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Stefan Stern - The Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition
Many of us wrestle with daunting life-choice questions from time to time: what should I be aiming for? Am I being ambitious enough? Has an excess of …
1 year, 11 months ago
Mark Galeotti - Putin, Prigozhin and the Future of Russia
Yevgeny Prigozhin emerged as one of the most dangerous warlords in the world and as one of Vladimir Putin’s chief rivals in Russia’s tumultuous polit…
1 year, 11 months ago
Senior Jewellery Curator at the V&A Helen Molesworth - The Dazzling History of Gems
From ancient thrones to Hollywood stars, gems have not only adorned humanity but also shaped its history. How did emeralds and rubies etch our origin…
2 years ago
Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith - How Animal Minds Transformed Planet Earth
Traditional stories of the evolution of life on our planet tell us that we and all other creatures on Earth were shaped by evolution. But how do mind…
2 years ago
Yuval Noah Harari Meets Katherine Rundell - Unstoppable Us (Summer Repeat)
Have you ever wondered how we got here? From hunting mammoths, to flying to the moon?
Historian Yuval Noah Harari introduced millions of readers to th…
2 years ago
Fern Academy Prize winner Gabriela Denise Frank - Fear and Loathing in White Collar America
Created in collaboration with Fern Press and Tortoise Media, the Fern Academy Prize was created to discover and nurture unpublished writers who shine…
2 years ago
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…
2 years 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…
2 years 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…
2 years 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…
2 years ago