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 Saunders - Liberation Day
The Booker Prize winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo returns to the podcast to share his idiosyncratic take on the human condition.
33 min
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Geena Davis - Dying of Politeness
The two time Oscar winning actor and activist joins us to share stories from her incredible life in Hollywood and beyond.
55 min
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Kate Summerscale - The History of Phobias and M...
Are you frightened of spiders, clowns, or buttons? Award-winning author Kate Summerscale dives into the strange history of our fears and obsessions.
26 min
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Kate Mosse - Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutio...
The bestselling author of LABRYINTH and founder of the Women’s Prize joins us for a celebration of incredible women from history.
57 min
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Amy Jeffs - Tales of the Medieval Wilderness
The acclaimed artist and author joins us to share forgotten stories from the medieval imagination.
25 min
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Irvine Welsh - Confessions of a Novelist
The legendary author of TRAINSPOTTING joins us for a one-way trip into his febrile, sordid, singular imagination.
55 min
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Stephen Fry Meets Steven Pinker - Enlightenment...
Steven Pinker makes the case for an Enlightenment newly recharged for the 21st century, urging us to use our faculties of reason and sympathy to solve problems.
75 min
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Clover Stroud - The Red of My Blood
Journalist and acclaimed author Clover Stroud joins us with the raw and powerful story of surviving the loss of her sister.
54 min
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Dr Gabor Maté - Why We Get Sick
24 min
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John Higgs - Bond, the Beatles, and the British...
James Bond and the Beatles are cultural twins. But they present opposing values, visions of Britain, and ideas about masculinity that still affect the national psyche in 2022.
36 min
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Dr Ellen Vora - The Anatomy of Anxiety
Anxiety. It's all in your head, right? Wrong. Functional medicine psychiatrist Dr Ellen Vora joins David Malone for a ground-breaking approach to understanding and managing anxiety.
58 min
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Adrian Hon - How Corporations and Governments U...
Game designer Adrian Hon reveals how videogame mechanics are being used to influence human behaviour in the real world and rob us of dignity and autonomy.
39 min
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Cornelia Parker Meets Carlo Rovelli - The Hidde...
Visual artist Cornelia Parker and theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli come together to explore the story of quantum physics and the nature of reality.
65 min
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Mark Bergen - Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to ...
Bloomberg News reporter Mark Bergen reveals the story of how YouTube changed the world through untamed freedom of speech.
56 min
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Charlotte Fox Weber - A Journey Into Human Desire
Join leading psychotherapist Charlotte Fox Weber for a fly-on-the-wall journey through universal human wants and desires, and a practical toolkit for living well.
50 min
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Melanie Joy - How to Get Relationships Right
Psychologist Melanie Joy shares the principles and tools that can make any relationship, from personal to professional, healthier and more resilient.
59 min
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David Mitchell - Dishonesty is the Second Best ...
Are smartphones more dangerous than nuclear weapons? Should we uninvent the Internet? The comedian and columnist joins us with witty reflections upon our dumbfounding post-truth age.
55 min
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Glennon Doyle - How to Find Yourself (Summer Re...
‘Glennon [Doyle] shows us the clearest meaning of “To thine own self be true”. - Oprah Winfrey
58 min
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Richard Dawkins - The Meaning of Life (Summer R...
Richard Dawkins has done more than any other scientist to promote and celebrate the origins of life on Earth.
65 min
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Layla Saad - How to Fight White Supremacy (Summ...
How can white people challenge racism — whether in the form of their own unconscious biases or the wider systems of white supremacy?
27 min
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Derren Brown - How To Be a Little Happier (Summ...
Learn how to think differently and overcome anxiety in a difficult world with the legendary star of stage and screen.
62 min
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Patrick Radden Keefe - True Stories of Killers,...
Patrick Radden Keefe exposed the Sackler family’s role in the US opioid crisis: a parable of greed that made headlines the world over. He joins us with more stories of crime and corruption.
54 min
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Philip Ball - How to Make Sense of Inhuman Minds
Understanding the human mind has challenged scientists and philosophers for centuries. How do we even begin to think about ‘minds’ that are not human?
56 min
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Alice Sherwood - How to Fight Back Against Coun...
In an age when authenticity is valued above all, why are tricksters and con artists thriving -- and what can we do to fight back?
53 min
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Daniel Pink - The Power of Regret
No regrets! The mantra adorns tattoos, T-shirts and posters; celebrities from John Travolta to Laverne Cox say they live by it. But should they?
30 min