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Spring Festival 2026

Events from our April Festival

(48 recordings)

Mary Berry | My Gardening Life

The New Statesman Debate | This house believes that Britain’s best days are behind it

Margaret Busby | Part of the Story – writings from half a century

Wayne McGregor | We Are Movement

Edward Stourton | Made in America: the dark history that led to Donald Trump

AI & the Novel

Andrew Miller | The Land in Winter

Athena Kugblenu | History’s Most Epic Fails

Callum Cant & Matthew Lee | The 1926 General Strike

Caroline Lucas | Lecture: The State of Nature

Catherine Carr | Who’s the Favourite? The loving, messy realities of sibling relationships

Clare Jackson | The Mirror of Great Britain

Cressida Cowell | Which Way to the Future

Ed Davey | Why I Care and Why Care Matters

Frances Wilson | Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark

Francesca Wade on Gertrude Stein

Giulia Enders | Organ Speak: What It Really Means to Listen to Our Bodies

Greg Doran | Love, Loss and Shakespeare

Harriet Baker, Alex Clark & Peter Swaab | Lolly Willowes at 100

Harry Baker | Tender: 100 poems for the first 100 days of life

James Fox | Craftland

James Geary | The World in a Phrase: a brief history of the aphorism

James Macintyre | Gordon Brown: power with purpose

John Kampfner | Braver New World: the countries daring to do what others won’t

John Lanchester | Look What You Made Me Do

Jude Simpson | A Noise Annoys Show

Julius Green, Sophie Hannah & Kate Rhodes | Agatha Christie Anniversary

Lord Nicholas Stern | The Growth Story of the 21st Century: the economics and opportunity of climate action

Louie Stowell | Loki Live! A Bad God’s Guide to Causing Chaos

Lucy Ash | Russia’s Church from Pagans to Putin

Martin Bond | A Cambridge Diary

Merlin Holland | After Oscar: the legacy of a scandal

Mike Rampton | Become a Genius

Nick Butterworth | Percy the Park Keeper! Stories from the Park

Rachel Clarke | Lecture: The State of the Nation

Rashmi Sirdeshpande | Super Uma

Rose George | Every Last Fish: what fish do for us and what we do to them

Samira Ahmed | A Hard Day’s Night

Samira Ahmed, Sam Leith & Margaret Busby | Writers on Reading

Sarah Perry | Death of an Ordinary Man

Sarah Raven | A Year of Cut Flowers

Sophie Harman | Sick of It: the global fight for women’s health

Sophie Raworth | Running on Air: From headlines to finish lines

Stephen Grosz | Love’s Labour

Steve Richards | Rock ‘n Roll Politics

Thant Myint-U | Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations, and the Untold Story of the 1960s

The Observer’s Debut Novelists 2026

Tim Minshall | Your Life is Manufactured

15 recordings

Lyse Doucet

Lyse Doucet | A People’s History of Afghanistan

Olia Hercules

Olia Hercules | A Ukrainian Family Story

Brenda Hale

Lady Hale | With the Law on Our Side

Andrew Lownie

Andrew Lownie | Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York

Wendy Hitchmough & Frances Spalding

Wendy Hitchmough | Vanessa Bell: The Life & Art of a Bloomsbury Radical

Patrick Barkham

Patrick Barkham | The Wild Life of Roger Deakin

Wes Streeting

Wes Streeting | One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up (audio)

Matthew Hollis

Matthew Hollis | The Wasteland

Manni & Reuben Coe

Manni & Reuben Coe | brother.do.you.love.me

claire harman

Claire Harman | Katherine Mansfield

Pattie Boyd

Pattie Boyd | A Life in Pictures

Tom Musthill

Tom Mustill | How to speak whale

Simon Woolley

Simon Woolley | Soar

Eleanor Clayton on Barbara Hepworth

Gillian Beer Biog Pic

Dame Gillian Beer | Stations without Signs

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