2018 Festival
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2018 Speakers
Here is a list of the speakers who appeared at the Wells Festival of Literature in 2018
| Event | Speaker/s | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| Talk | David Runciman | How Democracy Ends |
| Talk | Sarah Churchwell | Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream |
| Talk | James Attlee | Guernica: Painting the End of the World |
| Discussion | Lissa Evans In conversation with Miranda Glover | Old Baggage |
| Talk | Fiona Sampson | In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein |
| Discussion | Andrew Miller and Tim Pears talk to Emma Craigie | Now we Shall be Entirely Free and The Wanderers |
| Talk | Tom Whipple | X & Why: The Rules of attraction: why gender still matters |
| Talk | Adam Kay | This is going to hurt |
| Book Group discussion | Matt Haig | How to Stop Time (Our special discussion event for Book Clubs) |
| Talk | Edward Bullmore | The Inflamed Mind: a radical new approach to depression |
| Performance | Local talent - a showcase | Write Up! Speak Up! |
| Talk | Shrabani Basu | Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant |
| Talk | Jack Hartnell | Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages |
| Performance | Tony Walsh | Words |
| Talk | Peter Price | Things that make for Peace: Conflict Resolution |
| Talk | Oliver Bullough | Moneyland: why crooks and thieves own the world, and how to take it back |
| Discussion | Edward Stourton In conversation with Max Cotton | Auntie’s War: The BBC during the Second World War |
| Talk | Peter Hart | The Last Battle: Endgame on the Western Front, 1918 |
| Talk | Alan Titchmarsh | The Scarlet Nightingale |
| Talk | Harriet Sandys | Beyond that Last Blue Mountain: My Silk Road Journey |
| Performance | Liz Berry | The Republic of Motherhood |
| Talk | John Preston | A Very English Scandal |
| Discussion | Mike Brearley | On Cricket - a portrait of the game |
| Talk | Stephen Walsh | Debussy: A Painter in Sound |
| Talk | Max Hastings | Vietnam. An Epic Tragedy,1945 - 1975 |
| Discussion | William Miller | Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups |
| Discussion | Diana Henry and Claudia Roden In conversation with Caroline Waldegrave | How to Eat a Peach and A Book of Middle Eastern Food |
| Talk | Paul Broks | The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars: A Neuro-psychologist’s Odyssey |
| Discussion | Lara Feigel In conversation with Sarah LeFanu | Free Woman: Life, Liberation and Doris Lessing |
| Talk | John Gray | Seven Types of Atheism |
| Discussion | Mick Herron and Sarah Hilary talk to Natasha Cooper | London Rules and Come and Find Me |
| Talk | Hannah Fry | Hello World |