All Episodes

Bob McTavish- 60 years of shaping surf culture

Recovery from disordered eating, with Warren Ward

Gay rights movement with Ronan Mccrea

Nature's last dance with Natalie Kyriacou

Boosting your immune system with Prof Dan Davis

Notes from deaths door with Katie Treble

Unmasking Autism & ADHD with Ellie Middleton

Books for boys w Lucas Oakeley

Depression: chemical imbalance or something else? with Joanna Moncrieff

Irelands native rainforests with Matt Smith

Welcome back

Entangled life of fungi with Merlin Sheldrake

Novels to read in 2023

#187 Dan Osman

Saving the planet without the bullshit, with Assaad Razzouk

Nutrition, Politics and Philosophy, with Alan Flanagan

Earth is a hothouse with Prof. Bill McGuire

What is Consciousness with Prof. Anil Seth

Hard Time Philosophy with Kieran Setiya

Mental Health and Behaviour Change with Dr. Mike II

The Future of Farming with George Monbiot

The Law of Attraction debunked by David Grimes, an actual scientist.

Psychology of Online Behaviour with Dr Nicola Fox Hamilton

How to save our planet, with Professor Mark Maslin

What’s wrong with Self-Help, with Siobhan O’Hagan

Exponentially faster and cheaper tech with Azeem Azhar

#174 The Suicide Issue with Professor Rory O’Connor

What is Modern Slavery with Emily Kenway

How humans evolved by working together, with Professor Nichola Raihani

The art of self-deception

#169 Stoicism in practise, with Ben Aldridge

#168 #ManBox, Feminism and The Patriarchy with the Nice-Ish-Psychologist

#167 Lies that shaped history with Otto English (Author of Fake History)

Proust can change your life

#165 Behaviour change with Tiny Habits

#164 Hygge: The Danish philosophy of happiness and coziness

#163 From the Kardashians to Alain de Botton, with Daisy Harris-Burland and Harriet Bradley

#162 Life lessons from Philosophers

#161 Novels to read this summer

#160 Toxic Positivity with Whitney Goodman

#159 Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

#158 The power of big business crooks, with Patrick Alley

#157 A new way to think about happiness

#156 The Sunny Nihilist, with Wendy Syfret

Get Rich or Lie Tryin’ with Symeon Brown

#152 Human Kind: A hopeful history

The science of breath with James Nestor

#150 Who are you, really?

Time management for mortals with Oliver Burkeman

#148 How the West became self-obsessed

#147 The Sh*t They Never Taught You with Adam Ashton

#146 The Power of Geography with Tim Marshall

#145 Why you can’t pay attention

#144 Letters From A Stoic (Seneca and why you’ve heard of him)

#143 The Sweet Spot: suffering, pleasure and the key to a good life

Tech and social media impacts your health, with Dr Rachael Kent

#141 Rethinking Positive Thinking

#140 Existential problems and simple solutions with Alex Holmes

#139 Mindfulness In Plain English

#138 Leaving the NHS, McMindfulness and Personal Finance 101 with Yusef Smith

#137 The Women of WW2 with Tessa Dunlop

#136 Prisoners of Geography

End procrastination with Nir Eyal

#131 Answering your questions

#130 The Science of Luck with Dr Richard Wiseman

Status is everything? w Will Storr

#128 Is Lying really that bad?

#127 Mental health and fitness with Lucy Davis

#126 Hitch hiking to Iran and connecting with yourself with Adam Lind

#125 Healing with humour with Chris Hall

#124 What makes a man superior? with Emilia Thompson and Emma Storey Gordon - Part2

#123 What makes a Superior Man? with Emilia Thompson and Emma Storey Gordon - Part 1

#122 Activism, Koalas and Arnie with Kae Kurd

#121 Is being kind to yourself the key to a good life?

#120 Jamie Clements on masculinity, opening up and making mistakes.

#119 How to focus on what matters everyday

#118 The future of artificial intelligence with Mo Gawdat

#117 How To Change

#112 Addiction, sobriety & becoming a psychotherapist With Talitha Fosh

#111 Building better relationships by treating intimacy as a skill with Shaun Galanos

#109 The School Of Life

#108 Justin Moran on building a brand with purpose

#107 Jeff Haden on the truth about motivation

#106 Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

#105 How reading can change your life with Ty Temel

#103 Thomas Erikson - Surrounded By Idiots and Psychopaths

#102 The Motivation Myth

#101 Daisy Harris-Burland (The Bookmark Queen) on a creative life

#99 How to actually rest with Gabrielle Brown & James Reeves

#98 How to deal with different personalities with Sinead Hegarty

#97 The Happiness Trap

#95 Emilia Thompson PhD on authenticity & vulnerability

#94 How to make it in comedy with Russell Kane

Why people attach to conspiracy theories with David Grimes

#91 The Psychology Of Money

#89 The truth about the British Empire

#88 Victoria Spence on Owning & loving yourself and eating disorder recovery

#87 One year of A Need To Read with Giles Crisp

#86 The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant: A guide to wealth and happiness

#85 Jamie Clements on Breathing for your brain