How To Academy Podcast
329 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★ - 26 ratingsHow 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.
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Davina McCall and Dr Naomi Potter - How to Thrive Through Menopause
October 18, 2023 10:19 - 1 hourMenopause affects every woman, and yet so many approach it with shame, fear, misinformation or silence. Why is no one talking about this? Who has the correct information? And how can we get it? Davina McCall and Dr Naomi Potter are here to tell you the truth, so you can make informed decisions about your life and your body. By exploring and explaining the science, debunking damaging myths, and smashing the taboos around the perimenopause and menopause, Davina and Naomi will equip you to make ...
Gordon Brown, Mohamed El-Erian, Michael Spence - Fixing the Permacrisis
October 13, 2023 08:56 - 1 hourToday we face not one crisis but a cascade: sputtering growth, surging inflation, poor policy responses, an escalating climate emergency, worsening inequality, increasing nationalism and a decline in global co-operation. But though the situation seems dire, it is not yet broken beyond repair. In this episode, we bring together former UK PM Gordon Brown, business leader and former chair of President Obama's Global Development Council Mohamed El-Erian, and Nobel laureate economist Michael Spenc...
David Nutt - How Psychedelics Can Change Your Life
October 10, 2023 08:42 - 1 hourWe are on the cusp of a major revolution in psychiatric medicine and neuroscience. After fifty years of prohibition, criminalisation and fear, science is finally showing us that psychedelics are not dangerous or harmful. Instead, when used according to tested, safe and ethical guidelines, they are our most powerful newest treatment of mental health conditions, from depression, PTSD, and OCD to disordered eating and even addiction and chronic pain. Professor David Nutt, one of the world's lead...
Camilla Nord - The New Neuroscience of Mental Health
October 06, 2023 08:34 - 1 hourWe commonly misperceive mental health as being all in the mind, and physical pain in the body; but neuroscientist Camilla Nord’s groundbreaking research presents a new view of mental health – one that reframes mental health as an intricate, self-regulating process which is different for all of us. It's the subject of her new book, The Balanced Brain, and of this conversation with Hannah MacInnes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Michel Faber - Why Music Matters
October 03, 2023 09:40 - 56 minutesMichel Faber is one of the most acclaimed contemporary novelists in the English language; a master of the form able to move effortlessly between historical, contemporary, and futuristic settings in pursuit of emotional truth. But music, not literature, is his first love, and in his new book Listen he draws on that passion to investigate why music matters to us and how it works its magic. The owner of thousands upon thousands of records, Michel draws on an encylopedic knowledge of both mainstr...
Dr Anders Hansen - How to Be Happier and Less Distracted
September 30, 2023 09:51 - 1 hour"Don't worry, be happy", "focus on the important things", "smile more". We've all heard these platitudes, and we've all been annoyed by them. But how can we actually live a life filled with more happiness and less distraction? Psychiatric specialist and bestselling author Dr Anders Hansen believes the first step is understanding the wiring of our brains - and how modern society is built to hijack it. Anders sits down with Luke Naylor-Perrott to discuss how we can stop this hijacking, translat...
John Higgs - The KLF, the Band That Burned a Million Pounds
September 26, 2023 08:44 - 43 minutesJohn Higgs has joined this podcast to talk about William Blake, James Bond, and the Beatles - and now he's back with another iconic British cultural export: the electronic band sometimes called The KLF. He's just released the 10th Anniversary Edition of his book trying to make sense of why they set fire to a million pounds then vanished from public life. His attempt to figure out the answer takes him on a wild ride with counterculture icon Robert Anton Wilson, comic book genius Alan Moore, co...
Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross - Your Brain on Art
September 22, 2023 07:39 - 1 hourFor most of us, the arts are a great source of pleasure. But could making art actually be good for your brain and body? Susan Magsamen is the founder and director of the International Arts + Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she studies how the brain and biology change when we participate in the arts. She's the author of Your Brain on Art, a new book making a powerful and persuasive case for the medicinal benefits of art. She wrote the book with Ivy Ross, Vice Pre...
Joyce Carol Oates - Zero Sum
September 19, 2023 09:10 - 56 minutesThe author of 58 novels, as well as plays, poetry, non-fiction and short stories, Joyce Carol Oates is famed across the literary world for writing at a speed which leaves her contemporaries trailing in the dust. But the fact of her productivity – and the sheer challenge of keeping up with such a prodigious writer – too often masks the more significant truth: that Joyce Carol Oates may be the most original, erudite, and versatile voice in American letters. In this podcast, we dive into the sto...
Jesse Coomer - The Power of Breathwork
September 15, 2023 08:31 - 1 hourJesse Coomer was an English professor suffering from what he called "The Modern Human Condition" - in other words, he was a mess of stress and anxiety. He learned to combat that with breath training and cold exposure, and now teaches his techniques to athletes, the military, and beyond. He's the author of a new book called The Language of Breath - it's already out in the US and comes out in the UK in October. He joined Hannah MacInnes a couple of weeks back to tell us more. Learn more about y...
Kristen Ghodsee and Angela Saini - Radical Experiments in the Good Life
September 12, 2023 09:20 - 1 hourWhat can we learn from historical attempts to live together and raise children differently? Kristen Ghodsee is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Everyday Utopia, a new guide to experimental communities from the Pythagorians to the present. She talked to the journalist, author, and broadcaster Angela Saini about the past, present, and future of family life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dr James Kinross - The New Science of the Microbiome
September 08, 2023 09:24 - 57 minutesJames Kinross is a consultant surgeon at Imperial College and one of the world's leading experts on the science of the microbiome — the complex ecosystem of bacteria, viruses and other microbes inside us. In a livestream from hospital, where he had literally just finished operating, he took Hannah MacInnes on a tour of this amazing inner universe and told us what it means for our overall health and wellbeing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Emma Southon - Women of the Roman Empire
September 05, 2023 09:18 - 49 minutesEmma Southon is a podcaster and ancient historian. Her new book A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women does exactly what it says on the tin: sidestepping the sidesteps of the long list of battles, consuls and generals that normally passes for the grand narrative of Rome to focus on the lives of women - including Vestal Virgins, sex workers, empresses, poets, and saints. She turns our preconceptions about the Roman world on its head to reveal a new story of the ancient world where ordinary ...
Rahul Jandial - How to Rewire Your Brain (Summer Repeat)
September 01, 2023 08:14 - 41 minutesFor years Dr Rahul Jandial, a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist, has transformed the lives of his neurosurgery patients by putting them through ‘brain rehab’, his specially developed boot camp for restoring brain function. In this eye-opening interview with Hannah MacInnes, he uses his expertise to show how healthy people can rewire their brains to work in a higher gear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
David Christian - A User's Guide to the Future (Bonus Episode)
August 29, 2023 08:50 - 24 minutesWhen you get behind the wheel of a car, throw or catch a ball, change jobs, or move to a new country, you are making a series of predictions about what will happen next in your life and in the world. But what do we really mean when we talk about “the Future”? Is it something that is fixed or open? Can we genuinely know something about the world in twenty-five, fifty, or a hundred years? Are all predictions of the future equally likely to be right or wrong, and how can we make our predictions ...
Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché - Nostalgia is a Weapon
August 25, 2023 12:30 - 52 minutesThe writer Helen Macdonald is best known for the award winning memoir H is For Hawk and other distinguished works exploring our relationship to the natural world; their new novel Prophet is something very different but no less compelling - a speculative novel of ideas that will appeal to fans of literary science fiction and action thrillers as well as fans of Helen's earlier work. Written in collaboration with the Irish-American musician and writer Sin Blaché, the novel tells the story of a b...
Julia Cameron and Elizabeth Gilbert - The Path to Higher Creativity (Summer Repeat)
August 22, 2023 10:51 - 58 minutesJulia Cameron is the author, poet, and screenwriter whose book The Artist's Way is one of the most influential creativity manuals ever written. Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of many books including most famously, Eat, Pray, Love - a memoir she says would not have been written without the guidance offered by The Artist Way. At the start of the pandemic, we brought Julia and Elizabeth together virtually to celebrate the power and value of the human imagination. Learn more about your ad choice...
Alan Philps - Stalin's Disinformation War
August 18, 2023 13:08 - 48 minutesAlan Philps is the former foreign editor of the Daily Telegraph and an expert on Russian politics. He's the author of a new book called The Red Hotel, which tells the story of Moscow's Metropol Hotel and the journalists and translators who stayed there in WWII. The book reveals both the scope and sophistication of Stalin's propaganda machine and the heroism of the translators who fought to expose the truth about life in the Soviet Union. We sat down with Alan earlier this year to find out mor...
Marie Kondo - Kurashi at Home (Summer Repeat)
August 15, 2023 08:20 - 33 minutesMarie Kondo became a global superstar when she introduced the world to the life-changing magic of tidying up. Now Marie joins us to share the art of kurashi – or “way of life.” She elevates her focus from the physical act of tidying to include a more holistic and personal approach to transforming our homes into spaces of calm. As a mother of three young children, Marie not only reveals a personal glimpse of her own way of living and an enhanced approach to the pursuit of joy, but also how we ...
Victoria Belim - The Resilience of Art in Times of War
August 11, 2023 11:27 - 44 minutes“Mourning a place is even more difficult than mourning a person,” writes Victoria Belim in The Rooster House. Her book is part-memoir, part-detective story as she returns to her birth country of Ukraine in 2014 to uncover the mystery of her missing great-uncle; but it is also a hymn to the beauty of Ukraine and a paean to her lost land. For as seasons pass and Victoria learns more about her family, she also becomes one with the land her grandmother tends and reconnects with the unbreakable sp...
Dr Pooja Lakshmin - Sustainable Strategies for Real Self-Care
August 08, 2023 07:57 - 56 minutesLeading psychiatrist Dr Pooja Lakshmin knows first-hand how toxic the wellness industry can be. In search of radical answers to her own personal experience of burnout and depression, she bought into the cult of wellness and faux “self-care” and found an industry rigged against women’s real interests. Now she joins us with an alternative framework for achieving true wellbeing. Using case studies, clinical research and actionable strategies, Dr Pooja is a leading a personal and social revolutio...
Booker Prize winner George Saunders - Liberation Day (Summer Repeat)
August 04, 2023 14:12 - 36 minutesRevisiting one of our favourite episodes of last year, the Booker Prize winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo shares his idiosyncratic take on the human condition. George Saunders’ first new collection of stories in ten years is a powerful reminder of why he is widely considered to be the greatest short story writer in the English language. In Liberation Day, we meet the disillusioned employees of a Hell themed underground theme park, the artistic patrons of a dystopian near-future America, ...
Malcolm Harris - How Palo Alto Conquered the World
August 02, 2023 08:20 - 49 minutesHow did the suburb of Palo Alto become the epicentre of a global tech revolution, changing not just American capitalism but the world? Malcolm Harris was raised in Palo Alto, the heartland of Silicon Valley, home of Stanford University, and the birthplace of the digital age. We live in the world created by The Palo Alto System - a set of 19th century ideas for innovation that have subtly shaped the way that business is still done in the Valley today. Malcolm's new book Palo Alto offers a crit...
Dr Amy Shah - How to Manage Hunger and Cravings
July 28, 2023 09:25 - 59 minutesOur guest on this episode is Amy Shah, a physician who trained at Cornell, Columbia and Harvard. She specialises in nutrition and the mind-body connection that leads to hunger and cravings. Her new book on that subject is called I'm So Effing Hungry. She joined Hannah MacInnes earlier this year to tell us all about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Andy Clark - How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
July 25, 2023 08:10 - 1 hourHow do our minds build our worlds? One of the most important living thinkers in cognitive science and philosophy joined us with a grand new vision to explain our lived experience. Hugely renowned in the cognitive sciences for the Extended Mind hypothesis, which explained the way in which tools seem to become part of ‘us’ many years before smartphones, laptops, and the internet made all of us feel one with our machines, philosopher Andy Clark is the leading researcher of Predictive Brain theor...
Christina Wallace - How To Futureproof Your Career
July 21, 2023 07:36 - 1 hourHow can you make 'work' work for you? Christina Wallace is a millenial, an entrepreneur, a professor at Harvard Business School, and an expert in building a career that is both true to your values and interests and compatible with our age of constant disruption. It's the subject of her new book The Portfolio Life and of a livestreamed conversation we hosted with Christina in the spring, hosted by her friend and fellow entrepreneur DJ diDonna. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastcho...
Booker 2022 winner Shehan Karunatilaka - The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
July 18, 2023 09:42 - 1 hourColombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. Fusing fury with comedy, mordant wit and disturbing truths, Shehan Karunatilaka’s wildly energic tour de force The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida has catapulted its author in the first order of world literature. He joins us to share the stories behind this extraordinary te...
Emma Gannon - The Meaning of Success
July 14, 2023 10:02 - 1 hourDo you think you'd be happier if you won the lottery? Do you spend your days scrolling, thinking everyone else is living life better than you? Have you ever got a long-awaited promotion and thought 'Oh. Is that it?' Emma Gannon had everything she'd longed for: a string of successful books to her name, a thriving portfolio career, speaking engagements around the world. She was also burned out and confused at why she felt unhappy, yet still striving for more. After taking a deep look at her own...
Richard Dawkins - Live at Wilderness Festival 2022
July 11, 2023 08:24 - 1 hourHow To Academy is back at Wilderness Festival this August, where we will be hosting the journalist and author of Empireland Sathnam Sanghera on his new history of the British Empire aimed at younger readers: Stolen History. In anticipation we wanted to share our event from last year's Wilderness, this time with the scientist and author of groundbreaking books including The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Viorica Marian - The Power of Language
July 07, 2023 09:31 - 52 minutesViorica Marian joins us to explore how crucial multilingualism is to human flourishing. Her new book, The Power of Language, distils her research to share how language shapes our self-conception, our decisions, and the society we create. From the politics that underlie whether we categorise a language as a “language” or a “dialect”, to the ways language has shaped our identities or been employed to discriminate, to how maths and poetry too can be understood as languages, this episode illumina...
Peter Heather - Will the West Fall Like Rome?
July 04, 2023 09:25 - 53 minutesWhat can we learn about the decline of the west from the fall of the Roman Empire? Was decline inevitable for Rome and is it inevitable for the US too? Historian Peter Heather is the co-author of Why Empires Fall, a new book exploring the parallels between the 5th century and the 21st. He joined Luke Naylor Perrott to explore what new lessons we can learn from ancient history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Lorraine Candy - How to Have a Magnificent Midlife
June 30, 2023 08:43 - 1 hourLorraine Candy is the go-to voice for a generation of women seeking information and guidance. Now the bestselling author of Mum, What’s Wrong With You? and co-host of chart-topping podcast Postcards from Midlife joins How To Academy for a witty, compelling, honest and reassuring guide to living a magnificent midlife. Drawing together advice from experts and her own personal experiences, Lorraine will help you feel less alone and embrace this liberating and transformational new stage of life. ...
Scott Shapiro - The Dark Art of Hacking
June 27, 2023 08:59 - 48 minutesScott Shapiro is a professor at Yale who teaches the philosophy of law. He is also a hacker, and the author of a new history of hacking, cybersecurity and cyberwar called Fancy Bear Goes Phishing. In it, he sets out to answer three questions: why is the internet so insecure? how do hackers exploit its vulnerabilities? And what can we do about it? If you've ever wondered whether hackers are all savants with black hoodies who can break into the pentagon from their basements, Scott is here to di...
James Comey - The Pursuit of Justice in a Divided America
June 23, 2023 09:05 - 1 hourSince he was fired by Trump for refusing to bend the knee, the former FBI director James Comey has become one of the most insightful and authoritative defenders of American democracy and the institutions of American justice. James has just released a new novel inspired his experience prosecuting the mafia in new york: Central Park West. It's a wild ride, sizzling with crime, corruption, and conspiracy. He joined us in London at the Conduit for a conversation with the club's founder, Paul van ...
Gretchen Rubin - How to Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life
June 20, 2023 07:42 - 1 hourOur guest on this episode, Gretchen Rubin, writes bestselling books about the routes we can take to find happiness and fulfilment; in the process she's become part of the zeitgeist, even appearing as an answer on Jeopardy!. Her latest book is Life in Five Senses; a guide to using getting out of our heads so we can appreciate all that the world around us has to offer. She joined us in conversation with Hannah MacInnes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
William Dalrymple and Sathnam Sanghera - British Imperialism in India
June 16, 2023 13:02 - 1 hourHow did the Mughal empire – which then generated just under half the world’s wealth – come to be replaced by the first global corporate power - the East India Company? And how does the legacy of British imperialism continue to shape life and culture in Britain today? Bringing together Empireland author and Times columnist Sathnam Sanghera and bestselling award-winning historian William Dalrymple, this episode of the How To Academy Podcast will tell a story that is barely taught in schools or ...
Richard Ford - A Life in Literature
June 13, 2023 07:14 - 47 minutesOur guest on this episode Richard Ford is one of the masters of American literary fiction. Frequently compared to Updike, Faulkner and Hemingway; he's the author of The Sportswriter, Let Me Be Frank With You, and the Pulitzer Prize winning Independence Day - all of which chart the life of his imperfect everyman Frank Bascombe. Ford's new novel Be Mine is the last of the Frank Bascombe books and finds his protagonist in his later years embarking on a trip to Mt Rushmore with his terminally ill...
Andre Solo - How To Thrive as a Sensitive Person
June 09, 2023 08:45 - 1 hourHave you ever been told you're too sensitive? What if we told you that being sensitive wasn't a weakness, but a superpower? Our guest on this episode Andre Sólo is a researcher, and editor-in-chief of the website Highly Sensitive Refuge. He is the co-author of a number of scientific papers on the subject and of a new book: Sensitive: The Power of a Thoughtful Mind in an Overwhelming World, which makes the case for the advantages of a sensitive soul and shares his insights for how to thrive as...
Susie Alegre - Protecting Freedom of Thought in the Digital Age
June 06, 2023 09:05 - 29 minutesSusie Alegre is a leading human rights barrister and a pioneer of digital human rights in the age of AI and big tech. In her book Freedom to Think, she explores the basis upon which we have a right to our own ideas and opinions - and how we can protect that right in an age of digital surveillance and ever more advanced forms of propaganda. She spoke to us about the history of thought control, connecting the dots between Socrates, Galileo, witch trials and the contemporary world. Learn more ab...
Sarah Knight - How to be an Adult and Get Treated Like One
June 01, 2023 07:41 - 1 hourSarah Knight made her name as the author of the sensational anti-self help book The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**K and has sold more than 3 million copies of that book and others in the series. Her latest is called Grow the F**K Up - how to be an adult and get treated like one. We hosted her in conversation with Hannah MacInnes. Expect bad language and good advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
M. John Harrison - Living in an Age of Fantasy
May 29, 2023 06:53 - 43 minutesAs a member of the 1960s science fiction New Wave, M. John Harrison worked with authors like Michael Moorcock and JG Ballard to he helped turn generic entertainment into serious and even avante garde literature. His latest book, Wish I Was Here, subverts and breaks apart the conventions of life writing with the same restless unbridled spirit that powered his award-winning novels Climbers, Light, Nova Swing and most recently, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again. He sat down with us to explore...
Alastair Campbell Meets Beth Rigby - Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It
May 23, 2023 08:59 - 1 hourAlastair Campbell was Tony Blair's communications chief and is now one of the UK's most sought after political commentators; The Rest is Politics, his podcast with Rory Stewart, is essential listening for anyone who wants a fresh perspective on what's going on in Westminster. Alastair's new book is But What Can I Do?, a guide to how all of us can get involved in fixing politics. He joined us live on stage in conversation with Sky News political editor Beth Rigby to tell us more. Learn more ab...
Thomas Hertog - Stephen Hawking's Final Theory of the Universe
May 19, 2023 16:57 - 39 minutesThomas Hertog was Stephen Hawking's PhD student and went on to become a leading cosmologist in his own right. He and Hawking developed a radical new theory concerning the origins of time itself: answering the biggest question imaginable - why does our universe have the laws of physics that it does? This would prove to be Hawking's final scientific theory and at Hawking's request Thomas wrote a book on the subject: On The Origin of Time. In this episode of the podcast, Thomas sits down with us...
Ruby Wax Meets Julia Samuel - I'm Not As Well As I Thought I Was
May 16, 2023 08:30 - 1 hourThese days, trying to stay sane in a completely chaotic world makes life incredibly difficult, especially if you're struggling with your mental health. While searching for inner peace and equanimity amidst global chaos, Ruby realises that, ultimately, the most challenging gauntlet we all must face is ourselves. Joined by psychotherapist and author Julia Samuel, Ruby returns to How To Academy for an honest and raw journey into the depths of her psyche, and a stark exploration of what trauma ca...
Fiona Buckland - How to Change Your Life
May 12, 2023 09:56 - 49 minutesWhat makes a fulfilling life, and how can we live one? Life coach Fiona Buckland explores the overwhelming world we live in and the stressors and temptations that pull us away from understanding ourselves. She reveals how we can return to ourselves to create not just a life well-lived, but a life suffused with meaning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Justin Gregg - What Animal Intelligence Tells Us About Human Stupidity
May 10, 2023 08:11 - 1 hourWhat if human intelligence is more of a liability than a gift? According to the animal cognition expert and author of If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal Justin Gregg, there's an evolutionary reason why human intelligence isn't more prevalent in the animal kingdom. Simply put, non-human animals don't need it to be successful. In conversation with comedian and science communicator Robin Ince, Justin highlights features seemingly unique to humans and compares them to our animal brethren. The picture he...
Robin Ince Meets Chris van Tulleken - Why We Can't Stop Eating Stuff That Isn't Food
May 05, 2023 07:16 - 1 hourOver the past 150 years, we have entered a new ‘age of eating’ where most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances: Ultra-Processed Foods. In this episode award-winning broadcaster, practicing NHS doctor and leading academic Dr Chris van Tulleken joins Robin Ince to reveal the disastrous effects of Ultra-Processed Food on our health - the subject of his new bestseller, Ultra Processed People. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mick Herron - Slow Horses, Bad Actors
May 02, 2023 09:21 - 1 hourThriller writer Mick Herron is the heir to John Le Carre - the author of the wildly acclaimed Slough House espionage novels. The TV adaptation named after the first in the series, Slow Horses, is one of the best shows around - no mean feat in our golden age of TV drama. It stars Gary Oldman as Herron's Falstaffian protagonist Jackson Lamb. The latest Slough House novel, Bad Actors, has just come out in paperback. Mick sat down with Hannah MacInnes live on stage a couple of weeks back to tell ...
Eleanor Janega - Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
April 28, 2023 08:12 - 1 hourWhy did the ideal medieval woman have a pot belly and small feet? Which days of the week was sex permitted? Why did the transgender sex workers of London steal men's clothes? Eleanor Janega has the answers. She teaches medieval and early modern history at the London School of Economics. She's also the creator of the blog Going Medieval and the author of The Once and Future Sex, a new book exploring the ideals of womanhood in the medieval period. She tells Luke Naylor Perrott more in a NSFW po...
Alexa Hagerty - Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
April 25, 2023 08:27 - 49 minutesAnthropologist Alexa Hagerty spent years working with forensic teams and victims’ families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America. In this harrowing and deeply personal conversation with Luke Naylor-Perrott, she explores what science can tell us about atrocities and resistance, grief and care, ritual and justice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices