Prue Leith

BEING OLD AND LEARNING TO LOVE IT! 12:00-13:00 Main Stage

Dame Prue Leith is a renowned South African-British chef, restaurateur, author and television personality. Her career has included her own restaurants, cookery school businesses as well as being a board director of many companies. She has published eight novels, a memoir, and 14 cookbooks and her latest book Being Old and Learning to Love It. Prue is probably best known as a judge on The Great British Bake Off, American Baking Show, The Great British Menu and My Kitchen Rules. Prue also has her own TV show, Prue Leith’s Cotswold Kitchen.

Prue has had a long involvement with education and has been active in many charities. She has a DBE, 12 honorary degrees or fellowships, the Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the year, and her restaurant, Leith’s, won a Michelin star.

Alexander Armstrong

THE POWER OF CLASSICAL MUSIC 15:00-16:00 Main Stage

Alexander Armstrong is an English comedian, author, actor, TV and radio presenter and bass-baritone singer. He is best known as one half of the comedy duo Armstrong and Miller, who starred in four series of The Armstrong and Miller Show. 

In 2020, Alexander took over from John Suchet to host the flagship Classic FM weekday mid-morning programme. He continues to be a regular host on the BBC’s Have I Got News for You and also hosts the hugely popular BBC1 quiz show Pointless. More recently, he has found success as a travel presenter for Alexander Armstrong In ….  for Channel 5, where he has visited far flung fields such as Sri Lanka, South Korea and Iceland.

2024 saw him publish his debut children’s novel, Evenfall: The Golden Linnet, the first in his Evenfall series. The sequel, Evenfall: The Tempest Stone, is released in February 2026.

Thomasina Miers

FOOD, DELICIOUSNESS AND SUSTAINABILITY 16:00-17:00 Main Stage

Cook, writer and winner of MasterChef, Thomasina Miers went to live in Mexico in 2004 to research the food she fell in love with a decade earlier.  In 2007, she co-founded Wahaca, a group of restaurants that has been winning awards for its food and sustainability credentials for 18 years.  Half of its mouth-watering menu is vegetarian; its beef comes from regenerative farms; the group went carbon neutral in 2016. Tommi’s passion lies in good food and its power to transform society.  She helped set up Chefs in Schools in 2017, for which she is a trustee, a charity whose premise is to put trained chefs into school kitchens to make affordable, but delicious food to change how children eat and feel about food.  She was awarded an OBE in 2019 for her services to the food industry. Tommi has a regular column in the Guardian’s Feast magazine and has written 9 cookbooks.  In 2024 she went back to live in Mexico for 6 months with her husband and 3 children to introduce her family to the country she so loves.  

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Adam Lind

ADAM LIND IN CONVERSATION WITH CLOVER STROUD. FLOATING HOME: LESSONS FROM A LIFE LESS ORDINARY 10:00-11:00 Lake Stage

Adam Lind is a charismatic, wise soul who advocates for living with purpose, vulnerability and self-expression. He has used his own challenges to excel in his career and personal life as a mindset coach and content creator. Through living on a narrowboat on the British waterways, Adam has unexpectedly built a large online community of over 900,000 loyal and engaged likeminded souls who enjoy soaking up his passion to live a life of meaning.

After losing his father, Adam made a decision that changed everything. He left behind the expected path and spent five years hitchhiking across twenty-six countries – learning from the people who picked him up, sleeping under open skies, and discovering the extraordinary hidden in the everyday. Now, aboard his stubbornly charming narrowboat The Raman Rose, Adam continues that journey on the UK’s waterways.

Estelle Bingham

MANIFEST YOUR ESSENCE 15:00-16:00 Lake Stage

Estelle Bingham, known as ‘The Heart Whisperer’, is an internationally renowned holistic therapist, healer and metaphysical teacher. For over two decades, she has dedicated her life to guiding others through profound journeys of healing and empowerment, helping them embody their true joy and potential. Estelle is the host of leading podcast Love, Purpose, Connection and its namesake retreats that facilitate deep healing, transformation and manifestation.

Estelle’s extensive experience has led her to create a CMA-accredited 3-year Heart Embodied Modality, a practitioner training course designed to guide others through heart-centred healing. She is the founder of Estelle Bingham Wellness, a luxury perfume brand that uses ancient wisdom to create energetically infused scents or modern alchemy for the soul.

Estelle’s work has been featured in major media outlets globally including Vogue, Elle, The New York Times and Goop. In April 2025, Estelle released her debut book, Manifest Your True Essence: Clear Your Blocks, Find Your Joy, Live Your Truth. The book is a practical guide offering heartfelt guidance to support building a daily practice that aligns the reader with their True Essence – where joy, potential, and the power to co-create reality reside. 

Joycelyn Longdon

NATURAL CONNECTION: WHAT INDIGENOUS WISDOM AND MARGINALISED PEOPLES TEACH US 16:00-1700 Lake Stage

Joycelyn Longdon is an award-winning environmental justice researcher and educator. Her PhD research at the University of Cambridge centres on the design of justice-led conservation technologies for monitoring biodiversity with local forest communities in Ghana.

Her work makes more accessible topics of climate justice, climate colonialism, activism, creativity and systems change across a variety of forums on and offline and for platforms including Meta, The United Nations Geneva Dialogues, Channel 4, Cheltenham Science Festival, Oxford University, The National Lottery, The Design Council and The Wellcome Collection.

Joycelyn was 2022’s winner of the Emerging Designer London Design Medal, was featured in British Vogue’s December 2023 ‘Forces for Change’ Issue and is a TEDx Alumni. Most recently, she has been listed as one of Pique Action and Harvard Chan C-CHANGE’s 2024 Climate Creators to Watch and as one of Country and Town House’s Future Icons Power People 2024. Her book, Natural Connection, has been published to wide critical acclaim. 

Satish Kumar

PEACE IS POSSIBLE 10:00-10:30 Main Stage

Peace-pilgrim, life-long activist and former monk, Satish Kumar has been inspiring global change for over 50 years.

A world-renown author and international speaker, Satish founded The Resurgence Trust, an educational charity that seeks to inform and inspire a just future for all. He was the Editor of the charity’s change-making magazine, Resurgence & Ecologist, for over 40 years, making him the UK’s longest-serving editor of the same magazine. He continues to serve this publication as Editor Emeritus and by writing for each and every trailblazing issue of this much-loved and acclaimed magazine which has been described by The Guardian as the ‘spiritual and ecological flagship of the environmental movement’.

Hannah McInnes 

I HAVEN’T BEEN ENTIRELY HONEST WITH YOU 14:00 – 15:00 Main Stage

Hannah McInnes is a broadcaster, journalist and podcast host. She presents frequently on Times Radio and is host of How to Academy’s live programmes and podcast. Her interviewees include Bill Clinton, Melinda Gates, Jane Goodall and Louis Theroux. Hannah also hosts the Nibbies (British Book Awards) Podcast, The Klosters Forum Podcast and interviews on-stage and hosts at major literary events and climate summits. She has written for the Radio Times, the Evening Standard and TLS. Before going freelance she worked for eight years at BBC’s Newsnight.

Lucy Lapwing

LOVE IS A TOAD 14:00-15:00 Lake Stage

Lucy Lapwing grew up in west Lancashire in the 1990s. As a kid, she was fascinated by things that scuttled and fluttered and slimed, but it was only as an adult that she really came to know the nature under her nose. Now a wildlife campaigner, Lucy writes about nature on Instagram and works behind the scenes on BBC Springwatch. Outside – and indeed inside – of work, you’re likely to spot her rootling in the mud, collecting feathers and bones, or whispering compliments to spiders. Lucy now lives on the Isle of Bute.

Monica Feria Tinta

BARRISTER FOR THE EARTH 17:00-18:00 Main Stage

Monica Feria-Tinta is an award-winning barrister and the author of the critically acclaimed book A Barrister for the Earth, referred to as ‘a vital book for our times’ and ‘radically rethinking our way of inhabiting the Earth’. Monica acted in the seminal Rights of Nature case Los Cedros – a world precedent on an eco-centric approach to nature protection, and on landmark climate cases globally. Her work has contributed to systemic changes addressing climate change and the protection of the natural world. Monica was a ‘Barrister of the Year’ finalist at The Lawyer Awards 2025 and The Times’ first ‘Lawyer of the Week’ in 2025. She has been referred to as ‘one of Britain’s most dazzling legal minds’ and her work has been featured in The Times, The Guardian, Prospect Magazine, Vogue, Vanity Fair Italia, and BBC Radio 3 and 4. A Barrister for the Earth was shortlisted for the Westminster Book Awards.

Yuval Zommer

ART FOR CHILDREN 11:00-12:00 Lake Stage

Yuval Zommer graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Illustration. He worked as a creative director at leading advertising agencies before becoming the author and illustrator of highly acclaimed non-fiction. Yuval’s stunning Big Book of… series encourages children to explore and care for our natural world. The series has now been published in 25 languages and has won and been shortlisted for numerous awards internationally, including the UKLA Book Awards in 2018 and 2019, the English Association’s Nonfiction Award in 2017 and 2019, and the Made For Mums Award in 2018 and 2019.

Henry Mance

SUNDAY PAPERS REVIEW Panel Moderator 10:30-12:00 Main Stage

Henry Mance is the chief features writer at the Financial Times. He is best known for his ‘Lunch with the FT’ interviews with personalities from Nigel Farage to Jon Bon Jovi. He is author of the book How to Love Animals, an exploration of what it really means to be an animal lover. 

Eleanor Mills

BEING OLD AND LEARNING TO LOVE IT! 12:00-13:00 Main Stage

Eleanor Mills is a campaigner, Founder, bestselling-author and award-winning journalist and editor. Her book Much More to Come: Lessons on the Mayhem and Magnificence of Midlife, published by HarperCollins in August 2024 is a Times bestseller and she is the founder of Noon.org.uk, a platform and community of women in midlife. She calls them Queenagers. Eleanor’s mission is to change the narrative around older women in our culture to something more positive and fit for purpose which befits their pioneering status. To do that she became an entrepreneur at 50 setting up noon.org.uk in 2021. Her The Queenager newsletter is a Substack bestseller and her community has a 100k reach. Prior to that, for 23 years, Eleanor was a senior executive on The Sunday Times, the paper’s Editorial Director and award-winning Editor of The Sunday Times Magazine. She was also Saturday Editor of The Times and as a columnist she has interviewed everyone from David Cameron and Theresa May to Sheryl Sandberg, Harry Styles and the Dalai Lama. She was Chair of Women in Journalism UK from 2014-2021. She still writes regularly across UK newspapers and magazines, appears regularly as a commentator on TV and Radio and gives regular keynotes for global corporations on gendered-ageism and getting to gender parity and runs programmes within companies to help them retain their Queenager talent.

Sarah Langford

GHOSTS OF THE FARM 17:00-18:00 Lake Stage

Sarah Langford is a criminal and family barrister turned bestselling writer. Her second award-nominated book, Rooted, describes her journey into the world of regenerative farming, woven alongside the stories of the farmers who taught her what it meant to fall in love with the land. She regularly appears on panels as both speaker and chair and as a guest on podcast and radio programmes. She writes for a range of publications on issues of agro-ecological farming and sustainability.

Clover Stroud

ADAM LIND IN CONVERSATION WITH CLOVER STROUD. FLOATING HOME: LESSONS FROM A LIFE LESS ORDINARY 10:00-11:00 Lake Stage

Clover Stroud is a Sunday Times bestselling writer, journalist and host of her own podcast, Tiny Acts of Bravery. Her first book, The Wild One, was shortlisted for The Wainwright Prize. Her critically acclaimed second book, My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother’s Story and a third book The Red of My Blood were instant Sunday Times bestsellers and rated ‘best books of the year’ in which they were published. Her fourth memoir, The Giant of the Skyline was published in May 2024. She hosts the popular podcast, Tiny Acts of Bravery. Originally from Oxfordshire, she is currently living in Washington DC with her husband and the youngest three of her five children.

Susannah Simons

THE POWER OF CLASSICAL MUSIC 15:00-16:00 Main Stage

Susannah Simons is Director of Performing Arts for Marquee TV the Global streaming service for the Arts. She is an accomplished broadcaster and interviewer having presented the PM programme on Radio 4 for 10 years followed by Business Daily on Channel 4. She was part of the original line up of presenters on Classic FM before rejoining the BBC as Head of Policy and Outreach for BBC Radio and Music in which role she was responsible for the Education and Outreach of the BBC’s Orchestras and the BBC Singers. Upon leaving the BBC in 2013 she joined Canvas the Arts Council funded Multi Channel Network for the performing arts on YouTube before joining Marquee in 2019.

She is on the Honorary Council of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and is a Trustee of the PRS for Music Foundation which funds composers and songwriters across the UK.

Jackie Higgins

BITCH: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A FEMALE? 13:00-14:00 Lake Stage

Jackie Higgins grew up by the sea in Cornwall and has always been fascinated by the natural world. She is a writer and a television documentary director who read zoology at Oxford University, as a student of Richard Dawkins. She also did a Masters in Art History, specialising in photography. For 10 years she made wildlife documentaries at Oxford Scientific Films for BBC’s Natural World, National Geographic and The Discovery Channel. Then she moved in-house at the BBC for a further decade, where she worked in their Science Department on films across the board, mostly for Horizon. She is the author of various books including the critically acclaimed Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Our Senses.  She lives in London with her family.

Tiffany Darke

NATURAL CONNECTION: WHAT INDIGENOUS WISDOM AND MARGINALISED PEOPLES TEACH US 16:00-1700 Lake Stage

A seasoned fashion editor, journalist and activist, Tiffanie is the author of What to Wear and Why: Your Guilt Free Guide to Sustainable Fashion. Following stints as Editor in Chief of the Sunday Times Style magazine and Harrods, Tiffanie finally thought to ask where her clothes came from. What she discovered horrified her, and she set about unravelling the complex stories behind materials, labour and waste in the industry she loves so much.

Focusing on the designers, creatives and brands that are doing good, she co-founded AGORA, a store at Six Senses Ibiza dedicated to responsible luxury. Her work has been published in The Guardian, The Financial Times, Vogue, Glamour and The Telegraph.  

Li Kim Goh

FOLD IT CALM: ORIGAMI TALK AND DEMONSTRATION Reading Nook

Li Kim Goh is an illustrator, graphic designer and general maker-of-things. She has loved origami since she was a child, when her mother taught her to fold paper boats. Kim started sharing her origami videos online as a hobby, and has since gained 1.3 million followers. Finding that origami helps her to keep her mind clear and free from stress, she shares soothing videos and easy techniques so that everyone can find peace with origami. You can follow her on YouTube and TikTok: @kimigami or visit her website: gohlikim.com

Joshua Dugdale

Joshua Dugdale, Custodian of Wasing Estate, is the seventh generation of the Mount family. His maternal ancestor John Mount purchased the Estate in 1759, having established a very successful map publishing company in London with his father and business partner Thomas Page. Their business, Mount and Page, dominated the British map and sea chart industry in the 18th century, producing the English Pilot, amongst many other publications, which helped Captain Cook’s Endeavour navigate to Australia. With the Estate’s DNA rooted in wayfaring, Joshua’s own personal journey has aptly been one of discovery.

After studying economics at Manchester University, Joshua commenced his career in filmography, producing documentaries around the world including a three-year biopic of the fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso. Upon his return to England, Joshua took over the management of Wasing Estate and developed one of the country’s most stunning events venues.

Having hosted large scale festivals, to smaller more conscious events, in 2016, Joshua was introduced to the Yawanawa, an indigenous people of Brazil and later travelled to their homelands which was a deeply profound and life changing experience. From here an exceptional connection was forged and Medicine Festival was conceptualised. The festival is a unique remedial experience which invites people to come together and envision a more enlightened, peaceful and sustainable world, creating a platform where ancient wisdom and western perspectives can come together.

Now, Wasing is a vibrant and unique space to celebrate, connect, grow and heal, offering a different narrative to the connection between people and planet. Many traditions recognise the significance of the seventh generation as an opportunity for change. And as the seven generation of the Mount family living at Wasing, Joshua is committed to forging Wasing’s unique path as a wayfarer of a different type to his ancestors, rooted in land not sea.