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How To Academy Podcast

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

Do you avoid conflict? Do you tend to take the blame? Do you take care of others at the ex... more

10 Dec 2025

1 HR 01 MINS

1:01:58

10 Dec 2025

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Karl Ove Knausgaard – The School of Night

Widely heralded as the most provocative Norwegian writer since Ibsen and simply ‘one of th... more

05 Dec 2025

1 HR 17 MINS

1:17:28

05 Dec 2025

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John Higgs - Unravelling the Spell of David Lynch

A boy scout from smalltown America known for his sincere, folksy charm. A chain-smoking ma... more

02 Dec 2025

56 MINS

56:01

02 Dec 2025

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Neuroscientist Nicholas Wright – How the Brain Shapes War

In this episode of the podcast neuroscientist Nicholas Wright reveals how, whether we like... more

25 Nov 2025

56 MINS

56:48

25 Nov 2025

#474

Joe Hill - The One With the Dragons

The son of Stephen and Tabitha King and brother of Owen King, Joe Hill was raised in a uni... more

21 Nov 2025

57 MINS

57:37

21 Nov 2025

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HYPERLAND: Graham Harman on the Nature of Reality

How do we understand the world and our place in it? Do our lives consist of a small number... more

18 Nov 2025

1 HR 30 MINS

1:30:24

18 Nov 2025

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

Julia Belluz and Kevin Hall reveal the insights you need to better understand what's on yo... more

14 Nov 2025

1 HR 06 MINS

1:06:12

14 Nov 2025

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

Though well-known across Europe by name, the real lives of women such as Joan of Arc and J... more

11 Nov 2025

1 HR 17 MINS

1:17:08

11 Nov 2025

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Nicola Sturgeon Meets Darren McGarvey - Trauma Industrial Complex

Today, trauma permeates media, from music and television to films and books. While the inc... more

07 Nov 2025

1 HR 11 MINS

1:11:41

07 Nov 2025

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Ian Mortimer - The Time Traveller's Guide to England

In his four Time Travellers Guides to England, historian Ian Mortimer has taken us from th... more

04 Nov 2025

42 MINS

42:58

04 Nov 2025

#468

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

Two decades ago, Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia and transformed the world’s access to knowl... more

31 Oct 2025

1 HR 24 MINS

1:24:39

31 Oct 2025

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Jens Stoltenberg - Leading NATO in a Time of War

Jens Stoltenberg was Prime Minister of Norway from 2005-2013, and when he took office as S... more

28 Oct 2025

1 HR 22 MINS

1:22:13

28 Oct 2025

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Marie Kondo - How to Live

Marie Kondo’s unique approach to organising our lives and our homes has transformed the re... more

24 Oct 2025

40 MINS

40:28

24 Oct 2025

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

A pioneering voice in Arab cinema, Annemarie Jacir has written, directed, and produced ove... more

21 Oct 2025

31 MINS

31:19

21 Oct 2025

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Philippa Gregory - Jane Boleyn Reimagined

Philippa Gregory takes us behind the myths to reveal how Jane Boleyn became a scapegoat of... more

16 Oct 2025

32 MINS

32:55

16 Oct 2025

#463

Ray Nayler - Why Dystopian Fiction Matters

Returning to the podcast following episodes around his prize-winning debut The Mountain Un... more

14 Oct 2025

47 MINS

47:27

14 Oct 2025

#462

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

Dr Kerry Burnight reveals a transformative new approach to aging—one that goes beyond life... more

10 Oct 2025

1 HR 05 MINS

1:05:13

10 Oct 2025

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Yuval Noah Harari - Making Sense of a World in Crisis

From our new technological era ushered in by AI, to the fall of democracies across the glo... more

07 Oct 2025

1 HR 15 MINS

1:15:11