Novelist Elodie Harper – Boudicca's Daughter
Boudicca had two daughters, but history records their existence and nothing more. Sunday Times bestselling author Elodie Harper joins us to discuss her latest novel, Boudicca's Daughters, which reimag...
9 Kesä 37min
Caroline Sylge – How To Retreat
Caroline Sylge reminds us to press pause on the daily overwhelm of modern life by bringing the magic and solace of retreating into your every day. What comes into your mind when you hear the word 're...
5 Kesä 1h 2min
Novelist Erica Wagner - Washington Roebling and the Art of Life Writing
Erica Wagner may be the first ever author to write both a landmark biography and a historial novel about the same person. The engineer Washington Roebling took up residence in her head when she was si...
2 Kesä 30min
Neurologist Majid Fotuhi – How To Age-Proof Your Brain
Neurologist Majid Fotuhi is leading the charge in revolutionising how we understand human intelligence, brain health and age-related cognitive decline. By uncovering the true wonder of how the brain w...
29 Touko 1h 8min
Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris - On Birds, Wonder, and Loss
A great thinning of the skies is underway. Dusk and dawn are growing quiet as birdlife faces a rapid decline across the world. It does not have to be this way — but we will not save what we do not lov...
26 Touko 1h 18min
Phil Tinline - Iron Mountain and the Birth of American Conspiracy Culture
How did a 1960s spoof of Cold War technocracy become a bible for far-right militias in the present? Political journalist Phil Tinline traces the strange journey of the Report from Iron Mountain. In t...
15 Touko 40min
Tom Holland Meets Armando Iannucci — What The Lives of the Caesars Can Teach Us About Politics
Tom Holland is a storyteller whose range and erudition seem to be as unbounded as history himself. Already a wildly acclaimed bestselling author, his chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, the thi...
15 Touko 1h 21min
