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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…
4 years, 3 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…
4 years, 3 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, 3 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 5 months ago
John Preston - The Rise and Fall of Robert Maxwell
Season 6 Episode 4
In February 1991, Robert Maxwell made a triumphant entrance into Manhattan harbour aboard his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, to complete his purchase of …
4 years, 5 months ago
Claire Fuller - Unsettled Ground
Season 11 Episode 3
Described by The Times as a modern Daphne de Maurier, Claire Fuller’s writing is beautifully dark and vividly atmospheric. Her fourth novel, Unsettle…
4 years, 5 months ago