Debate: Save Our Private Schools – VAT Should Not Be Charged On Private School Fees, Part Two
This is the second instalment of our live debate with an expert panel deciding whether the UK's private schools should continue to enjoy their tax advantages. The UK has an education system that perpe...
10 Mar 202441min
Debate: Save Our Private Schools – VAT Should Not Be Charged On Private School Fees, Part One
In this live debate, our expert panel decides whether the UK's private schools should continue to enjoy their tax advantages. The UK has an education system that perpetuates inequality. Seven per cent...
8 Mar 202455min
Fluke: How Chance and Chaos Shapes Our Existence, with Brian Klaas
In a world of chaos and disaster where many of us already feel powerless, it can be humbling to consider the idea of chance and fate having a big hand in all of our destinies, all of the time. But is ...
6 Mar 202436min
Tim Marshall: How Geography Explains Our World, Part Two
This is the second instalment of our two-part discussion. 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 mul...
4 Mar 202445min
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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Feb 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 Feb 202453min
