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Purcell Room
Tuesday 23 March 2010
The eclectic jazz sound of Polar Bear meets the serene and unforgettable voice of Zena Edwards in this cool collaboration.
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Level 5 Function Room
Robin Robertson and Sam Willetts
Wednesday 24 March 2010
Robin Robertson reads from his new poetry collection The Wrecking Light, alongside Sam Willetts whose debut collection New Light for the Old Dark offers a dramatic new voice in contemporary poetry.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tuesday 30 March 2010
James Lovelock is one of the world's leading thinkers on climate.
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Purcell Room
Tuesday 6 April 2010
Join us for an evening of newly commissioned writing as we join forces with Britain's leading human rights organisation Liberty in support of their Common Values campaign.
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Level 5 Function Room
Wednesday 7 April 2010
Is India the new America? A debate exploring India's increasing importance on the world stage.
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Purcell Room
Wednesday 7 April 2010
Roddy Doyle launches his latest novel Dead Republic, the third in a sequence of novels telling the history of modern Ireland.
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The Clore Ballroom
Thursday 8 April 2010
BBC Radio 1 DJ, Nihal hosts his BBC Asian Network show live at Southbank Centre.
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Sunley Pavilion
Southbank Centre Book Club: A Golden Age
Thursday 8 April 2010
Tahmima Anam's novel 'A Golden Age' is our first book club choice of the new season, and is part of the Alchemy Festival.
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Blue Room, Spirit Level
A Golden Age: Work in Progress
Saturday 10 April 2010
Set amidst the Bangladeshi War of Independence of 1971, 'A Golden Age' is a novel about a country and a family at war.
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Weston Pavilion
Location, Dislocation: Fusion, Confusion
Saturday 10 April 2010
Southbank Centre Artist in Residence Gauri Sharma Tripathi hosts this debate on tradition and innovation.
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Sunley Pavilion
Close Reading: Contemporary Indian Poetry
Sunday 11 April 2010
Discussing poems in detail is a great way to explore and expand their meaning.
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The Clore Ballroom
Sunday 11 April 2010
A panel from across the generations explores art, entrepreneurship and social change in India and the diaspora.
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Weston Pavilion
Sunday 11 April 2010
Experience the best poetry by contemporary Indian poets writing in English
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Members' Bar - level 6
Members' Eastern Delight Workshop
Monday 12 April 2010
Join your fellow Members to learn about Chinese teas, their health benefits and the different tastes with luxury Chinese tea specialists Choi Time, hailed as the don perignon of the tea world by The Sunday Times and stocked in retailers like Selfridges and Harrods.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Monday 12 April 2010
Philip Pullman, one of the UK's most prominent authors, makes his greatest imaginative leap to date through his re-telling of the life of Jesus in The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.
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Level 5 Function Room
Tuesday 13 April 2010
Heather Brooke is the award-winning journalist who broke the MPs' expenses scandal last year.
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St. Paul’s Pavilion
Wednesday 14 April 2010
The summer season of Polari launches with a headline reading from novelist Frances King.
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Purcell Room
Margaret Busby, James Kelman and Olive Senior
Wednesday 14 April 2010
When a language is passed across cultures and seas through conquest and independence, what happens to stories? Exploring how English, one of the world's most widely used languages, has been shaped and re-shaped to express different identities, groundbreaking publisher Margaret Busby, Booker Prize-winner James Kelman and Commonwealth Prize-winner Olive Senior read from their work and discuss how their writing connects them to their own cultures and others.
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Purcell Room
Thursday 15 April 2010
A rare chance to hear one of Egypt's most celebrated and outspoken writers, whose words have transformed the lives of people in Egypt and across the world.
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Blue Room, Spirit Level
Friday 16 April 2010
Steve Goodman is the founder of the record label Hyperdub and produces bass-driven electronic music under the name kode9.
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