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Alice Roberts - Buried
Season 7 Episode 2
Alice Roberts trained as a physician, and now employs her scientific knowledge to uncover new evidence about the history of Britain, combining scient…
3 years, 9 months ago
Rory Stewart - The State of the Nation
Season 7 Episode 1
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Malaysia, commissioned in the Black Watch when only a teenager, Rory Stewart’s career bears little resemblance to the…
3 years, 9 months ago
Pandora Sykes Meets Tina Brown - The Inside Scoop on the House of Windsor
Season 5 Episode 31
In her New York Times bestselling biography of Princess Diana, The Diana Chronicles, former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown wrote the de…
3 years, 9 months ago
Sam Knight - The Premonitions Bureau
Season 6 Episode 30
In 1966, John Barker, a dynamic psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate psych…
3 years, 9 months ago
John Cleese Meets Iain McGilchrist - On Consciousness and Creativity
Season 6 Episode 29
A creative pioneer whose genius has placed him alongside Chaplin, Keaton, and his fellow Pythons as one of the greatest British comedy talents of all…
3 years, 9 months ago
Minnie Driver - Managing Expectations
Season 6 Episode 28
Minnie Driver joined us live on stage in London to tell transport us from her unconventional childhood to subsequent fame, sharing poignant stories a…
3 years, 9 months ago
Owen Jones Meets Michael Lewis - The Fifth Risk
Season 6 Episode 27
Next month Michael Lewis will join us in-person in London for a live, on-stage event exploring his life and work from Liar's Poker through to the pre…
3 years, 9 months ago
Robin Ince Meets Neal Stephenson - Termination Shock
With fans including Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, and Peter Thiel, no living fiction author has more influence among the elite technologists shaping our w…
3 years, 10 months ago
Eliot Higgins - We Are Bellingcat
How did a collective of self-taught internet sleuths end up solving some of the biggest crimes of our time?
Eliot Higgins is the founder of Bellingcat…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Metaverse - Hype or Hyperreality?
Season 6 Episode 25
For forty years humans have dreamed of persistent virtual worlds. Today, video games and their peripherals are pushing the boundaries of digital imme…
3 years, 10 months ago