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Guests
How can a tabloid newspaper editor maintain "a moral compass" when he's under pressure to sell newspapers? PIERS MORGAN, rated the 7th most powerful man in Britain by GQ magazine in 2002, publishes his diaries which cover his editorships of the News of the World and the Daily Mirror. The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade is published by Ebury Press.
Liberal Democrat peer, rabbi and journalist JULIA NEUBERGER seeks to take the moral temperature of the nation by looking at how we treat the most vulnerable members of society. She explains why we should be worried by the way we treat those weaker than ourselves and even more worried about what it says about us. The Moral State We're In is published by HarperCollins.
STEVEN PINKER is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. As part of Jewish Book Week, Steven will be appearing in a debate with Chief Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks entitled Genes and Genesis, when he'll be talking about questions of free will, morality and the existence of universal truths. The debate takes place tonight at 8.30pm at the Royal National Hotel, London.
HILARY SPURLING has spent fifteen years researching the life of Matisse and talks about how and why one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century remains misunderstood and misrepresented. The second volume of her biography, Matisse the Master, is published by Hamish Hamilton.
Next week:
Peter Kosminsky - Director of TV drama about David Kelly
Robert Delamere - Director of RSC production of Thomas More
Alison Hills - Do Animals Have Rights?
Andrei Kurkov - Ukrainian author of A Matter of Death and Life
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