Ahead of her Artsnight show looking at how art and science converge, the tech champion on Alice Oswald’s distillation of The Iliad, Rachel Cusk’s foray into Greek drama and jewellery that manages your social mediaDotcom entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, co-founded travel website Lastminute.com in 1998. She studied ancient and modern history at Oxford, worked in IT and media consulting and co-founded the karaoke chain LuckyVoice in 2005. She is a board member of Marks & Spencer and digital skills charity Go ON UK. Lane Fox was appointed a crossbench peer in the House of Lords in 2013, becoming its youngest female member, and chancellor of the Open University in 2014. In March this year, she delivered the Richard Dimbleby Lecture. Martha Lane Fox’s Artsnight is on BBC2 on Friday, 11pm. Continue reading...
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