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"The Cable’s Speaker Series continues to draw some of the most significant voices in contemporary media to Bristol’s door, with writer, broadcaster and academic Gary Younge here to turn his characteristically incisive gaze on the journalism industry in a live discussion and Q+A."
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A event held at The Station on Thursday 25th January. The event starts at 19:00.
Join Bristol Cable in welcoming the prolific Gary Younge for a very special evening, where he will discuss his journalism career and how his lived experiences of racism have impacted this.
Books will be available to purchase and an opportunity for a Q+A with Gary.
Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester in England. Formerly a columnist at The Guardian he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine, the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media and winner of the 2023 Orwell Prize for Journalism.
He has written six books: Dispatches From the Diaspora, From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter; Another Day in the Death of America, A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives; The Speech, The Story Behind Martin Luther King’s Dream; Who Are We?, And Should it Matter in the 21st century; Stranger in a Strange Land, Travels in the Disunited States and No Place Like Home, A Black Briton’s Journey Through the Deep South. He has also written for The New York Review of Books. Granta, GQ, The Financial Times and The New Statesman and made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from gay marriage to Brexit.
Please email [email protected] if you need a concession or accessibility ticket, or require a complimentary carer ticket. Membership status will be checked on entry for discounted tickets. To become a member go to thebristolcable.org/join
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Books will be available to purchase and an opportunity for a Q+A with Gary.
Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester in England. Formerly a columnist at The Guardian he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine, the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media and winner of the 2023 Orwell Prize for Journalism.
He has written six books: Dispatches From the Diaspora, From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter; Another Day in the Death of America, A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives; The Speech, The Story Behind Martin Luther King’s Dream; Who Are We?, And Should it Matter in the 21st century; Stranger in a Strange Land, Travels in the Disunited States and No Place Like Home, A Black Briton’s Journey Through the Deep South. He has also written for The New York Review of Books. Granta, GQ, The Financial Times and The New Statesman and made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from gay marriage to Brexit.
Please email [email protected] if you need a concession or accessibility ticket, or require a complimentary carer ticket. Membership status will be checked on entry for discounted tickets. To become a member go to thebristolcable.org/join
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
