All Episodes

Soumaya Keynes: How to Win a Trade War — Tariffs, China and Industrial Policy

Matt Lodder on Tattoos as Art History

Brian Wang on Innate Immunity, ARIA and Pandemic Preparedness

Dan Wang on Silicon Valley Culture, AI Hype, London’s Building Crisis, and China

Phoebe Arslanagić-Little: Fertility, Family Policy, and the Birth Gap

Salima Saxton: Cancer, Estrangement, and “Bad Patient” Honesty

Simon Kane: Disneyland, Punchdrunk, Shunt; What “Immersive” Really Means

Deena Mousa: How Much Is A Life Worth? Effective Philanthropy, AI For Good & Global Health

Hannah Ritchie On Climate Honesty, Hope, And The Future. Discussing her book Clearing The Air.

Robert Beckley: Lessons from 40 Years in Policing, Hillsborough & Civic Service

Do We Still Build Beautiful? Samuel Hughes on Architecture & Cities

Tim Mak: War Reporting in Ukraine

Françoise Girard: Feminism, Activism, and the Power of Storytelling

Sumit Paul-Choudhury: Optimism, Navigating Life's Challenges And Uncertainties

Samir Varma: Free Will, Physics, Traffic, Bees, Emotions, Chaos Theory, Cricket, Finance

Mary-Ann Ochota: Adventure, Resilience, Unveiling Hidden Histories, Archeology And The Ancient World

Rebecca Lowe: Exploring Freedom, Moral Philosophy, Technology And The Best Society

Daisy Christodoulou: Football, VAR Video Assisted Referee, Education, and the Art of Learning

Peter Gray: Transforming Education, Play, Parenting and Self-Directed Learning

Julia Garayo Willemyns: Policy Ideas, Progress, Growth, AI, Talent, human flourishing

Julian Gough: Minecraft End Poem, Evolution Of The Universe, Being Creative, working in public, writing childrens' books

Ruth Chang: How to make Hard Choices, philosophy, agency and commitment

Hansong Li: China, political economy, intellectual history, Tangut and Hamilton, the Musical

Rasheed Griffith: Progress, Caribbean, Policy, Food, Music, Talent Assessment, Culture

Henry Oliver: Late Bloomers, Second Act, Hidden Talent, Biography, John Stuart Mill

Alyssa Gilbert: Climate Tech Innovation, Policy, Technology

Garrett Graff: Aliens, Mysteries Of UFOs, Watergate, 9/11, Government Trust

Hannah Ritchie: Not the End of the World, sustainability, climate, progress

Hana Loftus: Architecture, Regeneration, Planning, Resilience, Design, Jaywick Sands

Lucy Easthope: Disaster Recovery, Risk, Hope, Planning, Memoir, When The Dust Settles

Nina Gené: Venture Philanthropy, Jasmine Social Investments, Impact Investing

Pen Vogler: Food History, Culture, Class, Strawberries, Sugar, Industrialisation, Eating Habits

Joanne Limburg: Autism, Feminism, Motherhood, Grief, Writing, Jewishness, Letters to my Weird Sisters

Fuchsia Dunlop: Chinese Cuisine, Culture, History, Philosophy, Knife skills, Texture and Mouthfeel

Fergus Butler-Gallie: priesthood, frocks, scouse, faith, Liverpool, and Mummified Hearts

David Edmonds: Derek Parfit, future selves, paradox, effective altruism, philosophy, biography

David Ruebain: disability, protest movements, law, equality, inclusion, interdependence

Jennifer Doleac: reducing crime, policing, justice, policy

Patrick House: Neuroscience and Understanding Consciousness

Chris Stark: 2023, Climate Policy, NetZero, Adaptation, Heating, Buildings, Incentives

Jade O'Brien: stock broker to teacher, reflections on finance and education, women in finance

Kanjun Qiu: AI, metascience, institutional knowledge, trauma models, structure of knowledge, creativity and dance

Florence Evans: Mud Larking, Art Collecting, Dealing and Curating

Michael Nielsen: metascience, how to improve science, open science, and decentralisation

Saloni Dattani: making science better, important questions in science, open science, reforming peer review, vaccines and optimism.

Jérôme Tagger: sustainability, ESG as a negotiation, impact, investing, preventable surprises

Mark Koyama: How the World Became Rich, economic history, intangibles, culture, progress

Jacob Soll: History of Free Market ideas, Adam Smith, Hamilton, Cicero, Machievelli, History of Accounting

Naomi Fisher: home education, unschool, agency in learning, meltdowns, child-led learning, cognitive psychology

Kana Chan: living in a zero waste village in Japan, Kamikatsu

Larry Temkin (pt 2): Critiques of Effective Altruism, long-termism, potential problems of international aid, philosophy

Larry Temkin (pt 1): Moral Philosophy, transitivity, critiques of effective altruism, international aid, pluralism

Leigh Caldwell: cognitive economics, power of stories, how the mind consumes dreams and plans future actions

David Finnigan: Making Theatre, Improving Creativity, Learning From Failure, Art In A Time Of Climate

Sophie Purdom: Climate Tech Investing, Brown Spinning, Venture, Sustainability, newsletters, investment philosophy, life advice

Francesca Sanderson: impact arts investing, social impact, creativity, living off-grid

Nadia Asparouhova: Future Of Philanthropy, Science Funding, Creator Economy, Family Stories and Independent Research.

Carl Saxton-Pizzie: Building A £30m Sustainable Grocery Delivery Company, Mental Health, Sustainability

Annemarie Naylor: Public Goods, Sovereign Health Fund, Technology And Future Of Justice

Sophie Woolley: Deaf culture, hearing culture and her creative journey

Stian Westlake on the intangible economy, recession, stagnation, inequality, BS jobs and new institutions

Stephan Guyenet On Diet, Obesity Models, and Obesity Drugs

Alec Stapp: policy for progress, under-researched areas, science of science, biosecurity

Chris Stark: CEO UK's Climate Change Committee; climate policy, NetZero, adaptation, innovation, cost-benefit and what we should be doing

David Spiegelhalter: COVID statistics, thinking about risk in life and medicine

Stephen Unwin: Theatre Over The Decades, What Disability Teaches Us

Zeke Hausfather: State Of Climate Science, Energy Systems, Post COP26, Tipping Points, Tail Risks

Aella: escort work, home school, rationalism, circling, working in a factory, losing faith, polls and endless questions | Podcast

Jason Mitchell: poetry, sustainable investing, hedge funds, carbon tax, offsets, regulation, activism and stakeholder capitalism

Dan Goodley: what disability teaches us about being human, social models, technology, interdependence, medicalisation and advice

Bec Hill: Comedy, The Right To Offend, Faith, Arts And Crafts, ADHD And Best Uses For Duct Tape

Meaghan Kall, epidemiologist: COVID advice, Long COVID, vaccine waning, disability, HIV, social determinants of health; career advice

Clare Montagu: Running a hospice during COVID, how to die well, being a special advisor to government; economics of a hospice.

Jonathan Wolff: valuing life, philosophy, COVID, disability models, society of equals, musical performance, life advice

Diane Coyle: innovation, intangibles, inequality, sustainability and measuring beyond GDP

Mark Ravenhill: Making Theatre, Curiosity, Listening and Stories Under the Rainbow Flag

Sally Phillips: clowning, comedy, family life, disability and faith

Catherine Howarth on shareholder activism, growing back better and change makers

Tassos Stevens on making theatre, play and creative processes

Matt Clancy on innovation, progress studies and remote work.

Trailer: Ben Yeoh Chats for people curious about the world.

Lee Simpson on improvisation, story telling and what improv tells us about being human.

Leopold Aschenbrenner on existential risk, German Culture, Valedictorian efficiency

C Thi Nguyen on games philosophy, agency, real world gamification and what drinking games tell you about humanity

Anton Howes on innovation history, the improving mindset and progress studies.

Tom Gosling On Incentives, Corporate Purpose, Netzero; Singing and Happiness

Jonathan Meth on disability arts, dramaturgy and asking questions

Rishi Dastidar on life, poetry, and writing.

Mya-Rose Craig, Birdgirl

Rebecca Giggs. Fathoms: the world in the whale.