Historian and Novelist Ada Palmer - Was the Renaissance Really a Golden Age?
We remember the Renaissance as an age of human flourishing: a rebirth after centuries of misery, a return to the glories of antiquity where the culture of Greece and Rome was not only imitated but sur...
22 Feb 202558min
Sunita Sah - The Power of No in a World that Demands Yes
How can we say 'no' when it matters most? Cornell University's Dr Sunita Sah joins us to share the radical need for each of us to rediscover our core values, and shares how we can navigate a fraught w...
18 Feb 20251h 4min
Anna Sulan Masing - Chinese and Any Other Asian
'Chinese and Any Other Asian.' On official documents, a vast range of identities in the East and South East Asian (ESEA) population in the UK is reduced to a single vague checkbox, an act of Othering ...
14 Feb 202553min
Neal Stephenson – Dawn of the Atomic Age
History and geopolitical intrigue meet fiction under the masterful skill of #1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson. He joins us with a new tale: Polostan, a vividly imagined historical e...
12 Feb 202559min
Activist, Actor and Baroness Lola Young - Defying The Odds
Lola Young has been an actress, an academic, an activist and campaigner, well known for her work on modern slavery and climate justice. But from the age of eight weeks to eighteen years, she was moved...
7 Feb 20251h 3min
Frankie Boyle Meets George Monbiot - The Fight Against Neoliberalism
Why are are the rich getting richer? Why is prosperity moving further and further out of reach for most people? An iconoclast unafraid to speak truth to power, George Monbiot joins comedian Frankie Bo...
4 Feb 20251h 37min
Neuroscientist Adam Zeman - The New Science of Imagination
We live in the here and now much less than we tend to think. Imagination isn’t the exception in our daily lives; it’s our default setting. Far from being a faculty used only in creative endeavours, th...
31 Jan 20251h 2min
Novelist and Activist Cory Doctorow - Fear and Loathing in Silicon Valley
Whether anticipating the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in his short story Radicalised, helping the world to wake up to the grift of the social media giants through his concept o...
28 Jan 20251h
