For the first event in the Leaders in SHAPE series, award-winning author, broadcaster, professor and newly elected Honorary Fellow of the British Academy Gary Younge joins Desmond King to discuss his life and career.

SHAPE (Social sciences, humanities & the arts for people and the economy) is a new collective name for those subjects that help us understand ourselves, others and the human world around us.

Speaker: Professor Gary Younge Hon FBA, Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester; Journalist and Author.

Chair: Professor Desmond King FBA, Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government, University of Oxford.

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