How To Academy Podcast

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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Most frequent guests

Yuval Noah Harari 6 episodes
John Higgs 5 episodes
Robin Ince 5 episodes
Yanis Varoufakis 4 episodes
Richard Dawkins 3 episodes
Rory Stewart 3 episodes
Gabor Maté 3 episodes
George Saunders 3 episodes
Glennon Doyle 3 episodes
Mariana Mazzucato 3 episodes

Every guest on How To Academy Podcast

529 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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Charan Ranganath
Neuroscientist Charan Ranganath meets Robin Ince - Why We Remember · Apr 2024

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Serhii Plokhy
Harvard Historian Serhii Plokhy - Chernobyl Under Russian Occupation · Oct 2024

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Geena Davis
Geena Davis - Dying of Politeness · Oct 2022

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Patrick Radden Keefe
Patrick Radden Keefe - True Stories of Killers, Grifters, and Crooks · Aug 2022

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Brian Cox
Brian Cox Meets Rebecca Wragg Sykes – The Lost World of Neanderthals · Oct 2020

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Brian Greene
Brian Greene - How to Find Meaning in an Evolving Universe · May 2020

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Arthur Brooks
Arthur Brooks - How to Build the Life You Want · Oct 2023

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Freya India
Freya India - The Commodification of Girls and How to Fight Back · May 2026

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Nir Eyal
Nir Eyal - The Science-Backed Way to Stop Limiting Yourself · Jul 2026

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Oliver Burkeman
Oliver Burkeman - How to Live a Meaningful Life in an Age of Bewilderment · Sep 2024

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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders Meets Frankie Boyle - It's Okay to Be Angry About Capitalism · Mar 2023

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Gloria Steinem

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C. Thi Nguyen
C. Thi Nguyen - How to Stop Playing Someone Else's Game · Mar 2026

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Rory Sutherland
Rory Sutherland - How to Be Less Rational (and More Brilliant) · Oct 2019

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Ada Palmer
Historian and Novelist Ada Palmer - Was the Renaissance Really a Golden Age? · Feb 2025

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Jung Chang
Jung Chang – Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China · Nov 2020

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Andrew Roberts
Andrew Roberts - 150 Years of Winston Churchill · Dec 2024

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Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari – Making Sense of a World in Crisis (Summer Repeat) · 6 episodes

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Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson - The Life of Elon Musk · Dec 2023

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Jimmy Wales

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Noam Chomsky

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Susan Cain
Susan Cain - How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole · Jun 2022

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Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson – Dawn of the Atomic Age · Feb 2025

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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins - Live at Wilderness Festival 2022 · 3 episodes

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Simon Sinek
Simon Sinek - How to Lead in the 21st Century · Jun 2019

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Charlotte Fox Weber
Charlotte Fox Weber - A Journey Into Human Desire · Sep 2022

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Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell - How to Make a Good First Impression · Jan 2021

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Rahul Jandial
Rahul Jandial - How to Rewire Your Brain (Summer Repeat) · 2 episodes

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David Spiegel
Stanford Professor Dr. David Spiegel - How Hypnosis Can Change Your Life · Nov 2023

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Yung Pueblo
Yung Pueblo - How To Love Better · Apr 2025

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Ethan Kross
Ethan Kross – How to Harness the Voice Inside Your Head · Mar 2021

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Charles Duhigg
Charles Duhigg - How to be a Supercommunicator · May 2024

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Sahil Bloom
Sahil Bloom - How to Design Your Dream Life · Feb 2025

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Adam Grant
Adam Grant and Tim Harford – The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know · Mar 2021

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Matthew Syed
Matthew Syed - A Radical Blueprint for Creative Problem-Solving · Dec 2019

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Nate Silver
Superstar election forecaster Nate Silver - The Art of Risking Everything · Sep 2024

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Rory Stewart
Rory Stewart Meets Saad Mohseni - The Fight for a Free Press in Kabul · 3 episodes

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Brian Klaas

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David Robson
Bestselling Science Writer David Robson - The Laws of Social Connection · Jun 2024

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Mo Gawdat
Mo Gawdat & Alice Law - A Guide to Stress-Free Living · May 2024

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Recent episodes

546 episodes from the feed, newest first.

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

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Jo Marchant – The Science and Mystery of the Present Moment
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Naomi Klein - The Mirror World of Conspiracists and the Far-Right (Summer Repeat)
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Yuval Noah Harari – Making Sense of a World in Crisis (Summer Repeat)
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Suzy Hansen – Turkey in the Age of Erdoğan
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Daniel Mendelsohn – Translating Homer's Odyssey
with Daniel Mendelsohn

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

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Sir Roger Deakins – Reflections of a Cinematographer
with Roger Deakins

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Emma Southon - How Slavery Made the Roman Empire
with Emma Southon

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

Jul 2026
Therapist Emmy van Deurzen – The Philosopher’s Guide to Everyday Existence
with Emmy van Deurzen

Jul 2026
Bill Browder and Jamison Firestone: Chaos and Murder in Putin's Russia
with Bill Browder

Jul 2026
Tom McTague – Britain in Europe: The Hidden History of a Revolution
with Tom McTague

Jun 2026
Malala Yousafzai - Finding My Way
with Malala Yousafzai

Jun 2026
Antonia Senior – The Cambridge Five and the Making of The Soviet Empire
with Antonia Senior

Jun 2026