Gordon Brown, Mohamed El-Erian, Michael Spence - Fixing the Permacrisis
Today we face not one crisis but a cascade: sputtering growth, surging inflation, poor policy responses, an escalating climate emergency, worsening inequality, increasing nationalism and a decline in ...
13 Okt 20231h 16min
David Nutt - How Psychedelics Can Change Your Life
We are on the cusp of a major revolution in psychiatric medicine and neuroscience. After fifty years of prohibition, criminalisation and fear, science is finally showing us that psychedelics are not d...
10 Okt 20231h 14min
Camilla Nord - The New Neuroscience of Mental Health
We commonly misperceive mental health as being all in the mind, and physical pain in the body; but neuroscientist Camilla Nord’s groundbreaking research presents a new view of mental health – one that...
6 Okt 20231h 3min
Michel Faber - Why Music Matters
Michel Faber is one of the most acclaimed contemporary novelists in the English language; a master of the form able to move effortlessly between historical, contemporary, and futuristic settings in pu...
3 Okt 202356min
Dr Anders Hansen - How to Be Happier and Less Distracted
"Don't worry, be happy", "focus on the important things", "smile more". We've all heard these platitudes, and we've all been annoyed by them. But how can we actually live a life filled with more happi...
30 Sep 20231h 3min
John Higgs - The KLF, the Band That Burned a Million Pounds
John Higgs has joined this podcast to talk about William Blake, James Bond, and the Beatles - and now he's back with another iconic British cultural export: the electronic band sometimes called The KL...
26 Sep 202343min
Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross - Your Brain on Art
For most of us, the arts are a great source of pleasure. But could making art actually be good for your brain and body? Susan Magsamen is the founder and director of the International Arts + Mind Lab ...
22 Sep 20231h 5min
Joyce Carol Oates - Zero Sum
The author of 58 novels, as well as plays, poetry, non-fiction and short stories, Joyce Carol Oates is famed across the literary world for writing at a speed which leaves her contemporaries trailing i...
19 Sep 202356min
