How To Academy Podcast

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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 thinkers in global culture.

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Keza MacDonald - How Nintendo Changed the World

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Neuroscientist Paul Goldsmith – How to Thrive in a World We Weren’t Made For

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Jennifer Breheny Wallace – Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection

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Natalie Haynes and Robin Ince - The Myth of Medea, Reimagined

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Wayne McGregor – How to Unlock Your Physical Intelligence

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Filmmaker Petra Costa - Democracy on a Knife-edge

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Stanford's Ben Rein – The Neuroscience of Social Connection

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Award-winning Novelist Joanna Kavenna - How to Play a Game Without Rules

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Investigative Journalist Oliver Bullough - How the Money Launderers Won

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Psychobiologist Daisy Fancourt – How the Arts Can Transform Your Health

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Tim Minshall - Your Life is Manufactured

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Rutger Bregman Meets George Monbiot - How to Change the World

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Amy Jeffs – Stories of Love and Death From Traditional Ballads

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Data Scientist Hannah Ritchie – How to Solve Climate Change in 50 Questions and...

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Sam Conniff and Katherine Templar-Lewis –The Uncertainty Toolkit

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Mark Galeotti - How Crime Organises the World

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Paul Davies - The New Quantum Revolution

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RF Kuang - To Hell with Love

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Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman — The Human Cost of Alabama's Prison System

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Ingrid Clayton – Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves

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Karl Ove Knausgaard – The School of Night

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John Higgs - Unravelling the Spell of David Lynch

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Neuroscientist Nicholas Wright – How the Brain Shapes War

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Joe Hill - The One With the Dragons

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HYPERLAND: Graham Harman on the Nature of Reality

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Julia Belluz and Kevin Hall – Why We Eat What We Eat

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Sir Tony Robinson Meets Janina Ramirez - The Real Women Behind the Medieval Myth...

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Nicola Sturgeon Meets Darren McGarvey - Trauma Industrial Complex

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Ian Mortimer - The Time Traveller's Guide to England

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Nish Kumar Meets Jimmy Wales - Trust and the Future of Democracy

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Jens Stoltenberg - Leading NATO in a Time of War

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Marie Kondo - How to Live

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Award-Winning Filmmaker Annemarie Jacir — On the Making of Palestine 36

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Philippa Gregory - Jane Boleyn Reimagined

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Ray Nayler - Why Dystopian Fiction Matters

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Dr Kerry Burnight – A Short Guide to Enjoying a Long Life

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Yuval Noah Harari - Making Sense of a World in Crisis

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Adam Aleksic - How the Internet is Transforming the Future of Language

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Robert Macfarlane Meets Elif Shafak – Rivers of Life

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Corinne Low - What Data Can Tell Us About Women's Lives

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Mark Kermode – The Stories of Movie Music

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Kate Wilson - The Spycops Files

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Jay Heinrichs - How Classical Rhetoric Can Change Your Life

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Philip Hoare - The Revolutionary Genius of William Blake

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Dr Jenna Macciochi - The Game-Changing Science of Lifetime Health

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Marina Warner - Reimagining Sanctuary for a World in Crisis

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Emily Kasriel - The Art of Deep Listening

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Yuval Noah Harari – Humanity in the Age of AI (Summer Repeat)

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Herman Pontzer – The Surprising Science of Human Diversity and Evolution

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