Joyce Carol Oates - Zero Sum
The author of 58 novels, as well as plays, poetry, non-fiction and short stories, Joyce Carol Oates is famed across the literary world for writing at a speed which leaves her contemporaries trailing i...
19 Syys 202356min
Jesse Coomer - The Power of Breathwork
Jesse Coomer was an English professor suffering from what he called "The Modern Human Condition" - in other words, he was a mess of stress and anxiety. He learned to combat that with breath training a...
15 Syys 20231h
Kristen Ghodsee and Angela Saini - Radical Experiments in the Good Life
What can we learn from historical attempts to live together and raise children differently? Kristen Ghodsee is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Everyday Utopia, a new gu...
12 Syys 20231h 4min
Dr James Kinross - The New Science of the Microbiome
James Kinross is a consultant surgeon at Imperial College and one of the world's leading experts on the science of the microbiome — the complex ecosystem of bacteria, viruses and other microbes inside...
8 Syys 202357min
Emma Southon - Women of the Roman Empire
Emma Southon is a podcaster and ancient historian. Her new book A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women does exactly what it says on the tin: sidestepping the sidesteps of the long list of battles, ...
5 Syys 202349min
Rahul Jandial - How to Rewire Your Brain (Summer Repeat)
For years Dr Rahul Jandial, a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist, has transformed the lives of his neurosurgery patients by putting them through ‘brain rehab’, his specially developed boot camp for resto...
1 Syys 202341min
David Christian - A User's Guide to the Future (Bonus Episode)
When you get behind the wheel of a car, throw or catch a ball, change jobs, or move to a new country, you are making a series of predictions about what will happen next in your life and in the world. ...
29 Elo 202324min
Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché - Nostalgia is a Weapon
The writer Helen Macdonald is best known for the award winning memoir H is For Hawk and other distinguished works exploring our relationship to the natural world; their new novel Prophet is something ...
25 Elo 202352min
