Ben Yeoh Chats

By Benjamin Yeoh

Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.

Image by Benjamin Yeoh

Category: Arts

Open in Apple Podcasts


Open RSS feed


Open Website


Rate for this podcast

Subscribers: 10
Reviews: 0
Episodes: 67

Description

Ben Yeoh chats to a variety of thinkers and doers about their curiosities, ideas and passions. If you are curious about the world this show is for you. I have extended conversations across humanities and science with artists, philosophers, writers, theatre makers, activists, economists and all walks of life. Disclaimer: Personal podcast, no organisational affiliation or endorsement.

Episode Date
Rasheed Griffith: Progress, Caribbean, Policy, Food, Music, Talent Assessment, Culture
May 14, 2024
Henry Oliver: Late Bloomers, Second Act, Hidden Talent, Biography, John Stuart Mill
Apr 19, 2024
Alyssa Gilbert: Climate Tech Innovation, Policy, Technology
Mar 01, 2024
Garrett Graff: Aliens, Mysteries Of UFOs, Watergate, 9/11, Government Trust
Feb 14, 2024
Hannah Ritchie: Not the End of the World, sustainability, climate, progress
Jan 26, 2024
Hana Loftus: Architecture, Regeneration, Planning, Resilience, Design, Jaywick Sands
Jan 10, 2024
Lucy Easthope: Disaster Recovery, Risk, Hope, Planning, Memoir, When The Dust Settles
Dec 10, 2023
Nina Gené: Venture Philanthropy, Jasmine Social Investments, Impact Investing
Nov 29, 2023
Pen Vogler: Food History, Culture, Class, Strawberries, Sugar, Industrialisation, Eating Habits
Nov 03, 2023
Joanne Limburg: Autism, Feminism, Motherhood, Grief, Writing, Jewishness, Letters to my Weird Sisters
Sep 14, 2023
Fuchsia Dunlop: Chinese Cuisine, Culture, History, Philosophy, Knife skills, Texture and Mouthfeel
Aug 30, 2023
Fergus Butler-Gallie: priesthood, frocks, scouse, faith, Liverpool, and Mummified Hearts
Jul 19, 2023
David Edmonds: Derek Parfit, future selves, paradox, effective altruism, philosophy, biography
Jul 02, 2023
David Ruebain: disability, protest movements, law, equality, inclusion, interdependence
Jun 05, 2023
Jennifer Doleac: reducing crime, policing, justice, policy
May 08, 2023
Patrick House: Neuroscience and Understanding Consciousness
Mar 28, 2023
Chris Stark: 2023, Climate Policy, NetZero, Adaptation, Heating, Buildings, Incentives
Feb 24, 2023
Jade O'Brien: stock broker to teacher, reflections on finance and education, women in finance
Feb 03, 2023
Kanjun Qiu: AI, metascience, institutional knowledge, trauma models, structure of knowledge, creativity and dance
Jan 17, 2023
Florence Evans: Mud Larking, Art Collecting, Dealing and Curating
Dec 29, 2022
Michael Nielsen: metascience, how to improve science, open science, and decentralisation
Nov 15, 2022
Saloni Dattani: making science better, important questions in science, open science, reforming peer review, vaccines and optimism.
Nov 08, 2022
Jérôme Tagger: sustainability, ESG as a negotiation, impact, investing, preventable surprises
Nov 02, 2022
Mark Koyama: How the World Became Rich, economic history, intangibles, culture, progress
Oct 09, 2022
Jacob Soll: History of Free Market ideas, Adam Smith, Hamilton, Cicero, Machievelli, History of Accounting
Sep 24, 2022
Naomi Fisher: home education, unschool, agency in learning, meltdowns, child-led learning, cognitive psychology
Aug 31, 2022
Kana Chan: living in a zero waste village in Japan, Kamikatsu
Aug 10, 2022
Larry Temkin (pt 2): Critiques of Effective Altruism, long-termism, potential problems of international aid, philosophy
Jul 27, 2022
Larry Temkin (pt 1): Moral Philosophy, transitivity, critiques of effective altruism, international aid, pluralism
Jul 27, 2022
Leigh Caldwell: cognitive economics, power of stories, how the mind consumes dreams and plans future actions
Jul 22, 2022
David Finnigan: Making Theatre, Improving Creativity, Learning From Failure, Art In A Time Of Climate
Jul 05, 2022
Sophie Purdom: Climate Tech Investing, Brown Spinning, Venture, Sustainability, newsletters, investment philosophy, life advice
Jun 26, 2022
Francesca Sanderson: impact arts investing, social impact, creativity, living off-grid
Jun 19, 2022
Nadia Asparouhova: Future Of Philanthropy, Science Funding, Creator Economy, Family Stories and Independent Research.
Jun 11, 2022
Carl Saxton-Pizzie: Building A £30m Sustainable Grocery Delivery Company, Mental Health, Sustainability
May 20, 2022
Annemarie Naylor: Public Goods, Sovereign Health Fund, Technology And Future Of Justice
Apr 22, 2022
Sophie Woolley: Deaf culture, hearing culture and her creative journey
Apr 10, 2022
Stian Westlake on the intangible economy, recession, stagnation, inequality, BS jobs and new institutions
Mar 21, 2022
Stephan Guyenet On Diet, Obesity Models, and Obesity Drugs
Mar 14, 2022
Alec Stapp: policy for progress, under-researched areas, science of science, biosecurity
Feb 28, 2022
Chris Stark: CEO UK's Climate Change Committee; climate policy, NetZero, adaptation, innovation, cost-benefit and what we should be doing
Feb 07, 2022
David Spiegelhalter: COVID statistics, thinking about risk in life and medicine
Jan 11, 2022
Stephen Unwin: Theatre Over The Decades, What Disability Teaches Us
Jan 05, 2022
Zeke Hausfather: State Of Climate Science, Energy Systems, Post COP26, Tipping Points, Tail Risks
Nov 22, 2021
Aella: escort work, home school, rationalism, circling, working in a factory, losing faith, polls and endless questions | Podcast
Nov 14, 2021
Jason Mitchell: poetry, sustainable investing, hedge funds, carbon tax, offsets, regulation, activism and stakeholder capitalism
Nov 08, 2021
Dan Goodley: what disability teaches us about being human, social models, technology, interdependence, medicalisation and advice
Nov 01, 2021
Bec Hill: Comedy, The Right To Offend, Faith, Arts And Crafts, ADHD And Best Uses For Duct Tape
Oct 24, 2021
Meaghan Kall, epidemiologist: COVID advice, Long COVID, vaccine waning, disability, HIV, social determinants of health; career advice
Oct 11, 2021
Clare Montagu: Running a hospice during COVID, how to die well, being a special advisor to government; economics of a hospice.
Oct 03, 2021
Jonathan Wolff: valuing life, philosophy, COVID, disability models, society of equals, musical performance, life advice
Sep 26, 2021
Diane Coyle: innovation, intangibles, inequality, sustainability and measuring beyond GDP
Aug 31, 2021
Mark Ravenhill: Making Theatre, Curiosity, Listening and Stories Under the Rainbow Flag
Aug 23, 2021
Sally Phillips: clowning, comedy, family life, disability and faith
Aug 18, 2021
Catherine Howarth on shareholder activism, growing back better and change makers
Jul 25, 2021
Tassos Stevens on making theatre, play and creative processes
Jul 18, 2021
Matt Clancy on innovation, progress studies and remote work.
Jul 15, 2021
Trailer: Ben Yeoh Chats for people curious about the world.
Jul 01, 2021
Lee Simpson on improvisation, story telling and what improv tells us about being human.
Jun 29, 2021
Leopold Aschenbrenner on existential risk, German Culture, Valedictorian efficiency
Jun 23, 2021
C Thi Nguyen on games philosophy, agency, real world gamification and what drinking games tell you about humanity
Jun 20, 2021
Anton Howes on innovation history, the improving mindset and progress studies.
May 21, 2021
Tom Gosling On Incentives, Corporate Purpose, Netzero; Singing and Happiness
May 16, 2021
Jonathan Meth on disability arts, dramaturgy and asking questions
May 13, 2021
Rishi Dastidar on life, poetry, and writing.
Apr 28, 2021
Mya-Rose Craig, Birdgirl
Apr 15, 2021
Rebecca Giggs. Fathoms: the world in the whale.
Apr 11, 2021