Southbank Centre

Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX, London

Theatre at Southbank Centre London, october 2024

Richard Ayoade: The Unfinished Harauld Hughes

Tue 1 Oct 2024, 20:00 - Southbank Centre, London

Lookalikes and literary excavations: join Richard Ayoade for an evening of live readings and conversation around his story of uncovering his doppelgänger.
Read, watch and listen more In The Unfinished Harauld Hughes , Ayoade chronicles his dogged quest to rescue Harauld Hughes - the great mid-century playwright - from obscurity.
He first chanced upon a copy of The Two-Hander Trilogy by Har

Special Edition: The Last Dance

Wed 2 Oct 2024, 20:00 - Southbank Centre, London

Celebrate the privilege and process of ageing and building community in this poetry session for International Day of the Older Person and National Poetry Day.
Read, watch and listen more The received wisdom is that getting old is bad. If you wish to resist this socially normalised self-sabotage, come and join All Change and Well Versed to celebrate The Last Dance anthology launch, Internationa

10 Years of Serial: An Evening with Sarah Koenig

Thu 3 Oct 2024, 19:30 - Southbank Centre, London

October 3 2014, a podcast launched which changed the face of podcasting forever. Serial became the first

Neneh Cherry: A Thousand Threads

Sun 6 Oct 2024, 19:30 - Southbank Centre, London

Music icon Neneh Cherry discusses her memoir, a kaleidoscopic story celebrating love, family and the joy of creativity - and a call to arms to own your journey.
Read, watch and listen more In this beautiful and deeply personal memoir, Cherry remembers the collaborations, the highs and lows, the friendships and loves, and the addictions and traumas that have shaped her as a woman and an artist.

An Evening with Richard Dawkins and Friends

Sat 26 Oct 2024, 19:00 - Southbank Centre, London

Strap in for an unforgettable and existentially-loaded evening with evolutionary biologist, author and public intellectual Richard Dawkins.
Read, watch and listen more Professor Richard Dawkins is renowned for his advocacy of science, and for shedding light on scientific and existential inquiries like 'What are we doing here?’ and 'When did life begin?’.
Join him for an evening of reason,