Previous WORDS Speakers
2024
Sam Taylor - “ My All Time Most Memorable Mistakes in Running a Bookshop “ - February 1st.
Robin Ince - “ Bibliomaniac “ - March 20th
2023
Stephen Page - “ Five Revolutions and Counting “ - October 12th.
Quentin Letts - “ Blasted Politicians !! “ - July 21st.
Ashley Giles, Pat Murphy and Jim Rosenthal - “ Behind The Mics “ - July 12th
Emma Purshouse and Johnny " Mogs " Morris - " Black Country Poetry Brunchtime " - June 29th.
Jean Harrod - “ Deadly Diplomacy “ - May 10th
Jennifer Rigby - “ Shakespeare and Me “ - February 16th
2022
2021
2020
Cleeves, Ann, writer. An Evening With Ann Cleeves, 25th February
2019
John, Liz, Writer & Ahmed, Naylor, Writer and Director, Living with 'The Archers', 2nd October
Bell, Jo, poet. The Currency of Kindness, 18th July
Edgar, David, playwright, Crampton, Robert, journalist, Cooper, Ben, BBC Radio 1 Controller; WORDS 40th Anniversary Event, 24th February
2018
Spiers, Di, Book Editor of BBC Radio & Cooper, Ben, Controller, BBC Radio 1, 4th February
Fowler, Alys, gardener, journalist, presenter, 22nd April
Yarker, James, Director of Stan's Cafe Theatre Company, 8th July
McMillan, Andrew, award winning poet, 16th September
Crace, Jim, writer and novelist, 18th November
2017
Coe, Jonathan, Novelist ,Biographer, award-winner, 19th February
Nagra, Daljit, Poet, BBC Radio 4 Poet in Residence, award-winner, 9th April
Crystal, Professor David, Linguist, Author, Academic, 11th June
Mangan, Lucy, Journalist, Author, Critic, 24th September
Bell, Maureen, Leading Book Historian, Author, Academic, 12th November
2016
Norris, Rufus, Director of The National Theatre, 28th February
Feinstein, Elaine, Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Translator, 24th April
Garnett, Tony, Writer and Producer, 5th June
Sharrat, Nick, Childrens' Author and Illustrator, 10th July
Brett, Lucy, Head of Education, British Board of Film Classification, 15th September
O'Neil, Bruce, Director of Music, Royal Shakespeare Company, 16th October
2015
Wertenbaker, Timberlake 1 Mar 15 Playwriting
Mullan, John 26 Apr 15 Jane Austen
Pennington, Michael 19 Jul 15 'Sweet William' Shakespeare
Smith, Zadie 7 Aug 15 Novelist
Lockheed, Liz 15 Nov 15, An Evening with the National Poet for Scotland
2014
Haynes, Natalie 14 Mar 14 Judging the Man Booker Prize
Cooper, Ben 11 Apr 14 Controlling BBC Radio 1
Toye , Jo 13 Jul 14 Scripting the Archer
Fraser, Antonia, 19 Sep 14 Perilous Question and The Gunpowder Plot
Clarke, Gillian, 7 November 2014 Poet
2013
Moore, Claire et al 25 Jan 13 LONDON ROAD
Ronsson, Robert and Joseph, Fiona 15 Mar 13 New Local Writing
Oswald, Alice 19 Apr 13 [Her Poems]
Smith, Ed 7 Jun 13 Luck in Sport and Life
Hart, Linda & Woolf, Gabriel 30 Aug 84 Charing Cross Road
Briggs, Anthony 20 Sep 13 War & Peace
Fraser, Giles 15 Nov 13 Between Two Worlds
2012
Duffy, Carol Ann 24 Feb 12 Evening of Poetry and Music
Holroyd, Michael 20 Apr 12 A Biographical Trilogy
Edgar, David 8 Jun 12 Writing and Directing for the Theatre
Billington, Michael 21 Sept 12 A Critic shares his views
Lodge, David 9 Nov 12 The Craft of the Novel
2011
Drabble, Margaret 11Feb 11 Patterns of the Past
Lewycka, Marina 18 Mar 11 Readings from her novels
Harvey, Jonathan 10 Jun 11 Writing for Stage and Screen
Hart, Linda and Woolf, Gabriel 16 Sep 11 The English Years of Robert Frost
Ellis , Steve 11 Nov 11 Literature at the Outbreak of WWII
2010
Padel, Ruth 5 Mar 10 Darwin, the Man and the Life
Beauman, Nicola 16 Apr 10 Persephone Books
Inge, Denise 11 Jun 10 Thomas Traherne in Love with Love
Brett, Simon 17 Sep 10 Tickled to Death
Worthen, John 12 Nov 10 Marketing Laurence
2009
Taylor, Malcolm and Thomas, Aeronwy 6 Feb 09 After Milk Wood
Martin-Jenkins, Christopher 3 Apr 09 Cricket
O’Brien, Sean 2 Jun 09 Reading his Poems
Sanghera, Sathnam 11 Sep 09 If you don’t Know me Now
Rayne, Sarah and Carter Maureen 13 Nov 13 From Laptop to Bookshop
2008
Truss, Lynne 8 Feb 08 A Certain Age
Southall, Brian 11 Apr 08 The Business of Music
Kay, Jackie 20 Jun 08 Reading her poems and Talking
Morrison, Conall 12 Sep 08 The Play’s the Thing
Hoggart, Simon 7 Nov 08 Political People and Loony Letters
2007
Davies, Andrew 2 Mar 07 Adapting the Classics for Television
Vickers, Salley 20 Apr 07 Novelist
Hughes, Kathryn 8 Jun 07 The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beaton
McMillan, Ian 21 Sep 07 The Big Family Show
Kington, Miles 9 Nov 07 The Serious Business of Being Funny
2006
Harvey, Anne 24 Feb 06 What the Women Thought
Sissay, Lenn 7 April 06 Reads and Discusses
Angelis, April de 9 June 06 What is useful to know about Playwriting
Bate, Jonathon 22 Sep 06 John Clare
Simpson, John 10 Nov 06 Revising the Oxford English
2005
Galloway, Janice 11 Feb 05 What’s Ordinary and What’s Extra
Starkey, David 29 Apr 05 The Six Wives of Henry VIII
[Paulin, Tom 10 Jun 05 The Secret Life of Poems- booked but did not come]
Carey, John 23 Sep 05 What Good are the Arts?
Hopkinson, Amanda 11 Nov 05 Reading the World
2004
Hill, Geoffrey 13 Feb 04 Poet - Goldengrove
Wells, Stanley 30 Apr 04 Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Morrall Clare 11 Jun 04 From Obscurity to Booker
McCrum, Robert 17 Sep 04 P. G. Wodehouse - A Life
Hill, Tobias 19 Nov 04 Poet -Dancing and Walking
2003
Conradi, Peter 21 Feb 03 Writing about Iris Murdoch
Pinney, Colin 01 Apr 03 I’ve taken my fun where I’ve found it
Motion, Andrew 6 Jun 03 Poetry Reading
Hibbert, Dominic 19 Sep 03 Wilfred Owen - a New Biograpy
Bennett Charles 21 Nov 03 A Pair of Shoes
2002
Bron, Eleanor 8 Feb 02 An Evening with Ellen Terry
Cope, Wendy 19 Apr 02 Poetry Reading
Thwaite, Antony 7 Jun 02 Philip Larkin: Looking Back
Plater, Alan 27 Sep 02 Drama: Who Needs It?
Page, Stephen 15 Nov 02 Chief Executive Faber - Modern Publishing
2001
Gunesekera, Ramesh 9 Feb 01 Writing and Serendipity
Verrall, Douglas and Thomas 20 Apr 01 Fathers and Sons in Fiction
Hart , David 21 Sep 01 The New Public Poem
Whitburn, Vanessa 9 Nov 01 The Archers - from Roots to Radio
2000
Dalrymple, William 25 Feb 00 A Travel Writer in India
Howard, Anthony 14 Apr 00 The Times Obitiary Column Six Years on Death Row
Fine, Anne 9 Jun 00 Writing for Adults & Children
Hicks, Kim 29 Sep 00 An Evening with Dorothy Parker
Hamilton, Ian 10 Nov 00 Poetry Reading
1999
Green, Jonathan 19 Feb 99 Slang down the Ages
Joseph, Jenny 16 Apr 99 Poet
Lavery, Bryony 11 Jun 99 The Art of the Playwright
Woolf, Gabriel 10 Sep 99 Robert Frost - The Road not Taken
Harvey, Anne 12 Nov 99 Walter de la Mere
1998
Knowles, Gerry 13 Feb 98 The Lost Languages of England
Dunmore, Helen 20 Mar 98 Poetry and Prose
MacMillan, Ian 19 Jun 98 Poetry Reading
French, Judith 9 Oct 98 A Solitary Elegance - Jane Austen
Uglow, Jenny 6 Nov 98 William Hogarth & Biography
1997
Scruton, Roger 21 Feb 97 Use & abuse of Language in Argument
Engel, Matthew 8 May 97 The Greeks to Gazza
Stannard, Russel 20 Jun 97 Science for All?
Astley, Neil 26 Sep 97 Publishing, Writing & Reading Poetry
Storey, Graham 31 Oct 97 Charles Dickens - Letters
1996
Wesker, Arnold 16 Feb 96 Wobbler, Annie
Donaghy, Michael 26 Apr 96 Poetry Reading
Bayley, John 14 Jun 96 Housman’s Poetry
Crace , Jim 13 Sep 96 The Novel - Who needs it?
Hattersley, Roy 1 Nov 96 The Odd Couple - Writing & Politics
1995
Ellis, Stanley 28 Apr 95 Dialect, Accent & Regional Speech
Fanthorpe, U A 23 Jun 95 Poetry Reading
Duffy, Maureen 22 Sep 95 A Musician’s Life
Marsh, Jan 3 Nov 95 Biography
1994
Smith, Margaret 18 Feb 94 Letters of Charlotte Bronte
Diamond, John 15 Apr 94 Newspeak /Tagspeak
Morton, Anthony 10 Jun 94 My Betjeman
Duffy, Carol Ann 16 Sep 94 Poetry Reading
Mantel, Hilary 4 Nov 94 The Craft of Writing
1993
Dexter, Colin 19 Feb 93 Morse
Clarke, Catherine 2 Apr 93 What Makes a Classic
Adams, John 11 Jun 93 A Director’s Lot
Kay, Jackie 1 Oct 93 Poetry Reading
Mulcahy, Betty 12 Nov 93 Stevie Smith
1992
Parris, Matthew 7 Feb 92 A Parliamentary Writer
Schmidt, Michael 13 Mar 92 Publishing & European Literature
Sweeney, Matthew & Simon Armitage 19 Jun 92 Poetry Reading
Hood, Stuart 9 Oct 92 The Literary Translator
Harvey, Anne , Lapotaire, Jane & Gabtiel Woolf 15 Nov 92 Crime in Literature
1991
Miles, Rosalind 15 Feb 91 In the Beginning was the Word
Goff, Martyn 22 Mar 91 Book Booker Bookest
Porter, Peter 21 Jun 91 Poet
Ween, Natalie 20 Sep 90 Arts-Speak
Alsop, Lenny & Oughton, Marion 8 Nov 91 Story-telling through the Ages
1990
Page, Norman 9 Mar 90 Literary legacy of Thomas Hardy
Edgar, David, Devlin, Anne & Stephen, Bill 18 May 90 Community Theatre
Scupham, Peter 8 Jun 90 Poet
Woolf, Gabriel 15 July 90 Words and the French Revolution
Spurling, Hilary 12 Oct 90 Biography & Paul Scott
Forde, Nigel 9 Nov 90 Mixed Metafordes
1989
Treglown, Jeremy 3 Feb 89 The Art of the Reviewer
McCaig, Norman 3 Mar 89 Poetry Recital
Holmes, Richard 14 Apr 89 A Dresm of Revolution
Crystal, David 22 Sep 89 Pushing Language to the Limits
Berry, Cicely 13 Oct 89 The Spoken Word in the Theatre
Sinclair, John 17 Nov 89 Definition and Change
1988
Atkins, Eileen & Glover, Julian 14 Feb 88 Teller of Tales
Venables, Clare 8 April 88 The Director’s approach to the Text
Jennings, Elizabeth 10 Jun 88 Reading her Poetry
Coe, Jonathan 9 Sep 88 The Novelist of the Nineties
Buckley, Geoffrey 13 Nov 88 No Words [Mime]
1987
McKenna, Virginia & Rees, Roger 8 Feb 87 Mothers and Sons
Moorehouse, Geoffrey 10 Apr 87 The Art of the Travel Writer
Clarke, Gillian & Feaver Vicki 12 Jun 87 Reading their Poetry
Oliver, Stephen 13 Sep 87 Staging a Dickens Musical
McEwan, Ian 13 Nov 87 Short Stories and their Bizarre Tradition
1986
Weldon, Fay 14 Feb 86 Women’s Authors
Scanell, Vernon 25 Apr 86 Poet
Wells, Stanley 6 Jun 86 Shakespeare Text and Performance
Brownjohn, Alan 12 Sep 86 Reading Poetry
Pasco, Richard & Leigh Hunt 16 Nov 86 Thos. Hardy -through his Poetry
1985
Drabble, Margaret 1 Feb 85 Fiction Today
Woolf, Gabriel & Fairs, Alan & Heather 21 Apr 85 Far from Home ,1914 - 1918
Glover, Julian 16 Jun 85 Beowulf
Pownall, David 7 June 85 Modern Playwriting
Adcock, Fleur 27 Sep 85 Poetry Reading
Crystal, David 8 Nov 85 Developments in Language
1984
Crick, Bernard 11 Feb 84 Orwell’s 1984
Bawden, Nina & Leon Garfield 6 Apr 84 Writing for Children
Barrow Poets 15 Jun 84
Turnbull, Gael 21 Sep 84 Poet
Nicholls, Graham 9 Nov 84 Samuel Johnson and Dictionary
1983
Jenkins, Martin 11 Feb 83 Radio Drama
Raine, Craig 15 Apr 83 Poet
Lodge, David 10 Jun 83 Novels
Clarke, Gillian 9 Sep 83 A Tribute to Molly Holden & Frances Horowitz
Latham, Robert 11 Nov 83 Editing the Pepys Diaries
1982
Wells, John 24 Jan 82 Satire
Luckham, Cyril & Violet 2 Apr 82 At home with the Gaskells
James, P D 18 Jun 82 The Crime Novelist
Rudkin, David 10 Sep 82 Playwrighting
Feaver, Vicki 12 Nov 82 Reading Poetry
1981
Holroyd, Michael 20 Feb 81 On Biography
Harvey, A and others 3 Apr 81 A Pine in Solitude
Black, Jill 12 Jun 81 The Literary Midwife
Silkin, Jon 18 Sep 81 Poet
Green, B and Kanalt, T 6 Nov 81 The Follies of 1812
1980
Bainbridge, Beryl 8 Jan 80 About Her Novels
Hill, Geoffrey 18 Apr 80 Poet
Livings, Henry and Glasgow Alex 13 Jun 80 The Northern Drift
Woolf, Gabriel 12 Sep 80 A Victorian Penny Reading
Mulcahy, Betty and Hill, E 7 Nov 80 Poetry and Guitar
1979
McGough, Roger 2 Feb 79 Reading own Poetry
Gittins, Robert and Horowitz, Frances, 6 Jun 79 Hardy and his Women
Ewart, Gavin 8 June 79 Reading own Poetry
Edmonds, Richard, Woolf, John & Davies Frederick 14 Sep 79 Mozart’s Letters
Morley, Sheridan 9 Nov79 The Problems of Reviewing
Previous littleWORDS Speakers
2014
Korky Paul
Nick Sharratt
2013
Jenkinson, Ceci 26 Oct 13 Hubble Bubble
Corderoy, Tracey 26 Oct 13 Tales of Trouble
WORDS Speakers Alphabetical List
- Adams, John 11 Jun 93 A Director’s Lot
- Adcock, Fleur 27 Sep 85 Poetry Reading
- Ahmed, Naylor 2 Oct 19 Living with 'The Archers'
- Alsop, Lenny & Oughton, Marion 8 Nov 91 Story-telling through the Ages
- Angelis, April de 9 June 06 What is useful to know about Play
- Armitage Simon & Sweeney, Matthew 19 June 92
- Astley, Neil 26 Sep 97 Publishing, Writing & Reading Poetry
- Atkins, Eileen & Glover, Julian 14 Feb 88 Teller of Tales
- Bainbridge, Beryl 8 Jan 80 About Her Novels
- Bate, Jonathon 22 Sep 06 John Clare
- Barrow Poets 15 Jun 84
- Bawden, Nina & Leon Garfield 6 Apr 84 Writing for Children
- Bayley, John 14 Jun 96 Housman’s Poetry
- Beauman, Nicola 16 Apr 10 Persephone Books
- Bell Jo, 18 July 19 The Currency of Kindness: an afternoon of poetry
- Bennett Charles 21 Nov 03 A Pair of Shoes
- Berry, Cicely 13 Oct 89 The Spoken Word in the Theatre
- Billington, Michael 21 Sep 12 A Critic shares his views
- Black, Jill 12 Jun 81 The Literary Midwife
- Brett, Simon 17 Sep 10 Tickled to Death
- Briggs, Anthony 20 Sep 13 War & Peace
- Bron, Eleanor 8 Feb 02 An Evening with Ellen Terry
- Brownjohn, Alan 12 Sep 86 Reading Poetry
- Buckley, Geoffrey 13 Nov 88 No Words [Mime]
- Carey, John 23 Sep What Good are the Arts?
- Carter Maureen and Rayne, Sarah 13 Nov 13 From Laptop to Bookshop
- Clarke, Catherine 2 Apr 93 What Makes a Classic
- Clarke, Gillian 9 Sep 83 A Tribute to Molly Holden & Frances Horowitz
- Clarke, Gillian & Feaver Vicki 12 Jun 87 Reading their Poetry
- Clarke, Gillian, 7 Nov 14 Poems and tribute to Dylan Thomas
- Cleeves, Ann, 25 Feb 20 An Evening with Ann Cleeves
- Coe, Jonathan 9 Sep 88 The Novelist of the Nineties
- Conradi, Peter 21 Feb 03 Writing about Iris
- Cope, Wendy 19 Apr 02 Poetry Reading
- Cooper, Ben 11 Apr 14 Controlling BBC Radio 1, 4 Feb 18 Young Writers Award, 24 Feb 19 WORDS Anniversary Event
- Crace, Jim 13 Sep 96 The Novel - Who needs it; 18 Nov 18 talking about his life & works
- Crampton, Robert 24 Feb 19 WORDS Anniversary Event
- Crick, Bernard 11 Feb 84 Orwell’s 1984
- Crystal, David 8 Nov 85 Developments in Language 22 Sep 89 Pushing Language to the Limits
- Dalrymple, William 25 Feb 00 A Travel Writer in India
- Davies, Andrew 2 Mar 07 Adapting the Classics for Television
- ditto 11 Feb 83 Radio Drama
- Devlin, Ann - see Edgar, David
- Dexter, Colin 19 Feb 93 Morse
- Diamond, John 15 Apr 94 Newspeak /Tagspeak
- Donaghy, Michael 26 Apr 96 Poetry Reading
- Drabble, Margaret 1 Feb 85 Fiction Today
- ditto 11Feb 11 Patterns of the Past
- Duffy, Carol Ann 16 Sep 94 Poetry Reading
- Duffy, Carol Ann 24 Feb 12 Evening of Poetry and Music
- Duffy, Maureen 22 Sep 95 A Musician’s Life
- Dunmore, Helen 20 Mar 98 Poetry and Prose
- Edgar, David 8 Jun 12 Writing and Directing for the Theatre
- Edgar, David, Devlin, Anne & Stephen, Bill 18 May 90 Community Theatre; 24 Febuary 19 WORDS Anniversary Event
- Edmonds, Richard et Al 14 Sep 79 Mozart’s Letters
- Edmundson, Paul & Wells, Stanley 30 Apr 04 Shakespeare’s Sonnets
- Ellis, Stanley 28 Apr 95 Dialect, Accent & Regional Speech
- Ellis , Steve 11 Nov 11 Literature at the Outbreak of WWII
- Engel, Matthew 8 May 97 The Greeks to Gazza
- Ewart, Gavin 08 June79 Reading own Poetry
- Fairs, Alan & Heather with Gabriel Woolf 21 Apr 85 Far from Home ,1914 - 1918
- Fanthorpe, U A 23 Jun 95 Poetry Reading
- Feaver, Vicki 12 Nov 82 Reading Poetry
- Feaver Vicki & Clarke, Gillian 12 Jun 87 Reading their Poetry
- Feinstein, Elaine 24 April 16, Novelist, Playwright &Translator,
- Fine, Anne 9 Jun 00 Writing for Adults & Children
- Forde, Nigel 9 Nov 90 Mixed Metafordes
- Fowler, Alys 22 Apr 18 Hidden Nature: A Voyalge of Discovery
- Fraser, Giles 15 Nov 13 Between Two Worlds
- Fraser, Antonia 19 Sep 14 Perilous Question and The Gunpowder Plot
- French, Judith 9 Oct 98 A Solitary Elegance - Jane Austen
- [Florence, Peter 21 Nov 03 Booked but didn’t come]
- Galloway, Janice 11 Feb 05 What’s ordinary and What’s Extra
- Gittins, Robert and Horowitz, Frances, 06 Jun 79 Hardy and his Women
- Giles, Ashley Pat Murphy and Jim Rosenthal - " Behind The Mics " - July 12th.
- Glasgow Alex and Livings, Henry 13 Jun 80 The Northern Drift
- Glover, Julian 16 Jun 85 Beowulf
- Glover, Julian & Atkins, Eileen 14 Feb 88 Teller of Tales
- Goff, Martyn 22 Mar 91 Book Booker Bookest
- Green, B and Kanalt, T 6 Nov 81 TheFollies of 1812
- Green, Jonathan 19 Feb 99 Slang down the Ages
- Gunesekera, Ramesh 9 Feb 01 Writing and Serendipity
- Hicks, Kim 29 Sep 00 Dorothy Parker Couples?
- Harrod, Jean, May 10th 23, “ Deadly Diplomacy "
- Hart, Linda and Woolf, Gabriel 16 Sep 11 The English Years of Robert Frost
- Harvey, A and others 3 Apr 81 A Pine in Solitude
- Harvey, Anne 24 Feb 06 What the Women Thought
- Harvey, Anne, Lapotaire, Jane & Gabriel Woolf 15 Nov 92 Crime in Literature
- Harvey, Anne 12 Nov 99 Walter de la Mere
- Hart , David 21 Sep 01 The New Public Poem
- Hart, Linda and Woolf,Gabriel 16 Sep 11 The English Years of Robert Frost
- Hart, Linda & Woolf ,Gabriel 30 Aug 13 84 Charing Cross Road
- Harvey, Jonathan 10 Jun 11 Writing for Stage and Screen
- Hattersley, Roy 1 Nov 96 The Odd Couple - Writing & Politics
- Haynes, Natalie 14 Mar 14 Judging the Man Booker Prize
- Hibbert, Dominic 19 Sep 03 Wilfred Owen - a New Biograpy
- Hicks, Kim 29 Sep 00 Dorothy Parker Couples?
- Hill, Geoffrey 13 Feb 04 Goldengrove
- Hill, Geoffrey 18 Apr 80 His Poetry
- Hill, Tobias 19 Nov 04 Dancing and Walking
- Hoggart, Simon 7 Nov 08 Politacal People and Loony
- Holmes, Richard 14 Apr 89 A Dresm of Revolution
- Holroyd, Michael 20 Feb 81 On Biography
- Holroyd, Michael 20 Apr 12 A Biographical Trilogy
- Hopkinson, Amanda 11 Nov 05 Reading the World
- Hood, Stuart 9 Oct 92 The Literary Translator
- Horowitz, Frances and 06 Jun 79
- Gittins, Robert 06 Jun 79 Hardy and his Women
- Howard, Anthony 14 Apr 00 Six Years on Death Row
- Hughes, Kathryn 8 Jun 07 The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beaton
- Ince, Robin 20 Mar 24 Bibliomaniac
- Inge, Denise 11 Jun 10 Thomas Traherne in Love with Love
- James, P D 18 Jun 82 The CrimeNovelist
- Jenkins, Martin 11 Feb 83 Radio Drama
- Jennings, Elizabeth 10 Jun 88 Reading her Poetry
- John, Liz 2 Oct 19 Living with 'The Archers'
- Joseph, Fiona and Robert Ronsson 15 Mar 13 New Local Writing
- Joseph, Jenny 16 Apr 99 Poetry Reading
- Kay, Jackie 1 Oct 93 Poetry Reading
- Kay, Jackie 20 Jun 08 Reading and Talking
- Kington, Miles 9 Nov 07 The Serious Business of Being Funny
- Knowles, Gerry 13 Feb 98 The Lost Languages of England
- Lapotaire, Jane, Harvey, Anne & Gabriel Woolf 15 Nov 92 Crime in Literature
- Latham, Robert 11 Nov 83 Editing the Pepys Diaries
- Lavery, Bryonyl 11 Jun 99 The Art of the Playwright
- Leigh Hunt, Barbara & Pasco, Richard 16 Nov 86 Thos. Hardy - through his Poetry
- Letts, Quentin - " Blasted Politicians !! " - July 21st.
- Lewycka, Marina 18Mar 11 Readings
- Livings, Henry and Glasgow Alex 13 Jun 80 The Northern Drift
- Lockheed, Liz 15 Nov 15 An Evening with the National Poet for Scotland
- Lodge, David 10 Jun 83 Novels 9 Nov 12 The Craft of the Novel
- Luckham, Cyril & Violet 2 Apr 82 At home with the Gaske
- Lloyd, Peter - March 2022 - From Script to Screen.
- McCaig, Norman 3 Mar 89 Poetry Recital
- McCrum, Robert 17 Sep 04 P. G. Wodehouse - A Life
- Bennett Charles 21 Nov 03 A Pair of Shoes
- McEwan, Ian 13 Nov 87 Short Stories and their Bizarre Tradition
- McGough, Roger 2 Feb 79 Reading own Poetry
- McKenna, Virginia & Rees, Roger 8 Feb 87 Mothers and Sons
- McMillan, Ian 19 Jun 98 Poetry Reading
- McMillan, Ian 21 Sep 07 The Big Family Show
- McMillan, Andrew 16 Sep 18 Poetry Reading
- Mantel, Hilary 4 Nov 94 The Craft of Writing
- Marsh, Jan 3 Nov 95 Biography
- Martin-Jenkins, Christopher see Jenkins 3 Apr 09 Cricket
- [Mayby, Richard 12 Nov 99 not able to come]
- Miles, Roselind 15 Feb 91 In the Beginning was the Word
- Moore, Claire et al 25 Jan 13 LONDON ROAD
- Moorehouse, Geoffrey 10 Apr 87 The Art of the Travel Writer
- Morrall Clare 11Jun 04 From Obscurity to Booker
- Morley, Sheridan 09 Nov 79 The Problems of Reviewing
- Morton, Anthony 7 Feb 95 My Betjeman
- Motion, Andrew 06 Jun 03 Poetry Reading
- Morrison, Conall 12 Sep 08 The Play’s the Thing
- Mulcahy, Betty 12 Nov 93 Stevie Smith
- Mullan, John 26 Apr 15 Jane Austen / October 2022 - Dickens Tricks.
- Murphy, Pat - July 2022 - This Sporting Life.
- Nicholls, Graham 9 Nov 84 Samuel Johnson and Dictionary
- O’Brien, Sean 2 Jun 09 Poems
- Oliver, Stephen 13 Sep 87 Staging a Dickens Musical Oughton, Marion &Alsop,
- Oswald, Alice 19 Apr 13 [Her Poems]
- Oughton, Marion and Alsop, Lenny 8 Nov 91 Story-telling through the Ages
- Padel, Ruth 5 Mar 10 Darwin,theMan and the Life
- Page, Norman 9 Mar 90 Literary legacy of Thomas Hardy
- Page, Stephen 15 Nov 02 Balancing Books: Money, Taste and Hype in Modern Publishing, 12 Oct 23: Five Revolutions and Counting
- Parris, Matthew 7 Feb 92 A Parliamentary Writer
- Pasco, Richard & Leigh Hunt, Barbara 16 Nov 86 Thos. Hardy -through his Poetry
- Paulin, Tom 10 Jun 05 The Secret Life of Poems
- Pennington, Michael 19 Jul 15 ‘Sweet William’ Shakespeare
- Pinney, Colin 01 Apr 03 I’ve taken my fun where I’ve found it
- Plater, Alan 27 Sep 02 Drama: Who Needs It?
- Porter, Peter 21 Jun 91 Poetry recital
- Pownall, David 7 June 85 Modern Playwrighting
- Purshouse, Emma and Johnny " Mogs " Morris - " Black Country Poetry Brunchtime " - June 29th.
- Raine, Craig 15 Apr 83 Poetry
- Rayne, Sarah and Carter Maureen 13 Nov 13 From Laptop to Bookshop
- Rees, Roger & McKenna, Virginia 8 Feb 87 Mothers and Sons
- Richards, Steve - May 2022 - Reflections on Leadership.
- Rigby, Jennifer - February 2023 - Shakespeare and Me.
- Ronsson, Robert and Joseph, Fiona 15 Mar 13 New Local Writing
- Rudkin, David 10 Sep 82 Playwrighting
- Sanghera, Sathnam 11 Sep 09 If you don’t Know me Now
- Scanell, Vernon 25 Apr 86 Own Poetry
- Stephen, Bill - sees Edgar , David
- Schmidt, Michael 13 Mar 92 Publishing & european Literature
- Scruton, Roger 21 Feb 97 Use & abuse of Language in Argument
- Scupham, Peter 8 Jun 90 Poetry Recital
- Smith, Ed 7 Jun 13 Luck in Sport and Life
- Silkin, John 18 Sep 81 The Poet
- Sinclair, John 17 Nov 89 Definition and Change
- Simpson, John 10 Nov 06 Revising the Oxford English Dictionary
- Sissay, Lenn 7 April 06 Reads and Discusses
- Smith, Margaret 18 Feb 94 Letters of Charlotte Bronte
- Southall, Brian 11 Apr 08 The Business of Music
- Spurling, Hilary 12 Oct 90 Biography & Paul Scott
- Stannard, Russel 20 Jun 97 Science for All?
- Starkey, David 29 Apr 05 Six Wives
- Stephen, Bill - see Edgar, David
- Storey, Graham 31 Oct 97 Charles Dickens - Letters
- Sweeney, Matthew & Armitage, Simon 19 Jun 92 Poetry Reading
- Taylor, Malcolm and Thomas, Aeronwy 6 Feb 09 After Milk Wood
- Taylor, Sam 1 Feb 24 My All Time Most Memorable Mistakes in Running a Bookshop
- Thomas, Aeronwy and Taylor, Malcolm 6 Feb 09 After Milk Wood
- Thwaite, Antony 7 Jun 02 Philip Larkin: Looking Back
- Toye , Joanna 13 Jul 14 Scripting the Archers / October 2021 - From The Archers to The Victory Girls.
- Treglown, Jeremy 3 Feb 89 The Art of the Reviewer
- Truss, Lynne 8 Feb 08 A Certain Age
- Turnbull, Gael 21 Sep 84 Poetry
- Uglow, Jenny 6 Nov 98 William Hogarth & Biography
- Venables, Clare 8 April 88 The Director’s approach to the Text
- Verrall, Douglas and Thomas 20 Apr 01 Fathers and Sons in Fiction
- Vickers, Salley 20 Apr 07 Novels of Salley Vickers
- Waugh, Alex 23 Jul 14 Evelyn Waugh and Madresfield
- Ween, Natalie 20 Sep 90 Arts-Speak
- Weldon, Fay 14 Feb 86 Women’s Authors
- Wells, John 24 Jan 82 Satire
- Wells, Stanley 6 Jun 86 Shakespeare Text and Performance
- Wells, Stanley & Edmundson, Paul 30 Apr 04 Shakespeare’s Sonnets
- Wertenbaker, Timberlake 1 Mar 15 Playwriting
- Wesker, Arnold 16 Feb 96 Wobbler, Annie
- Whitburn, Vanessa 9 Nov 01 The Archers - from Roots to Radio
- Woolf, Gabriel 12 Sep 80 A Victorian Penny Reading
- Woolf, Gabriel & Fairs, Alan & Heather 21 Apr 85 Far from Home ,1914 - 1918
- Woolf, Gabriel 15 July 90 Words and the French Revolution
- Woolf, Gabriel, Harvey, Anne, & Lapotaire, Jane 15 Nov 92 Crime in Literature
- Woolf, Gabriel 10 Sep 99 Robert Frost - The Road not Taken
- Woolf,Gabriel and Linda Hart 16 Sep 11 The English Years of Robert Frost
- Woolf, John with Edmonds, Richard & Davies Frederick 14 Sep 79 Mozart’s Letters
- Woolf ,Gabriel & Hart, Linda 30 Aug 13 84 Charing Cross Road
- Worthen, John 12 Nov 10 Marketing Laurence: Biography for Sale
- Yarker, James 8 Jul 18 Contemporary & Experimental Theatre
little WORDS
- Jenkinson, Ceci 26 Oct Hubble Bubble
- Corderoy, Tracey 26 Oct Tales of Trouble