A remarkable succession of speakers
Saturday 15 to Sunday October 16
Leading authors and thinkers, as well as panel discussions about many of today’s most pressing issues, with topics spanning current affairs, politics, history, feminism, business and beyond.
The festival takes place at Cliveden House, reviving its rich history as a literary salon.
The patriarch of British actors, Brian Cox, will tell broadcaster Chris Evans about his journey from Shakespeare to
Succession; Monica Ali will share the highs and lows of a writer’s life with Merve Emre; William Boyd will chart his literary voyage through love and time with Sam Leith; and British Vogue Editor Edward Enninful will talk to Catherine Ostler about his fashionable life.
Discussing the meaning of world history, Peter Frankopan, Aindrea Emelife, Ben Okri, Simon Sebag Montefiore and Catherine Ostler will debate what may happen next; leading Ukrainian historians and authors, Serhii Plokhy and Olesya Khromeychuk, and Polish MEP Radek Sikorski will share their insights into Ukraine’s place in European history with CNN
Chief International Correspondent, Clarissa Ward; William Dalrymple and Peter Frankopan will examine how and why India and China fell victim to the empires of Europe; and Russian experts Mark Galeotti, Mikhail Zygar and Jonathan Haslam will explore the fatal powerplays within Putin’s court.
The future of the British Monarchy will be debated by Royal experts Tina Brown, Robert Hardman and Camilla Tominey; toxic femininity and surfing the many waves of feminism will be the focus of a session with Louise Perry, Joanne Cash and Inaya Folarin Iman; the ways in which British businesses can escape recession and return to growth will be explored by Luke Johnson, Octavius Black and Antonia Romeo; while Monica Ali, Sebastian Barry, Ben Okri, Susie Boyt and Merve Emre will discuss new approaches to writing modern fiction.
The full 2022 programme and speaker list can be viewed at: www.clivedenliterar yfestival.org/programme-2022.