Malvern Festival of Ideas 2025
A return of the annual Festival of Ideas now in it's 12th year. A themed weekend of talks will draw inspiration from the elephant poem by Rumi. Deliberating free expression…
A return of the annual Festival of Ideas now in it's 12th year. A themed weekend of talks will draw inspiration from the elephant poem by Rumi. Deliberating free expression…
Artificial Intelligence has gone viral. ChatGPT, the world’s first mass-market general-purpose AI tool, acquired 100 million users in a few weeks. But why did a technology 70 years in the…
Combining the latest data with expert analysis across health, children’s services, the economy, environment, policing and defence, Polly Toynbee and David Walker tell the story of what has gone wrong…
On International Women’s Day, join two feminist icons, Baroness Hale of Richmond and Baroness Chakrabarti, as they discuss justice, rights and free speech. After the devastation of the Second World…
Mark Lewney delivers his amazing physics show – it’s about futurism and the physics of predicting the future, in which Uncertainty plays a starring role. Why aren’t astrologers rich? Surely,…
Join geneticist and broadcaster, Adam Rutherford, as he takes his genetics shears and history axe in hand and pollards, prunes and chops down some of the (genealogy, family and evolution)…
History is now front-page news, contested as never before. Statues have fallen and the reputations of great men have been called into question. In this Saturday evening talk, Professor David…
Senthorun Raj, who is Reader in Human Rights Law at Manchester Law School, explores the various ways lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, non-binary, intersex, queer, and asexual people around the world…
The writers of The Daily Tism, Sara Gibbs and Elsa Williams, discuss punching inwards – how own-voices writers mine their own lives for comedy. Discussions include how to target your…
Unearthing the physical remains of our past is a quintessential human itch - seen in every society from the ancients through to today. But the stories behind archaeological exploration and…
Join Grace Blakeley and Sam Fowles — the socialist firebrand and the barrister who stood up to the Prime Minister — as they peel back the layers of deception. Together,…
Jade Cuttle concludes the Malvern Festival of Ideas weekend with readings from her poetic memoir Silthood, exploring ancient connections between soil and self. Jade Cuttle was born into a family…