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Eva zu Beck: I used to think success was a luxury penthouse in London

The travel and adventure filmmaker, author and presenter on how a life online and years of travel reshaped everything she thought she knew about

May 25, 2026

CREATIVITY·MORALITY

Tom Morton-Smith: When you create something for children, you need to speak to something deeper than distraction

The playwright on bringing My Neighbour Totoro to the stage and what he thinks children, adults and theatre are missing if art loses its human

August 18, 2025

CREATIVITY·MORALITY·PLANET

Beth Steel: Deindustrialisation is the great unspoken story behind much of what we see today

The playwright on the political and economic upheavals that turned Labour strongholds into Brexit and Reform seats – and why she refuses to flatten

August 13, 2025

CREATIVITY·POWER

Theresa Lola: Poetry can transport you to places you’ve never been in ten lines. It’s emotion compressed

The poet on anglicising her name as a teenager, rediscovering her oríkì, and writing a collection about what names reveal and erase.

May 31, 2025

CREATIVITY·EDUCATION

Miranda Cowley Heller:: We have this terrible need to own everything

The Paper Palace author on disappearing wildness, rising skittishness about the outdoors, and a culture more comfortable scrolling than stepping outside.

April 23, 2025

MORALITY·PLANET

Matilda Mann: Good storytelling opens things up in ways facts can’t

The London-based singer-songwriter on music as therapy, embracing mistakes, and tuning out echo chambers.

March 2, 2025

CREATIVITY·EDUCATION

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Eva zu Beck: I used to think success was a luxury penthouse in London

Tom Morton-Smith: When you create something for children, you need to speak to something deeper than distraction

Beth Steel: Deindustrialisation is the great unspoken story behind much of what we see today

Miranda Cowley Heller:: We have this terrible need to own everything

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