Podcast Episodes

Rahul Jandial - How to Rewire Your Brain (Summer Repeat)

For years Dr Rahul Jandial, a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist, has transformed the lives of his neurosurgery patients by putting them through ‘brain …

3 years ago

David Christian - A User's Guide to the Future (Bonus Episode)

When you get behind the wheel of a car, throw or catch a ball, change jobs, or move to a new country, you are making a series of predictions about wh…

3 years ago

Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché - Nostalgia is a Weapon

The writer Helen Macdonald is best known for the award winning memoir H is For Hawk and other distinguished works exploring our relationship to the n…

3 years ago

Julia Cameron and Elizabeth Gilbert - The Path to Higher Creativity (Summer Repeat)

Julia Cameron is the author, poet, and screenwriter whose book The Artist's Way is one of the most influential creativity manuals ever written. Eliza…

3 years ago

Alan Philps - Stalin's Disinformation War

Alan Philps is the former foreign editor of the Daily Telegraph and an expert on Russian politics. He's the author of a new book called The Red Hotel…

3 years ago

Marie Kondo - Kurashi at Home (Summer Repeat)

Marie Kondo became a global superstar when she introduced the world to the life-changing magic of tidying up. Now Marie joins us to share the art of …

3 years ago

Victoria Belim - The Resilience of Art in Times of War

“Mourning a place is even more difficult than mourning a person,” writes Victoria Belim in The Rooster House. Her book is part-memoir, part-detective…

3 years ago

Dr Pooja Lakshmin - Sustainable Strategies for Real Self-Care

Leading psychiatrist Dr Pooja Lakshmin knows first-hand how toxic the wellness industry can be. In search of radical answers to her own personal expe…

3 years ago

Booker Prize winner George Saunders - Liberation Day (Summer Repeat)

Revisiting one of our favourite episodes of last year, the Booker Prize winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo shares his idiosyncratic take on the h…

3 years ago

Malcolm Harris - How Palo Alto Conquered the World

How did the suburb of Palo Alto become the epicentre of a global tech revolution, changing not just American capitalism but the world?

Malcolm Harris …

3 years, 1 month ago