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Main programme

Alan Titchmarsh

Alan Titchmarsh is known to millions through the popular BBC TV programmes British Isles: A Natural History, How to be...

Amber Beard

Amber Beard is a writer and blogger with a large body of work under her belt. Her writing stems...

Anna Pasternak

Anna Pasternak is a writer and member of the Pasternak family. Her great grandfather was Leonid, the impressionist painter...

David Rutland

David Rutland is 11th Duke of Rutland and lives at Belvoir Castle, ancestral home of the Dukes of Rutland in...

Emma Ellis

Emma Ellis completed a degree in politics and then ‘ran away to sea’ for a few years, sailing mainly...

Hunter Davies

Hunter Davies was at the heart of London culture in the Swinging Sixties, becoming close friends with The Beatles,...

Jeremy Irons

Jeremy Irons won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1990 for his performance as Claus von Bulow in Reversal of Fortune. He is...

Joanna Trollope

Joanna Trollope is the author of many highly acclaimed and bestselling novels including The Rector’s Wife, Marrying the Mistress and Daughters...

Katie Hickman

Katie Hickman is the author of eight books, including two bestselling works of non-fiction, Daughters of Britannia – in the Sunday Times bestseller...

Leanda de Lisle

After reading history at Oxford university Leanda de Lisle pursed a successful career as a journalist and author.  She...

Nicholas Allan

Nicholas Allan is the author/illustrator of over 30 children’s books. When he was 12 he made a model of...

Philip Norman

Philip Norman was born in London and brought up on the Isle of Wight. He joined the Sunday Times at...

Robin Hanbury-Tenison

Robin Hanbury-Tenison OBE , DL , is a founder and current president of Survival International, the world’s leading organisation...

Sir Robin Knox-Johnston

Sir Robin Knox-Johnston was born in 1939 and came to fame when he became the first person to complete...

Tim Wander

Tim Wander is a Chartered Engineer who tried to retire a few years ago but somehow managed to get...

Write On Wight

Prior to the digital Red Funnel Isle of Wight Literary Festival, local authors and those with an island connection...

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