The Autumn Festival takes place across from Thursday 12 November to Sunday 15 November with 28 events in venues across the city, including QUAD, Derby Theatre, St Peter’s Church, Museum of Making, the Market Hall and local libraries.
Tickets for all events can be booked online at:
Highlights of this year’s Autumn Edition include: - Journalist and war correspondent Fergal Keane who will be talking to BBC TV Midlands Correspondent Navtej Johal about his 37 years of reporting for the BBC covering major conflicts across the world
- Investigative journalist and presenter of BBC’s HARDtalk, Stephen Sackur on Hard Truth: Investigations that Shook the World in conversation with Navtej Johal
- Former Conservative Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Jeremy Hunt on Can We Be Rich Again? The Surprising Potential of Britain’s Economy
- Author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera on Tonight the Music Seems so Loud: The Meaning of George Michael
- History buffs can look forward to historians Tessa Dunlop, on the women who served in World War Two, Paul Beaver, on Father of the Spitfire: The Untold Story of R J Mitchell; David Torrance on the centenary of the General Strike, Dr Jess Venner on The Lost Voices of Pompeii and Professor Paul A Elliott on Erasmus Darwin, Joseph Wright and Friends.
- Novelists Louisa Young, who is continuing Elizabeth Jane Howard, her great aunt’s Cazalet Chronicles and Booker longlisted Mary Lawson with her latest, Solace in Winter.
For children and families, we have a wide range of activities on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 November with authors and illustrators leading sessions which combine music, dance and writing to encourage young people’s creativity to come alive.
There will be three more of the popular, free University of Derby CivicLAB events at Derby Theatre’s Community Hub with academics sharing their latest research publications on a range of subjects.
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