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Richard Dawkins - Live at Wilderness Festival 2022
How To Academy is back at Wilderness Festival this August, where we will be hosting the journalist and author of Empireland Sathnam Sanghera on his n…
2 years, 8 months ago
Viorica Marian - The Power of Language
Viorica Marian joins us to explore how crucial multilingualism is to human flourishing. Her new book, The Power of Language, distils her research to …
2 years, 8 months ago
Peter Heather - Will the West Fall Like Rome?
What can we learn about the decline of the west from the fall of the Roman Empire? Was decline inevitable for Rome and is it inevitable for the US to…
2 years, 8 months ago
Lorraine Candy - How to Have a Magnificent Midlife
Lorraine Candy is the go-to voice for a generation of women seeking information and guidance. Now the bestselling author of Mum, What’s Wrong With Yo…
2 years, 8 months ago
Scott Shapiro - The Dark Art of Hacking
Scott Shapiro is a professor at Yale who teaches the philosophy of law. He is also a hacker, and the author of a new history of hacking, cybersecurit…
2 years, 8 months ago
James Comey - The Pursuit of Justice in a Divided America
Since he was fired by Trump for refusing to bend the knee, the former FBI director James Comey has become one of the most insightful and authoritativ…
2 years, 8 months ago
Gretchen Rubin - How to Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life
Our guest on this episode, Gretchen Rubin, writes bestselling books about the routes we can take to find happiness and fulfilment; in the process she…
2 years, 8 months ago
William Dalrymple and Sathnam Sanghera - British Imperialism in India
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, 8 months ago
Richard Ford - A Life in Literature
Our guest on this episode Richard Ford is one of the masters of American literary fiction. Frequently compared to Updike, Faulkner and Hemingway; he'…
2 years, 9 months ago
Andre Solo - How To Thrive as a Sensitive Person
Have you ever been told you're too sensitive? What if we told you that being sensitive wasn't a weakness, but a superpower? Our guest on this episode…
2 years, 9 months ago