A Fresh Perspective on Life on the Blue Planet, with Ferris Jabr
The development of life on Earth is often framed through the evolution of separate and distinct life forms but less common is the idea of the Earth itself as being one whole living organism. Writer Fe...
28 Aug 202445min
Why the Horror Genre is Such a Scream, with Anna Bogutskaya
We welcome back Anna Bogutskaya to the podcast for this episode to discuss her book, Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us. As the title suggests, it’s a publication celebrating the goriest...
25 Aug 202443min
The Untold Stories of Women in World War One, with Rick Stroud
The bestselling war historian Rick Stroud joins the podcast to discuss some of the lesser told narratives of World War One, drawing from his recent book, I Am Not Afraid of Looking into the Rifles. Th...
24 Aug 202440min
An Open Conversation About Marriage, with Molly Roden Winter
For this episode the writer, musician and author Molly Roden Winter discusses her bestselling book, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage. The book tells the story of Roden Winter's own journey navigating t...
23 Aug 202439min
The Power of Influence, with Justin Hempson-Jones
Influence can be as gentle as a bit of friendly advice or as seismic as a strategy to win an election. As a behavioural scientist who has worked with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Min...
21 Aug 202434min
Is the Planet Running Out of People? with Paul Morland
The author and broadcaster Paul Morland is one of the UK’s leading thinkers on demographics – the study of population and its characteristics. Morland has been an associate research fellow at Birkbeck...
19 Aug 202442min
On the Map: Why Mathematics Can Be Seen Everywhere We Go, with Paulina Rowinska
Paulina Rowinska is a writer, mathematician and science communicator, whose new book, Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers, tells the stories found within crunching tricky equations. R...
18 Aug 202436min
Why Trust in Politicians is So Low, with Simon Kuper
The writer Simon Kuper returns to the podcast to discuss the follow-up to his book Chums, which highlighted the narrow and highly privileged pathway that often funnels attendees of some the UK's top e...
16 Aug 202440min
