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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Rebecca F. Kuang
RF Kuang - To Hell with Love · Dec 2025

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Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Zizek Meets Ash Sarkar - A 75th Birthday Celebration · May 2024

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Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis Meets Slavoj Žižek · 4 episodes

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Adam Rutherford
Adam Rutherford - The Troubling History of Eugenics · Feb 2022

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Martin Wolf
Martin Wolf – The World After the Pandemic · Jun 2020

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Mohamed El-Erian

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Nouriel Roubini
Nouriel Roubini - Megathreats That Imperil the World's Future · Jan 2023

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Peter Godfrey-Smith
Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith - How Animal Minds Transformed Planet Earth · Aug 2024

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Scott Shapiro
Scott Shapiro - The Dark Art of Hacking · Jun 2023

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Thomas Hertog
Thomas Hertog - Stephen Hawking's Final Theory of the Universe · May 2023

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Thomas Levenson
Historian of Science Thomas Levenson — How Humans Discovered Germs · Jul 2025

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Dan Richards
Dan Richards - Stories from the Night · May 2025

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Anders Hansen
Dr Anders Hansen - How to Be Happier and Less Distracted · Sep 2023

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Camilla Nord
Camilla Nord - The New Neuroscience of Mental Health · Oct 2023

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Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning – Information is Power · Dec 2022

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Christiana Figueres
Christiana Figueres - Our Story of Nature · 2 episodes

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Curtis Sittenfeld
Curtis Sittenfeld - Romantic Comedy · Apr 2023

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Daniel Levitin
Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin — How to Harness the Power of Music · Mar 2026

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Ellen Vora
Dr Ellen Vora - The Anatomy of Anxiety · Sep 2022

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Emily Leeming
Dr Emily Leeming - The Life Changing Science of Gut Health · Aug 2024

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Erling Kagge
Erling Kagge and Ben Saunders - How to Be a Polar Explorer · Feb 2020

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Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer - A Life in Writing · Jun 2025

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Jenna Macciochi
Dr Jenna Macciochi - The Game-Changing Science of Lifetime Health · Sep 2025

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Karl Ove Knausgaard
Karl Ove Knausgaard – The School of Night · Dec 2025

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Lili Anolik
Vanity Fair’s Lili Anolik - Joan Didion v. Eve Babitz · Dec 2024

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Max Porter
Max Porter - Why Art Should Challenge Us · Apr 2022

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Mithu Storoni
Dr Mithu Storoni - How To Transform the Way You Work · Nov 2024

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Paul Davies
Paul Davies - The New Quantum Revolution · Jan 2026

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Paul Dolan
LSE Behavioural Economist Paul Dolan - How to Stop Hating People We Disagree With · May 2025

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Robin DiAngelo
Robin DiAngelo and Beverly Daniel Tatum - Conversations About Race · Nov 2021

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Rumaan Alam
Novelist Rumaan Alam - on Wealth, Power, and Entitlement · Sep 2024

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Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh - How the Opium Trade Shaped Capitalism · Feb 2024

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Charles Yu
Charles Yu - Interior Chinatown · Aug 2021

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Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn – Translating Homer's Odyssey · Jul 2026

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Jon Watts
Jon Watts - The Life and Assassination of Dom Philips and the Mission to Save the Amazon · Jun 2025

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Kelly Link
Novelist and Macarthur 'Genius' Kelly Link - The Book of Love · Mar 2024

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Kiley Reid
Novelist Kiley Reid - Come and Get It · 2 episodes

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Mick Herron
Mick Herron - Slow Horses, Bad Actors · May 2023

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Mike Rothschild
Mike Rothschild - The Rise of QAnon · Jul 2021

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Morgan Levine
Morgan Levine - How to Reverse the Ageing Process · Jan 2023

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