Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAuthor 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…
11 months, 4 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 2010…
1 year 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 2010…
1 year 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 …
1 year 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 w…
1 year 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 Sci…
1 year 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…
1 year 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 journ…
1 year 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 …
1 year 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 S…
1 year ago