Polar Bear

Born and raised in the city of Birmingham, Steven Camden aka Polarbear is one of the most respected spoken word artists in the UK. After an accidental fall into spoken…

Prisonomics

• Speaker
• Vicky Pryce

“What we should be doing is closing most of our prisons and letting those people out”. Vicky makes an impassioned plea to rethink our penal system. She evaluates the massive…

Story of the Angry Man

• Speaker
• Nir Paldi

“I wanted to create a provocative piece of political theatre, but I hadn’t wanted to get my nose broken”. Nir tells of an experience with The Angry man, a rather…

Nick Davies

Nick has gone where countless politicians, journalists and police officials dare not tread: the Murdoch Empire. After a semi-anonymous tip-off several years ago, he was alerted to a practise known…

THE LOST ACT

Since the very beginning, there’s been one elusive space that we’ve dreamt of bringing back to life. An abandoned theatre way above the Skyline of London, that has remained under…

Warsan Shire

Warsan is a Kenyan-born Somali Poet recently named London’s young poet Laureate. She began writing as a way to connect with her Somali heritage gaining media attention when her poem…

Public Service Broadcasting

Plummy British accents, propaganda clips and electro synths make an explosive mix: a lesson that Public Service Broadcasting are currently teaching adoring crowds around the world! Little is known about…

Almost Royal

For those of you who missed the hype, Ed Gamble and Amy Hoggart are the stars behind Almost Royal, a nationwide prank that caught America off guard. The comic duo…

Helen Czerski

Helen’s academic record teems with intrigue: after gaining a PhD from Cambridge in experimental explosives, she joined UCL to become their resident ‘bubble scientist’. An omniverous appetite for natural sciences,…

James Bridle

Instagram usually isn’t the first port of call for political activism, but James is set to change all that. He is the creator of Dronestagram, a website that shows satellite…