heretics.
What makes you a heretic? Journalist Andrew Gold believes that, in an age of group-think and tribes, we need heretics - those who use unconventional wisdom to speak out against their own groups, from cancelled comedians and radical feminists to cult defectors and vigilantes hunting deviants.
Learn from my guests how to rebel, think differently and resist social contagion. From Triggernometry's Konstantin Kisin and the world's most cancelled man Graham Linehan to Robbie Williams and atheist Richard Dawkins. These are the people living with the weight of their own community's disappointment on their shoulders.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 62 minutes
- Episodes
- 588
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
68: Will Storr: Why virtue signalling & dominance are part of our status game
Will Storr has been gaining a reputation as one of the foremost non-fiction writers in the UK over the past few years, starting with his exploration of people with extreme beliefs in his book Heretic…
01:10:54 |
Mon 30 Aug 2021
67: How to have better arguments: Ian Leslie
Writer Ian Leslie discusses how to argue better from his book Conflicted. We discuss the Wright Brothers, relationship scientists and much more.
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Mon 23 Aug 2021
66: Stabbed by a kebab skewer: Forensic Psychologist Kerry Daynes
Today, we've got Kerry Daynes, a famous forensic psychologist who has worked in prisons and police stations with some of the most dangerous or sometimes misunderstood criminals and patients. One such…
01:15:16 |
Mon 16 Aug 2021
65: What it's really like inside scientology: Chris Shelton
Former scientologist Chris Shelton talks about his time in the cult of scientology and exposes the truth about Tom Cruise and David Miscavige.
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01:07:27 |
Mon 09 Aug 2021
66: John McWhorter - FREE Bonus Episode!
My dear listeners,
I'm posting one of my weekly bonus episodes - which are typically behind a pay wall. It's just that this one with John McWhorter was too darn good not to share with the wider publ…
00:18:16 |
Fri 06 Aug 2021
64: Inside The World's Strictest School: Katharine Birbalsingh, Headmistress
Today, we’re taking a walk down the corridors of the world’s strictest school. Of course, I’m talking metaphorically, because if we were walking down the corridors of Michaela, a school in Brent, nor…
01:07:41 |
Mon 02 Aug 2021
63: Ex-Scientologist Jon Atack exposes the cult
Ex-scientologist Jon Atack exposes the cult of scientology, talking about everything from Tom Cruise and Mao Zedong to free will and the difference between religion and cult.
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01:18:26 |
Mon 26 Jul 2021
62: My face blindness, memory loss...and Memento: Thomas Leeds
Thomas Leeds was hit by a car when he was 20, flipping over its roof, crushing the vehicle and landing on his head. Remarkably, he had few physical signs of trauma, so was released from hospital, bef…
01:01:34 |
Mon 19 Jul 2021
61: Neuroscientist who found out he's a psychopath: Dr. James Fallon
Dr. James Fallon is renowned for his work in psychopathy. But a chance occurrence led him to realise something dark about his own family history...and the brain scans concurred...
Listen to the bonu…
01:07:33 |
Mon 12 Jul 2021
60: The Woman Who Walked The World: Angela Maxwell
today on the show is Angela Maxwell, who walked 20,000 miles or 32,000 kilometres around the entire globe. It took her the best part of six years to do so, and she learned about as much about life as…
01:05:47 |
Mon 05 Jul 2021
59: John McWhorter: F**k, s**t, c**t and the truly unspeakable
Leading linguistics professor at Columbia University John McWhorter talks about his brilliant book Nine Nasty Words, and the origin of swearing. Why are some words profane, and others not? How has it…
01:04:11 |
Mon 28 Jun 2021
58: Working undercover in Amazon warehouse - James Bloodworth
Today’s guest, James Bloodworth, is an intrepid journalist who went undercover to work in an Amazon warehouse and expose the torrid conditions within. His acclaimed book Hired details his journey bac…
01:14:21 |
Mon 21 Jun 2021
57: Make all drugs legal & abolish prisons: Chris Daw QC
Top barrister Chris Daw QC talks about how more and more people are being incarcerated with tougher sentences. Being tough on crime is a vote winner – it appeals to our primal urges as well as our se…
01:20:24 |
Tue 15 Jun 2021
56: 'I survived football paedo Bennell to become top cop'
Gary Cliffe is one of the 800 survivors of child sexual abuse at the hands of former football coach and paedophilic serial offender Barry Bennell. Bennell terrorised children in the late 80s and 90s,…
01:05:04 |
Mon 07 Jun 2021
55: I lost my arm in movie stunt gone wrong: Olivia Jackson
Olivia Jackson is one of the most talented and impressive people I’ve had on the show. She is a South African Muay Thai champion, kickboxer and stunt performer who has worked on huge films like Guard…
01:06:04 |
Mon 31 May 2021
54: Saving Bletchley Park: Computer Scientist Dr. Sue Black
Today, I talk to Professor Sue Black about how she helped to save Bletchley Park, the home of the codebreakers during the Second World War. She tells some fabulous stories about the people who worked…
01:03:12 |
Mon 24 May 2021
53: I survived plane crash & had to eat my friends
Meet Coche Inciarte, the most marvellous and loveliest man, who tells me about what it was like to survive a plane crash and live for 72 days in the most awful conditions imaginable. Eventually, he a…
00:47:30 |
Mon 17 May 2021
52: Sex Robots and Vegan Meat: Jenny Kleeman
British journalist Jenny Kleeman - a mix of Louis Theroux and Margaret Atwood - talks to the On the Edge with Andrew Gold podcast about the near-future of sex, food, birth and death, with some startl…
01:17:35 |
Mon 10 May 2021
51: Dr. Death & his assisted suicide machines
This episode with Philip Nitschke (Dr. Death) is really controversial, because it's with the first doctor to perform an assisted suicide in Australia. He has some interesting things to say, but liste…
01:03:13 |
Mon 03 May 2021
50: Return of the Psychopath: ME Thomas
I asked self-confessed psychopath M.E. Thomas (Confessions of a Sociopath) to celebrate my 50th episode with me. Things get heated!
Thanks to the episode's sponsor, the language-learning app Babbel.…
01:13:30 |
Mon 26 Apr 2021
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