Talks
Monday 24th – Sunday 30th June 2019 | Various prices
As ever, our Pop-up series of talks will be announced at the festival.
Adding to our fantastic line-up of speakers, we are very excited to have Dunkirk Veteran: John Hamilton, and John Jammes, an ex-member of the French Resistance and winner of the Croix de Guerre, both promise to be particularly special events.
We have 16 talks, with speakers including:
Sophie Thérèse Ambler
Ali Ansari
Paul Beaver
Anna Beer
Martin Bell
John Buckley
Peter Caddick-Adams
Joe Cattini
Allen Chalk
Patrick Cordingley
Niall Ferguson
James Heneage
Katie Hickman
James Holland
Tom Holland
Steven Isenberg
Clare Jackson
Peter Jones
Kwasi Kwarteng
Richard Llewellyn
Adam Rutherford
Paul Stoddart
Laurie Weeden
Paul Woodadge
We have 15 talks, with speakers including:
Anita Anand
Minette Batters
Alexandra Churchill
Leanda de Lisle
Robert Gildea
Graham Harvey
John Jammes
Nicholas Jubber
Steve Knightley
Stuart Laing
Alex Langlands
Mary-Ann Ochota
Jonathan Phillips
Tim Tatton-Brown
Simon Winder
Michael Wood
We have 9 talks, with speakers including:
Rania Abouzeid
Tracy Borman
Sophie Hay
Tom Holland
Olivette Otele
David Owen
David Reynolds
Emma Smith
Kate Williams
We have 15 talks, with speakers including:
John Adamson
John Browne
Turtle Bunbury
Trevor Dolby
David Gilmour
A.C. Grayling
Andrew Hill
Ian Hislop
Victoria Hislop
Tim Leighton
Violet Moller
Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Clare Mulley
Jesse Norman
Charles Spencer
Ted Vallance
Guy Walters
We have 24 talks, with speakers including:
Dave Allan
Catherine Bailey
Charlie Barton
Paul Beaver
Tracy Borman
Alex Burnham
Nicholas Cole
Harry Enfield
Mark Evans
Charles Farris
Kelly Grovier
John Hamilton
Natalie Haynes
Charlie Higson
Nick Holmes
Peter Hore
Clare Jackson
Ian Kershaw
Eleri Lynn
Ralph Northumberland
Micheál Ó Siochrú
Helen Parr
Georgina Ratcliffe
Lindsey Ratcliffe
Jane Ridley
John Sessions
William Sieghart
Dan Snow
Edward Stringer
Julie Summers
Nicola Tallis
Mark Wallis
Sam Willis
Stephen Wisdom
Adam Zamoyski
We have 21 talks, with speakers including:
Marina Amaral
Ali Ansari
Tim Bouverie
Philip Collins
James Daybell
Lien de Jong
Chloe Fox
Antonia Fraser
Natalie Haynes
Max Hastings
Charlie Higson
James Holland
Robert Hutton
Dan Jones
Ben Macintyre
Philip Mould
Neil Oliver
Douglas Rattray
Elif Shafak
Dan Snow
Kassia St Clair
James Stourton
Bart van Es
Minette Walters
Sam Willis
Adrian Wooldridge
We have 18 talks, with speakers including:
Jeremy Black
Tim Bouverie
John Buckley
David Butler
Peter Caddick-Adams
Fiona Carnarvon
Michael Crick
Armand D’Angour
Peter Frankopan
Joyce Hakmeh
Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Phil Harding
James Holland
Kate Loveman
Allan Mallinson
Gavin Mortimer
Sonia Purnell
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Andrew Roberts
Shaun Walker
Calder Walton
Stuart Watson
Adrian Weale