Born Survivors
Speakers: Wendy Holden, Eva Clarke, Jenni Frazer. In Born Survivors Wendy Holden recounts the tale of three exceptional women. Priska, Rachel and Anka were strangers to each other, but they all survived the death camps, as did their new-born babies. Wendy will be joined by one of the ‘infant’ survivors, Eva Clarke, to be interviewed […]
Fertile Imaginations
Speakers: Tracy Chevalier, Esther Freud, Olivia Lichtenstein. Tracy Chevalier and Esther Freud are two of our finest novelists and both contributors to Reader, I Married Him, a soon-to-be-published collection of stories inspired by Jane Eyre. They talk about the creative process, their stories, writing historical fiction with documentary maker Olivia Lichtenstein.
Stolen Legacy
Speakers: Dina Gold, Melanie Phillips Dina Gold’s book is a gripping story of her battle to reclaim the majestic six-storey building that the Nazis seized from her once-prominent Berlin family. Dina outlines the unfolding of this unusual narrative in conversation with Melanie Phillips.
Bewilderments: Reflections on the Book of Numbers
Speakers: Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg,Stephen Frosh. Bewilderments: Reflections on the Book of Numbers describes the profound existential scepticism of the Children of Israel’s forty-year wandering through the wilderness, a generation who are the receivers of the Torah, are fed on miracles and nurtured directly by God. Drawing on a variety of sources, including the mystical and […]
Putin’s Russia
Speakers: Arkady Ostrovsky, James Harding, Peter Pomerantsev As a foreign correspondent in his own country, Arkady Ostrovsky has experienced Russia’s modern history first-hand. From the suddenly wealthy, to the media, to the Kremlin spin doctors, in The Invention of Russia he explores those who have shaped the new Russia. Peter Pomerantsev describes his unique journey […]
The White Road
Speakers: Edmund de Waal Accompany Edmund de Waal on his personal pilgrimage along The White Road, which tells the story of his obsession with porcelain – ‘white gold’ – and the lure it has held for those who have encountered it. Edmund de Waal’s history ranges far and wide, from the Jesuit missionaries in 17thcentury […]
The JQ Wingate Prize 2016
Speakers: Tahmima Anam, Samantha Ellis, Hugo Rifkind, Jonathan Wittenberg Find out who is in the running to win 2016’s prestigious JQ Wingate Prize as this year’s judges, Tahmima Anam, Samantha Ellis, Hugo Rifkind and Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, discuss the shortlist with JQ editor Nicola Christie. Past winners include Amos Oz, David Grossman, Zadie Smith, Imre Kertész, Oliver […]
Last Folio
Speakers: Katya Krausova, Roger Graef Yuri Dojc returned to his family’s home in eastern Slovakia to find that time had stood still since the day in 1942 when three-quarters of the Jewish population were transported to the camps. His hauntingly beautiful photographs of remnants of a dynamic culture − abandoned synagogues, a Jewish school, decaying […]
You Don’t Have To Live Like This
Speakers: Benjamin Markovits, Tim Martin Ben Markovits talks to Tim Martin about his compelling new novel. You Don’t Have to Live Like This is a darkly comic and brutal vision of contemporary America in the wake of the global financial crisis.
Jonathan Unleashed!
Speakers: Meg Rosoff, Amanda Craig In Jonathan Unleashed, a romantic comedy set in Manhattan, the wryly funny prize-winning author Meg Rosoff, in conversation with novelist Amanda Craig, presents her first novel for adults, a quirky take on the Bildungsroman. Have you ever wished there was a handbook on How to be a Person ? That’s exactly how Jonathan Trefoil feels as he […]
The Best Place on Earth
Speakers: Ayelet Tsabari, Samantha Ellis. Ayelet Tsabari discusses her internationally acclaimed fiction, The Best Place on Earth, which is peopled with characters at the crossroads of nationalities, religions and communities, with writer and playwright Samantha Ellis.
Be Fruitful and Multiply
Speakers: Elliot Jager, Simon Hattenstone In his provocative book, The Pater, Elliot Jager tackles a near-taboo topic: the Orthodox Jewish attitude towards infertility and what it feels like to be a childless Jewish man. In conversation with Guardian journalist Simon Hattenstone he also grapples with the concept of paternity and his complex relationship with his own father.