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    Nicola Morgan with Holly Bourne: Start Listening to Yourself

    Age 12+

    Available from 10:00 on Saturday 14 August

    Nicola Morgan with Holly Bourne: Start Listening to Yourself
    This audio-only event is a great way to hear from award-winning author and wellbeing expert Nicola Morgan as she shares some of her insights into a key element of looking after your mental health and general wellbeing: building resilience, with...
     

    Richard Flanagan: Life Support Systems

    Monday 16 August 10:15 - 11:00

    Richard Flanagan: Life Support Systems
    Many miles to the south of Australia, Tasmania is best known for its island splendour, Indigenous cultures and its rich biodiversity. But since 2014 it has enjoyed a new claim to fame: Hobart-based Booker Prize-winner Richard Flanagan. Following up on...
     

    R-Words: Infectious Poetry for Everyone 

    Wednesday 18 August 10:00 - 11:00

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    R-Words: Infectious Poetry for Everyone 
    As we navigate the pandemic we have all learned more medical terminology and nothing has been more important than the ‘R number’, explaining the rate of infection. Yet for writer and theatre director Ross Mackay, the R number is the inspiration...
     

    Eva Baltasar & Lina Meruane: Body Politics

    Thursday 19 August 16:15 - 17:15

    Eva Baltasar & Lina Meruane: Body Politics
    Rebecca Solnit has argued that ‘every illness is narrative’ and Lina Meruane’s novel Nervous System certainly gives credence to that view. It centres on a woman named Ella who, in struggling to finish her PhD, becomes fixated on the functions and...
     

    Out of the Hot Zone

    Friday 20 August 17:15 - 18:15

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    Out of the Hot Zone
    The effects of the climate crisis are far-reaching and disastrous: from unliveable conditions and resource scarcity, to economic collapse, political unrest, and war. Over the course of the next 50 years, between one and three billion people will be left...
     

    Jeanette Winterson: Remaking Ourselves

    Sunday 22 August 13:00 - 14:00

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    Jeanette Winterson: Remaking Ourselves
    In a recent interview, Jeanette Winterson said ‘I believe in human beings, even though they have done some terrible things. But, when I look at history, every invention of ours ends up being used in the worst possible way. What will we do with...
     

    Alastair Chisholm & Elle McNicoll: Can Robots Be Friends?

    Age 9+

    Sunday 22 August 14:30 - 15:15

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    Alastair Chisholm & Elle McNicoll: Can Robots Be Friends?
    The future is coming, and it DEFINITELY includes Artificial Intelligence. But how do we know whether we will be friends with these robots? Will they think or feel things like we do? In their incredible new novels Alastair Chisholm, with Adam-2, and Elle...
     

    Rachel Clarke, Gavin Francis & Kate Mosse: Care in the Time of COVID

    Sunday 22 August 16:00 - 17:00

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    Rachel Clarke, Gavin Francis & Kate Mosse: Care in the Time of COVID
    To paraphrase Susan Sontag, every person who is born holds dual citizenship: in the kingdom of the well, and the kingdom of the sick. The past year has seen an unimaginable number of people pass between these two places causing an unquantifiable amount...
     

    Oana Aristide & Courttia Newland: New World Disorder

    Sunday 22 August 17:30 - 18:30

    Oana Aristide & Courttia Newland: New World Disorder
    One interesting product of dystopian fiction is the new perspective it offers on the real world we are living in. That is the case in the novels discussed today. Oana Aristide’s Under the Blue was written before the pandemic hit but with uncanny...
     

    Kate Aronoff & Elizabeth Kolbert: Reimagining Our Response to the Climate Crisis

    Sunday 22 August 20:15 - 21:15

    Kate Aronoff & Elizabeth Kolbert: Reimagining Our Response to the Climate Crisis
    With the ongoing climate emergency and the coronavirus pandemic coinciding, there are times when we humans might wonder whether it is too late. Too hard to challenge the system, too much of an imaginative stretch to believe things can improve: should we...

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