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Live On Stage
Thursday October 23 2025, 7pm BST

The Immortalists and the Race to Defeat Death, with Aleks Krotoski

From the epic of Gilgamesh to the alchemy of the philosopher’s stone, humanity has long dreamed about the idea of immortality.

Today, many believe that dream could soon become a reality. The world’s most powerful technologists and investors are pouring billions into engineering longevity itself. For these modern-day immortalists, ageing is no longer an inevitability – it’s a technical glitch to be hacked, reversed, or eradicated altogether. 

In an exclusive lecture, award-winning broadcaster and academic Aleks Krotoski joins us on October 23 to shed light on the moguls, effective altruists, geroscientists and entrepreneurs who are seeking to disrupt death. 

Drawing on her new book The Immortalists, Krotoski will discuss her encounters with radical life extensionists transfusing their teenage son’s blood, transhumanists who want to upload consciousness to the cloud, biohackers flogging AI-powered wellness apps and billionaire kingmakers building brand-new nations.

Join us for an evening of politics, ethics, and what it might mean – biologically, socially, and philosophically – if death becomes optional.

The Immortalists: The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life (Hardback)
by Aleks Krotoski

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Event Name

The Immortalists and the Race to Defeat Death, with Aleks Krotoski

Speaker

  • Aleks Krotoski

    Broadcaster, author and academic

Speakers are subject to change.

Location
  • Foyles
  • Foyles
  • 107 Charing Cross Rd
  • London
  • WC2H 0EB
Time
  • Thursday 23 October 2025
  • 7pm to 8:15pm BST

Speakers

Speaker

Aleks Krotoski

Broadcaster, author and academic

Dr Aleks Krotoski is an award-winning international broadcaster, author and academic. She has topped the ratings for the BBC and Channel 4, winning Emmy, BAFTA, Radio Academy and Royal Society awards, and has written and presented landmark technology and social science series for both radio (with BBC Radio 4’s The Artificial Human and The Digital Human) and international television (with BBC World’s The Virtual Revolution). She has held fellowships at the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics and received an honorary doctorate from the Open University. She currently teaches at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. The Immortalists is her latest book.

Speakers are subject to change.