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NATURAL WORLD
LIFESTYLE
CLASSIC LITERATURE
James Lovelock and Crispin Tickell
Lorraine Pascale
Roaring Girls
In this illuminating interview, Lorraine Pascale (How To Be A Better Cook) shares her inspiring journey from a childhood in foster care to one of the nation’s bestloved and bestselling TV chefs.
‘Well-behaved women seldom make history’ was the provocation for the RSC’s focus on new drama by women, and their Roaring Girls season focuses on Elizabethan women who dared to live outside the norm. RSC Deputy Artistic Director Erica Whyman, playwright Alice Birch and critic Kate Aughterson debate the extraordinary lives of Elizabethan women and discuss women’s contribution to theatre today.
Leading international authority on climate change and environmental issues Crispin Tickell talks to “the most profound scientific thinker of our time” (Literary Review) James Lovelock – whose new book A Rough Ride to the Future presents a radical vision of humanity’s future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system. Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum 4-5pm, £8 Members 10% off L157 FICTION
Faber Crime Proof Party Join debut crime writers Cal Moriarty (The Killing of Bobbi Lomax) and Kate Hamer (The Girl in the Red Coat) in conversation with their editors, for tea and a preview of their eagerly anticipated crime novels to be published in 2015. Programmed in partnership with Faber. Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * 4-5.30pm, £15 Members only. L158 Ticket includes tea or coffee, cake and a goody bag of limited edition proofs. CLASSIC LITERATURE
Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet and literary critic Michael O’Neill explores love, hope, and imagination in the life and work of Shelley, creator of some of the world’s greatest lyrical poetry, before the revolutionary Romantic’s tragic early death. Montpellier Gardens, The Salon 4.30-5.30pm, £8 Members 10% off L159
Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall 6-7pm, £10 Members 10% off L161 FICTION AT 6
Inspired By… Journalist Alex Clark invites Jessie Burton (The Miniaturist), Nikesh Shukla (Meatspace) and Naomi Wood (Mrs. Hemingway) to share the real-life inspiration behind their novels and to explore how fact and imagination can be the best combination in creating fantastic fiction. Imperial Square, Town Hall, The Drawing Room * 6-7.15pm, £7 Ticket includes a glass of Laithwaite's wine.
Kate Mosse
L164
L162
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Doing Well By Doing Good: The Circular Economy Waste is food; energy is renewable; diversity is strength. This is the circular economy, and as well as being better for the environment it has been called a trilliondollar opportunity – a way for businesses to grow under increasingly difficult constraints. Mike Barry, Director of Plan A at Marks & Spencer, Nicky Chambers, Strategy Adviser at Anthesis, and Leo Johnson (Turnaround Challenge) discuss the possibilities of ethically sound business. Imperial Square, The Sunday Times Garden Theatre 6.15-7.15pm, £8 Members 10% off L163
FICTION
Imperial Square, The Inkpot 6.15-7.15pm, £8 Members 10% off
STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN
Welcome to Just a Minute! BBC Radio 4’s Just a Minute host Nicholas Parsons, who’s yet to miss a single episode since it started in 1967, celebrates Britain’s best-loved radio comedy with panellists Pam Ayres, Jenny Eclair and Shappi Khorsandi as the show approaches its 900th episode. Without hesitation, repetition or deviation they recall the very best, occasionally awkward and often hilarious moments that have lit up the comedy airwaves spanning six decades. Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum 6.15-7.30pm, £16 Members 10% off L165
The Taxidermist’s Daughter “In death there can be beauty.” The bestselling author of Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel presents her enthralling new novel, The Taxidermist’s Daughter – a tale of superstition, ghosts and murder. Imperial Square, The Studio * 6-7pm, £8 Members 10% off
L160
*These events have unreserved seating