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  • Andrew Martin on Travel Around London at Kings Place

    Sunday 23 June

    n this zany and entertaining talk, Andrew Martin transports us through time and space into the bowels of the London underground. “All of us who have regularly stood on a London Underground platform waiting for a train...


  • Simon Garfield at Proms at St Jude’s

    Sunday 23 June

    Hampstead resident Simon Garfield has written 13 acclaimed and diverse non-fiction books including Just My Type: A Book About Fonts and The End of Innocence: Britain in the time of AIDS for which he won the Somerset Maugham Prize. His...


  • Simon Garfield & Chris Schüler: Mapping the World

    Sunday 23rd June

    They help us dream about travel, imagine journeys past and present, visualise unknown countries. Why are we so fascinated by maps? Why do we still love them in the age of Google? What do they...


  • Not a Day for Soundbites: The Craft of the Political Speech

    Monday 24 June

    Speeches can be the making of a politician; elections can be won and lost almost on a single turn of phrase. Join Philip Collins, former chief Speech Writer to former Prime Minister Tony Blair, former Labour...


  • Polly Morland at Chalke Valley History Festival 2013

    30th June 2013

    ‘Bravery: A History’  How brave are you? Are you lion-hearted? Or, like the speaker, something of a Timid Soul, easily frightened by what is frightening? What does bravery mean in an age of anxiety? And...


  • David Hendy at Bristol Festival of Ideas

    Tuesday 2nd July

    When did the “silent deeps” become cacophonous and galaxies begin to swim in a sea of cosmic noise? Why do we think that noises have colours? How loud is too loud, and says who? Attending...



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