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Novelist and Diplomat Ray Nayler - The Tusks of Extinction
Ray Nayler's novel The Mountain in the Sea announced him a major new voice in speculative fiction, able to seamlessly fuse the novel of ideas and the…
2 years ago
Dr Gemma Newman - The Six Healing Health Habits You Need to Know
Family doctor Dr Gemma Newman has come to understand that body, mind and soul are not separate, and that only through a ‘whole body’ treatment plan c…
2 years ago
Amitav Ghosh - How the Opium Trade Shaped Capitalism
One small plant has played an outsized role in shaping the world we live in today. Engineered by the British Empire with profound consequences for In…
2 years ago
Musician James Blunt - Not Safe For Work
The pop star James Blunt has written a memoir about his life as one of the biggest acts of the noughties: a memoir that is filthy, funny, and quite p…
2 years, 1 month ago
Comedian Ruby Wax - On Mental Health
Ruby Wax joins us to share an honest and stirring portrait of the depths of her psyche. Recounting her mental health journey including through a mona…
2 years, 1 month ago
Physicist Carlo Rovelli Meets Theatre-Maker Simon McBurney
Carlo Rovelli is no ordinary scientist. With a genius for revealing the mysteries the universe to those of us without his gifts, he is the heir to Ha…
2 years, 1 month ago
Psychotherapist Adam Phillips - What We Must Give Up to Feel More Alive
Both a renowned psychotherapist and the 'best living essayist writing in English' (John Gray), Adam Phillips joins us to reflect upon what we must gi…
2 years, 1 month ago
Stanford Psychiatrist and Addiction Expert Anna Lembke - The New Neuroscience of Pleasure, Pain, and Balance
We're living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting…
2 years, 1 month ago
Daniel Dennett v. Robert Sapolsky - Do We Have Free Will?
Do human beings have free will?
For Stanford neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky, science clearly demonstrates that free will is a powerful and dangerous i…
2 years, 1 month ago
Dr Uma Naidoo - How to Calm Your Mind With Food
We’re in the middle of a global anxiety epidemic. But when it comes to fighting anxiety, you have more control than you think: the power is at the en…
2 years, 1 month ago