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Katie Kitamura is a young Japanese American writer whose latest book is set in a landscape blurred by ash from a volcanic fall out. She is based in New York and London and has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times, Wired and The Guardian, She is also a regular contributor to Frieze. 聽Katie Kitamura was a finalist in the 2010 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award for her debut novel, The Longshot.

Xenia Nikolskaya is a photographer and visual artist born in Russia who lives between St. Petersburg, Stockholm and Cairo, and works as a curator/project leader at the Swedish Institute and the Centre for Contemporary Art and Architecture, Stockholm. She also works as deputy photo director for exhibition an educational projects at the Russian news agency RIA NOVOSTI. Photo by Shady El Mashak

Professor Bristow works at the in Birkbeck College at the University of London.

He has been working for a number of years on research examining dust from the Bod茅l茅 Basin, the dust from which travels across the Atlantic to the Amazon Rainforest. His other main area of research concerns the cold climate dunes of Antarctica. These provide an analogue for dunes formed around the margins of ice sheets during the Quaternary, as well as planets like Mars, which are cold and dry and covered with sand dunes.

Katie feels that it is important that it must an aural archive. Accents would be preserved, descendants would be able to connect to ancestors and a part of every person would be left to history.

What makes people push themselves to the limit in sport? Matthew Taylor is joined by former Olympic athlete Greg Whyte, writer and broadcaster Jennifer Jordan who focuses on Himalayan women mountaineers, and Harvard professor of medicine Brian Hoffman.