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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Isabel Allende – The Soul of a Woman
Isabel Allende has been a feminist her whole life…
53 min
377
Ian McEwan – A Life In Literature
The country’s most prolific and celebrated noveli…
67 min
378
Rowan Hooper – How to Spend a Trillion Dollars
If you had a trillion dollars and a year to spend…
30 min
379
Derren Brown – How To Be a Little Happier
Since he introduced us to his singular and inimit…
62 min
380
Adam Grant and Tim Harford – The Power of Knowi...
Research shows that the smarter you are the more …
62 min
381
Ethan Kross – How to Harness the Voice Inside Y...
We all have a voice in our head that we tune into…
59 min
382
George the Poet Meets Mariana Mazzucato – a Moo...
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capita…
55 min
383
Toby Ord – Existential Risk and the Future of H...
We live during the most important era of human hi…
45 min
384
Owen Jones Meets Claudia Rankine
How can we best approach one another across our d…
54 min
385
Iain McGilchrist – The Divided Brain and the Se...
A tour de force of neuroscience and philosophy, I…
55 min
386
Malcolm Gladwell - How to Make a Good First Imp...
From Blink to Outliers, Revisionist History to Da…
37 min
387
Caitlin Moran – More Than a Woman
‘First, you have to learn how to be a woman. Then…
56 min
388
Simon Schama – The World in 2021
The events of 2020 have upturned the order of the…
59 min
389
Richard Dawkins – The Meaning of Life
“My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraord…
65 min
390
Yanis Varoufakis Meets Owen Jones
Whether exposing Britain’s powerful elites in The…
60 min
391
Len Mlodinow and Robin Ince – The Life of Steph...
An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen Hawking …
61 min
392
Philip Lymbery - How to Live Sustainably in a C...
Our meat and dairy intensive diets are destroying…
48 min
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Jung Chang – Three Women at the Heart of Twenti...
They were the most famous sisters in China. As th…
52 min
394
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
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David Mitchell – Dishonesty is the Second Best ...
Lying is probably as old as human language itself…
55 min
397
Jess Phillips – How To Speak Truth to Power
At a time when many of us feel the world isn’t li…
58 min
398
Thandie Newton Meets Gloria Steinem
She is the most iconic American feminist of the 2…
56 min
399
Sid Meier – The Rise of Civilization
As the inventor of an entirely new genre of enter…
36 min
400
Geoffrey Robertson – Who Owns History?
The question of whether Western nations must retu…
31 min