Michael Sandel has followed his acclaimed ‘What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets’ with his latest book A Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? He argues that to overcome our polarised politics, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalisation and rising inequality.
With an economy laid waste by the pandemic and the impact of Brexit yet to be seen, the UK faces unprecedented challenges. What will 2021 bring?
Phantasm celebrates consort music composed on the Thames. With Fantasias from the pens of John Ward, William Lawes and Henry Purcell...
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A top panel discusses the life and legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died aged 87 in September, in this Jewish Book Week online event.
Join comedian Deborah Frances-White for her comedy podcast, recorded in front of a live audience. Each episode, Deborah and her guests discuss their noble goals as 21st century feminists and the paradoxes and insecurities which undermine them.
The Magpie Arc is a new cross-Border band out of Sheffield and Edinburgh featuring the multi-award-winning talents and wide musical influences of Nancy Kerr, Martin Simpson, Adam Holmes, Tom A Wright, and Alex Hunter.
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The famous Allegri Quartet present a neatly-formed programme, featuring Beethoven’s mid-period Quartetto serioso and Debussy’s beautiful Quartet from the 1890s.
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In her memoir ‘Friends and Enemies’, the trailblazing journalist reflects on a life lived at operatic scale, with a cast including Henry Kissinger, Anna Wintour, Princess Diana, Tom Stoppard and Ghislaine Maxwell.
The award-winning-but-mostly-award-losing Empire Podcast returns to its spiritual home of Kings Place for another landmark episode — their 450th.
Roger Eno performs his first London recital after the release of the critically acclaimed 'Mixing Colours'.
In his new, deeply personal poetry collection for children, On the Move, much-loved author Michael talks to Nicolette Jones about migration and displacement.
The strings of the Northern Chords Festival Orchestra present a concert of favourite English classics, including Elgar’s beautiful Serenade and Finzi’s masterful cantata, Dies Natalis.
The strings of the Northern Chords Festival Orchestra present a concert of favourite English classics, including Elgar’s beautiful Serenade and Finzi’s masterful cantata, Dies Natalis.
A rare online event with one of the most admired – and often controversial – filmmakers of the last four decades, Oliver Stone (Platoon, Wall Street, JFK and Natural Born Killers).
Alexandre Tharaud has become a revered figure in the classical music world and a uniquely dazzling exponent of French pianism. He plays Ravel’s delirious La Valse, works by Scarlatti and Rachmaninov and more.
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Sam Lee plays a unique role in the British music scene. He’s an acclaimed, award-winning inventive singer, a folksong collector, conservationist and founder/director of The Nest Collective.
Sam Lee plays a unique role in the British music scene. He’s an acclaimed, award-winning inventive singer, a folksong collector, conservationist and founder/director of The Nest Collective.
Tim Harford talks about how random obstacles and frustrations can inspire us to be more creative.
The Rautio Trio give the world premiere of the new Piano Trio by Brian Elias, followed by Schubert’s ever-popular Second Trio in E-flat, in turns majestic and searingly beautiful.
In his revelatory work, Shlomo Avineri argues that Marx's Jewish origins were integral to his work, placing his Jewish background in its proper and balanced perspective. The results are sometimes surprising.
With an economy laid waste by the pandemic and the impact of Brexit yet to be seen, the UK faces unprecedented challenges.
The electrifying GBSR Duo (George Barton and Siwan Rhys) investigate human solitude and identity at the mercy of history and technology in this AV Luminate show.
A culmination of life and musical experience, uncompromising in its vision, STONECHILD, the new studio album from Jesca Hoop is a self described 'compassion project.'
The celebrated Navarra Quartet perform Mozart’s Quartet in G, K387, full of freshness and vivacity, and Dvořák’s melodious and colourful Quartet in G, Op. 106.