Dominic Selwood
Dominic Selwood is a columnist for the Daily Telegraph, and occasionally writes for The Spectator and other newspapers and magazines. He is the author of a number of bestselling history books and thrillers. He speaks at schools, universities, literary festivals, learned societies, and institutions like the British Museum, as well as appearing on television and radio news and documentaries.
Christopher Andrew
Christopher Andrew is emeritus professor of modern and contemporary history at the University of Cambridge. He is also chair of the British Intelligence Study Group and was the Official Historian of MI5; coeditor of Intelligence and National Security; and a regular presenter of BBC Radio and TV documentaries.
Anne Karpf
Anne Karpf is a sociologist and award-winning journalist, contributing regularly to The Guardian and other publications. Her books include How to Age, translated into ten languages, an acclaimed family memoir The War After: Living with the Holocaust and How Women Can Save the Planet. She is Professor of Life Writing and Culture at London Metropolitan University.
Amy Bloom
Amy Bloom is the New York Times bestselling author of five novels. She has written for magazines such as the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Elle, and the Atlantic, and her work has been translated into seventeen languages. She is the director of the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan University. Image © Elena Seibert
Nessa Rapoport
Nessa Rapoport is the author of a novel, Preparing for Sabbath, and a collection of prose poems, A Woman’s Book of Grieving. Her essays and stories have been published in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Forward and have been widely anthologized. Her column, “Inner Life,” appears in The Jewish Week. Image ©Eugene Weisberg
Isy Suttie
Isy Suttie is a comedian, actress and writer. She has written for the Guardian, the Observer, Red and Glamour. She appears regularly on BBC Radio 4and her TV credits include Dobby in Peep Show and Esther in Shameless. Image ©Matt Crockett
Nigel Lilley
Nigel Lilley trained at King’s College, London and the Royal College of Music, receiving the DipRam award. He was elected as an associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2013. He regularly teaches and co-wrote the book Thank You – That’s All We Need For Today with vocal coach, Mary Hammond.
Jenna Russell
Jenna Russell is an Olivier Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated actress. Her recent theatre credits include Piaf in Piaf at the Nottingham Playhouse and Leeds Playhouse and Celebrating Sondheim at the Chichester Festival Theatre.
David Benedict
Critic and broadcaster David Benedict is the former arts editor of The Observer and theatre editor of The Independent. He is currently the London critic for Variety, a weekly columnist on The Stage and a regular guest on TV and radio arts programmes. He is writing the authorised biography of Stephen Sondheim and plays Tristram Hawkshaw on The Archers.
Sara Manasseh
Dr Sara Manasseh is an ethnomusicologist and performer of the music traditions of the Jews of Iraq. She was born in Bombay, moving to London (UK) in 1966. Her family, originally from Baghdad, settled in Bombay during the 19th and 20th centuries. She is a direct descendant of David Sassoon, who fled persecution in Baghdad, arriving […]
Joseph Sassoon
Joseph Sassoon, born in Baghdad, is Professor of History and Political Economy and Director of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. He is also a Senior Associate Member at St Antony’s College, Oxford and a Trustee of the Bodleian Library.
Raymond Gubbay
Raymond Gubbay is an impresario who has played a hand in promoting and producing opera, ballet and classical music for over 50 years, having worked alongside some of the most prestigious classical artists of our time.