Podcast Episodes

Assyriologist Selena Wisnom - Mesopotamia and the Making of History

Mesopotamian civilisation filled more than half of human history: a culture with advanced mathematics and astronomy, a religion that influenced both …

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Agnes Callard - Socratic Wisdom for Our Modern Times

Across the headlines, we appear to be falling into a post-truth world. But the questions that most resonate with humanity—on life, death, love, and l…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Psychologist to the Lionesses Kate Hays - How to Win

Whether its the football pitch of the FIFA Women’s World Cup or the diving board of the Olympics, Dr Kate Hays is a woman who knows how to win. Now s…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

Courtney Love and Todd Almond - The Legend of Bob Dylan

After Kurt Cobain, Bob Dylan is Courtney Love’s all-time rock’n’roll hero. Todd Almond performed Dylan’s songbook on Broadway. They join us for a dee…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

Sumit Paul-Choudhury - Why You Should Be an Optimist

Optimism, irrational though it might be, is central to the human psyche: it gives us an advantage both in everyday life and in the evolutionary race.…

1 year ago

George Osborne Meets Tom Holland - The Lives of the Caesars

Tom Holland is a storyteller whose range and erudition seem to be as unbounded as history itself. Now he brings us closer than ever to the lives of t…

1 year ago

Andrew Brodsky - The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication

Yes, that meeting could have been an email. And that email? Maybe it should have been a voice memo. The hidden secrets of virtual communication are m…

1 year ago

Sahil Bloom - How to Design Your Dream Life

We’re constantly told that money is the shortcut to a good life, the only type of wealth worth pursuing. But what would it mean to lead a truly wealt…

1 year ago

Historian and Novelist Ada Palmer - Was the Renaissance Really a Golden Age?

We remember the Renaissance as an age of human flourishing: a rebirth after centuries of misery, a return to the glories of antiquity where the cultu…

1 year ago

Sunita Sah - The Power of No in a World that Demands Yes

How can we say 'no' when it matters most? Cornell University's Dr Sunita Sah joins us to share the radical need for each of us to rediscover our core…

1 year ago