An Evening with Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell has dazzled millions of readers globally with her writing on fantastical beasts. In her bestselling book The Golden Mole, she profiled some of the world’s most extraordinary endangered animals, including pangolins, wombats, lemurs and seahorses. This critically acclaimed compendium celebrated the earth’s greatest wonders, and offered a rallying call to prevent their extinction. […]
Plot Twist: An Evening with Harlan Coben and Bill Nighy
“Harlan Coben is a stone-cold genius” – Richard Osman Harlan Coben is a master of the modern thriller. The bestselling author of more than 36 novels, including Fool Me Once, Tell No One and the Myron Bolitar series, Coben is renowned for his ability to build tension, wrong-foot his readers and create intricately plotted narrative […]
An Evening with Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Faulks is one of the country’s best loved novelists, known for books such as Birdsong, Human Traces, Engleby and Charlotte Gray. His writing is renowned for its masterful storytelling and bringing historical periods to life through the inner lives of his characters. On September 16, Faulks joins us live on stage to discuss his […]
Can We Reclaim Childhood from Big Tech?: Beeban Kidron & Sandi Toksvig
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” – Nelson Mandela Childhood has been transformed in little more than a decade. Social media, smartphones and AI are reshaping how children learn, play, relate to one another and understand themselves. The online world we have […]
Inside the World of The Beatles, with Gary Kemp, Simon Halfon & Tom Holland
What if one small black address book could unlock the hidden world behind The Beatles? When songwriter, musician and writer Gary Kemp first came across the pocket-sized address book of Beatles manager Brian Epstein, he became fascinated by the names inside. Mick Jagger. David Bailey. Artists, aristocrats, musicians, outsiders and power brokers: an entire cultural […]
Questione di Karma, with Gianluca Gotto
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is not. The problem is that no one has ever taught us the difference, and so we go through life repeating the same mistakes, driven by fears we’ve inherited and behaviours we dislike but somehow cannot seem to change. We call it our personality. Or our genetics. Sometimes we call it destiny. […]
What Makes a Masterpiece? Lachlan Goudie & Simon Schama
What gives a painting its power? How did Giotto make the walls of the Arena Chapel sparkle with light and life, how was Rembrandt van Rijn able to sculpt the surface of his portraits using textured paint, or Artemisia Gentileschi able to charge the subjects of her canvases with so much visceral drama? On Friday […]
Unveiling Vermeer: The Man and his Masterpieces, with Andrew Graham-Dixon
For generations of scholars, Johannes Vermeer was an enigma. His paintings are celebrated as some of the best in history, but what written record remains revealed little about his interior life, connections, or the identity of the woman in his most iconic work, Girl with a Pearl Earring. That was until acclaimed art historian Andrew […]
Uncovering the Epstein Story
The Jeffrey Epstein story has created shockwaves on both sides of the Atlantic. As new documents continue to emerge, and as journalists continue to report around those documents, we’re increasingly seeing how the powerful and well-connected can evade scrutiny. At its core, this is a story about a system of privilege that shielded Epstein – […]