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Olia Hercules and Alissa Timoshkina - #CookForUkraine
Season 6 Episode 14
Food writers Olia Hercules and Alissa Timoshkina have been friends since university and together they have come together to launch #CookForUkraine - …
3 years, 11 months ago
Yanis Varoufakis Meets David Wengrow - The Dawn of Everything
Season 6 Episode 13
What if everything we thought we knew about the origins of human civilisation is a myth?
In their book The Dawn of Everything, the late David Graeber …
3 years, 11 months ago
Paul Craddock - The Surprising History of Organ Transplants
Season 6 Episode 12
Medical historian Dr Paul Craddock joins the How To Academy Podcast to takes us on a journey from sixteenth-century skin grafting to contemporary ste…
3 years, 11 months ago
Suzanne Simard - Finding the Mother Tree
Season 6 Episode 11
Raised in the hardy forest communities of British Columbia, scientist Suzanne Simard overturned conventional beliefs in proving that trees and plants…
3 years, 11 months ago
Jon Ronson and Brian Klaas - On Psychopaths and Power
Season 3 Episode 10
In this episode of the How To Academy Podcast, author and documentarian Jon Ronson and political scientist Brian Klaas investigate the relationship b…
4 years ago
Salena Godden Meets Yrsa Daley-Ward - How to Know Yourself
Season 6 Episode 9
Yrsa Daley-Ward’s work explores all parts of the human condition, but especially those we don’t tend to speak of: mental health, sexuality, love, gri…
4 years ago
Jameela Jamil and Michael Schur - How to be Perfect
Season 6 Episode 8
How can we live a more ethical life? This question has plagued people for thousands of years, but it's never been tougher to answer than it is now, t…
4 years ago
Adam Rutherford - The Troubling History of Eugenics
Season 6 Episode 7
In the Victorian era, in the shadow of Darwin's ideas about evolution, a new full-blooded attempt to impose control over our unruly biology began to …
4 years ago
William Dalrymple and Sathnam Sanghera - British Imperialism in India
How did the Mughal empire – which then generated just under half the world’s wealth – come to be replaced by the first global corporate power - the E…
4 years, 1 month ago
Fi Glover and Jane Garvey - Did I Say That Out Loud?
Season 12 Episode 5
Fi Glover and Jane Garvey are radio legends. Already major BBC stars in their own right, their podcast together, Fortunately… with Fi and Jane has gr…
4 years, 1 month ago