Philippa Gregory - Jane Boleyn Reimagined
Philippa Gregory takes us behind the myths to reveal how Jane Boleyn became a scapegoat of Henry VIII’s tyranny and the historians who defended it. Drawing on the silences of the record and the resili...
16 Okt 202532min
Ray Nayler - Why Dystopian Fiction Matters
Returning to the podcast following episodes around his prize-winning debut The Mountain Under the Sea and his acclaimed novella The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler joins us to explore the rise in auth...
14 Okt 202547min
Dr Kerry Burnight – A Short Guide to Enjoying a Long Life
Dr Kerry Burnight reveals a transformative new approach to aging—one that goes beyond lifespan and healthspan to embrace joyspan: the ability to experience joy from within. Dr Burnight reveals how joy...
10 Okt 20251h 5min
Yuval Noah Harari - Making Sense of a World in Crisis
From our new technological era ushered in by AI, to the fall of democracies across the globe, the world today appears fraught with uncertainty, poised between repeating errors from the past and enteri...
7 Okt 20251h 15min
Adam Aleksic - How the Internet is Transforming the Future of Language
How has loopholes around social media's censored word, 'kill', found its way into students' essays on Hamlet? What is the history of 'skibidi' and 'delulu' and how are these concepts shaping the way w...
3 Okt 202526min
Robert Macfarlane Meets Elif Shafak – Rivers of Life
From the Thames to the Tigris, the Ure to the Euphrates, rivers have flowed through the history of humanity, shaping our civilisations and sustaining our species. Robert Macfarlane and Elif Shafak ill...
30 Sep 20251h 18min
Corinne Low - What Data Can Tell Us About Women's Lives
Drawing on the economist’s toolkit, she reframes “happiness” as utility, shows how to maximize it under constraints, and treats fertility as “reproductive capital” to be timed and invested thoughtfull...
26 Sep 20251h 2min
Mark Kermode – The Stories of Movie Music
Drawing on everything from Dougal and the Blue Cat to Angel Heart, from Walter Murch’s “pickle jar” of sound to Tarantino-style needle drops, Kermode turns listening into a way of seeing: treat scores...
23 Sep 20251h 6min
