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Avg. Duration 58m
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Since Jun 2019
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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

Jun 13, 2026 1h 12m

Karen Hao joins The Nerve's Carole Cadwalladr for an eye-watering insider account of Sam Altman’s Open AI and the burgeoning resistance against it. When it comes to Artificial Intelligence, what do…

Novelist Elodie Harper – Boudicca's Daughter

Jun 09, 2026 37m

Boudicca had two daughters, but history records their existence and nothing more. Sunday Times bestselling author Elodie Harper joins us to discuss her latest novel, Boudicca's Daughters, which…

Caroline Sylge – How To Retreat

Jun 05, 2026 1h 2m

Caroline Sylge reminds us to press pause on the daily overwhelm of modern life by bringing the magic and solace of retreating into your every day. What comes into your mind when you hear the word…

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

Jun 02, 2026 30m

Erica Wagner may be the first ever author to write both a landmark biography and a historial novel about the same person. The engineer Washington Roebling took up residence in her head when she was…

Neurologist Majid Fotuhi – How To Age-Proof Your Brain

May 29, 2026 1h 8m

Neurologist Majid Fotuhi is leading the charge in revolutionising how we understand human intelligence, brain health and age-related cognitive decline. By uncovering the true wonder of how the brain…

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

May 26, 2026 1h 18m

A great thinning of the skies is underway. Dusk and dawn are growing quiet as birdlife faces a rapid decline across the world. It does not have to be this way — but we will not save what we do not…

Jessamy Hibberd – How to Free Your Mind From Overthinking

May 19, 2026 1h 3m

Thinking about your life is a normal part of being human.  Often, it is helpful to analyse a situation or revisit a problem in your mind, but if you find yourself constantly dwelling on your thoughts…

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

May 15, 2026 40m

How did a 1960s spoof of Cold War technocracy become a bible for far-right militias in the present? Political journalist Phil Tinline traces the strange journey of the Report from Iron Mountain. In…

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

May 15, 2026 1h 21m

Tom Holland is a storyteller whose range and erudition seem to be as unbounded as history himself. Already a wildly acclaimed bestselling author, his chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, the…

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

May 12, 2026 1h 2m

Coming of age has always been a time of angst and inner turmoil, especially for girls. But today, those worries exist in a world of AR filters, TikTok “plastic surgeons,” dating apps, hookup culture,…

Holistic Psychologist Nicole LePera – Reparenting the Inner Child

May 05, 2026 1h 13m

We all carry the imprint of our earliest years. Childhood is brief, yet its impact is lifelong. Some parts of us were met with love while other parts were met with silence, criticism, or disapproval.…

Nina Allan - The Many Worlds of JG Ballard

May 01, 2026 50m

Born into an upper-middle class family and raised in colonial Shanghai, JG Ballard's worldview was profoundly shaped by his internment by the occupying Japanese army in the Second World War — an…

Antony Beevor – Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs

Apr 28, 2026 1h 4m

When Russia's Dowager Empress was pregnant with the future Tsar, she dreamed that a peasant would one day kill her son. The idea terrified her, and for the rest of her days she 'lived under the…

Ecologist Suzanne Simard - Lessons of the Forest

Apr 24, 2026 1h 22m

Dr Suzanne Simard transformed our understanding of forests, her groundbreaking research for the Mother Tree Project revealing how the forest is a living symphony of finely honed cycles of birth,…

James Muldoon - Love Rewired in the Age of AI

Apr 21, 2026 1h 5m

From friendship, to romance, to even therapy, AI companions are on the rise, and AI companion apps alone have now been downloaded more than 220 million times worldwide. Oxford Internet Institute…

Neuroscientist Mark Solms - Was Freud Right?

Apr 17, 2026 1h 2m

Pioneering neuropsychologist Mark Solms reveals how science is proving Freud correct and explores what this might mean for our mental healthcare systems and our lives. Learn more about your ad…

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

Apr 07, 2026 51m

Writer and broadcaster Zakia Sewell is on a mission to uncover an alternative spirit of Britain – found in otherworldly folk songs, ancient legends, Celtic seasonal rites and mystic stone circles…

Peter Jones - The Secret History of the Seven Deadly Sins

Apr 02, 2026 54m

In 2026 the Seven Deadly Sins have become a bit of harmless fun, more associated with ice creams and videogame villains than the immortal soul. But in the medieval world, the Sins were a guide to the…

Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin — How to Harness the Power of Music

Mar 31, 2026 1h 6m

Daniel Levitin returns to How To Academy to explore how music can transform our health and wellbeing—repairing our bodies, calming our minds, and healing our deepest psychological wounds. By…

Ayala Panievsky–Fighting Censorship in the Age of Populism

Mar 27, 2026 1h 9m

Heavy-handed censorship is unnecessary when one can manipulate people to censor themselves… From the birth of 'the strategic bias', to weaponizing liberal norms against liberal democracy, the…

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