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		<title>Clive Stafford Smith</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Event In 1986, Kris Maharaj, a British businessman living in Miami, was arrested for the brutal murder of his ex-business associates Derrick and Duane Moo Young. His lawyer did not present a strong alibi; Kris was found guilty and sentenced to death in the electric chair. Immediately he began the process of appeal. But it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Skidelsky</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Event In his new book, How Much is Enough?, co-authored with his son, Edward, Robert Skidelsky argues that wealth is not an end in itself but a means to the achievement and maintenance of a &#8216;good life&#8217;, and that our economy should be organised to reflect this fact. He provides a definition of the &#8216;good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Keen</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Event Andrew Keen presents today’s social media revolution as the most wrenching cultural transformation since the Industrial Revolution. He argues that the social media transformation is weakening, disorienting and dividing us rather than establishing the dawn of a new egalitarian and communal age. The tragic paradox of life in the social media age, Keen says, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Macfarlane</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Event In The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast network of routes criss-crossing the British landscape and its waters, and connecting them to the continents beyond. He discovers that paths offer not just means of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dan Pearson and Fiona Reynolds</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Event There’s considerable concern about the ‘nature deficit disorder’ where children especially but also adults are spending less time outdoors. Dan Pearson has developed The Millennium Forest, an ecological park in Hokkaido, Japan, which is designed to re-engage the public with nature and landscape. He discusses this and the nature deficit disorder with Fiona Reynolds, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vivienne Westwood</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Event Fashion designer and environmentalist Dame Vivienne Westwood has tirelessly campaigned to help tackle climate change, believing that governments have been too slow to distribute funding for green projects. She talks about her long-standing interest and involvement in environmental campaigns and stresses that public opinion is the only thing that will save us. The full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eugenie Harvey</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Event Campaigning is at the heart of Eugenie Harvey’s work. From creating We Are What We Do, through collaboration with the designer Anya Hindmarch on the I’m Not A Plastic Bag project and involvement in 10:10, Eugenie has shown how change can happen at the everyday level. She reflects on this and on her involvement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sara Parkin</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Event Why is it proving so hard to implement sustainability solutions? Sara Parkin, founder director, Forum for the Future, offers positive ideas to help people deviate around the barriers and do the right thing despite the perversities of the world around us. Twenty-first century leadership skills for everyone, not just for leaders. The full list [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prue Leith</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Event One of our finest restaurateurs, writers and broadcasters on food, Prue Leith is also a campaigner determined to promote healthy food. Indeed, she describes the four years she spent as chair of the School Food Trust as the most important of her career. She talks about the importance of Slow Food, sustainability, food as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Llewellyn</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Event Robert Llewellyn, presenter, actor, screen-writer, stand-up comic and author, talks about his work, including his forthcoming book, News from Gardenia, an anti-dystopian vision, in which he imagines a world where everything has got much better. The full list of Festival of Ideas events at Big Green Week is here. You may also be interested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robin Chase</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Event Transport innovator Robin Chase, founder and CEO of Buzzcar, a peer-to-peer car sharing service, talks about the future of transport in cities and elsewhere. The full list of Festival of Ideas events at Big Green Week is here. You may also be interested in our panel discussion Has the Environmental Movement Made Much Progress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Green Week</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Event This year we’re partnering with Bristol’s Big Green Week with a series of talks and debates. The full programme, ticket prices and booking details are at www.biggreenweek.com. All sessions take place in Colston Hall except for the two on 10 June which take place in the Bristol Marriott Royal on College Green. Tickets are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madeline Miller</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Event Profoundly moving and breathtakingly original, Madeline Miller’s new rendering of the epic Trojan War, The Song of Achilles, is a dazzling feat of the imagination, a devastating love story, and an almighty battle between gods and kings, peace and glory, immortal fame and the human heart. Biography Madeline Miller was born in Boston and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Janine di Giovanni</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Event Janine di Giovanni – called the finest foreign correspondent of our generation – has reported more than a dozen conflicts and has won Granada Television&#8217;s Foreign Correspondent of the Year award, the National Magazine Award and two Amnesty International Media Awards. Her work covers the human cost of war – working often in conflict [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laurent Binet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Event Prague 1942. Two Czechoslovakian parachutists are sent on a daring mission to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich – chief of the Nazi secret services. His boss is Heinrich Himmler but everyone in the SS says &#8216;Himmler&#8217;s brain is called Heydrich&#8217;, which in German spells HHhH. All the characters in Lauren Binet’s novel HHhH are real. All [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ignite</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Event At Ignite, the stage of the Tobacco Factory Theatre is yours. For five minutes. The Ignite invitation is to ‘Enlighten us, but make it quick!’ It’s fast-paced and thought-provoking; a high-energy evening of five-minute talks by anyone who pre event has submitted an idea, prepared a talk, and then has the passion to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Belafonte</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Event Harry Belafonte is not just one of the greatest entertainers of our time; he has led one of the great American lives of the last century. Now, this extraordinary icon tells us the story of that life, published in My Song: A Memoir, letting us share in the struggles, the tragedies, and, most of all, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norman Maclean, Tamsin Omond, Jonathon Porritt, Callum Roberts and Lucy Siegle</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Event Rachel Carson is credited with advancing the global environmental movement. But how much progress has been made in the last 50 years since the publication of Silent Spring? To discuss the issue we have Norman Maclean (editor of Silent Summer: The State of Wildlife in Britain and Ireland); Tamsin Omond (Climate Rush); Jonathon Porritt [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 17:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Event An esteemed novelist and cultural critic, Edmund White is the author of many books including the autobiographical A Boy&#8217;s Own Story, the memoir City Boy and now Jack Holmes and His Friend. White&#8217;s wonderful evocations of American society and New York in particular demonstrate narrative daring and a gifted sense of the rueful submerged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Cave and Havi Carel</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Event Stephen Cave’s book Immortality shows how the quest to live forever has driven the development of human civilisation, and how that quest is now coming to a climax through modern science. He argues that humans are hardwired to pursue eternal life – and that the way they have done so has stayed remarkably consistent [...]]]></description>
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