Legacy: Who Do We Choose to Remember?

Afua Hirsch, Simon Lister & Ben Macintyre in conversation with Julia Wheeler

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Whose lives do we choose to memorialise, and why? Why are we so fascinated by artists, politicians, cricketing pioneers, war heroes and spies? Whether through the written or spoken word, the tales we tell about the good and the great – or the truly terrible – shape our understanding of our own history, and collective identities. Writer and broadcaster Afua Hirsch joins biographers Simon Lister and Ben Macintyre in conversation with journalist Julia Wheeler.