Upcoming events
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OCT 06
Isle of Wight Literature Festival: Martin Brunt
Martin Brunt draws on the most shocking and harrowing stories he has covered over the past 30 years to document the life of a crime reporter and assess the public obsession with crime that his reporting caters for. He also considers the wider relationship between the press and the police, the impact of social media and the question of why some crimes...
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OCT 07
Isle of Wight Literature Festival: Chris Mullin
Former Labour minister, Chris Mullin, launches a new volume of his widely acclaimed diaries. From the demise of New Labour, through Brexit, the rise and fall of Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson to the death of the Queen. No longer in the tent, but not quite out of it, celebrated diarist Chris Mullin will give his take on the 12 turbulent years since...
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OCT 13
Cheltenham Literary Festival: Peter Brookes
Political cartoonists Peter Brookes and Morten Morland routinely send up our troubled era with their cartoons for The Times, dissecting contemporary political life with bite and wit. They share stand-out moments from the past year with Matt Chorley and draw for us, live from the stage....
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OCT 13
Oundle Festival of Literature: Alex Grant
Sex, Spies and Scandal is the story of John Vassall, a civil servant who was unmasked as a Soviet spy in 1962. Having been photographed in compromising positions while working at the British embassy in Moscow in 1954, Vassall was blackmailed into handing over secrets from the Admiralty to his Soviet handlers, both in Moscow and in London, for more...
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OCT 16
Coquetdale u3a: Chris Mullin
Mon Oct 16th "Didn't you Used to be Chris Mullin" A talk by Chris Mullin about his latest Diary Chris Mullin was MP for Sunderland South 1997-2010, and was a Minister in three Government Departments: 1999 Environment, Transport, & Regions; 2001 International Development; 2003 Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs. He is also a very successful...
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OCT 29
Petworth Festival: Andrea Leadsom
In conversation with Gerry Foley In the high-stakes world of politics, there are superb highs and terrible lows – and never more so than in the period since 2010. Few are better placed to give an insider’s view of the turmoil at the top of government than the prominent former cabinet minister under Theresa May and Boris Johnson, The Rt Hon. Dame Andrea...
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NOV 03
Toppings Bath: Jesse Norman
Of all revenge, the greatest is this: that which cometh suddenly, without expectation. Jesse Norman is the MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire. As Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 2019 to 2021, he managed the UK furlough scheme and other pandemic support measures. He was made a Privy Councillor in 2019. Jesse is the author of acclaimed...
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NOV 11