Podcast Episodes

HYPERLAND: Graham Harman on the Nature of Reality

How do we understand the world and our place in it? Do our lives consist of a small number of dramatic turning points, or is there nothing but a series of gradual changes from infancy to old age? Are…

Published on 10 hours ago

Julia Belluz and Kevin Hall – Why We Eat What We Eat

Julia Belluz and Kevin Hall reveal the insights you need to better understand what's on your dinner plate, how it got there, and why you eat it.

Award-winning health journalist Julia Belluz and inter…

Published on 4 days, 5 hours ago

Sir Tony Robinson Meets Janina Ramirez - The Real Women Behind the Medieval Myths

Though well-known across Europe by name, the real lives of women such as Joan of Arc and Jadwiga of Poland have been buried under banners of nationalistic agendas that have twisted their stories thro…

Published on 1 week ago

Nicola Sturgeon Meets Darren McGarvey - Trauma Industrial Complex

Today, trauma permeates media, from music and television to films and books. While the increasing openness is welcome, Darren has observed that the webs of digital networks surrounding us and which c…

Published on 1 week, 4 days ago

Ian Mortimer - The Time Traveller's Guide to England

In his four Time Travellers Guides to England, historian Ian Mortimer has taken us from the Medieval period all the way to the Regency, revelling not in the business of courts and princes but the min…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Nish Kumar Meets Jimmy Wales - Trust and the Future of Democracy

Two decades ago, Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia and transformed the world’s access to knowledge. Today, people view Wikipedia 11 billion times every month in the English language alone. Yet in an age …

Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Jens Stoltenberg - Leading NATO in a Time of War

Jens Stoltenberg was Prime Minister of Norway from 2005-2013, and when he took office as Secretary General of NATO in 2014, the world was already changing. What followed was a decade marked by war, d…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Marie Kondo - How to Live

Marie Kondo’s unique approach to organising our lives and our homes has transformed the relationship we have with the objects around us, helping us all to seek out the joy in our daily lives. In the …

Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago

Award-Winning Filmmaker Annemarie Jacir — On the Making of Palestine 36

A pioneering voice in Arab cinema, Annemarie Jacir has written, directed, and produced over sixteen films, with premieres at Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Locarno, Rotterdam, and Toronto. In 2007, she made…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Philippa Gregory - Jane Boleyn Reimagined

Philippa Gregory takes us behind the myths to reveal how Jane Boleyn became a scapegoat of Henry VIII’s tyranny and the historians who defended it. Drawing on the silences of the record and the resil…

Published on 1 month ago