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How To Academy Podcast
How To Academy is London's home of big thinking. From Nobel laureates to Pulitzer Prize winners, we invite the world’s most influential voices to share new ideas for changing ourselves, our communities, and the world. Our biweekly podcast is your chance to hear in-depth from the most exciting thinke...
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Tom Holland Meets Armando Iannucci — What The Lives of the Caesars Can Teach Us About Politics
Tom Holland is a storyteller whose range and erudition seem to be as unbounded as history himself. Already a wildly acclaimed bestselling author, his...
Holistic Psychologist Nicole LePera – Reparenting the Inner Child
We all carry the imprint of our earliest years. Childhood is brief, yet its impact is lifelong. Some parts of us were met with love while other parts...
Nina Allan - The Many Worlds of JG Ballard
Born into an upper-middle class family and raised in colonial Shanghai, JG Ballard's worldview was profoundly shaped by his internment by the occupyin...
Antony Beevor – Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs
When Russia's Dowager Empress was pregnant with the future Tsar, she dreamed that a peasant would one day kill her son. The idea terrified her, and fo...
Ecologist Suzanne Simard - Lessons of the Forest
Dr Suzanne Simard transformed our understanding of forests, her groundbreaking research for the Mother Tree Project revealing how the forest is a livi...
James Muldoon - Love Rewired in the Age of AI
From friendship, to romance, to even therapy, AI companions are on the rise, and AI companion apps alone have now been downloaded more than 220 millio...
Neuroscientist Mark Solms - Was Freud Right?
Pioneering neuropsychologist Mark Solms reveals how science is proving Freud correct and explores what this might mean for our mental healthcare syste...
Zakia Sewell Meets Jeremy Deller - The Quest for a Hidden Britain
Writer and broadcaster Zakia Sewell is on a mission to uncover an alternative spirit of Britain – found in otherworldly folk songs, ancient legends, C...
Peter Jones - The Secret History of the Seven Deadly Sins
In 2026 the Seven Deadly Sins have become a bit of harmless fun, more associated with ice creams and videogame villains than the immortal soul. But in...
Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin — How to Harness the Power of Music
Daniel Levitin returns to How To Academy to explore how music can transform our health and wellbeing—repairing our bodies, calming our minds, and heal...
Ayala Panievsky–Fighting Censorship in the Age of Populism
Heavy-handed censorship is unnecessary when one can manipulate people to censor themselves…
From the birth of 'the strategic bias', to we...
Oren Harman - The Human History of Metamorphosis
As a boy, Oren Harman set up his own bedroom "laboratory" to uncover the caterpillar's transformation into a butterfly. But these marvellous creatures...
Dr Gavin Francis – Making Sense of Mental Health
Between a quarter and a fifth of young people in the UK now suffer from a mental disorder. One in four adults are prescribed psychiatric medication. T...
C. Thi Nguyen - How to Stop Playing Someone Else's Game
C. Thi Nguyen considers games of all kinds to be an art form, no less beautiful than cinema, literature, or music: but the qualities that make games a...
Keza MacDonald - How Nintendo Changed the World
Guardian journalist and lifelong Nintendo superfan Keza MacDonald is the author of a new history of that reveals how the company's unique culture tran...
Neuroscientist Paul Goldsmith – How to Thrive in a World We Weren’t Made For
In a world transformed beyond recognition, the neural systems that once kept our ancestors alive now leave us overwhelmed, distracted, and dissatisfie...
Jennifer Breheny Wallace – Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection
Feeling seen, needed, and valued isn't just a nice-to-have—it's essential for our wellbeing and society's future. When people feel they truly matter,...
Natalie Haynes and Robin Ince - The Myth of Medea, Reimagined
Priestess, witch, daughter of a brutal king: Medea is the greatest tragic heroine of the classical world. But, as Sunday Times bestselling writer Nata...
Wayne McGregor – How to Unlock Your Physical Intelligence
How much do you know about your body? How much does your body know about you? The most acclaimed choreographer of our age, Sir Wayne McGregor’s trailb...
Filmmaker Petra Costa - Democracy on a Knife-edge
When we spoke to Petra Costa last, her film Apocalypse in The Tropics had just been released on Netflix. The film, which leaves us in the aftermath of...
Stanford's Ben Rein – The Neuroscience of Social Connection
It’s not just what you feed your brain that matters—it’s who. From your morning coffee order, to weaving through commuters on the train, sitting throu...
Award-winning Novelist Joanna Kavenna - How to Play a Game Without Rules
A riotious comic novel of ideas, Seven tells the story of an unnamed philosopher plunged into the strange world of Theodoros Apostalakis: dentist, poe...
Investigative Journalist Oliver Bullough - How the Money Launderers Won
Whether you’re a fraudster, a cartel boss, a corrupt politician, a kleptocrat or a terrorist mastermind, your options to move and hide your money are...
Psychobiologist Daisy Fancourt – How the Arts Can Transform Your Health
How does art affect our brains and bodies, down to our very DNA? Psychobiologist Daisy Fancourt reveals the extraordinary effect of art on our health,...
Tim Minshall - Your Life is Manufactured
Where do the things we buy actually come from? And how did they become the products on our store shelves, the food in our pantries, and the familiar i...
Rutger Bregman Meets George Monbiot - How to Change the World
Global sensation Rutger Bregman joins George Monbiot to show how small groups of committed individuals changed the course of history – and how you can...
Amy Jeffs – Stories of Love and Death From Traditional Ballads
In this episode of the podcast, Amy Jeffs reveals the spellbinding world behind Old Songs, her exploration of traditional British ballads and the stor...
Data Scientist Hannah Ritchie – How to Solve Climate Change in 50 Questions and Answers
With so many conflicting headlines out there, it’s tough to sort fact from fiction when it comes to climate change and the solutions we need for a cle...
Sam Conniff and Katherine Templar-Lewis –The Uncertainty Toolkit
It’s the ‘Do you have five minutes?’ message from your boss. The ‘We need to chat’ from a loved one. Those spiralling thoughts at 3 a.m. and the buzz...
Mark Galeotti - How Crime Organises the World
Far from being distant and peripheral, organised crime shapes our everyday lives, from the materials used to construct our homes to the illicit funds...
Paul Davies - The New Quantum Revolution
100 years on from Schrödinger’s equation, we’re on the cusp of the second Quantum revolution. Everything is about to change again – but how? Theoreti...
RF Kuang - To Hell with Love
Bestselling novelist Rebecca F. Kuang returns to How To Academy in conversation with Hannah MacInnes to dive into her new novel, Katabasis, inviting u...
Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman — The Human Cost of Alabama's Prison System
When Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman went into an Alabama state prison to film a revival meeting, they discover that the prisoners wanted to talk...
Ingrid Clayton – Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves
Do you avoid conflict? Do you tend to take the blame? Do you take care of others at the expense of yourself? Do you live in a state of hypervigilance?...
Karl Ove Knausgaard – The School of Night
Widely heralded as the most provocative Norwegian writer since Ibsen and simply ‘one of the finest writers alive’ by the New York Times, Karl Ove Knau...
John Higgs - Unravelling the Spell of David Lynch
A boy scout from smalltown America known for his sincere, folksy charm. A chain-smoking maverick dedicated to the pursuit of the Art Life. A womaniser...
Neuroscientist Nicholas Wright – How the Brain Shapes War
In this episode of the podcast neuroscientist Nicholas Wright reveals how, whether we like it or not, the brain is wired for conflict – in the office...
Joe Hill - The One With the Dragons
The son of Stephen and Tabitha King and brother of Owen King, Joe Hill was raised in a uniquely gifted literary family and has long established a repu...
HYPERLAND: Graham Harman on the Nature of Reality
How do we understand the world and our place in it? Do our lives consist of a small number of dramatic turning points, or is there nothing but a serie...
Julia Belluz and Kevin Hall – Why We Eat What We Eat
Julia Belluz and Kevin Hall reveal the insights you need to better understand what's on your dinner plate, how it got there, and why you eat it.
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