Part of the Malvern Festival of Ideas A talk by Tom McLeish, theoretical physicist, academic leader and author. As any scientist knows, the imagination is essential to the immense task…

Part of the Malvern Festival of Ideas A talk by Nathan Waddell, author and lecturer on early twentieth-century and modernist literature. The title of this talk is: George Orwell wasn’t…

Part of the Malvern Festival of Ideas A talk by Onjali Q Rauf, bestselling author and human rights activist. She is the founder of NGO Making Herstory, a woman’s rights…

Part of the Malvern Festival of Ideas A talk by Afraa Hashem. Afraa is one of the main characters in the award-winning documentary, For Sama. Affra opened schools in Aleppo and remained in…

Part of the Malvern Festival of Ideas What would it take for humanity to avert ecological catastrophe and create a society that exists in harmony with the natural world? In…

Part of the Malvern Festival of Ideas Imagination Session: Democracy is our shared imagination Imagining a better world can’t be left to our politicians. In this session we will 1)…

Part of the Malvern Festival of Ideas Will Hutton (Journalist and Author) and Steve Richards (Broadcaster and Political columnist) will discuss The State We’re In, beginning with the question of how to blend…

Part of the Malvern Festival of Ideas The natural world is in a careful balance, what happens when we start to mess with it? Follow food webs and trophic cascades to…

Part of the Malvern Festival of Ideas Dominic Grieve, British barrister and former politician and Attorney General, addresses the question, Can we be better governed? 2-3pm Tickets: Book Online​ This year,…

Part of the Malvern Festival of Ideas A talk by Tom Crawford, teaching and Outreach fellow in Mathematics. The million-dollar maths equations are 7 maths problems that are seen as…

Part of the Malvern Festival of Ideas Imagination Session: Money, Power and Gardening Treasure, serious treasure, is found deep beneath the earth. The ones who found it don’t know what…