The Today Podcast
1) Irrational Humans: How Our Behaviour Shapes the Economy (Professor Richard Thaler)
How do human choices, biases, and behaviours shape our economy? This week Amol speaks to Nobel Prize winning behavioural economist Professor Richard Thaler about his theories that dive into the patter...Show More
2) A New Generational Divide: Living with(out) the Bank of Mum and Dad (Dr Eliza Filby)
How can Millennials, Gen Zs and Gen As thrive in a world where so much success depends on having access to the Bank of Mum and Dad? Historian Dr Eliza Filby â an expert in generational identity â tell...Show More
3) ChatGPT and Google: The Tech Billionaire Taking On AI Companies (Matthew Prince)
Artificial Intelligence is fundamentally changing the internet. But Matthew Prince, CEO of cybersecurity giant Cloudflare, thinks there is a way to ensure content creators and publishers earn enough t...Show More
4) A Fatal Punch: Why I Met the Parents of the Man I Killed (Jacob Dunne)
Whilst on a night out in the summer of 2011, Jacob Dunne made a split second decision to throw a punch that killed James Hodgkinson. After being convicted of manslaughter, Jacob spent 14 months in pri...Show More
5) Climate Migration: Confronting the Reality of Global Warming (Gaia Vince)
As extreme weather forces people from their homes, the journalist and author Gaia Vince makes the positive case for immigration.Projections show that billions of people will be displaced by 2050 due t...Show More
6) British Identity: How Schools Can Improve Multiculturalism (Katharine Birbalsingh)
Headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh thinks multiculturalism in Britain has led to an excessive focus on our differences rather than what unites us, but she believes schools like hers can change that by ...Show More
7) The Weaponisation of Science: How to Avoid a Global Catastrophe (Carlo Rovelli)
Physicist Carlo Rovelli thinks we need natural intelligence and not artificial intelligence in an age of confrontation.Ten years ago he wrote a short book called Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, which ...Show More
8) Life After Vogue: Why I Want To Reinvent Fashion Magazines (Edward Enninful)
Edward Enninful thinks fashion risks going backwards on diversity, which is why heâs launched a new media business, EE72, to promote inclusion in an anti-woke era. The former editor of British Vogue t...Show More
9) Identity Politics: Why the Left Needs to Stop Fighting Culture Wars (Ash Sarkar)
There are some new (and old) faces on the left of British politics hoping to challenge Keir Starmerâs struggling Labour government, but could a party to the left of Labour ever win power? His predeces...Show More
10) Artificial Intelligence: An AI Boss Warns About The Risks (Dario Amodei)
Artificial intelligence is arguably the single biggest force shaping our world today. Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic which created AI chatbot Claude, says that this technology has the ...Show More