The Power of Influence, with Justin Hempson-Jones
Influence can be as gentle as a bit of friendly advice or as seismic as a strategy to win an election. As a behavioural scientist who has worked with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Min...
21 Aug 202434min
Is the Planet Running Out of People? with Paul Morland
The author and broadcaster Paul Morland is one of the UK’s leading thinkers on demographics – the study of population and its characteristics. Morland has been an associate research fellow at Birkbeck...
19 Aug 202442min
On the Map: Why Mathematics Can Be Seen Everywhere We Go, with Paulina Rowinska
Paulina Rowinska is a writer, mathematician and science communicator, whose new book, Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers, tells the stories found within crunching tricky equations. R...
18 Aug 202436min
Why Trust in Politicians is So Low, with Simon Kuper
The writer Simon Kuper returns to the podcast to discuss the follow-up to his book Chums, which highlighted the narrow and highly privileged pathway that often funnels attendees of some the UK's top e...
16 Aug 202440min
Cults, Communes and Female Rage on the Page, with Amy Twigg
Debut novelist Amy Twigg's book, Spoilt Creatures, tells a story set on a women's commune where things take a dark turn. The novel has earned Twigg praise as one of the Observer newspaper's top 10 bes...
13 Aug 202435min
The Poetry of Modern Storytelling, with Olivia Gatwood
A poet, performer, novelist and screenwriter, Olivia Gatwood has received international recognition for her writing, which has focused on topics including coming of age, feminism, gendered violence an...
12 Aug 202438min
Jess Phillips on the Challenges of a New Era for British Politics
Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley since 2015, Jess Phillips has never shied away from controversy nor has she been afraid to veer away from Labour Party lines to uphold her political principles. For th...
10 Aug 20241h 24min
What Keeps Tyrants in Power? with Marcel Dirsus
Marcel Dirsus is a political scientist and the author of How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive. As Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University, Dirsus mainly works ...
9 Aug 202433min
