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Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington - How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Democracy
In conversation with former Editorial Director of BBC News, Kamal Ahmed, world-renowned economist Mariana Mazzucato and her collaborator Rosie Collin…
3 years, 3 months ago
Nicholas Humphrey - The Invention of Consciousness
We feel, therefore we are. Conscious sensations ground our sense of self. They are crucial to our idea of ourselves as psychic beings: present, exist…
3 years, 3 months ago
Bernie Sanders Meets Frankie Boyle - It's Okay to Be Angry About Capitalism
An underdog who became an international icon, unafraid to speak truth to power and defend ordinary people against vested interests and the billionair…
3 years, 4 months ago
Blake Morrison - The Power of Art in Grief
Thirty years ago the poet and critic Blake Morrison forged the way for a new genre of confessional memoir with his groundbreaking book And When Did Y…
3 years, 4 months ago
Caroline Dodds Pennock - How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Our guest on this episode, Caroline Dodds Pennock, is the UK's only Aztec historian. Countless books have been written about Europeans in the America…
3 years, 4 months ago
Ray Nayler - What Octopuses and AI Teach Us About Consciousness
Ray Nayler's The Mountain in the Sea is a speculative novel about the possibilities of interspecies communication that draws deeply upon contemporary…
3 years, 4 months ago
Tracey Shors - A Neuroscientist's Guide to Trauma
Distinguished neuroscientist Tracey Shors has dedicated her life to explaining how the mind and body respond to stressful events we can’t control – f…
3 years, 4 months ago
Mervyn King Meets Martin Wolf - The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
We are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in liberal democracy …
3 years, 4 months ago
Julia Samuel Meets John and Julie Gottman - How to Make Love Last
What can science tell us about why love lasts? Why do some couples stay together forever, while others fall apart? Is there a formula for building a …
3 years, 4 months ago
Daniel Finkelstein Meets Adam Wagner - The Freedoms We Lost in the Pandemic
On 26 March 2020, a new law appeared. In 11 pages, it locked down tens of millions of people, confined us to our homes, banned socialising, closed sh…
3 years, 4 months ago