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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Dr James Kinross - The New Science of the Micro...
World-leading microbiome scientist and surgeon James Kinross shows how to optimise the microbiome to protect our health.
52 min
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Emma Southon - Women of the Roman Empire
Forget generals, battles, and consuls. Emma Southon tells the story of Rome through its women, from sex workers to Vestal Virgins, empresses to saints.
45 min
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Rahul Jandial - How to Rewire Your Brain (Summe...
It’s time to turn the tide against mental decline. Learn how to make your mind fitter, healthier and stronger using the insights of cutting-edge neuroscience in this week’s podcast.
38 min
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David Christian - A User's Guide to the Future...
Historian David Christian investigates what we can know about the future in this episode of our sister podcast, Found in Conversation.
22 min
180
Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché - Nostalgia is a...
48 min
181
Julia Cameron and Elizabeth Gilbert - The Path ...
Julia Cameron and Elizabeth Gilbert show us the path to a creatively fulfilling life.
54 min
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Alan Philps - Stalin's Disinformation War
How did Stalin manipulate foreign correspondents to stifle the truth about life in the Soviet Union? Alan Philps tells the story of the Metropol Hotel and its place in Stalin's disinformation war.
44 min
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Marie Kondo - Kurashi at Home (Summer Repeat)
Join global superstar of tidying-up, Marie Kondo, as she shares her wisdom on how to spark joy at home and beyond.
29 min
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Victoria Belim - The Resilience of Art in Times...
Victoria Belim is a Financial Times columnist and translator whose new memoir The Rooster House has been described as "Wild Swans for Ukraine" (Bookseller).
40 min
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Dr Pooja Lakshmin - Sustainable Strategies for ...
Forget juice cleanses. Forget crystal-infused water bottles. Leading physician Dr Pooja Lakshmin joins us with an evidence-based guide to achieving real and lasting wellbeing.
50 min
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Booker Prize winner George Saunders - Liberatio...
Revisiting one of our favourite episodes of last year, the Booker Prize winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo shares his idiosyncratic take on the human condition.
33 min
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Malcolm Harris - How Palo Alto Conquered the World
How did the suburb of Palo Alto become the epicentre of a global tech revolution, changing not just American capitalism but the world?
45 min
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Dr Amy Shah - How to Manage Hunger and Cravings
Physician Amy Shah debunks mainstream myths about hunger and provides science-based strategies to manage food cravings.
54 min
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Andy Clark - How Our Minds Predict and Shape Re...
How do our minds build our worlds? One of the most important living thinkers in cognitive science and philosophy joins us with a grand new vision to explain our lived experience.
60 min
190
Christina Wallace - How To Futureproof Your Career
Harvard professor Christina Wallace has a radical new model for work and life that upends the notion they should have ever been at odds.
63 min
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Booker 2022 winner Shehan Karunatilaka - The Se...
A major new voice in the tradition of Rushdie, Bulgakov and Marquez, Booker Prize winner Shehan Karunatilaka joins us to share an unforgettable vision of Sri Lanka’s civil wars.
59 min
192
Emma Gannon - The Meaning of Success
What if we were told that everything we've been led to believe about traditional success is a lie?
56 min
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Richard Dawkins - Live at Wilderness Festival 2022
Richard Dawkins joined us at last year's Wilderness Festival for a celebration of an extraordinary life in science.
54 min
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Viorica Marian - The Power of Language
How does language change the way we think and experience the world? Psycholinguist Viorica Marian has dedicated her life to finding the answers.
48 min
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Peter Heather - Will the West Fall Like Rome?
Is the West doomed to be the next Roman Empire? Can we learn something from its fall? Historian Peter Heather thinks we can – and must.
49 min
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Lorraine Candy - How to Have a Magnificent Midlife
Join the former Editor in Chief of Elle and Sunday Times style for a guide to navigating the messiness of midlife.
58 min
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Scott Shapiro - The Dark Art of Hacking
The Information Age is built on precarious architecture. Scott Shapiro joins us to bust the myths about hacking and reveal the truth about viruses, espionage, and cyberwar.
44 min
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James Comey - The Pursuit of Justice in a Divid...
Fired by Trump in 2017, the former FBI director turned novelist joins us to share his insights into power and justice in a dangerous and divided America.
66 min
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Gretchen Rubin - How to Get Out of Your Head an...
Join Gretchen Rubin and discover how the five senses to get us out of our heads and back into the world to find our true happiness.
56 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