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Owen Jones Meets Claudia Rankine
How can we best approach one another across our differences? The first and only poet to write a New York Times bestseller, the winner of every signif…
5 years, 6 months ago
Iain McGilchrist – The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning
A tour de force of neuroscience and philosophy, Iain McGilchrist’s The Master and His Emissary speaks to everyone searching for happiness, meaning an…
5 years, 6 months ago
Malcolm Gladwell - How to Make a Good First Impression
From Blink to Outliers, Revisionist History to David and Goliath, no-one challenges our shared assumptions and invites us to rethink human nature lik…
5 years, 7 months ago
Caitlin Moran – More Than a Woman
‘First, you have to learn how to be a woman. Then middle age arrives, and you realise you have to become … more than a woman. To those around you, yo…
5 years, 7 months ago
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, 7 months 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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 months ago