Philip Oltermann - The Stasi Poetry Circle
In 1982, East Germany's fearsome secret police - convinced that writers were embedding subversive messages in their work - decided to train their own writers, weaponising poetry in the struggle agains...
8 Apr 202231min
Simon Sebag Montefiore and Luke Harding - The History of the Ukraine-Russia Conflict
The concept of a shared, single heritage and culture is central to Vladimir Putin’s justification for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But what is the true story of the two nations, and how can it ill...
5 Apr 202241min
Max Porter - Why Art Should Challenge Us
Max Porter broke new ground with his highly-original debut Grief is a Thing With Feathers, and firmly established himself as a major literary talent with his second novel Lanny. The cult author joined...
1 Apr 202243min
Alan Moore and B. Catling - The Power of Imagination
Few figures make such a seismic impact on their artistic medium that they transform its reputation from childish pulp entertainment to a vital and exhilarating creative form, capable of exploring the ...
29 Mar 20221h 2min
Olia Hercules and Alissa Timoshkina - #CookForUkraine
Food writers Olia Hercules and Alissa Timoshkina have been friends since university and together they have come together to launch #CookForUkraine - a campaign which aims to raise awareness and funds ...
25 Mar 202242min
Yanis Varoufakis Meets David Wengrow - The Dawn of Everything
What if everything we thought we knew about the origins of human civilisation is a myth? In their book The Dawn of Everything, the late David Graeber and his collaborator David Wengrow tell an ambitio...
21 Mar 202259min
Paul Craddock - The Surprising History of Organ Transplants
Medical historian Dr Paul Craddock joins the How To Academy Podcast to takes us on a journey from sixteenth-century skin grafting to contemporary stem cell transplants, uncovering stories of operation...
18 Mar 202235min
Suzanne Simard - Finding the Mother Tree
Raised in the hardy forest communities of British Columbia, scientist Suzanne Simard overturned conventional beliefs in proving that trees and plants are connected underground by an immense web of fun...
15 Mar 20221h 5min
