The Conversation: Hallie Rubenhold

Tuesday 24 March 2026, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

The Women In her mesmerising books Story of a Murder and The Five, the historian and Baillie Gifford Prize-winner, Hallie Rubenhold gives voice to the women in the stories of the crimes perpetrated by Dr Crippen and Jack the Ripper and massively…

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The Conversation: Carole Cadwalladr (online livestream)

Monday 09 March 2026, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

How to Survive the Broligarchy The multi-award-winning investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr talks us through the tech and the connections and the cascades of money that are restructuring global power and democracy on our watch. Cadwalladr worked for the Guardian/Observer for 20 years,…

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The Conversation: Carole Cadwalladr

Monday 09 March 2026, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

How to Survive the Broligarchy The multi-award-winning investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr talks us through the tech and the connections and the cascades of money that are restructuring global power and democracy on our watch. Cadwalladr worked for the Guardian/Observer for 20 years,…

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The Conversation: Sarah Churchwell (online livestream)

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

The American Dream at 250 As we mark the 250th anniversary of American Independence, the writer and academic Sarah Churchwell asks: How’s it playing out? Is this what the Founding Fathers would have wanted? And how does America tell its story from…

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The Conversation: Sarah Churchwell

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

The American Dream at 250 As we mark the 250th anniversary of American Independence, the writer and academic Sarah Churchwell asks: How’s it playing out? Is this what the Founding Fathers would have wanted? And how does America tell its story from…

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The Conversation: Gary Younge (online livestream)

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

An Act of Resistance In the first of several conversations marking the 250th anniversary of American Independence, multi-award-winning writer and journalist Gary Younge analyses the state of the union and the question of race in USA. Younge’s books include Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom…

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The Conversation: Gary Younge

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

An Act of Resistance In the first of several conversations marking the 250th anniversary of American Independence, multi-award-winning writer and journalist Gary Younge analyses the state of the union and the question of race in USA. Younge’s books include Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom…

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The Conversation: Ian McEwan (online livestream)

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

What We Can Know Moving between the present day and a future reshaped by climate catastrophe, Ian McEwan discusses his new novel What We Can Know, which imagines a Britain fragmented into island archipelagos after the seas have risen. In this drowned…

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The Conversation: Ian McEwan

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

What We Can Know Moving between the present day and a future reshaped by climate catastrophe, Ian McEwan discusses his new novel What We Can Know, which imagines a Britain fragmented into island archipelagos after the seas have risen. In this drowned…

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