Dispatches from the Kabul Cafe
Speakers: Heidi Kingstone, Linda Kelsey Canadian-born foreign correspondent Heidi Kingstone has interviewed many key international figures, from Benjamin Netanyahu to Zaha Hadid to Daniel Liebeskind. In conversation with journalist and former editor of Cosmopolitan, Linda Kelsey, she talks about the places she has lived in, the people she has met and the issues and conflicts […]
Five Ideas To Fight For
Speakers: Anthony Lester, Joshua Rozenberg Human Rights ― Equality ― Free Speech ― Privacy ― The Rule of Law Five Ideas to Fight For is a revealing account of the tortuous struggles to secure the establishment of our rights and freedoms in law. Anthony Lester was at the heart of the 30-year campaign that resulted […]
Power and Pragmatism: Malcolm Rifkind
Speakers: Malcolm Rifkind, Iain Dale Sir Malcolm Rifkind talks to broadcaster Iain Dale about his absorbing life-story. During his glittering political career he served as a Cabinet Minister through some of the most turbulent years of the late 20th century, in both the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence. Hear from the man himself […]
Spitalfields: The History of a Nation in a few Streets
Speakers: Dan Cruickshank, Rachel Lichtenstein Religious strife, civil conflict, waves of immigration, the rise and fall of industry, great prosperity and grinding poverty – the handful of streets that constitute modern Spitalfields have witnessed all this and more. In a fascinating evocation of one of London’s most distinctive districts, Dan Cruickshank tells the story of […]
Maureen Lipman On & Off the Stage
Speakers: Maureen Lipman, Sue MacGregor Maureen Lipman is a magnet on stage, drawing all eyes to her. A woman of many gifts, Maureen also has an active professional life offstage as both writer and journalist, and with her entertaining new book of caricatures of the famous, It’s a Jungle Out There, she demonstrates her inventive […]
The Refusal to be Vanquished
Speakers: Dorit Oliver-Wolff, Rosa Lipworth, Anne Sebba Refusing to be defined by the tragic events of WW2, two remarkable women reveal their inimitable life stories. Patron of the Arts Rosa Lipworth and Dorit Oliver-Wolff, whose memoir From Yellow Star to Pop Star recounts the story of her rise to fame in post-war Berlin, talk to […]
The Allegations
Worth Dying For?
Speakers: Tim Marshall, Simon Kuper, Martin Brighr One of the finest geopolitical analysts of our day, bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall, examines the relationship between flags, national identity and nationalism. In conversation with journalists Martin Bright and Simon Kuper, Marshall analyses what these symbols represent and how they relate to the renewed sense of […]
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case
Speakers: Michael Rosen, Nicolette Jones It is the evening of 18 July 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Émile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking on the highest powers in the land with his open letter ‘J’accuse’ and losing. Forced to leave Paris, with nothing but the clothes he is standing in and a […]
It’s Written In Our Genes
Speakers: Adam Rutherford, Rohan Silva In A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, Adam Rutherford tells the story of you and how you came to be. In every one of our genomes we carry the history of our species – births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration and a lot of sex – so this […]
My Dear Ones
Speakers: Jonathan Wittenberg, Shoshana Boyd Gelfand Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg interweaves the story of his family during the 1930s and 40s with the tragic unfolding of events in WW2 Europe. In a beautifully written narrative he describes some of his unique family and their fates. In conversation with Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand, Director of JHub.
Perpetrators and their Victims
Speakers: Michael Pinto-Duschinsky,Anthony Rudolf, Paul Bogdanor In Jerzyk, Anthony Rudolf recounts the tragic story of his cousin, the only child suicide recorded in the archives of Yad Vashem. In Kasztner’s Crime, Paul Bogdanor argues that Kasztner, forced into collaboration with Eichmann, sacrificed the lives of many to save a very few. The event’s moderator, Michael […]