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Eve Was Shamed
Contributor(s): Helena Kennedy | Matthew Stadlen
04/03/2019 - 7:00 pm
What comes after #MeToo? In this ‘chilling exposé’ of British justice, Helena Kennedy QC, one of our most eminent lawyers and human rights activists, confr... read more
The Dance of Faith and Doubt
Contributor(s): Elif Shafak | Alice Shalvi | Shoshana Boyd Gelfand
04/03/2019 - 7:00 pm
Turkish-British writer Elif Shafak is an awarded novelist, a public intellectual and an outspoken activist for women’s rights and LGBT rights. Alice Shalv... read more
The Secret World: A History of Intelligence
Contributor(s): Christopher Andrew | Helen Fry
04/03/2019 - 12:30 pm
Christopher Andrew, the world’s leading historian of intelligence, presents a scintillating global account of three thousand years of spying. From the ult... read more
Brexit: the Spark that Fired Populism?
Contributor(s): Nick Cohen | Maurice Glasman | Gina Miller | Melanie Phillips | Harry Mount
03/03/2019 - 8:00 pm
Brexit is the most divisive issue in a generation; it unleashed a rise in populism, and exposed the fault lines of a nation divided by wealth, geography and cla... read more
In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure
Contributor(s): Henry Hardy | Simon May
03/03/2019 - 8:00 pm
Isaiah Berlin was one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century – a man who set ideas on fire. His defence of liberty and plurality was passionate and ... read more
The Jewish World: the Remembered and Forgotten
Contributor(s): Daniel J. Walkowitz | Rebecca Taylor
03/03/2019 - 8:00 pm
Heritage tourism has boomed in the last half century, especially in older industrial cities such as Kiev, Berlin, Bucharest, Krakow, London and New York. Jews, ... read more
Written in History: Letters that Changed the World
Contributor(s): Simon Sebag Montefiore | Tanya Gold
03/03/2019 - 6:30 pm
International bestselling author and historian Simon Sebag-Montefiore selects over 100 letters, from Rameses, Suleiman the Magnificent and Elizabeth I, to Stali... read more
Agent Jack: Fighting the Nazis on British Soil
Contributor(s): Robert Hutton | Helen Fry
03/03/2019 - 6:30 pm
June 1940: Britain is Hitler’ s next target. Some Britons are pro-Nazi, and they determine to do all they can to hasten Hitler’s arrival. Throughout... read more
Kabbalah Revealed: Through history and fiction
Contributor(s): Harry Freedman | Ariel Kahn | George Prochnik
03/03/2019 - 6:30 pm
Harry Freedman, author of the acclaimed The Talmud: A Biography, and novelist Ariel Kahn discuss and explore the meaning and relevance of the Kabbalah today. In... read more
The Echo of a Noise – a one-man memoir on stage
Contributor(s): Pieter-Dirk Uys
03/03/2019 - 5:00 pm
An evening with South Africa’s foremost satirist, the acclaimed Pieter-Dirk Uys, in his 7,000th solo performance that feels as fresh as his very first. Uy... read more
Love Without End: A Story of Heloise and Abelard
Contributor(s): Melvyn Bragg | No chair
03/03/2019 - 5:00 pm
Acclaimed writer and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg presents a moving and poignant tale of one of history’s greatest love stories. Paris, 1117: Heloise, a young... read more
Angels: A Visible and Invisible History
Contributor(s): Peter Stanford | Rabbi Julia Neuberger | Julia Neuberger
03/03/2019 - 5:00 pm
In a 2016 poll, one in ten Britons claimed to have experienced the presence of an angel, while one in three remain convinced that they have a guardian angel. An... read more
20th Century Jewish Journeys: Avrom Sutzkever and A.C. Jacobs
Contributor(s): Heather Valencia | Merle L. Bachman
03/03/2019 - 4:30 pm
Heather Valencia and Merle Bachman introduce the lives, works and indelible impact of Yiddish writer Avrom Sutzkever and Scottish poet A.C. Jacobs, with reading... read more
The Rat Lines
Contributor(s): Philippe Sands | Hugh Levinson | Eli Rosenbaum | None
03/03/2019 - 3:30 pm
International human rights lawyer Philippe Sands discussed his phenomenal BBC series, The Rat Lines, the story of the post-war Nazi escape route out of Europe. ... read more
Murderous Maths
Contributor(s): Kjartan Poskitt
03/03/2019 - 3:30 pm
Join best-selling author and mathematician Kjartan Poskett to discover the fun side of numbers and shapes, including weird tricks and games you can’t lose... read more
City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir
Contributor(s): Paul French | Anne Sebba
03/03/2019 - 3:30 pm
1930s Shanghai: in the years before the Japanese invaded, the city was a haven for outlaws from all over the world; a place where pasts could be forgotten, fasc... read more
