Speakers-2025

Deborah Davis is the BIFA/BAFTA winning, Oscar/Golden Globe nominated screenwriter of THE FAVOURITE (which she…

Anand Giridharadas is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Persuaders, the international bestseller Winners…

Patrick Marber is an Olivier Award winning playwright, Academy nominated screenwriter and Tony Award winning…

Sir Ian Rankin is an international bestseller, known for his Inspector Rebus series of novels…

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is a Professor of English Literature and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.…

Alex Burghart was first elected in Brentwood and Ongar on 8th June 2017 with a…

Alexandra Shulman was the first female editor of a man’s glossy magazine when GQ launched…

Minna Salami is an author and speaker, and the publisher of Kaleido, a Substack newsletter…

Hugo Rittson-Thomas is a British portrait, nature and interiors photographer. He started his career after…

Author Victoria Summerley is a national newspaper journalist, who has worked on the Evening Standard,…