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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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
54 min
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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.
59 min
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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.
51 min
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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 …
57 min
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Isabel Allende – The Soul of a Woman
Isabel Allende has been a feminist her whole life…
53 min
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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…
30 min
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Derren Brown – How To Be a Little Happier
Since he introduced us to his singular and inimit…
62 min
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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…
55 min