William Dalrymple and Sathnam Sanghera – British Imperialism in India (Summer Repeat)
How did the Mughal empire – which then generated just under half the world’s wealth – come to be replaced by the first global corporate power – the East India Company? And how does the legacy of Briti...
13 Elo 20241h 5min
Henry Oliver - How To Find Success in Midlife
We're told repeatedly that if we’re going to achieve anything, we’d better do it while we’re young. But society is wrong. With armfuls of examples from from Olympic athletes, sitcom stars and titans o...
9 Elo 202459min
Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum - The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
For the first time in history, autocracies are working together to stay in power. Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad actor, but by sophisticated networks relying on kleptocratic financial s...
6 Elo 202459min
World Record Breaking Mountaineer Lhakpa Sherpa and Filmmaker Lucy Walker
Lhakpa Sherpa broke a record: she was the first Nepali woman to climb and descend Everest. Then she broke another: summiting for the tenth time, she had now summited the tallest peak in the world more...
31 Heinä 202425min
Neuroscientist Patrick House - How to Make Sense of Consciousness
Stanford neuroscientist Patrick House joins us with an introduction to the best of our current paradigms for making sense of consciousness. In conversation with Robin Ince, he weaves brain science, an...
29 Heinä 20241h 3min
Pioneering Biologist J Craig Venter - The Future of Life on Earth
A household name following both the mapping of the human genome and, in 2010, the creation of the first synthetic organism, J Craig Venter is a singular figure in 21st century science: a biologist who...
23 Heinä 202459min
New York Times Bestseller Paolo Bacigalupi - Money and Power in the Fantasy Renaissance
Renowned as a pioneer of climate fiction, Paolo Bacigalupi's novels The Windup Girl and The Water Knife earned him a reputation as one of the essential speculative novelists of our time, with a prophe...
19 Heinä 202453min
Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell - When the Wild Things Returned
After years of running a failing farm in West Sussex, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell decided to hand back control to nature. Slowly but surely, plants shot up, creatures crept in, and t...
16 Heinä 20241h 3min
