2020 Festival
2020 Speakers
Event | Speaker/s | Subject |
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Talk | Iain Dale | Why Can't We All Just Get Along: Shout Less. Listen More. |
Discussion | Gina Miller | Rise: Life Lessons in Speaking Out, Standing Tall and Leading the Way |
Talk | Jeremy Vine | The Diver and the Lover |
Talk | Paul Lay | Providence Lost: The Rise & Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate |
Discussion | Julia Samuel In conversation with Viv Groskop | This Too Shall Pass: Stories of Change, Crisis and Hopeful Beginnings |
Talk | Sophy Roberts | The Lost Pianos of Siberia |
Discussion | Chris Atkins In conversation with David Lister | A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner |
Talk | Michael Wood | The Story of China: A Portrait Of A Civilisation And Its People |
Discussion | Alice Vincent and Stephen Moss and Mya-Rose Craig | A joint event with Somerset Wildlife Trust |
Book Club Event | Max Porter | Lanny |
Talk | Elly Griffiths | The Postscript Murders |
Talk | Tom Bradby | Double Agent |
Discussion | Olivia Williams In conversation with Mark McCrum | The Secret Life of the Savoy |
Talk | Adam Kucharski | The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop |
Discussion | David Omand In conversation with Lea Sellers | How Spies Think: 10 Lessons in Intelligence |
Talk | Michael Bond | Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way |
Discussion | Pragya Agarwal In conversation with Helen Taylor | SWAY: Unravelling Unconscious Bias |
Talk | Professor David Nutt | Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health |
Talk | Hugo Vickers | Cecil Beaton: The Authorised Biography |
Discussion | Michael Eavis In conversation with Chris Salmon | Glastonbury 50 |
Talk | Robert Winder | Soft Power: The New Great Game |
Talk | Charles Spencer | The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I's Dream |
Talk | Simon Armitage | Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems |
Discussion | Janice Hadlow In conversation with Helen Taylor | The Other Bennet Sister |
Talk | Carolyn Steel | Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World |
Talk | A.C. Grayling | The Good State: On the Principles of Democracy |
Discussion | Charles Moore with Kate Ehrman | Margaret Thatcher: A Whodunnit |
Discussion | Olia Hercules In conversation with Caroline Waldegrave | Summer Kitchens: Recipes and Reminiscences from Every Corner of Ukraine |
Talk | Alexander Watson | The Fortress: The Great Siege of Przemysl |
Talk | Helen Taylor | Why Women Read Fiction |
Talk | Hashi Mohamed | People Like Us: What it Takes to Make it in Modern Britain |
Discussion | Rachel Clarke In conversation with Julia Samuel | Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss |
Discussion | Rachel Johnson In conversation with Julia Samuel | Rake's Progress: My Political Midlife Crisis |
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