On Reflection: Richard Holloway

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On Reflection: Richard Holloway

Elif Shafak once noted that, after reading Richard Holloway – broadcaster, writer, professor, and former head of the Scottish Episcopal Church – ‘you understand the world better, you feel less lonely’. Come and hear Holloway talk with Allan Little about his profound new essay collection, On Reflection, and meditate on questions around faith, forgiveness, art, and home that have long occupied his work.

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