BIOGRAPHY

617 SQUADRON - THE DAM BUSTERS

Max Arthur - Tuesday 11.20am

Max Arthur is rightly seen as one of Britain’s leading oral historians of the Great War, collecting... more

AGENT ZIGZAG

Ben Macintyre - Wednesday 10am

Ben Macintyre is a columnist and Associate Editor on The Times. He has worked as the newspaper's correspondent in... more

DEAR DIARY

Svetlana Palmer and Sarah Wallis - Tuesday 10am

Svetlana Palmer studied at Moscow State University, as well as in London and Berlin. She has worked on critically... more

DEAR MISTRESS

Ian McIntyre - Wednesday 11.20am

Ian McIntyre read Modern Languages at Cambridge, where he was President of the Union. He worked for many years for... more

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

Ben Macintyre - Wednesday 11.20am

In the second of his two presentations, Ben Macintyre focuses on the relationship between 007 and his... more

IAN FLEMING

Andrew Lycett - Wednesday 10am

Andrew Lycett read modern history at Oxford, and then took up journalism, mainly as a foreign reporter,... more

MR STANLEY, WE PRESUME

Tim Jeal - Tuesday 10am

Tim Jeal is best known for his three classic biographies of adventurous Victorian males:  Livingstone,... more

NABEEL'S SONG (THIS EVENT HAS HAD TO BE POSTPONED)

Nabeel Yasin and Jo Tatchell - Friday 11.20am

In the winter of 1979, Nabeel Yasin, a young Iraqi poet best know for his epic poem Brother Yasin, gathered... more

SHAKESPEARE ON TOAST

Ben Crystal - Thursday 9.05

Who’s afraid of William Shakespeare? Just about everyone. He wrote too much and what he wrote is inaccessible... more

THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER - 9.05 (PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME)

Kate Summerscale - Wednesday Morning

Kate Summerscale is the author of the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, which won a Somerset Maugham award and... more