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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Yale Historian Sunil Amrith - How Humanity Resh...
Yale historian and MacArthur ‘genius’ Sunil Amrith shares a paradigm-shifting survey of human history's imprint on the earth, and where we go from here.
58 min
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Harvard Historian Serhii Plokhy - Chernobyl Und...
What happens when a hostile power occupies the site of a nuclear catastrophe? Ukrainian-born historian Serhii Plokhy returns to Chernobyl to tell a harrowing and profoundly important story.
57 min
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Pulitzer Prize winners Russ Buettner and Susann...
He claimed he could do for America what he had done for business. But Trump's acumen was a house of cards. Pulitzer Prize winners Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig dismantle the myth of America's luckiest loser.
58 min
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Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk - When the Bod...
Is helplessness and invisibility inevitable after trauma? Not according to global bestselling author Bessel van der Kolk, who joins the podcast to share a new paradigm for healing.
100 min
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Anthropologist Webb Keane - Animals, Robots, Gods
What can animals, robots, and gods teach us about what it means to be human? Webb Keane investigates how our morality entwines with the non-human world.
33 min
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Psychologist Mary Anderson - How to be a Happy ...
Psychologist Dr Mary E. Anderson reveals how you can aim high and nurture your ambition, all while being kinder on yourself.
58 min
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David Olusoga and Alan Lester - The Truth About...
Historians David Olusoga and Alan Lester reflect on the importance of truth and ethics in the relentless and fraught culture war being fought over Britain's imperial past.
72 min
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Psychotherapist and Bestselling Author Anna Mat...
Bad things will happen to people we love. Sometimes we will fail. Some people won’t like us. So, what can we do in the face of things we cannot control?
57 min
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Sam Leith and Amy Jeffs - Tales of Wonder, Myth...
Artist and folklorist Amy Jeffs and author and critic Sam Leith come together for a rich and wide-roaming investigation into the nature of magic, wonder, imagination, and storytelling.
63 min
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Oliver Burkeman - How to Live a Meaningful Life...
How can we embrace our limits? Oliver Burkeman dispels the myths of self-help and helps us realise a freer and more enchanted life.
61 min
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Novelist Rumaan Alam - on Wealth, Power, and En...
Rumaan Alam's novel 'Leave the World Behind' catapulted him into the stratosphere of American letters. Now he is back...
47 min
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Superstar election forecaster Nate Silver - Th...
Legendary forecaster Nate Silver joins Jeremy Vine to present a new paradigm of power that is reshaping our world.
67 min
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Stefan Stern - The Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition
What do Shakespearean tragic heroines and the Financial Times have in common? Journalist and business scholar Stefan Stern joins us to unpack the nature of ambition — with practical insights for all of our lives.
27 min
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Mark Galeotti - Putin, Prigozhin and the Future...
The life of rebel-in-chief Yevgeny Prigozhin offers a chilling lens on Russia’s future. Expert Russia-watcher Mark Galeotti reveals the chaotic new direction of late Putinism.
54 min
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Senior Jewellery Curator at the V&A Helen Moles...
For as long as humans have known gems, human history has been closely intertwined with these rare finds. Senior Jewellery Curator at the V&A Museum Helen Molesworth joined us to reveal a new history of our world as shaped by gems, and the dazzling human stories within.
46 min
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Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith - How Animal Mi...
Peter Godfrey-Smith's Other Minds introduced the world to the wonders of the octopus. Now he turns his attention to an animal closer to home: us.
46 min
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Yuval Noah Harari Meets Katherine Rundell - Uns...
In a special podcast for children and families, the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens tells the incredible story of the human race to Katherine Rundell.
65 min
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Fern Academy Prize winner Gabriela Denise Frank...
The inaugural winner of How To Academy's essay prize, Gabriela Denise Frank is a literary artist whose essay A Self She Can Continue Living With is both a deeply personal and highly relatable account of the profound awfulness of modern corporate working life.
69 min
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Dr Emily Leeming - The Life Changing Science of...
Your gut isn’t just a swirling sac of acid, it’s your second brain, capable of sharpening focus and changing your mood. With new groundbreaking evidence, Dr Emily Leeming reveals your body’s secret powerhouse.
58 min
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William Dalrymple and Sathnam Sanghera – Britis...
A story of powerful empires, covert political machinations and bloody resistance, Sathnam Sanghera and William Dalrymple join us with the history of the world’s first corporate power.
60 min
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Henry Oliver - How To Find Success in Midlife
Good things come to those who are late. Henry Oliver is here to reveal how you can find hidden talents and professional success in middle age.
54 min
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Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum - The Dict...
Pulitzer Prize winning historian Anne Applebaum joins the Guardian's Luke Harding to uncover the networks trying to destroy the democratic world – and how we can stop them.
54 min
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World Record Breaking Mountaineer Lhakpa Sherpa...
Lhakpa Sherpa, the first Nepali woman to summit and descend Everest, joined filmmaker Lucy Walker to reveal her lifelong dream of empowering women and her own extraordinary journey against all odds.
22 min
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Neuroscientist Patrick House - How to Make Sens...
Despite decades of research from the smartest brains on the planet, we still don’t understand the nature of consciousness. Neuroscientist Patrick House guides Robin Ince through the leading theories.
57 min
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Pioneering Biologist J Craig Venter - The Futur...
Upon completing his historic work on the Human Genome Project, J. Craig Venter declared that he would sequence the genetic code of all life on earth. A journey that begins in the oceans…
54 min