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Past Speakers

Professor Kevin Anderson: Climate Change – from Paris COP 2016 to the UK 2025

Saturday 11th January 2025 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Andrew Mather: Calderdale’s otters

Saturday 16th November 2024 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Pete Brown: Clubland: How the Working Men’s Club Shaped Britain

Saturday 26th October 2024 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Sarah Corbett: Sylvia Plath: The West Yorkshire Poems

Saturday 28th September 2024 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Matthew Cobb: How we discovered the secret of sex.

Saturday 9th March 2024 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Professor Thomas Leo McCluskey: What is AI really? A Boffin’s View

Saturday 17th February 2024 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Simon Armitage: The Poet Laureate In Conversation with Amanda Dalton

Saturday 20th January 2024 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Julie Hesmondhalgh: An interview with Amanda Dalton

Saturday 28th October 2023 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Dr Nicholas Cullinan: Transforming the National Portrait Gallery

Saturday 25th November 2023 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Professor John Wright: Can a research study change a city?

Saturday 30th September 2023 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Dara McAnulty: The Young Naturalist In Conversation with Amanda Dalton

Friday 14th July 2023 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Prof Tim O’Brien: Multi-messenger astrophysics: New ways of exploring the universe

Saturday 18th March 2023 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Rachel McCormack: Chasing the Dram – the world of taste and whisky

Saturday 25th February 2023 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Liz John: Writing for The Archers

Saturday 21st January 2023 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Ian Brand: The Twelve Plants of Christmas

Saturday 3rd December 2022 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Louise Doughty: ‘I Preferred the Book’: What’s it like to see your novel adapted for film or television

Saturday 12th November 2022 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Sir Michael Marmot: The Social Determinants of Health and Health Equity

Saturday 8th October 2022 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Kate Lycett: Telling Stories. Painting a Narrative

Saturday 12th March 2021 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Professor Aneez Esmail: What is happening to General Practice?

Saturday 12th February 2021 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Richard Morris: Writing, Yorkshire

Saturday 16th March 2019 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Susan Owens: The Appearance of Ghosts

Saturday 26th January 2019 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Chris Renwick: Liberalism and the British Welfare State; its Past and its Future

Saturday 24th November 2018 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Tony Freemont: Biomarkers – why medicine is about to undergo the biggest single change ever

March 2018 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Tom Mills: The BBC: Public Servant or State Broadcaster?

February 2018 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Judith Weir: A Composer’s Life

November 2017 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Jeff Forshaw: Before the Big Bang

October 2017 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Professor Angie Hobbs: Philosophy, Democracy and the Demagogue

March 2017 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson: Inequality and Social Anxiety

February 2017 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Dr Nicholas Cullinan: Picasso’s Portraits

November 2016 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Sir Mark Elder: Are conductors really necessary?

October 2016 • Hebden Bridge Town Hall

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