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MAY 22
Ziauddin Sardar at Bradford Literature Festival
Ziauddin Sardar, Harry Leslie Smith and Alan Dix Sing & Louder Sing: Men, Ageing and Mortality Sing & Louder Sing is 509 Arts’ new music-theatre production planned for Autumn 2016 about older men, ageing and mortality, using voices from many different backgrounds. Men’s experiences of change – physical, emotional and attitudinal, as they move...
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MAY 22
Ziauddin Sardar at Bradford Literature Festival
Ziauddin Sardar ‘Is There an Islam Beyond the Mad Max Jihadis?’ & Other Questions You’ve Always Wanted To Ask Writer, broadcaster and cultural critic Ziauddin Sardar is chair of the Muslim Institute and is as frightened by the rise of Islamic Jihadi groups as everyone else. His new book ‘Islam Beyond the Mad Max Jihadis’ tackles the big question for...
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MAY 21
Ziauddin Sardar at Bradford Literature Festival
Ziauddin Sardar and John Sweeney Postnormal Futures The ‘postnormal’ or ‘postnormal times’ concept attempts to describe our present time, with all its turbulence, complexity and change. Author and cultural critic Ziauddin Sardar, who developed the concept, describes it as “an in between period where old orthodoxies are dying, new ones have yet to be born, and very...
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MAY 21
Ziauddin Sardar at Bradford Literature Festival
In conversation with Andrew Brown, Sunny Hundal and Samia Rahman Critical Muslim: Extreme Extreme ways take many different forms, be it religious fundamentalism, corruption, extreme geology or the extreme lengths people will go to in order to escape a situation. The current issue of the ‘Critical Muslim’ journal investigates the ‘Extreme’ theme and covers...
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MAY 14
Azi Ahmed at Winchester Speakers' Festival
By the age of 12, Azi Ahmed had been fully trained in all the skills her mother thought necessary to become the perfect housewife: knitting, sewing and sitting pretty. Little did she know that a rather different sort of training lay in her future. With no military experience, physically slight and before entering Chelsea Barracks, socially isolated...
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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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