Jeanette Winterson (2010 event)
Legendary writer Jeanette Winterson inspired her audience with tremendous charm on 16 August, speaking movingly of happiness and the pursuit thereof. This brilliant event was full of intelligent questions from the audience and great energy from Winterson herself. When she attended her photocall, the Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit writer proceeded to throw oranges at the photographers!
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Neil Forsyth (2012 event)
Seamus Heaney (2010 event)
Inua Ellams (2018 Event)
Daniel Gray (2017 Event)
Alan Hollinghurst (2011 Event)
Meera Syal (2015 Event)
Jemima Foxtrot, Iona Lee, Sabrina Mahfouz & Sophia Walker (2017 Event)
James Naughtie: The USA, from Reagan to Trump (2020 Event)