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John Higgs - Bond, the Beatles, and the British Psyche
60s Britain produced not only the most biggest band in the history of music, but the most successful movie character of all time.
In this episode of t…
3 years, 9 months ago
Dr Ellen Vora - The Anatomy of Anxiety
Backed by the latest scientific research and her own clinical work, Dr Ellen Vora offers a fresh, much needed look at mental health, offering actiona…
3 years, 9 months ago
Adrian Hon - How Corporations and Governments Use Videogames to Control Us
The creator of the wildly successful running app Zombies, Run! and a columnist for the prestigious videogame industry magazine EDGE, Adrian Hon makes…
3 years, 9 months ago
Cornelia Parker Meets Carlo Rovelli - The Hidden Nature of Things
One of Britain's most acclaimed visual artists, Cornelia Parker's sculptures challenge our sense of what an artwork can be.
Both an eminent theoretica…
3 years, 9 months ago
Mark Bergen - Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to Global Domination
In conversations about the role of Big Tech in the spread of misinformation and propaganda, YouTube rarely receives the same attention as Facebook, T…
3 years, 9 months ago
Charlotte Fox Weber - A Journey Into Human Desire
The lives and problems of psychotherapist Charlotte Fox Weber's clients vary, but all are united by a common question: what do I really want?
In this …
3 years, 9 months ago
Melanie Joy - How to Get Relationships Right
Relationships are complicated. Yet it's an unfortunate reality that while most of us have to learn complex geometry that we'll probably never use, we…
3 years, 9 months ago
David Mitchell - Dishonesty is the Second Best Policy (Summer Repeat)
Lying is probably as old as human language itself – an inevitable consequence of humanity’s greatest superpower. And comedian, Observer columnist and…
3 years, 10 months ago
Glennon Doyle - How to Find Yourself (Summer Repeat)
There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees, and friends. We hope all this stri…
3 years, 10 months ago
Richard Dawkins - The Meaning of Life (Summer Repeat)
The creator of the word ‘meme’ and of the hugely influential ‘selfish gene’ model of evolution, he is the epitome of the truly public intellectual – …
3 years, 10 months ago