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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Andre Solo - How To Thrive as a Sensitive Person
It’s time to shatter the myth that being sensitive is a weakness and celebrate the power of a deeper, more tuned-in mind.
59 min
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Susie Alegre - Protecting Freedom of Thought in...
Susie Alegre charts the history and fragility of our most important human right: freedom of thought.
26 min
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Sarah Knight - How to be an Adult and Get Treat...
Described as ‘Oprah meets Amy Schumer’ by Elle, Sarah Knight is the foul-mouthed anti-guru with tough love wisdom you can’t afford not to hear.
55 min
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M. John Harrison - Living in an Age of Fantasy
Both an icon and an iconoclast, M. John Harrison has spent fifty years shifting the boundaries of what ought to be possible in literary and genre fiction.
40 min
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Alastair Campbell Meets Beth Rigby - Why Politi...
The legendary New Labour strategist and host of THE REST IS POLITICS asks what we can each to do to confront policies that serve the interests of a privileged few.
79 min
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Thomas Hertog - Stephen Hawking's Final Theory ...
How did the universe begin? Stephen Hawking's collaborator and friend Thomas Hertog shares the physicist's final theory.
36 min
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Ruby Wax Meets Julia Samuel - I'm Not As Well A...
Checking into a psychiatric institution wasn't exactly on Ruby Wax's agenda for 2022 - talking about it wasn't either, but here we are.
65 min
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Fiona Buckland - How to Change Your Life
How can we reconnect with ourselves to find the life we want? Coach Fiona Buckland shares how we can actively create the life we want to live.
45 min
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Justin Gregg - What Animal Intelligence Tells U...
Cognitive scientist Justin Gregg joins Robin Ince for a hilarious and demystifying look at humans, animals, and the meaning of life itself.
59 min
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Robin Ince Meets Chris van Tulleken - Why We Ca...
The BAFTA winning physician joins us to reveal what ultra-processed foods are doing to our bodies and our society.
75 min
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Mick Herron - Slow Horses, Bad Actors
Mick Herron 'is at the summit of a new golden age of spy fiction' (Sunday Times); the creator of the embittered, second-rate MI5 agents known as the Slow Horses.
63 min
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Eleanor Janega - Going Medieval on Women's Role...
A hilarious and thought-provoking podcast looking at sex, gender, and misogyny in the Middle Ages - with medieval pick-up artists, beauty tips based on the Bible, and much else besides.
61 min
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Alexa Hagerty - Genocide, Forensics, and What R...
Bones can reveal brutality, beauty, trauma, and love – Alexa Hagerty used them to reveal the truth.
44 min
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Adam Gopnik - The Mystery of Skill and Mastery
Inspired by the genius of the people he writes about for the New Yorker, Adam Gopnik embarked on a quest to discover how we obtain skill and mastery.
69 min
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Microsoft President Brad Smith - Tools and Weapons
Join us for a preview of Tools and Weapons, the new podcast with Microsoft President (and former How To Academy guest in London) Brad Smith.
37 min
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Richard Restak - The Neuroscience of Strengthen...
It's never to late to start future-proofing your memory. Find out how from renowned neurologist Dr Richard Restak.
54 min
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Luke Turner - Men at War
Luke Turner looks beyond the myths of heroes and villains to reveal a much more nuanced portrait of the multitude of men who served in the Second World War.
57 min
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Curtis Sittenfeld - Romantic Comedy
Skewering all our certainties about why we fall in love, Curtis Sittenfeld's new novel ROMANTIC COMEDY sees her at her daring and compassionate best.
37 min
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Julian Baggini - How to Think Like a Philosopher
Join bestselling public philosopher Julian Baggini for a ‘complete treat: a breath of fresh air and a bracing detox for our beleaguered, battered brains’ (Derren Brown).
59 min
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Dr Shilpa Ravella - The New Science of Inflamma...
Eminent physician Shilpa Ravella joins us to debunk common myths about 'anti-inflammatory' lifestyles – and reveal a radical new vision of human health and illness.
58 min
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Vex King and Kaushal - Get Closer to Love
The bestselling author and mind coach Vex King and his wife Kaushal joined us on Valentines Day with insights for deepening your connections and relationships.
72 min
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Amantha Imber - How to Use Time Wisely
Organisational psychologist Amantha Imber has distilled the wisdom of the world's most innovative people to help us all use our time more productively.
37 min
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Sir Tony Robinson Meets Peter Frankopan - How a...
The way that humans have interacted with the natural world and with the climate has shaped and will change our world – but this story has gone untold. Until now.
74 min
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Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington - How th...
A ground-breaking investigation into how the consulting industry has made its way to the heart of our economies, weakening businesses and infantilising governments.
76 min
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Nicholas Humphrey - The Invention of Consciousness
How do sensations arise in the brain? Who else in the world is conscious the way humans are? Nicholas Humphrey brings together a lifetime’s work to put forward a provocative new theory.
55 min