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Now Goleman comes to Intelligence Squared for an exclusive talk on the themes of his latest book, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence.

Their wide-ranging conversation will in part focus on Eco's latest work of fiction, The Prague Cemetery.

Jane Austen created the definitive picture of Georgian England -- a landscape of Palladian mansions and handsome parsonages, peopled by rigidly-divided classes.

Nearly four centuries after his death, no writer has come close to matching Shakespeare’s understanding of the world – or his gift for dramatic poetry.

Filmed at the Royal Geographical Society on 19th October 2010. Debate over motion "Assisted Suicide Should be Legalised".

From 2008: Gore Vidal in conversation with Melvyn Bragg. Filmed at the Royal Geographical Society.

As tensions mount between the USA and Russia over Syria, Iran and the Snowden case, the economist Jeffrey Sachs came to Intelligence Squared to examine how leadership lessons from the past might be applied to intractable international problems today.

The books 'Freakonomics' and 'SuperFreakonomics' have been worldwide sensations, selling tens of millions of copies. They have come to stand for challenging conventional wisdom using data rather than emotion.

Filmed at the Royal Geographical Society on 30th June 2008.