In the advanced economies ever-increasing consumption adds little to human happiness and may even impede it. The sustainability adviser provides a credible vision of how human society can flourish – within the ecological limits of a finite planet.
The superb Booker-shortlisted novel charts the passage of a modernist house through the turbulence of C20th eastern European history, and its inhabitants’ passions and failures.
The Sky News political editor hosts a live discussion on the election issues and events with a panel of senior politicians and top commentators. Opinions and questions from the audience welcomed.
To be broadcast live on Sky News, channel 501.
Ticket price includes charitable donation to Sky Rainforest Rescue
On the Spartacus Road: A Spectacular Journey Through Ancient Italy
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Venue: Oxfam Studio
The TLS Editor traces the rebel army’s rampage of 71–73BC – a journalist’s notebook, a classicist’s celebration, a survivor’s record of a near-fatal cancer and the history of a unique and brutal war.
The Pleasure Seekers tells of the life and love of Babo Patel from Madras and Sian Jones from Wales, and their hybrid family. The Road to Wanting chronicles the heroine Na Ga’s passage from the tribal villages of Burma to military Rangoon and the hedonism of Bangkok.
