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Amy Jeffs – Stories of Love and Death From Traditional Ballads
In this episode of the podcast, Amy Jeffs reveals the spellbinding world behind Old Songs, her exploration of traditional British ballads and the sto…
5 months, 1 week ago
Data Scientist Hannah Ritchie – How to Solve Climate Change in 50 Questions and Answers
With so many conflicting headlines out there, it’s tough to sort fact from fiction when it comes to climate change and the solutions we need for a cl…
5 months, 1 week ago
Sam Conniff and Katherine Templar-Lewis –The Uncertainty Toolkit
It’s the ‘Do you have five minutes?’ message from your boss. The ‘We need to chat’ from a loved one. Those spiralling thoughts at 3 a.m. and the buzz…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Mark Galeotti - How Crime Organises the World
Far from being distant and peripheral, organised crime shapes our everyday lives, from the materials used to construct our homes to the illicit funds…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Paul Davies - The New Quantum Revolution
100 years on from Schrödinger’s equation, we’re on the cusp of the second Quantum revolution. Everything is about to change again – but how? Theoret…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
RF Kuang - To Hell with Love
Bestselling novelist Rebecca F. Kuang returns to How To Academy in conversation with Hannah MacInnes to dive into her new novel, Katabasis, inviting …
6 months, 1 week ago
Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman — The Human Cost of Alabama's Prison System
When Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman went into an Alabama state prison to film a revival meeting, they discover that the prisoners wanted to tal…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Ingrid Clayton – Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves
Do you avoid conflict? Do you tend to take the blame? Do you take care of others at the expense of yourself? Do you live in a state of hypervigilance…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Karl Ove Knausgaard – The School of Night
Widely heralded as the most provocative Norwegian writer since Ibsen and simply ‘one of the finest writers alive’ by the New York Times, Karl Ove Kna…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
John Higgs - Unravelling the Spell of David Lynch
A boy scout from smalltown America known for his sincere, folksy charm. A chain-smoking maverick dedicated to the pursuit of the Art Life. A womanise…
6 months, 4 weeks ago