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Investors are pouring billions of dollars into nuclear fusion companies. The dream: transform human civilization (and power AI data centers) by providing cheap, abundant energy. But nobody’s figured out how…
The former head of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Michael Lynton, tells Malcolm about a time he made a really big mistake: greenlighting a film that would lead to an international incident.…
In the 1980s, Lloyds of London insured satellites, rock singers’ voices and the legs of sports stars. Everyone was having fun and making money – but disaster was just around…
Helena de Groot spent the majority of her life assuming she would never have kids. But as she got older, people’s criticism of that choice started to intensify. Then, a…
Jessie Ware has always moved between worlds. She’s a British soul singer who spent the early part of her career making intimate, understated records. Then, in 2020, she released What’s…
Amy Winehouse rewrote the rules of modern songwriting by refusing to fake a single feeling. In this episode, Kai and Emmanuel explore the BBC archive and find how a teenage…
In 1860, police officer Robert O’Hara Burke plans an expedition to map the mysterious blank in the centre of Australia. Joining him is scientist William Wills, and a ragtag team of…
Mark Barrocas is the CEO of SharkNinja, a company that sells everything from vacuums, to blenders, to beauty products. Mark’s problem is this: How do you invent new products that…
Edward Lloyd opened a coffee shop near the River Thames in the 1680s – it became a place where ship owners and money men rubbed shoulders and a trade in…
What if you could actually delay the process of aging? Dr. Nir Barzilai hopes to identify interventions that could do just that. He believes a class of drugs known as…
Millionaire-making tech start-ups are most often associated with Silicon Valley. But this software revolution begins on a woman’s kitchen table in rural Britain in the 1960s. Steve Shirley faced extraordinary…
Patrick Watson first came to international attention in 2007 when his album Close to Paradise won the Polaris Music Prize, Canada’s most prestigious award for a Canadian album. Over the…
