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The Raymond Williams Lecture: Enlightenment Now
Winter Weekend – Celebrating 20 years
Jeanette Winterson
Horatio Clare
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Marie-Elsa Bragg
Gina Miller
Rose Tremain
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Chris Haughton and Emily Shuckburgh
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Afua Hirsch and Henny Beaumont
Tom Holland
Rupert Read talks to Rosie Boycott
Hallie Rubenhold talks to Peter Florence
Bernardine Evaristo in conversation with Peter Florence
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Elif Shafak – The Wellcome Book Prize Lecture 2019
Robert Macfarlane talks to Horatio Clare
Leila Slimani talks to Philippe Sands
Paul Dolan
Emily Maitlis talks to Hannah MacInnes
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Antonio Caballero and Enrique Santos Calderón in conversation with María Jimena Duzán
Patricia Lara and Francisco de Roux in conversation with Juan Carlos Pérez
Wilfrido Vargas in conversation with Camilo Hoyos
Lydia Cacho in conversation with Jacobo García
Michael Pollan in conversation with Rosie Boycott
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Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
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Helena Kennedy
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Andrea Wulf
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Jonathan Godfrey
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Lemn Sissay
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Gabrielle Walker
Jenny Valentine
Miriam González Durántez
Elif Shafak
Jeanette Winterson
Helena Kennedy
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Caroline Lawrence
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