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Philip Oltermann - The Stasi Poetry Circle
Season 6 Episode 18
In 1982, East Germany's fearsome secret police - convinced that writers were embedding subversive messages in their work - decided to train their own…
4 years, 4 months ago
Simon Sebag Montefiore and Luke Harding - The History of the Ukraine-Russia Conflict
Season 6 Episode 17
The concept of a shared, single heritage and culture is central to Vladimir Putin’s justification for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But what is th…
4 years, 4 months ago
Max Porter - Why Art Should Challenge Us
Season 6 Episode 16
Max Porter broke new ground with his highly-original debut Grief is a Thing With Feathers, and firmly established himself as a major literary talent …
4 years, 5 months ago
Alan Moore and B. Catling - The Power of Imagination
Few figures make such a seismic impact on their artistic medium that they transform its reputation from childish pulp entertainment to a vital and ex…
4 years, 5 months ago
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 - …
4 years, 5 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 …
4 years, 5 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…
4 years, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 6 months ago