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The poet and essayist unpacks how climate change and environmental injustice disproportionately impact Black communities around the world, and why any conversation about the future of the planet must centre on those most affected.

To want to ‘save the planet’, a person has to have a sense of belonging in it…

Selina is a former young poet laureate for London. Her work includes the chapbook, The Secrets I Let Slip, her debut poetry collection A Little Resurrection and the book of essays Black Climates: Notes on Race, Our Environment and Visions for Equitable Futures.

Chaired by Peter Florence.

The interview lasts for an hour followed by a 30-minute Q&A. In addition to being this being an online event, it can be streamed up to 30 days after the event has taken place.

Dame Harriet Walter, renowned for her wonderful portrayals in Succession and Killing Eve among others, is one of Britain’s most esteemed Shakespearean actors. Now, having played most of the Bard’s female characters, audaciously she lets them speak their minds. With thirty new parts for Shakespeare’s women, written in ‘Shakespearean’ verse and prose, Harriet Walter goes between the lines of the plays to let us hear what she imagines – sometimes playfully and sometimes searchingly – these women were really thinking.

Gertrude tells Hamlet the unvarnished truth; Lady MacBeth has her regrets; Kate, the Shrew, challenges us; Ophelia surprises us; Olivia surprises herself; and the Witches have a good old rap.

Harriet Walter herself says, ‘I worship Shakespeare. His psychological insight is second to none but the mirror that he held up to nature reflected a predominantly male image of the world. I pondered the long shadow of his genius and tried to think of ways to let a little sunlight in on some of his women’s stories. I like to think he wouldn’t mind’.

Chaired by Lennie Goodings, chair of Virago Press.

The interview lasts for an hour followed by a 30-minute Q&A. In addition to being this being an online livestream, it can be streamed up to 30 days after the event has taken place.

For in person tickets, visit here.

Dame Harriet Walter, renowned for her wonderful portrayals in Succession and Killing Eve among others, is one of Britain’s most esteemed Shakespearean actors. Now, having played most of the Bard’s female characters, audaciously she lets them speak their minds. With thirty new parts for Shakespeare’s women, written in ‘Shakespearean’ verse and prose, Harriet Walter goes between the lines of the plays to let us hear what she imagines – sometimes playfully and sometimes searchingly – these women were really thinking.

Gertrude tells Hamlet the unvarnished truth; Lady MacBeth has her regrets; Kate, the Shrew, challenges us; Ophelia surprises us; Olivia surprises herself; and the Witches have a good old rap.

Harriet Walter herself says, ‘I worship Shakespeare. His psychological insight is second to none but the mirror that he held up to nature reflected a predominantly male image of the world. I pondered the long shadow of his genius and tried to think of ways to let a little sunlight in on some of his women’s stories. I like to think he wouldn’t mind’.

Chaired by Lennie Goodings, chair of Virago Press.

The interview lasts for an hour followed by a 30-minute public Q&A and informal conversation. It is also being live-streamed. For livestream tickets, visit here.

The investigative journalist exposes the dark secrets at the heart of the world economy and explains how few crimes of acquisition would be worthwhile without money laundering and London’s part in it.

South American drug cartels, Nigerian kleptocrats, Afghan terrorists, American tax evaders and human and animal traffickers across the globe would not be able to operate without it. The dirty economy has held steady at 2-5% of GDP for decades as efforts to combat it have flopped. Bullough argues that the failure is not for a lack of will but for a lack of insight. Money laundering works and the options to hide money are more secure and impenetrable than they have ever been.

Bullough is author of Moneyland, Butler to the World, The Last Man in Russia and Let Our Fame Be Great.

Chaired by Peter Florence.

The interview lasts for an hour followed by a 30-minute public Q&A, then a book-signing and informal conversation. It is also being live-streamed. For livestream tickets, visit here.

The investigative journalist exposes the dark secrets at the heart of the world economy and explains how few crimes of acquisition would be worthwhile without money laundering and London’s part in it.

South American drug cartels, Nigerian kleptocrats, Afghan terrorists, American tax evaders and human and animal traffickers across the globe would not be able to operate without it. The dirty economy has held steady at 2-5% of GDP for decades as efforts to combat it have flopped. Bullough argues that the failure is not for a lack of will but for a lack of insight. Money laundering works and the options to hide money are more secure and impenetrable than they have ever been.

Bullough is author of Moneyland, Butler to the World, The Last Man in Russia and Let Our Fame Be Great.

Chaired by Peter Florence.

For in person tickets, visit here.

The historian and lawyer, who served as a Supreme Court Justice for six years, robustly and exactingly interrogates the limits and breaking points of established democracy in the modern world.

He examines Trump’s disregard for the checks and balances of the US Constitution, the criminal implications of Israel’s actions in Palestine, the exercise of sovereignty in the Brexit vote, the contrary meanings of Freedom of Speech,and the overreach of the ECHR and under-reach of the ICC. He asks how did we get to this and where do we go from here?

In conversation with Helen Mountfield KC, Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford.

The interview lasts for an hour followed by a 30-minute public Q&A, then a book-signing and informal conversation. It is also being live-streamed. For livestream tickets, visit here.

The historian and lawyer, who served as a Supreme Court Justice for six years, robustly and exactingly interrogates the limits and breaking points of established democracy in the modern world.

He examines Trump’s disregard for the checks and balances of the US Constitution, the criminal implications of Israel’s actions in Palestine, the exercise of sovereignty in the Brexit vote, the contrary meanings of Freedom of Speech,and the overreach of the ECHR and under-reach of the ICC. He asks how did we get to this and where do we go from here?

In conversation with Helen Mountfield KC, Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford.

For in person tickets, visit here.

The Traveller spreads out before us the life and times of George Forster, who journeyed to the far reaches of the known world, and whose radical ideas about humanity, equality and freedom challenged the worldviews of eighteenth-century Europe.

Andrea Wulf paints a picture of a man of profound curiosity and brilliance. He joined Cook’s second voyage at the age of seventeen, an exploration of vast contrasts from the icy world of Antarctica to tropical islands of the South Pacific. Studying the diverse nature, peoples and cultures he encountered, he came back imbued with a deep belief in the equality of races – an understanding far ahead of his time. On his return he was feted in England, France, Germany and Poland, using his fame to advocate for freedom and women’s rights and against empire, racism and slavery. Wulf traces how Forster – inspired by the French Revolution – became a leader of the short-lived Republic of Mainz, before being declared an outlaw in Germany and forced into exile in Paris during the Reign of Terror.

Andrea’s other books include The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World (Winner of the 2015 Costa Biography Award and the 2016 Royal Society Science Book Prize) and Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self.

Chaired by Peter Florence.

The interview lasts for an hour followed by a 30-minute public Q&A, then a book-signing and informal conversation. It is also being live-streamed. For livestream tickets, visit here.