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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Yuval Noah Harari – Making Sense of a World in ...
69 min
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Mary Beard and David Mitchell – On Rulers and P...
Cambridge classicist Mary Beard and beloved comedian David Mitchell share the histories of Roman and English rulers like you’ve never heard them before.
70 min
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Oscar-nominated Filmmaker Maite Alberdi – A Chi...
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Maite Alberdi discusses her latest documentary A Child of My Own – a deeply human and daring story of motherhood, grief, identity, and the immense pressures placed on women.
26 min
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Carissa Véliz– AI, Prediction, and the Fight fo...
Oxford Philosopher and award-winning author Carissa Véliz explores the history, hidden dangers, and human cost of prediction in the age of AI.
54 min
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Cathy Haynes – How To Live By Nature's Rhythms
Curator and educator Cathy Haynes reveals the forgotten art of understanding how nature marks time, and calls upon us to notice the daily wonders of the natural world.
49 min
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Joe Hill Meets Frank Miller – A Life in Comics
The creator of The Dark Knight Returns and 300 Frank Miller joins Joe Hill for a deep dive into his life and art, revealing the inspiration behind his iconic comics and his secrets of storytelling.
46 min
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Catharine Edwards - The Life of Cicero and the ...
Renowned historian Catharine Edwards joins bestselling novelist Robert Harris to illuminate the extraordinary life and mind of Cicero, and the ultimate fall of the Roman Republic.
61 min
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Suzy Hansen – Turkey in the Age of Erdoğan
Pulitzer finalist Suzy Hansen chronicles the age of authoritarianism in Turkey — through an intimate portrait of its people.
40 min
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Daniel Mendelsohn – Translating Homer's Odyssey
Editor-at-Large of The New York Review of Books and an award-winning, bestselling classicist, Daniel Mendelsohn reflects on the resonance of the Odyssey after twenty-eight centuries.
66 min
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Nir Eyal - The Science-Backed Way to Stop Limit...
Stanford’s Nir Eyal reveals a pragmatic, science-backed guide to dismantling the hidden beliefs that hold us back.
58 min
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Sir Roger Deakins – Reflections of a Cinematogr...
Widely celebrated as the greatest cinematographer of all-time, Roger Deakins shot The Shawshank Redemption, Fargo, Skyfall and 1917. He shares stories from a remarkable life in cinema.
71 min
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Emma Southon - How Slavery Made the Roman Empire
Acclaimed historian Emma Southon uncovers the groundbreaking truth of the millions of forgotten enslaved people who built the Roman Empire.
54 min
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Carol Cadwalladr Meets Karen Hao - Sam Altman, ...
70 min
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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
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Caroline Sylge – How To Retreat
56 min
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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
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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