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** Monday, 13th March
Online via Zoom, 7pm (GMT)
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5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each
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Jeremy Denk, one of America's foremost pianists and winner of a MacArthur 'Genius' Fellowship, completes our March line-up, talking about his dazzling memoir Every Good Boy Does Fine.

Join us next Monday to hear poignant stories about family and nationhood, mind-bending lessons from John Donne, snatches of life-changing melody, and inspiring tales of protest.

Tania Branigan is a Guardian foreign leader writer. Having spent seven years as the Guardian’s China correspondent, she has also written for the Washington Post and The Australian. Her first book, Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Culture Revolution, explores how the revolution has shaped China today, and uncovers forty years of silence through the rarely heard stories of individuals who lived through Mao's decade of madness.

Jo Cheetham became an unwitting feminist at the age of seven, when she saw The Benny Hill Show and wondered why an old man was chasing women in bikinis around a yew tree, while everybody laughed. She has worked as a travel agent, a nanny, a food historian, a Christmas pudding-maker, and a mystery shopper. More recently, she campaigned with No More Page Three and completed a PhD in Art History. In her first book, Killjoy, she tells the funny and inspiring story of the No More Page Three campaign and the unlikely group who brought about its end.

Jeremy Denk is one of America's foremost pianists. Winner of a MacArthur 'Genius' Fellowship and the Avery Fisher Prize, Denk is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Denk returns frequently to Carnegie Hall and has appeared with renowned ensembles including the Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, and Los Angeles Philharmonic. His recordings have received critical acclaim, including reaching No. 1 on the Billboard classical charts and featuring on many 'best of the year' lists. In Every Good Boy Does Fine, Denk explores how classical music is relevant to ‘real life’. He passes on to his readers the lessons he has learned; honours the debt he owes to so many remarkable and different teachers; and reminds us that music is our creation, and that we need to keep asking questions about its purpose.

Blake Morrison is a poet, novelist and journalist. His non-fiction books include And When Did You Last See Your Father? (1993), which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize and the Esquire/Volvo/Waterstone's Non-Fiction Book Award, As If (1997), about the murder of the toddler James Bulger in Liverpool in 1993, and a memoir of his mother, Things My Mother Never Told Me (2002). His poetry includes the collections Dark Glasses (1984), winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, and Shingle Street (2015). He is a regular literary critic for the Guardian. His new book, Two Sisters, is a heartbreaking memoir about his late sister and half-sister, along with sibling relationships in literature and those of literary figures.

Katherine Rundell is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Her bestselling books for children have been translated into more than thirty languages and have won multiple awards. Rundell is also the author of a book for adults, Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise. She has written for, among others, the London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books and The New York Times: mostly about books, though sometimes about night climbing, tightrope walking, and animals. Her book Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, an "unmissable" biography of the Renaissance poet, won the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.

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** Tania Branigan, Jo Cheetham, Jeremy Denk,
Blake Morrison, Katherine Rundell

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