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Lisa Taddeo and Hadley Freeman - Madness, Transgression, and Power
Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women was a world-wide sensation – forever changing how we think about women and desire. A bestseller in the US and the UK, “Book…
5 years, 1 month ago
Daniel Kahneman - Why We Make Bad Judgments
Season 5 Episode 4
The quality of professional judgments have a huge and lasting impact on all of our lives: the decision of an A&E doctor treating a patient, a teacher…
5 years, 1 month ago
John Higgs - William Blake vs the World
Season 5 Episode 3
Join us for a wild journey through culture, science, philosophy and religion to better understand the mercurial genius William Blake. Taking us on wi…
5 years, 1 month ago
Katrine Marcal and Caroline Criado Perez - Mother of Invention
Season 5 Episode 2
Every day, extraordinary inventions and innovative ideas are side-lined in a world that remains subservient to men.
But it doesn’t have to be this way…
5 years, 2 months ago
Bill Clinton and James Patterson - The President's Daughter
Season 5 Episode 1
Drawing on his first-hand knowledge of life in the White House, global geopolitics and the upper echelons of power, Bill Clinton teamed up with one o…
5 years, 2 months ago
Sir David Hare - A Life in Theatre
Season 4 Episode 20
Sir David Hare is renowned across the English-speaking world as the finest political storyteller alive today. In our age of blockbuster musicals and …
5 years, 2 months ago
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, 2 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months ago