LSE Behavioural Economist Paul Dolan - How to Stop Hating People We Disagree With
LSE’s Paul Dolan reveals how we can stop hating the people we disagree with, and how we can foster a more tolerant society. We like to think that we’re tolerant, but many of us struggle to engage wit...
16 Touko 20251h 5min
Nature Writer and Cambridge Professor Robert Macfarlane - Is a River Alive?
Our greatest living nature writer, Robert Macfarlane shares with Horatio Clare a single, transformative idea: are rivers alive? Robert Macfarlane is both the author of prize-winning bestsellers inclu...
13 Touko 20251h 6min
Masud Husain - A Neurologist’s Guide to the Self and the Brain
Neurologist and Oxford Professor Dr Masud Husain explores the intricacies of the brain, and how much our sense of self can change through brain disorders. From a woman who could not recognise the moti...
9 Touko 20251h 7min
Daniel Swift – Art, Commerce, and the Origin Story of William Shakespeare
The story of Elizabethan theatre is often told through the artistic genius of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Critic and scholar Daniel Swift has a different story to tell: that of the businessmen...
6 Touko 202538min
Gina Rippon - How Science Failed Autistic Women
Gina Rippon delves into the emerging science of female autism, asking why it has been systematically ignored and misunderstood for so long. Generations of researchers, convinced autism was a male prob...
2 Touko 20251h 2min
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. From his life and education in the former Yugoslavia under commun...
29 Huhti 20251h 17min
Bonnie Tsui - Rethinking Muscle and the Way We Move
Muscle: it shapes us and allows us to shape who we want to be. Author and athlete Bonnie Tsui explores the world of muscle in all its rich personal, cultural, and biological complexity. From the intri...
25 Huhti 20251h 2min
Gabriel Weston - A New Journey Through the Human Anatomy
Dissolving the boundaries that usually divide surgeon and patient, award-winning novelist and surgeon Gabriel Weston illuminates a new journey into the human anatomy. From the emotion of entering the ...
22 Huhti 20251h 6min
