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Award-winning Novelist Joanna Kavenna - How to Play a Game Without Rules
A riotious comic novel of ideas, Seven tells the story of an unnamed philosopher plunged into the strange world of Theodoros Apostalakis: dentist, po…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Investigative Journalist Oliver Bullough - How the Money Launderers Won
Whether you’re a fraudster, a cartel boss, a corrupt politician, a kleptocrat or a terrorist mastermind, your options to move and hide your money are…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Psychobiologist Daisy Fancourt – How the Arts Can Transform Your Health
How does art affect our brains and bodies, down to our very DNA? Psychobiologist Daisy Fancourt reveals the extraordinary effect of art on our health…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Tim Minshall - Your Life is Manufactured
Where do the things we buy actually come from? And how did they become the products on our store shelves, the food in our pantries, and the familiar …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Rutger Bregman Meets George Monbiot - How to Change the World
Global sensation Rutger Bregman joins George Monbiot to show how small groups of committed individuals changed the course of history – and how you ca…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
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…
7 months 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…
7 months 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…
7 months, 1 week 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…
7 months, 1 week 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…
7 months, 2 weeks ago