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Otto English
Fake Heroes – Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
Posted August 2023
Angela Saini; Kristen Ghodsee
Everyday Utopia – Radical Experiments in the Good Life
Posted August 2023
Will Gompertz, Albert Read
Where Good Ideas Come From & How to Have More of Them
Posted July 2023
Elizabeth Winkler, Mark Rylance
Sir Mark Rylance Meets Elizabeth Winkler
Posted June 2023
Thomas Curran
Why the Pursuit of Perfection is Bad for Your Health
Posted June 2023
Claire Dederer, Nick Hornby
What Do We Do With the Art of Monstrous Men?
Posted May 2023
David Thomson, Harriet Walter
David Thomson on the Art of Acting
Posted May 2023
Quinn Slobodian, Hannah Maclnnes
How Extreme Capitalists Are Destroying Democracy
Posted April 2023
Adam Gopnik
The Real Work – How We Learn and Master New Skills
Posted April 2023
Sarah Knight, Hannah Maclnnes
How to be an Adult and Get Treated Like One
Posted April 2023
Martin Puchner
Culture – A New World History | Harvard Professor Martin Puchner
Posted February 2023
Frankie Boyle, Bernie Sanders
Frankie Boyle Meets Bernie Sanders — It’s OK To Be Angry About Capitalism
Posted February 2023
Paul Lewis, Edie Lush
Money Box – How To Manage Your Money
Posted January 2023
Alan Moore, Robin Ince
Alan Moore – On Superheroes, Magic, and Imagination
Posted December 2022
Kamila Shamsie
An Evening With Kamila Shamsie
Posted November 2022
Michael Morpurgo, Yeva Skalietska, Nicolette Jones
You Don't Know What War Is
Posted November 2022
John Irving
An Evening With John Irving
Posted October 2022
Geena Davis.
Geena Davis - Live on Stage in London
Posted October 2022
William Boyd
William Boyd – The Romantic
Posted October 2022
David Dimbleby, Miranda Sawyer
David Dimbleby in conversation
Posted September 2022
Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh – The Long Knives
Posted August 2022
Yuval Noah Harari, Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell Meets Yuval Noah Harari
Posted August 2022
Slavoj Zizek, Robert Rowland Smith
Slavoj Zizek – the World Turned Upside Down
Posted August 2022
Yalda Hakim, Sam McAlister
Behind the Scenes of the BBC’s Most Shocking Interviews
Posted August 2022
Anthony Sattin, William Dalrymple
The Wanderers Who Shaped the World
Posted July 2022
Sathnam Sanghera
Sathnam Sanghera – Marriage Material
Posted July 2022
Alice Sherwood
The Fight For Authenticity
Posted July 2022
Patrick Radden Keefe
True Stories of Grifters, Killers and Crooks
Posted July 2022
Geoff Dyer, Paul van Zyl
Geoff Dyer – Live on Stage in London
Posted June 2022
Victor Sebestyen
Budapest – Between East and West
Posted June 2022
Robert Crawford
Eliot After The Waste Land
Hamish McRae
The World in 2050
Posted June 2022
Alice Roberts
Buried: An Alternative History of the Dark Ages
Posted May 2022
Bonnie Wright, Evanna Lynch
Evanna Lynch Meets Bonnie Wright
Posted May 2022
Minnie Driver, Erica Wagner
Minnie Driver – Live On-Stage in London
Posted May 2022
Frances Wilson, Howard Jacobson, Kathryn Schulz
The Art of Life Writing
Posted April 2022
Julia Cameron, Adriene Mishler
Adriene Mischler Meets Julia Cameron
Posted April 2022
David Flusfeder
The Meaning of Luck
Posted April 2022
Professor Lucy Easthope, Professor Dame Sue Black
When the Dust Settles
Posted April 2022
Delia Smith, Alastair Campbell
Delia Smith – Live on Stage in London
Posted March 2022
Jon Ronson, Brian Klaas
Does Power Corrupt?
Posted March 2022
Dr Anna Machin
Why We Love
Posted February 2022
David Nutt, Robin Ince
David Nutt - The New Science of Cannabis
Posted February 2022
Yrsa Daley-Ward, Salena Godden
Salena Godden Meets Yrsa Daley-Ward
Posted February 2021
Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff on Consolation
Posted January 2022
Alan Moore, Brian Catling, Robin Ince
Alan Moore and Brian Catling on Imagination
Posted January 2022
David Wengrow, Yanis Varoufakis
The Dawn of Everything
Sathnam Sanghera, William Dalrymple
Sathnam Sanghera and William Dalrymple - the British in India
Posted December 2021
Janine di Giovanni
Janine di Giovanni – A Life in War
Posted December 2021
Christopher Andrew, Julius Green
The Entwined History of Spying and Show Business
Posted December 2021
Elif Shafak
An Evening With Elif Shafak – The Island of Missing Trees
Posted December 2021
David Olusoga, Paddy Docherty
Blood and Bronze
Posted December 2021
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Philippe Sands
Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah – A Life in Literature
Posted December 2021
Charlotte Higgins, Hannah Macinnes
Charlotte Higgins Retells the Greek Myths
Dec 2021
Fi Glover, Jane Garvey
Fi Glover and Jane Garvey
Dec 2021
Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett – These Precious Days
Posted December 2021
John Illsley
John Illsley – My Life in Dire Straits
Posted November 2021
Arwa Mahdawi, Pippa Malmgren
Lessons From Women In Power
Matt Gibberd
How To Transform Your Home and Happiness
Posted November 2021
Iain McGilchrist, Philip Pullman
A New Philosophy of Life
Posted November 2021
Raynor Winn
Raynor Winn - The Meaning of Home
Posted November 2021
Nicholas Christakis
The Long-Term Impact of COVID-19
Posted November 2021
Johanna Basford
Johanna Basford – How to Discover Your Creative Self
Posted November 2021
Alex Ross
Alex Ross on Wagner
Posted November 2021
John-Paul Stonard
The Story of Art
Posted November 2021
Kelefa Sanneh
A History of Music in Seven Genres
Posted October 2021
Richard Powers, Razia Iqbal
Richard Powers - Bewilderment
Posted October 2021
James Fox
A History of the World in Eight Colours
Posted October 2021
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Murder on the Dance Floor
Posted October 2021
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Bernard-Henri Lévy – Live On Stage In London
Posted October 2021
David Grossman
David Grossman – More Than I Love My Life
Posted October 2021
Dan Saladino, Thomasina Miers
Eating to Extinction
Posted September 2021
Pandora Sykes, Shaparak Khorsandi
Pandora Sykes Meets Shaparak Khorsandi
Posted September 2021
Robin DiAngelo, Beverly Daniel Tatum
Robin DiAngelo and Beverly Daniel Tatum – Conversations About Race
Posted September 2021
Louis Menand
How American Culture Changed the World
Posted September 2021
Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed – A Wild Life
Posted September 2021
Will Storr
The Status Game
Posted September 2021
Dr Tristram Hunt
Tristram Hunt – The Life of Wedgwood
Posted September 2021
Hermione Lee, Belle Donati
Tom Stoppard – A Life
Posted September 2021
Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin – A Life In Crime
Posted September 2021
Sean Penn, Jon Lee Anderson
Sean Penn Meets Jon Lee Anderson
Posted September 2021
Mark Cousins
Mark Cousins – The Story of Looking
Posted August 2021
Rankin, Andrea Fox, Rhik Samadder, Dr Kathryn Mannix...
Rankin - How to Die Well
Posted July 2021
Amartya Sen, Peter Frankopan
Amartya Sen – Home in the World
Posted July 2021
Kate Mosse, Dorothy Koomson, Alexis Kirschbaum
Kate Mosse - How to Write a Novel
Posted July 2021
Gillian Tett
How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life
Posted July 2021
John Green, Daniel Howell
John Green – The Anthropocene Reviewed
Posted June 2021
Lisa Taddeo, Hadley Freeman
Lisa Taddeo on Madness, Transgression and Power
Posted June 2021
John Higgs
William Blake Vs the World
Posted June 2021
Gabrielle Bluestone, Pandora Sykes
Con-Artists of the Digital Age
Posted June 2021
Heather McGhee
The Sum of Us – What Racism Costs Everyone
Posted June 2021
Bill Clinton, James Patterson
Bill Clinton and James Patterson
Posted June 2021
Natalie Haynes
Pandora’s Jar – Women in the Greek Myths
Posted June 2021
R. Michael Hendrix, Hank Shocklee
What Great Musical Minds Teach Us About Creativity
Posted June 2021
Clinton Heylin
The Double Life of Bob Dylan
Posted June 2021
Michael Spitzer
The Musical Human
Posted June 2021
Frances Wilson
The Life of DH Lawrence
Posted May 2021
Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor – Life and Work
Posted May 2021
David Hare
Sir David Hare – A Dramatic Life
Posted May 2021
David Thomson, Erica Wagner
A History of Movie Directors
Posted May 2021
Hannah Rothschild
Hannah Rothschild – The Demise of the Aristocracy
Posted May 2021
Twyla Tharp
Keep It Moving - Life Lessons from Twyla Tharp
Posted May 2021
Mike Leigh
Screen Legends: Mike Leigh
Posted April 2021
Richard Dawkins, Chris Riddell, Robin Ince
The 42nd Anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Celebration
Posted April 2021
Edmund de Waal
Edmund de Waal – Letters to Comondo
Posted April 2021
Damon Hill and Johnny Herbert
Life in the Pit Lane – Damon Hill and Johnny Herbert
Posted April 2021
James Comey, Peter Frankopan
James Comey – Saving Justice
Posted April 2021
Maggie O’Farrell
Maggie O’Farrell – The Story of Hamnet
Posted April 2021
Geoff Dyer
How Photography Invents the World
Posted April 2021
Andria Zafirakou, Melvyn Bragg
Those Who Can, Teach
Posted April 2021
Andrew Miller, Isobel Armstrong
The Road Not Taken – Reflections on Our Unled Lives
Posted April 2021
Cass Sunstein
Cass Sunstein – This Is Not Normal
Posted April 2021
Lord Jonathan Sumption
Law in a Time of Crisis
Posted April 2021
Cyril Bouquet, Michael Wade
How To Bring Breakthrough Ideas to Life
Posted March 2021
Orsola de Castro
The Revolutionary Act of Repairing Your Clothes
Posted March 2021
Diane von Furstenberg
Own It – Diane von Furstenberg’s Manifesto for Personal Growth
Posted March 2021
Bari Weiss, David Baddiel
Bari Weiss Meets David Baddiel - Jews Don’t Count
Posted March 2021
Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende – Power, Patriarchy, and Feminism
Posted March 2021
John Preston
The Rise and Fall of Robert Maxwell
Posted March 2021
David Bradford, Carole Robin
How to Build Exceptional Relationships with Friends, Family and Colleagues
Posted March 2021
Minouche Shafik
How To Answer the 21st Century’s Greatest Challenges
Posted March 2021
Will Self, David Nutt
On Drugs and Addiction – Will Self Meets David Nutt
Posted February 2021
Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan – a Life In Letters
Posted February 2021
Fiona Shaw
Fiona Shaw – Life and Work
Posted February 2021
Ai Weiwei, Peter Frankopan
Peter Frankopan Meets Ai Weiwei – Stories from the Refugee Crisis
Posted February 2021
Jonty Claypole, Mary Beard
Mary Beard Meets Jonty Claypole - How to Get Tongue Tied
Posted February 2021
Annalyn Swan, Mark Stevens
Francis Bacon – His Life and Work
Posted February 2021
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today
Posted February 2020
Wade Davis
Anthropologist Wade Davis – The Unravelling of the American Empire
Posted January 2021
George Saunders
How Stories Work – George Saunders' Masterclass in Writing and in Life
Heidi Thomas, Stephen McGann, Erica Wagner
Erica Wagner meets Heidi Thomas and Stephen McGann
Posted January 2021
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall – How To Eat Better Forever
Posted January 2021
David Baddiel
Comedian David Baddiel on Our Present and Future
Posted December 2020
Deborah Frances-White, Hannah MacInnes
Deborah Frances-White – An Evening With The Guilty Feminist
Posted December 2020
Cailtin Moran
Caitlin Moran – How to Become More Than a Woman: a manifesto for middle-age
Posted December 2020
Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin
How to Love Nature and Save It
Posted December 2020
Eddie Jones
Eddie Jones – My Life and Rugby
Posted December 2020
Nicola Benedetti, Matthew Stadlen
The Power of Music
December 2020
Sebastião Salgado, Alan Riding
Sebastião Salgado in conversation with Alan Riding
Posted December 2020
Peter York, Patrick Barwise
The War Against the BBC
Posted November 2020
Patrick McGuinness
Do you dare disturb the universe? A Beginner’s Guide to T.S. Eliot
Posted November 2020
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins on the Meaning of Life
Posted November 2020
Ralph Steadman, Will Self
Gonzo Artist and Trailblazing Maverick Ralph Steadman on His Life In Ink
Posted November 2020
Yuval Noah Harari, Sara Pascoe
An Evening With Yuval Noah Harari
Posted November 2020
Pen Vogler, Eleanor O'Keefe
A History of Class, Prejudice and British Cuisine: 1066 to 2020.
Posted November 2020
Ai Weiwei, Sophie Richardson, Rana Mitter
Artist and Activist Ai Weiwei – Human Rights in the Age of COVID-19
Posted November 2020
Will Self
Why Do We Struggle To Talk About Death? Will Self Confronts Our Inevitable Mortality.
Posted November 2020
Olivette Otele
Extraordinary Lives – the Untold History of African Europeans
Posted November 2020
Carlo Rovelli, Antony Gormley
All Culture Is One: Sculptor Antony Gormley Meets Theoretical Physicist Carlo Rovelli
Posted November 2020
Bruce Fogle
Quick, Call the Vet! Stories and Life Lessons from Bruce Fogle
Posted November 2020
Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward
Bananarama – The Inside Story of a World Record Breaking, Generation-Defining Band
Posted November 2020
David Bailey, Tim Marlow
An Evening With David Bailey
Posted November 2020
Dan Walker
Hope, Heartbreak and Humanity - Dan Walker's Encounters with Extraordinary Lives
Posted October 2020
John Took
Exploring The Circles of Hell - Why Dante Matters Today
Posted October 2020
Roman Mars
The 99% Invisible City - A field guide to the world of hidden design
Posted October 2020
Heather Morris
Re-Telling the Stories of the Tattooist of Auschwitz
Posted October 2020
Neil Gaiman, Chris Riddell
The Magic of Stories with Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell
Posted October 2020
Wade Davis
Reality and Dreams - Why Ancient Wisdom Matters
Posted October 2020
Rob Halford
Judas Priest’s frontman Rob Halford - Confessions of a Metal God
Posted September 2020
Tim Hampton
Bob Dylan - How Do the Songs Work?
Posted September 2020
Professor Joseph Henrich
WEIRD: How Psychology and Culture Co-evolved to Produce the Western Mind
Posted September 2020
John Cleese
John Cleese’s Guide to Creativity
Posted September 2020
Leonard Mlodinow, Robin Ince
The Life and Work of Stephen Hawking; from his Friend and Collaborator
Posted August 2020
Ayad Akhtar
NO BIO Homeland Elegies – A Novelist’s Reflections on the World After 9/11
Posted August 2020
Dylan Hartley
The Hurt - England Captain Dylan Hartley on His Life in Rugby
Posted August 2020
Wade Davis
River of Dreams – the World’s Leading Anthropologist Journeys to the Heart of Colombia
Posted August 2020
Ian Goldin
Terra Incognita – How To Survive the Next 100 Years
Posted August 2020
Susanna Moore
Miss Aluminum – My Life in 1970s Hollywood
Posted August 2020
Ariana Neumann
My Father’s War – A True Story of Heroism From Nazi-Occupied Berlin
Posted August 2020
Harriet Walter
Was Shakespeare a Feminist? Dame Harriet Walter Explores His Legacy For Women
Posted August 2020
Gloria Steinem, Thandie Newton, Erica Wagner
Thandie Newton Meets Gloria Steinem
Posted August 2020
Ella Mills
How to Live a Full and Healthy Life – Deliciously Ella In Conversation
Posted August 2020
Patrick McGuinness
How to Read Proust – An Accessible Guide to the Greatest Novelist of All Time
Posted August 2020
Sophy Roberts
In Search of the Lost Pianos of Siberia – a Journey Through Russia’s Wild East
Posted August 2020
Lisa Taddeo
Three Women – Journalist and Author Lisa Taddeo on Life, Love and Desire
Posted August 2020
Roman Krznaric
Will You Be a Good Ancestor? A Guide to Long-Term Thinking in Our Short-Term World
Posted August 2020
Viv Groskop
How To Be Happy: Lessons from French Literature with Viv Groskop
Posted August 2020
Will Self
Trials and Tribulations – Will Self on the Nightmare Vision of Franz Kafka
Posted August 2020
Kiley Reid
Such a Fun Age – Kiley Reid on Her Debut Novel and the State of the Nation
Posted August 2020
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks – Building a Future Worth Fighting For
Posted August 2020
Russell Brand
Life Lessons: Russell Brand on Happiness, Heroes and Mentors
Posted August 2020
Graham Norton, Alice Levine
Graham Norton in Conversation with Alice Levine
Posted August 2020
Tori Amos
Tori Amos on Art and Activism and Music
Posted June 2020
Glennon Doyle
Glennon Doyle on the Importance of Finding your True Self
Posted June 2020
Caitlin Moran
Caitlin Moran on Fame, Fortune and Feminism
Posted September 2019
Ai Weiwei, Kenneth Roth
Ai Weiwei on human rights, propaganda and artistic expression.
Posted February 2020
Rory Stewart
The Truth About British Politics
Posted November 2019
Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert on Life and Love
Posted August 2020
Minnie Driver, Jodi Rudoren
Minnie Driver on the #MeToo Movement
Posted November 2018
Francis Fukuyama
Identity Politics, Dignity and Resentment
Posted November 2018
Niall Ferguson, Will Self
Niall Ferguson and Will Self on Politics
Posted September 2018
Jonathan Bate, Alexander Waugh
Who Wrote Shakespeare? The Stratfordian vs Anti-Stratfordian case
Posted July 2016
Multiple Speakers
Has the #MeToo Movement Gone too Far?
Posted March 2018
