SATURDAY 5TH JULY
9:30-10:30 – Cut the Crap: How do we tackle the UK’s water pollution problem?
Speaker: Adam Vaughan, Chair: Rob Burley
The Environment Editor of The Times, Adam Vaughan, plus a panel of Eco campaigners and experts in the water industry and its regulation ask who’s to blame for the sewage entering Britain’s waters, and what’s to be done? Adam is keen to hear the experiences – hopes & fears – of audience members.
10:45-11:45 – No laughing matter: are today’s politicians truly clowns?
Speakers: John Crace, Ayesha Hazarika, Sam Coates Chair: Paddy O’Connell
Guardian sketch writer and author John Crace, former stand-up comedian, now Labour peer and Times Radio presenter Ayesha Hazarika plus Sky News Deputy Political Editor Sam Coates ask of Farage, Starmer and Badenoch: Are you being SERIOUS?
12:00-12:50 – The Empire We Don’t Talk About: Reckoning with
Britain’s Colonial Legacy
Speaker: David Olusoga, Chair: Rafael Behr
Professor David Olusoga asks if everyone from primary school pupils through to pensioners needs to think again about our history. Can examining the past help to create a fairer future?
13.00 – 13.50 – The Coming Storm
Chair: David Aaronovitch, Presenter of ‘The Briefing Room’ (BBC Radio 4) and writer of Substack’s ‘Notes from the Underground’.
America through the looking glass, where nothing is as it seems. Some lunatic conspiracy theories may be totally untrue, but they are really damaging. Giant international companies do buy influence & change the world. Conflicts in distant corners of the globe are stoked by shadowy figures in Washington, London and Lausanne. Gabriel Gatehouse, writer & presenter of the award-winning BBC podcast series The Coming Storm unpacks this extraordinary saga.
14:00-14:45 – Women In Jazz In Conversation With Plumm
15:00-15:45 – Jazz Shapers on Jazz FM: In conversation with Gary Crosby OBE and Janine Irons OBE, Founders of Tomorrow’s Warriors
SUNDAY 6TH JULY
09:30-10:30 – Behind the headlines: The Love Supreme paper review
Speakers: Iain Dale, Anne McElvoy, Catherine Mayer, Anand Menon, Chair: Barney Jones
A look at the Sunday papers’ headlines with author and award-winning LBC presenter Iain Dale, Director of UK in a Changing Europe, Professor Anand Menon. Prolific podcaster & Executive Editor of POLITICO Anne McElvoy, and best-selling author and co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party, Catherine Mayer.
10:40-11:45 – Who’s spying on who?: In conversation with Gordon Corera
Speaker: Gordon Corera, Chair: Martin Ivens
Gordon Corera, host of the award-winning podcast The Rest is Confidential talks about the forces ranged against the UK and how our spooks are working to beat theirs. Gordon, security correspondent for the BBC for ten years and author of several acclaimed books on espionage, will discuss Putin’s murky background in the KGB, how that shapes the way he operates now, and how MI6 & its new director attempt to keep one step ahead.
11:50 – 12:50 – Trump terrifies us already, but what’s to come?
Speakers: Sam Coates, Anne McElvoy, Sarah Baxter, Chair: Anand Menon
Sky News’ Deputy Political Editor Sam Coates, POLITICO’s Anne McElvoy, New-York based political commentator Sarah Baxter and the BBC’s Marianna Spring (TBC) reflect on Trump’s term so far, the extraordinary lurch into war in Iran, and what warped weirdness to expect next.
13:00-13:50 – Dispatches from a life in rock n roll: In conversation with Alan Edwards
Speaker: Alan Edwards, Chair: Barney Jones
After a lifetime working closely with 100’s of Britain’s top rock and pop acts, Alan Edwards reveals an insider’s backstage view of the stars.
14:15-15:00 – Women In Jazz In Conversation With Yazz Ahmed
15:15-16:00 – Women In Jazz In Conversation With Connie Eliza
