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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Matthew d’Ancona – Why The Old Politics Is Usel...
Political journalist Matthew d'Ancona's issues a …
57 min
402
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…
67 min
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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
406
Adam Grant and Tim Harford – The Power of Knowi...
Research shows that the smarter you are the more …
62 min
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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…
59 min
408
George the Poet Meets Mariana Mazzucato – a Moo...
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capita…
55 min
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Toby Ord – Existential Risk and the Future of H...
We live during the most important era of human hi…
45 min
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Owen Jones Meets Claudia Rankine
How can we best approach one another across our d…
54 min
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Iain McGilchrist – The Divided Brain and the Se...
A tour de force of neuroscience and philosophy, I…
55 min
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Malcolm Gladwell - How to Make a Good First Imp...
From Blink to Outliers, Revisionist History to Da…
37 min
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Caitlin Moran – More Than a Woman
‘First, you have to learn how to be a woman. Then…
56 min
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Simon Schama – The World in 2021
The events of 2020 have upturned the order of the…
59 min
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Richard Dawkins – The Meaning of Life
“My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraord…
65 min
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Yanis Varoufakis Meets Owen Jones
Whether exposing Britain’s powerful elites in The…
60 min
417
Len Mlodinow and Robin Ince – The Life of Steph...
An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen Hawking …
61 min
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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
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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.
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
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Jess Phillips – How To Speak Truth to Power
At a time when many of us feel the world isn’t li…
58 min
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Thandie Newton Meets Gloria Steinem
She is the most iconic American feminist of the 2…
56 min
425
Sid Meier – The Rise of Civilization
As the inventor of an entirely new genre of enter…
36 min