M. John Harrison - The End of Everything
One of the leaders of British science fiction's 1960s New Wave, M. John Harrison has spent the subsequent five decades inventing new and exh...
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Mark Williamson – How To Live a Happier Life
What does it mean to be happy? Whilst it’s not always possible to change our circumstances, Action for Happiness founder Mark Williamson bel...
Carol Cadwalladr Meets Karen Hao - Sam Altman, ChatGPT, and the Global Resistance
Karen Hao joins The Nerve's Carole Cadwalladr for an eye-watering insider account of Sam Altman’s Open AI and the burgeoning resistance agai...
Novelist Elodie Harper – Boudicca's Daughter
Boudicca had two daughters, but history records their existence and nothing more. Sunday Times bestselling author Elodie Harper joins us to...
Caroline Sylge – How To Retreat
Caroline Sylge reminds us to press pause on the daily overwhelm of modern life by bringing the magic and solace of retreating into your ever...
Novelist Erica Wagner - Washington Roebling and the Art of Life Writing
Erica Wagner may be the first ever author to write both a landmark biography and a historial novel about the same person. The engineer Washi...
Neurologist Majid Fotuhi – How To Age-Proof Your Brain
Neurologist Majid Fotuhi is leading the charge in revolutionising how we understand human intelligence, brain health and age-related cogniti...
Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris - On Birds, Wonder, and Loss
A great thinning of the skies is underway. Dusk and dawn are growing quiet as birdlife faces a rapid decline across the world. It does not h...
Jessamy Hibberd – How to Free Your Mind From Overthinking
Thinking about your life is a normal part of being human. Often, it is helpful to analyse a situation or revisit a problem in your mind, but...
Phil Tinline - Iron Mountain and the Birth of American Conspiracy Culture
How did a 1960s spoof of Cold War technocracy become a bible for far-right militias in the present? Political journalist Phil Tinline traces...
Tom Holland Meets Armando Iannucci — What The Lives of the Caesars Can Teach Us About Politics
Tom Holland is a storyteller whose range and erudition seem to be as unbounded as history himself. Already a wildly acclaimed bestselling au...
Freya India - The Commodification of Girls and How to Fight Back
Coming of age has always been a time of angst and inner turmoil, especially for girls. But today, those worries exist in a world of AR filte...
Holistic Psychologist Nicole LePera – Reparenting the Inner Child
We all carry the imprint of our earliest years. Childhood is brief, yet its impact is lifelong. Some parts of us were met with love while ot...
Nina Allan - The Many Worlds of JG Ballard
Born into an upper-middle class family and raised in colonial Shanghai, JG Ballard's worldview was profoundly shaped by his internment by th...
Antony Beevor – Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs
When Russia's Dowager Empress was pregnant with the future Tsar, she dreamed that a peasant would one day kill her son. The idea terrified h...
Ecologist Suzanne Simard - Lessons of the Forest
Dr Suzanne Simard transformed our understanding of forests, her groundbreaking research for the Mother Tree Project revealing how the forest...
James Muldoon - Love Rewired in the Age of AI
From friendship, to romance, to even therapy, AI companions are on the rise, and AI companion apps alone have now been downloaded more than...
Neuroscientist Mark Solms - Was Freud Right?
Pioneering neuropsychologist Mark Solms reveals how science is proving Freud correct and explores what this might mean for our mental health...
Zakia Sewell Meets Jeremy Deller - The Quest for a Hidden Britain
Writer and broadcaster Zakia Sewell is on a mission to uncover an alternative spirit of Britain – found in otherworldly folk songs, ancient...
Peter Jones - The Secret History of the Seven Deadly Sins
In 2026 the Seven Deadly Sins have become a bit of harmless fun, more associated with ice creams and videogame villains than the immortal so...