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12
SATURDAY 24 MAY
BARCLAYS WEALTH
MARQUEE
[33] 10AM, £7
Is Evolution Over?
Steve Jones
After Darwin, Utopia evolved. From
Eden to Erewhon, society changed but
people stayed much the same. The
geneticist argues that the agents of
evolution have lost their power and
that—whatever happens to society—
humans are stuck with what we are.
[40] 11.30AM, £9
Cherie Booth
The Matrix Chambers QC specialising
in Employment and Human Rights
lectures on Women’s Equality: Making
your way in a man’s world. Chaired by
Francine Stock.
[48] 1PM, £6
In the Green Corner 1
George Monbiot
In the first of a series of conversations
with the audience, the captivating
author of Bring on the Apocalypse: Six
Arguments for Global Justice discusses a
global or environmental topic arising
from the day’s news.
[54] 2.30PM, £9
The $3 Trillion War
Joseph Stiglitz &
Linda Bilmes
The Nobel Economist and his
co-author audit The True Cost of the
War in Iraq. Chaired by Nik Gowing.
GUARDIAN
STAGE
[31] 9AM, £4
The Wrong Kind of Snow
Robert Penn &
Antony Woodward
An essential primer—from the fair
winds of the Spanish Armada and
D-Day to the invention of the
windscreen wiper and the sliding
tackle—giving The Complete Daily
Companion to the British Weather.
[34] 10AM, £5
Fixing Failed States
Ashraf Ghani and
Clare Lockhart
A billion people live in sixty-odd states
where terrorism, ethnic conflict,
disease, poverty and trafficking thrive.
What do we do now? Dr Ghani was
Afghan Finance Minister 2002–04.
[41] 11.30AM, £5
Earls of Paradise
Adam Nicolson
In his arcadian exploration, the
historian takes a single great family,
the Earls of Pembroke—their wives,
children, estates, tenants and allies—
and follows their high and glamorous
trajectory across three generations of
change, nostalgia, ambition, resistance
and war from the 1520s to the 1640s.
[49] 1PM, £6
A Little History of the English
Country Church
Roy Strong
An elegant synthesis of architecture,
faith and parish community that
points to a possible realigned future.
Sponsored by Richard Booths Books
[55] 2.30PM, £7
The Pain and the Privilege
Ffion Hague
We launch the biographer’s study of
the marriage, the scandals and the
fallout from: The Women in
Lloyd George’s Life.
Sponsored by Herdmans Coaches