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2022 Speakers

Here are the confirmed speakers for 2022.

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Alan Johnson

Alan Johnson’s childhood memoir This Boy was published in 2013. It won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize,...

Alan Titchmarsh

Alan Titchmarsh is known to millions through his career as a television presenter of shows including Love Your Garden,...

Andrew Mitchell MP

Andrew Mitchell was educated at Rugby and Jesus College, Cambridge. He was an officer in the 1st Royal Tank...

Antony Thomas

Born in Calcutta, Antony Thomas was taken to South Africa when he was six years old. At the age...

Barnaby Rogerson

Barnaby Rogerson is a writer, publisher and television presenter. Barnaby has appeared on the BBC Life of Muhammad, Al...

Barney White-Spunner

Barney White-Spunner is a British historian who writes the stories of places and events to which he has been...

Chris Terrill

Chris Terrill is an anthropologist, author and one of the UK’s leading adventure documentary makers. In 2007 he participated...

Dame Andrea Leadsom DBE MP

Rt Hon. Dame Andrea Leadsom DBE has been the Conservative MP for South Northamptonshire since 2010, prior to which...

Daniel Smith

Daniel Smith is the author of the acclaimed The Peer and the Gangster (THP, 2020) and The Ardlamont Mystery:...

Dr Ben Robinson

Dr Ben Robinson is a British archaeologist, broadcaster and author. Known as ‘The Flying Archaeologist’ he has appeared as...

Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock (MBE) is a space scientist and pioneering figure in communicating science to children and adults. She...

Ed Smith

Ed Smith played cricket for Kent, Middlesex and England and was Chief Selector for England cricket from 2018 to 2021,...

Emma Soames

Emma Soames is a writer, broadcaster and columnist who has been the editor of the Literary Review, Tatler, ES...

Fiona Sampson

Professor Fiona Sampson MBE FRSL is a leading British poet published in 38 languages. Come Down (2020) was awarded...

Hugo Vickers

Hugo Vickers is well known as a biographer, lecturer and broadcaster, and is an acknowledged expert on the Royal...

Iain MacGregor

Iain MacGregor has been an editor and publisher of nonfiction for over 25 years. He is the author of...

Ingrid Seward

Ingrid Seward is the editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, and one of the most prominent and respected writers on the...

James Hanning

Former deputy editor of the Independent on Sunday James Hanning is co-biographer of David Cameron and secured the exclusive...

Jeremy Bowen

Jeremy Bowen is the BBC’s International Editor. He has reported from more than 70 countries, covering 13 wars including...

Joanne Harris

Joanne Harris is an Anglo-French writer, whose books include 14 novels, two cookbooks and many short stories. Her work...

John Trotman

John Trotman’s Cuttings, published this year, is his second book of poems, prose and artwork, following Both Brittle and...

Julia Abel Smith

Julia Abel Smith has a degree in History of Art from Cambridge University. She has worked for Art UK...

Katie Hickman

Katie Hickman is the author of nine books, including bestselling works of non-fiction, Daughters of Britannia – in the...

Keith Dewhurst

Keith Dewhurst has written 17 stage plays, of which Luggage, Lark Rise, The World Turned Upside Down, Candelford, Don Quixote...

Langley Sharp

Lieutenant Colonel (Retd.) Langley Sharp MBE is the former head of the Centre for Army Leadership, responsible for championing...

Leanne Benjamin

Leanne Benjamin, OBE, AM, is a highly acclaimed and award winning dancer, who was a principal ballerina with Sadler’s...

Lydia Fulleylove

Mountains were Lydia’s first love, but the sea and landscape of the Isle of Wight has provided a rich...

Lynda La Plante

With 40 bestselling novels, over five million copies sold in the UK alone, and a member of The Crime...

Maggie Sawkins

Maggie Sawkins is a British poet now living on the Isle of Wight. Her live literature performance, Zones of...

Marion Carmichael

After varied employment experiences and when my four boys began to grow up I studied for a degree from...

Max Dickins

Max Dickins is a published playwright and author, an actor, presenter and comedian. He has had his own Sony...

Max Egremont

Max Egremont was born in 1948 and studied Modern History at Oxford University. As well as four novels, he...

Mike Bannister

Mike Bannister is an aviation consultant and former pilot. He became the youngest pilot on the Concorde fleet in...

Patrick Donovan

Patrick Donovan is now a full-time writer after a career in national newspapers and public relations. He was one...

Philip Ball

Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and was an editor at Nature for more than 20 years....

Rachel Trethewey

Rachel Trethewey read History at Oxford University, where she won the Philip Geddes Prize for student journalism. As a...

Rhik Samadder

Rhik Samadder is an actor, journalist, author and broadcaster. He created the cult Inspect A Gadget column for the...

Robert Hardman

Robert Hardman is a renowned writer and broadcaster, specializing in monarchy and history. Over three decades, he has interviewed...

Rory Cellan-Jones

Rory Cellan-Jones was a reporter for the BBC for 30 years, covering business and technology stories for much of...

Rosemary Shrager

Rosemary Shrager is one of Britain’s national treasures. She began her cookery career working for Pierre Koffmann at Chelsea’s...

Sandra Howard

Sandra Howard was one of the leading photographic fashion models of the 1960s and ’70s, the only model to...

Sandra Lawrence

Sandra Lawrence is a freelance journalist and author, writing, over the past 20-odd years, hundreds of articles; for all...

Sarah Crompton

Sarah Crompton is one of Britain’s most respected writers and broadcasters, commentating on all aspects of culture and the...

Simon Danczuk

Simon Danczuk is the former MP for Rochdale and co-author of the bestselling Smile for the Camera: The Double...

Simon Mayall

Lieutenant General Sir Simon Mayall has known the Middle East since childhood and, over the course of his 40-year...

Stephan Roman

Stephan Roman studied history at the University of Oxford and library and information science at the University of Sheffield....

Tim Wonnacott

Tim Wonnacott has careers in both antiques and television. He started with Sotheby’s in the furniture department with stints in...

Tracy Borman

Tracy Borman is a best selling author, historian and broadcaster, specialising in the Tudor period. Her books include Elizabeth’s...

Tristan Gooley

Tristan Gooley is a Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author, navigator and explorer. Through his journeys, teaching...

William Browder

William Browder, CEO Hermitage Capital Management, Head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign and author of Red Notice and Freezing...

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