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Justine Roberts

Mumsnet

Event 83 Venue: Elmley Foundation Dream Stage

Justine Roberts
Breakfast conversation with the founder of the iconic parenting website so assiduously courted by the politicians.
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Philippa Perry talks to Stephanie Merritt

Couch Fiction

Event 84 Venue: The Ritzy

Philippa Perry talks to Stephanie Merritt
Compelling fly-on-the wall observation in this superbly cartooned Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy.
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Tim Jackson

Prosperity Without Growth

Event 85 Venue: Guardian Stage

Tim Jackson
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.
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Simon Mawer talks to Rosie Boycott

The Glass Room

Event 86 Venue: Richard Booth’s Bookshop

Simon Mawer talks to Rosie Boycott
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.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali talks to Jon Snow

Event 847 Venue: Oxfam Studio

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Adam Boulton and Guests

The Sky News Election Debate

Event 87 Venue: Sky Arts Studio

Adam Boulton and Guests
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
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Andrew Rawnsley talks to Guto Harri

The End of the Party

Event 88 Venue: Guardian Stage

Andrew Rawnsley talks to Guto Harri
The Observer journalist discusses his swingeing account of the New Labour project, and the rollercoaster relationship between politics and the media.
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AC Grayling

Thinking of Answers

Event 89 Venue: Barclays Wealth Pavilion

AC Grayling
The philosopher examines what it is to live thoughtfully and to know about the big ideas.
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Peter Stothard talks to Charlotte Higgins

On the Spartacus Road: A Spectacular Journey Through Ancient Italy

Event 90 Venue: Oxfam Studio

Peter Stothard talks to Charlotte Higgins
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.
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Tishani Doshi and Wendy Law-Yone talk to Peter Florence

Fiction: Migrations

Event 91 Venue: Elmley Foundation Dream Stage

Tishani Doshi and Wendy Law-Yone talk to Peter Florence
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.
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