2017 Festival
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2017 Speakers
Here is a list of the speakers who appeared at the Wells Festival of Literature in 2017
| Event | Speaker/s | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| Talk at Wells Cathedral | Simon Jenkins | England's Cathedrals |
| In Conversation | Nick Clegg and Jonathan Rugman | Politics: between the Extremes |
| In Conversation | Mike Brearley with Mark Hamlin | On Form |
| Talk | AC Grayling | The Age of Genius |
| Talk | Adam Rutherford | The Stories in our Genes |
| Talk | John Boyne | The Heart's Invisible Furies |
| In Conversation | Susan Beale and Helen Stevenson with Emma Craige | The use of memoir in fact and fiction |
| In Conversation | Alan Johnson with Jackie Long | The Long and Winding Road |
| In Conversation | Andy Hamilton with Max Cotton | The Star Witness |
| Book Group Event | Sarah Perry | The Essex Serpent |
| Talk | Martin Brown | Illustrating Children's Books |
| Poetry | Gillian Clarke | Zoology |
| Performance | Local wordsmiths | Write Up! Speak Up! |
| Talk | Anne Sebba | Les Parisiennes in the 1940s |
| Talk | John McAvoy | Redemption: from Iron Bars to Iron Man |
| Performance poetry | Hollie McNish | Plum |
| Talk | Tessa Hadley | Bad Dreams and other stories |
| Talk | Matt Frei | Donald Trump and American Politics |
| Talk | Daisy Goodwin | Victoria: A Novel of a Young Queen |
| Talk | Andrew Martin | Night Trains: the Rise and Fall of the Sleeper |
| Talk | Joanna Moorhead | The Surreal Life of Joanna Carrington |
| Talk | Dr Scilla Ellworthy | The Business case for Peace |
| In Conversation | David Goodhart with Paul Broks | The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics |
| Talk | Fergal Keane | Wounds: a memoir of love and war |
| Talk | Graham Tomlin | Luther's Gospel: Reimagining the World |
| Talk | Rebecca Fraser | The Mayflower Generation |
| Talk | William and Caroline Waldegrave | The Heseltines' garden at Thenford (and other anecdotes) |
| Poetry | Owen Sheers | The Green Hollow |
| In Conversation | Peter Gordon and Rowley Leigh with Caroline Waldegrave | Savour: Salads for all Seasons |
| In Conversation | Helen Rappaport with Jamie Coomarasamy | Caught in the Revolution |
| Talk | Malcolm Guite | A Visionary Landscape: Coleridge in the West Country |
| In Conversation | Harriet Harman with Lois Rogers | A Woman's Work |
| In Conversation | Stephen Westaby with Dr Rachel Clarke | Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table |
| Talk | Helen Czerski | Storm in a Teacup: The Phyics of Everyday Life |