Unmissable Culture: Ruby Wax, Mary Beard, Rory Stewart and Shehan Karunatilaka.

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** Here are a few of our highlights:
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** 11th May 2023 - 6:45pm BST
London & Online
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** Ruby Wax Meets Julia Samuel – Live on Stage in London
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Checking into a psychiatric institution wasn’t exactly on Ruby Wax’s agenda for 2022 – talking about it wasn’t either, but here we are.

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** 4th Sep 2023 - 7:30pm BST
London & Online
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** An Evening With Rory Stewart
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Join co-presenter of the hit podcast The Rest is Politics, Rory Stewart - diplomat, explorer, cabinet minister, writer - for an evening of no-holds barred discussion on crisis, politics and the world order.

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** 27th Apr 2023 - 6:30pm BST
Online
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** 2022 Booker Prize Winner Shehan Karunatilaka
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A major new voice in the tradition of Rushdie, Bulgakov and Márquez, Booker Prize winner Shehan Karunatilaka joins us to share an unforgettable vision of Sri Lanka’s civil wars.

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** 23rd, 29th Sep, 2nd Oct 2023 - 7:30pm BST
London & Online, Cambridge, Brighton
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** An Evening With Mary Beard
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Spend a fascinating evening with renowned classicist and historian, Mary Beard. Well known from television, here she shines the spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from the well-known Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) to the almost-unknown Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE).

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** Podcasts
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** Brad Smith – Tools and Weapons
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** How To Academy & Tools and Weapons
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Join us for a preview of Tools and Weapons, the new podcast with Microsoft President (and former How To Academy guest in London) Brad Smith. In this episode, Brad Smith interviews groundbreaking philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa.

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** Long Read
The Atlantic
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** Vermeer's Revelations
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** Susan Tallman
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The artist left behind few clues about his life or intentions, but the paintings themselves teach the viewer new ways to see.

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** Museums and Galleries
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** Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth & Reality
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** Ashmolean Museum
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According to legend, an elaborate labyrinth was built at Knossos on the island of Crete to hold a ferocious Minotaur. Discover the palace of Knossos, and the search for the labyrinth, in this major exhibition in Oxford.

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