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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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 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…
4 years, 2 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…
4 years, 3 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In 1966, John Barker, a dynamic psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate psych…
4 years, 3 months ago