Winter Festival 2023

Thurs 16 Nov – Sun 19 November

Priority Booking | 10am, Tues 29 August

General Sale | 10am, Tues 5 September

All events Winter Festival 2023 Masterclasses One-off events

Theresa May - The Abuse of Power

Timothy West - Pru & Me

Ways of Life - Laura Freeman

and then what

The List

Let the Light Pour In

Comfort Eating

Bee Wilson - The Secret of Cooking

Fool for Love

One Midsummer's Day

The New Life

Prophet

Cry of the Wild

Mike Brearley

Good girls - Hadley Freeman

Mirrors of Greatness

Femina

Sebastian Faulks - The seventh Son

Rick Stein Simple Suppers

Decolonising my body

Nuts & Bolts

The Handover - David Runciman

Bournville - Jonathan Coe

26 events

Thu 16 Nov 2023

Theresa May

Theresa May | The Abuse of Power

Timothy West

Timothy West | Pru & Me

Sat 18 Nov 2023

David reynolds & ANdrew Marr

David Reynolds & Andrew Marr | Churchill & the Leaders Who Shaped Him

Roma Agrawal

Roma Agrawal | Inventions That Changed the World

Polly Toynbee

Polly Toynbee | An Uneasy Inheritance

Catherine Ashton & Luke Harding

Catherine Ashton & Luke Harding | The Diplomacy of War In Ukraine

Rick Stein

Rick Stein | Simple Suppers

Janina Ramirez

Janina Ramirez | History’s Forgotten Women

Mike Brearley

Mike Brearley | A Life in Cricket and in the Mind

Nina Stibbe & Deborah Moggach

Nina Stibbe & Deborah Moggach | Went to London, Took the Dog

Mark Cocker & Charles Foster (1)

Charles Foster & Mark Cocker with Helen Macdonald | Life on Earth

Grace Dent

Grace Dent | Comfort Eating

Lemn Sissay

Lemn Sissay | Let the Light Pour In

Debut Writers

Debut Writers | Yomi Adegoke, Helen Macdonald & Tom Crewe

Sun 19 Nov 2023

david runciman

David Runciman | How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AI

Laura Freeman

Laura Freeman | Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard Artists

Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Coe | Bournville

Alice Vincent & Marchelle Farrelll

Marchelle Farrell & Alice Vincent | Finding Home in an English Garden

Chris Bryant

Chris Bryant MP | Code of Conduct

Hadley Freeman

Hadley Freeman | A Story and Study of Anorexia

Afua Hirsch & Elif Shafak

Afua Hirsch & Elif Shafak | Decolonising Beauty Standards

Bee Wilson

Bee Wilson | The Secret of Cooking

Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Faulks | A Life in Writing

Phil Whitaker & Isabel Hardman

Phil Whitaker & Isabel Hardman | Fighting For Life: How to Fix the NHS

Robert Peston

Robert Peston | Bust

goldsmiths prize 2023

The Goldsmiths Prize Winner 2023

yellow clapping lady audience

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Stay at the University Arms or dine at Parker’s Tavern

Why not make a weekend of it? Stay at the 5-star University Arms hotel during the festival, enjoy a cocktail in the bar or dine at Parker’s Tavern restaurant.

Luxury rooms and suites across four floors, with view over Parker’s Piece, historic Regent Street and the hotel’s inner courtyard.

Benefactors & Patrons receive a 15% discount when booking.

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