We are grateful to the inspiring speakers who have given their time and support so generously:
Carrie Gracie, former BBC China editor and author
Christina Lamb, author and award-winning foreign correspondent
David Lough, author of No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money
Hugh Pym, the BBC’s Health Editor, journalist and author
John Bercow, former Speaker of the House of Commons
John Preston, author of A Very English Scandal & Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell
Jung Chang, bestselling author (Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China)
Kate Panter, consultant gynaecologist, and Toosie Bawden, specialist physiotherapist in women’s health
Lord Darroch, former ambassador to the United States
Marina Wheeler, lawyer, author, and columnist
Martin Wolf, associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times
Petronella Ravenshear, nutrition expert
Sir Tim Rice, lyricist, in conversation with Ronni Ancona
Tom Holland, award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster
Victoria Hislop, bestselling author
Victoria Schofield, historian and commentator on international affairs
And for the fantastic entertainment so generously given by:
The Close Shaves and The High Heels
The Jazz Dynamos and
Simon Slater and Friends
Stars of the London stage directed by the RSC’s Associate Artist Phillip Breen and hosted by Phillip Breen and the University of Warwick’s Professor Carol Chillington Rutter, in Shakespeare’s Sonnets In Action