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.
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George Osborn — Video Games, Politics, and the ...
Video games are the world's most popular form of entertainment—and authoritarian governments have been quicker to take advantage of their reach than liberal democracies. George Osborn asks what we can do about it.
42 min
2
Therapist Emmy van Deurzen – The Philosopher’s ...
Pioneering therapist Emmy van Deurzen looks to existential philosophy to reframe the way we understand ourselves and our relationships.
61 min
3
Bill Browder and Jamison Firestone: Chaos and M...
When their lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was assassinated for exposing the largest tax theft in Russian history, Bill Browder and Jamison Firestone began a global battle against Putin’s mafia state.
70 min
4
Tom McTague – Britain in Europe: The Hidden His...
Editor-in-Chief of The New Statesman Tom McTague offers a definitive history of Britain’s tumultuous relationship with Europe as it’s never been told before.
51 min
5
Malala Yousafzai - Finding My Way
How do you rebuild yourself when your world changes overnight? The youngest ever Nobel laureate joins Pandora Sykes with an intimate and vulnerable look at her life as a young woman.
74 min
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
Carol Cadwalladr Meets Karen Hao - Sam Altman, ...
70 min
10
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
11
Caroline Sylge – How To Retreat
56 min
12
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
13
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
14
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
15
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
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Phil Tinline - Iron Mountain and the Birth of A...
36 min
17
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
18
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
19
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
20
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
21
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
22
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
23
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
24
Neuroscientist Mark Solms - Was Freud Right?
57 min
25
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