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MAY 13
Lewes Speakers Festival: Tom Clark
The All Saints, Lewes, BN7 Sat 13th May 2023 6:50PM A dozen years into austerity, statistical warning lights are flashing to suggest a return to types of deprivation that we once imagined we had consigned to the history books. In the decade up to the pandemic, the official count of rough sleepers doubled. Recorded malnutrition in hospital...
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MAY 13
Fowey Festival of Arts and Literature: Mark Easton
Mark Easton – Searching for Truth on the Shoreline Saturday 13 May, 6:00pm Fowey Town Hall £12.00 John Donne’s misguided maxim that “No man is an island”, sparked the imagination of BBC News Home Editor, Mark Easton. In his new book, he takes us on an enchanting and illuminating adventure through the islands of the world from Ancient Crete to modern...
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MAY 13
Lewes Speakers Festival: Martin Brunt
The All Saints, Lewes, BN7 Sat 13th May 2023 3:50PM What is it about crime that we find so fascinating, even if at the same time the details are repugnant? Why are some crimes more newsworthy than others? And how has that perception changed, if at all, in an age when every smartphone-owner is a potential on-the-spot reporter? Martin Brunt has...
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APR 21
Biteback authors at Hexham Book Festival
22 March @ 8.15pm
Mark Easton
23 March @ 12.45pm
Chris Mullin
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APR 01
Biteback authors at Oxford Literary Festival
26 March @ 4pm Nedhum Onuoha 27 March @ 2pm Vernon Bogdanor 28 March @ 12pm Inigo Bing 28 March @ 2pm Dave Rich 29 March @ 4pm Michael Cockerell 31 March @ 6pm Kathleen Wyatt...
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OCT 22
Michael Cockerell at Wells Festival of Literature
Our political leaders spend their careers spinning their images and polishing their achievements. Michael Cockerell has spent his political life stripping off that carefully applied gloss. For the past 50 years, from Macmillan through to Johnson, this celebrated documentary maker has gained unrivalled access to the secret chambers of Westminster and...
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OCT 15
Kathleen Wyatt at Cheltenham Literature Festival
“There are a few secrets,” he tells me. “A few discoveries that I’ve never published. Some of the most powerful ones. I wouldn’t betray them under torture.” In a time of deep fakes, alternative truths and leaked secrets, it would be easy to think that we are surrounded by lies. While most people are shaking their heads and muttering dark things about...
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OCT 08
Rabina Khan at Henley Literature Festival
“In 2015, when I ran to be mayor in Tower Hamlets, a smartly dressed middle-class man saw me wearing a headscarf and asked me what colour my hair was underneath it. I gave him a big smile. ‘Pink,’ I replied. Did I win his vote? I rather doubt it.” Vivid, astute and full of humour, My Hair Is Pink Under This Veil offers a frank appraisal of life in modern Britain...
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OCT 08
Michael Cockerell at Cheltenham Literature Festival
Our political leaders spend their careers spinning their images and polishing their achievements; Michael Cockerell has spent his professional life stripping off the gloss. Over fifty years, he has gained unrivalled access to the secret chambers of Westminster and Whitehall. Here, he reveals in illuminating and often hilarious stories what our top...
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OCT 08
Andrea Leadsom at the Isle of Wight Literary Festival
In the high-stakes world of politics, there are superb highs and terrible lows – and never more so than in the period since 2010, during which so much has changed. Few are better placed to give an insider’s view of the turmoil than the Rt Hon. Dame Andrea Leadsom MP. From working cross-party on reform of the European Union to taking to the stage at...
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