Schedule for Wednesday, Sept 24

Please note that all schedules are subject to last minute changes. Please check back for updates. Here's what we have on tap today:
 

• In a world of increasingly personal standup, Jen Kirkman is the gold standard. She'll discuss the deeply personal nature of her work, and why she plumbs the depths of complicated, emotional life decisions.
   
• Belgian pop star Stromae is one of the biggest pop stars in the world - and almost a total unknown in the English speaking world. He joins Jian to talk about the enduring language barrier, his fraught family history, his terrific new record, and how he achieved success with thorny, socially conscious lyrics.
   
• Should we still feel guilty about our guilty pleasures? A critical movement is gaining ground to abolish the guilt from our experiences of pleasure - whether or not our pleasures include so-called "trashy", unedifying art. We convene a Q debate between writer Adam Sternbergh who favours the purity of pleasure, and writer Alex McCown who thinks there's still a value in feeling bad about some of the art we enjoy.