Gary Lightbody - On Grief, Love, and the Power of Music
How do we comprehend the depths of love in hindsight, and the immensity of grief? How can we say 'I love you' to a listener who is no longer alive? And how do we find forgiveness and learn to forgive ...
28 Mar 202558min
Kenneth Roth - Fighting for Humanity: Three Decades of Leading Human Rights Watch
As the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch for three decades, Kenneth Roth has dedicated his life to investigating and uncovering abuses across the globe – and pressuring offending governments to...
25 Mar 20251h 16min
Assyriologist Selena Wisnom - Mesopotamia and the Making of History
Mesopotamian civilisation filled more than half of human history: a culture with advanced mathematics and astronomy, a religion that influenced both ancient Greece and the Bible, and a literature that...
21 Mar 202530min
Agnes Callard - Socratic Wisdom for Our Modern Times
Across the headlines, we appear to be falling into a post-truth world. But the questions that most resonate with humanity—on life, death, love, and leadership—remain as pertinent as they were in the a...
18 Mar 20251h 7min
Psychologist to the Lionesses Kate Hays - How to Win
Whether its the football pitch of the FIFA Women’s World Cup or the diving board of the Olympics, Dr Kate Hays is a woman who knows how to win. Now she joins us to reveal the techniques that create wi...
14 Mar 20251h 5min
Courtney Love and Todd Almond - The Legend of Bob Dylan
After Kurt Cobain, Bob Dylan is Courtney Love’s all-time rock’n’roll hero. Todd Almond performed Dylan’s songbook on Broadway. They join us for a deeply personal celebration of the legendary songwrite...
11 Mar 20251h 4min
Sumit Paul-Choudhury - Why You Should Be an Optimist
Optimism, irrational though it might be, is central to the human psyche: it gives us an advantage both in everyday life and in the evolutionary race. Sumit Paul-Choudhury joins us to share his theory ...
7 Mar 20251h 2min
George Osborne Meets Tom Holland - The Lives of the Caesars
Tom Holland is a storyteller whose range and erudition seem to be as unbounded as history itself. Now he brings us closer than ever to the lives of the first twelve Roman emperors. The ancient Roman e...
4 Mar 20251h 18min
