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Purcell Room
Neil MacGregor
Saturday 10 December 2011
Saturday 10 December 2011
Fiction | Literature | Talks & Debate | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | Talks | Economist Books | Literature Sept to Dec 11 | Winter at Southbank Centre
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In A History of the World in 100 Objects, Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, travelled back in time and across the globe to discover how humans have shaped and been shaped by our world over the past two million years.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Philip Pullman
Thursday 6 December 2012
Thursday 6 December 2012
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A book launch by Philip Pullman, whose prize-winning 'Northern Lights' trilogy delighted adults as much as children, leading to a stage production for the National Theatre and a film, 'The Amber Spyglass', starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig.
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Purcell Room
Ben Goldacre
Friday 7 December 2012
Friday 7 December 2012
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Ben Goldacre is a bestselling author, broadcaster, medical doctor and academic who specialises in analysing dodgy scientific claims by drug companies, newspapers, government reports, PR people and quacks.
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Purcell Room
Anne Applebaum
Saturday 8 December 2012
Saturday 8 December 2012
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Anne Applebaum, the Pulitzer prize-winning author of 'Gulag', discusses her new book, which explores the historical, political and moral forces at work behind the Iron Curtain.
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Purcell Room
Pat Barker
Saturday 8 December 2012
Saturday 8 December 2012
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Hear Pat Barker discuss her new book 'Toby's Room', in which she revisits the trauma of World War I for the first time since her unforgettable trilogy 'Regeneration', the final volume of which won the Man Booker prize in 1995.
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Purcell Room
Adam Gopnik
Sunday 9 December 2012
Sunday 9 December 2012
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Hear Adam Gopnik discuss his new book 'Winter', which introduces you to the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists and thinkers who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter.
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Purcell Room
Thomas Heatherwick
Sunday 9 December 2012
Sunday 9 December 2012
Architecture and Design | Visual Arts | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Economist Books | Literature Sept-Dec 12
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Fresh from unveiling his Olympic cauldron this summer, Thomas Heatherwick, Britain's most innovative designer, talks about the studio he created in 1994 to make extraordinary projects happen.
