Events

Terry Collingsworth has travelled to the most dangerous and conflict-ridden parts of the world. In West Africa, for example, children are forced into slavery to produce cocoa for the chocolate we all take for granted. Terry is challenging the confectionary giant Nestle to end this appalling practice of slavery in its supply chain. Working all hours […]

With her many television appearances, Lena Sisco has earned the title of ‘celebrity lie detector’. Ask her how you can know when you’re being lied to and best to get the truth of someone who doesn’t want to tell – a teenager fallen in with a bad crowd, a two-faced boss, a sales person trying […]

As a glider pilot and instructor, Geoff has found himself having to land in precarious places, interrupting Champagne lunch parties one flight and quietly grazing sheep in a remote field the next. As an urban planner, Geoff remains in high demand from institutions such as the World Bank grappling with challenges of designing decent housing […]

In his explosive book Sick Money, The Truth About the Global Pharmaceutical Industry, Billy maintains that medicines have become nothing more than financial assets and that how drugs are priced and who has access to them is now dictated by shareholder value. He cites the example of an American hedge fund manager who hiked the […]

Have you ever worried about who is tracking your phone? Have you ever gone half-crazy trying to load or get rid of an app? Do any of us know how our smart phones really work? The mobile phone is the most extraordinary tool that has been invented in the last century and it has forced […]

Walk with David Hewson through the alleys and streets of Rome and Venice, savour the food, enjoy the languages around you and dip into the intrigue and conspiracies that make Italy tick. Meet the dogged, young Rome detective Nic Costa, step into Nazi Venice in 1943, and journey through the centuries with David, from Rome […]