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Sat 21 Nov 2026

Mariana Mazzucato | The Common Good Economy

Jacqueline Rose | Two Women

Natasha Walter | Feminism for a World on Fire

Sathnam Sanghera | The Meaning of George Michael

Sarah Clegg | The True History of Faeries

Elif Shafak | In One Brief Moment All Eternity

Jonathan Bate | The Garden – Our 4,000-Year Quest for Paradise

Michael Morpurgo & Frank Cottrell-Boyce | Lives Beyond the Page

Zahra Joya & Karen Bartlett | Women in Afghanistan Today

Marina Litvinenko | A Life in Fragments

A.K. Blakemore | Doom Painting

Wine Tasting with Julia Harding

John Robins | Thirst

Patrick Gale | Love Lane

Sun 22 Nov 2026

Luke Harding & Andrey Kurkov | The New World Order in a Time of War

Rebecca Birrell | Venus, Vanishing

Mark Cocker & Cathy Haynes | Finding Wonder in the Natural World

Lynda La Plante | Queen of Crime

Kate Bayliss | Privatising Humanity

Neha Sinha | My Wild City

Laura Kuenssberg | Pay Attention

Hermione Lee | Anita Brookner: Art & Life

Tahmima Anam & Erica Wagner | Truth, Courage and Fiction
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Deborah Levy | Room of One’s Own Lecture

Charlotte Higgins & Sasha Dovzhyk | Art and Resistance in Ukraine

Emily Wilson | Journeys Through Ancient Literature

David Kynaston | Deep into the Sixties

Helen Bain | A Year in the Life of Plath and Hughes

Alice Oswald | Rhapsody: A Manifesto

Sarah Churchwell | USA at 250