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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Victoria Belim - The Resilience of Art in Times...
Victoria Belim is a Financial Times columnist and translator whose new memoir The Rooster House has been described as "Wild Swans for Ukraine" (Bookseller).
40 min
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Dr Pooja Lakshmin - Sustainable Strategies for ...
Forget juice cleanses. Forget crystal-infused water bottles. Leading physician Dr Pooja Lakshmin joins us with an evidence-based guide to achieving real and lasting wellbeing.
50 min
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Booker Prize winner George Saunders - Liberatio...
Revisiting one of our favourite episodes of last year, the Booker Prize winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo shares his idiosyncratic take on the human condition.
33 min
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Malcolm Harris - How Palo Alto Conquered the World
How did the suburb of Palo Alto become the epicentre of a global tech revolution, changing not just American capitalism but the world?
45 min
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Dr Amy Shah - How to Manage Hunger and Cravings
Physician Amy Shah debunks mainstream myths about hunger and provides science-based strategies to manage food cravings.
54 min
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Andy Clark - How Our Minds Predict and Shape Re...
How do our minds build our worlds? One of the most important living thinkers in cognitive science and philosophy joins us with a grand new vision to explain our lived experience.
60 min
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Christina Wallace - How To Futureproof Your Career
Harvard professor Christina Wallace has a radical new model for work and life that upends the notion they should have ever been at odds.
63 min
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Booker 2022 winner Shehan Karunatilaka - The Se...
A major new voice in the tradition of Rushdie, Bulgakov and Marquez, Booker Prize winner Shehan Karunatilaka joins us to share an unforgettable vision of Sri Lanka’s civil wars.
59 min
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Emma Gannon - The Meaning of Success
What if we were told that everything we've been led to believe about traditional success is a lie?
56 min
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Richard Dawkins - Live at Wilderness Festival 2022
Richard Dawkins joined us at last year's Wilderness Festival for a celebration of an extraordinary life in science.
54 min
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Viorica Marian - The Power of Language
How does language change the way we think and experience the world? Psycholinguist Viorica Marian has dedicated her life to finding the answers.
48 min
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Peter Heather - Will the West Fall Like Rome?
Is the West doomed to be the next Roman Empire? Can we learn something from its fall? Historian Peter Heather thinks we can – and must.
49 min
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Lorraine Candy - How to Have a Magnificent Midlife
Join the former Editor in Chief of Elle and Sunday Times style for a guide to navigating the messiness of midlife.
58 min
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Scott Shapiro - The Dark Art of Hacking
The Information Age is built on precarious architecture. Scott Shapiro joins us to bust the myths about hacking and reveal the truth about viruses, espionage, and cyberwar.
44 min
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James Comey - The Pursuit of Justice in a Divid...
Fired by Trump in 2017, the former FBI director turned novelist joins us to share his insights into power and justice in a dangerous and divided America.
66 min
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Gretchen Rubin - How to Get Out of Your Head an...
Join Gretchen Rubin and discover how the five senses to get us out of our heads and back into the world to find our true happiness.
56 min
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William Dalrymple and Sathnam Sanghera - Britis...
A story of powerful empires, covert political machinations and bloody resistance, Sathnam Sanghera and William Dalrymple join us with the history of the world’s first corporate power.
60 min
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Richard Ford - A Life in Literature
Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford joins us to reflect on the responsibility of the writer, the politics of language, and the prospect of happiness in an imperfect world.
44 min
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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.
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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.
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