10:00-11:00
Brexit wounds
Michael Gove and Sarah Vine in conversation with Andrew Roberts on the perils of a marriage in politics
10:00-11:00
James Baldwin’s American dream
Nicholas Boggs talks to Rachel Eliza Griffiths about chronicling the secret life and loves of the revolutionary writer
11:30-12:30
Book of wonders: the meaning of literacy and its future in the digital age
Jonathan Bate (ch), Salman Rushdie, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Marina Warner and James Marriott
11:30-12:30
Wild Swan
Jung Chang and Peter Frankopan on the enigma of China, with Geordie Greig
13:15-14:15
The Saturday Salon (students only)
Will the advance of technology make us or break us?
James Marriott (ch), Rachel Kelly, Luke Pepera, Minna Salami and Alice Loxton on the power and pitfalls of AI and social media
14:30-15:30
1925: from The Great Gatsby to Gabrielle Chanel, the year that changed Western culture forever
Tristram Hunt (ch), Sarah Churchwell, Merve Emre, Yana Peel, and James McAuley on the roar of the twenties
14:30-15:30
Alain de Botton on the sorrows of love
The renowned writer on his philosophy of the heart
16:00-17:00
The new American civil war?
Dambisa Moyo (ch), Tina Brown, Niall Ferguson, Anand Giridharadas and Coleman Hughes on a nation divided
16:00-17:00
250 years of Austenmania
Catherine Ostler (ch), Freya Johnston, Andrew Davies, Marlon James and Jonathan Bate on the enduring wonder of the pioneering storyteller.
Reading by Lucy Boynton
17:30-18:30
Question Time at Cliveden
Emily Maitlis (ch), Wes Streeting, Alex Burghart, Charles Moore, and Emily Benn answer the audience on the burning issues of the day
17:30-18:30
Spooks, spymasters and war in the shadows
Simon Sebag Montefiore (ch), Gordon Corera, David McCloskey, Andrei Soldatov and Jake Wallis Simons on espionage in the 21st century
10:00-11:00
The matrix of murder
Hallie Rubenhold, Anthony Horowitz and Ian Rankin on the fact and fiction of crime
10:00-11:00
The art of stagecraft
Natalie Livingstone (ch) Patrick Marber, Mark Rosenblatt, and Andrew Davies on how to write a hit script
10:00-11:00
Gilded ages: jewellery through time
Carol Woolton in sparkling conversation with Alexandra Shulman
11:30-12:30
Midnight’s couple
Salman Rushdie and Rachel Eliza Griffiths on nurturing a creative partnership
11:30-12:30
William Boyd unmasked
The bestselling novelist discusses the return of his accidental spy with foreign correspondent, author and memoirist Peter Godwin
11:30-12:30
An aristocrat in America
Caroline Derby talks to Andrew Roberts about the remarkable travel journal of the 14th Earl of Derby
13:00-13:45
Weaving the Silk Road
Peter Frankopan, in conversation with Cindy Yu, reflects on the decade since the publication of his seminal work
14:00–15:00
60 minutes in the mind of Elif Shafak
The Turkish novelist talks to Merve Emre about her narrative flow
14:00–15:00
Behind the scenes with the Secret Gardeners
Hugo Rittson-Thomas, Victoria Summerley and Catherine Fitzgerald on how to create, and capture, a green idyll
15:30-16:30
Hollywood and heartache
Richard E. Grant talks to Georgia Beaufort about his pursuit of happiness on and off screen
15:30-16:30
The Second World War: new perspectives after 80 years
Adam Lebor (ch), Anne Sebba, Tim Bouverie, and Jonathan Freedland
17:00-18:00
The Favourite
Robert Hardman (ch), Helen Castor, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Anne Somerset, and Deborah Davis on how to rise in a royal court
Please note, on occasion, the programme and speaker list may be subject to change.