Theodore Zeldin CBE worked with Artangel on Longplayer Assembly – joining 23 other participants in a non-stop 12-hour conversation relay presented live online on 26 September 2020, marking the twentieth anniversary of Longplayer.
Zeldin is the author of A History of French Passions, An Intimate History of Humanity, The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of remembering the past and imagining the future, Conversation, Happiness, etc. His books have been translated into 27 languages.
He is Fellow of St Antony’s and Green-Templeton Colleges at Oxford University, President of the Oxford Muse Foundation, co-founder of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery and initiator of the Feast of Strangers. He has been an adviser to the Presidents of France and the E U, and is a Commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur.