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Members or Friends of English PEN may borrow recordings for the events shown below. They must be returned to us within eight weeks of dispatch. To receive recordings, please order online, below, or print and complete this form and send it together with your cheque and a SAE to the address below. The cost is £5.00 per recording borrowed. If you are not a member, the cost is £8.00. Please note that recordings from 2003 and onwards are on CD, while the majority of earlier recordings are on cassette.
Please also visit the page Borrow from archive, which lists details of recordings of English PEN Events from 1953 onwards!
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Thursday 25 October
Venue: Guardian Newsroom
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Tuesday 21 November 2006
Venue: Guardian Newsroom, London
"The interesting peripheral zone between biography, autobiography, memoir, social comment and current affairs…" Jonathan Heawood , PEN Director, sketched out the territory of Alexander Masters’ and Jon Ronson’s writing at...
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Tuesday 24 October 2006
Venue: The Guardian Newsroom, London
To listen to the Guardian’s podcast of the talk, click here. The acclaimed and prolific author Fay Weldon kicked off the discussion with the frank statement that she had felt...
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Tuesday 12 September
Venue: Guardian Newsroom
Paul Gravett , a comic historian who has worked with comics for over twenty years led the discussion on graphic novels. The term graphic novel was first used in 1964...
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Tuesday 20th June 2006 - 7pm
Venue: Adam Street Club, London
Our recent Lyrical Balladeers proved an interesting probe into the problems, delights and disputes of lyrics and their translation with Richard Stokes and Jeremy Sams . Richard Stokes is the...
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Tuesday 16 May 2006 - 7pm
Venue: Adam Street Club, London
Putting a shiver down our spines on a spring evening were authors Toby Litt , Patrick McGrath and Hilary Mantel who compared notes on their own spooky writing in a...
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Saturday 13 May 2006 - 12-6pm
Venue: ICA, London
This year’s event, titled Migrations of the Mind , celebrated the ideas-traffickers of the twenty-first century – the international writers who fuse cultures, challenging received wisdom and opening up spaces...
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Tuesday 21st March 2006
Venue: Adam Street Club, London
Debby Moggach is a novelist and script writer. She won a Writers Guild Award for her adaptation of Anne Fine’s Goggle-Eyes and has also adapted Nancy Mitford’s Love In A...
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Tuesday 21st February 2006
Venue: Adam Street Club, London
Hari Kunzru , author and contributing editor of Mute magazine, led this discursive foray into the particulars, pitfalls and complex intricacies of copyright law in relation to traditional publishing models,...
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Tuesday 17th January 2006 - 7pm
Venue: Adam Street Club, London
Talking Offence saw Lisa Appignanesi , Hari Kunzru , Howard Jacobson , Philip Hensher and Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris discuss the implications of the Incitement to Religious Hatred Bill...
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Thursday 8th December 2005 - 4-8pm
Venue: Mayfair Library, London
PEN members joined together for wine, mince pies and conviviality to mark the beginning of the festive season at the Mayfair LIbrary, following the Annual General Meeting , at which...
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Tuesday 15th November & Monday 12th December 2005
Venue: Adam Street Club, London and The Guardian Newsroom, London
"An unprecedented look into the Orwellian world of Iranian journalism ." The Wall Street Journal Iranian documentary maker Taghi Amirani presented a UK premiere of the new 2005 version of...
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Wednesday 21st September 2005 - 7pm
Venue: Adam Street Club, London
Debby Moggach began the evening by introducing the two speakers, both of whom have written remarkable accounts of their experiences with refugees. Caroline Moorehead was discussing her latest book Human...
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Tuesday 14th June 2005 - 7pm
Venue: Adam Street Club
A Tribute to Henry James , chaired by Deborah Moggach, provided an illuminating and insightful discussion between author and biographer Miranda Seymour and novelist Alan Hollinghurst, whose recent novel The...
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