Scott Shapiro - The Dark Art of Hacking
Scott Shapiro is a professor at Yale who teaches the philosophy of law. He is also a hacker, and the author of a new history of hacking, cybersecurity and cyberwar called Fancy Bear Goes Phishing. In ...
27 Jun 202348min
James Comey - The Pursuit of Justice in a Divided America
Since he was fired by Trump for refusing to bend the knee, the former FBI director James Comey has become one of the most insightful and authoritative defenders of American democracy and the instituti...
23 Jun 20231h 10min
Gretchen Rubin - How to Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life
Our guest on this episode, Gretchen Rubin, writes bestselling books about the routes we can take to find happiness and fulfilment; in the process she's become part of the zeitgeist, even appearing as ...
20 Jun 20231h 1min
William Dalrymple and Sathnam Sanghera - British Imperialism in India
How did the Mughal empire – which then generated just under half the world’s wealth – come to be replaced by the first global corporate power - the East India Company? And how does the legacy of Briti...
16 Jun 20231h 5min
Richard Ford - A Life in Literature
Our guest on this episode Richard Ford is one of the masters of American literary fiction. Frequently compared to Updike, Faulkner and Hemingway; he's the author of The Sportswriter, Let Me Be Frank W...
13 Jun 202347min
Andre Solo - How To Thrive as a Sensitive Person
Have you ever been told you're too sensitive? What if we told you that being sensitive wasn't a weakness, but a superpower? Our guest on this episode Andre Sólo is a researcher, and editor-in-chief of...
9 Jun 20231h 4min
Susie Alegre - Protecting Freedom of Thought in the Digital Age
Susie Alegre is a leading human rights barrister and a pioneer of digital human rights in the age of AI and big tech. In her book Freedom to Think, she explores the basis upon which we have a right to...
6 Jun 202329min
Sarah Knight - How to be an Adult and Get Treated Like One
Sarah Knight made her name as the author of the sensational anti-self help book The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**K and has sold more than 3 million copies of that book and others in the seri...
1 Jun 20231h
