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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Every guest on How To Academy Podcast

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

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Eliot Higgins
Eliot Higgins - We Are Bellingcat · May 2022

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Elodie Harper
Novelist Elodie Harper – Boudicca's Daughter · Jun 2026

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Emily Kasriel
Emily Kasriel - The Art of Deep Listening · Sep 2025

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Emma Gannon
Emma Gannon - The Meaning of Success · Jul 2023

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Emma Southon
Emma Southon - How Slavery Made the Roman Empire · 2 episodes

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

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Erica Wagner
Novelist Erica Wagner - Washington Roebling and the Art of Life Writing · Jun 2026

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Fatima Bhutto
Fatima Bhutto Meets Noam Chomsky · Nov 2021

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Felix Flicker
Felix Flicker - The Magic of Matter · Jan 2023

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Fi Glover
Fi Glover and Jane Garvey - Did I Say That Out Loud? · Feb 2022

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Fiona Buckland
Fiona Buckland - How to Change Your Life · May 2023

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Francesco Dimitri
Francesco Dimitri - The Search for Wonder · Jul 2022

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Gabriel Weston
Gabriel Weston - A New Journey Through the Human Anatomy · Apr 2025

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Gabriela Denise Frank
Fern Academy Prize winner Gabriela Denise Frank - Fear and Loathing in White Collar America · Aug 2024

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Gary Lightbody
Gary Lightbody - On Grief, Love, and the Power of Music · Mar 2025

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Gavin Francis
Dr Gavin Francis – Making Sense of Mental Health · Mar 2026

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Geoffrey Robertson
Geoffrey Robertson – Who Owns History? · Sep 2020

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George Osborn
George Osborn — Video Games, Politics, and the Battle for Influence · Jul 2026

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George Osborne
George Osborne Meets Tom Holland - The Lives of the Caesars · Mar 2025

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Giles Coren
Giles Coren - A Man For All Seasons · Sep 2019

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Gina Rippon
Gina Rippon - How Science Failed Autistic Women · May 2025

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Ginny Smith
Ginny Smith - The Neuroscience of Everyday Life · Jun 2021

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Grace Spence Green
Dr Grace Spence Green - On Recovery, Disability, and Radical Acceptance · Aug 2025

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Graham Harman
HYPERLAND: Graham Harman on the Nature of Reality · Nov 2025

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Greg Jenner
Greg Jenner - How to Find the Comedy in History · Nov 2021

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Hadley Freeman

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Hannah Richie
Oxford Data Scientist Hannah Richie - Combating Climate Anxiety · Jan 2024

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Harry Sidebottom
Harry Sidebottom - The Mad Emperor Heliogabalus · Nov 2022

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Hein de Haas
Hein de Haas - Debunking Myths About Migration · Dec 2023

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Helen Molesworth
Senior Jewellery Curator at the V&A Helen Molesworth - The Dazzling History of Gems · Aug 2024

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Hilary Cottam
Hilary Cottam - How to Revolutionise the Welfare State · Jan 2020

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Hope Reese
Hope Reese - The Dark History of the Angel Makers of Nagyrév · Aug 2025

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Ian Dunt

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Ian Mortimer
Ian Mortimer - The Time Traveller's Guide to England · Nov 2025

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Ingrid Clayton
Ingrid Clayton – Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves · Dec 2025

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J Craig Venter
Pioneering Biologist J Craig Venter - The Future of Life on Earth · Jul 2024

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Jackie Morris

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James Kinross
Dr James Kinross - The New Science of the Microbiome · Sep 2023

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James Muldoon
James Muldoon - Love Rewired in the Age of AI · Apr 2026

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Jamison Firestone

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