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2012 Festival

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All photos by Tony Chamberlain (of Old Goat Productions)

2012 Speakers

Here is a list of the speakers who appeared at the Wells Festival of Literature in 2012

EventSpeaker/sSubject
TalkAntonia Fraser & William WaldegraveIn conversation
TalkToby Jones; Roland Vernon; Janet LaurenceCrime Fiction
TalkMatthew HollisBiography Poetry
TalkAlexander SturgisArt/Sculpture
TalkJonathan DimblebyHistory - El Alamein
TalkMichael FraynNovel - Skios
TalkClaire TomalinBiography Charles Dickens
TalkKate WilliamsHistory Young Queen Elizabeth
TalkMatthew ParrisUnknown
TalkMatthew ParkerHistory Sugar Barons
TalkCharles HazlewoodMusic/performance
TalkPamela EganElizabeth Goudge
OtherMartin DimmeryPerformance: Shakespeare; Rattle & Roll
LunchProf Tim SpectorEpigenetics
LunchMargaret HeffernanCurrent Affairs - Wilful Blindness
TalkLouisa YoungBook Group event: Novel - My dear I wanted to tell you
TalkThree Hungry BoysFood - Sustainability
TalkKate LynchArt - Country Crafts
TalkAndrew Miller & Jonathan RugmanIn conversation: Historical Fiction - Pure
TalkSarah RavenWild Flowers
TalkAdam NicolsonHistory The Gentry
TalkOliver JamesPsychology
TalkEugene Rogan & Jonathan RugmanIn conversation: The Arab Spring
TalkJenny McVeigh & Emma CraigieIn conversation: Writing fiction - new novelist
TalkRupert SheldrakeThe science delusion
TalkHeather BrookeJournalism - information wars
TalkKate MosseHistorical Fiction - Trilogy
FilmDavid Thomsonfilm event