Andrea Wulf on Magnificent Rebels

Andrea Wulf is an award-winning author of several books, including Magnificent Rebels and the international bestseller The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World which is published in 27 languages. A New York Times bestseller, it won fifteen international literary awards, including the Royal Society Science Book Prize and Costa Biography Award, LA Times Book Prize and the Bayerischer Buchpreis. Her latest book is The Traveller: The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and his Search for Humanity.

Kirsty Lang is a writer, broadcaster and former foreign correspondent. A familiar voice on BBC Radio 4 Kirsty has been a presenter on Front Row, The World Tonight and Last Word. This year she took over as the first female host of the fiendishly difficult Round Britain Quiz, the longest running game show in Europe. She is also Chair of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, Newcastle and a regular contributor to the Sunday Times Culture magazine.