Tim Marshall: How Geography Explains Our World, Part One
Tim Marshall is one of the world’s most successful authors on foreign affairs. He’s the writer who put the ‘geo’ into geopolitics with his multi-million selling books Prisoners of Geography and The Po...
3 Maalis 202443min
Sotheby's Talks: Impressionism and its Legacy
In this episode, Helen Newman, Chairman of Sotheby’s Europe is joined by Paul Signac’s great granddaughter Charlotte Hellman, artist Erik Madigan Heck, and the National Gallery’s Christopher Riopelle ...
1 Maalis 202433min
Archive: The Joy of Science, with Jim Al-Khalili
In this archive listen from 2022, Professor Jim Al-Khalili is the physicist who makes science look easy. He’s the author of several books including The Joy of Science, which offers eight core scientif...
28 Helmi 202441min
Stuck in the Middle? Sociologist Corey Keyes on the Condition of Languishing
Corey Keyes is a sociologist and a professor at Emory University in Georgia who studies positive wellbeing: how humans thrive and flourish. He coined the term “languishing” to describe the opposite of...
26 Helmi 202453min
Head of TED Chris Anderson and Jon Ronson on Translating Optimism Into Action, Part Two
In Part Two of our double episode discussion, we're once again joined by head of TED, Chris Anderson. He has had a ringside view of the world’s most influential thinkers in action – TED’s annual confe...
25 Helmi 202452min
Head of TED Chris Anderson and Jon Ronson on Translating Optimism Into Action, Part One
As head of TED, Chris Anderson has had a ringside view of the world’s most influential thinkers in action. TED’s annual conference in Vancouver sees thousands of delegates flock from across the world ...
23 Helmi 202442min
Archive: Killer in the Kremlin, with John Sweeney
The recent death of Russian anti-corruption activist, opposition leader and political prisoner Alexei Navalny while serving a decades-long sentence in a remote Arctic penal colony shocked the world la...
21 Helmi 202431min
Six Centuries of Feminist Writing, with Hannah Dawson and Merve Emre
How has feminist thought evolved throughout the ages? Beginning in the fifteenth century with Christine de Pizan, who imagined a City of Ladies that would serve as a refuge from the harassment of men,...
19 Helmi 202458min
