How To Academy Podcast
1) Mark Galeotti - How Crime Organises the World
Far from being distant and peripheral, organised crime shapes our everyday lives, from the materials used to construct our homes to the illicit funds that quietly circulate through financial instituti...Show More
2) Paul Davies - The New Quantum Revolution
100 years on from Schrödinger’s equation, we’re on the cusp of the second Quantum revolution. Everything is about to change again – but how? Theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and astrobiologist Pau...Show More
3) RF Kuang - To Hell with Love
Bestselling novelist Rebecca F. Kuang returns to How To Academy in conversation with Hannah MacInnes to dive into her new novel, Katabasis, inviting us on a journey to the underworld and back. From th...Show More
4) Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman — The Human Cost of Alabama's Prison System
When Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman went into an Alabama state prison to film a revival meeting, they discover that the prisoners wanted to talk to them off-camera and share their stories; after...Show More
Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman — The Human Cost of Alabama's Prison System
38:13 | Dec 16th, 2025
5) Ingrid Clayton – Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves
Do you avoid conflict? Do you tend to take the blame? Do you take care of others at the expense of yourself? Do you live in a state of hypervigilance? Fawning can appear in a plethora of different way...Show More
6) Karl Ove Knausgaard – The School of Night
Widely heralded as the most provocative Norwegian writer since Ibsen and simply ‘one of the finest writers alive’ by the New York Times, Karl Ove Knausgaard’s five-part autobiographical novel sequence...Show More
7) John Higgs - Unravelling the Spell of David Lynch
A boy scout from smalltown America known for his sincere, folksy charm. A chain-smoking maverick dedicated to the pursuit of the Art Life. A womaniser with a female skewing fanbase. A Hollywood outsid...Show More
8) Neuroscientist Nicholas Wright – How the Brain Shapes War
In this episode of the podcast neuroscientist Nicholas Wright reveals how, whether we like it or not, the brain is wired for conflict – in the office or on the battlefield. Blending insights from cutt...Show More
9) Joe Hill - The One With the Dragons
The son of Stephen and Tabitha King and brother of Owen King, Joe Hill was raised in a uniquely gifted literary family and has long established a reputation of his own as a first rate storyteller acro...Show More
10) HYPERLAND: Graham Harman on the Nature of Reality
How do we understand the world and our place in it? Do our lives consist of a small number of dramatic turning points, or is there nothing but a series of gradual changes from infancy to old age? Are ...Show More