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Visualisation Expert Maya Raichoora - How to Think, Feel, and Perform Like the Top 1%
Visualisation: a neurological mental training technique used by the top athletes in the world to perform at their best. Now, you can learn how to use…
1 year, 4 months ago
Journalist Annabelle Hirsch - A History of Women in 101 Objects
There is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. Now in…
1 year, 4 months ago
Gary Lightbody - On Grief, Love, and the Power of Music
How do we comprehend the depths of love in hindsight, and the immensity of grief? How can we say 'I love you' to a listener who is no longer alive? A…
1 year, 5 months ago
Kenneth Roth - Fighting for Humanity: Three Decades of Leading Human Rights Watch
As the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch for three decades, Kenneth Roth has dedicated his life to investigating and uncovering abuses across …
1 year, 5 months ago
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 …
1 year, 5 months 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…
1 year, 5 months 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…
1 year, 5 months 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…
1 year, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months ago