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MAY 14
Rosa Prince at Winchester Speakers' Festival
He is a most unlikely revolutionary: a middle-aged, middle-class former grammar schoolboy who honed his radicalism on the mean streets of rural Shropshire. Until recently, Jeremy Corbyn was barely known outside political circles. Yet last summer he rode a wave of popular enthusiasm to win the Labour Party leadership by a landslide, with a greater mandate...
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APR 29
Joe Pike talks Project Fear
Come and meet Joe Pike, political reporter for ITV Border, at Waterstones Glasgow. He'll be discussing Project Fear, his compelling insider account of the Scottish referendum.
Free Event
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APR 28
Joe Pike talks Project Fear
Come and meet Joe Pike, political reporter for ITV Border, at Waterstones Edinburgh West End. He'll be discussing Project Fear, his compelling insider account of the Scottish referendum.
Free Event
Further details: 0131 226 2666
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APR 24
Paul Gambaccini at Stratford-Upon-Avon Literary Festival
Paul Gambaccini was arrested in the dead of night in October 2013. Possessions confiscated, smeared in the press and rendered unemployable, Gambaccini was forced to pay tens of thousands of pounds in legal fees without an income. For a year he was repeatedly bailed and rebailed, often learning of new developments in his case from the media furore...
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APR 10
Frederic Raphael at Oxford Literary Festival
Celebrated novelist and Oscar-winning screenwriter Frederic Raphael talks about his memoir, Going Up: To Cambridge and Beyond. Raphael talks about early life in Chicago, emigration to England when he was seven, education at Charterhouse and Cambridge and a glittering writing career that has taken in Hollywood and France. Cambridge has held a central...
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APR 09
Frederic Raphael at Oxford Literary Festival
Novelist and screenwriter Frederic Raphael talks to fellow writer David Pryce-Jones about two thousand years of persecution of the Jews and explains how the Jewish religion continues to thrive despite this history of violence. Raphael was born into a Jewish family, and a fight against anti-Semitism has been a consistent theme of his life and writing...
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APR 09
John Plender at Chichester Speakers Festival
In the West, capitalism has lifted millions out of poverty. The trail blazed by Japan is being followed by other emerging market countries across the globe, creating prosperity on a breath-taking scale. Yet capitalism is unloved and voices compete to point out that the system allows powerful elites to grab an ever larger share of the collective wealth...
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MAR 20
Joyce Gould at Milim Leeds Jewish Literary Festival
A talk by Joyce Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton and author of The Witchfinder General. Joyce Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton, will be talking about her book, her life in politics and beyond. Born and bred in Chapeltown and Harehills she has had a long career in the Labour Party and was created a Life Peer in 1993. She has been involved...
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FEB 03
Rosa Prince at The London School of Economics and Political Science
Comrade Corbyn: A Very Unlikely Coup Until recently, Jeremy Corbyn was barely known outside political circles, yet last summer he rode a wave of popular enthusiasm to win the Labour Party leadership by a landslide, with a greater mandate than any British political leader before him. So how did this very British iconoclast manage to snatch the leadership...
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NOV 29
Owen Bennett and Dan Hodges discuss 'The Personality of Power'
Owen Bennett is a political journalist working in Westminster. After starting out in local newspapers, he joined the Daily Express, becoming its online political reporter. He then led the political coverage for theMirror online, and is currently political reporter for the Huffington Post UK. Owen is a regular contributor to the BBC and Sky News and has...
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