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Bonus Episode: With Reason - Learning from our Ancestors, with Alice Roberts
Season 5
In this special bonus episode by our friends at New Humanist magazine and the Rationalist Association, Professor Alice Roberts takes us through impor…
4 years, 11 months ago
Fiona Shaw - A Life on Stage and Screen
Season 5 Episode 17
From My Left Foot to Harry Potter, Fleabag to Killing Eve, Fiona Shaw is an integral presence in the Irish and British screen drama of the last three…
4 years, 11 months ago
Rutger Bregman and Philippe Sands - Are Humans Naturally Good?
Season 2 Episode 13
Philippe Sands meets Rutger Bregman, one of the greatest young thinkers of our time, to hear a new story of human nature that places our capacity for…
4 years, 11 months ago
Dennis Duncan - Index, a history of the
Season 6 Episode 12
In this week's podcast, literary scholar Dennis Duncan takes us into the secret world of the index and reveals how it transformed the way we read and…
4 years, 11 months ago
Mary Portas - How to Thrive in the New Kindness Economy
Season 5 Episode 11
Mary Portas loves business. Fundamentally, she lives and breathes it. What she loves best about it is making businesses work. But in this week's podc…
5 years ago
Gordon Brown – How to Change the World
Season 5 Episode 10
It is time for a new era of global order. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown joins us with authoritative solutions to the greatest challenges of our …
5 years ago
Anish Kapoor - a Life in Art
Season 12 Episode 9
An icon whose spectacular works occupy a liminal space between sculpture, engineering and architecture, Anish Kapoor is one of the world’s most ambit…
5 years ago
Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green - The Inside Story of the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine
Season 5 Episode 8
On New Year’s Day 2020, Sarah Gilbert, Professor of Vaccinology at Oxford University, read an article about four people in China with a strange pneum…
5 years ago
Charles Yu - Interior Chinatown
Season 5 Episode 7
Willis Wu mostly gets to play Generic Asian Man. If he is lucky, sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced So…
5 years ago
Mike Rothschild - The Rise of QAnon
In 2017, President Trump made a cryptic remark at a gathering of military officials, describing it as ‘the calm before the storm’-then refused to exp…
5 years, 1 month ago