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Jane Goodall - A Survival Guide for an Endandgered Planet
Season 5 Episode 20
World-renowned ethologist and conservationist Dr Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and a UN Messenger of Peace, has spent more…
4 years, 4 months ago
Richard Powers - Why Stories Matter
Season 5 Episode 19
Few works of literature have the power to change who we are and how we conceive our place in the universe – but Richard Powers Pulitzer Prize and Nat…
4 years, 4 months ago
Bernard-Henri Lévy - Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope
Season 4 Episode 18
Bernard-Henri Levy is one of the world’s most esteemed philosophers and public intellectuals; but his understanding of philosophy is anything but the…
4 years, 4 months ago
At thirty-five, Divinity Professor Kate Bowler was diagnosed with colon cancer. She joins us to explore what life really means, as she approaches its close.
Season 1 Episode 17
Kate Bowler had always accepted the modern idea that life is an endless horizon of possibilities. As many of us do, she saw life as a series of choi…
4 years, 4 months ago
Stephen Fry Meets Steven Pinker - The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Season 10 Episode 16
In anticipation of Steven Pinker's return to How To Academy later this month, this episode of the podcast revisits his conversation with Stephen Fry …
4 years, 4 months ago
James Nestor - the Art and Science of Breathing
Season 5 Episode 15
In this week's podcast, science writer and Sunday Times bestselling author James Nestor joins us with a guide that will forever change the way you th…
4 years, 5 months ago
Bonus Episode: With Reason - Learning from our Ancestors, with Alice Roberts
Season 5
In this special bonus episode by our friends at New Humanist magazine and the Rationalist Association, Professor Alice Roberts takes us through impor…
4 years, 5 months ago
Fiona Shaw - A Life on Stage and Screen
Season 5 Episode 17
From My Left Foot to Harry Potter, Fleabag to Killing Eve, Fiona Shaw is an integral presence in the Irish and British screen drama of the last three…
4 years, 5 months ago
Rutger Bregman and Philippe Sands - Are Humans Naturally Good?
Season 2 Episode 13
Philippe Sands meets Rutger Bregman, one of the greatest young thinkers of our time, to hear a new story of human nature that places our capacity for…
4 years, 5 months ago
Dennis Duncan - Index, a history of the
Season 6 Episode 12
In this week's podcast, literary scholar Dennis Duncan takes us into the secret world of the index and reveals how it transformed the way we read and…
4 years, 6 months ago