Unmissable Culture: David Nutt, Lee McIntyre, Ed Catmull, Colson Whitehead.

Fri Jul 14 12:44:47 BST 2023

Plus, Richard Dawkins on an extraordinary life in science, from last year's Wilderness Festival.

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** Here are a few of our highlights:
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** 18th July 2023 - 6:00pm BST
London & Online
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** David Nutt – How Psychedelics Can Change Your Life
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Are you ready to change your mind? Professor David Nutt joins us to cut through the noise and share his discoveries from more than a decade of scientific research.

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** 24th Aug 2023 - 7:00pm ET
Online
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** Lee McIntyre in Conversation with The New York Times’ Tiffany Hsu: On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy
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Join bestselling author, scientific historian and philosopher Lee McIntyre for a conversation with New York Times technology reporter Tiffany Hsu about the relationship between scientific fact and democratic ideals.

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** 26th Jul 2023 - 6:30pm BST
Online
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** Ed Catmull, Co-Founder of Pixar and President of Disney Animation
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Ed Catmull built the most successful animation studio since Disney. He joins us to tell us how he and his team at Pixar did it – and pass on his lessons for leading a creative powerhouse.

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** 31st Jul 2023 - 9:00pm ET
Online
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** An Evening with Colson Whitehead
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Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.

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** Podcasts
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** Richard Dawkins – Live at Wilderness Festival 2022
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** How To Academy
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Richard Dawkins joined audiences at last year’s Wilderness Festival for a celebration of an extraordinary life in science.

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** Long Read
The New Yorker
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** On Killing Charles Dickens
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** Zadie Smith
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A reflection on the ever-present influence of Charles Dickens in the English literary psyche, Smith reveals how her attempt to exorcise him from her first historical novel The Fraud had as many twists and turns as the London Dickens so meticulously described.

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** Museums and Galleries
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** A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography
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** Tate Modern
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A celebration through photography, film, audio and more, of the varied landscape of contemporary African photography today.

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