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Human Intelligence
Disruptors: Socrates
- Broadcast
- 2025 (14 mins)
The ancient Athenian Socrates encourages us to think about what are the most important things in life and to bring real clarity to the ideas, concepts and beliefs that we use every day. He was persistent,...
Human Intelligence
Disruptors: George Washington
- Broadcast
- 2025 (13 mins)
Washington may be better known as a man of action rather than ideas. However, he gave the world one idea of huge power, an idea that was also about power. As a military General, Washington won the American...
Human Intelligence
Disruptors: Mary Wollstonecraft
- Broadcast
- 2025 (14 mins)
Mary Wollstonecraft argued with passion and moral certainty in her great work, A Vindication of the Rights of Women. Naomi Alderman meets the first modern woman, who lived the ideas she espoused - travelling...
Human Intelligence
Disruptors: Martin Luther
- Broadcast
- 2025 (14 mins)
Luther’s vivid, wild words - powered by new printing technology - set in motion a chain reaction that split the Catholic Church, powered the Reformation and changed the world forever. Naomi Alderman meets...
Human Intelligence
Disruptors: Malcolm X
- Broadcast
- 2025 (14 mins)
While in prison, Malcolm X read furiously after lights-out and changed his entire life trajectory. Naomi Alderman looks at his extraordinary capacity for learning. Prominent as a black nationalist, skilled...
Human Intelligence
Teachers: Michael Faraday
- Broadcast
- 2025 (13 mins)
The modern world is inconceivable without this son of a blacksmith and his meticulous, relentless brain. Naomi Alderman meets the mind behind huge scientific advances - who made breakthroughs in the...
Human Intelligence
Teachers: Maimonides
- Broadcast
- 2025 (13 mins)
Naomi Alderman explores one of the greatest minds of the medieval world and in the history of Jewish thought. His work, The Guide for the Perplexed, is among the most influential works of medieval...
Human Intelligence
Teachers: Mary Somerville
- Broadcast
- 2025 (13 mins)
Mary Somerville was a brilliant polymath who found time to correct the work of Isaac Newton whilst looking after her infant children. Naomi Alderman investigates her extraordinary work ethic and expansive...
Human Intelligence
Teachers: Peter Ramus
- Broadcast
- 2025 (13 mins)
Naomi Alderman meets Peter Ramus - a teacher determined to simplify and systematise the teaching of difficult things. He spoke his mind and thrived on stirring up trouble. Ramus was behind one of the most...
Human Intelligence
Teachers: Diogenes
- Broadcast
- 2025 (13 mins)
Naomi Alderman investigates the eccentric brilliance of Diogenes. He was a ‘cynic’ philosopher, which originally meant ‘dog-like’, and wanted to teach us that humans could learn from dogs and the...