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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Robin DiAngelo and Beverly Daniel Tatum - Conve...
Two of the most influential contemporary thinkers on race and racism join us to explore how we can move forward.
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Greg Jenner - How to Find the Comedy in History
What was the first recorded joke? When were Mondays invented? Who, or what, is "mellefied man"? In this week's show we discover the answer to all of these questions from public historian and podcaster Greg Jenner.
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Jane Goodall - A Survival Guide for an Endandge...
The world needs a manifesto of hope now more than ever. Jane Goodall joins us to show that even in the face of great adversity, we can find hope in human nature, and in nature itself.
53 min
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Richard Powers - Why Stories Matter
The Booker Prize 2021 shortlisted author of Bewilderment and The Overstory explores the power of fiction to change our future.
67 min
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Bernard-Henri Lévy - Dispatches from a World of...
For fifty years philosopher and activist Bernard-Henri Lévy has reported on the world’s most urgent and overlooked humanitarian crises and human rights abuses.
58 min
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Kate Bowler - The Meaning of Life
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Stephen Fry Meets Steven Pinker - The Case for ...
In anticipation of Steven Pinker's return to How To Academy later this month, this episode of the podcast revisits his conversation with Stephen Fry on stage in London in 2018.
76 min
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James Nestor - the Art and Science of Breathing
The Sunday Times bestselling author James Nestor joins us with a guide that will forever change the way you think about health and wellbeing.
56 min
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Bonus Episode: With Reason - Learning from our ...
In this special bonus episode by our friends at New Humanist magazine and the Rationalist Association, Professor Alice Roberts takes us through important archaeological discoveries to help us better understand life today.
47 min
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Fiona Shaw - A Life on Stage and Screen
The BAFTA and Olivier award-winning Irish actor and director explores her life and career on stage and screen.
59 min
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Rutger Bregman and Philippe Sands - Are Humans ...
Philippe Sands meets Rutger Bregman, one of the greatest young thinkers of our time, to hear a new story of human nature that places our capacity for kindness, not selfishness, at its heart.
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Dennis Duncan - Index, a history of the
In this week's podcast, literary scholar Dennis Duncan takes us into the secret world of the index and reveals how it transformed the way we read and process knowledge forever.
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Mary Portas - How to Thrive in the New Kindness...
In 2021, it’s not only possible to build healthy businesses that do less bad and add more good – it’s a commercial imperative. Mary Portas is here to show us how.
55 min
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Gordon Brown – How to Change the World
It is time for a new era of global order. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown joins us with authoritative solutions to the greatest challenges of our age.
60 min
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Anish Kapoor - a Life in Art
An icon whose spectacular works occupy a liminal space between sculpture, engineering and architecture, Anish Kapoor is one of the world’s most ambitious living artists.
60 min
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Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green - The Inside ...
Robin Ince meets two of the leading scientists behind the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine, marking this historic moment for science and humanity.
58 min
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Charles Yu - Interior Chinatown
Enter the genre-bending metafictional world of National Book Award winner Charles Yu, one of the most exciting young novelists in America.
30 min
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Mike Rothschild - The Rise of QAnon
Join the conspiracy culture expert Mike Rothschild for an in-depth look into how QAnon became a conspiracy theory of everything.
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Lisa Taddeo and Hadley Freeman - Madness, Trans...
Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women changed how we think about desire. She returns to the podcast to explore what drives women to extremes and how they can take back power.
53 min
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Daniel Kahneman - Why We Make Bad Judgments
Why are we so bad at making good judgments? In this episode of the How To Academy Podcast, Daniel Kahneman, Cass Sunstein, and Olivier Sibony reveal a little-known but profoundly important phenomenon: noise.
59 min
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John Higgs - William Blake vs the World
Join us for a wild journey through culture, science, philosophy and religion to better understand the mercurial genius William Blake.
36 min
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Katrine Marcal and Caroline Criado Perez - Moth...
In conversation with author and activist Caroline Criado Perez, Katrine Marçal shows how, in a time of crisis, the ingenuity and intelligence of women can save us.
51 min
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Bill Clinton and James Patterson - The Presiden...
The 42nd President of the United States and the World Record-breaking master storyteller share insights into their thrilling new collaboration.
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Sir David Hare - A Life in Theatre
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Ginny Smith - The Neuroscience of Everyday Life
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