How To Academy Podcast
How To Academy is London's home of big thinking. From Nobel laureates to Pulitzer Prize winners, we invite the world’s most influential voices to share new ideas for changing ourselves, our communities, and the world. Our biweekly podcast is your chance to hear in-depth from the most exciting thinkers in global culture.
1
Antonia Senior – The Cambridge Five and the Mak...
Journalist, novelist and historian Antonia Senior offers a radical new look at how five people allowed an ideological obsession to overshadow loyalty to their country.
50 min
2
M. John Harrison - The End of Everything
In his new novel The End of Everything, the grandmaster of speculative fiction confronts the limits of human understanding.
40 min
3
Mark Williamson – How To Live a Happier Life
‘Happiness Engineer’ Mark Williamson offers a refreshing guide to find meaning, make a difference, and make life happy.
56 min
4
Carol Cadwalladr Meets Karen Hao - Sam Altman, ...
70 min
5
Novelist Elodie Harper – Boudicca's Daughter
Boudicca. Infamous warrior queen of the British Iceni tribe and leader of one of history's greatest revolts. But what of the daughters who grew up in her shadow? In her latest historical fiction, Elodie Harper imagines their story.
33 min
6
Caroline Sylge – How To Retreat
56 min
7
Novelist Erica Wagner - Washington Roebling and...
Washington Roebling built one of the wonders of the industrial age: the Brooklyn Bridge. Erica Wagner takes us inside his psyche.
27 min
8
Neurologist Majid Fotuhi – How To Age-Proof You...
World-renowned neurologist Majid Fotuhi reveals how to prevent and reverse cognitive decline, boost memory, and enhance mental sharpness at any age.
63 min
9
Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris - On Birds,...
The creators of The Lost Words Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris illuminate the splendours of birdlife, and share an impassioned call to halt the loss of birds from land, sea and sky.
72 min
10
Jessamy Hibberd – How to Free Your Mind From Ov...
Dr Jessamy Hibberd reveals how we can break free from the cycle of overthinking so many of us are trapped in to live a better life and focus on what really matters.
57 min
11
Phil Tinline - Iron Mountain and the Birth of A...
36 min
12
Tom Holland Meets Armando Iannucci — What The L...
Armando Iannucci and the award-winning star of The Rest is History, Tom Holland journey back to Rome for an intimate encounter with Caesar, Augustus, Caligula, and Nero…
75 min
13
Freya India - The Commodification of Girls and ...
Freya India reveals how the age-old anxieties of girlhood are now amplified—and exploited—like never before.
57 min
14
Holistic Psychologist Nicole LePera – Reparenti...
Holistic psychologist and internationally bestselling author, Nicole LePera, reveals the new science of healing old wounds and rediscovering your full potential.
68 min
15
Nina Allan - The Many Worlds of JG Ballard
JG Ballard's avant-garde speculative novels are among the most the controversial and exhilarating works in all of 20th century literature. His biographer, award-winning novelist Nina Allan, reveals why.
45 min
16
Antony Beevor – Rasputin and the Downfall of th...
Was Rasputin a visionary, a fraud, or a victim of history? The bestselling author of Stalingrad searches for the truth about the wild mystic who laid the ground for revolution.
59 min
17
Ecologist Suzanne Simard - Lessons of the Forest
Renowned ecologist Suzanne Simard reveals the profound interconnectedness of trees, their cycles of renewal and resilience, and how we might better protect our forests for generations to come.
75 min
18
James Muldoon - Love Rewired in the Age of AI
Friends. Lovers. Therapists. AI is taking on unprecedented roles for millions of us. The Oxford Internet Institute’s James Muldoon explores how these new relationships are rewiring us.
59 min
19
Neuroscientist Mark Solms - Was Freud Right?
57 min
20
Zakia Sewell Meets Jeremy Deller - The Quest fo...
From Glastonbury Tor to Notting Hill Carnival, Zakia Sewell has travelled across the British isles on a quest for new myths and legends to unite our divided nation.
46 min
21
Peter Jones - The Secret History of the Seven D...
49 min
22
Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin — How to Harness ...
Join bestselling neuroscientist and musician Daniel Levitin for a bold new vision of the future of medicine—one where music becomes our medicine.
61 min
23
Ayala Panievsky–Fighting Censorship in the Age ...
Ayala Panievsky exposes the relentless attempts to undermine truth and facts by anti-democratic forces in the UK and across the globe.
64 min
24
Oren Harman - The Human History of Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is one of the most mysterious and wondrous processes in all of nature, inspiring philosophers, poets, and scientists for millennia.
48 min
25
Dr Gavin Francis – Making Sense of Mental Health
GP and bestselling author Dr Gavin Francis offers a deeply human and compassionate re-evaluation of mental illness.
64 min