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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Sayeeda Warsi - Muslims Don't Matter
Britain’s first Muslim Cabinet minister, Conservative peer, campaigner and podcaster Sayeeda Warsi uses her dual lens at the centre of British power and in the heart of our Muslim communities to unapologetically challenge the corrosive consensus.
67 min
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Dan Richards - Stories from the Night
Author Dan Richards explores the intricacy of the nocturnal world, and the work that happens at night to keep the modern world moving.
42 min
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LSE Behavioural Economist Paul Dolan - How to S...
61 min
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Nature Writer and Cambridge Professor Robert Ma...
Our greatest living nature writer, Robert Macfarlane shares with Horatio Clare a single, transformative idea: are rivers alive?
61 min
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Masud Husain - A Neurologist’s Guide to the Sel...
Leading neurologist and Oxford Professor Masud Husain shares moving cases of brain disorders from across his career – and what they can teach us about medicine, humanity, and ourselves.
61 min
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Daniel Swift – Art, Commerce, and the Origin St...
Before the Globe there was the Theatre. Daniel Swift has meticulously reconstructed the story of the first Elizabethan playhouse — and its part in the making of the greatest writer of all time.
33 min
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Gina Rippon - How Science Failed Autistic Women
Renowned brain scientist Gina Rippon reveals why medical science has long neglected women and girls with autism, and the new research that’s changing the story.
56 min
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Robin Ince Meets Slavoj Žižek - The World In 2025
Slavoj Žižek, one of the most outrageous and maverick thinkers of our time, joins Robin Ince for deep dive into his life and thought.
70 min
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Bonnie Tsui - Rethinking Muscle and the Way We ...
Muscle is more than just what we are made of; it allows us to explore who we are and pursue who we want to be. Author and athlete Bonnie Tsui reveals the intriguing world of muscle and why it matters.
56 min
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Gabriel Weston - A New Journey Through the Huma...
Award-winning novelist, memoirist, and surgeon Gabriel Weston joins us with a profound journey through the wonder that is the human body.
61 min
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Yung Pueblo - How To Love Better
New York Times bestselling poet and author Yung Pueblo reveals how we can cultivate deeper compassion and connection in our relationships, to better love our partners and ourselves.
63 min
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John Higgs - The Story of Doctor Who
How did a low budget sci-fi show widely loathed by its creators the BBC go on to become a bedrock of British culture that means the world to millions of children and adults alike?
47 min
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Anne-Laure Le Cunff - How Everyday Curiosity Ca...
Neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff reveals a new, easier way to reach your goals through everyday curiosity and self-discovery: the experimental mindset.
59 min
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Edward Fishman - How the Global Economy Became ...
Foreign policy expert and former US state department official Edward Fishman reveals the history of economic warfare, and the alarming forecast for international economies to come.
58 min
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Visualisation Expert Maya Raichoora - How to Th...
Mental fitness expert Maya Raichoora reveals how to harness the power of visualisation to rewire and retrain your brain so you can take control of the way you think, feel and perform.
60 min
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Journalist Annabelle Hirsch - A History of Wome...
From thumbscrews to Tupperware, the Amazon rainforest to the plantations of South Carolina, Simone de Beauvoir to Beyoncé, this is the story of women as never heard before.
55 min
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Gary Lightbody - On Grief, Love, and the Power ...
Time. Love. Death. Life. Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody shares the emotional journey behind the band’s latest chart-topping album, at whose heart is the story of losing his father.
53 min
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Kenneth Roth - Fighting for Humanity: Three Dec...
The long-time head of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, joins us to tell the story of taking on the world’s biggest human rights villains, and explores the ongoing fight for a better world.
71 min
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Assyriologist Selena Wisnom - Mesopotamia and t...
Located in modern-day Iraq, Mesopotamia was the first human civilisation and the birthplace of writing. Selena Wisnom is one of the few people alive today who can read the cuneiform tablets that tell its story.
27 min
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Agnes Callard - Socratic Wisdom for Our Modern ...
Philosopher and University of Chicago Professor Agnes Callard reveals how Socrates can continue to guide us in the tumult of our modern world.
62 min
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Psychologist to the Lionesses Kate Hays - How t...
The Lionesses’ Performance Psychologist Kate Hays shares a practical playbook on how to thrive, fulfil your potential, and sustain long-term success.
60 min
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Courtney Love and Todd Almond - The Legend of B...
After Kurt Cobain, Bob Dylan is Courtney Love’s all-time rock’n’roll hero. Todd Almond performed Dylan’s songbook on Broadway. They join us for a deeply personal celebration of the legendary songwriter.
59 min
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Sumit Paul-Choudhury - Why You Should Be an Opt...
A deep dive into the power and science of optimism that will change the way you think for good, with the former editor of New Scientist, Sumit Paul-Choudhury.
57 min
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George Osborne Meets Tom Holland - The Lives of...
The award-winning star of The Rest is History Tom Holland joins George Osborne to breathe new life into the reign of the Caesars.
72 min
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Andrew Brodsky - The Secrets of Successful Virt...
To email or not to email? That is the question. We are all virtual communicators, but the struggles of expressing ourselves on text, email, and video calls are familiar to us all. Andrew Brodsky shares an illuminating guide to how we can all communicate better virtually.
58 min