2016 Festival
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2016 Speakers
Here is a list of the speakers who appeared at the Wells Festival of Literature in 2016
| Event | Speaker/s | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| Talk | Frank Gardner | Making a Crisis out of a Drama |
| Talk | Vince Cable | The World Economy and Britain's Economic Future |
| Talk | Arkady Ostrovsky and Jamie Coomarasamy | The Invention of Russia - The Journey From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War |
| Talk | Sarah Helm and Caroline Elliot | Inside Ravensbrück: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women |
| Talk | Gaia Vince | A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made |
| Talk | Tom Holland | Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar |
| Talk | Alexandra Harris | Weatherland |
| Comedy | James Veitch | James Veitch : Dot Con |
| Talk | Alison Moore | Death and the Seaside |
| Book Group Event | Deborah Moggach | Something to Hide |
| Talk | Lauren Child | Super Sleuth Ruby Redford comes to Wells |
| Talk | Andrew Gant | A History of English Church Music |
| Local event | Write Up! Speak Up! | A celebration of words |
| Literary Lunch & Talk | Simon Loveday | The Bible for Grown-Ups |
| Talk | Matthew Parris | Scorn |
| Talk | Richard Coles | Bringing in the Sheaves |
| Literary Lunch & Talk | Sonia Purnell | First Lady - Clementine Churchill |
| Talk | Malcolm Grimston | Putting the Energy back into Energy |
| Performance | Lemn Sissay | Gold from the Stone |
| Literary Lunch & Talk | David Willey | The Promise of Francis |
| Performance | Austentatious | Jane Austen as never before |
| Literary Lunch & Talk | Marc Allum | Antiques and Anecdotes |
| Talk | Alison Weir | Margaret Douglas - The Lost Tudor Princess |
| Talk | Adam Sisman and Caroline Elliot | John Le Carré - The Biography |
| Literary Lunch & Talk | Peter Snow | The Battle of Waterloo Experience |
| Talk | Margaret Macmillan | History's People - Personalities and the Past |
| Talk | Laurie Maguire | Remember Me: Death... and Hamlet |
| Talk | Virginia Ironside and Miranda Glover | Growing Old Disgracefully |
| Talk | Prue Leith and Caroline Waldegrave | Food and The Prodigal Daughter |
| Talk | Ben Rawlence | City of Thorns - The Largest Refugee Camp |
| Talk | Colin Thubron | Night of Fire |
| Talk | John O'Farrell | Comedy Writing - From Spitting Image to Broadway |
| Talk | Lady Antonia Fraser and William Waldegrave | My History - A Memoir of Growing Up |
| Talk | Andrew Graham-Dixon | Caravaggio, A Life Sacred and Profane |