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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Maite Alberdi
Oscar-nominated Filmmaker Maite Alberdi – A Child of My Own · Aug 2026

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Maoz Inon

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Mark Cooper

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Mark Kermode
Mark Kermode – The Stories of Movie Music · Sep 2025

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Mark Solms
Neuroscientist Mark Solms - Was Freud Right? · Apr 2026

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Mark Tuitert
Olympic Gold medallist and entrepreneur Mark Tuitert – How Stoic Philosophy Can Change Your Life · Jun 2024

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Mark Williamson
Mark Williamson – How To Live a Happier Life · Jun 2026

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Mary Anderson
Psychologist Mary Anderson - How to be a Happy High-Achiever · Oct 2024

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Matthew Green
Matthew Green - A Journey Into the Shadowlands · Apr 2022

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Max Brooks
Max Brooks - How To Survive a Global Catastrophe · Jun 2020

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Maya Raichoora
Visualisation Expert Maya Raichoora - How to Think, Feel, and Perform Like the Top 1% · Apr 2025

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Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff - Finding Solace in Dark Times · Jun 2022

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Michel Faber
Michel Faber - Why Music Matters · Oct 2023

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Naomi Potter

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Natalie Haynes
Natalie Haynes and Robin Ince - The Myth of Medea, Reimagined · Feb 2026

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Natalie Lawrence
Historian of Science Natalie Lawrence - Why Monsters Matter · Nov 2024

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Nicholas Humphrey
Nicholas Humphrey - The Invention of Consciousness · Mar 2023

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Nicholas Wright
Neuroscientist Nicholas Wright – How the Brain Shapes War · Nov 2025

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Nigel Planer

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Nina Allan
Nina Allan - The Many Worlds of JG Ballard · May 2026

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Oren Harman
Oren Harman - The Human History of Metamorphosis · Mar 2026

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Owen Jones
Owen Jones Meets Michael Lewis - The Fifth Risk · 2 episodes

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Owen O’Kane
Owen O’Kane - How to Manage Anxiety and Stress · Aug 2020

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Paolo Bacigalupi
New York Times Bestseller Paolo Bacigalupi - Money and Power in the Fantasy Renaissance · Jul 2024

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Paul Craddock
Paul Craddock - The Surprising History of Organ Transplants · Mar 2022

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Paul Goldsmith
Neuroscientist Paul Goldsmith – How to Thrive in a World We Weren’t Made For · Mar 2026

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Peter Heather
Peter Heather - Will the West Fall Like Rome? · Jul 2023

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Peter Jones
Peter Jones - The Secret History of the Seven Deadly Sins · Apr 2026

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Petra Costa
Filmmaker Petra Costa - Democracy on a Knife-edge · 2 episodes

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Phil Tinline
Phil Tinline - Iron Mountain and the Birth of American Conspiracy Culture · May 2026

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Philip Hoare
Philip Hoare - The Revolutionary Genius of William Blake · Sep 2025

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Philip Lymbery
Philip Lymbery - How to Live Sustainably in a Changing World · Nov 2020

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Philip Oltermann
Philip Oltermann - The Stasi Poetry Circle · Apr 2022

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Philippa Gregory
Philippa Gregory - Jane Boleyn Reimagined · 2 episodes

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Philippe Sands

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Ray Nayler
Ray Nayler - Why Dystopian Fiction Matters · 3 episodes

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Rebecca Boyle
Rebecca Boyle - The Story of Our Moon · Apr 2024

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Rebecca Kuang
Award winning novelist Rebecca Kuang - Yellowface · Nov 2024

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Rebecca Wragg Sykes

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Richard Restak
Neuroscientist Dr Richard Restak – How To Prevent Dementia · 2 episodes

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