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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Amanda Doyle

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Antony Beevor
Antony Beevor – Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs · Apr 2026

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Ben Saunders

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Caitlin Moran
Caitlin Moran Meets Alex James - Cocaine, Crash Diets and the Return of Blur (Summer Repeat) · 3 episodes

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Carlo Rovelli
Physicist Carlo Rovelli Meets Theatre-Maker Simon McBurney · Feb 2024

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Chris Patten
Chris Patten - The Future of Hong Kong · Jul 2022

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Clive Woodward
Clive Woodward – How to Win · Aug 2020

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Colm Toibin
Colm Toibin and Terence Killeen - Ulysses Unbound · Jun 2022

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Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Parker Meets Carlo Rovelli - The Hidden Nature of Things · Sep 2022

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David Attenborough
A Journey into Uncharted Territories with David Attenborough, Miriam Margolyes, Nigel Planer, and others... · Jul 2025

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David Hare
Sir David Hare - A Life in Theatre · Jun 2021

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David Mitchell
David Mitchell - Dishonesty is the Second Best Policy (Summer Repeat) · 2 episodes

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David Olusoga
David Olusoga and Alan Lester - The Truth About the British Empire · Oct 2024

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David Spiegelhalter
Cambridge Professor David Spiegelhalter - How to Navigate Change, Ignorance, Risk and Luck · Nov 2024

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Davina McCall
Davina McCall and Dr Naomi Potter - How to Thrive Through Menopause · Oct 2023

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Ed Miliband
Ed Miliband - How to Fix Our World · Apr 2022

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Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak – How to Build Bridges in an Age of Division · Mar 2020

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Emily Ratajkowski

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Fiona Shaw
Fiona Shaw - A Life on Stage and Screen · Sep 2021

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Frankie Boyle
Frankie Boyle Meets George Monbiot - The Fight Against Neoliberalism · Feb 2025

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Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown, Mohamed El-Erian, Michael Spence - Fixing the Permacrisis · 2 episodes

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Helen Macdonald
Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché - Nostalgia is a Weapon · Aug 2023

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Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan – A Life In Literature · Mar 2021

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Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende - On the Power of Story, Resistance, and Humanity · 2 episodes

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Isabella Tree
Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell - When the Wild Things Returned · Jul 2024

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Jameela Jamil
Jameela Jamil and Michael Schur - How to be Perfect · Feb 2022

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James Blunt
Musician James Blunt - Not Safe For Work · Feb 2024

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James O'Brien
James O'Brien Meets Ian Dunt - How They Broke Britain · May 2024

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Jens Stoltenberg
Jens Stoltenberg - Leading NATO in a Time of War · Oct 2025

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Jeremy Deller

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Jess Phillips
Jess Phillips – How To Speak Truth to Power · Oct 2020

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John Humphrys
John Humphrys - How to Make the News · Sep 2019

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Jools Holland
Jools Holland and Mark Cooper – Celebrating Thirty Years of Music and Mayhem · Dec 2022

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Julia Samuel
Julia Samuel Meets John and Julie Gottman - How to Make Love Last · 3 episodes

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Juliet Stevenson
Juliet Stevenson - How To Be An Actor · Oct 2019

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Kate Mosse
Kate Mosse - Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries · Oct 2022

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Maggie O'Farrell
Maggie O'Farrell - The Life of Hamnet Shakespeare · May 2021

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Mary Beard
Mary Beard and David Mitchell – On Rulers and Power (Summer Repeat) · 3 episodes

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Mary Portas
Mary Portas - How to Thrive in the New Kindness Economy · Aug 2021

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Mervyn King
Mervyn King Meets Martin Wolf - The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism · 2 episodes

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