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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
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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 months ago
Adam Grant and Tim Harford – The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
Research shows that the smarter you are the more you might struggle to update your beliefs, yet some of the most successful people, from entrepreneur…
5 years, 5 months ago
Ethan Kross – How to Harness the Voice Inside Your Head
We all have a voice in our head that we tune into from time to time for guidance, ideas and wisdom. Except sometimes, this voice leads us down a rabb…
5 years, 6 months ago
George the Poet Meets Mariana Mazzucato – a Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. It had no answer to the different challenges facing the world – from those related t…
5 years, 6 months ago