Sign In

How To Academy Podcast

How To Academy

Details

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.

Recent Episodes

OCT 30, 2026
Neuroscientist Adrian Owen – How to Maximise Your Brain’s Superpower
Neuroscientist Dr Adrian Owen explores executive functions – the set of processes in our brains that make us who we are – how they work, what happens when they falter, and how we can maintain them.
58 MIN
OCT 27, 2026
Historian Hallie Rubenhold - The Silenced Women of Dr Crippen
No murderer should ever be the keeper of their victim's story, and yet, this is precisely the role that Hawley Harvey Crippen has played. Social historian Hallie Rubenhold rewrites the narrative.
27 MIN
OCT 23, 2026
Historian Lindsey Fitzharris: Dr Joe Bell, the Man Who Inspired Sherlock Holmes
The award-winning, bestselling medical historian Lindsey Fitzharris joins us to reveal the surprising origins of literature's greatest detective.
33 MIN
OCT 20, 2026
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Meet David Olusoga - End Times Fascism
In a blistering reckoning with our age, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor join David Olusoga for a journey inside the far-right Armageddon complex – and show us how to break the doom loop before it’s too late.
66 MIN
OCT 16, 2026
Vedic Meditation Teacher Jillian Lavender — How to Find Clarity
Founder of London Meditation Centre, Jillian Lavender reveals the astounding benefits of meditation – and why they are more important than ever in our ever-increasingly hectic lives.
37 MIN