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.

Society & Culture
Science
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George the Poet Meets Mariana Mazzucato – a Moo...
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capita…
55 min
327
Toby Ord – Existential Risk and the Future of H...
We live during the most important era of human hi…
45 min
328
Owen Jones Meets Claudia Rankine
How can we best approach one another across our d…
54 min
329
Iain McGilchrist – The Divided Brain and the Se...
A tour de force of neuroscience and philosophy, I…
55 min
330
Malcolm Gladwell - How to Make a Good First Imp...
From Blink to Outliers, Revisionist History to Da…
37 min
331
Caitlin Moran – More Than a Woman
‘First, you have to learn how to be a woman. Then…
56 min
332
Simon Schama – The World in 2021
The events of 2020 have upturned the order of the…
59 min
333
Richard Dawkins – The Meaning of Life
“My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraord…
65 min
334
Yanis Varoufakis Meets Owen Jones
Whether exposing Britain’s powerful elites in The…
60 min
335
Len Mlodinow and Robin Ince – The Life of Steph...
An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen Hawking …
61 min
336
Philip Lymbery - How to Live Sustainably in a C...
Our meat and dairy intensive diets are destroying…
48 min
337
Jung Chang – Three Women at the Heart of Twenti...
They were the most famous sisters in China. As th…
52 min
338
Elizabeth Gilbert Meets Julia Cameron - The Pat...
For more than thirty years, Julia Cameron has helped ordinary people and world-renowned artists alike discover their passions and transform their lives.
55 min
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Brian Cox Meets Rebecca Wragg Sykes – The Lost ...
Since their discovery over 160 years ago, Neander…
59 min
340
David Mitchell – Dishonesty is the Second Best ...
Lying is probably as old as human language itself…
55 min
341
Jess Phillips – How To Speak Truth to Power
At a time when many of us feel the world isn’t li…
58 min
342
Thandie Newton Meets Gloria Steinem
She is the most iconic American feminist of the 2…
56 min
343
Sid Meier – The Rise of Civilization
As the inventor of an entirely new genre of enter…
36 min
344
Geoffrey Robertson – Who Owns History?
The question of whether Western nations must retu…
31 min
345
Roman Krznaric – How to Think Long Term in a Sh...
The greatest challenge facing humankind is not cl…
37 min
346
Anthony David – Mental Health After COVID
From anxiety to PTSD, the consequences of the pan…
68 min
347
Maria Konnikova – The Biggest Bluff
When bestselling author Maria Konnikova set out t…
57 min
348
Clive Woodward – How to Win
Sir Clive Woodward has spent a lifetime in high-p…
41 min
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Kiley Reid – Such a Fun Age
Such a Fun Age is the literary sensation of the s…
53 min
350
Owen O’Kane - How to Manage Anxiety and Stress
Psychotherapist and bestselling author Owen O’Kan…
73 min