in conversation with Gyles Brandreth
The initial broadcast will be on 8th April 18:30 UK Time. It will be available to view up to a week after the event has ended and can be accessed worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not suit the initial broadcast time, you can watch it at any poin...
To mark the publication of Lean Fall Stand
For one night only the event will be broadcast on 29 April 2021 8pm UK time. It will be available to view up to a week after the event has ended and can be accessed Worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not suit the initial broadcast time you ...
Broadcast on 30 April at 18:30 UK time. It will be available to view up to a week after the event has ended and can be accessed Worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not suit the initial broadcast time you can watch it at any point after the initial showing for one week.
If you have an...
This is event is the rescheduled event from 26th March -
Nerina Pallot is an Ivor Novello and Brit Award nominated songwriter and musician. She has made six albums and numerous EPs, and established a reputation as a mesmerising live performer over the last two decades. Streamed live from Crazy ...
To mark the publication of I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain
The event will initially be broadcast on 1 May 2021 at 6.30pm UK time. It will be available to view up to a week after the event has ended and can be accessed worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not su...
Fane Online presents An Afternoon in Conversation with The Bletchley Girls, hosted by Tessa Dunlop
The initial broadcast will be on 02 May 15:00 UK Time. It will be available to view up to a week after the event has ended and can be accessed worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not su...
Julian Ovenden: Can't Help Singing
Join Julian Ovenden and his trio from the comfort of your own home as he performs some of hisfavourite songs, ranging from George Gershwin to Michel Legrand to Tom Waits.
To mark the paperback publication of Small Pleasures.
Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021 Small Pleasures is a novel of unexpected second chances set in 1950s England: a delicate, tender story about belief, credulity and tilting at happiness.
1957, south-east suburbs of London. Je...
Bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twentieth edge-of-your seat thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.
A storm has hit South Carolina, dredging up crimes of the past.
En route to Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, forensic anthropo...
SONGWRITER SESSIONS: Benjamin Scheuer & Rosabella Gregory
Once a month, Scheuer and a guest songwriter share the stage, to perform original songs and discuss songwriting.
Joining Benjamin Scheuer this month to perform original songs and discuss songwriting is award-winning singer-songwriter R...
Join Sunday Times bestselling author of The Martian, Andy Weir, to celebrate his new novel - part scientific mystery, part dazzling interstellar journey, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival.
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to ...
The event will initially be broadcast on 6 May 2021 at 6.30pm UK time. It will be available to view up to a week after the event has ended and can be accessed worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not suit the initial broadcast time, you can watch it at any point after the initial show...
How does the world end? It ends in fire.
The bestselling author of the Chaos Walking trilogy and A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness, returns with an all-consuming story of revenge, redemption and dragons.
On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lo...
Mindfulness: the tenth anniversary of the book that started the movement
Celebrate the life-changing bestseller with authors Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman.
Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World was first published ten years ago, in May 2011, by Profess...
The event will initially be broadcast on 10th May 2021 at 18:30 UK time. It will be available to view up to a week after the event has ended and can be accessed Worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not suit the initial broadcast time you can watch it at any point after the initial show...
This event will initially be broadcast on 11 May at 18:30 UK time. It will be available to view up to a week after the event has ended and can be accessed Worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not suit the initial broadcast time you can watch it at any point after the initial showing fo...
10PM BST / 11PM CEST / 5PM ET
starring Aaron Marcellus, Alphonso Horne, Mathis Picard and Diego Ramirez
Inspired by the life of the first major African-American film director and producer, Oscar Micheaux, this suite is modelled on Micheaux's biography, incorporating text from his writings. Mich...
The event will be broadcast on 12th May 2021 at 18:30 UK time. It will be available to view up to a week after the event has ended and can be accessed Worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not suit the initial broadcast time you can watch it at any point after the initial showing for on...
Join poet and author Kit Fan for a wide-reaching conversation about religion, colonialism, and displacement to celebrate the publication of his hard-hitting and exhilarating debut novel. Set in the last shanty town of Hong Kong before the fraught 1997 handover from Britain to China, Diamond Hill ...
For one night only, the event will be broadcast on 13th May 2021 at 19:30 UK time. It will be available to view up to a week after the event has ended and can be accessed Worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not suit the initial broadcast time you can watch it at any point after the in...
Join the bestselling author of Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell, as he turns his unique eye on the dark end of the 1960s with his enthralling new novel: a story of music, dreams, drugs and madness, love and grief, stardom's wobbly ladder and fame's Faustian pact.
Utopia Avenue might be the most curio...
Internationally acclaimed pianist Paul Lewis performs regularly with the world’s greatest orchestras and is a multi-award-winning recording artist. Beethoven himself was a phenomenally gifted pianist and wrote five piano concertos that display a wealth of power and originality. Highly regarded fo...
This event will initially be broadcast on 15th May at 18:30 UK time. It will be available to view up to a week after the event has ended and can be accessed Worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not suit the initial broadcast time you can watch it at any point after the initial showing ...
To celebrate the publication of Alonement.
Being alone has a serious branding issue. We’ve only ever had negative language to talk about flying solo – loneliness, isolation, ‘just me’ – while many of us are scared of being by ourselves, particularly after a year spent in lockdown.
But what if ...
Touring with AC/DC. Befriending The Beatles. Writing one of the world’s most iconic rock songs.
Join Bernie Marsden for this exclusive event, as he shares the story of a young boy from a small town who dreamt of one day playing the guitar for a living – and ended up a rock n’ roll legend.
In co...
Richard Osman and Caroline Kepnes are no strangers to murder.
Richard’s debut novel The Thursday Murder Club tells the story of four unlikely friends in a peaceful retirement village, who meet up once a week to investigate unsolved killings. But when a local property developer shows up dead, 'Th...
Holly, author of Am I Normal Yet? and The Places I’ve Cried in Public, delivers a smart and sassy high school drama with her newest novel, The Yearbook.
Working on the school newspaper, Paige is used to dealing with fake stories. How popular girl Grace is a such an amazing person (lie). How Laur...
To mark the publication of Transcendent Kingdom.
Author of the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi, returns with her brand-new novel: a searing story of love, loss and redemption, and the myriad ways we try to rebuild our lives from the rubble of our collective pasts....
Joe Stilgoe is joined by West End & Broadway star, Hadley Fraser for snazzy duets and on-the-spot improvisations.
This event will initially be broadcast on 19th May 2021 at 18:30 UK time. It will be available to view up to a week after the event has ended and can be accessed Worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not suit the initial broadcast time you can watch it at any point after the initial sho...
Multi platinum selling recording artist Lockie Chapman returns for his first live London concerts in over one year.
Joe Stilgoe is joined by cabaret sensation & musical phenomenon Le Gateau Chocolat for snazzy duets and on-the-spot improvisations.
Joe Stilgoe is joined by West End star Louise Dearman for snazzy duets & on-the-spot improvisations.
Joe Stilgoe is joined by close harmony vocal trio The Puppini Sisters for snazzy duets & on-the-spot improvisations.
Join award winning Hamilton and Motown star Sifiso Mazibuko and Associate Musical Director of Hamilton, Chris Hatt, for their evening of musical entertainment
Nick and Anna work the same summer job at their local cinema. Anna is mysterious, beautiful, and from a very different world to Nick. She’s grown up preparing for the end of days, in a tightly-controlled existence where Christmas, getting drunk and sex before marriage are all off-limits.
So when...
Malibu: August, 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their...
26 May 2021 - 19:30 UK
An explosive secret. A life in the balance. A showdown that will change everything…
Stacey Abrams was the first African American female gubernatorial nominee of a major party in the history of the U.S. and is the country’s most famous political organizer. But she is also...
Olivier Award nominated actress and award winning cabaret artist, Alison Jiear returns for an eclectic evening of cabaret.
This event will initially be broadcast on 27th May at 18:30 UK time. It will be available to view up to a week after the event has ended and can be accessed Worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not suit the initial broadcast time you can watch it at any point after the initial showing ...
I’ll give up the tarot readings. I’ll apologize to Lily.
But Lily doesn’t come to school on Monday. Or Tuesday. It’s not until Wednesday that the police show up.
Maeve Chambers doesn’t have much going for her. Not only does she feel like the sole idiot in a family of geniuses, she managed to dr...
Katie Piper secured her place in the nation’s hearts when she appeared on Channel 4’s BAFTA-nominated documentary Katie: My Beautiful Face, which covered the early stages of her recovery after an acid attack in 2008.
Now, described as an ‘icon of her generation’, the TV presenter and philanthro...
Cabaret Fantastique re-emerges into glory for a new season of Gallic excellence with some very special guests to be announced.
Another chance to join Olivier award nominee Sophie-Louise Dann revisiting some favourite characters that have earned her the reputation of being one of the West End's favourite leading ladies.
Emma Gray was just 23 when she moved to an isolated farm in Northumberland, becoming Britain's youngest solo shepherdess.
Join her for this virtual event, as she celebrates the publication of her heart-warming new book, My Farming Life.
In conversation, Emma will share tales of her life in Nort...
Join Rahul Raina, in conversation with comedian and presenter Nish Kumar, to celebrate the publication of How To Kidnap The Rich: a witty, thrilling and pacey literary crime crossover about friendship, swindle, reality tv and kidnappings.
For this exclusive event, Rahul will explore the inspirat...
One of rugby’s most ferocious flankers and biggest characters, James Haskell has had an extraordinary, global experience of the game, having played for the Wasps, Northampton and England, and in New Zealand, France and Japan. After seventeen years, and with 77 international caps under his sizeabl...
Most of us think the law is only relevant to criminals, if we even think of it at all. But the law touches every area of our lives: from intimate family matters to the biggest issues in our society.
In conversation for this exclusive event, the two junior barristers will share their experiences ...
To mark the publication of The Other Black Girl
Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of book publishing.
Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of bein...
With more than 42 million copies sold and available in 47 foreign territories, Veronica Roth’s Divergent series has come to be known as one of the foremost dystopian series of its time.
Join Veronica in conversation for this exclusive event, as she shares the inspiration behind her award-winning...
To mark the paperback publication of Burnt Sugar
Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize and longlisted for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction, Avni Doshi’s debut is one of the most talked about books of the moment.
Join the author for this exclusive event as she touches on the inspiration behind...
Joining the Orchestra is one of the UK’s most prolific concert pianists, the multiple award winning Stephen Hough – globally renowned for his outstanding interpretations of the piano repertoire and widely regarded as one of the most important and distinctive pianists of his generation. Stephen wi...
initially be broadcast on 04 June at 18:30 UK time. It will be available to view up to a week after the event has ended and can be accessed Worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not suit the initial broadcast time you can watch it at any point after the initial showing for one week.
If...
Following a phenomenal year releasing her stunning debut album Tomorrow, Marisha returns for this one- off intimate show showcasing hits from her album and classics from pop and soul icons.
From the rooftops over Manhattan, Ute Lemper sings her most famous and loved songs from Weill, Brel, Piaf, Joni Mitchell, Romy Schneider and Kander/ Ebb - a repertoire that she has developed through almost 4 decades of musical performances around the world.
In celebration of what would have been Mario Lanza’s 100th birthday, global superstar Paul Potts performs an exclusive one-off concert of Lanza’s favourites.
Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021 and one of Barack Obama’s Favourite Books of 2020, Luster is one of the most talked about books of the past year.
Now, join Raven Leilani for this virtual event as she shares the inspiration behind her painfully funny and provocative debut novel....
Olivier award-winning West End leading lady, Cassidy Janson, brings an evening of her favourite tunes unplugged - ranging from Carole King to Lady Gaga to her own originals.
To mark the publication of The Maidens
Join bestselling author of The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides, for this virtual event to celebrate the publication of another sophisticated and hugely original literally thriller revolving around Cambridge Classicists and secret sororities.
Edward Fosca ...
To mark the publication of Ace of Spades.
How can you play the game when the cards are stacked against you?
Join Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé to celebrate the publication of her debut novel for young adults, Ace of Spades: a compelling, incendiary and unputdownable thriller billed as Get Out meets Gos...
Christie Watson worked as a nurse for over 20 years. In March 2020, Christie joined the Covid-19 Emergency Nursing Register and worked in Critical Care during the first peak of the coronavirus. Now, she has written The Courage To Care: a vital and timely book about inspirational nurses, and the b...
From an early age, Grace Dent was hungry. As a little girl growing up in Currock, Carlisle, she yearned to be something bigger, to go somewhere better.
Hungry traces her story from growing up eating beige food to becoming one of Britain’s best-loved food writers. It’s also everyone’s story – fro...
The prizewinning British soprano and pianist, Katerina Mina, launches her one-woman show at Crazy Coqs with a selection of popular operatic arias.
To mark the publication of Leave the World Behind
Join Rumaan Alam, author of Rich and Pretty and That Kind of Mother, to celebrate his new book. An electrifying and unnerving novel for our times, Leave the World Behind elegantly captures our age of anxiety and shows how the most terrifying situ...
To mark the publication of The Handshake
Strangers do it. Friends do it. Politicians do it. Even chimpanzees do it.
The handshake is so embedded in our history and culture that paleoanthropologist, TV presenter and stand-up comic Ella Al-Shamahi argues it’s possible that the handshake is older ...
In a world where disease, war and crime have been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ("gleaned") by professional scythes. Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythes' apprentices, and despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation, they must learn the...
To mark the paperback publication of The Golden Rule
Join novelist, short-story writer and critic Amanda Craig to celebrate her latest gripping novel, which blends edge-of-the-seat thrills with razor-sharp satire to ensnare the reader on the very first page.
When Hannah is invited into the Firs...
One of the greatest interpreters of Dylan’s songs, Barb Jungr returns with a brand-new collection, “Forgetful Heart”, with love songs by Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen.
You can save hundreds of lives. Or the one that matters most…
Sunday Times bestselling author and international sensation, Clare Mackintosh, brings her showstopping quality to this modern take on the classic locked-room thriller with her brand-new book Hostage.
The atmosphere on board the inaug...
Join poet, writer and podcast host Clint Smith as he shares a living, breathing kind of history that is made unforgettable in the telling.
How the Word is Passed is the story of Clint Smith's visits to seven places that the work and lives of enslaved people built, but it is much more than a trav...
‘Too many options’ sounds like a good problem to have — until it starts to paralyse us…
Thought-provoking and clever, Olive is the debut novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, speaker, and podcast host, Emma Gannon; it’s a story of modern womanhood, expectations, and the courage it takes – ...
To mark the publication of Why We Kneel, How We Rise
In July 2020, Jamaican cricket commentator and former cricketer Michael Holding opened Sky’s coverage of England’s Test series against West Indies with a powerful monologue about the Black Lives Matter movement. The clips went viral.
‘To say ...
Interviewed by Bebe Cave, to mark the publication of Sunset
The event will initially be broadcast on 25 June 2021 at 6.30pm UK time. It will be available to view up to a week after the event has ended and can be accessed worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not suit the initial broad...
To mark the publication of Animal
Honestly, sometimes I think it’s the only recourse. Killing men in times like these.
Fane presents an exclusive publication event with writer of the moment and author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon Three Women, Lisa Taddeo, to celebrate her debut ...
She’s helped dislodge a colleague’s stuck tampon by shouting directions from the back of a cab; shot up IVF drugs in Downing Street before interviewing the Prime Minister - after a period disease left her infertile - and has a period sex story to end all period sex stories.
Emma Barnett is done ...
In conversation for this virtual event, Bolu will share what inspired her to put together this unique collection and how she went about gathering stories across perspectives, continents and genres, from the historic to vividly current. As a self-confessed ‘lover of love’, she’ll share why it’s im...
Dillie Keane promises to be rude, moving, funny and emotional whilst plundering the repertoire of some of America’s funniest songwriters.
To mark the publication of The Comfort Book
Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn’t give up.
Join the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and Notes On A Nervous Planet, Matt Haig, to celebrate his new book that deftly mixes philosophy and memoir to create an indisp...
To mark the publication of Dream Girl
From the New York Times bestselling author, Laura Lippman, comes a psychological thriller about a writer whose dream girl may just have come back to haunt him…
Gerry Anderson has been having trouble sleeping. He’s unwell – bed-bound – and has only his night...
To mark the publication of Sankofa
Sankofa is the funny, gripping and surprising story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by award-winning author Chibundu Onuzo.
Anna grew up in England with her white mother and knowing very little about her A...
To mark the publication of House of Music
Seven brothers and sisters. All of them classically trained musicians. One was Young Musician of the Year and performed at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The eldest has released her first album, showcasing the works of Clara Schumann. The...
Join Sunday Times bestselling author and podcaster Otegha Uwagba to celebrate her new book We Need To Talk About Money: an extraordinarily candid personal account of the ups and downs wrought by money written with a deft blend of candid memoir and stark socio-political commentary.
In conversatio...
Cedric Neal sings a love letter to some of his favourite and most influential female vocalists.
America’s Got Talent finalists, Branden & James return to explore Lady Gaga’s career to date, celebrating her most cherished performances with their pop-driven classical spin and unique charm.
Lauren Samuels and Sophie Evans first found fame when they met on the hit BBC1 show “Over the Rainbow’. To celebrate a decade since the show first aired, Sophie and Lauren have reunited to record this stunning album of songs made famous by Judy Garland.
The nation’s favourite sitcom returns to the stage for the first time in 2021 in this highly acclaimed production with three brand new episodes. Two actors, two microphones and over twenty-five characters.
Multi-award winning singer, Ian Shaw, fuses the words and music of two of popular music’s chameleonic, genius giants, Joni Mitchell and the much missed David Bowie.
London’s favourite improvising pianist, Harry The Piano returns to perform requests from the audience. Line of Duty as a tango? Thriller à la Mozart? Expect the unexpected!
Join the award-winning, bestselling author, journalist and broadcaster Elizabeth Day to celebrate her exhilarating new novel, Magpie: a thrilling, stylish and psychologically astute story of jealousy, motherhood and power.
Marisa may have only known Jake a few months, but she has never felt this...
14th September - 19:30
Andrew Cotter began 2020 as one of the most recognisable voices in sports broadcasting. But now, he is a ‘bone’-a fide internet sensation, only slightly eclipsed by his canine companions and overnight global superstars Olive and Mabel.
Andrew’s hilarious commentary in a ...
Join the award-winning actor and food obsessive for two intimate live events at The London Palladium, as he celebrates the publication of his heart-warming new memoir, Taste – taking us beyond the recipes and into the memories that inspired them.
Live in conversation with a special guest (to be ...
Author, broadcaster, Celebrity Gogglebox star and Just A Minute regular Gyles Brandreth is inviting some of his favourite people to the stage of the Crazy Coqs cabaret room in London’s Piccadilly to talk about their lives (in and out of lockdown) and to tell some of the stories they’ve never told...
