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
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
