2014 Festival
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2014 Speakers
Here is a list of the speakers who appeared at the Wells Festival of Literature in 2014
| Event | Speaker/s | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| Talk | Michael Morpurgo | War Stories |
| Talk | Carys Bray and Gabriel Gbadamosi | Writing first novels |
| Talk | Giles Milton | Russian Roulette |
| Talk | Zia Chaudhry | Just your average muslim |
| Talk | Margaret MacMillan | The outbreak of world war 1 |
| Talk | Raymond Tallis | Has physics killed philosophy? |
| Other | Somerset Wildlife Trust | A celebration of 50 years |
| Talk | Nathan Filer | The shock of the fall |
| Talk | Katie Fforde | The art of writing a short story |
| Theatre | Trio Paradis with Petra Schofield | Women of WW1 |
| Talk | Ben Chu | Chinese whispers |
| Lunch | Kate Williams | Josephine |
| Talk | Emma Smith | Reading Shakespeare hot off the press |
| Theatre | Daniel Morden and Sarah Moody | Orpheus and other Greek Myths |
| Talk | Tamasin Day-Lewis | Smart Tart |
| Lunch | Robert Sackville-West | The disinherited |
| Talk | Jonathan Mayo | D-Day, JFK and the BBC |
| Talk | Andrew Motion | The customs house |
| Talk | Jane Ogden | The good parenting food guide |
| Lunch | Claudia Renton | Those wild Wyndhams |
| Talk | Georgie Newbery | Flowers from the farm |
| Talk | Tristram Hunt | Ten cities that made an empire |
| Talk | Mrs Moneypenny | Financial advice for independent women |
| Talk | Lady Carnarvon | Heritage and hard work at Highclere |
| Talk | Ramita Navai | City of lies |
| Talk | Helen Dumore | The Lie |
| Talk | Simon Hopkinson | Cookery books we have loved |
| Talk | Frances Welch | Rasputin - a short life |
| Talk | Craig Brown | One stop literary festival |
| Talk | Brigid Keenan | Packing up |
| Talk | Charles Moore | Margaret Thatcher |
| Talk | Henry Marsh | Do no harm |
| Talk | Kate Fox | People watching |