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Francisco Garcia & Mark O'Connell: Making a Murderer

Monday 19 August 14:30 - 15:30

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Can true crime ever be written ethically, without exploitation? Two leading non-fiction authors explore this question with sensitivity and empathy. Mark O'Connell takes on the murders of Dublin socialite, Malcolm Macarthur in A Thread of Violence, while…
 

Torsten Bell & Dharshini David: Towards a Better Economy

Monday 19 August 18:00 - 19:00

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Why not try? Peter Pomerantsev: Voices of Dissent Peter Pomerantsev: Voices of Dissent Thu 15 Aug 17:45 - 18:45
 

Tim Spector: Go with Your Gut

Monday 19 August 18:45 - 19:45

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Food gives us life, yet diet misinformation abounds. Bestselling author and epidemiologist Tim Spector is here to separate fact from fiction – and to reassure us that we can love our bodies and food equally. Drawing on new research, Food for Life is an…
 

Nick Bryant, Olesya Khromeychuk & Edward Wong: Democracy on the Brink

Monday 19 August 19:30 - 20:30

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With democracy more precarious than ever, three internationally focussed authors talk to Esa Aldegheri about how we got here. Former BBC journalist Nick Bryant examines America’s internal political conflict in The Forever War; Olesya Khromeychuk’s The…
 

Shasta Ali, Leah Black & Vicky Nyanga-Ndiaye: Regenerative Futures

Tuesday 20 August 13:45 - 14:45

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What needs to be in place to allow for transformational, long-term change in our communities? And who gets to imagine and act out this change? Join Leah Black from Edinburgh’s Regenerative Futures Fund alongside Shasta Ali (writer, poet, and antiracism…
 

Nina Stibbe: Back In Town

Tuesday 20 August 15:30 - 16:30

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Twenty years after she left London, the award-winning diarist Nina Stibbe returns with her cockapoo, Peggy. As Stibbe observes the capital, she takes in the changes – online dating and Instagram posers – as well as the same old faces. Went to London…
 

Tony Birch & Zoë Strachan: Here and There

Tuesday 20 August 16:00 - 17:00

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Set on opposite sides of the world, Tony Birch and Zoë Strachan have both written subtle, insightful novels exploring class, womanhood, and families in the 1960s. Women & Children is Australian writer Tony Birch’s novel of loss, sisters, and courage…
 

Daniel Tammet: Life On The Spectrum

Tuesday 20 August 17:45 - 18:45

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Tired of stereotypes of autistic people, author Daniel Tammet set out to meet nine other neurodivergent people from across the globe. Tammet reflects on the nine extraordinary people his book follows, which includes a bestselling author, a detective, and…
 

Joseph E Stiglitz: The Road To Freedom

Tuesday 20 August 18:45 - 19:45

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Winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and chief economist of the World Bank, Joseph E Stiglitz this year publishes The Road to Freedom, which takes on the concepts of neoliberalism and free market economics by questioning their effect…
 

Sarah Crossan & Heather Parry: Is This Just Fantasy?

Tuesday 20 August 19:45 - 20:45

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Why’s everyone so obsessed with sex robots? And what will happen if they ever make it out of the lab? Join these two authors as they tackle these questions with Beth Cochrane. Sarah Crossan’s Hey Zoey imagines one woman’s dilemma on discovering her…