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John Humphrys - How to Make the News
For the last 33 years, John Humphrys has held politicians to account as the host of our most popular news programme - Radio 4's Today. In this week's…
6 years, 11 months ago
Marcus du Sautoy - AI and the Secret of Creativity
In Episode 9 of the How To Academy podcast, the nation’s most loved science communicator, Oxford mathematician Marcus Du Sautoy, explores the potenti…
6 years, 11 months ago
Giles Coren - A Man For All Seasons
In Episode 8 of the How To Academy Podcast, Matthew Stadlen meets restaurant critic and raconteur Giles Coren, for a freewheeling and hilarious conv…
6 years, 11 months ago
Michael Pollan - How to Change Your Mind
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? In Episode 7 of the How To Academy podcast, Michael Pollan tells Matthew Stadlen about his journey to t…
6 years, 11 months ago
Elizabeth Gilbert - On Life and Love
From the dive bars of the Lower East Side to the beaches of Bali, the Connecticut Christmas Tree farm where she was raised to the Mumbai ashram where…
7 years ago
Preet Bharara - An Insider's Guide to Crime in America
In Episode Five of the How To Academy Podcast, Matthew Stadlen meets Preet Bharara, the former US district attorney who successfully prosecuted some …
7 years ago
David Wallace-Wells - How To Survive Climate Change
Once a generation an environmentalist dares to speak truth to power with such force that they cannot be silenced. In Episode 4 of the How To Academy …
7 years ago
The Gendered Brain Debate
In this week's podcast, two giants of cognitive science - neuroscientist Gina Rippon and psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen - go head-to-head to debate o…
7 years, 2 months ago
Cass Sunstein - How To Make Change Happen
In this podcast, the bestselling author of Nudge, Professor Cass Sunstein, presents a ground-breaking guide for anyone who wishes to fuel – or block …
7 years, 2 months ago
Simon Sinek - How to Lead in the 21st Century
In this episode of the How To Academy podcast, Matthew Stadlen meets Simon Sinek – perhaps the 21st century’s most acclaimed thinker in the field of …
7 years, 2 months ago