#18 EDITION
SUNDAY - APRIL 3, 2022
NEWS
RUSSIA & THE SHIFTING WORLD ORDER
Award-winning journalist Hardeep Matharu sits down for this special interview with Byline CEO Peter Jukes, a long time reporter on Russia's dark relationship with the rest of the world. From its past aggression towards close neighbours to more recent interference in UK politics and Brexit, join Byline Times for this special exploration of the path leading up to the current Ukraine crisis - and the culpability of the British media.
PETER GEOGHEGAN: DEMOCRACY FOR SALE
Editor-in-chief of openDemocracy and author of Democracy for Sale, and an expert on Russian money and its influence on British democracy. He is joined by Oli Dugmore - Head of News and Politics at JOE Media. UK government corruption and Russia being pretty hot topics, we expect this conversation and Q&A to help us wade through some of the fog.
APPLES & SNAKES: ON CONFLICT
A special session from England’s leading spoken word poetry organisation. Three of London’s best poets will follow-on from our more cerebral and intellectual discussions to hold the room on the theme of Conflict.
BUSINESS
VIV GROSKOP: OWN THE ROOM
Viv is an award-winning comedian, writer, and broadcaster. She encourages women everywhere to own their space and have their voices heard. She writes for the Guardian, Observer, and Financial Times and is the host of the chart-topping podcast How to Own the Room, where she has interviewed Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, Margaret Atwood and Julie Andrews.
SPORT
HANA WALKER-BROWN: A DELICATE GAME
It was common for boxers in the twentieth century to suffer from “confusion, vertigo and a staggering, propulsive gait” but it was largely shrugged off as a price of toughness. According to writer and documentary maker Hana Walker-Brown, this is just one example of sport’s long-standing denial of the impact of head injuries. She will discuss the human stories of families affected and whether sports including rugby, American football, boxing and mixed martial arts can eliminate the risks to players while maintaining the entertainment of consumers.
TRAVEL
DAN RICHARDS: OUTPOST
There are still wild places out there on our crowded planet. Through a series of personal journeys, Dan explores the appeal of far-flung outposts in mountains, tundra, forests, oceans and deserts - landscapes that have inspired writers, artists and musicians, and asks: why are we drawn to the wilderness? What can we do to protect them? And what does the future hold for outposts on the edge?
LIFESTYLE
YOLANDA BARKER: THE BREATHING REVOLUTION
Grounded in science and observations as a film-maker, author, yoga teacher and mental health advocate, Yolanda Barker will share practical evidence-based insights to help us improve our breathing on a day-to-day basis, as well as shine a light on the physiology of stress and its effect on the body, mind and emotions.
PEOPLE
MALIK AL NASIR: LETTERS TO GIL
Born in Liverpool, Malik Al Nasir was taken into care at the age of nine. Aged eighteen, he emerged semi-literate, penniless with no connections or sense of where he was going - until a chance meeting with Gil Scott-Heron. Protege of the late great artist, author, poet and civil rights activist joins legendary publisher Jamie Byng to discuss his powerful, uplifting memoir 'Letters to Gil’, marking the 10th anniversary of Gil's passing.
HEALTH
LUCY MADDOX: WHAT IS MENTAL HEALTH?
The last few years have been difficult for everyone, and children and young people have had their own specific challenges to face. Dr Lucy Maddox, clinical psychologist and writer, will be sharing ideas from her book for young people: What is Mental Health? We all have mental health - and just like our physical health, there are things we can do to look after it, even when times are tough.
FOOD
COOK FOR UKRAINE
Alissa Timoshkina is a Russian London-based food creative, supper club host and cookbook author with Ukrainian roots, like many Russians, and is helping lead the #CookForUkraine campaign. to discuss the initiative she is joined by Hannah MacInnes. “Let's cook for peace, freedom, truth, common sense, rational thought and love.”
SCIENCE
ADAM HART: UNFIT FOR PURPOSE
Stress, obesity, poor mental health, drug addiction, bowel diseases, violence and fake news; a stark checklist of modern world problems and every one of them is an echo of our evolutionary past. Biologist and broadcaster Professor Adam Hart explores the mismatch between our fundamental biology and the modern world we have created.
CULTURE
ADAM BEATTIE
Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist Adam Beattie has become a celebrated musician of the London scene. He has been active since 2003 and has released 5 albums of his own songs. Having roots in Scottish folk music, as well as a lifelong interest in old time jazz, blues and other folk styles, his music spans many genres, but is all held together by Adam's distinctive voice and narrative lyrics.
THE EWAN BLEACH TRIO
Stalwart of the London jazz scene and National Treasure in the making - Ewan is a clarinettist, saxophonist, pianist and singer specialising in old-style jazz. He runs variety of regular jazz nights in London and recently celebrated the launch of his first studio album which has been garnering rave reviews. We are blessed to have Ewan’s outfit as our ‘house band’.
COLUMNIST
STEVE CROSS
Hosting, facilitating, and generally smoothing out proceedings is our Edition homemaker. Once upon a time he was a spectacularly poor lab scientist, then an OK science communicator and for a while a museum and art curator for Wellcome Collection. These days he’s a geek comedian, presenter and producer, travelling across the UK helping all sorts of intellectual types share their passions.
CROSSWORDS
SON & SONS
It wouldn’t be our 5th birthday without crosswords. Barely more coherent than toddlers themselves, our crossword gurus have been running the sillier side of Sunday for 5 years. Brush up on your charade skills for the live crossword challenges, but also pop down to their pub quiz and crafternoon crafts table full of crafty crafts.
THE WALK
THE SPACE WALK
Getting outside for a walk or a jog is a keystone ingredient to the perfect Sunday - and is the least likely to happen - but without it the couch isn’t quite as comfy.
Science writer, journalist & broadcaster MARCUS CHOWN will boggle your mind with a scaled walk across the solar system to the summit of Primrose Hill - stopping to learn about our cosmic neighbours along the way. Imagine Earth shrunk to the size of a pinhead, and Jupiter to the size of a chickpea. Now place them at their relative distances and take a walk. This is the only experience we can name where the true vastness of the cosmos has been revealed to us. Space, it turns out, is aptly named.
#16 EDITION
SUNDAY - SEPTEMBER 29, 2019
WORLD NEWS
ANDY ZALTZMAN
Andy is a stand-up comedian, broadcaster and author, who has firmly established himself in the vanguard of British comedy with his unique brand of political satire. He is the writer and presenter of the satirical podcast The Bugle, the huge global phenonemon. Since The Bugle’s inception in 2007 it has gained a worldwide fan-base – including a prominent US audience.
‘Probably one of the finest satirical comedians this country’s ever produced’ Time Out
UK NEWS
JAMES O'BRIEN
Kicking off with a conversation with Jolyon Rubinstein (The Revolution Will Be Televised), the incendiary LBC presenter will be hosting a line phone-in taking your ‘calls’ live from the sofas. “O'Brien is an exceptional broadcaster with a peerless ability to calmly point out the absurdity of certain viewpoints... provides a much-needed examination of the blustering rhetoric of politicians and media pundits." - The Guardian
STYLE
ROSE MCGOWAN
Rose is a writer, director, musician, entrepreneur, feminist whistle-blower, and agent of change who has led the fight to disrupt the status quo. Reading from her memoir Brave, this salon session hits on the sexualisation of image and identity, and the inherent sexism in the presentation of women.
GARDENING
MAGID MAGID
Born in Somalia, Magid came to the UK as a refugee and won his seat as an MEP campaigning on the message 'immigrants make Britain stronger'. Green Party MEP & Mayor of Sheffield, Magid's a black Muslim who wears green Doc Martins and anti-fascist T-shirts in a European parliament where 4% of the MEPs are black, Asian and minority ethnic. So he's blazing more than one trail. But that's how he likes it.
TRAVEL
JEANNE SOCRATES
Jeanne has just become the oldest person to sail around the world alone, non-stop, and unassisted. When the 77-year-old tells people what she has been doing for the past 11 months they call her “plucky”, “feisty” or “brave”. She doesn’t like those epithets. She prefers “crazy”.
SPORT
LADY VELO
Lady Vélo AKA Jools Walker re-discovered cycling aged twenty-eight and through her hugely popular blog VéloCityGirl inspires women and young girls around the world to get on the saddle and ride. Back in the Frame is her fantastic memoir of bikes, blogs and riding through depression.
CULTURE
NUALA HONAN
The Culture section is headlined by dynamo artist, Nuala Honan. With all the taught energy of a caged musical lioness, you can expect her usual charm and breathtaking voice, driven by post-punk rawness yet still, audaciously, featuring moments of operatic singing, leading her killer band in a pop-drama, exploring the strength in vulnerability and connection.
CHARLIE PARTRIDGE
Fresh from the Fringe with a special performance of his critically acclaimed show ‘I Can Make You Feel Good. By Comparison’. It’s a hearty dollop of absurdist comedy beatboxing and storytelling, from Charlie Partridge, “as seen in the supermarket and heard on the bus".
HEALTH
William Sieghart's Poetry Pharmacy
Bringing together tried-and-true prescriptions for the heart, mind and soul. William is the founder of National Poetry Day, the Forward Poetry Prize, the Big Arts Week, Bedtime Reading Week and co-founded StreetSmart: Action for the Homeless in 1998.
HOME
CATRINA DAVIES
Her book Why I Live In A Shed, is the story of a personal housing crisis and a country-wide one, grappling with class, economics, mental health and nature. It shows how housing can trap us or set us free, and what it means to feel at home.
COLUMNIST
STEVE CROSS
Hosting, facilitating, and generally smoothing out proceedings is our #12 edition homemaker. Once upon a time he was a spectacularly poor lab scientist, then an OK science communicator and for a while a museum and art curator for Wellcome Collection. These days he’s a geek comedian, presenter and producer, travelling across the UK helping all sorts of intellectual types share their passions.
CROSSWORDS
SON & SONS
It wouldn’t be our 5th birthday without crosswords. Barely more coherent than toddlers themselves, our crossword gurus have been running the sillier side of Sunday for 5 years. Brush up on your charade skills for the live crossword challenges, but also pop down to their pub quiz and crafternoon crafts table full of crafty crafts.
THE WALK
THE PILGRAMAGE WALK
Be inspired by award-winning editor and writer Clare Gogerty’s practical guide to modern pilgrimages, showing you how to walk in a way that enhances your connection to the world and to yourself.
#13 EDITION
SUNDAY - NOVEMBER 18, 2018
WORLD NEWS
ALAN RUSBRIDGER
The former Editor-in-Chief will be in conversation with journalist and broadcaster Hannah MacInnes, on the past, present and future of the press, and the forces menacing its freedom. How do we know any more what is true and what isn’t? As the editor of the Guardian, Rusbridger oversaw some of the most groundbreaking news stories in recent history, including the Edward Snowden NSA revelations, phone hacking and Wikileaks.
UK NEWS
State Of The Nation
Question Time meets Cafe Fighting. SOTN has become a flagship event at the Wilderness Festival and was a highlight of our #11 Edition. A collection of the events’ best speakers - comedians, politicians, refugees, radicals, writers - square off against topics tossed into the ring by the audience. Subjects in the past have ranged from Brexit to black holes. You call the shots, first to the mic gets a minute, unless they are tapped-out by a challenger. Hosted by BAFTA-winning satirists from Jolyon Rubinstein.
BUSINESS
DAVID GRAEBER
David is an author and professor of anthropology at the LSE and was a leading figure in the Occupy Wall Street movement. He is sometimes even credited with having coined the slogan, "we are the 99 percent". He will be interviewed by Renegade Inc’s Ross Ashcroft about bullshit jobs - the title and topic of his latest book.
CULTURE
Sofar Sounds Presents Sans Soucis
With an aim to bring the magic back to live music, Sofar have a reputation for invite-only secret shows in living rooms across London. This makes them ideal Culture Section partners for the giant living room that is Sunday Papers Live, and for this culture section they bring with them Sans Soucis for an evening of music and songwriting, exploring stories of purpose and belonging featuring Jonathan Moko on bass and Corrie Dick on drums.
LIFESTYLE
(or lack thereof)
Jessica Fostekew
Jess co-hosts the giant podcast 'The Guilty Feminist' as well as hosting her own, new, fast-rising one 'Hoovering'. She starred in BBC's 'Motherland' and BAFTA winning 'Three Girls' and Netflix's 'Cuckoo' as well as giant feature film 'Official Secrets’; and she writes for ‘8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown'
TRAVEL
MEGAN HINE & TRISHA ANDRES
Trisha Andres, The Daily Telegraph's Commissioning Editor for Travel talks to Megan Hine - the survival expert behind some of the most macho men on TV including Bear Grylls - on women, adventure and tough survival situations, from Mexico to Namibia.
STYLE
ANNA REYNOLDS
Anna Reynolds is Senior Curator of Paintings at the Royal Collection - the art collection of the British Royal Family and one of the largest and most important art collections in the world -responsible for the care and display of approximately 8,000 paintings across royal residences including Buckingham Palace, Hampton Court and Windsor Castle.
GARDENING
JONATHAN BARTLEY
Leader of the Green Party, Jonathan first joined the party after hitting headlines during the 2010 general election when he confronted David Cameron over his plans for disabled children. As a campaigner for social and environmental justice, Jonathan has championed disability rights, campaigned on the refugee crisis and called for an end to indefinite detention. After being re-elected as co-leader of the Green Party earlier this year, Jonathan has stood alongside grass roots activists across the country with their fights against fracking and High Speed 2, and wants to put the Green party on course to become the third party in Britain, building on this year’s local election success, and get a Green on every council in England and Wales.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
MARCUS CHOWN
Marcus is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, his books include The Ascent of Gravity, which was 2017 Sunday Times Science Book of the Year and Solar System for iPad, which won The Bookseller Digital Innovation of the Year. His latest book, published last month, is Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand: 50 Wonders that Reveal an Extraordinary Universe.
COLUMNIST
STEVE CROSS
Hosting, facilitating, and generally smoothing out proceedings is our #12 edition homemaker. Once upon a time he was a spectacularly poor lab scientist, then an OK science communicator and for a while a museum and art curator for Wellcome Collection. These days he’s a geek comedian, presenter and producer, travelling across the UK helping all sorts of intellectual types share their passions.
CROSSWORDS
SON & SONS
It wouldn’t be our 5th birthday without crosswords. Barely more coherent than toddlers themselves, our crossword gurus have been running the sillier side of Sunday for 5 years. Brush up on your charade skills for the live crossword challenges, but also pop down to their pub quiz and crafternoon crafts table full of crafty crafts.
THE WALK
THE EARTH WALK
In this walk, Saci Lloyd will teach you to hear like a deer, see like an owl and quit your inner city stride for something more ancient.
#12 EDITION
SUNDAY - APRIL 8, 2018
WORLD NEWS
JON SNOW
Jon has been the face of Channel 4 News since 1989 and has travelled the world to cover the news – from the fall of the Berlin Wall and the release of Nelson Mandela to Barack Obama's inauguration and the earthquake in Haiti. Jon was a highlight of our #2 Edition back in 2013, so it is a joy to welcome him back for more candid insights and an extended Q&A to help celebrate our fifth birthday.
UK NEWS
I SEE YOU...
Stand-up comedian Sam Gore's weekly I See You articles have been taking down celebrities and politicians with cutting, satirical, absurdist diatribes on Facebook since 2014. If you have not read them we suggest you look them up immediately. They are not just funny, they are damn insightful. Sam is bringing them out of the dark and onto the stage for a one-off highlights reel. If Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker hosted a verbal cage-fighting tournament the winner would be Sam.
STYLE
CHERRY HEALEY, ANNA 'MOTHER PUKKA'
& ZOE 'DRESS LIKE A MUM'
Is it as easy as it looks to create an online brand and/or business or is there swan-like hard work under the surface? The sartorial sage Zoe De Pass of Dress Like a Mum and campaigning powerhouse Anna Whitehouse of Mother Pukka talk to broadcaster and Cherry Healey about what's really behind the big, beautiful velvet curtain of curated social media and, if things aren’t quite what they seem, what can others learn from the reality of building a brand and business online.
CULTURE
REEPS ONE
A highlight of the #3 Edition, Reeps One's work is the product of a highly intimate, lifelong relationship with the human voice. The London-born musician and artist has been obsessively experimenting with innovative vocal practices alongside the creative representation of physics and sound since the age of 18. Yeff’s unique skills have seen him uncover new keys to cognitive efficiency and expand his phonetic vocabulary to new boundaries.
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RÍOGHNACH CONNOLLY
Our headliner Ríoghnach is best known as the voice of Honeyfeet & The Breath. For our #11 Edition she brought a gorgeous new project called Owl Dolls with multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Leonie Evans. Probably the best thing we have ever had at Sunday Papers. The audience demanded on the spot that she return to headline the next event. We agreed, and so that is
what is going to happen.
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RANDOLPH MATTHEWS
British jazz’s new hero will perform and converse on the transformational power of sound & music. Inspired by his belief that the power of voice can inspire lives. Randolph's performances span two decades. He has performed for the Queen and supported Herbie Hancock.
TRAVEL
HOLLY BUDGE
Artist, activist, adventurer - in 2008 she became the first woman to skydive Mount Everest. The following year, she raced semi-wild horses 1000 km across Mongolia in just 9 days. Her most recent adventures have taken her back to the Himalayas where she summited Everest and snowboarded from the summit of Mera Peak. Passionate about sustainability, design and conservation; last year Holly graduated with a Masters in Sustainable Design. Expect much food for thought amongst the jaw-dropping tales of adventure.
SPORT
IRONGRAN
The oldest British woman to have completed an Ironman triathlon, and founder of the charity Silverfit. At the age of 50, Eddie Brocklesby decided to run her first half marathon. Now nearly 75, the past twenty years has seen her take part in marathons, triathlons and Ironman races across the globe and she has accrued many medals and awards. Eddie looks back on her life and explains just how she's managed to develop the energy to match the enthusiasm she's always had for an active lifestyle.
BUSINESS
DARREN COFFIELD & ROSS ASHCROFT
In the early nineties, Coffield worked with Joshua Compston on the formation of Factual Nonsense - the centre of the emerging Young British Artists scene. Renegade Inc. host Ross Ashcroft interviews him about the silent London exodus. With exorbitant housing prices pushing people and small businesses out of the capital, and cultural landmarks being shut down to make way for luxury property developments, they ask: does anyone interesting live in London anymore?
FOOD & DRINK
ANDREW WONG & MUKTA DAS
The story of how ancient Chinese recipes discovered in the Forbidden City in Beijing ended up winning the first Michelin star for a Chinese restaurant in London. Former chemistry student-turned celebrity chef A. Wong joins food anthropologist Mukta Das to take us on a journey spanning thousands of years and thousands of miles.
GARDENING
ISABELLA TREE
Forced to accept that intensive farming on their land was unsustainable, she made a spectacular leap of faith and decided to step back and let nature take over. Isabella tells the story of the ‘Knepp experiment’ and what it reveals of the ways in which we might regain that wilder, richer country. It shows how rewilding works; that it has multiple benefits for the land; that it can generate economic activity and employment; how it can benefit both nature and us –and that all of this can happen astonishingly quickly.
REVIEW
DAN SCHREIBER
QI elf and star of the hit show No Such Thing As a Fish. Dan's career got a huge boost as the very first host of Sunday Papers Live in 2013. Dan's job is to discover random interesting facts and communicate them in fun ways - so he is very much our kind of chap. Dan's show just sold out the Sydney Opera House.
COLUMNIST
STEVE CROSS
Hosting, facilitating, and generally smoothing out proceedings is our #12 edition homemaker. Once upon a time he was a spectacularly poor lab scientist, then an OK science communicator and for a while a museum and art curator for Wellcome Collection. These days he’s a geek comedian, presenter and producer, travelling across the UK helping all sorts of intellectual types share their passions.
CROSSWORDS
SON & SONS
It wouldn’t be our 5th birthday without crosswords. Barely more coherent than toddlers themselves, our crossword gurus have been running the sillier side of Sunday for 5 years. Brush up on your charade skills for the live crossword challenges, but also pop down to their pub quiz and crafternoon crafts table full of crafty crafts.
THE WALK
THE BULLSHIT TOUR
For those who have not already caught these popular walks, Reuben from Bullshit London will be providing a walking tour of the environs surrounding Cecil Sharp House. You'll be bombarded with a combination of puns, quips, nonsense and rambling musings with no educational value whatsoever.
#11 EDITION
SUNDAY - SEPTEMBER 10, 2017
WORLD NEWS
THE WAR ON TRUTH AND HOW TO FIGHT BACK
Two titans of UK journalism and one rising star explored the new war on truth - and how to fight back. Matthew d'Ancona writes a weekly column for the Guardian and is the author of Post Truth. David Aaranovitch is a regular columnist for The Times, and author of lots of books. Matilda Wnek is a playwrite, comedy performer and campaigner.
UK NEWS
GEOFF NORCOTT & SHAPPI KHORSANDI
Two of our finest stand-up comedians – one veering left and the other right – took on the state of the nation. Aside from being one of the most in demand stand-up comedians in the UK, Shappi Khorsandi is President of the British Humanist Association, and is a sought after cultural commentator appearing on all the channels and in all the papers. Geoff is one of the most in demand live comics and TV writers around.
BUSINESS
WHAT YOU'RE NOT BEING TOLD
ABOUT THE ECONOMY
Renegade Inc. host Ross Ashcroft talked with Prof Steve Keen - the economist who perfectly predicted the financial crisis. They discussed where next for the global economy and what the ‘dismal science’ now has to do to become relevant on the tenth anniversary of the financial crisis and the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Marx’s Das Capital.
CULTURE
OWL DOLLS
Ríoghnach Connolly & Leonie Evans
Our headliner Ríoghnach is best known as the voice of Honeyfeet & The Breath, and for her Manchester-based Black Lung, where she brings a medley of collaborators together for one-off shows. Of all her many collaborations, the most Sunday of all is probably a gorgeous new project called Owl Dolls with multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and occasional session vocalist Leonie Evans, who has been performing since the age of five and has never stopped - and of whom the high priestess of Sundays Cerys Matthews observed "Like nothing else I've ever heard in my life, I was just blown away with her". Probably the best thing we have ever had at Sunday Papers.
SAM LEE
Mercury Prize nominated folk singer, song collector, award winning promoter, broadcaster, animateur and naturalist. Sam is the natural heir to Cecil Sharp’s legacy, and sang us a few of the songs that form the inspiration to his life’s work. Back in May 2013 at the very first Sunday Papers Live Sam, performed this to a spellbound house. You could have heard a pin drop. It was a total joy to have him back in the room.
TRAVEL
ANNA MCNUFF, LOIS PRYCE, PIP STEWART,
WITH TRISHA ANDRES
The Telegraph travel's commissioning editor Trisha Andres gathered a panel of remarkable female adventurers to discuss their extraordinary achievements, the do's & don'ts of travelling solo, and the state of adventurism now.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
ADAM RUTHERFORD
Geneticist, author, Hollywood science advisor, radio star, TV presenter, former Editor of Nature. Adam is someone we have been trying to nail down since we began, so it was a great pleasure to finally bring his brain to the stage for your pleasure.
STYLE
APPLES & SNAKES
Celebrating 35 years, the leading organisation for performance poetry brought three of the UKs finest - Travis Alabanza, Tommy Sissons, and Anita Barton-Williams - to explore all things image, fashion and fitting-in.
FOOD & DRINK
LOUISE GRAY
The Ethical Carnivore
Inspired by middle class dinner parties where everyone claims to eat ethically, Louise set out to find exactly where our meat comes from, spending a year eating only animals that she had killed herself. A fascinating journey, and apt for a room packed with more than its fair share of middle-class dinner party-goers.
PEOPLE
Madam Galina - My Tutu Went AWOL!
When you audition by accident and take your cross-dressing ballerina act to entertain the troops in Iraq & Afghanistan. As Madame Galina, Iestyn Edwards headlines at the Barbican, Royal Opera House Clore Studio, Cafe de Paris, the Hippodrome Leicester Square, et al. He tours internationally in My Tutu's Gone AWOL! and in his prize-winning autobiographical play The Ballad of the Pant Shaking Belter. He has been published in The Times and the Mail on Sunday. Joanna Lumley chose his recording of “Tom Bowling” for her second Desert Island Discs programme.
JOBS
NIMROD KAMER
The Art Of Getting In
In an economy is stacked against us you will not land a job unless you become completely shameless. The GQ & VICE writer and impressively named Nimrod Kamer led us on a guide to the art of getting a foot in that door. For instance, pretend to owe money to posh members clubs in order to get in. Walk in backwards to penetrate parties. Eat only PR gift bags. Fake a TED talk. Move in new-builds sample flats. Better ask for forgiveness than permission. God is debt. This and plenty more crucial social climbing tips.
GARDENING
MARTHA ORBACH GARDENS FOR CITIES
What sort of gardens do our cities need? Artist and community gardener Martha Orbach discussed how we can best make places that work for plants, communities, wildlife, and people in our increasingly urban environment.
THE WALK
SPACE WALK WITH MARCUS CHOWN
Science writer, journalist & broadcaster Marcus Chown will boggle your mind with a scaled walk across the solar system to the summit of Primrose Hill - stopping to learn about our cosmic neighbours along the way. Imagine Earth shrunk to the size of a pinhead, and Jupiter to the size of a chickpea. Now place them at their relative distances and take a walk. This is the only experience we can name where the true vastness of the cosmos has been revealed to us. And it turns out that space is aptly named.
SPECIAL EDITION - WILDERNESS FESTIVAL
SUNDAY - AUGUST 6, 2017
WORLD NEWS
FRONTLINE CLUB PRESENT
GENERATION M
What does it mean to be young and Muslim today? There is a segment of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims that is more influential than any other, and will inform not just the future for Muslims, but also shape the world around them: meet ‘Generation M’.
UK NEWS
VICE UK PRESENT
THE GENDER DRUG DIVIDE
Last year, The Global Drug Survey revealed there had been a fourfold increase in British female clubbers seeking emergency medical treatment after taking MDMA. So what’s behind this divide, and what more needs to be done to address the problems at hand? VICE brings together an all-female panel of harm reduction experts to discuss the issues facing female drug users, and what can be done to improve the situation.
STYLE
WHAT MAKES A REAL WOMAN?
It’s one of the most vicious debates of our time, which has ripped the feminist community apart and deeply divided society—what is it that makes a woman, a woman? With Sarah Ditum - New Statesman columnist, writer and self-proclaimed “anti-fun feminist”. Katie Glass - Sunday Times columnist and writer. Jess Bradley - The NUS’s Trans Officer. Hosted by Serena Kutchinsky.
FOOD & DRINK
OTTOLENGHI IN CONVERSATION
WITH ZOE WILLIAMS
Hot & fresh out the kitchen, a conversation with one of Wilderness' star chefs, by one of our star interviewers.
CULTURE
TATE BRITAIN PRESENTS
QUEER BRITISH ART & IDENTITY
Clare Barlow, curator at Tate Britain will be joined by performer Tim Redfern, artist Nick Hornby and activist Paris Lees to discuss the diverse connections between sexuality, gender identity and art to uncover a past which is richer and stranger than you might think.
TRAVEL
JOHN HUDSON
John Hudson is the UK military’s chief survival instructor - designing and implementing the training of instructors in Land, Sea and Extreme Environment Survival. A co-founder of Survival Wisdom, offering specialist survival courses to civilians, he has trained a wide range of people in how to handle life-threatening situations, from fighter pilots and paratroopers, to investment bankers and A-listers.
REVIEW
THE IDLER ACADEMY'S
PHILOSOPHER'S NEWS REVIEW
Come and meet the Idler's philosophers in togas. You’ll find Socrates, Plato, Epicurus, and Zeno the Stoic commenting on the Sunday papers. Wearing the weeds will be authors Mark Vernon, Jules Evans and Peter Worley, and Idler editor Tom Hodgkinson.
SPECIAL EDITION - CITADEL FESTIVAL
SUNDAY - JULY 16, 2017
WORLD NEWS
FRONTLINE CLUB
LINDSEY HILSUM
Jamie Bartlett is Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think tank Demos, an author specialising in radical and extremist political movements and technology, and was in conversation with Salon London's Helen Bagnall about his research in to his latest book 'Radicals'.
An extended Q&A with one of our finest journalists. Lindsey spoke about her extensive experience of covering foreign news and what is different when reporting from home. Lindsey Hilsum is Channel 4 News' International Editor and the author of Sandstorm - Libya in the Time of Revolution. She recently reported from the US on the election of Donald Trump and from Europe on the refugee/migrant crisis and terror attacks, as well as conflicts in Syria, Ukraine and Mali.
UK NEWS
STAND-UP SPECIAL
SHAPPI KHORSANDI
Aside from being one of the most in demand stand-up comedians in the UK, Shappi is a sought after cultural commentator. Shappi is also the best selling author of A Beginners Guide to Acting English and her debut novel Nina is not OK is published by Ebury in July 2016. Shappi was also recently elected president of the British Humanist society.
MATT FORDE
Matt Forde is the UK’s leading political comedian and star of Dave’s Unspun which has been nominated for Best Entertainment Programme at the 2017 Broadcast Awards. A former advisor to the Labour Party, Matt Forde has hosted three series of Unspun on Dave, with a fourth commissioned for later this year.
GEOFF NORCOTT
Geoff Norcott is quite simply one of the most in demand live comics and TV writers around. You may have seen Geoff live, headlining shows at The Comedy Store, supporting the likes of Katherine Ryan and Kevin Bridges – or even earning an operational services medal for his work gigging on the frontline in Afghanistan.
DANE BAPTISTE
Original, provocative and exceptionally prolific – Baptiste is already being hailed as one of the most exciting acts to break in years. The London born stand up made comedy history in 2014 as the first black British act to be nominated for a Fosters Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
ANDY ZALTZMAN
Andy Zaltzman is a stand-up comedian, broadcaster and author, who has firmly established himself in the vanguard of British comedy with his unique brand of political satire. He is the writer and presenter of the satirical podcast The Bugle, the huge global phenonemon. Since The Bugle’s inception in 2007 it has gained a worldwide fan-base – including a prominent US audience. It has aired almost 200 episodes and averages 2 million downloads a month.
BUSINESS
APPLES & SNAKES
Apples and Snakes is the leading organisation for performance poetry in England, with a national reputation for producing exciting and innovative participation and performance work in spoken word. Tackling money, power, inequality and the hustle, were Deanna Rodger, Mr Gee & SugarJ.
SPORT
AMY HUGHES
Just eight years ago, she’d never run a marathon before. After successfully completing her 53 challenge, Amy ran 250 miles in one week from her home town of Oswestry to London, so she could help Blue Peter presenter Lindsey Russell to run her own first London Marathon. Then in August 2015, Amy ran an incredible 53 miles in 10 hours 18 minutes to mark the first anniversary of her 53 challenge.
CULTURE
SOFAR SOUNDS PRESENT
HOOHAs
For the first time ever we invited a band straight back again, because they were that awesome.... Residing in the lesser-trodden crannies of north-east London, freak-rock four-piece HOO HAs draw as much inspiration from Dr Feelgood and JJ Cale as they do Blur, Violent Femmes and JaJa OK. HOO HAs formed when Kent friends Mark (guitar) and Jack (bass) relocated to the capital after stints performing with Liz Neumayr and John Newman respectively. Mark then met Adam (drums) when they both played in Hares, a band formed by ex-Holloways man Rob Skipper, through whom they then discovered singer Jamie at a party (where else?).
ENVIRONMENT
JO RUXTON
PLASTIC OCEAN
Ruxton is both a film producer and a co-founder of the environmental organization based in the UK known as the Plastic Ocean Foundation. She joined the BBC Natural History Unit in 1997 after working for the World Wildlife Fund in Asia for seven years, and was part of the celebrated “The Blue Planet” team. After leaving the BBC, Ruxton joined an expedition to the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the North Pacific Gyre 1,500 miles off the coast of San Francisco, which discovered free-floating microplastics instead of an anticipated solid mass that could be contained. She then began fundraising to film a documentary focused on the problem of plastic.
TRAVEL
DAVE CORNTHWAITE
Record-breaking adventurer, author, social projecteer (it is a word) and maker of little films. Since quitting his last job as a terrible graphic designer in 2005, Dave has written three books, created hundreds of short films, delivered hundreds of lectures worldwide, travelled over 20,000 non-motorised miles as part of his Expedition1000 project, founded life-fulfilling brand SayYesMore and, finally, has made up for being a total loser in his early twenties.
#10 EDITION
EASTER SUNDAY - APRIL 16, 2017
WORLD NEWS
RADICALS – JAMIE BARTLETT
IN CONVERSATION WITH SALON LONDON
Jamie Bartlett is Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think tank Demos, an author specialising in radical and extremist political movements and technology, and was in conversation with Salon London's Helen Bagnall about his research in to his latest book 'Radicals'.
UK NEWS
STATE OF THE NATION
BAFTA-winning satirists Jolyon Rubinstein & Heydon Prowse were joined by legendary journo John Sweeney, Buzzfeed editor James Ball, Somali social activist Nimco Ali, writer and filmmaker Oz Katerji, and a selection of the days’ best speakers. Question Time meets Cage-fighting as our eclectic panel of comedians, radicals and writers ring the stage and square-off against topics tossed into the ring by the audience.
LOCAL NEWS
ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH
THE MEANING OF TRUMP
Taking on the Donald followed by a one hour Philosophy Walk to the top of Primrose Hill was the wonderful RR Smith. Robert was for seven years a Prize Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and is a consultant, lecturer and writer on philosophy, literature and psychoanalysis
BUSINESS
GIG : FREEDOM OR FALSE HOPE
Has the revolution in work made fools of us all? With former Special Assistant to the President of the United States for Economic Policy Pippa Malmgren; economist, blogger and activist Dr Faiza Shaheen; and writer, strategist and former digital editor for Newsweek and the New Statesman Serena Kutchinsky.
TRAVEL
BRUCE PARRY
Award-winning documentarian, author, indigenous rights advocate, explorer, trek leader and former Royal Marines commando officer. Bruce is best known for his BBC series Tribe. Bruce has been busy. For the past four years he has been on an exploration to find a deeper understanding of indigenous peoples and how their way of life can benefit those in the industrialised world - providing a powerful voice that must be heard before it is completely lost. Now he has come back to us, we were extremely lucky to be the first live audience with an opportunity to hear about it.
DAVE CORNTHWAITE
Record-breaking adventurer, author, social projecteer (it is a word) and maker of little films. Since quitting his last job as a terrible graphic designer in 2005, Dave has written three books, created hundreds of short films, delivered hundreds of lectures worldwide, travelled over 20,000 non-motorised miles as part of his Expedition1000 project, founded life-fulfilling brand SayYesMore and, finally, has made up for being a total loser in his early twenties.
CULTURE
SOFAR SOUNDS PRESENTS HOOHAs
HOO HAs swiftly evolved from their early incarnation as purveyors of comical blues jams, developing a distinct, and earthy style. Jamie’s deadpan vocal belies his clever off-kilter narratives about the 21st-century experience, which are always brutally honest and entertaining. The perfect end to a perfect Easter.
SPORT
SARAH SHEPHARD
At a time when women in sport are fighting for equality with more vigour than ever, Sport magazine’s Sarah Shephard asked the questions that can no longer be ignored: Why do the most successful female athletes earn less than their male counterparts? Why do so few elite sportswomen have the profile their talent deserves? Why are girls still growing up believing that sport is ‘for boys’?
GARDENING
FUTURE FARM LAB
Twentysomething scientist Abi felt she was creating something necessary for a sustainable food future. But as she began to get their hands dirty, slowly she has been exposed to a world that is turning hers upside down. Maybe we don’t need to produce more food to feed our growing population. Maybe we can feed the world chemical free. And maybe some of our technology is doing more harm than good. A fantastic and hopeful talk from a fantastic young doer.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
MARCUS CHOWN
Award-winning writer Marcus Chown took us on an unforgettable journey from the recognition of the ‘force’ of gravity in 1666 to the discovery of gravitational waves in 2015. And, as we stand on the brink of a seismic revolution in our worldview, he brought us up to speed on the greatest challenge ever to confront physics.
DATING
DR SEEMA ANAND
From epic legends to folklore, Asian stories are subtly soaked in lust and desire. Professional Indian storyteller Seema Anand drew back the curtains of this hidden world in a lyrical tale of love, entanglements and magic. Seema is a London based mythologist, storyteller, and doctor of Narrative Practices specialising in women's narratives. Her work on the revival and reproduction of oral literature from India is associated to the UNESCO project for Endangered Oral Traditions.
COLUMNIST
STEVE CROSS
Hosting, facilitating, and generally smoothing out proceedings is our #10 edition homemaker. A veteran of our festival special editions, by some strange accident Steve has never had the pleasure of taking the reigns of the main event. Once upon a time he was a spectacularly poor lab scientist, then an OK science communicator and for a while a museum and art curator for Wellcome Collection. These days he’s a geek comedian, presenter and producer, travelling across the UK helping all sorts of intellectual types share their passions.
#9 EDITION
SUNDAY - OCTOBER 30, 2016
WORLD NEWS
Presented by THE NEW STATESMAN
Trump vs Clinton: The Race for the White House
With just one week to go in one of the most contentious US presidential races in recent history, Britain's foremost political magazine discuss all things Trump, Clinton and the campaign trail. Joining Digital Editor Serena Kutchinsky are presidential advisor Pippa Malmgren and chair of Republicans Overseas Jan Halper-Hayes.
UK NEWS
Nothing is impossible :
Winning from the left in 2020
A crack team of attempt discover a third way of doing progressive politics that can actually win a general election in a mass interactive workshop hosted by the RSA’s Matthew Taylor. The team include:
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John Harris (Anywhere But Westminster),
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John Lloyd (QI, Blackadder),
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Zoe Williams (The Guardian)
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Matilda Wnek (activist & comedian)
BUSINESS
THE ECONOMIST FILMS PRESENTS
“THE WORLD IF…”
World-renowned publication The Economist brings its global expertise to SPL for the first time to explore mind-stretching scenarios that will change the world – if they actually happen. Led by the paper's Deputy Editor Tom Standage, a panel of experts debate and discuss how we're all likely to fare 'if all jobs become automated', and 'the world if the banks collapse, again! Featuring:
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Kevin Rodgers - Merrill Lynch trader turned managing director of Deutsche Bank (for 15 years)
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Professor Luciano Floridi - Director of Research and Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at Oxford’s Internet Institute
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Professor Carol Alexander - professor of finance at Sussex and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Banking and Finance
STYLE
SCOTTTEE
Scottee is one of the most controversial entertainers on the circuit, known for provoking visceral responses in his audiences and polarising critics – whether hurling cake at Rihanna on live TV, or facing investigation for indecency during his show ‘Mess’, it’s clear that Scottee has a style anchored in the more experimental end of performance art. It is rare for Scottee to do this sort of thing. Except for a month or so ago where we asked him to do an event that was actually very similar. What started as a lighthearted story, escalated into one of the most powerful, heartfelt and compelling pieces of prose we have seen.
CULTURE
SOFAR SOUNDS PRESENTS WOWH
Awesome poppy R&B-inflected good-times from Toby & Nick, who wanted to create something which reflected their passion for songwriting, production and performance - that really comes through in their live performances, in which they’ve enlisted the help of six other musicians to keep the sound live! With an aim to bring the magic back to live music, Sofar have a reputation for invite-only secret shows in living rooms across London. This makes them ideal Culture Section partners for the giant living room that is Sunday Papers Live.
DIANA YUKAWA
The infamous Saturday night spectacle at Wilderness Festival was led to the tones of Diana’s playing, illuminated in a neon ballgown, underneath a high-rope walker, who was on fire. Quite a memorable performance. She was also a guest performer at Letters Live last month, where we hatched plans to bring her here today. And you will be glad that we did.
GARDENING
MAC MACARTNEY
What does it mean to really belong to an ecosystem? Mac braids beauty, wildness, activism and the yearning pulse all humans have for a meaningful life, into a compelling narrative. It is a call, a paean, a heart-song, to the many millions of us who still stand on the sidelines and passively watch as our blue planet is slowly, systematically, and meticulously tamed, caged, and broken. Clever, we undoubtedly are, but wise we are not. Not yet.
Mac is an entrepreneur, speaker and the founder of Embercombe, a social enterprise on a Devon smallholding that seeks to inspire committed action for a truly sustainable world. Over a period of twenty years Mac has been mentored and coached by Native American 'Medicine' people on the cultural and spiritual teachings that once informed the practice of our own British indigenous culture. The values, principles, and wisdom of this tradition inform and guide all aspects of his life and work.
TRAVEL
SARAH OUTEN
Adventurer Sarah Outen finished her latest journey 'London2London: Via the World' when she paddled under Tower Bridge in her kayak. She had set out from the same spot on April 1st 2011 with the aim of looping the planet using human power - kayak, cycle and row 25,000 miles around the Northern Hemisphere. The journey took 4.5 years and was all the richer for not turning out exactly as had been planned. Sarah’s latest book 'Dare to Do' about her London2London expedition will be out this month.
FOOD & DRINK
JON LEWIN
We heard about and then met Jon on Wednesday, and very much like what he’s up to. For most people, the Boxing Day Tsunami has become so interwoven with other distant global events that it has become just another disaster. For Jon it was the most memorable event of his life. “How the waves struck. The kindness and warmth of the locals in the aftermath. These will always remain vividly engraved on my mind.”
COLUMNIST
STEVE CROSS
Hosting, facilitating, and generally smoothing out proceedings is our #9 edition homemakers. A veteran of our festival special editions, by some strange accident Steve has never had the pleasure of taking the reigns of the main event. Once upon a time he was a spectacularly poor lab scientist, then an OK science communicator and for a while a museum and art curator for Wellcome Collection. These days he’s a geek comedian, presenter and producer, travelling across the UK helping all sorts of intellectual types share their passions.
SPECIAL EDITION - WILDERNESS FESTIVAL
SUNDAY - AUGUST 7, 2016
WORLD NEWS
Presented by FRONTLINE CLUB
Trump vs Clinton: The Race for the White House
With just three months to go in one of the most contentious US presidential races in recent history, the Frontline Club will be discussing all things Trump, Clinton and the campaign trail. The New York Times’ Steven Erlanger, journalist Michael Goldfarb, and Chatham House’s Xenia Wickett, will ask who will be the future president of America.
UK NEWS
VICE UK
As the dust settled on the referendum result much finger pointing ensued at the entitlement of millennials, but new research suggests that turnout amongst the 18-24 year old demographic was 64%. And yet, the myth that young people are not bothered by politics has slowly seeped into popular thought. VICE UK Editor in Chief Rebecca Nicholson is joined by Jamie MacColl, guitarist in Bombay Bicycle Club and a prolific voice in the "Wake Up and Vote" campaign, and comedian and performer Matilda Wnek, to explore how this myth has been allowed to perpetuate in the media and the problems it can present.
TRAVEL
SIMON REEVE
Simon Reeve is an adventurer, New York Times bestselling author and TV presenter who has travelled to more than 110 countries making multiple award-winning TV series. The BBC describes Simon as “British television’s most adventurous traveller”, and after a decade spent making more than 70 programmes Simon has become a familiar face on British TV, well known for his extraordinary foreign journeys. Most of Simon’s documentaries combine travel and adventure with global environmental, wildlife, and conservation issues, and have taken him across jungles, deserts, mountains and oceans, and to some of the most beautiful, dangerous and remote regions of the world.
GARDENING
ALYS FOWLER
Bestselling author, Guardian columnist and former presenter on BBC’s Gardener’s World, Alys’ first book, The Thrifty Gardener, has sold over 100,000 copies and has been translated into 5 languages. Alys always takes a fresh perspective of foraging, encouraging gardeners to look closer to home, from the weeds in their garden to the trees in their streets, rather than the fields and hedgerows of the countryside.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
SIR MARTIN REES, ASTRONOMER ROYAL
Surviving The Century — and the Post-human Future Beyond… A growing and more demanding population imposes an ever heavier footprint on the planet. Bio and cyber technologies offer huge benefit — but may run away faster than we can cope with them. So we’ll have a bumpy ride through this century. “Space-ship Earth” is hurtling through the void. Its passengers are anxious and fractious. Their life-support system is vulnerable to disruption and break-downs.
CULTURE
THE V&A : REVOLUTIONS, RECORDS & REBELS
The Victoria and Albert Museum bring discussions of this major exhibition examining the late 1960s as a moment when youth culture drove an optimistic idealism, and motivated people to come together to question the established power structures across every area of society. Discussions will investigate the cultural upheavals and the changes within the law that took place during those five revolutionary years.
BEATING HEART : A STORY OF AFRICAN MUSIC
65 Years in the making, 21 internationals artists including…. Rudimental, Machinedrum, Clap Clap, Luke Vibert, Throwing Shade, Ibibio Sound Mchine and many more give time for free to remix never heard before African music.
STYLE
NADFAS PRESENT Dr Kate Strasdin:
Tales From the Dress Museum
Clothes matter and from a single silk frock we might learn about manufacturing processes, methods of construction, working conditions, lifestyles and social customs if we can but learn to read all that clothes might say. Tales From the Dress Museum tells the stories of people’s lives through dress – looking at past garments and how they can give up their secrets.
COLUMNIST
STEVE CROSS
Picking up the mantle of Sunday Papers Live host for his second Wilderness, the stand-up and Bright Club host ties the day together like a pro.
SPECIAL EDITION - CITADEL FESTIVAL
SUNDAY - JULY 17, 2016
WORLD NEWS
Presented by PEN INTERNATIONAL
We were honoured to bring some of the most courageous voices from the Syrian struggle to Citadel. We were joined by Mazen Darwish, director of the Syrian Centre for Media and Free Expression and winner of the PEN Pinter Prize 2014, the activist and journalist Yara Bader, and writer and artist Zaher Omareen for a discussion on free speech, culture and resistance with the BBC’s Razia Iqbal.
HELP REFUGEES
Help Refugees has grown out of #helpcalais, a social media campaign started by Heydon Prowse (The Revolution will be Televised) to raise a few funds and collect goods to take to Calais to help in some small way. The public response to the campaign was huge, and they were quickly able to provide aid in Calais and far beyond. Heydon was joined by Hassan Akkad.
UK NEWS
FRONTLINE CLUB
What are the short and long term outlooks for the UK under new leadership, and how will its national identity and place in the global economy be reimagined moving forward? Will Brexit trigger a domino effect throughout the bloc, encouraging other nations to re- examine their membership of the EU? To what extent has the British media influenced or merely reflected national sentiment? Join us to discuss these questions and more. On the panel we had Joris Luyendijk, Nina Schick, Sam Coates, deputy political editor of The Times, and others.
BUSINESS
AKALA
MC, scriptwriter, actor and all round brilliant human Akala has been talking and walking the line for some time now, and this was his second appearance for Sunday Papers Live - at our #6 edition back in 2014 he touched on poverty, creativity, London gentri cation, tax, and spoke wisely and passionately about immigration, free market economics and the IMF, hence his appearance here for the business section.
SPORT
EDDIE THE EAGLE
As true a living legend as they come. Sunday Papers Live is blushed with pride to welcome Eddie The Eagle to Citadel. Odds at the 1988 Winter Olympics were stacked against him. He weighed 9kg more than the next heaviest competitor; he lacked nancial upport for training and was totally self-funded; he was scared of heights; and he needed to wear his glasses. Despite little skill for his sport, Eddie’s heroic failures won the hearts and minds of the public, and he remains one of the best loved athletes today.
EDDIE WAS JOINED BY COMEDIAN AND HOST CHARLIE PARTRIDGE.
STYLE
i-D PANEL : DO SUBCULTURES STILL EXIST?
i-D’s Deputy Editor Lynette Nylander hosted a panel that included cultural photographer Derek Ridgers, DJ, journalist and grime activist Sian Anderson, fashion designer Charles Jeffrey and photographer and director Dexter Navy to explore whether true subcultures still exist and what signi cance these movements, if any, hold in popular culture today.
CULTURE
SOFAR SOUNDS PRESENT WOWH
For Citadel, Sofar brought one of their most trusted acts – the alternative pop project WOWH. Started by two friends in 2012 based on collaboration and creativity, Toby & Nick wanted to create something which re ected and included their favourite aspects of music. Their passion for songwriting, production and performance really comes through on the E.P and carries through into their live performance in which they’ve enlisted the help of six other musicians to keep the sound live.
TRAVEL
JOHN HUDSON
John is the UK military’s chief survival instructor – designing and implementing the training of instructors in Land, Sea and Extreme Environment Survival. A co-founder of Survival Wisdom, offering specialist survival courses to civilians, he has trained a wide range of people in how to handle life-threatening situations, from ghter pilots and paratroopers, to investment bankers and A-listers.
#7 EDITION
BANK HOLIDAY SUNDAY - MAY 29, 2016
WORLD NEWS
Presented by FRONTLINE CLUB
LINDSEY HILSUM
(Channel 4 News International Editor)
PATRICK KINGSLEY
(Guardian migration correspondent)
GILES DULEY (Photojournalist)
Europe is experiencing a wave of migration not seen since the end of World War II. Forced out of their homes by terror and war in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, pulled to Europe by the prospect of a better life, huge numbers are risking everything in perilous journeys across land and sea. The Guardian's migration correspondent Patrick Kingsley and photographer Giles Duley, have been documenting these journeys and speaking to the people that undertake them. For the Frontline Club’s World News section they will be sharing the human stories behind Europe’s refugee crisis, in a discussion chaired by Channel 4 News’ international editor, Lindsey Hilsum.
HELP REFUGEES
Help Refugees has grown out of #helpcalais, a social media campaign started by Lliana Bird (Radio X DJ), Dawn O'Porter (Writer and Presenter), Josie Naughton and Heydon Prowse (The Revolution will be Televised) to raise a few funds and collect goods to take to Calais to help in some small way. The public response to the campaign was huge, and they were quickly able to provide aid in Calais and far beyond. Lliana is joined by Hassan Akkad.
UK NEWS
SERENA KUTCHINSKY - NEWSWEEK
REBECCA NICHOLSON - VICE UK
ANDY ZALTZMAN - THE BUGLE
Three expert voices from the new, the established, and the satirical news worlds, shine a light on the tangled way in which the referendum has been covered, and try to give us something to work with. It is the intention of this newspaper that by the end of today you will have made up your mind. Newsweek’s digital editor Serena Kutchinsky chairs a discussion with editor-in-chief of VICE UK Rebecca Nicholson, and John Oliver’s writing partner, the comedian Andy Zaltzman from The Bugle.
BUSINESS
ROSS ASHCROFT & VICKY PRYCE
If we leave Europe the UK will face a downturn hitherto unseen... If we remain we’ll be dragged down with a sinking ship. The uncertainty is matched only by the hyperbole in a debate that gets more contradictory by the day. The business section brings together two former bigwigs in an extended Q&A to see whether between us we can iron out a legible argument.
Stepping in for Vince Cable was Ross Ashcroft - Renegade Economistm, filmmaker and journalist. He was joined by Serena Kutchinsky, and Vicky Pryce - the former Joint Head of the Government Economic Service, and author of Prisonomics.
SPORT
DAVID GOLDBLATT
Sports writer, broadcaster, sociologist, journalist, author. David is best known for his books The Ball is Round, and The Game Of Our Lives, and has a canny way of making even the most dubious of us grasp the power and the ecstasy of a truly global phenomenon. He has written for newspapers including the Guardian, the Observer, the Financial Times, and The Independent on Sunday, as well as for magazines such as the New Statesman and the New Left Review. He has also taught the sociology of sport at the University of Bristol and has run literacy programmes at both Bristol City and Bristol Rovers football clubs, as well as teaching sport, film, and media at the Watershed arts cinema, also in Bristol.
GARDENING
JAMES RANDERSON
James Randerson is assistant national news editor. He has particular responsibility for environment, science and technology news. He was previously the paper's science correspondent. James was stepping in for Satish Kumar, who was in ill health. James was at the forefront of the Guardian's Keep It In The Ground campaign, and at Sunday Papers Live spoke about the good news coming from an often depressing story - the climate crisis and our efforts to stop from completely buggering the world forever. We are on track to be in with a chance. The situation is not hopeless.
TRAVEL
TIM FITZHIGHAM
In addition to being a writer, comedian and artist, Tim also holds several world records for unusual feats including paddling a paper boat down 160 miles of the River Thames and personally inflating the world’s largest balloon to raise awareness for environmental issues. Tim’s second attempt to cross the English channel in his bath raised over 20,000 pounds for Comic Relief and the Make Poverty History Campaign. The Bath now resides in the Maritime Museum of Great Britain.
CULTURE
THE BUFFALO SKINNERS
Bringing the noise are a songwriting collective based in Sheffield whose music stems from a shared passion for writing, singing, and serving the song. The band draw influence from 60’s Rock n Roll, Folk, Blues and whatever else they’ve been listening to recently. Foot-stomping, jubilant, rootsy and gorgeous. A massive highlight of the #7 Edition, the band started a pillow fight, and were press ganged into returning for three encores. If you missed them at Sunday Papers Live be sure to catch them at Wilderness this summer.
LETTERS
CHILL PILL
Fast becoming Sunday Papers Live’s house poets, Mr Gee, Adam Kammerling, Deanna Rodger, Raymond Antrobus and Simon Mole provided a bespoke personalised letter-writing service - as well as taking to the stage to present brand new spoken word creations based on this week’s news stories.
SPECIAL EDITION - WILDERNESS - AUGUST 9, 2015
WORLD NEWS
FRONTLINE CLUB
The Frontline returns with a selection of journalists hot from the coal-face of current affairs, including senior foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times, Anthony Loyd. Last year the panel had all flown in fresh from covering the war in Gaza. This year, representing the World News section of Sunday Papers Live, the story they will be discussing hasn’t happened yet.
UK NEWS
ZOE WILLIAMS &
DAVID BABBS
Author & Guardian columnist discusses the future of people power in the UK with 38 Degrees’ chief executive. Zoe will address key questions including: has the NHS had its day; has an immigrant stolen your job; have you ever wondered why you can’t afford a house; and who got us into this mess anyway? With luck, and a little help from the audience, will offer up a combination of fact, opinion and debate that will be as inspiring as it is important.
BUSINESS
THE PATH PAST GROWTH
Is everything we think we know about economics wrong? An all star panel discusses possible paths to a fairer world.
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John Lanchester (Capital, Whoops!, How to Speak Money),
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Katrine Marcel (journalist & author),
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Fran Baoit (Positive Money),
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Tony Greenham (New Economics Foundation),
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Megan Ashcroft (Renegade Economist), hosted by Zoe Williams.
CULTURE
PATCH & THE GIANT
DIY alt-folk jubilance bringing us to our feet with a celebratory antidote to an afternoon of chin-wagging. ‘Tucked somewhere between the music of Balkan enthusiasts Beirut and the rustic elegance of modern DIY folk' (Folk Radio UK)...Patch & The Giant are a dynamic troupe of musicians and an ever growing force within the UK alt-folk scene.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
SEX, DRUGS & ROCK N' ROLL
Zoe Cormier examines the science behind of the unholy trinity. As a journalist her written work has featured in The Times, Vice, Wired, Nature, New Scientist, The Guardian, BBC Focus and many other publications. As a broadcaster and public speaker she has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Start The Week, national television in Canada, and spoken live at music festivals, arts events and a wide variety of theatrical performances for a decade.
CARTOONISTS
DRAWING FIRE
Cartoonists Tayo (Nigeria) and Dave Brown (the Independent) step into the ring to face heavyweights including David Aaronovitch for a free speech fight club courtesy of Index on Censorship: should anything should be off limits for cartoonists?
TRAVEL
WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T RUN!
For two years Richard Madden and his wife, Sarah, filed a multi-media column for the Daily Telegraph - The Bush Telegraph - from safari camps all over Southern and Eastern Africa taking in South Africa, Tanzania, Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya and Madagascar. Focussing on the lighter side of their experiences (and some unseen footage not deemed suitable for the Telegraph audience), Richard will also tackle conservation issues and the role tourists can play in combating poaching.
GARDENING
MICHAEL PAWLYN
Pioneering bio-mimicry architect considers a range of projects that go beyond conventional sustainable design - schemes and ideas that are regenerative to cities, landscapes and people. The notion of sustainable development has all too often involved simply mitigating negatives and this talk will argue the case for a new approach that optimises positives. Inspired by adaptations and solutions that exist in biology, architect and TED speaker Michael Pawlyn will describe how this knowledge can be used to address some of the key challenges of our age.
CROSSWORDS
SON & SONS
Big kids need a big den, and for the past 2 years Son and Sons have been providing Sunday Papers Live with more Sunday Fun than a Mormon would approve of.
COLUMNIST
DAN SCHREIBER
Hong Kong-born Dan Schreiber is a stand-up, radio producer and writer. He moved to Australia aged 12, and the UK at 19. He is one of the infamous Elves (researchers) for QI. Along with creator John Lloyd and producer Richard Turner, he co-created the Radio 4 panel show The Museum of Curiosity. Dan has the wherewithal to talk about everything from his love for Brian Blessed, to ancient Chinese wheelbarrows.
SPECIAL EDITION, CITADEL - JULY 19, 2015
LOCAL NEWS
TESSA JOWELL MP
in partnership with Speakers Corner
BEN JUDAH (Author, foreign correspondent)
in partnership with Frontline Club
Hotly tipped for the race to become London Mayor, Dame Tessa came armed with politics, business, sport & media expertise to discuss challenges young Londoners face, and what we can do about it. Former Women’s Minster, and minister in charge of the London 2012 Olympics, she was cross examined by take-no-prisoners journalist Ben Judah, and the audience.
UK NEWS
ZOE WILLIAMS &
JOLYON RUBINSTEIN
Jolyon Rubinstein is a BAFTA-winning satirist and star of BBC3’s The Revolution Will Be Televised and An Idiot’s Guide To Politics discussed Zoe Williams’ rousing call to arms for us all to play our part in creating a more equal society. Zoe and Jolyon addressed key questions including: has the NHS had its day; has an immigrant stolen your job; have you ever wondered why you can’t afford a house; and who got us into this mess anyway?
WORLD NEWS
MAAJID NAWAZ
Former radical extremist, Essex boy & hip hop fanatic Maajid Nawaz was was sentenced to four years in an Egyptian prison for his beliefs. He left prison feeling that his party Hizb ut-Tahrir was hijacking Islam and that its aims were dangerously similar to the aims of fascism.
BUSINESS
ANN PETTIFOR &
ROSS ASHCROFT
Two renegade economists working to upend a broken system came together in conversation for the very first time. Ann Pettifor was one of the only people who saw the financial crisis of 2008 coming. Ross Ashcroft is an award winning independent filmmaker, essayist, comedian and strategist – known by Renegade Economist and Four Horsemen audiences as someone who disseminates economic and business language and makes it accessible.
CULTURE
GHOST LIGHTS
Ghost Lights is a brand new project that sees Dizraeli, Bellatrix & Repps One combine forces on stage to move through deeper, quieter spaces than you know them for, before rearing up for that hype to have you swinging your trousers round your head like a wild lassoo. This gig was a solid festival highlight for those who were there.
SPORT
CHARLIE DARK
Using exercise to inspire social change, and empowering some of the London’s most vulnerable residents, Charlie is the poet and DJ behind the nocturnal running club Run Dem Crew. Run Dem Crew is committed to change and the upliftment of the next generation, working closely with young people across London to provide mentoring and advice along with the opportunity to explore London in a safe, unique, positive and supportive environment.
STYLE
MR GEE &
ADAM KAMMERLING
Is this the most narcissistic generation London’s ever seen? Two of the UK’s finest spoken word performers took on our nation’s obsession with with image, bling, fashion, make-up, selfies, style & shoes.
TRAVEL
DANIEL RAVEN-ELLISON
Dan invited us on a journey through the world’s largest urban forest, a city that is a staggering 47% green space. He believes passionately that the eight million people inside this city – and everyone outside it – should change the way they see it; as part of an unlikely but rapidly growing new campaign that is as simple as it is ambitious. He is trying to turn London into Britain’s newest National Park.
GARDENING
KATHY SLACK
With a wheelbarrow full of practical advice, Kath – food blogger, chef, kitchen gardener and founder of Gluts & Gluttony – explored how growing your own food brings mental & physical health benefits far beyond those you may first presume.
CROSSWORDS
SON & SONS
Big kids need a big den, and for the past 2 years Son and Sons have been providing Sunday Papers Live with more Sunday Fun than a Mormon would approve of.
COLUMNIST
STEVE CROSS
Picking up the mantle of Sunday Papers Live host for the first time, the stand-up and Bright Club host tied the day together like a pro, and will definitely be back.
#6 EDITION CONTENTS - NOVEMBER 30, 2014
WORLD NEWS
Presented by the Frontline Club
LINDSEY HILSUM (Channel 4 News International Editor)
JAMES LONGMAN (BBC foreign news producer)
A panel of journalists who have covered the Syrian conflict talk about how the conflict is now framed within the battle against ISIS and as such the people of Syria are often forgotten - what is life like for Syrians who have remained and for those who have fled; and what dreams do they have for the future of their country?
UK NEWS
AKALA
Presented by Speakers' Corner
You'd be forgiven for thinking there's only one Revolutionary voice out there right now fronting social justice for a new generation. Not so - MC, scriptwriter, actor and all round brilliant human Akala has been talking and walking the line for some time now. He has toured with Jay Z, NAS and M.I.A, given speeches and sat on panels at numerous conferences including TED, won a MOBO and collaborated with Sir Ian Mckellen and the RSC. A fierce intellect and terrifyingly talented on the mic, we have no doubt that Akala is going to blow our fluffy Sunday slippers off.
GARDENING
NATALIE BENNETT
LEADER OF THE GREEN PARTY OF ENGLAND & WALES
Last year the UN issued a report stating that small scale organic farming was our best hope for saving the world. Natalie agrees and is here to explain why we should dig for victory. Localism and sustainability are entering the mainstream lexicon at a time when the Greens have been denied fair media coverage. Is gardening our salvation? Is Green a protest vote? Can Natalie convince us otherwise?!
STYLE
KATHARINE HAMNETT
One of the most important names in the fashion industry, having promoted an ethical business philosophy since the 1980’s. Katharine is most widely known for her evocative political t-shirts. She was awarded a CBE in 2011 in honour of her influence and services to the fashion industry. Katharine was a highlight of our very first edition and we’re extremely excited to have her back.
TRAVEL
ANN DANIELS ON THE POLES
The first woman in history to reach the North & South Poles as part of all women teams. Her stories of cracking ice, sensory deprivation and howling wind are partly about conquest and moral determination, but also about something far more primitive: "Yes, it's cold, yes it's terrible, yes it's painful," she says, "but actually it's nature at its best and it's huge and it makes you realise just how small you are - how humble, how insignificant."
RACHEL ROSE REID
Rachel mixes folk, immigrant and urban heritage, writing, singing and telling tales for everyone from the London Symphony Orchestra to Billy Bragg. For our travel section, she brings stories from oral traditions still surviving and even thriving across the Globe. You can also join Rachel on a Story Walk to the top of Primrose Hill.
"Queen of the new wave of storytellers" - BBC Radio 3
SPORT
THE BAREFOOT CLARK
Heir to the Clarks shoe dynasty and founder of Vivobarefoot, Galahad Clark is a wonderful contradiction. Being in some ways “anti-shoe”, Galahad is the black sheep of the family, and he brings with him arguably the most explosive research in sports science for decades.
CULTURE
PEPE BELMONTE
His musical influence meanders through Irish, Malian and Hawaiian folk to the pre-war blues of Chicago along The Delta and down through the lyrical landscape of Dylan, Mitchell and Young. Mississippi John Hurt meets JJ Cale meets Nick Drake. In March last year Pepe was knocked off his bicycle by a speeding police van leaving him in an induced coma for 10 days. Recovery was slow but culminated with a show at The Royal Albert Hall. Pepe has performed live only sporadically. A book of poems and pictures will soon be published and his debut album 'The Hermit's Waltz' is now available.
BUSINESS
THE RENEGADE ECONOMIST
Ross Ashcroft is an award winning independent filmmaker, essayist and strategist - known by Renegade Economist and Four Horsemen audiences as someone who disseminates economic and business language and makes it accessible.
SCIENCE
SEX, DRUGS, ROCK & ROLL
Zoe Cormier’s celebration of the unholy trinity frames the subject of her first book. We’ll be focusing on the most Sunday of the three - sex. Why do goats partake in oral sex, and how can a horse (or even a table) make us weak in the knees? And how on earth could the revered 'father of anatomy' not know where the clitoris was? Zoe is a science writer and co-founder of our good friends Guerilla Science, a ragtag group of rogue researchers who practice science by stealth by bringing it to the places you least expect to see it.
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JO HARRISON
No More Page Three campaigner, cartoonist & graphic designer. Jo is also a member of the AnyBody UK team, campaigning on Body Image and with other members from the organisation co-founded ‘Shape Your Culture’ a creative activism project aimed at young people in schools and youth groups.
FEATURE
Robert Rowland Smith
Sunday traditions new and old centre around doing little, but doing it thoughtfully. Relax and reflect is the commandment. We collectively take a breath - to get our bearings and rediscover each other. Sundays and philosophy go together like Fridays and booze, so we have invited our favourite public philosopher Robert Rowland Smith to prime the day and take us through an enquiry into the meaning of the collective out-breath and the values we give it.
COLUMNISTS
#6 Edition hosts include...
DAN SCHREIBER
QI Elf, Brian Blessed fan, and producer of Radio Four's Museum Of Curiosity.
BEN VAN DER VELDE
Stand-up comedian, actor, improviser and presenter, who has spread joy and nonsense to all four corners of England.
BRIDGET MINAMORE
Poet, writer & performer shortlisted to be London's first Young Poet Laureate.
#5 EDITION- SEPT 14, 2014
WORLD NEWS
PATRICK COCKBURN & JUSTIN MAROZZI
PRESENTED BY THE FRONTLINE CLUB
Current Middle East correspondent for The Independent joined by travel-writer historian discussed IS, the latest Sunni uprising, and the return of the Jihadis.
UK NEWS
JAMES MILLAR & ZOE WILLIAMS
Four days away from the historic vote, we teamed up James Millar of Scotland’s Sunday Post with Zoe Williams of The Guardian to bring us up to speed, and help those undecided amongst us form an opinion.
NICK DAVIES
Nick is the bestselling author of Flat Earth News, on falsehood and distortion in the media, and a former Journalist of the Year. His new book - Hack Attack : How the truth caught up with Rupert Murdoch - is the inside story of the phone-hacking scandal.
BUSINESS
DOMINIC FRISBY
Dominic has managed a feat that no one in the history of man has hitherto been able to do. Ergo - explain what Bitcoin is and how it works.
SPORT
DR DAVID GOLDBLATT
Sociologist, sports writer, broadcaster, journalist, and author of the seminal The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football. Alas, David had to skip this edition for a family emergency ut we will get him back ASAP!
CULTURE
VIV ALBERTINE
Songwriter, musician and now author, Viv was the guitarist in The Slits, confidante of the Sex Pistols and the Clash, and a key mover in British punk culture.
BELLATRIX
Belle has been crowned the best female beatboxer in the world three times, she founded The Boxettes, is bass guitarist for Wolperdinger, and double bass player for our previous Culture Section contributor Dizraeli and his band The Small Gods.
ELIZA SHADDAD
To finish the day the Wilderness Festival Folk Guild welcomed one of the most prominent new folk artists of the past year, and she blew us away. “Recalls Nina Simone in its quiet, simmering ferocity” - Clash Magazine.
STYLE
ALEX MCINTOSH
Alex has delivered speeches everywhere from UN conferences in Geneva to universities in India; he is also a regular contributor to a variety of key fashion publications and is currently working on a year-long project with i-D magazine.
TRAVEL
TOM MORGAN
Tom invented The Mongol Rally, the Rickshaw Run, and the Africa Rally. Their adventure company features the following disclaimer: “Your chances of being seriously injured or dying as a result of taking part are high. That's the whole point.” They’ve also raised millions in charity funds.
GARDENING
TIAHOWLER JON VON BILTAWULF
Tiahowler ran his first cress competition in 2011. He organised it after a night out in a pub where he promised someone (he can’t remember who) that he would do it (he can’t remember why).
FAMILY
SALENA GODDEN
Variously described as 'the doyenne of the spoken word scene', 'the Mae West madam of the salon', and 'everything the Daily Mail is terrified of'; Salena took us into memories of her attempts to understand the beauty, the brutality and the contradictions of the adult world.
FOOD & DRINK
JULIAN BAGINNI
Is food the key to what makes us human? And should we spend even more time thinking about it? Julian thinks so. Julian writes for several newspapers and magazines and is co-founder of The Philosophers' Magazine.
TV GUIDE
SIMON SINGH
Author of Fermat's Last Theorem and Big Bang, Simon talks about his latest book -The Simpsons & Their Mathematical Secrets.
THE WALKS
HISTORY WALK
Led by Martin Sheppard, the author of Primrose Hill: A History explores the hill’s remarkable past.
FOOLERY WALK
Jonathan Kay makes anything or anyone in the audience remind us all that we are more than our roles. For a generation brought up on passive pastimes and TV dinners, this work can be mind blowing stuff. His walk was interactive, playful, shocking, reality bending and is often very, funny.
SOUNDTRACK
Uniting singing & running, taking elements from the deep & wonderful traditions of animist songlines & dreamtracks and condensing them into "something far more trivial that you can actually achieve."
SUNDAY CAPERS
Son and Sons spent all afternoon trying to set new world records, having a flutter on the nags, attempting to determine the final resting place of a spherical object (spot the ball), and generally mucking about. Specific things to watch out for were Lonely Hearts (using our patented profiling technology to set up two couples for a dinner date in the broom-cupboard of love), Crafternoon, live brain stimulation demonstration with proper scientist type, Maria Ironside MSc; Jonny and the Baptists - a musical comedy double act; and their traditional pub quiz (not necessarily traditional).
#4 EDITION- JUNE 1, 2014
WORLD NEWS
CARLOTTA GALL
Carlotta is the North Africa Correspondent for The New York Times, and has reported from Afghanistan & Pakistan for almost the entire duration of the American invasion & occupation, beginning shortly after 9/11.
RAMITA NAVAI
Former Tehran correspondent for The Times & Channel 4's Unreported World, discusses the subject of her new book, City of Lies - love, sex death and the search for truth in Tehran.
UK NEWS
SANDERSON JONES
Sanderson Jones is a comedian, and co-founder of The Sunday Assembly - a godless congregation that has been taking the world by storm.
BUSINESS
JAMES MEADWAY
James is the senior economist at the New Economics Foundation, leading the programme of research into reforming the financial sector and aligning the interests of society and business.
SPORT
TRACY EDWARDS MBE
Tracy Edwards won international fame in 1989 as the skipper of the first all female crew to sail around the world in the Whitbread Yacht Race.
CULTURE
DIZRAELI & DOWNLOW
Rapper, singer, poet, person, who forced folk to marry hiphop. Alongside DJ DownLow they’ve supported Beardyman, Mos Def, the Pharcyde, Foreign Beggars and DJ Yoda.
JACK CHESHIRE
"…exquisite melancholy song writing in the finest traditions….mildly psychedelic……the vocals are attractively slurred and sleepy, the lyrics dreamlike and beautiful, and the melodies and arrangements…get right under your skin." ***** The Sunday Telegraph
STYLE
SUZANNE LEE
TED Fellow Suzanne Lee is a fashion designer turned biological conjurer, who gleefully plays with new materials and processes.
TRAVEL
ED GILLESPIE
Author of Only Planet, global slow traveller, London cyclist & Sustainable Development Commissioner.
GARDENING
VANESSA HARDEN
Vanessa’s subversive gardening tribe meet secretly at night to illegally plant flowers, shrubs, and vegetables in neglected urban spaces.
GOSSIP COLUMN
Paparazzi Masterclass with Fox & Squirrel
This masterclass will give you the tips and skills needed to bag a picture worth a thousand pounds.
THE WALKS
HISTORY WALK
Led by Martin Sheppard, the author of Primrose Hill: A History explores the hill’s remarkable past.
NATURE WALK
Nature is critical to our quality of life but do we value it enough? Paul de Zylva, Nature campaigner for Friends of the Earth will lead a walk and talk on the role of urban nature for our wellbeing.
#3 EDITION- MARCH 30, 2014
WORLD NEWS
GREGORY SAMS
Greg is a world-renowned fractal artist, author, entrepreneur, chaos theorist, social scientist, and the inventor of the vegeburger. He looks at World News through a wide lens.
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MELISSA GIRA GRANT
Melissa is a NYC-based writer and freelance journalist covering sex, tech, and politics, in the streets and everywhere else - challenging the myths about selling sex and those who perpetuate them, and arguing that separating sex work from the ‘legitimate’ economy only harms those who perform sexual labor.
UK NEWS
CHILL PILL
Chill Pill are one of the top Spoken Word collectives in the UK, running hugely popular nights at The Soho Theatre and The Albany
BUSINESS
DOUG RICHARD
Doug Richard is the founder and CEO of School for Startups - a social purpose business that supports aspiring entrepreneurs realise their ambitions.
SCIENCE & TECH
RADMILA TOPALOVIC
Royal Observatory astronomer on comets and probes landing on alien moons, to the Mars rovers and a Jade Rabbit in the Bay Of Rainbows.
CULTURE
REEPS ONE & SHLOMO
The 2009 & 2010 UK Beatbox Champion, and the current World Loopstation Champion.
SIVU
“Heartswelling acoustic dexterity and glittering electronics...irresistible” NME
STYLE
ANNA REYNOLDS
Anna Reynolds is Curator of Paintings at the Royal Collection - the art collection of the British Royal Family and one of the largest and most important art collections in the world.
TRAVEL
SALLY HOWARD
Travel writer and reporter for UK broadsheets.
GARDENING
STEVE WHEEN
Steve Wheen is the Australian-born, London-based creative talent behind The Pothole Gardener.
FOOD & DRINK
SAM BOMPASS
Named “one of the 15 people who will define the future of arts in Britain”, Bompas & Parr lead in flavour based experience design, culinary research, architectural installations and contemporary food design.
The Walks
The Bullsh*t Tour
Join Reuben, an expert on absolutely nothing, for a factually inaccurate walking tour of Regents park and Primrose Hill. It puts the ‘city’ back into ‘mendacity’ and is the perfect way to learn less about the capital.
Philosophy Walk with Mark Vernon
Socrates said that walking in shady groves was an ideal setting for talking about philosophy, the good life and love. Take a short walk to the tip of Primrose Hill with views across the capital with acclaimed public philosopher Mark Vernon to learn what Socrates had to say to Phaedrus that day, and with the sage of Athens follow the advice of the Delphic oracle, to know thyself!
#2 EDITION - NOVEMBER 24, 2013
#1 EDITION - MAY 26, 2013
