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| Tuesday 2nd July 2013 | |||||||
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Lord ‘Paddy’ AshdownA Brilliant Little Operation Tuesday 2nd July 18.00 – 20.45Talk and Q&A session with Lord Ashdown followed by the documentary ‘A Brilliant Little Operation’. In 1942 the German merchant fleet was supplying its war machine in France with impunity. So Operation Frankton, a daring secret raid, was launched to paddle ‘Cockleshell’ canoes right into Bordeaux harbour and sink the enemy’s ships at anchor. Members of the Royal Marines’ elite ‘Boom Patrol Detachment’ were dropped off by submarine to canoe some hundred miles into the heart of Vichy France. Fewer than half the men made it to Bordeaux; only four laid their mines; just two got back alive. Joining us to discuss this tale of courage is Lord Ashdown, former leader of the Liberal Democrats and himself a former Marine and member of SBS. Lord Ashdown’s talk will be followed by a Q&A session, book signings and a showing of his film at 19.30. Click HERE to purchase tickets |
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| Friday 5th July 2013 | |||||||
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Juliet BarnesThe Ghosts of Happy Valley - Searching for the Lost World of Africa’s Infamous Aristocrats Friday 5th July 18.30 – 19.45 Far away in the Kenyan Highlands lies Happy Valley – where a small community of aristocrats settled between the wars. Despite the distance, rumours of their shocking sexual mores and hedonistic lifestyle – led by the troubled socialite Lady Idina Sackville - soon reached home, disturbing sensibilities and creating disbelief. The era culminated with the notorious murder of the Earl of Erroll in 1941. Juliet Barnes, who has lived in Kenya all her life and whose grandparents knew some of the Happy Valley characters, has explored the former homes and haunts of these people and discovered their extraordinary fates. Barnes is a writer and journalist working in Kenya and the UK. A Q&A session will follow. Click HERE to purchase tickets | ||||||
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Mary FulbrookA Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the HolocaustFriday 5th July 20.15 – 21.30 Udo Klausa considered himself a ‘decent man’. Yet, as the top civil administrator of Bedzin, a town just 25 miles from Auschwitz, he enforced Nazi policies towards Jews in his area. How guilty was he? After the war, he, like many others, denied knowledge of the wider facts. Using personal letters and testimony, Fulbrook examines his role and contrasts it with the heroic resistance of other local people. Fulbrook is Professor of German history at University College London. She is also author of A History of Germany 1918-2008 and The People’s State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker. A Q&A session will follow. Click HERE to purchase tickets |
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Tuesday 9th July 2013 |
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Dr David LewisImpulseTuesday 9th July 18.15– 19.30 When you make a decision or form an opinion, you think you know why. But Dr Lewis thinks you're wrong. The truth is that most of our mental activity actually happens below the level of conscious thought. Delving into the mysteries of the 'zombie brain' that each of us possesses, he demonstrates how unconscious neurological processes underpin every aspect of our lives, from whether or not we find someone attractive to how we resist (or give in to) temptation. In the process, he shows how finger length is a reliable predictor of risk-taking behaviour, how seeing the logos of fast food chains can make you more impatient and how holding a warm drink makes you find strangers more likeable. Dr David Lewis-Hodgson is a best-selling author, award winning broadcaster and neuropsychologist. A Q&A session will follow. Click HERE to purchase tickets | ||||||
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Elisa SegraveThe Girl from Station XTuesday 9th July 20.00 – 21.15 When Elisa Segrave uncovered a cache of wartime diaries written by her mother, she had no idea that she would be brought face-to-face with a character so utterly different from the frail woman she knew. Anne Hamilton-Grace grew up in a world of immense privilege and luxury but nonetheless leapt at the opportunity to join the war effort and the world of secret intelligence. Leaving finishing school and hunt balls behind her, Anne’s new journey took her to Bletchley Park, to Bomber Command in Grantham and finally, to a newly liberated Germany. Segrave is the author of The Diary of a Breast, about her battle with cancer, and the novel Ten Men. A Q&A session will follow. Click HERE to purchase tickets |
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Friday 19th July 2013 |
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Paul Roberts Life and Death in HerculaneumFriday 19th July 16.45 - 18.00 Listen to Paul Roberts as he breathes life into the citizens of Herculaneum and Pompeii – twin cities that were famously buried under a mountain of volcanic ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. Objects such as silver drinking cups, bronze busts, mosaics, frescoes, the birth certificate of a little girl and bottles for fish sauce all help to offer a glimpse into how the populace lived.
Roberts is head of the Roman section at the British Museum. His book is published to complement a major new exhibition at the British Museum running from March 28 to September 29, 2013. His particular research interests lie in the day-to-day aspects of life in the Roman world. A Q&A session will follow. Click HERE to purchase tickets |
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Kate Mosse in conversation with Lesley ThomsonCitadel Friday 19th July 18.30 - 19.45 The complex history of the Languedoc has proved fertile territory for Kate Mosse in her recent trilogy of adventure novels, beginning with the phenomenally successful Labyrinth in 2005 (recently serialised on TV) and now reaching its conclusion in Citadel. 18-year old Sandrine is shocked out of her innocence in the summer of 1942 when her life is saved by a young resistance fighter, Raoul Pelletier, just as he discovers that his network has been infiltrated. The plot deftly weaves together the horrors of the Nazi threat, alongside the fabled existence of an ancient codex containing a secret so powerful it could change the course of the war… Mosse is co-founder and honorary director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction Thomson's novel 'A Kind of Vanishing' won The People’s Book Prize in 2010. A Q&A session will follow. Click HERE to purchase tickets | ||||||
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William DalrympleThe Return of a KingFriday 19th July 20.15 - 21.30 In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed shakos, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes and re-established Shah Shujaul-Mulkon the throne. However, after two years of occupation, the country exploded into violent rebellion. The First Anglo-Afghan War ended in Britain's greatest military humiliation of the nineteenth century: an entire army ambushed in retreat and utterly routed by poorly equipped tribesmen. Award-winning historian, writer and broadcaster William Dalrymple’s account of Return of a King is the definitive analysis of the First Afghan War, told through the lives of unforgettable characters on all sides and using for the first time contemporary Afghan accounts of the conflict. A Q&A session will follow. Click HERE to purchase tickets | ||||||
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Saturday 20th July 2013 |
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Dr Robert Hutchinson The Spanish ArmadaSaturday 20th July 10.00 - 11.15 Hutchinson gives a dramatic, blow-by-blow, account of the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English fleet. In 1558, Protestant England was beset by the Catholic powers of Europe with Spain constituting the highest threat. Philip II of Spain decided to destroy Protestant England and began drawing up invasion plans, leading to an intense war of intelligence, culminating in the dramatic sea battles of 1588. Of the 125 Spanish ships that set sail against England, only 60 limped home. The rest sank or were wrecked, with barely a shot fired.Robert Hutchinson was defence correspondent for the Press Association and later launched JANE'S DEFENCE WEEKLY. He was appointed OBE in the 2008. A Q&A session will follow. Click HERE to purchase tickets
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Jane McAdam Freud in conversation with Dr Robert SnellTaking CareSaturday 20th July 11.45 - 13.00 Jane McAdam Freud speaks about her Italian exhibition and reflects on the relationship with her family, especially with her father, Lucian Freud and her grandfather Sigmund Freud. After 23 years of separation, she had reconnected with Lucian through her art. The 'conversation' will be accompanied by slides of her work. Her art has been acquired by international museums and some is on permanent display at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She received the British Art Medal Scholarship in Rome and the Italian State Mint Prize. Snell is an analytic psychotherapist in private practice and writes art criticism for the Times Literary Supplement. This event was organised by the Arts Forum of Psychotherapy Sussex www.psychotherapy-sussex.org.uk/ A Q&A session will follow. Click HERE to purchase tickets | ||||||
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Alex HibbertMaybeSaturday 20th July 13.30 – 14.45 Alex Hibbert uses his experiences to shed light on the realities of modern polar expeditions. He takes us on a journey between the contrasts of fifty-mile-wide crevasse fields to the politics of London and back to the pitch-blackness of a polar winter. Hibbert read Biology at Oxford with a focus on predator behaviour and environmental biology. He spent two months living with and photographing grey wolves in the USA and led the 2008 record-breaking Tiso Trans Greenland which, at 1374 miles, is the longest fully unsupported arctic journey in history. He has been a Royal Marines Officer and in 2012 he presented a documentary from the Inuit communities of Eastern Greenland. A Q&A session will follow. Click HERE to purchase tickets | ||||||
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George GoodwinFloddenSaturday 20th July 15.15-16.30 In Fatal Rivalry George Goodwin captures the vibrant Renaissance splendour of the royal courts of England and Scotland, with their unprecedented wealth, innovation, and artistic expression. He shows how the wily Henry VII spent vast sums to secure his throne and elevate the monarchy and how James IV competed with him, even claiming the Arthurian legend supported a separate Scottish identity. Such rivalry served as a substitute for war—until Henry VIII’s belligerence forced the real thing. Britain in his grasp. Five Flodden, on September 9th 1513, King James seems poised for the crushing victory that will put all of Britain in his grasp. Five hundred years after this decisive battle, Fatal Rivalry combines original sources and modern scholarship to re-create the royal drama and military might that created this bitter conflict.. A Q&A session will follow. Click HERE to purchase tickets | ||||||
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Gavin Hewitt, BBC Europe Correspondent Europe and Dangerous DreamsSaturday 20th July 17.00-18.15 Gavin Hewitt tells the story of a dream that turned dangerous and threatened not just the European project but the entire global economy. He describes the gamble taken in believing that different political cultures could be blended together to share a currency and how the attempts to save the project led parts of Europe into what is now being called the ‘European Great Depression’. It is a crisis, he says, for which the continent is totally unprepared. Gavin Hewitt has been the BBC's Europe editor since 2009. He has won many awards for his journalism and has covered events all over the world. His latest book is: The Lost Continent: Europe's Darkest Hour Since World War Two. A Q&A session will follow. Click HERE to purchase tickets | ||||||
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Lord Nigel LawsonClimate ManiaSaturday 20th July 18.45-20.00 Lord Lawson casts a sceptical eye on climate change politics and explains why he believes that the case for man-made global warming is exaggerated. Previously, he has questioned the Kyoto Protocol, the objectivity of the IPCC process and the Stern Review. Lawson argues that, although global warming is real and will have negative consequences, the impact of these changes will be relatively moderate rather than apocalyptic. Lord Lawson is a Conservative politician and journalist. He served in the Thatcher Cabinet and was the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary of State for Energy as well as Chancellor of the Exchequer. He is also chairman of ‘the Global Warming Policy Foundation’.A Q&A session will follow. Click HERE to purchase tickets | ||||||
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Adam Boulton, Political Editor, Sky NewsBlair, Brown, Clegg, Cameron and other leadersSaturday 20th July 20.30-21.45 Adam Boulton reflects on his experience of interviewing every British Prime Minister from Cameron to Sir Alec Douglas-Home, giving a rare insight into their personalities, motives and ideas. Boulton is the Political Editor of Sky News. He also presents PMQs on Wednesday evenings to discuss the performance of ministers involved in the House of Commons and the legislation that they present to the House. He has written for The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Spectator, New Statesman and Independent. He has been a guest on: Newsnight; Bremner, Bird and Fortune; and Have I Got News For You. A Q&A session will follow. Click HERE to purchase tickets | ||||||
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Sunday 21st July 2013 |
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Maajid NawazRadicalSunday 21st July 10.00-11.15 Born and raised in Essex, Nawaz was recruited into politicised Islam as a teenager. Abandoning his love of hip hop music, graffiti and girls, he was recruited into Hizbut-Tahrir (the Liberation Party) where he played a leading role in the dissemination of an aggressive anti-West narrative. While studying for his law degree, he travelled around the world, setting up cells. Arriving in Egypt the day before 9/11, his views led to his arrest, imprisonment and torture, before being thrown into solitary confinement. There, he underwent a transformation. On his release after 4 years, he publically renounced his Islamist ideology. This would cost him his marriage and his personal security. Maajid now works to counter Islamism and to promote democratic ideals through his organisation, The Quilliam Foundation. A Q&A session will follow. Click HERE to purchase tickets | ||||||
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Lord Charles FitzroyThe Sultan’s Istanbul on Five Kurush a DaySunday 21st July 11.45- 13.00 Fitzroy takes you back to the era of the Grand Tour, when Istanbul was a favourite destination for travellers. In his speech you will learn how to gain access to the heavily guarded Topkapi Palace and about the charms of the concubines in the sultan’s harem. You’ll also find out how to haggle in the bustling bazaars, what awaits you in a Turkish bath, and learn of the strange rituals of the whirling dervishes.
Witty and fact-filled, this talk will appeal to anyone who wonders what it would really have been like to visit the hub of the Ottoman Empire. Fitzroy runs Fine Art Travel, which leads tours to Istanbul and many other European locations. He is also author of ‘Renaissance Florence on Five Florins a Day’. A Q&A session will follow. Click HERE to purchase tickets |
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Dr Jewell Parker RhodesSugar, Ninth Ward and Voodoo DreamsSunday 21st July 13.30-14.45 Slavery might be over, but labouring in the fields all day does not make Sugar feel very free. Thankfully, she has a knack for finding her own fun, especially when she joins forces with forbidden friend Billy, the white plantation owner's son… In this, her latest novel, acclaimed American writer Jewell Parker Rhodes chronicles the hopes of a spirited young girl living on a sugar plantation, in the brutal years following emancipation. Rhodes will also talk about her wider work and the reoccurring themes in her writing of African-American spirituality, race and gender. Rhodes, who writes for children and adults, has won many plaudits including the American Book Award and the Black Caucus of the American Library Award for Literary Excellence. She is Piper Endowed Chair for Creative Writing at Arizona State University. A Q&A session will follow. Click HERE to purchase tickets |
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Stanley JohnsonWhere the Wild Things Were: Travels of a ConservationistSunday 21st July 15.15- 16.30 Stanley Johnson’s passion for environmental journalism takes him from Exmoor to Ecuador, India to Istanbul. Along the way he is charged at by mountain gorillas, meets the elusive blue whale, catches cold at the Glastonbury festival, tracks down his ancestors in Turkey and meets legendary environmentalists such as Jane Goodall. Behind the infectious Johnson humour, made famous by his son Boris who is Mayor of London, there lies the deep passion of a man who has spent his life in search of wild places and wild animals and is committed to their defence. Stanley Johnson is a trustee of the Gorilla Organisation and an Ambassador for the United Nations Convention on Migratory Species. He was awarded the Greenpeace Prize for Outstanding Services to the Environment and the RSPCA Richard Martin award for services to animal welfare. A Q&A session will follow. Click HERE to purchase tickets |
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Tony HawksFrom page to screen with fridges and MoldovansSunday 21st July 17.00-18.15 In this one hour show, the well-loved comedian and writer Tony Hawks shares the amusing and sometimes fraught story of how he became a film-maker. The year is 2000 and Tony is contacted by Hollywood who want to buy the rights to his best seller Round Ireland With A Fridge the story of his absurd quest to hitch round the circumference of Ireland within a month... with a fridge. Unbeknownst to him, this moment is a high point; as the journey henceforth is one of frustration and duplicity. That is, until he decides to forget Hollywood and adopt the ‘do-it-yourself’ approach. Now, with two films under his belt, Tony can recount the ups and downs of becoming a British independent film maker, and chart the process of transferring the words from his books onto the silver screen. A Q&A session will follow. Click HERE to purchase tickets |
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Lord Douglas Hurd and Edward YoungDisraeli or The Two LivesSunday 21st July 18.45-20.00 Benjamin Disraeli was one of the most fascinating men of the 19th century. A superb politician, writer and wit, he was the most gifted parliamentarian of his time, who rose to become Prime Minister, despite prevailing anti-Semitic attitudes. Yet Disraeli never intended to be a politician: his early life was led in pursuit of pleasure as he struggled to find an occupation that would best suit his energy, intelligence, wit and insatiable appetite for public attention. Lord Hurd, in discussion with Edward Young, examines the paradox at the centre of Disraeli's life, where ambition and ideology would inevitably clash. As former cabinet minister and Foreign Secretary to Margaret Thatcher, he knows the practicalities of government, and the difficulty of compromise. Edward Young has worked as a speechwriter for David Cameron and as Chief of Staff to the Conservative Party Chairman. A Q&A session will follow. Click HERE to purchase tickets |
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Alan Johnson MP This Boy – A Memoir of a ChildhoodSunday 21st July 20.30-21.45 Alan Johnson tells the remarkable story of a mother struggling to raise her family in the slums of 1950s Notting Hill Gate; the daughter who fought to rescue her from illness and debt, and the son who went on to hold one of the highest political offices in the land. The story moves from post-war austerity through to the rock-and-roll years and sees Alan become a husband and father whilst still in his teens. Alan Johnson is a Labour politician who was Home Secretary. He also filled a number of cabinet positions in both the Blair and Brown governments, including Health Secretary and Education Secretary. Until 2011 he was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. A Q&A session will follow. Click HERE to purchase tickets |
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