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Described by Le Monde as ‘As fine an actor as she is a singer’ (Eliza Doolittle, My Fair Lady, Theatre du Chatelet), Sarah Gabriel is a singer, writer, and actor with a passion for creating work with artists of all disciplines. Arthur Jeffes
Helen Gordon's books include Notes from Deep Time (Profile), Landfall (Penguin) and, with Travis Elborough, Being a Writer (Frances Lincoln). She has written about nature, science, clothes and books for various newspapers and magazines includin
Born and raised in UK, Gurdain Rayatt is one of the leading tabla players and teachers in UK and Europe performing internationally with renowned Indian Classical musicians as well as world/crossover and fusion projects spanning several genres.
"The meteorite provided us with a window into the past, how simple chemistry kick started the origin of life at the birth of our solar system."Queenie Chan is a planetary scientist and a meteoriticist. Chan is currently a Lecturer (Assistant
"What makes the difference between being conscious at all and being a chunk of living meat, or lifeless silicon, without any inner universe?"Anil Seth is a neuroscientist, author, and public speaker who has pioneered research into the brain b
Gavin Francis is a GP, and the author of True North and Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins, which won the Scottish Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and Costa Prize. He also writes for the Guardia
"In an aimless universe the emergence of compassion is an evolutionary miracle, a shock as remarkable as the sudden jump into life."Richard Holloway is a Scottish writer and broadcaster, and was formerly bishop of Edinburgh in the Scottish Ep
"We have searched for correspondence between the heavens and the Earth and between nature and the human body. "Stephen Ellcock is a renowned image collector whose online “cabinet of curiosities”—an ever-expanding, virtual museum of art that i
Hayley Campbell is an author, broadcaster, and journalist. Her work has appeared in WIRED, The Guardian, New Statesman, Empire, GQ, and more. Her books include All the Living and the Dead and The Art of Neil Gaiman.
"I’ve always said there are no mysteries, only things we don’t know; but lately, I’ve thought not even knowledge takes all strangeness from the world."Sarah Perry is the internationally best selling author of the novels Melmoth, The Essex Ser
“For months or years, bodies are pressed into bodies, lives dependent on other lives. You become cargo, a piece of meat, a being that loses humanity.”Sally Hayden is an award-winning journalist and photographer currently focused on migration,
"Who am I? Everybody. Individuals within that multitude are always flickering on and off within me, stepping forward, then receding."George Saunders is the author of nine books, including the novel Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Man Book
"It is neither a wholly mechanistic nor a wholly metaphysical question. Yet it remains for many patients a deeply important one: What is this disease doing to me?"Richard Horton qualified in physiology and medicine with honours from the Unive
Max Porter worked as a bookseller at Daunt Books and was later editorial director of Granta and Portobello Books. In 2015, he published his first novel, Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, which won several awards including the Sunday Times/Peter
"The plastic bonding the metals together is polyethylene. It is literally solid petrol and will burn like it. This is what was starting to happen at Grenfell Tower."Peter Apps is an award-winning journalist and Deputy Editor at Inside Housing
"In spring things come together, blood flows into the heart and away from the heart, swallow appear and swallows vanish." Tim Dee was born in Liverpool in 1961. He has worked as a BBC radio producer for twenty years and divides his life betwe
"In the owl-light, / when loneliness shines / through your bones like a bare bulb." Liz Berry is an award-winning poet from the Black Country and the author of The Patron Saint of Schoolgirls, Black Country and The Republic of Motherhood.Za
Nick Lane is Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London. He is the author of five acclaimed books on evolutionary biochemistry, which have sold more than 150,000
"One of the pods hangs low, right next to Leon’s face. Inside are five tiny black seeds, smaller than his little fingernail. He picks one out and holds it up to the sun."Kit de Waal was born in Birmingham to an Irish mother, who was a childmi
"God is with humanity. Intertwined in all the mess and unsteadiness: in the vulnerability of a baby and with the light and power of the sun."Ordained as a priest in 1996, the reverend Lucy Winkett is rector of St James's Piccadilly and was fo
Chamkaur Ghag is an astroparticle physicist working in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCL. Chamkaur received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2006 following his work on novel technologies to detect dark matter. He held po
Arthur Jeffes founded Penguin Cafe in 2009, bringing together a talented and disparate group of musicians initially to perform his father Simon Jeffes’ legacy of world renowned PCO music, ten years after his untimely death in 1997.Arthur, a t
Dr Sam Guglani is a Consultant Oncologist in Cheltenham, specialising in the management of lung and brain tumours. He has Masters degrees in Ethics and Creative Writing. He is director of Medicine Unboxed, which illuminates the challenges and w
"Dear friends, would you look, only look. For love, allied to attention, will be urgently needed in the years to come."Katherine Rundell is the author of Rooftoppers, Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms (a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner), The
Mark Taubert, Clinical Director, Consultant Physician & Honorary Senior Lecturer in Palliative Medicine at Cardiff University School of Medicine, talks to Sam Guglani about death, sadness, pain and loss in his work as a palliative care doctor,
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