This annual, celebrity-packed showcase of theatre, dance, music and literature returns to raise funds for Human Rights Watch, a charity that seeks to defend and protect human rights around the world.
As you'd expect the programme, presented by Behind the Headlines, is a worthy affair, though no less entertaining because of it. Royal Court favourite Martin Crimp contributes a sketch with help from actors Khalid Abdalla ('The Kite Runner'), Thandie Newton ('Mission Impossible II') and Sophie Okonedo ('Mrs Mandela'), and Rambert principle dancers Jonathan Goddard and Gemma Nixon perform a short work.
Elsewhere, a musical performance come courtesy of singer and flamenco guitartist Randolph and Byron, while foreign correspondent Peter Godwin reads from his book 'The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe', and Libyan author Hisham Matar donates passages from 'In The Country of Men'.
For more information, see www.hrw.org/london