Novelist and Diplomat Ray Nayler - The Tusks of Extinction
Ray Nayler's novel The Mountain in the Sea announced him a major new voice in speculative fiction, able to seamlessly fuse the novel of ideas and the novel of adventure. In his new novella The Tusks o...
20 Feb 202447min
Dr Gemma Newman - The Six Healing Health Habits You Need to Know
Family doctor Dr Gemma Newman has come to understand that body, mind and soul are not separate, and that only through a ‘whole body’ treatment plan can we truly heal. From gratitude to love, from mind...
16 Feb 20241h
Amitav Ghosh - How the Opium Trade Shaped Capitalism
One small plant has played an outsized role in shaping the world we live in today. Engineered by the British Empire with profound consequences for India, China, and the world at large, the opium trade...
13 Feb 202436min
Musician James Blunt - Not Safe For Work
The pop star James Blunt has written a memoir about his life as one of the biggest acts of the noughties: a memoir that is filthy, funny, and quite possibly a fantasy. It's called Loosely Based on a M...
9 Feb 20241h 15min
Comedian Ruby Wax - On Mental Health
Ruby Wax joins us to share an honest and stirring portrait of the depths of her psyche. Recounting her mental health journey including through a monastery, a mental institution, and therapy, she share...
6 Feb 202456min
Physicist Carlo Rovelli Meets Theatre-Maker Simon McBurney
Carlo Rovelli is no ordinary scientist. With a genius for revealing the mysteries the universe to those of us without his gifts, he is the heir to Hawking, Sagan, and Feynman; and alone among the lead...
2 Feb 20241h 15min
Psychotherapist Adam Phillips - What We Must Give Up to Feel More Alive
Both a renowned psychotherapist and the 'best living essayist writing in English' (John Gray), Adam Phillips joins us to reflect upon what we must give up in order to feel more alive. To give up or no...
30 Jan 202430min
Stanford Psychiatrist and Addiction Expert Anna Lembke - The New Neuroscience of Pleasure, Pain, and Balance
We're living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting.....
26 Jan 20241h 13min
