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

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch

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

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

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