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Rose Boyt: Portrait Of A Father When looking at Lucian Freud’s piercing portraits, it’s impossible to imagine what it must have been like to sit for him. The artist’s daughter, Rose Boyt, explores that and much more as she discusses her remarkable memoir of the artist… Alistair Moffat: Walking Scotland's History One of Scotland’s most beloved historians, Alistair Moffat arrives at the Festival with two new books: Between Britain: Walking the History of England and Scotland, and The Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Today, he joins James Jauncey to talk about… Jess Phillips: A Breath of Fresh Air ‘Your leader was beaten by a woman who was beaten by a lettuce’ – so begins a recent online-retort from Labour’s Jess Phillips in typically direct style. One of the nation’s most outspoken MPs, Phillips stands out for her integrity. She talks to Liz Lloyd… Friend of Dragons with Cressida Cowell Join multi-million-selling author-illustrator Cressida Cowell as she talks about a How to Train Your Dragon short story collection coming in September, gives a Festival exclusive sneak peek of the next book in the Which Way to Anywhere series, and live… Hannah Ritchie: Hope in a Warm Climate When our newsfeeds are flooded with disaster, despair can seem like the only logical response to climate change. Yet in a bold, radically hopeful book, Not the End of the World, data scientist Hannah Ritchie argues that zooming out reveals a very… Karl Ove Knausgård: Written in the Stars Long-lost siblings reunite in Karl Ove Knausgård’s latest novel. Moving from 1980s Norway to present-day Russia, The Wolves of Eternity builds like a Victorian novel, moving between characters whose lives intersect beneath a bright new star in the sky… Edward Wong: China Under the Lens Diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times, Edward Wong covers foreign policy from Washington. Wong’s new account of the last century of change, The Edge of Empire, gives profound insight into a new authoritarian age transforming the world. Join him… Jeremy Lee: Simply Delicious Cooking, by renowned chef Jeremy Lee, is more than just a recipe book. It’s a love song to simple ingredients, peppered with stories from the dinners of his Dundonian childhood to the busy kitchen of his iconic Soho restaurant, Quo Vadis. Hear him in a… Jackie Kay: The People's Poet Beloved poet, novelist, playwright, and former Makar Jackie Kay joins us with her latest poetry collection, May Day. These profound and urgent poems draw on Kay’s decades of political activism, bringing influential figures from history to life, whilst… Madhumita Murgia & Georgina Voss: The Systems Which Govern Us Two fascinating technology writers reveal the disorientating extent to which we are already governed by AI and complex systems. Hear Financial Times AI editor Madhumita Murgia (author of Code Dependent) and artist and academic Georgina Voss (author of… Michael Ondaatje: Roots and Restlessness If you know Michael Ondaatje’s beautiful, lyrical fiction, you won't be surprised to learn that over 50 years ago the Booker Prize-winner of The English Patient began his career as a poet. Today, in a special digital event, Ondaatje shares his first… Ken Costa & Yuan Yang: Capital Ideas We continue our Future Tense series exploring two very different perspectives on how the future might play out. In The 100 Trillion Dollar Wealth Transfer, banker and philanthropist Ken Costa imagines how generational transfer of economic control might… Polly Toynbee & David Walker: The State of Us Years of political mayhem, scarring austerity, and apparent incompetence all round: what will Britain’s next government inherit when they step into office? Polly Toynbee and David Walker explore this in The Only Way is Up: an essential guide to the state… Marian Keyes: Disaster Averted The bestselling author arrives at the Festival with a hilarious, heart-warming new novel. In My Favourite Mistake, Anna trades in her high-flying life in New York to help her friends open a wellness retreat in a tiny Irish town. When the locals protest… Alastair Campbell: But What Can I Do? The Rest is Politics podcast has established Labour’s former Downing Street Director of Communications and Strategy, Alastair Campbell, as one of the most important political commentators of the moment. Also a mental health campaigner and prolific author…