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Since 2002, we have hosted an amazing array of speakers from the worlds of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and academia.
Here are some of those speakers from across the years...
Prof Alice Roberts
Anthony Horowitz
Joanne Harris
Benjamin Zephaniah
Michael Morpurgo
Rageh Omaar
Sonia Purnell
Alexander McCall Smith
Jenny Pearson
Terry Deary
Hilary Mantel
Louis de Berniere
Wren James
Simon Singh
Penny Vincenzi
Earl Charles Spencer
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L.D. Lapinski
Professor Chris Lintot
Lisa Medved
Simon Brett
Julia Donaldson
Simon Parkin
Freya North
Alain de Botton
Lionel Shriver
Hari Kunzru
Polly Toynbee
John Sargeant
Christina Lamb
Paul Rusesabagina
Clare Mulley
Chris Moore
Dr Anita Sethi
Iain MacGregor
Raynor Winn
Tony McMahon
Francesca Simon
Toby Litt
Helena Kennedy Q.C.
Paddy Ashdown
Chloe Ashby
Otto English
Katherine Mezzacappa
Nick Bailey
Abi Elphinstone
Timothy Knapman
Beth Lynch
Dan Rhodes
Annie Garthwaite
Keir Giles
Louise Bagshawe
Simon Rae
Katie Fforde
Dr Anthony Grayling
Edwina Currie
Adrian Lukis
Iona Rangeley
Sam Sedgman
Jude Simpson
Roger Morgan Grenville
Frances Durkin
Terry Waite
Jenny Boyd
Steve Cole
Clare Fuller
Iain Dale
Angela Harding
Chris Tutton
Carry Akroyd
Benedict Allen
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Lissa Evans
Andrew Gant
M.M. Vaughan
John Wright
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Clare Harlow
Nick Penny
Hannah Gold
David Barrow
Catherine Jacob
Joshua Seigal
Janet Skeslien Charles
Dr Rory Cowlam
Corinne Sweet
Colin Freeman
Clare Hunter
Francis Pryor
Catherine Byron
Tom Moorhouse
Joanna Trollope
Jack Meggitt-Philips
Anne Fine
Nick Sharratt
Margaret Drabble
Roy Hattersley
Victoria Hislop
Martin Edwards
Alison Weir
Dr Charles Bennett
Terrie Chilvers
Jonathan Drori
Colin Dexter
N.V. Peacock
Al Alvarez
Sally Spedding
Alex Grant
Kit de Waal
Max Adams
Dr Diana Hallam
Lord Graham Brady