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Dr Emily Leeming - The Life Changing Science of Gut Health
A healthy gut functions like a successful company, with different roles and employees. So how do we keep these employees happy?
In this episode of th…
1 year, 10 months ago
William Dalrymple and Sathnam Sanghera – British Imperialism in India (Summer Repeat)
How did the Mughal empire – which then generated just under half the world’s wealth – come to be replaced by the first global corporate power – the E…
1 year, 10 months ago
Henry Oliver - How To Find Success in Midlife
We're told repeatedly that if we’re going to achieve anything, we’d better do it while we’re young. But society is wrong. With armfuls of examples fr…
1 year, 10 months ago
Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum - The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
For the first time in history, autocracies are working together to stay in power.
Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad actor, but by sophistic…
1 year, 10 months ago
World Record Breaking Mountaineer Lhakpa Sherpa and Filmmaker Lucy Walker
Lhakpa Sherpa broke a record: she was the first Nepali woman to climb and descend Everest. Then she broke another: summiting for the tenth time, she …
1 year, 11 months ago
Neuroscientist Patrick House - How to Make Sense of Consciousness
Stanford neuroscientist Patrick House joins us with an introduction to the best of our current paradigms for making sense of consciousness. In conver…
1 year, 11 months ago
Pioneering Biologist J Craig Venter - The Future of Life on Earth
A household name following both the mapping of the human genome and, in 2010, the creation of the first synthetic organism, J Craig Venter is a singu…
1 year, 11 months ago
New York Times Bestseller Paolo Bacigalupi - Money and Power in the Fantasy Renaissance
Renowned as a pioneer of climate fiction, Paolo Bacigalupi's novels The Windup Girl and The Water Knife earned him a reputation as one of the essenti…
1 year, 11 months ago
Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell - When the Wild Things Returned
After years of running a failing farm in West Sussex, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell decided to hand back control to nature. Slowly bu…
1 year, 11 months ago
Neuroscientist Kelly Clancy - How Games Change Reality
Kelly Clancy is both a neuroscientist and a physicist, and has held positions at MIT and DeepMind. She's also the author of Playing With Reality, a n…
1 year, 11 months ago