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    FTWEEKEND
    DIGITAL FESTIVAL

    SPRING EDITION

    18–20 March 2021

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    100+
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    70+
    Countries represented

    Join us and over 100 of the world's brightest minds for an eclectic array of talks, tastings, performances and demonstrations

    How to save the planet - and rethink the global economy

    Mark Carney, UN special envoy on climate action and finance, former governor of the Bank of England and author, with the FT's Gillian Tett

    The world after Covid - lessons for the future

    Yuval Noah Harari, the acclaimed historian and author, talks to Alec Russell, FT Weekend editor

    Unlocking the future

    Jennifer Doudna, Nobel laureate and pioneering biochemist behind CRISPR talks to the FT’s Hannah Kuchler about gene editing and the coming health revolution

    The vaccine visionaries

    Dr Özlem Türeci and Dr Ugur Sahin, the scientists behind the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, talk to Clive Cookson, the FT’s science editor

    The Aesthete: Diane von Furstenberg

     From her Connecticut home the legendary designer, Diane von Furstenberg, of the wrap dress talks personal taste

    Live performance by the London Symphony Orchestra

    Streamed from London’s LSO St Luke’s, the stage will be set for an exclusive live performance, in partnership with Fortnum & Mason, on the first evening of the festival

    Featuring a host of global speakers

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    Enuma Okoro
    author
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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    novelist
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    Sarah Raven
    gardener and writer
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    Laura Marling
    musician
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    Simon Rattle
    LSO's music director
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    Alice Waters
    chef
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    Venki Ramakrishnan
    molecular biologist and author
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    Elif Shafak
    author
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    Ali Smith
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    FT contributors

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    Roula Khalaf
    FT editor
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    Jancis Robinson
    Master of Wine and FT wine columnist
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    Alec Russell
    FTWeekend editor
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    Gillian Tett
    FT US editor-at-large
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    Martin Wolf
    FT chief economics commentator
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    Jo Ellison
    How To Spend It editor
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    Tim Harford
    The FT's Undercover Economist and presenter of More or Less
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    Claer Barrett
    FT consumer editor
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    Alice Lascelles
    FT drink columnist

    Join Alec Russell, FTWeekend editor at FTWeekend Festival Spring Edition this March


    From interactive wine and cocktail tastings to riveting talks and debates on what the future holds, join us for our first-ever spring FTWeekend Festival.


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