I'll admit, this is a somewhat arbitrary mix of podcasts that are noteworthy because they are particularly wonderful, noteworthy because I feel they are underappreciated, and noteworthy because they are new. Still - they are all free, and truly we live in an age of...
My book The Data Detective is out today in the US and Canada. (The same book is called How To Make The World Add Up elsewhere in the world.) To celebrate publication, Riverhead Books have teamed up with Pushkin Industries to release the final chapter of the audiobook...
While working on How To Vaccinate The World, a weekly podcast devoted to Covid vaccination, I've been a voracious consumer of other podcasts about vaccination and the vaccination race. Here are a few recommendations - feel free to email me if you have other...
Exciting news - I have a new podcast series ready to burst out upon an unsuspecting world. It's called Cautionary Tales - true stories of catastrophe and fiasco, sparkling with top acting talent, with the aim of making you wiser with every word. I'm writing...
I'm delighted to announce that Season Two of "Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy" is up and running. Our first episodes included our Christmas special, followed by the Langstroth Beehive, Cellophane, and the Gyroscope - with more appearing on the feed on a...
My favourites are: NPR’s Planet Money remains an outstanding show, with stories, humour, very clear explanations and high production values. But - horrors! - they've poached the amazing Cardiff Garcia from the FT, and Cardiff is co-presenting (with Stacey Vanek...
It's been such fun working on the radio series and book Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy - but one of the frustrations was all the fascinating ideas, inventions and stories that I couldn't squeeze into the book. I get another bite of the cherry now: the BBC...
I'm delighted to announce the first episode of my new weekly BBC World Service series, "Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy". We present short stories about the people, inventions and ideas that made the economic and financial world around us. Alongside some of...
The second episode of the four-part Simon Evans Goes To Market airs Thursday 4 August at half past six UK time, on BBC Radio 4. This series, Simon and I are looking at the economics of big life stages - birth, coming of age, marriage and death. I love working on this...