Rising US poet Fatimah Asghar brings her powerful debut collection If They Come For Us to the UK for the first time.
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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.
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...
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.
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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.
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.
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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In Apartheid South Africa, many desperate parents fought to rescue their children, arrested for so-called ‘anti-apartheid’ activities. The Knock on the Door tells the story of the parents who fought back.
Explore a collection of political tales selected and introduced by the brilliant critic and author Michael Rosen: socialist fairy tales, fables and allegories from Great Britain.
Edward Evans presents a brilliantly funny novel. Israel has no idea who he is. Tracing his memories, track by musical track, he uncovers a cosmic emptiness at the heart of his being.
Emigré sculptor Oscar Nemon was one of the 20th century’s greatest and most flamboyant sculptors. His daughter Aurelia Young, in conversation with cultural historian Patrick Bade, tells his rip-roaring story.
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In a world riven with bitter divisions, perverting every opportunity for dialogue, Simon Schama examines the peculiar force of contradictory argument in Jewish tradition.
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Jeremy Robson is in conversation with his friend and fellow poet Maureen Lipman to talk about his five decades in publishing.
Robert Chandler, in conversation with David Herman, discusses his recently published translation of Lev Ozerov’s stupendous Portraits without Frames.
Award-winning author Paul French offers a spellbinding account of Shanghai’s lawless 1930s, and two of its most notorious criminals who bestrode the city like kings.
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