Unmissable Culture: Bernard-Henri Levy, Hillary Clinton, Malcolm Gladwell, Merlin Sheldrake

Fri Aug 27 09:00:03 BST 2021

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** Here are just a few of our highlights for the Autumn:
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** 4th October 2021 - 7:15pm BST
Live and Online
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Bernard-Henri Lévy – Live On Stage In London
Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope
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For fifty years philosopher and activist Bernard-Henri Lévy has reported on the world’s most urgent and overlooked humanitarian crises and human rights abuses.
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** 1st September 2021 - 8:00pm BST
Online
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Hillary Clinton in conversation with Jonathan Freedland
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will join us for a special livestreamed event marking the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
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** 1st September 2021 - 6:30pm BST
Online
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How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake In Conversation With Robin Ince
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Join biologist Merlin Sheldrake for a journey into a spectacular and neglected world, as he reveals how fungi provide a key to understanding both the planet on which we live, and life itself.
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** 30th September 2021 - 7:00pm ET
Online
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Malcolm Gladwell in Conversation with Fareed Zakaria: Talking to Strangers
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How would you rate your ability to size up other people?
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** Podcasts
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Agree to Disagree: Leaving Afghanistan
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** Intelligence Squared Podcast
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After two decades of war, tens of billions spent, hundreds of thousands of lives lost – including more than 2,300 U.S. military personnel – bigger questions have emerged: Is the cost of leaving greater than the cost of staying? And was pulling out the right decision?
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** Long Read
The New Yorker
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Britain’s Idyllic Country Houses Reveal a Darker History
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** Sam Knight
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Great estates are among the country’s treasures. But their connections to slavery and colonialism are forcing visitors to reckon with myths they may not want to abandon.

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** Long Read
The Guardian
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Cold comfort: how cold water swimming cured my broken heart
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** Wendell Steavenson
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After a painful breakup and the death of her father, one writer retreated to the coast of Brittany in winter where she tested the powerful effects of a daily swim in the icy sea.

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** Museums and Galleries
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The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570 Virtual Opening
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** Met Exhibitions
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Join Keith Christiansen, the John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of the Department of European Paintings, and guest curator Carlo Falciani, Professor of Art History at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, for a tour of The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570.
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