Tuesday 13 August 18:45 - 19:45
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Former director of Chatham House, Robin Niblett, who in The New Cold War describes the ongoing geopolitical contest between the US and China. The Financial Times’ Beijing bureau chief Yuan Yang, whose Private Revolutions traces the lives of four Chinese…
Wednesday 14 August 10:45 - 11:45
In Michel Faber’s first longform non-fiction work, Listen: On Music, Sound and Us, the acclaimed author of Under the Skin and lifelong music lover imagines a whole new kind of music biography. Here, the stories of those who make the music are secondary…
Wednesday 14 August 11:00 - 12:00
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In The AI Mirror, EFI’s Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence, Shannon Vallor’s research explores how new technologies reshape human moral character, habits, and practices. Novelist Antor Hur’s debut, Toward Eternity, imagines a world…
Wednesday 14 August 12:15 - 13:15
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Two titanic voices in the analysis of booming misinformation and conspiracy theories, Peter Pomerantsev and Marianna Spring, come together for an essential summit on one of the great dangers of our time, in conversation with Maddison Connaughton…
Wednesday 14 August 14:15 - 15:15
Roman Krznaric is one of Britain’s leading popular philosophers – his TED Talk ‘How to Be a Good Ancestor’ has over 1.5 million views. In History for Tomorrow, he explains how 1,000 years of global history could help us meet the challenges of the 21st…
Wednesday 14 August 16:00 - 17:00
In Dear Orson Welles and Other Essays, Mark Cousins begins a series of ‘conversations’ with the artists, poets, directors, and filmmakers who have most influenced and inspired him, from Orson Welles to Tilda Swinton. The end result is a captivating read…
Wednesday 14 August 17:00 - 18:00
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Jeremy Bowen, International Editor BBC News, has been covering the Middle East since 1989. His deep understanding of the political, cultural, and religious differences between countries as diverse as Turkey, Syria, Israel, and Palestine shine from The…
Wednesday 14 August 18:45 - 19:45
When brothers Jim and William Reid teamed up to create the band of their dreams, could they possibly have known they’d go on to influence a generation as Scottish Rock music icons The Jesus and Mary Chain? Looking back at 40 years of brotherly strife…
Wednesday 14 August 19:30 - 20:30
Two leading experts assess the current state of global politics with Hind Hassan. In Why Politics Fails, Oxford Professor Ben Ansell guides voters through our current system’s pitfalls, so that we can achieve true democracy. Meanwhile, Chatham House…
Thursday 15 August 10:30 - 11:30
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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…
Celebrating the 2024 Book Festival