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RNCM Original Voices Festival celebrates new perspectives on music by reimagining how to perform and present works from the past.

More Fiya brings together Jackie Kay, Malika Booker, Kayo Chingonyi, Jason Allen-Paisant, Rommi Smith & Keisha Thompson
Part of Manchester Literature Festival

Jackie Kay hosts and evening with Scottish crime writer with Ian Rankin at Royal Northern College of Music.
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Edward Enninful in conversation with fellow game-changer Bernardine Evaristo about his life, work, experiences in the world of fashion and commitment to inclusion and representation.
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Jon McGregor is the author of two short story collections and five novels and he stops by The Anthony Burgess Foundation.
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Join George Saunders in Conversation at Central Library as part of this year’s Manchester Literature Festival.
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Manchester Literature Festival is delighted to present a special in conversation with Rob Delaney.
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Award-winning poet Roger Robinson and acclaimed photographer Johny Pitts rented a red Mini Cooper and went in search of Black Britain.
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With wit, curiosity and deep admiration Nick Hornby traces the extraordinary lives of two artists who have shaped and inspired him.
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The history of walls – as a way to keep people in or out – is also the history of people managing to get around, over and under them.
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Award-winning BBC broadcaster Nihal Arthanayake brings a defibrillator to our ailing ability to connect through conversation.
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Manchester Literature Festival is joined by two award-winning stars of Irish writing, Jan Carson & Louise Kennedy.
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Kit de Waal discusses ‘Without Warning and Only Sometimes’ a memoir of a childhood of opposites and extremes.
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In his captivating debut novel, ‘The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho’, actor Paterson Joseph tells a story hidden for 300 years.
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Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, Damon Galgut discusses his masterpiece ‘The Promise’, a gripping, beautifully written family saga.
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