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Bee Wilson Dr. Beatrice Dorothy "Bee" Wilson is a writer, journalist and author whose work links food with wider themes of health, psychology and history. She also writes the "Table Talk" column for The Wall Street Journal.Wilson began her career as a research fellow at Cambridge University. She then became a journalist, reporting on food and other topics, such as film, biography, music and history. In 1998 she became the weekly food critic for the New Statesman. She then went on to write the "Kitchen Thinker" column in The Sunday Telegraph's "Stella" magazine for twelve years. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The New Yorker, the London Review of Books. Her first book, "The Hive: the Story of the Honeybee and Us," was published in 2005. Wilson received her B.A. in History from Cambridge University, her M.A. in Political Science the University of Pennsylvania, and her Ph.D. from Cambridge University.	Guest
Michael D. Higgins Michael Daniel Higgins (Irish: Mícheál Dónal Ó hUigínn; born 18 April 1941) is an Irish politician, poet, broadcaster and sociologist who has served as the ninth president of Ireland since 2011. Entering national politics through the Labour Party, he served as a senator from 1973 to 1977 having been nominated by the Taoiseach. Elected in 1981 as a Teachta Dála (TD), he represented the Galway West constituency from 1981 to 1982 and 1987 to 2011. Between these terms, he returned to Seanad Éireann from 1983 to 1987 as a senator for the National University. He served as minister for arts, culture and the Gaeltacht from 1993 to 1997 and mayor of Galway from 1981 to 1982 and 1990 to 1991. Higgins was the president of the Labour Party from 2003 to 2011, until he resigned following his election as president of Ireland.Higgins has used his time in office as president to address issues concerning justice, social equality, social inclusion, anti-sectarianism, anti-racism, and reconciliation. He made the first state visit by an Irish president to the United Kingdom in April 2014.Higgins ran for a second term as president of Ireland in 2018 and was re-elected in a landslide victory. Higgins attained the largest personal mandate in the history of the Republic of Ireland, with 822,566 first-preference votes. Higgins' second presidential inauguration took place on 11 November 2018.	Guest