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TOM LIN - Author of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu - Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2022
Season 11
"When I was growing up, it was all about representation. I think that was the thing that was being championed: we need more people of color in books,…
3 years, 1 month ago
MARK MASLIN - Author of How To Save Our Planet: The Facts - Professor, Earth System Science, University College London
Season 11
"The Chicago School in the 1970s said: Capitalism has been doing really well. What we need to do is take their training wheels off and get rid of reg…
3 years, 1 month ago
Erland Cooper - Nature’s Songwriter - Composer of “Folded Landscapes”
Season 11
"Music has the ability to transport you to a place and create a sort of internal landscape. And we all have life-changing things that happened to us.…
3 years, 1 month ago
SERGEI GURIEV - Economist - Provost of SciencesPo - Co-author of Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
Season 11
What is a spin dictator? What does tyranny look like in the 21st century? Why is populism on the rise? And how do we reinvent democracy?
Sergei Guriev…
3 years, 1 month ago
JASON deCAIRES TAYLOR - Sculptor, Environmentalist, Creator of Underwater Museums
Season 11
What if museums weren’t confined to buildings but could be part of the natural world? What if sculptures could not only celebrate our oceans, but als…
3 years, 1 month ago
DOMINIC McAFEE - Marine Ecologist, University of Adelaide - Restoring Lost Oyster Reefs
Season 11
"There's this real emergence of young people doing incredible things enabled by bio-modern technology and a more globalized and connected world and a…
3 years, 1 month ago
MARCIA DeSANCTIS - Author of “A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life"
Season 11
Does becoming a mother mean forgetting who you were before? How can we reclaim our lives as women, while still being mothers to our children? What do…
3 years, 1 month ago
NICHOLAS ROYLE - Author, Editor, Educator reads “Mother: A Memoir”
Season 11
Nicholas Royle is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Sussex, England, where he has been based since 1999. He has also taught at the U…
3 years, 2 months ago
MARGE PIERCY - NYTimes Bestselling Novelist, Poet & Activist
Season 11
Marge Piercy’s 17 novels include NYTimes Bestseller Gone To Soldiers; National Bestsellers Braided Lives and The Longings of Women; the classics Woma…
3 years, 2 months ago
LAURIE ANDERSON - DICKIE LANDRY - "HOME OF THE BRAVE"
Season 11
“Home of the Brave” performed by Laurie Anderson & Dickie Landry on The Late Show. Laurie Anderson is an American avant-garde artist, composer, music…
3 years, 2 months ago