Richard Powers - Why Stories Matter
Few works of literature have the power to change who we are and how we conceive our place in the universe – but Richard Powers Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning masterpiece The Overstory ...
2 Nov 20211h 10min
Bernard-Henri Lévy - Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope
Bernard-Henri Levy is one of the world’s most esteemed philosophers and public intellectuals; but his understanding of philosophy is anything but theoretical. A humanitarian activist of deep convictio...
26 Okt 20211h 1min
Kate Bowler - The Meaning of Life
Kate Bowler had always accepted the modern idea that life is an endless horizon of possibilities. As many of us do, she saw life as a series of choices that, if made correctly, would lead us to a plac...
19 Okt 202155min
Stephen Fry Meets Steven Pinker - The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
In anticipation of Steven Pinker's return to How To Academy later this month, this episode of the podcast revisits his conversation with Stephen Fry on stage in London in 2018. The challenges we face ...
12 Okt 20211h 19min
James Nestor - the Art and Science of Breathing
In this week's podcast, science writer and Sunday Times bestselling author James Nestor joins us with a guide that will forever change the way you think about health and wellbeing. We breathe 25,000 t...
4 Okt 202159min
Bonus Episode: With Reason - Learning from our Ancestors, with Alice Roberts
In this special bonus episode by our friends at New Humanist magazine and the Rationalist Association, Professor Alice Roberts takes us through important archaeological discoveries to help us better u...
25 Sep 202149min
Fiona Shaw - A Life on Stage and Screen
From My Left Foot to Harry Potter, Fleabag to Killing Eve, Fiona Shaw is an integral presence in the Irish and British screen drama of the last three decades; and in collaboration with the foremost di...
21 Sep 20211h 2min
Rutger Bregman and Philippe Sands - Are Humans Naturally Good?
Philippe Sands meets Rutger Bregman, one of the greatest young thinkers of our time, to hear a new story of human nature that places our capacity for kindness, not selfishness, at its heart. It’s a be...
14 Sep 20211h 4min
