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    Grace Blakeley & Ian Goldin: Creating Global Change from Crisis

    Saturday 14 August 13:15 - 14:15

    Grace Blakeley & Ian Goldin: Creating Global Change from Crisis
    The pandemic has demolished global norms more emphatically than anything we have seen since the Second World War. But rather than simply hoping the world can bounce back, is there a chance for a more fundamental rethink? In The Corona Crash, economics...
     

    Hoda Barakat: Lost Voices of the Arab Spring

    Saturday 14 August 16:15 - 17:15

    Hoda Barakat: Lost Voices of the Arab Spring
    Ten years on from the uprisings across the Arab-speaking world, writers from countries such as Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and Libya are offering important reflections on the uncertainty and tragedy that continues to affect people living there. In this event...
     

    Julian Aguon & Nina Mingya Powles: Making Environmental Politics Personal

    Sunday 15 August 14:15 - 15:15

    Julian Aguon & Nina Mingya Powles: Making Environmental Politics Personal
    Julian Aguon has witnessed first-hand the impact of globalisation and colonialism on the island of Guam in the Western Pacific. In a bid to support the struggles of peoples across Oceania, the human rights lawyer has founded Blue Ocean Law, working at...
     

    Tom Devine with Allan Little: Rewriting Scotland’s History

    Sunday 15 August 16:00 - 17:00

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    Tom Devine with Allan Little: Rewriting Scotland’s History
    During the 20th century, Scotland commonly depicted its own history through the lens of a kind of colourful, tragicomic victimhood. This amounted to a tartan-clad story set against a Highland backdrop and a sense of national self-doubt that has...
     

    This Separated Isle: State of the Union

    Sunday 15 August 17:30 - 18:30

    This Separated Isle: State of the Union
    Before the pandemic made a seismic impact across the world, things were already shifting here in the UK: the divide exposed by Brexit, the Hostile Environment policy and rising levels of hate crimes revealed bitter divisions in British society and...
     

    Nick Bryant with Allan Little: The History of Donald Trump

    Sunday 15 August 19:00 - 20:00

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    Nick Bryant with Allan Little: The History of Donald Trump
    Any journalist reporting from the USA over the past 50 years was in for a fascinating experience, but to have been there during the Trump era was something else entirely. As one of the BBC’s senior TV reporters in the States, Nick Bryant witnessed a...
     

    Caleb Azumah Nelson: Diving into Black Culture

    Monday 16 August 13:00 - 14:00

    Caleb Azumah Nelson: Diving into Black Culture
    Every so often, a novel arrives that perfectly captures the feeling of a time: of summer, of political turmoil, youth, the tentativeness of falling in love. Open Water is one such book, the debut novel from Caleb Azumah Nelson, a writer and photographer...
     

    Wayétu Moore & Nadia Owusu: On Belonging

    Monday 16 August 16:00 - 17:00

    Wayétu Moore & Nadia Owusu: On Belonging
    Meet two women who combine breathtaking life stories with an uncommon ability to write about them. Wayétu Moore joined us last year with her fictional reimagining of Liberia’s history, She Would Be King. Now she returns to tell her true life story...
     

    Sonia Faleiro & Megha Majumdar: Outrages in India

    Tuesday 17 August 19:00 - 20:00

    Changed Sonia Faleiro & Megha Majumdar: Outrages in India
    In a village in Uttar Pradesh, North India, two teenage girls go missing and are later discovered hanging from a tree. What happened and why did they die? And why on earth do the grieving women of the village form a circle round the tree trunk to...
     

    Rachel Kushner: Postcards from America

    Tuesday 17 August 19:15 - 20:15

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    Rachel Kushner: Postcards from America
    ‘Clarice Lispector had a diamond-hard intelligence, a visionary instinct and a sense of humour that veered from naïf wonder to wicked comedy.’ This snapshot of the great Brazilian writer is from an essay in Rachel Kushner’s new book The Hard...

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