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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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?
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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.
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Suzanne Simard - Finding the Mother Tree
World-leading scientist of plant communication and intelligence Suzanne Simard reveals how she discovered the secrets of the forest.
61 min
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Jon Ronson and Brian Klaas - On Psychopaths and...
Why do bad people disproportionately rise to power? Do broken systems produce authoritarian leaders, and if so - what can we do about it?
59 min
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Salena Godden Meets Yrsa Daley-Ward - How to Kn...
Shot to fame in her early twenties as model and actor, Yrsa Daley-Ward quickly established a reputation as a poet and storyteller of rare honesty, vulnerability, and emotional power.
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Jameela Jamil and Michael Schur - How to be Per...
Jameela Jamil and Michael Schur join us to explore the question of their hit series The Good Place: how can we live a more ethical life?
60 min
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Adam Rutherford - The Troubling History of Euge...
Eugenics remains one of the most destructive ideas of the 20th century. Today, politicians and scientists alike threaten to build on the legacy of this dangerous ideology.
45 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.
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Fi Glover and Jane Garvey - Did I Say That Out ...
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John Preston - The Rise and Fall of Robert Maxwell
Media moghul Robert Maxwell was a war hero who embodied Britain's post-war boom: but within days of mysterious death, he was already reviled as the embodiment of greed and corruption. What went so wrong?
50 min
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Claire Fuller - Unsettled Ground
Claire Fuller, author of the Costa Novel Award 2021 winner Unsettled Ground, explores folk music, memory, and the surreal everyday in this week’s episode of the How To Academy Podcast.
33 min
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Marcus du Sautoy Meets Steven Pinker - Why Rati...
World-renowned public intellectuals Marcus du Sautoy and Steven Pinker offer a guide to rationality during an epidemic of unreason.
57 min
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Bexy Cameron - How to Escape a Cult
Filmmaker Bexy Cameron was born into the Children of God, one of the world's most notorious cults. She joins us to share the story of her upbringing and escape.
44 min
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Pandora Sykes Meets Emily Ratajkowski
What does it mean to be a woman today? Pandora Sykes meets model, entrepreneur and activist Emily Ratajkowski for an investigation into feminism, sexuality and power.
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Paul Bloom - The Surprising Secret of Happiness
'Paul Bloom can always be counted on to take your confident assumptions about humanity and turn them upside down' (SUSAN CAIN, author of Quiet).
60 min
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Philip Pullman Meets Iain McGilchrist - The Mea...
The award-winning novelist and acclaimed neuroscientist join us with a profound new story of what the world is and who we are.
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Fatima Bhutto Meets Noam Chomsky
The legendary philosopher and activists explores the challenges of our age with author Fatima Bhutto.
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