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Philippa Perry Meets Becky Barnicoat – The Joy and Chaos of Parenting
Bestselling author, artist, and the Observer’s agony aunt Philippa Perry joins cartoonist Becky Barnicoat for a conversation about the highs and lows…
9 months, 1 week ago
Filmmaker Lorna Tucker - On Homelessness and Addiction
Today Lorna Tucker is a feted documentary maker whose subjects include Vivienne Westwood and Katherine Hepburn — a life she could not have imagined a…
9 months, 1 week ago
Sayeeda Warsi - Muslims Don't Matter
From the far-right violence that broke out in the summer of 2024 to the hatred directed at Muslims in public life during the Gaza conflict, anti-Musl…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Dan Richards - Stories from the Night
While many of us are sleeping, another world awakens in the night hours. Author Dan Richards reveals the thrumming life of the night, from night shif…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
LSE Behavioural Economist Paul Dolan - How to Stop Hating People We Disagree With
LSE’s Paul Dolan reveals how we can stop hating the people we disagree with, and how we can foster a more tolerant society.
We like to think that we’…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Nature Writer and Cambridge Professor Robert Macfarlane - Is a River Alive?
Our greatest living nature writer, Robert Macfarlane shares with Horatio Clare a single, transformative idea: are rivers alive?
Robert Macfarlane is …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Masud Husain - A Neurologist’s Guide to the Self and the Brain
Neurologist and Oxford Professor Dr Masud Husain explores the intricacies of the brain, and how much our sense of self can change through brain disor…
10 months ago
Daniel Swift – Art, Commerce, and the Origin Story of William Shakespeare
The story of Elizabethan theatre is often told through the artistic genius of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Critic and scholar Daniel Swift has…
10 months ago
Gina Rippon - How Science Failed Autistic Women
Gina Rippon delves into the emerging science of female autism, asking why it has been systematically ignored and misunderstood for so long. Generatio…
10 months, 1 week ago
Robin Ince Meets Slavoj Žižek - The World In 2025
Slavoj Žižek, one of the most outrageous and maverick thinkers of our time, joins Robin Ince for deep dive into his life and thought.
From his life a…
10 months, 1 week ago