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Chris Hunter talks to Peter Florence

Extreme Risk

Sandhurst, Bosnia, Belfast and Israel: the making of one of Britain’s best counter-terrorist bomb disposal operators, who was awarded the Queen’s Gallantry Medal for his work in Iraq.

Camila Batmanghelidjh talks to Helena Kennedy

The pioneering founder of The Place To Be and Kids Company talks about her work with marginalised children and her latest project - The Queen of Teen short story anthology.

Grant Sutherland and James Steel talk to Paul Blezard

Fiction: Coldest Wars

Sutherland’s The Cobras of Calcutta offers thrilling intrigue among the Decipherers, England’s crack code-breakers warring silently against Napoleon’s intelligence agency, the Cabinet Noir. Steel’s December is a contemporary political thriller set across Russia.

Eat My Shorts!

A medley of hand-picked short films, from laugh-out-loud to downright beautiful. See you at the movies! 

Rosie Boycott, Benedict Allen and Anne MacCaig chaired by Steve Trent

No Place Like Home

In association with the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF)

Jonathan Coe and David Nobbs

Fiction: Comedy

The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim is Coe’s picaresque new novel of our times. He talks about comedy and fiction with the creator of Henry Pratt and Reginald Perrin, whose latest book is Obstacles to Young Love. Chaired by Peter Guttridge.

Sponsored by Richard Booth’s Bookshop

David Hurn and John Fuller

Writing The Picture

The Magnum photographer and the poet discuss their unique collaboration. From warm portraits of rural Wales to a drug addict shooting up in London, from a raucous hen night to a moving suite of images of the aftermath of the Aberfan disaster, photographer and poet respond to all aspects of life.

Oliver Bullough talks to Francine Stock

Let Our Fame Be Great

The journalist recounts the marvellous stories and testimony he encountered on his Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus, who’ve resisted Russian colonial aggression for over two hundred years.

Sponsored by Shepherds Ice Cream

Julia Eccleshare, Morris Gleitzman, Patrick Ness

Writers’ Question Time

Stumped for what to read next? Struggling with writers’ block? Fear not, we’re turning this event entirely over to you to pose your questions to our all-star panel. Questions can be live or dropped into a hat beforehand. Chaired by Jonathan Douglas.

Korky Paul

Winnie the Witch

Prepare to be amazed as Winnie and Wilbur whisk off on another adventure.