The full 2019 programme will be announced in August.

Saturday 28 September

Leila Slimani

Emily Maitlis

Ian McEwan

Ben Okri

Howard Jacobson

Robert Harris

Rory Stewart

Lucy Worsley

Alain de Botton

Candice Carty-Williams

Professor Brian Cox

Chris Evans

Helen Fielding

Kate Mosse

Jacob Rees-Mogg

Natalie Livingstone

Catherine Ostler

Nicholas Coleridge

Paula Byrne

Robert Hardman

Gaby Wood

Blanche Girouard

Sunday 29 September

Bret Easton Ellis

Leila Slimani

Elif Shafak

Natascha McElhone

Hallie Rubenhold

General David Petraeus

Kathy Lette

Luciana Berger

Gordon Corera

David Aaronovitch

Nick Cohen

June Sarpong

Stephen Greenblatt

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Andrew Roberts

Tina Brown

Elisabeth Schimpfossl

Anne McElvoy

Robert Service

Sir Richard Dearlove

General Sir Nick Carter

David Reynolds

Tom Bower