How To Academy Podcast

Booking Overview

An interview podcast focused on big ideas across global culture, featuring in-depth conversations with prominent thinkers, scholars, authors, and award-winning creative figures. Credible pitch candidates include bestselling authors, leading academics, behavioral experts, filmmakers, historians, and other culturally influential professionals with substantial original work or recognized achievements; booking difficulty is very high.

Metrics

Episodes: 534

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: United Kingdom

YouTube: 415.0k subscribers

Instagram: 58.0k followers

Contact Information

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Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Award-winning creative professionals, acclaimed historians and academics, bestselling authors, behavioral experts, and other recognized thinkers with substantial expertise and original ideas.
Required Achievements:  
Major book publications, Prestigious industry or cultural awards, Recognized academic or professional expertise, Significant contributions to global culture

Recent Guest Discussions

Nir Eyal - How Beliefs, Persistence, Neuroscience, And Psychology Influence Achievement And Personal Limits.

Roger Deakins - Cinematography, Visual Storytelling, Filmmaking Technique, Artistic Vision, And The Creation Of Iconic Films.

Emma Southon - Slavery, Humanity, And The Social Structures Underlying The Roman Empire.

Recent Topics

Humanities, History, Psychology, Society

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
How To Academy Podcast
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Catharine Edwards - The Life of Cicero and the Fall of the Roman Republic

August 04, 2026

Rising from provincial obscurity to the highest elected office in Rome, Cicero became the greatest orator of his age. Yet Cicero was far more than a master of rhetoric. His long and turbulent life unfolded alongside the collapse of the Roman Republic. Catharine Edwards, one of the world’s foremost experts on Roman history, joins bestselling novelist Robert Harris to trace the many facets of Cicero’s life and legacy – his phenomenal oratory, his political ambitions, his philosophical undertak...

Suzy Hansen – Turkey in the Age of Erdoğan

July 31, 2026

In the midst of a world in upheaval, Erdoğan has remade Turkey in his own image. Once a shining portal that straddled East and West, Istanbul's streets now teem with nationalistic fervour, political repression and rampant corruption. In the old Ottoman neighbourhood of Karagumruk, journalist Suzy Hansen goes looking for the truth about modern Turkey. In this episode of the podcast, Suzy will show how– through the lives of local inhabitants–  conflicts are spiralling into regional crises,...

Daniel Mendelsohn – Translating Homer's Odyssey

July 28, 2026

America’s most celebrated living classicist, Daniel Mendelsohn’s new translation of Homer’s Odyssey has been universally acclaimed as the greatest and most authentic ever to appear in English; capturing both the music and archaic grandeur of Homer while bringing to vivid life the gripping adventure, profound human insight, and powerful themes that ensure this epic poem will continue to be celebrated and loved as one of the greatest works of culture for as long as there are humans alive to hea...

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