Stratford Literary Festival: Thursday

Thurs 7 May View Venues, Dates & Times

Festival events and workshops taking place on Thursday 7 May

Stratford Literary Festival returns in Spring 2026, from Thursday 7 until Sunday 10 May.

The Thursday programme takes place in Stratford-upon-Avon's Crowne Plaza Hotel (CV37 6YR), and features a series of events suitable for adults (see below) and two workshops - Alix Almond's Linocut workshop focussed on Water and Rivers, and Tiffany Murray's workshop Using Memoir for Fiction.

The Thursday programme includes talks by:

Hannah French - The Rolling Year: Listening to the Seasons with Vivaldi​

Magdi Yacoub - A Surgeon and A Maverick

Bethany Handley - My Body is a Meadow

Marina Wheeler - A More Perfect Union: Our Relationship with Europe after Brexit

Tim Spector - Ferment: The Life Changing Power of Microbes

Andrew Graham-Dixon - Vermeer in a New Light

Robert Thorogood - The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts

Professor Michael Wooldridge - Life Lessons from Game Theory

Saul David & Roger Moorhouse - War and Legacy

Deborah Douglas & Tracy King - The Cost of Trust: The Ian Paterson scandal

Patrick Gale - Love Lane

Sajid Javid - The Colour of Home

Mark Kermode & Jenny Nelson - Surround Sound: The Stories of Movie Music

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