Ilana Halperin
Ilana Halperin is an artist whose work explores the relationship between geology and daily life. She combines fieldwork from volcanoes in Hawaii, to geothermal springs in Japan, and in museums, archives and laboratories, with an active studio-based practice. Her work has been shown around the world.
Felicity Cloake
Felicity Cloake is the award-winning author of works including four cookbooks and the foodie travelogue, One More Croissant for the Road. Her most recent book, Red Sauce Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey came out in June 2022. She loves kippers, is ambivalent about baked beans, and prefers her bacon sandwiches with marmalade and mustard.
Dan Saladino
Dan Saladino is a journalist and broadcaster. He makes programmes about food for BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service. His work has been recognised by the Guild of Food Writers Awards, the Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards, and the James Beard Foundation. Eating to Extinction won the 2019 Jane Grigson Trust Award.
Tim Spector
Tim Spector is a professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London and honorary consultant physician at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals. He is the author of five books, including the bestsellers Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth. He is co-founder of the personalised nutrition company ZOE.
Boyd Tonkin
Journalist, editor and writer awarded the Royal Society of Literature’s Benson Medal in 2020 for outstanding service. He writes on books and arts for international media including FT, Guardian and TLS. Former Literary Editor of The Independent, he chaired the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, is a trustee of the Orwell Foundation, and wrote The […]
Nicholas Hytner
Sir Nicholas Hytner was Director of the National Theatre from 2003 – 2015, where he directed and produced more than 200 shows. He formed the Bridge Theatre with Nick Starr in 2017. He was knighted in the 2010 New Year Honours for services to drama.
John Lahr
John Lahr has been a contributor to the New Yorker since 1991, where for twenty-one years he was its senior drama critic. He is the author of eighteen books, including Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.
Francine Stock
Francine Stock is a broadcaster, critic and writer who has fronted a range of arts and current affairs programmes for BBC Television and Radio including Newsnight, Front Row and – for seventeen years – The Film Programme. Her published work includes novels, short stories, film criticism and a social history of cinema, In Glorious Technicolor.
Shalom Auslander
Shalom Auslander is the internationally-acclaimed novelist and memoirist of such books as Foreskin’s Lament, Mother For Dinner and Hope: A Tragedy, which critics on both sides of the Atlantic have named the funniest book of the decade. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire and many others. He lives, sadly, in Los Angeles.
Alex Brummer
Alex Brummer is an English economics commentator, working as a journalist, editor, and author. He has been the city editor of the Daily Mail since May 2000, where he writes a daily column on economics and finance. He was the financial editor of The Guardian between 1990 and 1999.
Noreena Hertz
Noreena Hertz is a bestselling author, thought leader, academic and broadcaster. She is based at the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London, where she holds an Honorary Professorship.
Joe Miller
Joe Miller is a journalist and writer, who covered BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine project in real time as the Financial Times’ correspondent in Frankfurt. He wrote the first English-language profile of Ugur Sahin, and had regular access to the company throughout the vaccine’s development in Mainz.