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Richard Kirsch

December 19th, 2015

27 Feb: David Aaronvitch at the LSE Literary Festival

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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Richard Kirsch

December 19th, 2015

27 Feb: David Aaronvitch at the LSE Literary Festival

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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

PartyAnimals

Date: Saturday 27 February 2016
Time: 11am-12noon
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: David Aaronovitch
Chair: Charlie Beckett

David Aaronovitch will be talking to Charlie Beckett about his new book Party Animals: My Family And Other Communists. A memoir of early life among communists, Party Animals first took David Aaronovitch back through his own memories of belief and action. But there was much more to it. He found himself studying the old secret service files, uncovering the unspoken shame and fears that provided the unconscious background to his own existence as a party animal.  Only then did he begin to understand what had come before – both the obstinate heroism and the monstrous cowardice. And the elements that shape our fondest beliefs.

David Aaronovitch (@DAaronovitch) is an award-winning journalist, who has worked in radio, television and newspapers in the United Kingdom since the early 1980s. His first book, Paddling to Jerusalem, won the Madoc prize for travel literature in 2001 and his second, Voodoo Histories, was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. Charlie Beckett (@CharlieBeckett) is Director of Polis.

For more information and to register for (free) tickets, go here.

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