Events 2019
03/03/2019 - 4:30 pm
Kings Place, Limehouse Room
Heather Valencia and Merle Bachman introduce the lives, works and indelible impact of Yiddish writer Avrom Sutzkever and Scottish poet A.C. Jacobs, with read...Free. Unticketed Fringe Event
03/03/2019 - 3:30 pm
Kings Place, Hall 1
International human rights lawyer Philippe Sands discussed his phenomenal BBC series, The Rat Lines, the story of the post-war Nazi escape route out...
03/03/2019 - 3:30 pm
Kings Place, Hall 2
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 l...A children's/ young adult's discount is available for this event.
03/03/2019 - 3:30 pm
Kings Place, St Pancras
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, f...
03/03/2019 - 3:00 pm
Kings Place, Limehouse Room
Robert Chandler, in conversation with David Herman, discuss his recently published translation of Lev Ozerov’ s stupendous Portraits without Frames...Free. Unticketed Fringe Event
03/03/2019 - 2:00 pm
Kings Place, Hall 1
In a world riven with bitter divisions, perverting every opportunity for dialogue, Simon Schama examined the peculiar force of contradictory argument in Jewi...
03/03/2019 - 2:00 pm
Kings Place, Hall 2
Acclaimed poet and publisher to the great and good, Jeremy Robson talks about his five decades in publishing, working with such intriguing and diverse figure...
03/03/2019 - 2:00 pm
Kings Place, St Pancras
Emigré sculptor Oscar Nemon, whose subjects included Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth, Winston Churchill and Sigmund Freud, was one of the 20th century’...
03/03/2019 - 1:30 pm
Kings Place, Limehouse Room
Edward Evans presents a brilliantly funny novel. Israel has no idea who he is. Tracing his memories, track by musical track, he uncovers a cosmic emptiness a...Free. Unticketed Fringe Event
03/03/2019 - 12:30 pm
Kings Place, Hall 1
In apartheid South Africa, many desperate parents fought to rescue their children, arrested for so-called ‘anti-apartheid’ activities, from the s...
03/03/2019 - 12:30 pm
Kings Place, Hall 2
Explore a collection of political tales selected and introduced by the brilliant critic and author Michael Rosen. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, ...
03/03/2019 - 12:30 pm
Kings Place, St Pancras
Oscar Wilde said that doing nothing is, ‘the most difficult thing in the world’. Today we live in a culture that demonises idleness, and the glor...
03/03/2019 - 12:00 pm
Kings Place, Limehouse Room
Francesca Jakobi talks about the perils and pitfalls of fictionalising a family story. In Bitter, it is 1969, and while the summer of love lingers i...Free. Unticketed Fringe Event
03/03/2019 - 11:00 am
Kings Place, Hall 1
Eli Rosenbaum of the US Justice Department has been described as ‘the world’s most successful Nazi hunter’. However, Professor Mary Fulbroo...
03/03/2019 - 11:00 am
Kings Place, Hall 2
Our world is undergoing a seismic transformation. Digital technologies – from artificial intelligence to blockchain, from robotics to virtual reality &...