Palestine Music Expo 2019: hope and creativity
For the first two years of the Palestine Music Expo (PMX), our Programme Manager Katherine has represented the festival at this groundbreaking event. This year, it was the turn of our Creative...
Wendy Cope
Wendy Cope OBE read history at university and then worked in London primary schools for 14 years. Since the publication of her first book, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, in 1986 she has been a...
Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a Sudanese born author, broadcaster, social advocate and digital influencer with a background in mechanical engineering. Yassmin founded her first organisation, Youth...
Vickie Cooper
Dr Vickie Cooper is a lecturer in criminology and co-director of Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative at the Open University. Vickie's research focuses on homelessness and housing inequality...
Tony Walsh
Forget what you imagined a poetry set could be and expect belly-laughs, tears and everything in between from this stunning, big-hearted performer who often leaves audiences on their feet, dazzled and...
Peter Bloom
Dr. Peter Bloom is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of People and Organisations at the Open University, Co-Founder of the research group REEF (Research into Employment, Empowerment, and...
Police Cops in Space
Police Cops in Space is an ‘80s low-fi sci-fi' set in the most dangerous place on Earth…Space. After his father is killed by an evil robot, Sammy Johnson, the last Police Cop in the universe,...
The Ballad of Kylie Jenner’s Old Face presented by Jayde Adams
As seen on 8 Out Of 10 Cats does Countdown, Comedy Central's Roast Battle & BBC's upcoming TV show Good Omens. In 2019 if you want to be a ‘successful independent woman person' you better...
Safia Minney
Safia is an award-winning social entrepreneur and the founder of People Tree, which has pioneered sustainable and fair trade fashion. She is recognised by the World Economic Forum as an Outstanding...
The End Of The World As We Know It presented by Matt Winning
Dr Matt Winning is a London-based Scottish comedian and environmental economist who can be seen as the environmental correspondent on Dave's Unspun with Matt Forde. In 2017 and 2018 Matt performed...
Stables
Stables - The indie-folk duo formed by Matthew Lowe (Keston Cobblers Club) and Daniel Trenholme. Stables was formed in January 2016 during late night drinks between Matthew and Daniel in London....
The Stansted 15
The Stansted 15 were convicted under terrorism offences and faced possible life imprisonment after blocking a government deportation flight. They were eventually spared jail, but 3 of the members...
Press Club
Press Club have already risen way out of Australia's underground punk scene, to become one of the country's buzziest new bands. Support from the influential Triple J radio station has come...
SOAK
Grim Town. It's unclear exactly what or where it is but it's grey, flat and small in both size and significance. It's a concrete slab on a cul-de-sac that leads to nowhere. It's a...
The Undercover Hippy
Drum and Bass MC turned singer songwriter Billy Rowan, aka The Undercover Hippy, is definitely not your average singer songwriter. His music brings together soulful vocals, infectious reggae...