Podcast Episodes

Author of Four Thousand Weeks Oliver Burkeman on How To Live Well (Part One)

Season 1 Episode 3208

Acclaimed author and journalist Oliver Burkeman has captivated readers with his refreshing insights on how to embrace the finiteness of existence and find meaning in the everyday. Author of the bests…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Jonathan Haidt on How to Free the Anxious Generation (Part Two)

Season 1 Episode 3207

“This great rewiring of childhood, I argue, is the single largest reason for the tidal wave of adolescent mental illness that began in the early 2010s.” — Jonathan Haidt

The mental health of young pe…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Jonathan Haidt on How to Free the Anxious Generation (Part One)

Season 1 Episode 3206

“This great rewiring of childhood, I argue, is the single largest reason for the tidal wave of adolescent mental illness that began in the early 2010s.” — Jonathan Haidt

The mental health of young pe…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

A Cultural History of Privacy, with Tiffany Jenkins

Season 1 Episode 3205

What does it mean to have a private life?

Our guest today is Tiffany Jenkins, a writer, cultural historian and broadcaster. She is the author of the acclaimed Keeping Their Marbles: How Treasures of …

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Britain Should Not Have Fought in the First World War

Season 1 Episode 3204

For this week's Sunday Debate, we're dipping back into the archive to 2014, when we gathered a panel of expert historians to debate whether Britain was right to fight in the First World War, a traged…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

The Tree of Life: Mapping Evolution’s Greatest Story, with Max Telford

Season 1 Episode 3203

Understanding how the diversity of life on earth came to be is one of the greatest puzzles in biology. In his new book, The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle, Professor Max Telford char…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Ritual, Ancestry, and Cultural History in Modern China, with Alice Mah

Season 1 Episode 3202

What do we owe to the dead? What responsibilities do we inherit from the past, and how do they intersect with the crises of the present? In an era of ecological collapse and cultural dislocation, how…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, with Laura Spinney

Season 1 Episode 3201

What if a single ancient language lay at the root of nearly half of the world’s spoken tongues?

In today’s episode, acclaimed science writer and journalist Laura Spinney joins us to discuss her new bo…

Published on 7 months, 4 weeks ago

Classic Debate: Austen vs Brontë

Season 1 Episode 3200

Jane Austen created the definitive picture of Georgian England. No writer matches Austen’s sensitive ear for the hypocrisy and irony lurking beneath the genteel conversation. That’s the argument of t…

Published on 8 months ago

An Evening with Elif Shafak and Peter Frankopan

Season 1 Episode 3199

Elif Shafak’s award-winning novels are celebrated globally. Her work has been translated into 58 languages, and her latest, There Are Rivers in the Sky, is a testament to the power of storytelling ac…

Published on 8 months ago