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FTWeekend Festival: US Edition

7 May 2022 | The REACH at the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. & Online

The Bigger Picture: a global take on the ideas stimulating, diverting – and unsettling – our age

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Watch on demand sessions with leading luminaries, including:

Henry Kissinger

former United States Secretary of State

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

author

William J. Burns

CIA Director

Tina Brown

author of The Palace Papers

Gillian Tett

FT chair of editorial board and editor-at-large, US

Johno Morisano & Mashama Bailey

co-owners and chef of The Grey restaurant, Savannah

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