Nina Allan - The Many Worlds of JG Ballard
Born into an upper-middle class family and raised in colonial Shanghai, JG Ballard's worldview was profoundly shaped by his internment by the occupying Japanese army in the Second World War — an exper...
1 Maj 50min
Antony Beevor – Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs
When Russia's Dowager Empress was pregnant with the future Tsar, she dreamed that a peasant would one day kill her son. The idea terrified her, and for the rest of her days she 'lived under the pressu...
28 Apr 1h 4min
Ecologist Suzanne Simard - Lessons of the Forest
Dr Suzanne Simard transformed our understanding of forests, her groundbreaking research for the Mother Tree Project revealing how the forest is a living symphony of finely honed cycles of birth, growt...
24 Apr 1h 22min
James Muldoon - Love Rewired in the Age of AI
From friendship, to romance, to even therapy, AI companions are on the rise, and AI companion apps alone have now been downloaded more than 220 million times worldwide. Oxford Internet Institute resea...
21 Apr 1h 5min
Zakia Sewell Meets Jeremy Deller - The Quest for a Hidden Britain
Writer and broadcaster Zakia Sewell is on a mission to uncover an alternative spirit of Britain – found in otherworldly folk songs, ancient legends, Celtic seasonal rites and mystic stone circles that...
7 Apr 51min
Peter Jones - The Secret History of the Seven Deadly Sins
In 2026 the Seven Deadly Sins have become a bit of harmless fun, more associated with ice creams and videogame villains than the immortal soul. But in the medieval world, the Sins were a guide to the ...
2 Apr 54min
Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin — How to Harness the Power of Music
Daniel Levitin returns to How To Academy to explore how music can transform our health and wellbeing—repairing our bodies, calming our minds, and healing our deepest psychological wounds. By uncoverin...
31 Mars 1h 6min
