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Jonathan Freedland: Defying a Dictator

Saturday 23 August 12:00 - 13:00

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Author, journalist, and host of both BBC Radio 4’s The Long View series and the Guardian’s Politics Weekly America podcast, Jonathan Freedland has won both the Orwell Prize for Journalism and the Somerset Maugham Award for Non-Fiction…
 

Have Lunch with José Pizarro

Saturday 23 August 13:00 - 16:00

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Enjoy a little bit of the Mediterranean in Edinburgh this afternoon as iconic award-winning chef José Pizarro serves up a flavour-punch of a meal, inspired by his latest cookbook, The Spanish Pantry…
 

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…
 

Sam Heughan: On the Rocks

Saturday 23 August 18:15 - 19:15

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Nothing marks a special occasion better than a stunning cocktail, and this event is a special one indeed as Outlander actor, founder of Sassenach Spirits, and local lad Sam Heughan launches his new book, The Cocktail Diaries…
 

Juano Diaz & Dominic Hoey: For the Dreamers and the Underdogs

Saturday 23 August 18:30 - 19:30

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This event brings two authors of heartfelt, electric works about coming of age when you have so much stacked against you…
 

Miriam Toews: Remaking the World

Saturday 23 August 18:45 - 19:45

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The author of international phenomenon, Women Talking, joins us to discuss making a pact with traumatic memory and filling silences we wish weren’t there…