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What do mushrooms have to do with consciousness? with Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan, a writer best known for his work on the effect of psychedelics, has taken a journey into the inner mind. For much of modern history, we’ve understood the mind in comparison to our most advanced machines. Once it was clockwor
How Elon Musk redefined power
In 2025, Elon Musk took on an extraordinary role inside Washington, leading something called the Department of Government Efficiency - or Doge. What followed was a radical experiment: an attempt to remake the machinery of the state using th
How KPop Demon Hunters became the biggest event of the year
Despite KPop Demon Hunters becoming Netflix’s most-watched film in history and dominating music charts for months, it’s also the kind of cultural phenomenon many people might never have encountered. The animated musical feature has been cle
Metrics now control our lives
If you’ve ever taken a random walk around the block to push your step count to 10,000… rushed through a lesson on Duolingo to keep your streak alive… or checked a post one more time to see if the likes have ticked up - you’ll know the quiet
What it’s like to be played by Claire Foy
In 2014, Helen Macdonald published H is for Hawk - a book that arrived, at least on the surface, as a memoir about grief: the death of their father, and Macdonald's decision to train and live with a goshawk in the aftermath. It was nature w
Does reading make you a better person? with Dominic Sandbrook
For one of the most famous historians in Britain, conquering the past is not enough. This month, alongside co-host Tabitha Syrett, Dominic Sandbrook is launching a new podcast - this time shifting his focus from history to literature. Tanji
Wuthering Heights is a disgusting film, but is it a love story?
Wuthering Heights is a story that has been told and retold, adapted and reinterpreted so many times since publication in 1847. Every generation seems to rediscover Emily Brontë’s ever-enduring novel, and every generation seems convinced it
Is the climate crisis spiritual? The King thinks so
A new documentary, Finding Harmony: A King’s Vision, offers a rare glimpse into the deeper ideas shaping King Charles’s view of the world. Known for decades as an environmental campaigner, the King has often spoken about the need for “harmo
Infinite Jest is a novel for 2026
Thirty years ago, David Foster Wallace published Infinite Jest - a novel so sprawling, so formally strange, and so unnervingly prescient that it has never quite stopped happening. Set in a near-future North America obsessed with pleasure, e
People around the world are falling in love with AI
Over 100 million people around the world have downloaded AI companion apps. Friends, therapists, lovers ... mediums - for some, their closest connection in this life is a chatbot. How did we get here? Catharine Hughes is joined by James Mul
Why are we so obsessed with Japan?
A professional sumo tournament in London in October 2025 offered more than sporting spectacle. It became a lens through which to view Japan’s growing cultural pull in the West, a society where ancient ritual, hierarchy and Shinto belief coe
Salman Rushdie is in "the 9th or 10th hour"
Born into a Muslim family in Bombay, India, in 1947, two months before the country’s partition, educated in the UK and now resident in New York, Salman Rushdie is a writer of multiple, interconnected worlds. At the heart of his work – ever
After two decades of silence, Kiran Desai returns
The youngest winner of the Booker Prize fell silent for nearly 20 years. Now she's back with a new novel. -- With only her second novel The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai won the 2006 Booker Prize, the leading literary prize in the global
Author Nicola Barker: "we are all weirdos"
The experimental novelist on finding God, being "a misfit" and her return to writing. -- Nicola Barker is "has broken the mould so many times it's almost beyond repair". She's a post-punk literary anarchist who writes from the peripheries o
Whit Stillman: renaissance of a cult film icon
Cinephiles are revisiting Whit Stillman's 90's movies. Tanjil Rashid meets Stillman to find out why. -- Whit Stillman is something of a cult film director. He rose to prominence in 1990 with his debut film Metropolitan, which became the fir
