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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Janina Ramirez

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Jay Heinrichs
Jay Heinrichs - How Classical Rhetoric Can Change Your Life · Sep 2025

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Jeremy Hunt
Jeremy Hunt - Can Britain Be Great Again? · 2 episodes

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Jessamy Hibberd
Jessamy Hibberd – How to Free Your Mind From Overthinking · May 2026

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Jesse Coomer
Jesse Coomer - The Power of Breathwork · Sep 2023

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Jo Marchant
Jo Marchant – The Science and Mystery of the Present Moment · Sep 2026

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Jo Quinn

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Joanna Kavenna
Award-winning Novelist Joanna Kavenna - How to Play a Game Without Rules · Feb 2026

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John Browne
John Browne - How to Engineer the Future · May 2020

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John Preston
John Preston - The Rise and Fall of Robert Maxwell · Jan 2022

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John Tregoning
John Tregoning - A Curious Scientist’s Guide to Wellness, Ageing and Death · Jul 2025

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Joyce Tyldesley
Joyce Tyldesley - The Life, Death, and Afterlife of Tutankhamun · Nov 2022

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Julia Ebner
Julia Ebner – Undercover With Extremists · Jun 2020

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Julian Baggini
Julian Baggini - How to Think Like a Philosopher · Apr 2023

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Justin Webb
Justin Webb Meets Brian Klaas - Why Everything We Do Matters · Mar 2024

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Kate Hays
Psychologist to the Lionesses Kate Hays - How to Win · Mar 2025

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Kate Summerscale
Kate Summerscale - The History of Phobias and Manias · Oct 2022

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Kate Wilson
Kate Wilson - The Spycops Files · Sep 2025

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Katherine Templar-Lewis

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Katrine Marcal
Katrine Marcal and Caroline Criado Perez - Mother of Invention · Jun 2021

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Kelly Clancy
Neuroscientist Kelly Clancy - How Games Change Reality · Jul 2024

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Ken Liu
Ken Liu - Storytelling is Our Most Important Technology · Jun 2022

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Kenneth Roth
Kenneth Roth - Fighting for Humanity: Three Decades of Leading Human Rights Watch · Mar 2025

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Kerry Burnight
Dr Kerry Burnight – A Short Guide to Enjoying a Long Life · Oct 2025

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Kevin Rowland
Dexys' Kevin Rowland - A Life Story · Aug 2025

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Keza MacDonald
Keza MacDonald - How Nintendo Changed the World · Mar 2026

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Kimon de Greef
Kimon de Greef — A Trip into the Psychedelic Underworld · Sep 2026

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Kristen Ghodsee
Kristen Ghodsee and Angela Saini - Radical Experiments in the Good Life · Sep 2023

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Lara Lewington
Lara Lewington – How Technology is Rewriting the Future of Our Health · Aug 2025

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Laura Spinney
Laura Spinney - How One Ancient Language Went Global · Jul 2025

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Layla Saad
Layla Saad - How to Fight White Supremacy (Summer Repeat) · 2 episodes

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Len Mlodinow
Len Mlodinow and Robin Ince – The Life of Stephen Hawking · Nov 2020

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Lhakpa Sherpa
World Record Breaking Mountaineer Lhakpa Sherpa and Filmmaker Lucy Walker · Jul 2024

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Lola Young
Activist, Actor and Baroness Lola Young - Defying The Odds · Feb 2025

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Lorraine Candy
Lorraine Candy - How to Have a Magnificent Midlife · Jun 2023

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Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Lucy Hughes-Hallett - The Brief & Brilliant Life of the Duke of Buckingham · Dec 2024

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Luke Harding

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Luke O'Neill
Immunologist Luke O'Neill - The Joy of Science · Nov 2023

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Luke Turner
Luke Turner - Men at War · Apr 2023

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M. John Harrison
M. John Harrison - The End of Everything · 2 episodes

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