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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Maggie O'Farrell - The Life of Hamnet Shakespeare
‘The story of Hamnet Shakespeare has been waiting in the shadows for over four hundred years. Maggie O’Farrell brings it dazzlingly, devastatingly, into the light’ – Kamila Shamsie
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Michio Kaku - The Quest For Theory of Everything
Michio Kaku takes Robin Ince on the mind-bending ride through the twists and turns of an epic scientific journey: the quest to find a Theory of Everything.
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Anna Ploszajski - Finding Meaning Through Making
Sitting at the intersection of art, science, and history, this week's podcast reveals fresh perspectives and fascinating insights into our material world.
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George Saunders – Lessons in Writing and Life
What makes great stories work? What can they tell…
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Matthew d’Ancona – Why The Old Politics Is Usel...
Political journalist Matthew d'Ancona's issues a …
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Isabel Allende – The Soul of a Woman
Isabel Allende has been a feminist her whole life…
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Ian McEwan – A Life In Literature
The country’s most prolific and celebrated noveli…
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Rowan Hooper – How to Spend a Trillion Dollars
If you had a trillion dollars and a year to spend…
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Derren Brown – How To Be a Little Happier
Since he introduced us to his singular and inimit…
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Adam Grant and Tim Harford – The Power of Knowi...
Research shows that the smarter you are the more …
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Ethan Kross – How to Harness the Voice Inside Y...
We all have a voice in our head that we tune into…
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George the Poet Meets Mariana Mazzucato – a Moo...
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capita…
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Toby Ord – Existential Risk and the Future of H...
We live during the most important era of human hi…
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Owen Jones Meets Claudia Rankine
How can we best approach one another across our d…
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Iain McGilchrist – The Divided Brain and the Se...
A tour de force of neuroscience and philosophy, I…
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Malcolm Gladwell - How to Make a Good First Imp...
From Blink to Outliers, Revisionist History to Da…
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Caitlin Moran – More Than a Woman
‘First, you have to learn how to be a woman. Then…
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Simon Schama – The World in 2021
The events of 2020 have upturned the order of the…
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Richard Dawkins – The Meaning of Life
“My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraord…
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Yanis Varoufakis Meets Owen Jones
Whether exposing Britain’s powerful elites in The…
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Len Mlodinow and Robin Ince – The Life of Steph...
An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen Hawking …
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Philip Lymbery - How to Live Sustainably in a C...
Our meat and dairy intensive diets are destroying…
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Jung Chang – Three Women at the Heart of Twenti...
They were the most famous sisters in China. As th…
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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.
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Brian Cox Meets Rebecca Wragg Sykes – The Lost ...
Since their discovery over 160 years ago, Neander…
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