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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Felix Flicker - The Magic of Matter
Forget string theory. Forget black holes. The most magical and wondrous ideas in the universe are right before your eyes.
34 min
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Jools Holland and Mark Cooper – Celebrating Thi...
Jools Holland, Mark Cooper and a grand piano come together in a delightful ensemble of songs and stories to celebrate the greatest music show ever made.
69 min
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Sathnam Sanghera – Marriage Material
Join acclaimed writer Sathnam Sanghera for a moving conversation on love, politics, family and the immigrant experience.
50 min
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Chelsea Manning – Information is Power
Join one of the world's most famous transparency advocates and trans women for her life story.
74 min
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Meik Wiking – Hygge, Home, and Happiness
Join the internationally bestselling author of The Little Book of Hygge and The Art of Making Memories, Meik Wiking as he shares fresh insights into making our homes into a sanctuary.
64 min
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Marie Kondo – Kurashi At Home
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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Lost Realms – An Epic New History of Britain fr...
Join bestselling author and historian Thomas Williams for the true history of Britain’s forgotten kingdoms.
56 min
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The Pursuit of Growth is a Disaster for Our Cou...
Join Ida Kubiszewski & Danny Dorling, Robert Colvile & Sam Alvis in a gripping debate over the pursuit of growth.
71 min
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Harry Sidebottom - The Mad Emperor Heliogabalus
Join bestselling Oxford historian Harry Sidebottom for the story of Heliogabalus, a teenage Roman emperor whose wild reign makes Joffrey Baratheon seem meek and mild.
33 min
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Siddhartha Mukherjee - The Song of the Cell
Pulitzer Prize winning physician Siddhartha Mukherjee and geneticist Adam Rutherford tell the extraordinary story of cells.
65 min
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Danielle Keats Citron - How to Protect Dignity ...
The privacy we once took for granted has disappeared. Danielle Keats Citron is here to fight back.
33 min
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Live Debate: "Now is the Time to Make Peace in ...
Jeremy Corbyn and Elon Musk might seem strange bedfellows, but both advocate for a negotiated peace to the war in Ukraine. Are they right? Or must Putin’s invasion be repelled at any cost?
81 min
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Joyce Tyldesley - The Life, Death, and Afterlif...
One hundred years after the discovery of his tomb, Joyce Tyldesley tells the story of Egypt's most famous pharaoh.
34 min
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Yuval Noah Harari Meets Katherine Rundell - Uns...
In a special podcast for children, 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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George Saunders - Liberation Day
The Booker Prize winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo returns to the podcast to share his idiosyncratic take on the human condition.
33 min
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Geena Davis - Dying of Politeness
The two time Oscar winning actor and activist joins us to share stories from her incredible life in Hollywood and beyond.
55 min
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Kate Summerscale - The History of Phobias and M...
Are you frightened of spiders, clowns, or buttons? Award-winning author Kate Summerscale dives into the strange history of our fears and obsessions.
26 min
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Kate Mosse - Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutio...
The bestselling author of LABRYINTH and founder of the Women’s Prize joins us for a celebration of incredible women from history.
57 min
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Amy Jeffs - Tales of the Medieval Wilderness
The acclaimed artist and author joins us to share forgotten stories from the medieval imagination.
25 min
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Irvine Welsh - Confessions of a Novelist
The legendary author of TRAINSPOTTING joins us for a one-way trip into his febrile, sordid, singular imagination.
55 min
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Stephen Fry Meets Steven Pinker - Enlightenment...
Steven Pinker makes the case for an Enlightenment newly recharged for the 21st century, urging us to use our faculties of reason and sympathy to solve problems.
75 min
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Clover Stroud - The Red of My Blood
Journalist and acclaimed author Clover Stroud joins us with the raw and powerful story of surviving the loss of her sister.
54 min
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Dr Gabor Maté - Why We Get Sick
24 min
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John Higgs - Bond, the Beatles, and the British...
James Bond and the Beatles are cultural twins. But they present opposing values, visions of Britain, and ideas about masculinity that still affect the national psyche in 2022.
36 min
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Dr Ellen Vora - The Anatomy of Anxiety
Anxiety. It's all in your head, right? Wrong. Functional medicine psychiatrist Dr Ellen Vora joins David Malone for a ground-breaking approach to understanding and managing anxiety.
58 min