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Amazing Animal Teamwork Dreamwork with Ben Hoare

Suitable for age 6 - 9

Saturday 23 August 10:15 - 11:15

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Ben Hoare, author of Animal Partnerships, is here to tell you all the cool ways animals and plants work together to survive and how humans have developed their own partnerships with animals all across the world. Prepare to be amazed!…
 

Meet the Gruffalo

All ages

Saturday 23 August 11:30 - 12:00

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Oh help! Oh no! It’s a Gruffalo! Meet Julia Donaldson’s most famous creation and join in with songs, dancing, and games. Don’t miss the opportunity to give the Gruffalo a cuddle, a high five or take a selfie…
 

How Does Your Garden Grow? With Frances Tophill

Suitable for age 6 - 9

Saturday 23 August 11:45 - 12:45

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Hear Frances Tophill, author of How to Grow a Garden, sharing all about the wonderful plants and creatures that call your back garden their home and discover all different types of gardens: from vegetable ones to tropical glass houses…
 

Jonathan Freedland: Defying a Dictator

Saturday 23 August 12:00 - 13:00

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Why not try? Sunil Amrith: The Burning Earth Sunil Amrith: The Burning Earth Sun 10 Aug 12:00 - 13:00
 

Have Lunch with José Pizarro

Saturday 23 August 13:00 - 16:00

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Why not try? Buffy's Book Club Buffy's Book Club Thu 21 Aug 19:00 - 22:00
 

Bee Wilson: The Stories in Our Kitchen

Saturday 23 August 13:30 - 14:30

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Why does a chipped old mug or plate passed on to us by a loved one hold such special appeal? Join Bee Wilson for a heartwarming and inspiring conversation today, central to our Repair theme…
 

Dylan Jones, Miranda Sawyer & Arusa Qureshi: Music Across the Decades

Saturday 23 August 14:45 - 15:45

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It’s been said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. Yet there are writers who manage to capture something of the feeling of listening, the way it moves and shapes us…
 

Candice Chung & Katie Goh: Food is Life

Saturday 23 August 15:15 - 16:15

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In Candice Chung and Katie Goh’s memoirs, food is a love language, a commodity, and a way of saying the unsayable…
 

Naga Munchetty: It’s (Not) All In Your Head

Saturday 23 August 17:00 - 18:00

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Women’s healthcare is in need of a revolution, and BBC broadcaster Naga Munchetty is ready to fight. She talks with Devi Sridhar about the fundamental flaws in our healthcare system…
 

Pankaj Mishra: After Gaza, What Next?

Saturday 23 August 17:45 - 18:45

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In the concise and pointed The World After Gaza, Pankaj Mishra uses the war in the Middle East as a starting point to examine the competing histories of the last century and how they’ve shaped differing political and moral imaginations…