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Michael Heseltine | An Urgent Agenda to Rebuild Britain

6pm | Tues 13 May | Cambridge Union & Livestream

Robert Macfarlane | Is A River Alive?

7.30pm Tues 13 May | Cambridge Union

Free Primary Schools Event: Patrice Lawrence

10.30-12pm | Wed 21 May | Cambridge Union

Free Secondary Schools Event: Word Power

1.30-3.30pm | Wed 21 May | Cambridge Union

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Zandra Rhodes

David Nicholls

Harriet Walter

Alan Hollinghurst

Michael Rosen

Sayeeda Warsi

Rupert Everett

Laura Cumming

Mackenzie Crook

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