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Ginny Smith - The Neuroscience of Everyday Life
Season 4 Episode 19
How do we learn? Why we do sleep, or fall in love? Can we trust our memories? In this week's podcast, neuroscience expert, author and presenter Ginny…
5 years ago
Maggie O'Farrell - The Life of Hamnet Shakespeare
Season 1 Episode 18
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help.…
5 years, 1 month ago
Michio Kaku - The Quest For Theory of Everything
Season 4 Episode 17
Michio Kaku takes Robin Ince on the mind-bending ride through the twists and turns of an epic scientific journey: the quest to find a Theory of Every…
5 years, 1 month ago
Anna Ploszajski - Finding Meaning Through Making
Season 4 Episode 16
Sitting at the intersection of art, science, and history, this week's podcast reveals fresh perspectives and fascinating insights into our material w…
5 years, 1 month ago
George Saunders – Lessons in Writing and Life
What makes great stories work? What can they tell us about our world today? How can they make us better readers and how can we write them ourselves? …
5 years, 2 months ago
Matthew d’Ancona – Why The Old Politics Is Useless and What We Can Do About It
Political journalist Matthew d'Ancona's issues a call to arms to challenge this age of political extremism, lazy populism and democratic torpor. The …
5 years, 2 months ago
Isabel Allende – The Soul of a Woman
Isabel Allende has been a feminist her whole life. From a young age she rebelled against male authority, after seeing her mother Panchita abandoned b…
5 years, 2 months ago
Ian McEwan – A Life In Literature
The country’s most prolific and celebrated novelist reflects upon a life in literature. Since his rise to literary acclaim almost forty years ago for…
5 years, 3 months ago
Rowan Hooper – How to Spend a Trillion Dollars
If you had a trillion dollars and a year to spend it for the good of the world and the advancement of science, what would you do? It's an unimaginabl…
5 years, 3 months ago
Derren Brown – How To Be a Little Happier
Since he introduced us to his singular and inimitable brand of psychology, stagecraft and magic in 2000, Derren Brown has played Russian Roulette on …
5 years, 3 months ago