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Roisin Kiberd – Beauty and Normality in the Age of Consumption

Neuroscientist Adrian Owen – How to Maximise Your Brain’s Superpower

Historian Hallie Rubenhold - The Silenced Women of Dr Crippen

Historian Lindsey Fitzharris: Dr Joe Bell, the Man Who Inspired Sherlock Holmes

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Meet David Olusoga - End Times Fascism

Vedic Meditation Teacher Jillian Lavender — How to Find Clarity

Daron Acemoglu Meets Martin Wolf– What Happened to Liberal Democracy?

Philosopher Lani Watson – The Power of Asking Questions in a World That Wants Answers

David Duchovny Meets Gina Gershon: About Time

Bonus Episode: New Frontiers with Miriam Margoyles, Reece Sheersmith, Damien Lewis and more...

Natasha Polisczuk Meets Louisa Young – The Golden Hours

Bestselling Mindset Coach Ben Crowe – How to Change Your Life

Bestselling Novelist China Mieville – On Grief, Ghosts, and Empire

Bestselling Mythologist Amy Jeffs – The Life of King Arthur

Time Woman of the Year Zahra Joya — The Vanishing Girl of Kabul

Kimon de Greef — A Trip into the Psychedelic Underworld

Jo Marchant – The Science and Mystery of the Present Moment

Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon – The Future is Peace

Naomi Klein - The Mirror World of Conspiracists and the Far-Right (Summer Repeat)

Yuval Noah Harari – Making Sense of a World in Crisis (Summer Repeat)

Mary Beard and David Mitchell – On Rulers and Power (Summer Repeat)

Oscar-nominated Filmmaker Maite Alberdi – A Child of My Own

Carissa Véliz– AI, Prediction, and the Fight for the Future

Cathy Haynes – How To Live By Nature's Rhythms

Joe Hill Meets Frank Miller – A Life in Comics

Catharine Edwards - The Life of Cicero and the Fall of the Roman Republic

Suzy Hansen – Turkey in the Age of Erdoğan

Daniel Mendelsohn – Translating Homer's Odyssey

Nir Eyal - The Science-Backed Way to Stop Limiting Yourself

Sir Roger Deakins – Reflections of a Cinematographer

Emma Southon - How Slavery Made the Roman Empire

George Osborn — Video Games, Politics, and the Battle for Influence

Therapist Emmy van Deurzen – The Philosopher’s Guide to Everyday Existence

Bill Browder and Jamison Firestone: Chaos and Murder in Putin's Russia

Tom McTague – Britain in Europe: The Hidden History of a Revolution

Malala Yousafzai - Finding My Way

Antonia Senior – The Cambridge Five and the Making of The Soviet Empire

M. John Harrison - The End of Everything

Mark Williamson – How To Live a Happier Life

Carol Cadwalladr Meets Karen Hao - Sam Altman, ChatGPT, and the Global Resistance

Novelist Elodie Harper – Boudicca's Daughter

Caroline Sylge – How To Retreat

Novelist Erica Wagner - Washington Roebling and the Art of Life Writing

Neurologist Majid Fotuhi – How To Age-Proof Your Brain

Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris - On Birds, Wonder, and Loss

Jessamy Hibberd – How to Free Your Mind From Overthinking

Phil Tinline - Iron Mountain and the Birth of American Conspiracy Culture

Tom Holland Meets Armando Iannucci — What The Lives of the Caesars Can Teach Us About Politics

Freya India - The Commodification of Girls and How to Fight Back

Holistic Psychologist Nicole LePera – Reparenting the Inner Child

Nina Allan - The Many Worlds of JG Ballard

Antony Beevor – Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs

Ecologist Suzanne Simard - Lessons of the Forest

James Muldoon - Love Rewired in the Age of AI

Neuroscientist Mark Solms - Was Freud Right?

Zakia Sewell Meets Jeremy Deller - The Quest for a Hidden Britain

Peter Jones - The Secret History of the Seven Deadly Sins

Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin — How to Harness the Power of Music

Ayala Panievsky–Fighting Censorship in the Age of Populism

Oren Harman - The Human History of Metamorphosis

Dr Gavin Francis – Making Sense of Mental Health

C. Thi Nguyen - How to Stop Playing Someone Else's Game

Keza MacDonald - How Nintendo Changed the World

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

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

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

Wayne McGregor – How to Unlock Your Physical Intelligence

Filmmaker Petra Costa - Democracy on a Knife-edge

Stanford's Ben Rein – The Neuroscience of Social Connection

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

Investigative Journalist Oliver Bullough - How the Money Launderers Won

Psychobiologist Daisy Fancourt – How the Arts Can Transform Your Health

Tim Minshall - Your Life is Manufactured

Rutger Bregman Meets George Monbiot - How to Change the World

Amy Jeffs – Stories of Love and Death From Traditional Ballads

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

Sam Conniff and Katherine Templar-Lewis –The Uncertainty Toolkit

Mark Galeotti - How Crime Organises the World

Paul Davies - The New Quantum Revolution

RF Kuang - To Hell with Love

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

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

Karl Ove Knausgaard – The School of Night

John Higgs - Unravelling the Spell of David Lynch

Neuroscientist Nicholas Wright – How the Brain Shapes War

Joe Hill - The One With the Dragons

HYPERLAND: Graham Harman on the Nature of Reality

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

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

Nicola Sturgeon Meets Darren McGarvey - Trauma Industrial Complex

Ian Mortimer - The Time Traveller's Guide to England

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

Jens Stoltenberg - Leading NATO in a Time of War

Marie Kondo - How to Live

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

Philippa Gregory - Jane Boleyn Reimagined

Ray Nayler - Why Dystopian Fiction Matters

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

Yuval Noah Harari - Making Sense of a World in Crisis

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