2021 Festival
2021 Speakers
| Event | Speaker/s | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| Talk | John Simpson | Our Friends in Beijing |
| Discussion | James Naughtie In conversation with Jamie Coomarasamy | On the road: American Adventures from Nixon to Trump |
| Talk | Ambra Edwards | The Plant Hunter’s Atlas: A World Tour of Botanical Adventures, Chance Discoveries and Strange Specimens |
| Talk | Emily Mayhew | The Four Horsemen and the Hope of a New Age |
| Talk | Colin Thubron | The Amur River Between Russia and China |
| Talk | Peter Oborne | The Assault on the Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism |
| Discussion | Natalie Haynes | Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths |
| Book Club Event | Lucy Atkins | Magpie Lane |
| Talk | Peter Stanford | If These Stones Could Talk: The History of Christianity in Britain and Ireland through Twenty-One Buildings |
| Walk and Talk | Duncan Minshull | Sauntering: Writers Walk Europe |
| Talk | Owen Sheers | To Provide All People |
| Talk | Vince Cable | The Chinese Conundrum: Engagement or Economic War |
| Discussion | Lucy Jago In conversation with Andrew Miller | A Net for Small Fishes |
| Talk | Jonathan Bate | Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Talk | John Mullan | The Artful Dickens: Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist |
| Talk | Michael Bond | Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way |
| Discussion | John Sutherland In conversation with Sarah LeFanu | Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me |
| Talk | Emily Kenway | The Truth About Modern Slavery |
| Talk | Mary Ann Sieghart | The Authority Gap |
| Discussion | John Preston In conversation with David Lister | Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell |
| Talk | Dr Lucy Pollock | The Book About Getting Older (for people who don’t want to talk about it) |
| Discussion | Andrew Gailey In conversation with William Waldegrave | Portrait of a Muse: Frances Graham, Edward Burne-Jones and the Pre-Raphaelite Dream |
| Discussion | Sathnam Sanghera In conversation with David Lister | Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain |
| Talk | Anil Seth | Being You: A New Science of Consciousness |
| Discussion | Rukmini Iyer In conversation with Caroline Waldegrave | The Sweet Roasting Tin and The Green Barbecue |
| Discussion | Jonathan Dimbleby In conversation with William Waldegrave | Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War |
| Talk | Jemma Wadham | Ice Rivers |
| Talk | Philippe Sands | The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive |
| Discussion | Veronica O’Keane In conversation with Julia Samuel | The Rag and Bone Shop: How We Make Memories and Memories Make Us |
| Talk | Gyles Brandreth | Odd Boy Out |
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