Isabel Allende – The Soul of a Woman
Isabel Allende has been a feminist her whole life. From a young age she rebelled against male authority, after seeing her mother Panchita abandoned by her husband and left to provide for three small c...
12 Apr 202156min
Ian McEwan – A Life In Literature
The country’s most prolific and celebrated novelist reflects upon a life in literature. Since his rise to literary acclaim almost forty years ago for the dazzlingly grotesque short stories that earned...
29 Mar 20211h 10min
Rowan Hooper – How to Spend a Trillion Dollars
If you had a trillion dollars and a year to spend it for the good of the world and the advancement of science, what would you do? It's an unimaginably large sum, yet it's only around one per cent of w...
22 Mar 202133min
Derren Brown – How To Be a Little Happier
Since he introduced us to his singular and inimitable brand of psychology, stagecraft and magic in 2000, Derren Brown has played Russian Roulette on live television, convinced middle-managers to commi...
15 Mar 20211h 7min
Adam Grant and Tim Harford – The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
Research shows that the smarter you are the more you might struggle to update your beliefs, yet some of the most successful people, from entrepreneurs to politicians, all have one thing in common: the...
8 Mar 20211h 5min
Ethan Kross – How to Harness the Voice Inside Your Head
We all have a voice in our head that we tune into from time to time for guidance, ideas and wisdom. Except sometimes, this voice leads us down a rabbit hole of negative self-talk and endless ruminatio...
1 Mar 20211h 3min
George the Poet Meets Mariana Mazzucato – a Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. It had no answer to the different challenges facing the world – from those related to health to digital privacy to the climate crisis. ...
22 Feb 202158min
Toby Ord – Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
We live during the most important era of human history. In the twentieth century, we developed the means to destroy ourselves – without developing the moral framework to ensure we won't. This is the P...
15 Feb 202148min
