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Season 46 - 2026 to 2027
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The Next Pandemic and How We Can Survive It
Professor Sir Peter Horby FRS
Prof of Emerging Infections & Global Health, University of Oxford
14th January 2027
Can the US Work with South America to Defeat the Drug Barons?
Professor Julia Buxton
Professor of Justice, Liverpool John Moores University
21st January 2027
Why Is Military Rule on the Rise in Africa?
Professor David Anderson
Professor of African History, University of Warwick
28th January 2027
Can Britain Afford NOT to Have Net Zero Policies
Nigel Topping CMG
Chair, Climate Change Committee
4th February 2027
The Future of Peace and Security
Jane Kinninmont
Chief Executive Officer (CEO), United Nations Association UK
11th February 2027
China & Climate Change: How will they save the planet?
Isabel Hilton OBE
Visiting Professor, Lau Institute, KCL; Founder ChinaDialogue; Contributing Editor Prospect, King’s College London
18th February 2027
What Future for the USA?
Dame Karen Pierce DCMG
UK Special Envoy to the Western Balkans and former UK Ambassador to the United States
25th February 2027
Britain:Still Adrift on a Large Ocean?
Philip Collins
Founder & Writer-in-Chief, The Draft and Editor, Prospect Magazine
4th March 2027
How to save our seas: who is responsible? how to hold them accountable?
Giles Bristow
CEO of Surfers Against Sewage (SAS)
11th March 2027
Materials that will Build a Better Future
Professor Mark Miodownik
Professor of Materials & Society, UCL Mechanical Engineering
18th March 2027
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