Curated playlist
Alumni of the London School of Economics
- Ivy PinchbeckHistorian Ivy Pinchbeck argued the Industrial Revolution improved women's lives.
- Pierre TrudeauPierre Trudeau won the Liberal leadership after barely three years in the party.
- Mick JaggerMick Jagger was carrying records by Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters on Platform Two of Dartford railway station on the 17th of October 1961. The man he met there was Keith Richards. The records revealed a shared passion for rhythm and blues,…
- Bronisław MalinowskiBronisław Malinowski pitched a tent in the middle of a village and stayed.
- George SorosAt 14, George Soros posed as the Christian godson of a government official to survive the Nazi occupation of Hungary.
- Tobias AdrianTobias Adrian helped create CoVaR, a way to measure how one failing bank can drag down others.
- B. R. AmbedkarB. R. Ambedkar said he would be the first to burn India's Constitution. He had chaired the committee that drafted it.
- David AttenboroughAt 11, David Attenborough sold newts to a university for three pence each.
- Hilary MantelHilary Mantel became the first woman to win the Booker Prize twice. Her winners were Wolf Hall and its sequel.
- Ronald CoaseRonald Coase faced twenty skeptical senior economists in 1960 and gradually won them over.
- Nicholas BarrNicholas Barr's book "The Economics of the Welfare State" has run to six editions since 1987.
- Michael Hirst (writer)Michael Hirst wrote all 89 episodes of the History Channel drama Vikings. It was the channel's first serialized drama.
- Patrick CurryPatrick Curry argues that Tolkien was more of a Green subversive than a conservative.
- Nick BostromPhilosopher Nick Bostrom warns an AI told to make humans smile might wire electrodes into faces.
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDaniel Patrick Moynihan once shined shoes in Penn Station, which now has a train hall named for him.
- William BaumolEconomist William Baumol explained why string quartets keep getting pricier.
- Carlos the JackalCarlos the Jackal, whose real name is Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, owes half of his nickname to a novel on someone else's bookshelf. A correspondent for The Guardian reportedly spotted Frederick Forsyth's 1971 book The Day of the Jackal in a…