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31st January - 3rd February 2025

Oliver Burkeman – How to Make Time for What Counts

Live In Conversation with Pandora Sykes and Mark Watson

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Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks changed people’s lives. Now he joins us with a wise and practical plan for shedding our illusions and finding true fulfilment.

Oliver Burkeman’s global bestseller Four Thousand Weeks was that rarest of creatures: a self-help book that genuinely changed lives, inspiring thousands of us to rethink careers, relationships, and big decisions. Building upon those ideas and those of his new book, Meditations for Mortals, Oliver will take us on a liberating and invigorating journey towards a more meaningful life – a journey that begins not with fantasies of the ideal existence, but the reality in which we find ourselves.

How can we embrace our non-negotiable limitations? Or make good decisions when there’s always too much to do? How to shed the illusion that life will really begin as soon as we can ‘get on top of everything’? And what if purposeful productivity was often a matter of letting things happen, not making them happen?

Don’t miss this rare chance to hear from one of the wisest and most respected writers at work in the psychology and wellbeing field today, and to ask him your own questions about how to live a fuller and more enchanted life.

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Oliver Burkeman

Author of Four Thousand Weeks

Oliver Burkeman is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Four Thousand Weeks and The Antidote, and for many years wrote a popular weekly column on psychology for the Guardian, ‘This Column Will Change Your Life’. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Psychologies and New Philosopher.

He has a devoted following for his writing on productivity, mortality, the power of limits, and building a meaningful life in an age of bewilderment.

Pandora Sykes

Author, Journalist and Podcaster

Pandora Sykes is a journalist and broadcaster. A former columnist and editor at The Sunday Times Style magazine, she has written for publications including The Telegraph, The Guardian, GQ and Elle and published two books, How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right and What Writers Read: 35 Writers on Their Favourite Book. She now runs a popular weekly Substack, Books+Bits. She is the creator of numerous No.1 podcasts, including The High Low and Doing It Right and is the host of The Missing, an ethical true crime series about missing people. She has also written two audio documentaries for Radio 4, Pieces of Britney and Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV. A regular interviewer and panel host, she has been live on stage with authors including Bernadine Evaristo, Margaret Atwood and Bonnie Garmus and was a judge on the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Mark Watson

Comedian and Author

Mark Watson is one of the UK’s most successful comedians, the winner of the Panel Prize at the Edinburgh Fringe (where he has been one of the biggest-selling acts over the past twenty years), as well as Best Show at the Adelaide and Sydney Comedy Festivals, multiple Chortle Awards – including a Legend of Lockdown, in 2021, for his online work – Time Out Comedian of the Year and quite a lot more. His many TV credits include Taskmaster, Have I Got News For You, and Would I Lie To You. He is also a familiar voice on Radio 4 with his series Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life. He is one-third of the cult YouTube phenomenon No More Jockeys, which has had well over nine million views since it began in 2020. Mark has also written seven novels, including Hotel Alpha (2014), The Place That Didn’t Exist (2016) and Contacts (2020). An eighth novel will be published by Harper Collins in 2025. With Oliver Harud he co-authored a graphic novel, Dan And Sam, which was optioned by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment and is now in development with Universal.

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