Anish Kapoor - a Life in Art
An icon whose spectacular works occupy a liminal space between sculpture, engineering and architecture, Anish Kapoor is one of the world’s most ambitious living artists. The first living artist to tak...
16 Aug 20211h 3min
Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green - The Inside Story of the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine
On New Year’s Day 2020, Sarah Gilbert, Professor of Vaccinology at Oxford University, read an article about four people in China with a strange pneumonia. Within two weeks, she and her team had design...
9 Aug 20211h 1min
Charles Yu - Interior Chinatown
Willis Wu mostly gets to play Generic Asian Man. If he is lucky, sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son. For now he is a bit player: but he dreams that o...
3 Aug 202133min
Mike Rothschild - The Rise of QAnon
In 2017, President Trump made a cryptic remark at a gathering of military officials, describing it as ‘the calm before the storm’-then refused to explain himself to puzzled journalists. But on interne...
26 Jul 202137min
Lisa Taddeo and Hadley Freeman - Madness, Transgression, and Power
Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women was a world-wide sensation – forever changing how we think about women and desire. A bestseller in the US and the UK, “Book of the Year” for more than thirty of the most resp...
19 Jul 202156min
Daniel Kahneman - Why We Make Bad Judgments
The quality of professional judgments have a huge and lasting impact on all of our lives: the decision of an A&E doctor treating a patient, a teacher grading a paper, or a high court judge delivering ...
12 Jul 20211h 3min
John Higgs - William Blake vs the World
Join us for a wild journey through culture, science, philosophy and religion to better understand the mercurial genius William Blake. Taking us on wild detours into unfamiliar territory, John Higgs pl...
5 Jul 202139min
Katrine Marcal and Caroline Criado Perez - Mother of Invention
Every day, extraordinary inventions and innovative ideas are side-lined in a world that remains subservient to men. But it doesn’t have to be this way. From the beginning of time, women have been pivo...
28 Jun 202154min
