Supercurricular

• Capitalism: A love story (2009) Directed by Michael Moore
• The Big Short (2015) Directed by Adam McKay
• Wall Street (1987) Directed by Oliver Stone

• What really motivates people to be honest at work?
• Management lessons from Chinese business and philosophy
• 2 questions to uncover your passion – and turn it into a career

• The Young Entrepreneurs guide to Starting & Running a Business – Steve Mariotti
• Moneyball – Michael Lewis
• Making your money work for your Future – Paul Lewis
• Steve Jobs – Steve Jobs

• Business news daily
• Fundera business articles
• Economic times
• Tutor 2 U business resources

• BBC Business, Finance and Economics podcasts
• Top 25 business podcasts

• Chemistry: A volatile history
• Fantastic 4 (2015) – Directed by Josh Trank
• Michio Kaku explains the “real” science behind fantastic four

• An introduction to organic chemistry
• The incredible chemistry powering your smartphone
• How pollution is changing the ocean’s chemistry
• How big is a mole?

• Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements – Hugh Aldersey-Williams.
• The Science of Everyday Life: Why Teapots Dribble, Toast Burns Light Bulbs Shine – Marty
• Bad Science – Ben Goldacre

• Elemental: The Periodic Table at 150
•New scientist chemistry articles
• Batteries should not burst into flames

• Oxford University Chemistry Podcasts
• The Infinite Monkey Cage with Brian Cox and Robin Ince

• Hero (英雄) by Zhang Yimou
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (卧虎藏龙)
• The Farewell (别告诉她) – great for bilingual context

• The Paper (澎湃新闻)
• China Daily (中国日报)
• BBC 中文网
• Mandarin Corner
• ChinesePod (Intermediate to Advanced)
• Du Chinese (has audio and transcripts)

• Hackers (1995) – Iain Softley
• The Matrix (1999) – Lana and Lily Wachowski
• The Imitation Game (2014) – Morten Tyldum

• The birth of the computer
• A computer that works like a brain
• Shape shifting technology will change how we work
• How Photosynth can connect the World’s images

• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software – Charles Petzold
• Cracking the Coding Interview – Gayle Laakmann McDowell
• Getting Started with Unity: A Beginner’s Guide to game development – Dr Edward Lavieri

• Computer science and technology from MIT
• 600 free coding courses
• Build your own social media app from scratch

• Top 10 podcasts for programmers
• Oxford University Computer Science podcasts

• Abstract: The Art of Design (Netflix) – profiles top designers in various fields
• Objectified (Gary Hustwit) – explores the role of everyday objects and their designers
• How It’s Made – discover manufacturing processes and material use
• The Genius of Design (BBC) – covers design history and its impact on society

• Design as Art by Bruno Munari
• The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
• Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough
• Things Come Apart by Todd McLellan

• Dezeen – cutting-edge architecture and product design.
• Wired – tech innovation and product trends.
• Icon Magazine or Design Week – for current developments in design thinking and practice.

• NT Live, Digital Theatre+, or Drama Online – many schools provide access.
• Local theatre productions – community or fringe theatre often offers fresh takes.
• A Streetcar Named Desire (Gillian Anderson, Young Vic)
• Death of a Salesman (Wendell Pierce, Young Vic)

• Antigone by Sophocles – Greek tragedy with strong female protagonist and political themes.
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller – powerful political allegory.
• A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen – naturalistic drama and feminist themes.
• Yerma or Blood Wedding by Federico García Lorca – poetic and symbolic.

• Margin Call (2011) Directed by J.C. Chandon
• Capitalism: A love story (2009) Directed by Michael Moore
• The Big Short (2015) Directed by Adam McKay

• What is economic value, and who creates it?
• The paradox of choice
• How the blockchain will radically transform the economy
• Capitalism will eat democracy, unless we speak up

• The Big Short – Michael Lewis
• Freakonomics – Stephen J. Dubner & Steven Levitt
• Doughnut Economics – Kate Raworth
• Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built – Duncan Clark

• The coronavirus is our chance to completely rethink what the economy is for • Economics online
• The economy
• Undergraduate Economics modules

• EconTalk

• The Adventure of English (ITV Documentary)
• My Fair Lady – Explore ideas of accent, class, and identity
• Arrival – Fictional but sparks debate about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
• Wordplay – Documentary on crosswords and language enthusiasts

• The Language Instinct – Steven Pinker
• Mother Tongue – Bill Bryson
• Talk Talk Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation – Sherry Turkle
• Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language – Gretchen McCulloch

• Read The Guardian’s Language Column
• Explore articles from the British Library’s Language Timeline
• Browse Oxford English Dictionary blog (for etymology & word evolution)

• The Vocal Fries – Focuses on linguistic discrimination
• Lingthusiasm – Geeky and fun linguistics podcast
• Word of Mouth (BBC Radio 4, hosted by Michael Rosen)

• Brave New World vs 1984 (intelligence squared discussion)
• Hypernormalisation – Adam Curtis Documentary
• Margaret Atwood – Women in the World Conference

• How To Read English Literature – Terry Eagleton
• How Fiction Works – James Wood
• The Art of Fiction – David Lodge
• Doing English: A Guide for Literature Students – Robert Eaglestone

• What does Orwellian actually mean?
• Why people need poetry?
• How did English evolve?
• Building a dystopia to make us click on ads
• The other side of Black Mirror: literary utopias offer the seeds of better real life
• The Handmaid’s Tale: will the relentlessly menacing dystopian fable lose its way?
• Dystopian fiction tells a pretty everyday story for many women

• The Allusionist Podcast
• Penguin’s guide to the 32 best literary and book podcasts
• Player FM English Literature Podcast links

• How Art technology and design can inform creative leaders
• Every piece of art you have ever wanted to see up close and searchable

• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• The Horse’s Mouth by Joyce Car
• The Recognitions by William Gaddis
• Portrait of a Man by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos
• The Paintings That Revolutionized Art – Claudia Stauble (Author, Editor)
• Ways of Seeing (Penguin Modern Classics) – John Berger
• The Art Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained” – DK
• Contre -Jour: A Triptych After Pierre Bonnard – Gabriel Josipovici

• Art & Design articles
• A Level Art & Design advice
• Famous artists information
• Art Galleries around the World

• Artists network: 12 Top Art Podcasts to Add to Your List
• What do Artists do all day?
• ArtCurious

• Call My Agent! (Dix pour cent) – insight into French culture and humour.
• Les Choristes – great for discussing themes like education, music, redemption.
• La Haine – urban youth and social tension, very useful for A Level topics.
• Amélie – whimsical Parisian film, great for vocabulary and visual culture.

• L’Étranger by Albert Camus
• No et Moi by Delphine de Vigan
• Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Kiffe kiffe demain by Faïza Guène

• Le Monde, Libération, France 24 – authentic, advanced news reading.
• 1jour1actu – simpler articles for younger readers (great for building confidence).
• TV5MONDE – offers news, language games, and learning materials.

• Journal en français facile (RFI) – slow news podcast with transcripts.
• InnerFrench – designed for intermediate learners, real topics in slow, clear French.
• Coffee Break French – structured lessons, ideal for grammar revision and vocabulary.

• The Mathematical Experience by Philip J. Davis & Reuben Hersh
• Love and Math by Edward Frenkel
• How to Think Like a Mathematician by Kevin Houston
• Complex Numbers from A to… Z by Titu Andreescu

• NRICH – rich mathematical problems (aim for Stage 5/6).
• Underground Mathematics – especially good for developing deep A Level and pre-university problem solving.
• Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) – Olympiad-style questions with community solutions.

• The Boy who harnessed the wind
• Before the Flood (2016) – Fisher Stevens
• An Inconvenient Truth and An Inconvenient Sequel (2006, 2016) – Davis Guggenheim • The Impossible (2012) – J.A. Bayona

• The Mathematical Experience by Philip J. Davis & Reuben Hersh
• Love and Math by Edward Frenkel
• How to Think Like a Mathematician by Kevin Houston
• Complex Numbers from A to… Z by Titu Andreescu

• Why you should be a climate activist
• Mega Cities
• Maps that show us who were are
• Asia’s rise: how and when?

• The Conversation
• BBC News
• The Guardian online

• Oxford University Geography Department Podcasts
• Royal Geographical Society
• The Documentary podcast

• Dark (Netflix) – Complex, gripping German drama
• Tatort – Long-running German crime series
• Easy German (YouTube) – Authentic street interviews and subtitle

• Goethe – Faust or Die Leiden des jungen Werther (The Sorrows of Young Werther)
• Franz Kafka – Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis)
• Bertolt Brecht – Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder
• Heinrich Böll – Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum
• Langsam Gesprochene Nachrichten (by Deutsche Welle)

• Easy German Podcast – Casual, native conversation with explanations
• WDR ZeitZeichen – Historical events explained in German
• Auf Deutsch gesagt – Language-focused podcast on idioms and vocabulary

Play (TV mini series 2003 / film 2009)
The Thick of It (BBC satirical series)
Question Time (weekly BBC programme)

• Prisoners of Geography – Tim Marshall
• The Last Utopia – Samuel Moyn
• The Prince – Nicolo Macchiavelli
• The Liberal Tradition in America – Louis Hartz

• Politics playlist: https://www.ted.com/topics/politics

• The Rest Is Politics – Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart
• Political Thinking – Nick Robinson

• Thatcher: A Very British Revolution: Series 1-5
• Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain Series
• The Suffragettes: Movie
• “Catastrophe 1914: Europe goes to War“

• Austerity Britain: 1945-51 – David Kynaston
• White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties – Dominic Sandbrook
• Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain – Clair Wills
• Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist – Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

• Celebrating Britain’s rich black history: Paul Reid at TEDxBrixton
• Why the whitewashing of black history should be a major concern for us all • History is a curious thing, and Niall Ferguson
• Cecile Richards: The political progress women have made, and what’s next

• Why Society Needs Historians: Jonathan Healey (Oxford)
• The “Knockout” Game, Race, and Fears of Urban Crime in American History
• Parliamentary Reform Acts by Asa Briggs
• World War One: 10 interpretations of who started WW1

• Germany: Memories of a Nation
• Letter from America: Nixon to Carter, 1969-80
• The History Hour
• Witness Black History: Civil Rights Movement

• The Trial: A Murder in the Family (Channel 4)
• Making a Murderer (Netflix)
• The People v. OJ Simpson (Netflix) – for courtroom drama and legal process

• The Rule of Law by Tom Bingham
• Letters to a Law Student by Nicholas McBride
• What About Law? by Barnard, O’Sullivan & Virgo

• Law in Action (BBC Radio 4)
• The Guardian – Law section
• Legal Cheek and The Lawyer for legal profession insights

• Law Pod UK — covers topical legal issues
• Thinking Like a Lawyer — US-based, but great for legal reasoning

• The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015) – Matthew Brown
• A Brilliant Young Mind (2015) – Morgan Matthews
• The Imitation Game (2014) – Morten Tyldum
• Hidden Figures (2016) – Theodore Melfi

• Prelude to Mathematics – W.W. Sawyer
• Proofs from The Book – Aigner and Ziegler
• The Joy of x – Steven Strogatz
• Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension – Matt Parker

• The Mathematics of Love
• Why you should love statistics
• Hire the Hackers

• Mr Barton Maths
• Podomatic
• Flying Colours Maths
• Olico Maths

• Howard Goodall’s Story of Music (BBC)
• The Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past
• Classic Albums series
• The Sound of Music (history of notation)

• The Rest is Noise – Alex Ross
• Musicophilia – Oliver Sacks
• How Music Works – David Byrne
• The Classical Music Book – DK

• Watch documentaries that explore the science behind athletic performance, such as The Last Dance (about Michael Jordan’s career) or Free Solo (about rock climber Alex Honnold)

• Look for TED Talks on topics like sports psychology, coaching, and physical fitness. These often give insights into the mental side of performance

• The Physiology of Sport and Exercise by W. Larry Kenney
• Sport and Exercise Science: A Physiological Perspective by M. J. Thomas
• Foundations of Sport and Exercise Psychology by Robert S. Weinberg and Daniel Gould

• Websites like the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) or the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) offer a wealth of knowledge on exercise physiology, training, and nutrition

• Gravity (2013) – Alfonso Cauron
• Interstellar (2014) – Christopher Nolan
• The Imitation Game (2014) – Mortem Tyldum

• Is there more than one universe?
• The “smoking gun” data
• The history of the universe
• Giant telescopes and detectors

• Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character – Richard Feynman • Moondust: In
Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth – Andrew Smith
• Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You – Marcus Chown
• A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson

• Black Holes
• Hiding objects from heat sensing camera
• How quantum mechanics lets heat cross a vacuum

• Titanium physicists
• BBC Science
• Twis

• Body Clock: What makes us tick? (Biological Rhythms/Sleep)
• Three Identical Strangers (Twins/Biological – 3 twins separated)
• Stacey Dooley On The Psych Ward

• How to Make Stress Your Friend
• This could be why you are depressed or anxious
• What makes people happy and lead a long life
• Am I Not Human

• Bad Pharma – Ben Goldacre
• Behind the shock machine – Gina Perry
• The man who mistook his wife for a hat – Oliver Sacks
• Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ – Daniel Goleman

• Lockdown is the world’s biggest psychological experiment – and we will pay the price • Cognitive behavioural
therapy for psychosis
• Psychological perspectives of the corona virus
• How fear of the coronavirus is changing our psychology

• Psychology and black lives matter
• Super psychology
• All in the Mind

• Volver (Pedro Almodóvar) – themes of women, family, death
• Mar Adentro – euthanasia and disability
• Diarios de Motocicleta – Latin America, Che Guevara’s early life
• También la lluvia – Bolivia and colonialism themes

• ”Crónica de una muerte anunciada” – Gabriel García Márquez
• “La casa de Bernarda Alba” – Federico García Lorca (commonly studied at A-level)
• Short stories by Isabel Allende, Mario Benedetti, or Ana María Matute

• Look up opinion pieces about Spanish-speaking countries’ politics, society, or education • Try reading Wikipedia in Spanish about topics you know in English for vocabulary growth

• Hoy Hablamos – daily Spanish podcast with transcripts
• News in Slow Spanish
• Duolingo Spanish Podcast – good stories with English support