Podcast Episodes

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, 7 months ago

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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, 7 months ago

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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, 7 months ago

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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, 7 months ago

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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, 7 months ago

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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, 7 months ago

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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, 7 months ago

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Economist Mariana Mazzucato - The Entrepreneurial State and the Future of Innovation

Mariana Mazzucato’s ideas have changed how governments see their role in the economy - but where do we go from here?

Regular listeners will have heard…

2 years, 7 months ago

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Psychologist Dan Ariely - Why People Are Drawn to Conspiracy Theories, and How to Help

Dan Ariely is a superstar TED talker and a world-leading social psychologist, specialising in the study of irrational behaviour and bad decisions. Hi…

2 years, 7 months ago

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Mary Beard and David Mitchell - On Rulers and Power

Cambridge Professor Mary Beard has done more than anyone to bring the world of ancient Rome to life again. Comedian David Mitchell once studied histo…

2 years, 8 months ago

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