2025
early release events

To whet your collective appetites for the 2025 festival, here are some early release events which you can book now. Enjoy!

To whet your collective appetites for the 2025 festival, here are some early release events which you can book now. Enjoy!

Cory Doctorow: Disenshittifying Big Tech

MONDAY 24TH MARCH

Matt Forde: A Fireside Chat with William Crawley

MONDAY 24TH MARCH

Brighid ‘Biddy’ McLaughlin: Tales of a Patchwork Life

MONDAY 24TH MARCH

David Baddiel: in conversation with William Crawley

TUESDAY 25TH MARCH

Jo Caulfield: The Funny Thing About Death

WEDNESDAY 26TH MARCH

Jo Caulfield: Here Comes Trouble

WEDNESDAY 26TH MARCH

Erin Fornoff: Hymn to the Reckless – A Poetry Performance

THURSDAY 27TH MARCH

Jon Savage: The Secret Public – how LGBT resistance shaped culture 1955-79

THURSDAY 27TH MARCH

Roman Krznaric: History for Tomorrow

THURSDAY 27TH MARCH

Words as Weapons, Words as Medicine

FRIDAY 28TH MARCH

Glimmers: A Writing Workshop To Capture the Moments of Resonance

FRIDAY 28TH MARCH

Andy Zaltzman: The Zaltgeist

FRIDAY 28TH MARCH

Inua Ellams: Search Party

FRIDAY 28TH MARCH

Story of Self, Story of Us, Story of Now: Personal Narrative for Movement Building

SATURDAY 29TH MARCH

Politics of the Imagination

SATURDAY 29TH MARCH

Lemn Sissay: Let the Light Pour In

SATURDAY 29TH MARCH

Alison Spittle: Fat Bitch (Work in Progress)

SUNDAY 30TH MARCH

2025early release events