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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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months 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, 5 months ago
Sathnam Sanghera on the British Empire - Live at Wilderness
Every year we host a big thinker at the music festival Wilderness and our guest in 2023 was Sathnam Sanghera, the Times journalist whose two books on…
2 years, 5 months ago
Oxford Data Scientist Hannah Richie - Combating Climate Anxiety
Season 12 Episode 3
Each month our sister podcast Found in Conversation explores global affairs and innovation with world-leading thinkers. In this episode, Oxford data …
2 years, 5 months ago