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Simon Akam + Rachel Lloyd & Richard Dawkins 29 Oct 2024 • EN

#198: Richard Dawkins, non-fiction author

Simon and Rachel speak to Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist and bestselling science writer. His first book, "The Selfish Gene", published in 1976, has sold over a million copies and been translated into more than 25 languages. Other titles include "The Ancestor’s Tale", "The Blind Watchmaker" and "The God Delu

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Sam Leith & Malcolm Gladwell 02 Oct 2024 • EN

Malcolm Gladwell: Revenge of the Tipping Point

My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Malcolm Gladwell. Twenty-five years after he published The Tipping Point, Malcolm returns to the subject of his first book in Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders and the Rise of Social Engineering. He tells me about the 'magic third', why it's not just

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In today’s episode, American author, speaker and blogger Mark Manson discusses how the mantra of relentless positivity, which drives so much of the self-help industry, is full of pitfalls. He explains how negative emotions have a purpose - to drive us to do something - and why the willingness to look like an idiot occa

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Mike Pesca & Jamil Zaki 29 Aug 2024 • EN

Homo Economicus

Jamil Zaki is a Stanford researcher and the author of the new book, Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness. He brings us a rare positive view of how our society has evolved, what it's evolved into, and he explains the flawed idea of "homo economicus." What does that mean? Listen. Also on the show, ha

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Marika Reisberg & Jill Lublin 08 Oct 2024 • EN

Creative Skill with Jill Lublin

Creativity through the lens of a world renowned publicity expert, international speaker and 4x best selling author "For me creativity means: I get to use all of my skills." Jill Lublin is a 25+ year Media Magnet.  She is a world-renowned publicity expert, international speaker and 4x Best Selling author. Jill has made

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Simon Akam + Rachel Lloyd & Robert Harris 01 Oct 2024 • EN

#196: Robert Harris, novelist

Simon and Rachel speak to Robert Harris, the bestselling historical novelist. Robert worked as a journalist, and wrote several non-fiction books, before his first novel, "Fatherland", which imagines a world in which Germany won the Second World War, was published in 1992. He has subsequently written 15 other novels: in

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