Nine to Noon | 24 May 2023 | 0h 21m | Listen Later 
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Interview with Laughton King about his book Inside the Dyslexic Mind. Discusses his work helping parents and teachers to understand children with difficulties learning to navigate a world requiring language rather than image processing.
A Chat with Daron Acemoglu on Power and Progress
Growth Chat | 5 May 2023 | 0h 31m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Daron Acemoglu about his book Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity, co-authored with Simon Johnson. Articulates a vision to direct innovation to benefit all people.
How to Rewire Your Brain with Professor David Nutt
Live Well Be Well with Sarah Ann Macklin | 21 June 2022 | 1h 13m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with David Nutt about his life and work researching drugs. Discusses drug science, how psychedelic treatment can lead to breakthroughs in mental health, drug policy, and the impact of drugs such as cannabis and alcohol.
Nandini Das on Courting India
Talk Radio Europe | 24 March 2023 | 0h 26m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Nandini Das about her book Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire. Describes the unpropitious beginnings of the relationship between early 17C Britain and Mughal India – at the time one of the greatest and richest empires of the world.
Why this is Just the Start of PwC’s Tax Scandal
The Fin | 17 May 2023 | 0h 31m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Neil Chenoweth about the tax scandal engulfing PwC, how the story broke, who was involved and what happens from here. Describes a culture centred on extracting gain from conflicts of interest.
Don’t be fooled into thinking this is only in Australia or a one-off – this is central to the PwC culture in New Zealand too.
Dan Egan on The Devil’s Element
Science for the People | 24 April 2023 | 1h 00m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Dan Egan about his book The Devil’s Element. Traces the history of phosphorus, its essential role for agricultural fertiliser, its various sources over time, and the problems it has caused with algal blooms closing beaches, killing animals and sickening people.
James Belich on The World The Plague Made
History Extra | 21 May 2023 | 0h 37m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with James Belich about his book The World The Plague Made. Argues that the inventiveness required for a depopulated world after the Black Death drove social and cultural changes that led eventually to the rise of Europe.
See also his 2018 RNZ interview.
The ‘Quiet Catastrophe’ Brewing in Our Social Lives
The Ezra Klein Show | 18 April 2023 | 1h 14m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Sheila Liming about her book Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time. Discusses how the structures of our lives and physical spaces have made atomization rather than community our society’s default setting, the surprising class differences in how far we live from our families, the social costs of wearing headphones and earbuds in public, how technology has enabled us to avoid the social awkwardness and rejection inherent in building community, the fact that the nuclear family is a historical aberration – and maybe a mistake, how texting and “ghosting” affect the resilience of our core relationships, what we are losing in an era of increased remote work, why some parents are revolting against their kids having sleepovers, and more.
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