Richard Godwin

I interviewed (and preened!) the pioneering primatologist and environmental campaigner on her extraordinary life. We talked chimpanzees, octopuses, love, death, war, whiskey, hope, ghosts, the afterlife - and what makes humans human.

I interviewed 16 children from all over the country on what a year of no-school has looked and felt like for them

Hollywood royalty she may very well be, but Jessica Chastain has more than a few problems with her industry

A long-read on Britain's gambling industry: the tactics it uses to groom future gamblers and to evade meaninful legislation, and the devastating effect its products have

Passalacqua, on the shores of Lake Como, was recently voted by travel experts as the best hotel in the world. I felt like I had to investigate.

Miki Jafa-Bodden thought she was moving to L.A. to take up a dream job as legal counsel at Bikram Yoga. She ended up fighting her way out of cult

"Take care? No, have guts! Be warrior! Take risk! Fail!" An encounter with the world’s foremost performance artist

The dawn of the obesity crisis coincides with the invention of snacking - which did not really exist as a concept before the food industry created it in the mid-20th century.

Although best known for her romantic comedies and horror roles, the actor-producer has quietly built her passion project, Belletrist, into one of the world’s preeminent book clubs.

I contemplate the future of exploration in an age of GPS

Research shows that working fewer hours can be far more productive. Richard Godwin clocks on to find out if it’s true

Not everyone likes your dog, OK?

I went to the Potatopolis of Lincolnshire in order to speak to the brave scientists using cutting-edge technology to save Britain from an unimaginable fate: a future without potatoes

A conversation with the 65-year-old former enfant terrible of the British stage about death and regret

Why is astrology so resurgent among Millennials? I looked up into the heavens and deep into my Cancerian soul, and found some surprising answers