Jon Ronson and Brian Klaas - On Psychopaths and Power
In this episode of the How To Academy Podcast, author and documentarian Jon Ronson and political scientist Brian Klaas investigate the relationship between power, psychopathy, and corruption. Drawing ...
8 Mar 20221h 3min
Salena Godden Meets Yrsa Daley-Ward - How to Know Yourself
Yrsa Daley-Ward’s work explores all parts of the human condition, but especially those we don’t tend to speak of: mental health, sexuality, love, grief and addiction. Her words have resonated with hun...
28 Feb 202254min
Jameela Jamil and Michael Schur - How to be Perfect
How can we live a more ethical life? This question has plagued people for thousands of years, but it's never been tougher to answer than it is now, thanks to challenges great and small that flood our ...
21 Feb 20221h 3min
Adam Rutherford - The Troubling History of Eugenics
In the Victorian era, in the shadow of Darwin's ideas about evolution, a new full-blooded attempt to impose control over our unruly biology began to grow in the clubs, salons and offices of the powerf...
14 Feb 202248min
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...
8 Feb 20221h 3min
Fi Glover and Jane Garvey - Did I Say That Out Loud?
Fi Glover and Jane Garvey are radio legends. Already major BBC stars in their own right, their podcast together, Fortunately… with Fi and Jane has grown from a cult following to become one of the nati...
1 Feb 20221h 8min
John Preston - The Rise and Fall of Robert Maxwell
In February 1991, Robert Maxwell made a triumphant entrance into Manhattan harbour aboard his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, to complete his purchase of the ailing New York Daily News. Crowds lined the qu...
25 Jan 202254min
Claire Fuller - Unsettled Ground
Described by The Times as a modern Daphne de Maurier, Claire Fuller’s writing is beautifully dark and vividly atmospheric. Her fourth novel, Unsettled Ground, follows the lives of two adult twins whos...
18 Jan 202236min
