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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Adam Grant and Tim Harford – The Power of Knowi...
Research shows that the smarter you are the more …
62 min
452
Ethan Kross – How to Harness the Voice Inside Y...
We all have a voice in our head that we tune into…
59 min
453
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
455
Owen Jones Meets Claudia Rankine
How can we best approach one another across our d…
54 min
456
Iain McGilchrist – The Divided Brain and the Se...
A tour de force of neuroscience and philosophy, I…
55 min
457
Malcolm Gladwell - How to Make a Good First Imp...
From Blink to Outliers, Revisionist History to Da…
37 min
458
Caitlin Moran – More Than a Woman
‘First, you have to learn how to be a woman. Then…
56 min
459
Simon Schama – The World in 2021
The events of 2020 have upturned the order of the…
59 min
460
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
462
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
469
Thandie Newton Meets Gloria Steinem
She is the most iconic American feminist of the 2…
56 min
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Sid Meier – The Rise of Civilization
As the inventor of an entirely new genre of enter…
36 min
471
Geoffrey Robertson – Who Owns History?
The question of whether Western nations must retu…
31 min
472
Roman Krznaric – How to Think Long Term in a Sh...
The greatest challenge facing humankind is not cl…
37 min
473
Anthony David – Mental Health After COVID
From anxiety to PTSD, the consequences of the pan…
68 min
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Maria Konnikova – The Biggest Bluff
When bestselling author Maria Konnikova set out t…
57 min
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Clive Woodward – How to Win
Sir Clive Woodward has spent a lifetime in high-p…
41 min