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M. John Harrison - Living in an Age of Fantasy
As a member of the 1960s science fiction New Wave, M. John Harrison worked with authors like Michael Moorcock and JG Ballard to he helped turn generi…
3 years, 1 month ago
Alastair Campbell Meets Beth Rigby - Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It
Alastair Campbell was Tony Blair's communications chief and is now one of the UK's most sought after political commentators; The Rest is Politics, hi…
3 years, 1 month ago
Thomas Hertog - Stephen Hawking's Final Theory of the Universe
Thomas Hertog was Stephen Hawking's PhD student and went on to become a leading cosmologist in his own right. He and Hawking developed a radical new …
3 years, 1 month ago
Ruby Wax Meets Julia Samuel - I'm Not As Well As I Thought I Was
These days, trying to stay sane in a completely chaotic world makes life incredibly difficult, especially if you're struggling with your mental healt…
3 years, 1 month ago
Fiona Buckland - How to Change Your Life
What makes a fulfilling life, and how can we live one? Life coach Fiona Buckland explores the overwhelming world we live in and the stressors and tem…
3 years, 1 month ago
Justin Gregg - What Animal Intelligence Tells Us About Human Stupidity
What if human intelligence is more of a liability than a gift? According to the animal cognition expert and author of If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal Jus…
3 years, 1 month ago
Robin Ince Meets Chris van Tulleken - Why We Can't Stop Eating Stuff That Isn't Food
Over the past 150 years, we have entered a new ‘age of eating’ where most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances: Ultra-Proces…
3 years, 1 month ago
Mick Herron - Slow Horses, Bad Actors
Thriller writer Mick Herron is the heir to John Le Carre - the author of the wildly acclaimed Slough House espionage novels. The TV adaptation named …
3 years, 2 months ago
Eleanor Janega - Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
Why did the ideal medieval woman have a pot belly and small feet? Which days of the week was sex permitted? Why did the transgender sex workers of Lo…
3 years, 2 months ago
Alexa Hagerty - Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
Anthropologist Alexa Hagerty spent years working with forensic teams and victims’ families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America. I…
3 years, 2 months ago