The Lewes Speakers Festival

Start: Friday, May 9, 2025 3:00PM
End: Sunday, May 11, 2025 10:00PM

Friday 9th May 15.30 Matt Goodwin, conservative professor of politics at the University of Kent, GB News presenter, broadcaster and political adviser, speaks on why our universities are ‘broken’ and how we can fix them.

Friday 9th May 17.00 Leigh Turner, former British Ambassador to Ukraine and Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations, reflects on his career as a diplomat in, amongst other places: Ukraine; Austria; and Turkey and the chaos of modern politics.

Friday 9th May 18.30 Michelle Ogundehin, Head Judge on the BBC’s Interior Design Masters TV series, gives you the steps you need to create a home that heals and makes you happy.

Friday 9th May 20.00 Hugo Rifkind, columnist, critic and leader writer for The Times, gives a talk based his new book ‘Rabbits’ about a murder in Scotland.

Saturday 10th May 9.50 Dr Terri Apter, family-dynamics psychologist, writer and Fellow of Newnham College Cambridge, speaks about how to be a good grandparent.

Saturday 10th May 11.20 Jonathan Fenby, former Editor of The Observer and the South China Morning Post, speaks about the wonder, achievements and cultures of China.

Saturday 10th May 12.50 Howard Jacobson, Man Booker Prize winner and broadcaster, speaks about his novel ‘What will survive of us’ – a story about love through marriage and middle age.

Saturday 10th May 13.45 Jack Cornish, Head of paths at the Ramblers, takes you on a guided walk outside around Lewes and along the river Ouse, explaining its rich history and features.

Saturday 10th May 14.20 Frances Welch, journalist and Russia specialist, speaks about the strange and bloody destinies of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters.

Saturday 10th May 15.50 Craig Brown, Private Eye satirist, journalist and winner of 3 different Press Awards — for best humourist, columnist, and critic — in the same year, turns his eye to Queen Elizabeth II.

Saturday 10th May 17.20 Monica Macias, childhood resident of North Korea under Kim Il Sung and daughter of the first president of Equatorial Guinea, presents her life story.

Saturday 10th May 18.50 Norman Baker, former MP for Lewes, Under-Secretary of State for Transport and Minister for Crime Prevention, speaks about the strange death of Dr Kelly and the invasion of Iraq.

Saturday 10th May 20.20 Gabriel Gatehouse, BBC journalist, former International Editor of ‘Newsnight’ and presenter of the podcast ‘The Coming Storm', which has had 3 million downloads, presents on conspiracy theories in America and their political impact.

Sunday 11th May 9.50 Cathy Scott-Clark, award-winning investigative journalist and Emmy-winning filmmaker, speaks about the life of world’s most extraordinary warlord – Victor Bout.

Sunday 11th May 11.20 Diana Darke, Islamic Art and Architecture specialist and scholar at Washington DC's Middle East Institute, speaks about the Islamic craftsmen behind Europe’s medieval monuments.

Sunday 11th May 12.50 Chris Mullin, journalist and a minister in three departments and chairman of the Home Affairs select committee, explains the story and miscarriage of justice behind the conviction of the Birmingham IRA bombing suspects in 1974.

Sunday 11th May 14.20 David Torrance, constitutional specialist at the House of Commons and biographer of Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon, tells the remarkable story of Britain’s first Labour government.

Sunday 11th May 15.50 Paul Cooper, journalist who produces the Fall of Civilizations podcast, which has had 100 million listens since 2019, recounts how a range of societies around the world have risen and then tipped over into collapse.

Sunday 11th May 17.20 Michael Sheridan, Far East correspondent for the Sunday Times over 20 years, covering the rise of China, explains the life, personality and thinking of the President of the People's Republic of China - Xi Jinping.

Sunday 11th May 18.50 Dr Julian Baggini, Academic Director of the Royal institute of Philosophy and author/ editor of over 20 books explains his philosophy and history of food.

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Category: Festivals | Festival

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General Admission: GBP 12.00