Anna Ploszajski - Finding Meaning Through Making
Sitting at the intersection of art, science, and history, this week's podcast reveals fresh perspectives and fascinating insights into our material world. Scientific progress has given us a good grasp...
10 Maj 202155min
George Saunders – Lessons in Writing and Life
What makes great stories work? What can they tell us about our world today? How can they make us better readers and how can we write them ourselves? George Saunders is one of the undisputed masters of...
26 Apr 20211h 3min
Matthew d’Ancona – Why The Old Politics Is Useless and What We Can Do About It
Political journalist Matthew d'Ancona's issues a call to arms to challenge this age of political extremism, lazy populism and democratic torpor. The old tools of political analysis are obsolete - they...
19 Apr 20211h
Isabel Allende – The Soul of a Woman
Isabel Allende has been a feminist her whole life. From a young age she rebelled against male authority, after seeing her mother Panchita abandoned by her husband and left to provide for three small c...
12 Apr 202156min
Ian McEwan – A Life In Literature
The country’s most prolific and celebrated novelist reflects upon a life in literature. Since his rise to literary acclaim almost forty years ago for the dazzlingly grotesque short stories that earned...
29 Mars 20211h 10min
Rowan Hooper – How to Spend a Trillion Dollars
If you had a trillion dollars and a year to spend it for the good of the world and the advancement of science, what would you do? It's an unimaginably large sum, yet it's only around one per cent of w...
22 Mars 202133min
Derren Brown – How To Be a Little Happier
Since he introduced us to his singular and inimitable brand of psychology, stagecraft and magic in 2000, Derren Brown has played Russian Roulette on live television, convinced middle-managers to commi...
15 Mars 20211h 7min
Adam Grant and Tim Harford – The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
Research shows that the smarter you are the more you might struggle to update your beliefs, yet some of the most successful people, from entrepreneurs to politicians, all have one thing in common: the...
8 Mars 20211h 5min
