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Bonnie Wright - How to Nurture Yourself and the Planet
Bonnie Wright and Evanna Lynch rose to fame as Ginny Weasley and Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter series, and now use their public platforms to help…
3 years, 11 months ago
Francesco Dimitri - The Search for Wonder
Season 7 Episode 9
Born in Puglia, Italy and now resident in London, Francesco Dimitri is a member of an extremely exclusive club -- authors who write and publish in a …
3 years, 11 months ago
Suzie Sheehy - The Matter of Everything
Season 7 Episode 8
For millennia, people have asked questions about the nature of matter. In the twentieth century, this curiosity led to an unprecedented outburst of s…
4 years ago
Michael Ignatieff - Finding Solace in Dark Times
Season 7 Episode 7
As a young historian at Cambridge and Oxford, he did not rest in the ivory tower but brought his erudition on the great stories and crises of the day…
4 years ago
Ken Liu - Storytelling is Our Most Important Technology
Season 7 Episode 6
The winner of major genre awards including the Nebula, the Hugo, and the World Fantasy Award, Ken Liu is an author and futurist whose fictions both i…
4 years ago
Susan Cain - How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
Season 7 Episode 5
Some of us inhabit a bittersweet state instinctively, others avoid it as much as we can; some of us arrive there when we reach a certain age, or afte…
4 years ago
Jane McGonigal - How to See the Future Coming
Season 7 Episode 4
Futurist Jane McGonigal creates games that predict and simulate hard to imagine futures. In this episode of the podcast, she teaches us to think like…
4 years ago
Colm Toibin and Terence Killeen - Ulysses Unbound
Season 7 Episode 3
One hundred years since its publication confirmed James Joyce as one of the greatest writers in the English language and a fearless creative genius w…
4 years ago
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…
4 years 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…
4 years ago