The legendary Alice Coltrane was born in Detroit, as was fellow jazz harpist Dorothy Ashby. Both made a lasting contribution to the development of contemporary jazz and continue to inspire musicians today.
Rising US poet Fatimah Asghar brings her powerful debut collection If They Come For Us to the UK for the first time.
Produced and hosted by Ralph Jones and Joel Gatehouse, Criminal Improv is a comedy night and podcast. Join a line-up of wonderful comedy talents as they solve a murder in front of your eyes.
Rachel Podger is joined by mezzo Ciara Hendrick for this alluring sequence featuring vocal and instrumental music of the Italian Renaissance and French Baroque.
Acclaimed singer-songwriter/cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson returns to Kings Place with a bespoke one-off performance exploring the theme of love.
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Hosted by John Rocha and Matt Knost, The Top 10 show is a movie podcast where each week they select a topic, create personal top 10 lists, discuss the resulting films, and compile the show’s final list from their selections.
Step inside the Green Leaf Forest to tightrope walk across a dancing river, tame a furry lion cub and make music with some very rascally frogs. Join Pepper the mischievous monkey as he embarks on an adventure to join the Rainbow Circus.
The music: A cantata written when Bach was very busy – he was expected to produce six over the course of a month at the same time that he was writing the St John Passion. The science: How did the universe emerge from its dark ages after the Big Bang? Dr Emma Chapman tells us more...
The Consone Quartet explore and recreate the soundworld of the classical and early Romantic string quartet repertoire on period instruments.
Ever felt like you should be better at feminism? Join comedian Deborah Frances-White for her comedy podcast, recorded in front of a live audience.
Amos Oz, celebrated Israeli author and peace activist, was one of our most important and compelling writers.
Please note this is a live streaming of the event in Hall One. Amos Oz, celebrated Israeli author and peace activist, was one of our most important and compelling writers.
Poetry London is one of the UK’s leading national and international poetry magazines. This event will offer the opportunity to hear poets from its Spring 2019 issue.
Joanna MacGregor is one of today’s most invigorating of all high-profile musicians. Her remarkable programme brings together Beethoven with three outstanding female composers.
Join the curator of this evening's performance, musician, composer and bandleader, Laura Jurd as she discusses the art of composition with British-Iranian composer Soosan Lolavar.
Curated by trumpet player/composer Laura Jurd, Stepping Back, Jumping In is a celebration of new sounds featuring world-class improvisers and contemporary music-makers from Norway and the UK.
Love rules our lives. Philosopher Simon May, in a radically new theory of love, examines its real aim. Clinical psychologist Frank Tallis takes a look at the darker side of love – obsession.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, a German-Jewish refugee educated in England, made her name as a novelist in India. This event weaves together two of her finest stories.
Seventy years on, at the heart of one of the world’s most volatile regions, in a country that still struggles to define itself, was it ever possible for Israel to become the moral super state?
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In a world transformed by technology, where does humanity figure? Our expert panel discuss.
Seventy years after the Nuremberg Trials, this panel discussion explores whether justice has, or could ever have, been done.
The 11th and 12th centuries, from William the Bastard’s conquest in 1066 to the death of Henry II in 1189, have been described as a golden age for Anglo-Jewry. But was it really so good for the Jews?
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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 in London, Gilda is consumed by the mistakes of her past.
Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen explores the paradoxical pleasures of inactivity, and asks how we might live a different and more fulfilled existence.
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