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Philip Pullman Meets Iain McGilchrist - The Meaning of Life
Season 5 Episode 24
Philip Pullman’s novels are a testament to the power of the human imagination and a celebration of our capacity for wonder, proving to millions of re…
4 years, 8 months ago
Fatima Bhutto Meets Noam Chomsky
Season 9 Episode 23
'For the left, elections are a brief interlude in a life of real politics, a moment to ask whether it's worth taking time off to vote . . . Then back…
4 years, 9 months ago
Robin DiAngelo and Beverly Daniel Tatum - Conversations About Race
Season 5 Episode 22
What we can do to have better conversations with our children and with each other about race, and build a better world?
Beverly Daniel Tatum and Robin…
4 years, 9 months ago
Greg Jenner - How to Find the Comedy in History
Season 1 Episode 21
Chief historian of the BBC's Horrible Histories TV show and the host of chart-topping podcast You're Dead to Me, Greg Jenner is a master in the art o…
4 years, 9 months ago
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, 9 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, 9 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 months ago