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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, 11 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…
3 years 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…
3 years 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…
3 years 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…
3 years 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…
3 years 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'…
3 years 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…
3 years ago
Susie Alegre - Protecting Freedom of Thought in the Digital Age
Susie Alegre is a leading human rights barrister and a pioneer of digital human rights in the age of AI and big tech. In her book Freedom to Think, s…
3 years ago
Sarah Knight - How to be an Adult and Get Treated Like One
Sarah Knight made her name as the author of the sensational anti-self help book The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**K and has sold more than 3…
3 years, 1 month ago