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Simon Schama – The World in 2021
The events of 2020 have upturned the order of the world, and the medical, economic and political crises we face will not fade quietly as the new year…
5 years, 1 month ago
Richard Dawkins – The Meaning of Life
“My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence but the existence of life and how this breathtakin…
5 years, 3 months ago
Yanis Varoufakis Meets Owen Jones
Whether exposing Britain’s powerful elites in The Establishment or defending the white working class in Chavs, fighting for equality and social justi…
5 years, 3 months ago
Len Mlodinow and Robin Ince – The Life of Stephen Hawking
An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen Hawking seems to encapsulate genius. In this episode of the How To Academy Podcast, his colleague and collab…
5 years, 3 months ago
Philip Lymbery - How to Live Sustainably in a Changing World
Our meat and dairy intensive diets are destroying the planet. In this week's podcast, animal welfare environmentalist Philip Lymbery shares the new s…
5 years, 3 months ago
Jung Chang – Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the thre…
5 years, 4 months ago
Elizabeth Gilbert Meets Julia Cameron - The Path to Higher Creativity
For more than thirty years, Julia Cameron has helped ordinary people and world-renowned artists alike discover their passions and transform their liv…
5 years, 4 months ago
Brian Cox Meets Rebecca Wragg Sykes – The Lost World of Neanderthals
Since their discovery over 160 years ago, Neanderthals metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. In conversation wit…
5 years, 4 months ago
David Mitchell – Dishonesty is the Second Best Policy
Lying is probably as old as human language itself – an inevitable consequence of humanity’s greatest superpower. And comedian, Observer columnist and…
5 years, 4 months ago
Jess Phillips – How To Speak Truth to Power
At a time when many of us feel the world isn’t listening, Jess Phillips is here to teach us how to get organised, speak out and fight against injusti…
5 years, 4 months ago