Stephen Fry Meets Steven Pinker - The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
In anticipation of Steven Pinker's return to How To Academy later this month, this episode of the podcast revisits his conversation with Stephen Fry on stage in London in 2018. The challenges we face ...
12 Okt 20211h 19min
James Nestor - the Art and Science of Breathing
In this week's podcast, science writer and Sunday Times bestselling author James Nestor joins us with a guide that will forever change the way you think about health and wellbeing. We breathe 25,000 t...
4 Okt 202159min
Bonus Episode: With Reason - Learning from our Ancestors, with Alice Roberts
In this special bonus episode by our friends at New Humanist magazine and the Rationalist Association, Professor Alice Roberts takes us through important archaeological discoveries to help us better u...
25 Sep 202149min
Fiona Shaw - A Life on Stage and Screen
From My Left Foot to Harry Potter, Fleabag to Killing Eve, Fiona Shaw is an integral presence in the Irish and British screen drama of the last three decades; and in collaboration with the foremost di...
21 Sep 20211h 2min
Rutger Bregman and Philippe Sands - Are Humans Naturally Good?
Philippe Sands meets Rutger Bregman, one of the greatest young thinkers of our time, to hear a new story of human nature that places our capacity for kindness, not selfishness, at its heart. It’s a be...
14 Sep 20211h 4min
Dennis Duncan - Index, a history of the
In this week's podcast, literary scholar Dennis Duncan takes us into the secret world of the index and reveals how it transformed the way we read and process knowledge forever. Charting its curious pa...
6 Sep 202140min
Mary Portas - How to Thrive in the New Kindness Economy
Mary Portas loves business. Fundamentally, she lives and breathes it. What she loves best about it is making businesses work. But in this week's podcast, she argues that we’ve been doing it wrong. In ...
30 Aug 202158min
Gordon Brown – How to Change the World
It is time for a new era of global order. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown joins us with authoritative solutions to the greatest challenges of our age. Gordon Brown knows more than most politicians ...
24 Aug 20211h 3min
