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Dr Uma Naidoo - How to Calm Your Mind With Food Jan 19, 2024

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We’re in the middle of a global anxiety epidemic. But when it comes to fighting anxiety, you have more control than you think: the power is at the end of your fork. Psychiatrist and chef Dr Uma Naidoo joins us with a guide for taking back control, helping us to understand how food can be an indispensable tool in improving mental health.

This podcast is presented in partnership with MindHealth360.

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Sathnam Sanghera on the British Empire - Live at Wilderness Jan 16, 2024

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Every year we host a big thinker at the music festival Wilderness and our guest in 2023 was Sathnam Sanghera, the Times journalist whose two books on the history of the British Empire - Empireland and Stolen History - have transformed the way we think about our past and present.

Sathnam returns to How To Academy on 25th January to tell us about Empireworld - his new book about the lasting impact of the Empire on other nations. A few tickets are still available on our website.

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Oxford Data Scientist Hannah Richie - Combating Climate Anxiety Jan 13, 2024

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Each month our sister podcast Found in Conversation explores global affairs and innovation with world-leading thinkers. In this episode, Oxford data scientist and TED star Hannah Richie and investor Rosa Sangiorgio reveal how we can overcome the climate crisis and become the first sustainable generation in history.

If you enjoy the episode, you can subscribe to Found In Conversation on Apple or Spotify. Hannah explores the themes of this episode in more depth in her new book Not the End of the World, which is out now.

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Economist Mariana Mazzucato - The Entrepreneurial State and the Future of Innovation Jan 09, 2024

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Mariana Mazzucato’s ideas have changed how governments see their role in the economy - but where do we go from here?

Regular listeners will have heard the economist Mariana Mazzucato on this podcast before -- with George the Poet on modern-day moonshot programmes to can transform the economy, and with journalist Kamal Ahmed with a searing critique of the consulting industry. She recently returned to How To Academy to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the groundbreaking book that launched her career in the public eye - The Entrepreneurial State. The book that makes the compelling case that the state is not a bureaucratic machine standing in the way of progress, but a powerful force for innovation. What does that mean for the world in 2024 and the decades to come? She joined Hannah MacInnes to tell us more.

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Psychologist Dan Ariely - Why People Are Drawn to Conspiracy Theories, and How to Help Jan 05, 2024

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Dan Ariely is a superstar TED talker and a world-leading social psychologist, specialising in the study of irrational behaviour and bad decisions. His new book Misbelief is a guide to why some people adopt conspiratorial beliefs and how the rest of us can help rather than make things worse - and offer advice to help us reduce our own susceptibility to such beliefs. He joined the podcast to share his insights.

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Mary Beard and David Mitchell - On Rulers and Power Dec 22, 2023

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Cambridge Professor Mary Beard has done more than anyone to bring the world of ancient Rome to life again. Comedian David Mitchell once studied history and won’t let it off the hook for the mess it’s made of everything. They came together to tell the story of our rulers -- from the emperors who ruled Britannia under the Roman occupation to the kings and queens who succeeded them and created England as we know it today.

Mary's new book Emperor of Rome and David's new book Unruly are both available from our bookshop.org page. Buy either book there and help support Primrose Hill Books, our local independent bookseller partner since 2013. You can also join us live for Mary's next How To Academy event, where she will be speaking with her fellow classicist Josephine Quinn.

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Harvard Psychologist David Rosmarin - How To Thrive With Anxiety Dec 19, 2023

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Those of us who suffer from anxiety either exhaust ourselves trying to cure it or resign ourselves to a lifetime of fear and worry. What if, instead of fighting our anxiety, we could turn it into a strength?

Harvard's David Rosmarin has developed strategies to harness the power of anxiety to learn about ourselves, deepen our relationships with others, and achieve our deepest goals and dreams.

His constructive, compassionate, and evidence-based approach will not rid you of your anxiety. Instead, it will empower you to reach your fullest potential because of it.

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Hein de Haas - Debunking Myths About Migration Dec 15, 2023

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Immigration is probably the most divisive and heated subject in British politics today and the same is true in many other countries, including the Netherlands - where our guest on this episode, Hein de Haas, is a Professor focused on migration and development. His new book How Migration Really Works is an eye-opener for anyone seeking an understanding of why people immigrate and what it means for their origin countries and destination countries. Neither left-wing or right-wing, the book illuminates what's really at stake when we open or close our borders.

If you enjoy the episode, pick up a copy from our bookshop and help support our local independent bookseller, Primrose Hill Books.

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Holistic Psychologist Nicole LePera - How to Heal Your Relationships Dec 12, 2023

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Why are our closest relationships so often a source of more stress than solace? Whether the relationship is with a romantic partner, a parent, a child, a friend or a colleague, the dynamic is so often the same - you'd like the relationship to change for the better, yet nothing you try seems to work.

Clinical psychologist Nicole LePera, creator of the global online community The Holistic Psychologist, joins the podcast to help us revolutionise our relationships.

Her new book How to Be the Love You Seek is a guide to breaking frustrating patterns of loneliness, disconnection and resentment and learning how to build security and share compassion with others. If you enjoy this episode of the show, you can pick up a copy from our bookshop.org page and help support our local independent bookseller partner, Primrose Hill Books.

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New York Times columnist David Brooks - How to Know Others and Be Truly Seen Dec 08, 2023

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In a society riven by fragmentation, hostility, and misperception, How can we look somebody in the eye and see something large in them, and in turn, see something larger in ourselves? How can we foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives?

The New York Times columnist and bestselling author of The Road to Character joins Will Storr to share a practical, inspiring guide to understanding others and being understood in turn.

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