Previous events
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AUG 28
Henley Literary Festival: Liam Fox
If global concerns over the competition for oil and gas seem critical, Liam believes that there is an even greater challenge ahead: water. As a doctor, an MP who has dealt with both security and economic issues and a concerned citizen who has worked with WaterAid in The Coming Storm he warns that the fight for fossil fuels is nothing compared to what...
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AUG 08
Edinburgh Festival: Andrew Pierce
Andrew Pierce vs Kevin Maguire now in a live show on stage. You know them both from ITV’s Good Morning Britain, now see them going head to head, pulling no punches. Play your part in what promises to be fun and feisty debate on the big topics and put your questions to them about the burning issues of the day. Sixty minutes of exhilarating cut and thrust...
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JUL 26
Cuckfield Literary Festival: Alex Grant
11.30am – 12.30pm Upstairs at Bookfest In September 1962, John Vassall, a clerk at the Admiralty in London, was exposed as a Soviet spy, having been blackmailed into handing over British defence secrets. Sex, Spies and Scandal covers this dramatic story, featuring a honey trap, espionage, jailed journalists, and a tabloid witch-hunt that nearly toppled...
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JUL 19
The Write Festival: Andrew Pierce
Andrew Pierce is back to discuss seeking and discovering his birth mother, a hunt that led him to Ireland and an emotional meeting. Finding Margaret is the page-turning autobiographical tale of a man overcoming the guilt of betraying the mum and dad who adopted him to track down the woman he never knew who put him in a Catholic orphanage. Andrew will...
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JUL 18
Buxton Literary Festival: Geoffrey Robertson
The next Buxton International Festival will take place on 4-21 July 2024.
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JUN 11
The Oldie Literary Lunch: Linda McDougall
Charity Oldie Literary Lunch in aid of the Salisbury Samaritans on 11th June 2024 - Katie Hickman, Linda McDougall and Reverend Richard Coles
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JUN 04
The Oldie Literary Lunch: Liz Truss
The Oldie Literary Lunch on 4th June 2024 - Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Liz Truss and Gill Johnson
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MAY 23
Hay Festival: Chris Skidmore
Net-Zero: A Future Worth Resigning Over Thursday 23 May 2024, 8.30pm – Wye Stage Few are better placed to discuss how the UK can meet its climate and biodiversity obligations than Chris Skidmore, the former Energy Minister who resigned as an MP in protest at the government’s plans to expand oil and gas production in the North Sea. Skidmore, who was...
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MAY 18
Fowey Festival of Arts and Literature: Vernon Bogdanor
Vernon Bogdanor – The Strange Survival of Liberal Britain: Politics and Power before the First World War. Britain’s best-known constitutional historian, Professor Vernon Bogdanor, says the 20 turbulent years before the outbreak of the First World War, heralded a new agenda that still dominates today. The years saw a transition from aristocratic rule...
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MAY 10
Lewes Speakers Festival: Denis MacShane
Tom Baldwin in conversation with Denis MacShane What to expect from Keir Starmer and his government. A conversation between two authors: one who has spent his career writing and communicating about politics and the other who was former Europe Minister under Blair. They base their discussion on two books. The first is by Tom Baldwin. It...
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