Tuesday 12 August 13:30 - 14:30
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Co-creator of beloved sitcom Gavin and Stacey, Ruth Jones knows the power of a great story. Join us as Ruth discusses both her writing craft and uplifting new novel, By Your Side…
Wednesday 13 August 13:30 - 14:30
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Join the UK’s favourite film critic, Mark Kermode, alongside very special guests – including Golden Globe-winning Succession patriarch Brian Cox – for a unique and energy-filled celebration of the silver screen…
Thursday 14 August 13:30 - 14:30
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In this special event celebrating the launch of her warm and revealing new memoir, Frankly, Sturgeon pulls back the curtain on her personal evolution from a shy working-class child to one of Scotland’s most significant political leaders…
Friday 15 August 13:30 - 14:30
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Bursting onto the literary scene with her skilful debut, After You’d Gone, Maggie O’Farrell has remained an inimitable creative force ever since. Today’s event celebrates her 25th anniversary as a beloved writer with a lively reflection on her writing…
Saturday 16 August 13:30 - 14:30
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is an award-winning, uncompromising commentator on race relations, truth, and justice, especially in America. He’ll discuss the urgent need for the West, and particularly America, to free itself from the myths it tells itself…
Sunday 17 August 13:30 - 14:30
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It’s hard to overstate the extent to which the Trump administration has disrupted the past 70 years’ world order. Journalists Anne Applebaum and Edward Wong are here to report on whether democracy can ever truly be safeguarded…
Monday 18 August 13:30 - 14:30
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Known to many simply as ‘Super Ally’, Ally McCoist is one of Scotland's best-known sportspeople. Today he’ll take audiences on an unforgettable journey through his sporting career, reflect on the highs (and lows) of following Scotland, and share some of…
Tuesday 19 August 13:30 - 14:30
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s feverishly anticipated new novel, Dream Count, has been a decade in the making. Adichie offers an insight into her transcendent, powerful work, and how the choices we make – or which are made for us – can cast a longer shadow…
Friday 22 August 13:30 - 14:30
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Until his death in a Russian prison last year, Alexei Navalny offered the only meaningful opposition to Vladimir Putin’s leadership. Today, Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, speaks about her late husband’s powerful book and the uniquely courageous man…
Saturday 23 August 13:30 - 14:30
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Since Butter appeared in print, bookshops have been scrambling to keep Asako Suzuki’s word-of-mouth sensation in stock. Yuzuki talks today about consumption, sexism, skewed beauty standards, and her mission to elevate the status of Japan’s women through…
Sunday 24 August 13:30 - 14:30
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Ahead of the highly anticipated publication of his new novel, What We Can Know, Ian McEwan reflects on a truly remarkable career which has produced so many works which are at once timeless and yet always remain in close conversation with current affairs…
Sunday 24 August 19:30 - 20:30
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Yellowface author and international sensation R F Kuang isn’t one to rest on her laurels, constantly evolving her style and skill across genres and ages. Join Kuang chatting about her highly anticipated page-turning thriller, Katabasis…
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