Tim Spector is a Professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College in London and co-founder of Zoe which runs the world's largest COVID-19 study, and the world's largest nutrition study. Launched on the first night of UK lockdown, the Covid Symptom Study app - a community science project unlike any before - changed the way we understood coronavirus. Zoe's nutrition study is aiming to do the same for our diet by a personalised understanding of how our body responds to food. **Please subscribe, rate and review if you enjoy the podcast** Find Tim on Twitter and Instagram and fi ..read more

Journalist Max Benwell found himself caught up in a catfisher's games, but in an entirely unexpected way. Join us as he tells his story - how he tracked down and confronted the catfisher and what long-term impact it's had on his own relationship with tech. **Please subscribe, rate and review if you enjoy the podcast** Find Max on Twitter For more about Tanya Goodin visit https://www.tanyagoodin.com and Time To Log Off https://www.itstimetologoff.com  Get Tanya's new Book: 'My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open' It's Complicated is on Instagram  Find out about the digit ..read more

Vex King returns as It's Complicated's first ever returning guest; to talk about his new book Healing is the New High and to tell us how healing ourselves from pain and trauma - developing better self-awareness as a result - is going to help all of us develop a healthier, happier, relationship with social media and the digital world. **Please subscribe, rate and review if you enjoy the podcast** Find Vex on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vexking and Twitter https://www.twitter.com/vexking It's Complicated is on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/itscomplicatedpod For more about ..read more

Lawyer and activist Cori Crider, Co-Founder of non-profit Foxglove, is holding Big Tech to account: for their treatment of their own workers - social media and the digital world's factory floor. Find out how Foxglove is making tech accountable and fighting for fair pay and working conditions for the workers that have been overlooked for far too long. **Please subscribe, rate and review if you enjoy the podcast** Find Foxglove https://www.foxglove.org.uk/ and donate to support their work: https://www.foxglove.org.uk/donate Cori is on Twitter here: https://www.twitter.com/cori_crider It's Com ..read more

Journalist Marisa Bate gave up Instagram five years ago after she started to question what she was getting out of it. The experience has been entirely positive, even though she works in the media where many say it's impossible to be without social media. We talk about the navel-gazing and self absorption that Instagram encourages and how, even in a pandemic, those traits just don't seem to have lessened. **Please subscribe, rate and review if you enjoy the podcast** Find Marisa on Twitter twitter.com/marisajbate and through her website Writing About Women. It's Complicated is on Instagram&n ..read more

Founder of Craigslist, Craig Newmark, US billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist, talks about his early days founding the website that has become part of the cultural fabric of the internet, and his philanthropy with its emphasis on promoting trustworthy journalism to fight the war against disinformation online. Craig has given away nearly $200million to support the fight against disinformation and describes himself as "an old school nerd doing what I can to support the people who fight to protect the values that America aspires to: fairness, opportunity and respect ..read more

Pat Allerton, vicar of St Peter's church in Notting Hill in London, chats about how he earned the nickname 'the portable priest' in the pandemic after his cycling services - bringing a hymn and a prayer to lockdown London - earned him a global following. And we talk about faith both on and off screen, and whether being able to access church services on YouTube and Zoom has made more people attend them than they might have done before. **Please subscribe, rate and review if you enjoy the podcast** Find Pat on Instagram https://instagram.com/theportablepriest and St Peter's on Y ..read more

Amika George, British activist and campaigner, joins for the 50th episode of 'It's Complicated' on International Women's Day. She's talking about her new book 'Make it Happen: How to be an Activist', and how social media has been the gateway and catalyst which enabled her at 17, to found her charity, Free Periods. Free Periods campaigns to end period poverty in the UK and has successfully lobbied the government to provide free period products for girls at school. **Please subscribe, rate and review if you enjoy the podcast** Find Amika and Free Periods on Twitter https://twitter.com/AmikaGeo ..read more

Tim Harford, economist, broadcaster and author, is helping us make sense of the numbers, statistics, graphs and charts that are increasingly overwhelming us on social media. He explains why we need to calm down when we look at them, and he shows us how to distinguish between those who brandish them like weapons to win political arguments, and those who use them to help explain what is going on in the world. The author of eight best-selling books, Tim has spoken at TED, PopTech and the Sydney Opera House. He is an associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of the Royal ..read more

Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, joins Tanya to talk about her pioneering career in digital; from the earliest days of the dot.com boom when she co-founded Lastminute.com in 1998; through her work as government Digital Champion from 2009-2013, spearheading the digitisation of government and the launch of gov.uk; the establishment of her responsible tech charity doteveryone which ran from 2015-2020 and finally, to her current role as Chair of the House of Lords Covid-19 Committee, which is looking at the long-term implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economic and social wellb ..read more