Judith Kerr: A Storyteller’s Life
Judith Kerr is one of the world’s finest and best-loved writers for children and young adults. Among her best-loved classics are Mog, The Tiger Who Came to Tea and When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit. She talks about her life and books, including her latest illustrated novel, Mr Cleghorn’s Seal, with writer, critic and broadcaster Nicolette […]
Einstein in the 21st Century
Speakers: Pedro Ferreira, Andrew Jaffe, Steven Gimbel Pedro Ferreira, Andrew Jaffe and Steven Gimbel evaluate the significance of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity in the light of recent discoveries about gravitational waves. Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity 100 years ago totally transformed our understanding of space, time and gravity, and thus the entire physics of the […]
Scandalous Socialites
Speakers: Anne Sebba, Natalie Livingstone, Claudia Renton Natalie Livingstone’s captivating The Mistresses of Cliveden and Claudia Renton’s Those Wild Wyndhamsprovide two fascinating chronicles of the ways in which exceptional women challenged, evaded and exploited the expectations of their times. Anne Sebba facilitates this exploration of sex and power, passion and romance, dramatic lives and tragic […]
The Maisky Diaries
Speakers: Gabriel Gorodetsky, John Thornhill, Henry Goodman The diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet Ambassador to the UK from 1932-43, discovered and scrupulously edited by Professor Gabriel Gorodetsky, offer unprecedented insight into events surrounding the Second World War. Maisky enjoyed unique access to key players in British public life – politicians, diplomats, press barons, intellectuals and royalty […]
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 […]
The Ambassador
Speakers: Matt Rees, Jenni Frazer Award-winning crime writer Matt Rees teamed up with the late Yehuda Avner, adviser to Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Menachem Begin, to write The Ambassador, an ‘alternative’ historical novel set in Nazi Germany. What if Israel had been founded before the Holocaust? Might its existence have changed the course of European history? […]
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.
The Liberation of the Camps
Speakers: Dan Stone,Alan Borstein, Daniel Wildmann Dr Ernst Bornstein was born in Zawiercie, a city in the Silesian province of southern Poland, one of four children. He was a survivor of seven concentration camps and his was one of the first published survivors’ accounts. After the war he studied both dentistry and medicine at Munich […]