The Women Who Shaped the Ancient World, with Daisy Dunn
The award-winning classicist and cultural critic Daisy Dunn is the author of seven books including her latest, The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World through the Women Who Shaped It. T...
3 Aug 202442min
Is Telling a Life Story as Easy as ABC? with Sheila Heti
Sheila Heti is a writer from Toronto who has published 11 books since the early 2000s. Those include Motherhood, Pure Colour, and How Should A Person Be? That latter title was a breakout work mixing m...
1 Aug 202434min
A Story of Fine Art, Friendship and Fraud, with Orlando Whitfield
Orlando Whitfield started his career as a dealer in the feverish global art market but left it disillusioned and burnt-out a decade later. Today he works as a writer and his recent book is All That Gl...
28 Jul 202430min
Former FBI Director James Comey on Trump, his new Crime Thriller and The Politics of Justice
James Comey is the former FBI Director turned crime novelist who has spent a career fighting organised crime and hostile threats to American democracy. In 2016 as head of the FBI, he reopened a previo...
28 Jul 20241h 17min
Generation One: The Climate Podcast | Brought to you by UCL
This is an episode of Generation One: The Climate Podcast, brought to you by UCL. Generation One is a collective of people committed to a new era of positive climate action. By turning science and i...
25 Jul 202432min
The Story of Wartime Kyiv, with Illia Ponomarenko
Ukrainian journalist Illia Ponomarenko is a co-founder of The Kyiv Independent and former defence and security reporter for the Kyiv Post. He's been one of the most important voices reporting from the...
23 Jul 20241h 1min
Gut Feelings: A History of Our Most Mysterious Organ, with Elsa Richardson
Cultural historian Elsa Richardson discusses her book, Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut. It looks at our relationship over the centuries with a very intimate part of the body but one for which ma...
22 Jul 202443min
How Inequality in Healthcare Makes Society Sick, with Layal Liverpool and Chris van Tulleken, Part Two
The is the second instalment of a two-part discussion. We’re living longer than ever before but we are also spending more years in poor health and some communities become more sick than others. In Jun...
20 Jul 202444min
