tali Sharot - How to See the World Anew
Mar 15, 2024
Philosopher Tom Chatfield - How Technology Changes Humanity, From Fire to AI
Mar 12, 2024
Novelist Kiley Reid - Come and Get It
Mar 08, 2024
Neuroscientist Dr Richard Restak – How To Prevent Dementia
Mar 05, 2024
Novelist and Macarthur 'Genius' Kelly Link - The Book of Love
Mar 01, 2024
Daniel Goleman - Emotional Intelligence at Work
Feb 23, 2024
Novelist and Diplomat Ray Nayler - The Tusks of Extinction
Feb 20, 2024
Dr Gemma Newman - The Six Healing Health Habits You Need to Know
Feb 16, 2024
Amitav Ghosh - How the Opium Trade Shaped Capitalism
Feb 13, 2024
Musician James Blunt - Not Safe For Work
Feb 09, 2024
Comedian Ruby Wax - On Mental Health
Feb 06, 2024
Physicist Carlo Rovelli Meets Theatre-Maker Simon McBurney
Feb 02, 2024
Psychotherapist Adam Phillips - What We Must Give Up to Feel More Alive
Jan 30, 2024
Stanford Psychiatrist and Addiction Expert Anna Lembke - The New Neuroscience of Pleasure, Pain, and Balance
Jan 26, 2024
Daniel Dennett v. Robert Sapolsky - Do We Have Free Will?
Jan 24, 2024
Dr Uma Naidoo - How to Calm Your Mind With Food
Jan 19, 2024
Sathnam Sanghera on the British Empire - Live at Wilderness
Jan 16, 2024
Oxford Data Scientist Hannah Richie - Combating Climate Anxiety
Jan 13, 2024
Economist Mariana Mazzucato - The Entrepreneurial State and the Future of Innovation
Jan 09, 2024
Psychologist Dan Ariely - Why People Are Drawn to Conspiracy Theories, and How to Help
Jan 05, 2024
Mary Beard and David Mitchell - On Rulers and Power
Dec 22, 2023
Harvard Psychologist David Rosmarin - How To Thrive With Anxiety
Dec 19, 2023
Hein de Haas - Debunking Myths About Migration
Dec 15, 2023
Holistic Psychologist Nicole LePera - How to Heal Your Relationships
Dec 12, 2023
New York Times columnist David Brooks - How to Know Others and Be Truly Seen
Dec 08, 2023
Walter Isaacson - The Life of Elon Musk
Dec 06, 2023
Harvard Business School Prof. Amy Edmondson - Why Learning to Fail Can Teach Us to Thrive
Dec 01, 2023
Performance Artist Marina Abramović Meets Tim Marlow
Nov 28, 2023
Immunologist Luke O'Neill - The Joy of Science
Nov 24, 2023
Stanford Professor Dr. David Spiegel - How Hypnosis Can Change Your Life
Nov 20, 2023
Astronaut Chris Hadfield Meets Robin Ince
Nov 15, 2023
Neuroscientist and Philosopher Iain McGilchrist - The Divided Brain and the Meaning of Life
Nov 10, 2023
Philippa Gregory - 900 Years of Women's History
Nov 07, 2023
Albert Read Meets Will Gompertz - Where Good Ideas Come From (and How to Have More)
Nov 03, 2023
Werner Herzog Meets Mark Kermode - A Life in Cinema
Oct 31, 2023
Timothy Garton Ash and Catherine Ashton - The Future of Europe (Bonus Episode)
Oct 27, 2023
Arthur Brooks - How to Build the Life You Want
Oct 24, 2023
Zeke Faux Meets Oliver Bullough - Inside the Wild Rise and Fall of Crypto
Oct 20, 2023
Davina McCall and Dr Naomi Potter - How to Thrive Through Menopause
Oct 18, 2023
Gordon Brown, Mohamed El-Erian, Michael Spence - Fixing the Permacrisis
Oct 13, 2023
David Nutt - How Psychedelics Can Change Your Life
Oct 10, 2023
Camilla Nord - The New Neuroscience of Mental Health
Oct 06, 2023
Michel Faber - Why Music Matters
Oct 03, 2023
Dr Anders Hansen - How to Be Happier and Less Distracted
Sep 30, 2023
John Higgs - The KLF, the Band That Burned a Million Pounds
Sep 26, 2023
Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross - Your Brain on Art
Sep 22, 2023
Joyce Carol Oates - Zero Sum
Sep 19, 2023
Jesse Coomer - The Power of Breathwork
Sep 15, 2023
Kristen Ghodsee and Angela Saini - Radical Experiments in the Good Life
Sep 12, 2023
Dr James Kinross - The New Science of the Microbiome
Sep 08, 2023
Emma Southon - Women of the Roman Empire
Sep 05, 2023
Rahul Jandial - How to Rewire Your Brain (Summer Repeat)
Sep 01, 2023
David Christian - A User's Guide to the Future (Bonus Episode)
Aug 29, 2023
Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché - Nostalgia is a Weapon
Aug 25, 2023
Julia Cameron and Elizabeth Gilbert - The Path to Higher Creativity (Summer Repeat)
Aug 22, 2023
Alan Philps - Stalin's Disinformation War
Aug 18, 2023
Marie Kondo - Kurashi at Home (Summer Repeat)
Aug 15, 2023
Victoria Belim - The Resilience of Art in Times of War
Aug 11, 2023
Dr Pooja Lakshmin - Sustainable Strategies for Real Self-Care
Aug 08, 2023
Booker Prize winner George Saunders - Liberation Day (Summer Repeat)
Aug 04, 2023
Malcolm Harris - How Palo Alto Conquered the World
Aug 02, 2023
Dr Amy Shah - How to Manage Hunger and Cravings
Jul 28, 2023
Andy Clark - How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
Jul 25, 2023
Christina Wallace - How To Futureproof Your Career
Jul 21, 2023
Booker 2022 winner Shehan Karunatilaka - The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Jul 18, 2023
Emma Gannon - The Meaning of Success
Jul 14, 2023
Richard Dawkins - Live at Wilderness Festival 2022
Jul 11, 2023
Viorica Marian - The Power of Language
Jul 07, 2023
Peter Heather - Will the West Fall Like Rome?
Jul 04, 2023
Lorraine Candy - How to Have a Magnificent Midlife
Jun 30, 2023
Scott Shapiro - The Dark Art of Hacking
Jun 27, 2023
James Comey - The Pursuit of Justice in a Divided America
Jun 23, 2023
Gretchen Rubin - How to Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life
Jun 20, 2023
William Dalrymple and Sathnam Sanghera - British Imperialism in India
Jun 16, 2023
Richard Ford - A Life in Literature
Jun 13, 2023
Andre Solo - How To Thrive as a Sensitive Person
Jun 09, 2023
Susie Alegre - Protecting Freedom of Thought in the Digital Age
Jun 06, 2023
Sarah Knight - How to be an Adult and Get Treated Like One
Jun 01, 2023
M. John Harrison - Living in an Age of Fantasy
May 29, 2023
Alastair Campbell Meets Beth Rigby - Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It
May 23, 2023
Thomas Hertog - Stephen Hawking's Final Theory of the Universe
May 19, 2023
Ruby Wax Meets Julia Samuel - I'm Not As Well As I Thought I Was
May 16, 2023
Fiona Buckland - How to Change Your Life
May 12, 2023
Justin Gregg - What Animal Intelligence Tells Us About Human Stupidity
May 10, 2023
Robin Ince Meets Chris van Tulleken - Why We Can't Stop Eating Stuff That Isn't Food
May 05, 2023
Mick Herron - Slow Horses, Bad Actors
May 02, 2023
Eleanor Janega - Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
Apr 28, 2023
Alexa Hagerty - Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
Apr 25, 2023
Adam Gopnik - The Mystery of Skill and Mastery
Apr 21, 2023
Microsoft President Brad Smith - Tools and Weapons
Apr 18, 2023
Richard Restak - The Neuroscience of Strengthening Your Memory
Apr 14, 2023
Luke Turner - Men at War
Apr 11, 2023
Curtis Sittenfeld - Romantic Comedy
Apr 07, 2023
Julian Baggini - How to Think Like a Philosopher
Apr 04, 2023
Dr Shilpa Ravella - The New Science of Inflammation
Mar 23, 2023
Vex King and Kaushal - Get Closer to Love
Mar 21, 2023
Amantha Imber - How to Use Time Wisely
Mar 17, 2023
Sir Tony Robinson Meets Peter Frankopan - How a Changing Climate Shaped Civilisation
Mar 14, 2023
Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington - How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Democracy
Mar 10, 2023
Nicholas Humphrey - The Invention of Consciousness
Mar 08, 2023
Bernie Sanders Meets Frankie Boyle - It's Okay to Be Angry About Capitalism
Mar 02, 2023
Blake Morrison - The Power of Art in Grief
Feb 28, 2023
Caroline Dodds Pennock - How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Feb 24, 2023
Ray Nayler - What Octopuses and AI Teach Us About Consciousness
Feb 21, 2023
Tracey Shors - A Neuroscientist's Guide to Trauma
Feb 17, 2023
Mervyn King Meets Martin Wolf - The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Feb 14, 2023
Julia Samuel Meets John and Julie Gottman - How to Make Love Last
Feb 10, 2023
Daniel Finkelstein Meets Adam Wagner - The Freedoms We Lost in the Pandemic
Feb 08, 2023
Tom Rob Smith - Antarctica and Apocalypse
Feb 03, 2023
Morgan Levine - How to Reverse the Ageing Process
Jan 31, 2023
Nouriel Roubini - Megathreats That Imperil the World's Future
Jan 27, 2023
Dr Gabor Maté - Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture
Jan 24, 2023
Maria Ressa - How to Stand Up to a Dictator
Jan 20, 2023
Alan Moore - The Magic of Storytelling
Jan 17, 2023
Katy Milkman Meets Annie Duke - How To Quit
Jan 13, 2023
Felix Flicker - The Magic of Matter
Jan 09, 2023
Jools Holland and Mark Cooper – Celebrating Thirty Years of Music and Mayhem
Dec 20, 2022
Sathnam Sanghera – Marriage Material
Dec 16, 2022
Chelsea Manning – Information is Power
Dec 13, 2022
Meik Wiking – Hygge, Home, and Happiness
Dec 09, 2022
Marie Kondo – Kurashi At Home
Dec 06, 2022
Lost Realms – An Epic New History of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings
Dec 02, 2022
The Pursuit of Growth is a Disaster for Our Country and Our Planet
Nov 29, 2022
Harry Sidebottom - The Mad Emperor Heliogabalus
Nov 23, 2022
Siddhartha Mukherjee - The Song of the Cell
Nov 18, 2022
Danielle Keats Citron - How to Protect Dignity and Identity in the Digital Age
Nov 15, 2022
Live Debate: "Now is the Time to Make Peace in Ukraine"
Nov 11, 2022
Joyce Tyldesley - The Life, Death, and Afterlife of Tutankhamun
Nov 09, 2022
Yuval Noah Harari Meets Katherine Rundell - Unstoppable Us
Nov 01, 2022
George Saunders - Liberation Day
Oct 28, 2022
Geena Davis - Dying of Politeness
Oct 25, 2022
Kate Summerscale - The History of Phobias and Manias
Oct 23, 2022
Kate Mosse - Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries
Oct 20, 2022
Amy Jeffs - Tales of the Medieval Wilderness
Oct 14, 2022
Irvine Welsh - Confessions of a Novelist
Oct 11, 2022
Stephen Fry Meets Steven Pinker - Enlightenment Now
Oct 04, 2022
Clover Stroud - The Red of My Blood
Sep 30, 2022
Dr Gabor Maté - Why We Get Sick
Sep 27, 2022
John Higgs - Bond, the Beatles, and the British Psyche
Sep 23, 2022
Dr Ellen Vora - The Anatomy of Anxiety
Sep 21, 2022
Adrian Hon - How Corporations and Governments Use Videogames to Control Us
Sep 16, 2022
Cornelia Parker Meets Carlo Rovelli - The Hidden Nature of Things
Sep 13, 2022
Mark Bergen - Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to Global Domination
Sep 09, 2022
Charlotte Fox Weber - A Journey Into Human Desire
Sep 07, 2022
Melanie Joy - How to Get Relationships Right
Sep 02, 2022
David Mitchell - Dishonesty is the Second Best Policy (Summer Repeat)
Aug 30, 2022
Glennon Doyle - How to Find Yourself (Summer Repeat)
Aug 26, 2022
Richard Dawkins - The Meaning of Life (Summer Repeat)
Aug 22, 2022
Layla Saad - How to Fight White Supremacy (Summer Repeat)
Aug 19, 2022
Derren Brown - How To Be a Little Happier (Summer Repeat)
Aug 15, 2022
Patrick Radden Keefe - True Stories of Killers, Grifters, and Crooks
Aug 12, 2022
Philip Ball - How to Make Sense of Inhuman Minds
Aug 09, 2022
Alice Sherwood - How to Fight Back Against Counterfeit Culture
Aug 02, 2022
Daniel Pink - The Power of Regret
Jul 26, 2022
Daniel Pick - a New History of Thought Control
Jul 22, 2022
Tara Porter - A Psychologist's Guide to Life for Girls and Young Women
Jul 19, 2022
Chris Patten - The Future of Hong Kong
Jul 15, 2022
Jeremy Hunt - The Future of the NHS
Jul 12, 2022
Bonnie Wright - How to Nurture Yourself and the Planet
Jul 08, 2022
Francesco Dimitri - The Search for Wonder
Jul 06, 2022
Suzie Sheehy - The Matter of Everything
Jul 01, 2022
Michael Ignatieff - Finding Solace in Dark Times
Jun 28, 2022
Ken Liu - Storytelling is Our Most Important Technology
Jun 24, 2022
Susan Cain - How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
Jun 21, 2022
Jane McGonigal - How to See the Future Coming
Jun 17, 2022
Colm Toibin and Terence Killeen - Ulysses Unbound
Jun 14, 2022
Alice Roberts - Buried
Jun 10, 2022
Rory Stewart - The State of the Nation
Jun 06, 2022
Pandora Sykes Meets Tina Brown - The Inside Scoop on the House of Windsor
May 31, 2022
Sam Knight - The Premonitions Bureau
May 27, 2022
John Cleese Meets Iain McGilchrist - On Consciousness and Creativity
May 24, 2022
Minnie Driver - Managing Expectations
May 20, 2022
Owen Jones Meets Michael Lewis - The Fifth Risk
May 17, 2022
Robin Ince Meets Neal Stephenson - Termination Shock
May 13, 2022
Eliot Higgins - We Are Bellingcat
May 10, 2022
The Metaverse - Hype or Hyperreality?
May 06, 2022
Ann Patchett - These Precious Days
May 03, 2022
Robin Ince Meets Richard Dawkins
Apr 29, 2022
Ed Miliband - How to Fix Our World
Apr 26, 2022
Dispatches from Afghanistan
Apr 22, 2022
Matthew Green - A Journey Into the Shadowlands
Apr 19, 2022
Julia Samuel - Every Family Has a Story
Apr 11, 2022
Philip Oltermann - The Stasi Poetry Circle
Apr 08, 2022
Simon Sebag Montefiore and Luke Harding - The History of the Ukraine-Russia Conflict
Apr 05, 2022
Max Porter - Why Art Should Challenge Us
Apr 01, 2022
Alan Moore and B. Catling - The Power of Imagination
Mar 29, 2022
Olia Hercules and Alissa Timoshkina - #CookForUkraine
Mar 25, 2022
Yanis Varoufakis Meets David Wengrow - The Dawn of Everything
Mar 21, 2022
Paul Craddock - The Surprising History of Organ Transplants
Mar 18, 2022
Suzanne Simard - Finding the Mother Tree
Mar 15, 2022
Jon Ronson and Brian Klaas - On Psychopaths and Power
Mar 08, 2022
Salena Godden Meets Yrsa Daley-Ward - How to Know Yourself
Feb 28, 2022
Jameela Jamil and Michael Schur - How to be Perfect
Feb 21, 2022
Adam Rutherford - The Troubling History of Eugenics
Feb 14, 2022
William Dalrymple and Sathnam Sanghera - British Imperialism in India
Feb 08, 2022
Fi Glover and Jane Garvey - Did I Say That Out Loud?
Feb 01, 2022
John Preston - The Rise and Fall of Robert Maxwell
Jan 25, 2022
Claire Fuller - Unsettled Ground
Jan 18, 2022
Marcus du Sautoy Meets Steven Pinker - Why Rationality Matters
Jan 10, 2022
Bexy Cameron - How to Escape a Cult
Jan 06, 2022
Pandora Sykes Meets Emily Ratajkowski
Dec 21, 2021
Paul Bloom - The Surprising Secret of Happiness
Dec 14, 2021
Philip Pullman Meets Iain McGilchrist - The Meaning of Life
Dec 06, 2021
Fatima Bhutto Meets Noam Chomsky
Nov 30, 2021
Robin DiAngelo and Beverly Daniel Tatum - Conversations About Race
Nov 23, 2021
Greg Jenner - How to Find the Comedy in History
Nov 16, 2021
Jane Goodall - A Survival Guide for an Endandgered Planet
Nov 10, 2021
Richard Powers - Why Stories Matter
Nov 02, 2021
Bernard-Henri Lévy - Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope
Oct 26, 2021
Kate Bowler - The Meaning of Life
Oct 19, 2021
Stephen Fry Meets Steven Pinker - The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Oct 12, 2021
James Nestor - the Art and Science of Breathing
Oct 04, 2021
Bonus Episode: With Reason - Learning from our Ancestors, with Alice Roberts
Sep 25, 2021
Fiona Shaw - A Life on Stage and Screen
Sep 21, 2021
Rutger Bregman and Philippe Sands - Are Humans Naturally Good?
Sep 14, 2021
Dennis Duncan - Index, a history of the
Sep 06, 2021
Mary Portas - How to Thrive in the New Kindness Economy
Aug 30, 2021
Gordon Brown – How to Change the World
Aug 24, 2021
Anish Kapoor - a Life in Art
Aug 16, 2021
Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green - The Inside Story of the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine
Aug 09, 2021
Charles Yu - Interior Chinatown
Aug 03, 2021
Mike Rothschild - The Rise of QAnon
Jul 26, 2021
Lisa Taddeo and Hadley Freeman - Madness, Transgression, and Power
Jul 19, 2021
Daniel Kahneman - Why We Make Bad Judgments
Jul 12, 2021
John Higgs - William Blake vs the World
Jul 05, 2021
Katrine Marcal and Caroline Criado Perez - Mother of Invention
Jun 28, 2021
Bill Clinton and James Patterson - The President's Daughter
Jun 22, 2021
Sir David Hare - A Life in Theatre
Jun 08, 2021
Ginny Smith - The Neuroscience of Everyday Life
Jun 02, 2021
Maggie O'Farrell - The Life of Hamnet Shakespeare
May 24, 2021
Michio Kaku - The Quest For Theory of Everything
May 17, 2021
Anna Ploszajski - Finding Meaning Through Making
May 10, 2021
George Saunders – Lessons in Writing and Life
Apr 26, 2021
Matthew d’Ancona – Why The Old Politics Is Useless and What We Can Do About It
Apr 19, 2021
Isabel Allende – The Soul of a Woman
Apr 12, 2021
Ian McEwan – A Life In Literature
Mar 29, 2021
Rowan Hooper – How to Spend a Trillion Dollars
Mar 22, 2021
Derren Brown – How To Be a Little Happier
Mar 15, 2021
Adam Grant and Tim Harford – The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
Mar 08, 2021
Ethan Kross – How to Harness the Voice Inside Your Head
Mar 01, 2021
George the Poet Meets Mariana Mazzucato – a Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
Feb 22, 2021
Toby Ord – Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
Feb 15, 2021
Owen Jones Meets Claudia Rankine
Feb 08, 2021
Iain McGilchrist – The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning
Feb 01, 2021
Malcolm Gladwell - How to Make a Good First Impression
Jan 25, 2021
Caitlin Moran – More Than a Woman
Jan 18, 2021
Simon Schama – The World in 2021
Jan 11, 2021
Richard Dawkins – The Meaning of Life
Dec 09, 2020
Yanis Varoufakis Meets Owen Jones
Nov 30, 2020
Len Mlodinow and Robin Ince – The Life of Stephen Hawking
Nov 23, 2020
Philip Lymbery - How to Live Sustainably in a Changing World
Nov 16, 2020
Jung Chang – Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
Nov 09, 2020
Elizabeth Gilbert Meets Julia Cameron - The Path to Higher Creativity
Nov 02, 2020
Brian Cox Meets Rebecca Wragg Sykes – The Lost World of Neanderthals
Oct 26, 2020
David Mitchell – Dishonesty is the Second Best Policy
Oct 19, 2020
Jess Phillips – How To Speak Truth to Power
Oct 12, 2020
Thandie Newton Meets Gloria Steinem
Oct 05, 2020
Sid Meier – The Rise of Civilization
Sep 21, 2020
Geoffrey Robertson – Who Owns History?
Sep 14, 2020
Roman Krznaric – How to Think Long Term in a Short Term World
Sep 07, 2020
Anthony David – Mental Health After COVID
Aug 31, 2020
Maria Konnikova – The Biggest Bluff
Aug 24, 2020
Clive Woodward – How to Win
Aug 17, 2020
Kiley Reid – Such a Fun Age
Aug 10, 2020
Owen O’Kane - How to Manage Anxiety and Stress
Aug 03, 2020
Madeleine Albright – Hell and Other Destinations
Jul 27, 2020
Rahul Jandial – How To Rewire Your Brain
Jul 20, 2020
Richard Eyre - How to Make a Play
Jul 14, 2020
Glennon Doyle – How to Find Yourself
Jun 29, 2020
Martin Wolf – The World After the Pandemic
Jun 22, 2020
Max Brooks - How To Survive a Global Catastrophe
Jun 17, 2020
L. David Marquet – Leadership is Language
Jun 08, 2020
Julia Ebner – Undercover With Extremists
Jun 01, 2020
John Browne - How to Engineer the Future
May 25, 2020
Layla Saad - How to Fight White Supremacy
May 18, 2020
Brian Greene - How to Find Meaning in an Evolving Universe
May 11, 2020
Julia Samuel - How to Adapt and Survive in a Time of Crisis
May 01, 2020
How To Make Sense of Consciousness
Apr 20, 2020
Mervyn King - How to Make Decisions for an Unknowable Future
Apr 14, 2020
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Joseph Stiglitz - How to Save American Capitalism
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Neil deGrasse Tyson - Reflections from an Astrophysicist
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Rory Stewart - The Truth About Politics
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Matthew Syed - A Radical Blueprint for Creative Problem-Solving
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Jonathan Safran Foer - How to Save the Planet
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Melinda Gates - How to Empower Women
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John Humphrys - How to Make the News
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Marcus du Sautoy - AI and the Secret of Creativity
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Michael Pollan - How to Change Your Mind
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Elizabeth Gilbert - On Life and Love
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Cass Sunstein - How To Make Change Happen
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Simon Sinek - How to Lead in the 21st Century
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