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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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 7 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, 7 months ago
Marcus du Sautoy Meets Steven Pinker - Why Rationality Matters
Season 6 Episode 2
In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding - and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. How c…
4 years, 7 months ago
Bexy Cameron - How to Escape a Cult
Season 2 Episode 1
Bexy was raised in a secret commune deep in the British countryside. At 10, she was placed on Silence Restriction, forced to be silent for a whole ye…
4 years, 7 months ago
Pandora Sykes Meets Emily Ratajkowski
Season 5 Episode 27
Emily Ratajkowski has established herself as a multifaceted talent. As a model, she has appeared on the covers of major fashion magazines and is curr…
4 years, 8 months ago
Paul Bloom - The Surprising Secret of Happiness
Season 5 Episode 25
A good life involves more than just pleasure. Suffering is essential too.
It seems obvious that pleasure leads to happiness - and pain does the opposi…
4 years, 8 months ago