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Susan Tomes: Major Minor History

Sunday 11 August 18:45 - 19:45

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Throughout history, women have been excluded from learning and performing the piano. Even the modern instrument’s keys are still designed to fit men’s hands. In Women and the Piano, concert pianist and author Susan Tomes tells a new history of the…
 

Vanessa Kisuule and Nathalie Olah: No Accounting for Taste

Sunday 11 August 19:30 - 20:30

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Join authors Vanessa Kisuule, Neverland: The Pleasures and Perils of Fandom, and Nathalie Olah, Bad Taste: Or the Politics of Ugliness, for a conversation with Jess Brough that unpicks the pitfalls of cultural comforts and asks us to question the things…
 

Jeremy Lee: Simply Delicious

Monday 12 August 10:30 - 11:30

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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…
 

Madhumita Murgia & Georgina Voss: The Systems Which Govern Us

Monday 12 August 12:15 - 13:15

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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…
 

Yuan Yang: How China is Changing

Monday 12 August 12:30 - 13:30

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Camilla Pang: Instructions on How to Human

Monday 12 August 12:45 - 13:45

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In 2020, Dr Camilla Pang won the Royal Society Science Book Prize for Explaining Humans – a remarkable and entertaining ‘manual for humans’, informed by science and Pang’s lived experience of autism spectrum disorder. Today, Pang talks with Pennie Latin…
 

Patricia Evangelista: The Terrible Becomes Ordinary

Monday 12 August 14:15 - 15:15

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Language matters, and when we talk about atrocities as if they are commonplace, we start normalising their happening. Award-winning investigative journalist Patricia Evangelista talks to Jen Stout about Some People Need Killing, discussing six years of…
 

Orlando Whitfield: Grifter Season

Monday 12 August 14:30 - 15:30

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An intoxicating cautionary tale of ambition and deceit, All That Glitters has been tipped as one of the best books of 2024. This unputdownable memoir lifts the curtain on the world of fine-art-dealership and the scandal that shook it to its core. Orlando…
 

Mishal Husain: Family, Unravelled

Monday 12 August 15:00 - 16:00

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Journalist, newsreader, and presenter on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Mishal Husain delves into her family’s past in her memoir, Broken Threads. Connecting fragments from her family history through letters and diaries, Husain discovers how her…
 

Lavinia Greenlaw & Samantha Harvey: Life in the Stars

Monday 12 August 15:30 - 16:30

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In Samantha Harvey’s Orbital, six astronauts rotate the Earth, becoming untethered from the lives they’ve left behind. Meanwhile, Lavinia Greenlaw explodes the essay form in The Vast Extent – a collection drawing on art, science, and philosophy to create…