Jonathan Haidt on How to Free the Anxious Generation (Part One)
“This great rewiring of childhood, I argue, is the single largest reason for the tidal wave of adolescent mental illness that began in the early 2010s.” — Jonathan Haidt The mental health of young pe...
30 Apr 202540min
A Cultural History of Privacy, with Tiffany Jenkins
What does it mean to have a private life? Our guest today is Tiffany Jenkins, a writer, cultural historian and broadcaster. She is the author of the acclaimed Keeping Their Marbles: How Treasures of ...
28 Apr 202555min
Britain Should Not Have Fought in the First World War
For this week's Sunday Debate, we're dipping back into the archive to 2014, when we gathered a panel of expert historians to debate whether Britain was right to fight in the First World War, a tragedy...
27 Apr 20251h 33min
The Tree of Life: Mapping Evolution’s Greatest Story, with Max Telford
Understanding how the diversity of life on earth came to be is one of the greatest puzzles in biology. In his new book, The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle, Professor Max Telford chart...
24 Apr 202535min
Ritual, Ancestry, and Cultural History in Modern China, with Alice Mah
What do we owe to the dead? What responsibilities do we inherit from the past, and how do they intersect with the crises of the present? In an era of ecological collapse and cultural dislocation, how ...
23 Apr 202539min
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, with Laura Spinney
What if a single ancient language lay at the root of nearly half of the world’s spoken tongues? In today’s episode, acclaimed science writer and journalist Laura Spinney joins us to discuss her new b...
21 Apr 202542min
Classic Debate: Austen vs Brontë
Jane Austen created the definitive picture of Georgian England. No writer matches Austen’s sensitive ear for the hypocrisy and irony lurking beneath the genteel conversation. That’s the argument of th...
20 Apr 20251h 35min
An Evening with Elif Shafak and Peter Frankopan
Elif Shafak’s award-winning novels are celebrated globally. Her work has been translated into 58 languages, and her latest, There Are Rivers in the Sky, is a testament to the power of storytelling acr...
18 Apr 202552min
