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Yuval Noah Harari, Richard Dawkins, Slavoj Žižek and Roger Penrose will come up against Pullitzer prize winning writers, Nobel laureates and members of Parliament, sparking conversations that will shape the intellectual landscape for decades to come.
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World-famous historian, internationally best-selling author, and luminary purveyor of human history, Harari has changed the way we understand who we are and who we have been.
Speaking via video link in: Nature: Friend or foe
Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliott has revolutionised the narrative around society and poverty via her incisive investigative journalism for the New York Times and as a best-selling author.
Speaking in: Camus vs Kafka
Biologist and best-selling author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins is the most famous, and most incendiary, scientist in the world.
Speaking in: The Gene Machine
Deemed "The most dangerous philosopher in the West", Slavoj Žižek once declared “Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.” Žižek himself is neither.
Speaking in: Nature: Friend or foe
Manveen Rana is an award winning journalist who currently hosts the Times Radio podcast Stories Of Our Times and previously reported for BBC Radio 4's The Today Show.
Speaking in: How to be an Investigative Journalist
Nobel Laureate and Hawking collaborator, Roger Penrose has spent his career blazing a trail through conventional physics and perennially at the cutting edge of mathematical physics.
Speaking in: The Mystery of the Multiverse
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