Sunday 11 August 19:30 - 20:30
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...
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...
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...
Monday 12 August 12:30 - 13:30
Yuan Yang’s revelatory book, Private Revolutions, tells the stories of four ordinary women grappling with, and influencing, China’s new social order. How are new generations navigating censorship, expectations, and ambition when caught between an...
Monday 12 August 12:45 - 13:45
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 discusses her...
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...
Monday 12 August 14:30 - 15:30
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....
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...
Monday 12 August 15:30 - 16:30
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...
Monday 12 August 17:00 - 18:00
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25 years since the Devolution Act, two English city Mayors come together to offer rare insight into politics from outside the Westminster bubble. In Head North, the Mayors of Greater Manchester and the Liverpool City Region, Andy Burnham and Steve...