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    Events on Sat 15 Aug
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    10:00 - Gruffalos, Conjurors and Teeny Weeny Genies with Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler and Nick Sharratt
    11:30 - Poems Aloud with Joseph Coelho
    16:00 - Olivette Otele & Angela Saini: Pseudoscience and Slavery
    17:30 -Val McDermid: Portrait of a Criminal
    19:00 - Maggie O’Farrell: Giving New Life to Shakespeare’s Son
    Events on Sun 16 Aug
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    10:00 - Picturing Tomorrow with Nadine Kaadan
    11:30 - Llama Drama with Allen Fatimaharan & Annabelle Sami
    13:00 - Shifting Sands, Five Years On: What Future for the Middle East?
    16:00 - Rutger Bregman: There is Hope for the Human Race
    17:30 - The New York Times Book Review Live
    19:00 - Amelia Gentleman: Windrush – A Very British Betrayal
    20:30 - Hilary Mantel: Inside the Head of Thomas Cromwell
    Events on Mon 17 Aug
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    10:00 - A New Kind of Superhero with Samantha Baines
    11:30 - Stuart Cosgrove: The Soul Of Muhammad Ali
    13:00 - Natalie Diaz & Ellen van Neerven: Voices of Indigenous Resistance
    14:30 - Michele Hutchison & Marieke Lucas Rijneveld: Reap What You Sow
    16:00 - Jenny Offill: Storm Warning
    17:30 - Linn Ullmann: Portrait of a Family
    19:00 - Ian Rankin: A Rebus for the Dark Times
    20:30 - Roger Robinson: ‘Ordinary Poems Won’t Change the World’
    Events on Tue 18 Aug
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    10:00 - Formidable Females with Lari Don & Eilidh Muldoon
    13:00 - Ekow Eshun: Africa is a State of Mind
    14:30 - Hallie Rubenhold: The Problem with Great Men
    16:00 - Get Adventurous with Lily Dyu & Helen Skelton
    17:30 - Colum McCann: An Infinity of Stories
    19:00 - Philippe Sands with Ian Rankin: On the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive
    20:30 - Women in Politics: A Year of Reckoning
    Events on Wed 19 Aug
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    11:30 - Shokoofeh Azar: After the Iranian Revolution
    13:00 - Eliza Anyangwe & Emmanuel Iduma: Outriders Africa – Deconstructing the Travelogue
    14:30 - Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi: Uganda’s First Woman of Fiction
    16:00 - Voices from the Past with Patrice Lawrence & Bali Rai
    17:30 - Maaza Mengiste: When Italy Invaded Ethiopia
    19:00 - Marian Keyes: Family Matters
    20:30 - Val McDermid & Jo Sharp: Shaping a Better Future
    Events on Thu 20 Aug
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    10:00 - Magical Moggies with Philip Ardagh & Rob Biddulph
    11:30 - Gabriela Cabezón Cámara: The Female Gaucho
    13:00 - Yoko Ogawa & Stephen Snyder: The Memory of Forgetting
    14:30 - Tales of Two Planets: Making Climate Change Personal
    16:00 - James Naughtie: The USA, from Reagan to Trump
    17:30 - Dean Atta & George Lester: Shine On
    19:00 - Suzanne Bonnar, Joy Harjo & Jackie Kay: Makar to Makar - Sonnets from Scotland
    20:30 - Garth Greenwell: Intimate Truths
    Events on Fri 21 Aug
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    10:00 - Pony Pals with Kate McLelland
    11:30 - Wanjiru Koinange & Donna Obaseki-Ogunnaike: Outriders Africa – Sub-Saharan Swiping
    13:00 - The Queer Arab Vanguard
    14:30 - James Tait Black Prizes
    16:00 - Kirstin Innes: Who is Clio Campbell?
    19:00 - Lola Olufemi & Minna Salami: Critical Reflections on Feminism
    Events on Sat 22 Aug
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    10:00 - Why Plastic isn’t Fantastic: Dapo Adeola & Nathan Bryon
    11:30 - Liz Hyder: In the Jaws of Bearmouth
    13:00 - Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power
    14:30 - Sophie Hughes & Fernanda Melchor: Another Mexico
    16:00 - Cassandra Clare: All that Glitters is Not Gold
    17:30 - Isabel Wilkerson: America’s Unspoken Caste System
    19:00 - Edwidge Danticat: ‘Death Cannot Write Its Own Story'
    20:30 - Bernardine Evaristo with Nicola Sturgeon: The Triumph of Girl, Woman, Other
    Events on Sun 23 Aug
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    10:00 - Polly Dunbar & Michael Morpurgo – Owl or Pussycat?
    11:30 - Sarah Moss: Unhappy Campers
    13:00 - Joshua Wong: Hong Kong’s Champion for Democracy
    14:30 - Gavin Francis & Kapka Kassabova: The Lie of the Land
    16:00 - Representation Matters with Hannah Lee & Jessica Love
    17:30 -Working with Words: Inside the New York Times Crossword
    19:00 - Anne Enright with Vicky Featherstone: Mothers and Daughters
    Events on Mon 24 Aug
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    10:00 - Alexander McCall Smith with Ruth Davidson: For the Love of Humankind
    11:30 - Nadine Aisha Jassat & Tsitsi Dangarembga: Outriders Africa Following in their Footsteps
    13:00 - Ross Benjamin & Daniel Kehlmann: When History Prefigures Our Own Times
    14:30 - Yiyun Li: One-way Correspondence
    16:00 - Kathleen Jamie, Chitra Ramaswamy & Amanda Thomson: Antlers of Water
    17:30 - Billy-Ray Belcourt & Mary Jean Chan: Words Will Set You Free
    19:00 - Anne Applebaum: Democracy Under Siege
    20:30 - David Eagleman: A Mind-Blowing Future
    Events on Tue 25 Aug
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    11:30 - Michel Faber: The ‘Evil Is In The ‘Etail
    13:00 - Selva Almada: Giving Voice to the Victims of Femicide
    14:30 - Maryse Condé & Richard Philcox: Giving Voice to Guadeloupe
    16:00 - Richard Holloway: The Human Need for Stories
    17:30 - Retelling Tales with Joseph Coelho, Juno Dawson & Kiran Millwood Hargrave
    19:00 - Olivia Laing: Art is Political
    20:30 - Helen Macdonald: The Natural World Beyond ‘H is For Hawk’
    Events on Wed 26 Aug
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    10:00 - Time Travelling with Patience Agbabi & Ben Miller
    11:30 - Nadine Aisha Jassat, Sabrina Mahfouz & Amanda Thomson: Outriders Africa - Cape Town, From Art to Ancestry
    13:00 - Adania Shibli: When the Present is Haunted by the Past
    16:00 - Wayétu Moore: Setting Liberia’s History Free
    17:30 - Douglas Stuart: The Making of Shuggie Bain
    19:00 - International Booker Prize: First Interview with the 2020 Winner
    Events on Thu 27 Aug
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    10:00 - Sensory Stories and Crafts with Ailie Finlay & Kate Leiper
    11:30 - Ann Goldstein: Meet Elena Ferrante’s Translator
    13:00 - Mieko Kawakami: Three Daughters of Osaka
    14:30 - Susan Abulhawa: Grace in the Face of Violence
    16:00 - David Mitchell with Sam Amidon: The Music of Utopia Avenue
    17:30 - Nikita Gill & Nic Stone: Writing Resistance
    20:30 - Samantha Power with Allan Little: What One Person Can Do’
    Events on Fri 28 Aug
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    10:00 - Stitched Together: Family, Friends and Dreaming Big with Laura Dockrill & Sara Ogilvie
    14:30 - Who’s Afraid of the Working Class?
    16:00 - Amin Maalouf & Jonathan Sacks: Rediscovering Our Moral Compass
    17:30 - Sebastian Barry: Tales from an Uncivil War
    19:00 - Brit Bennett: How the Other Twin Lives
    20:30 - Ali Smith & Sarah Wood: Festival – a Film
    Events on Sat 29 Aug
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    10:00 - Cooking and Drawing up a Storm with Julia Donaldson, Lydia Monks & Sara Ogilvie
    11:30 - Money, Money, Money with Rashmi Sirdeshpande
    13:00 - Sarah Crossan with Sally Magnusson: The Other Woman
    14:30 - William Dalrymple with Fergal Keane: Rapacity and Excess in Imperial India
    16:00 - Sharna Jackson & Robin Stevens: Super Sleuths
    17:30 - Should Capitalism Survive Climate Change?
    19:00 - Samantha Irby: Bitches Gotta Eat
    20:30 - Elif Shafak: Writing the World’s Wrongs
    Events on Sun 30 Aug
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    10:00 - Illustrate your Feelings with Dunja Jogan
    11:30 - Super Scribbles and Canine Capers with Rob Biddulph
    13:00 - Masha Gessen with Philippe Sands: Facing Down President Putin
    14:30 - Allie Esiri: A Poem for Every Autumn Day
    16:00 - A Fantastical Escape with Cressida Cowell, Eoin Colfer & Kiran Millwood Hargrave
    17:30 - Andrew O’Hagan: Heydays in the Haçienda
    19:00 - Paul Mendez & Derek Owusu: Thorny Intersections
    20:30 - Christiana Figueres & Tom Rivett-Carnac: How We Can Survive the Climate Crisis
    Events on Mon 31 Aug
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    10:00 - Brain-fizzing Facts with Emily Grossman
    11:30 - Kayus Bankhole & Kei Miller: Outriders Africa from East to West
    13:00 - Oliver Jeffers: What We'll Build
    14:30 - Matt Haig: The Library of Second Chances
    16:00 - Arundhati Roy: Portal to a New World
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