How To Academy Podcast

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How To Academy Podcast

by How To Academy

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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1

Dr Gavin Francis – Making Sense of Mental Health

1:10:14 Mar 19, 2026

2

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

50:56 Mar 13, 2026

3

Keza MacDonald - How Nintendo Changed the World

41:55 Mar 6, 2026

4

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

56:49 Mar 3, 2026

5

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

1:00:29 Feb 27, 2026

6

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

1:04:55 Feb 24, 2026

7

Wayne McGregor – How to Unlock Your Physical Intelligence

1:14:38 Feb 21, 2026

8

Filmmaker Petra Costa - Democracy on a Knife-edge

37:10 Feb 17, 2026

9

Stanford's Ben Rein – The Neuroscience of Social Connection

1:03:41 Feb 13, 2026

10

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

33:15 Feb 10, 2026

11

Investigative Journalist Oliver Bullough - How the Money Launderers Won

1:16:40 Feb 6, 2026

12

Psychobiologist Daisy Fancourt – How the Arts Can Transform Your Health

59:40 Feb 3, 2026

13

Tim Minshall - Your Life is Manufactured

36:02 Jan 30, 2026

14

Rutger Bregman Meets George Monbiot - How to Change the World

1:16:43 Jan 27, 2026

15

Amy Jeffs – Stories of Love and Death From Traditional Ballads

57:22 Jan 23, 2026

16

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

1:10:04 Jan 20, 2026

17

Sam Conniff and Katherine Templar-Lewis –The Uncertainty Toolkit

1:02:28 Jan 16, 2026

18

Mark Galeotti - How Crime Organises the World

1:05:10 Jan 13, 2026

19

Paul Davies - The New Quantum Revolution

1:04:14 Jan 9, 2026

20

RF Kuang - To Hell with Love

1:13:19 Dec 19, 2025

21

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

38:13 Dec 16, 2025

22

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

1:01:58 Dec 10, 2025

23

Karl Ove Knausgaard – The School of Night

1:17:28 Dec 5, 2025

24

John Higgs - Unravelling the Spell of David Lynch

56:01 Dec 2, 2025

25

Neuroscientist Nicholas Wright – How the Brain Shapes War

56:48 Nov 25, 2025

26

Joe Hill - The One With the Dragons

57:37 Nov 21, 2025

27

HYPERLAND: Graham Harman on the Nature of Reality

1:30:24 Nov 18, 2025

28

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

1:06:12 Nov 14, 2025

29

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

1:17:08 Nov 11, 2025

30

Nicola Sturgeon Meets Darren McGarvey - Trauma Industrial Complex

1:11:41 Nov 7, 2025

31

Ian Mortimer - The Time Traveller's Guide to England

42:58 Nov 4, 2025

32

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

1:24:39 Oct 31, 2025

33

Jens Stoltenberg - Leading NATO in a Time of War

1:22:13 Oct 28, 2025

34

Marie Kondo - How to Live

40:28 Oct 24, 2025

35

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

31:19 Oct 21, 2025

36

Philippa Gregory - Jane Boleyn Reimagined

32:55 Oct 16, 2025

37

Ray Nayler - Why Dystopian Fiction Matters

47:27 Oct 14, 2025

38

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

1:05:13 Oct 10, 2025

39

Yuval Noah Harari - Making Sense of a World in Crisis

1:15:11 Oct 7, 2025

40

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

26:43 Oct 3, 2025

41

Robert Macfarlane Meets Elif Shafak – Rivers of Life

1:18:08 Sep 30, 2025

42

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

1:02:49 Sep 26, 2025

43

Mark Kermode – The Stories of Movie Music

1:06:15 Sep 23, 2025

44

Kate Wilson - The Spycops Files

34:09 Sep 19, 2025

45

Jay Heinrichs - How Classical Rhetoric Can Change Your Life

1:05:18 Sep 16, 2025

46

Philip Hoare - The Revolutionary Genius of William Blake

1:03:04 Sep 12, 2025

47

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

1:02:59 Sep 9, 2025

48

Marina Warner - Reimagining Sanctuary for a World in Crisis

1:00:19 Sep 5, 2025

49

Emily Kasriel - The Art of Deep Listening

1:06:48 Sep 2, 2025

50

Caitlin Moran Meets Alex James - Cocaine, Crash Diets and the Return of Blur (Summer Repeat)

1:09:18 Aug 26, 2025

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