Podcast Episodes

How I Built This, with Guy Raz

Great ideas often come from a simple spark: A soccer player on the New Zealand national team notices all the unused wool his country produces and figures out a way to turn them into shoes (Allbirds).…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

How I Disrupted an Industry, with CEO of Starling Bank Anne Boden

In this week's episode Anne Boden CEO of Starling Bank speaks to Linda Yueh about setting up her own bank.

In her remarkable story Boden reveals how she broke through bureaucracy and successfully coun…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

Business Weekly: Exponential, with Azeem Azhar

We are entering the Exponential Age. Between faster computers, better software and bigger data, ours is the first era in human history in which technology is constantly accelerating.

Azeem Azhar - wri…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

The Sunday Debate: Identity Politics is Tearing Society Apart

Is identity politics tearing society apart or is it a call for social justice for everyone? That's the theme of this week's Sunday Debate. 

For the motion were journalist and autho…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

AI 2041: Why the Future is Already Here, with Kai-Fu Lee

Kai-Fu Lee is one of the world’s leading AI experts and a bestselling author. He founded Microsoft Asia’s research lab that has trained CTOs and AI heads at Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba and Huawei. As Pre…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

Should Black Americans Move to the South?

In this week's episode Charles Blow speaks to journalist Dele Olojede about the arguments in his new book The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto. He argued that if enough African-Americans …

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

Business Weekly: What is Economic Growth?

In this week's episode we're featuring a podcast produced by Intelligence Squared called 'It’s The Economy' in which host Nicola Walton breaks down the complex economic ideas we have all heard of but…

Published on 4 years, 3 months ago

The Sunday Debate: Break Up The Tech Giants

With so much data and power centralised in the hands of a few West Coast companies, the tech giants have become a serious threat to our basic freedoms and must be broken up. That’s the argument that …

Published on 4 years, 3 months ago

The Status Game, with Will Storr

Does owning a big house and supporting ‘correct’ social causes not just make you feel good about yourself but actually make you healthier and live longer? The answer is yes. This is just one of the f…

Published on 4 years, 3 months ago

Salman Rushdie: Touchstones with Razia Iqbal

Salman Rushdie, award-winning novelist and author of Midnight’s Children and Quichotte, discusses his cultural touchstones, from James Joyce to Bob Dylan.

Rushdie was in conversation w…

Published on 4 years, 3 months ago