Lewes Speakers Festival

Friday 17th Jan. 15.30 Iain Dale, Broadcaster and former Presenter of the Evening Show on LBC Radio, discusses the lives of dictators and the lessons we can draw from them.
Friday 17th Jan.17.00 Baroness Lola Young, foster-care survivor, social-justice activist and one of the first Black Women members of the House of Lords discusses her memoir.
Friday 17th Jan. 18.30 Her Honour Wendy Joseph KC, former judge at the Old Bailey, specialising in murder cases, asks whether our justice system works and if it has improved over the centuries.
Friday 17th Jan. 20.00 Lucia Osborne-Crowley, journalist and legal reporter at Ghislaine Maxwell's trial, gives an account of the trial and a voice to the victims.
Saturday 18th Jan. 9.50 Giles Milton, internationally best-selling author of histories, routinely serialised on both the BBC and UK newspapers, describes the Allies secret mission to wartime Moscow to seek an alliance with Russia to make victory possible.
Saturday 18th Jan. 11.20 Orlando Whitfield, former friend and business partner of the jailed Art-Dealer Inigo Philbrick, gives an account of the rise and fall of his friend's art empire.
Saturday 18th Jan. 12.50 Prof. Neil Lawrence, DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning, Cambridge University, discusses what AI means for our identity and whether it becomes a tool for human beings or we become a tool of AI.
Saturday 18th Jan. 14.20 Paul Roberts, Keeper of the Dept. of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum, gives us a tour of ancient Rome via its monuments.
Saturday 18th Jan. 15.50 Prof. Kerry Brown, of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King's College, London discusses Britain and China's 400-year contest for power.
Saturday 18th Jan. 17.20 Penny Mordaunt, former Secretary of State for Defence, explains how our current political division can be overcome by political reform.
Saturday 18th Jan. 18.50 Andrew Pierce, popular ITV presenter for Good Morning Britain, leading columnist and consultant Editor for the Daily Mail and GB News presenter, gives an account of trying to find his birth parents via the orphanage he was left in.
Saturday 18th Jan. 20.20 Prof. Paul Moorcraft, security expert, former war correspondent and broadcaster discusses the war in the Middle East.
Sunday 19th Jan. 9.50 Shalina Patel, TV presenter and award-winning history teacher pioneering the decolonisation of the History curriculum, discusses the histories left out of the school curriculum.
Sunday 19th Jan. 11.20 Prof. Christopher Phillips, of International Relations at Queen Mary University of London and regular TV interviewee, discusses the crises of the Middle East.
Sunday 19th Jan. 12.50 Sue Prideaux, Award winning biographer of the artists Paul Gaugin and Munch and TV presenter, discusses the life of Gaugin - rebel, stockbroker and artist in Tahiti.
Sunday 19th Jan. 14.20 Sir Robin Niblett, Distinguished Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs and leading expert on the relations between Europe, the US and Asia, describes the new cold war between the US and China.  
Sunday 19th Jan. 15.50 Ian Williams, reporter from China over the last 25 years, Emmy and BAFTA awards winner, gives an account of China's corrupt, authoritarian 'vampire' economy.
Sunday 19th Jan. 17.20 Prof. Danny Dorling, of the Geography Dept. at Oxford University, describes the inequality, injustice and hope for the modern UK via the lives of 7 'average' children.
Sunday 19th Jan. 18.50 Stanley Johnson, former MEP, journalist and father of former PM, talks about his journey retracing the steps of 13th-century explorer Marco Polo.

Price:
General Admission: GBP 12.00