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All Events Winter Festival 2023 Masterclasses One-Off Events

29 events

Tue 17 Oct 2023

Sandra Newman

Sandra Newman | Julia

ann enright

Anne Enright | The Wren, The Wren

Sandra Newman & Anne Enright

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Thu 16 Nov 2023

Theresa May

Theresa May | The Abuse of Power

Timothy West

Timothy West | Pru & Me

Sat 18 Nov 2023

David reynolds & ANdrew Marr

David Reynolds & Andrew Marr | Churchill & the Leaders Who Shaped Him

Roma Agrawal

Roma Agrawal | Inventions That Changed the World

Polly Toynbee

Polly Toynbee | An Uneasy Inheritance

Catherine Ashton & Luke Harding

Catherine Ashton & Luke Harding | The Diplomacy of War In Ukraine

Rick Stein

Rick Stein | Simple Suppers

Janina Ramirez

Janina Ramirez | History’s Forgotten Women

Mike Brearley

Mike Brearley | A Life in Cricket and in the Mind

Nina Stibbe & Deborah Moggach

Nina Stibbe & Deborah Moggach | Went to London, Took the Dog

Mark Cocker & Charles Foster (1)

Charles Foster & Mark Cocker with Helen Macdonald | Life on Earth

Grace Dent

Grace Dent | Comfort Eating

Lemn Sissay

Lemn Sissay | Let the Light Pour In

Debut Writers

Debut Writers | Yomi Adegoke, Helen Macdonald & Tom Crewe

Sun 19 Nov 2023

david runciman

David Runciman | How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AI

Laura Freeman

Laura Freeman | Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard Artists

Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Coe | Bournville

Alice Vincent & Marchelle Farrelll

Marchelle Farrell & Alice Vincent | Finding Home in an English Garden

Chris Bryant

Chris Bryant MP | Code of Conduct

Hadley Freeman

Hadley Freeman | A Story and Study of Anorexia

Afua Hirsch & Elif Shafak

Afua Hirsch & Elif Shafak | Decolonising Beauty Standards

Bee Wilson

Bee Wilson | The Secret of Cooking

Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Faulks | A Life in Writing

Phil Whitaker & Isabel Hardman

Phil Whitaker & Isabel Hardman | Fighting For Life: How to Fix the NHS

Robert Peston

Robert Peston | Bust

goldsmiths prize 2023

The Goldsmiths Prize Winner 2023

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