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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Jane McGonigal - How to See the Future Coming
Game designer, futurist and TED superstar Jane McGonigal explains how imagining the future can help us to adapt to change - and be ready for anything.
59 min
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Colm Toibin and Terence Killeen - Ulysses Unbound
Celebrating the centenary of the novel widely regarded as the greatest ever written, Colm Toibin and Terence Killeen untangle Joyce’s knotty classic to reveal the wonders beneath.
72 min
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Alice Roberts - Buried
Combining archaeological evidence with cutting edge DNA research, the bestselling anthropologist joins us with a bold new account of death in the so-called Dark Ages.
57 min
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Rory Stewart - The State of the Nation
The former politician and diplomat shares his insights into Britain's leadership and the world in 2022.
49 min
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Pandora Sykes Meets Tina Brown - The Inside Sco...
Can the monarchy survive? Drawing on exclusive inside access, Tina Brown tells Pandora Sykes the riveting inside story of the Royal Family.
67 min
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Sam Knight - The Premonitions Bureau
Join legendary journalist Sam Knight for the true story of a strange experiment - a journey into the oddest corners of 60s Britain and the outer edges of science and reason.
57 min
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John Cleese Meets Iain McGilchrist - On Conscio...
John Cleese meets preeminent neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist to explore the science of human consciousness and creativity.
70 min
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Minnie Driver - Managing Expectations
As one of our most loved actors, Minnie Driver has spent her life mostly telling other people’s stories. Until now.
65 min
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Owen Jones Meets Michael Lewis - The Fifth Risk
'I read Michael Lewis for the same reasons I watch Tiger Woods. I'll never play like that. But it's good to be reminded every now and again what genius looks like' - Malcolm Gladwell
74 min
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Robin Ince Meets Neal Stephenson - Termination ...
'Sometimes when you're reading Neal Stephenson, he doesn't just seem like one of the best novelists writing in English right now; he seems like the only one.' - TIME magazine
50 min
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Eliot Higgins - We Are Bellingcat
'Taking on the Kremlin from his couch . . . Eliot Higgins and Bellingcat are fighting Vladimir Putin and his ilk, using little more than computers and smartphones' (Foreign Policy).
55 min
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The Metaverse - Hype or Hyperreality?
Take a trip into the Metaverse in the latest episode of Found in Conversation, the monthly ideas show we co-produce with Pictet.
43 min
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Ann Patchett - These Precious Days
‘I don’t think that there’s a book of hers that I haven’t put down at the end and been haunted by for weeks after’ (Gillian Anderson).
56 min
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Robin Ince Meets Richard Dawkins
“My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence... That's never far from my thoughts, that sense of amazement.” – Richard Dawkins
59 min
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Ed Miliband - How to Fix Our World
A better world is possible; the solutions are out there. We can all make a difference. We just need to know where to look - and have the courage to think big.
54 min
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Dispatches from Afghanistan
What does the future hold for the people of Afghanistan in the wake of America’s withdrawal and the Taliban’s return to power?
52 min
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Matthew Green - A Journey Into the Shadowlands
33 min
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Julia Samuel - Every Family Has a Story
What predicts family breakdown? Why do our families drive us mad? What is it the enables some families to thrive despite enormous adversity, when others fragment?
53 min
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Philip Oltermann - The Stasi Poetry Circle
The Guardian's Berlin bureau chief reveals the strange but true story of the book club that tried to win the Cold War through lyrical verse.
28 min
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Simon Sebag Montefiore and Luke Harding - The H...
Prizewinning historian Simon Sebag Montefiore and former Guardian Moscow bureau chief Luke Harding look at the deep history behind the headlines.
37 min
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Max Porter - Why Art Should Challenge Us
The genre-defying author joins us to explore his lifelong obsession with Francis Bacon, the undefinable magic of language, and pushing readers outside their comfort zones.
40 min
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Alan Moore and B. Catling - The Power of Imagin...
The comics legend and Oxford sculptor turned literary novelist come together to explore humanity’s greatest superpower: imagination.
58 min
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Olia Hercules and Alissa Timoshkina - #CookForU...
Join us for a special episode in support of #CookForUkraine, a campaign organised by two food writers, Ukrainian Olia Hercules and Russia Alissa Timoshkina, to support children and families affected by the war.
40 min
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Yanis Varoufakis Meets David Wengrow - The Dawn...
The collaborator of the late, legendary anthropologist David Graeber joins Yanis Varoufakis to overturn everything you think you know about the history of human civilisation.
55 min
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Paul Craddock - The Surprising History of Organ...
We think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the modern world. But the true history of transplants is more ancient, and far stranger, than we could ever imagine.
31 min