Yay! The festival is back, with new themes and categories, a wider subject matter than ever before and a far broader range of activities that include talks and discussions on everything from Environment, Conflict, Politics, Science and Exploration, Society & Culture and Sport to live music and living history demonstrations, as well as 'activities the whole family can enjoy.'
The list of speakers this year is amazing. Here are just a few of the guests you can expect to see, in, as they say, no particular order:
Mike Brearley
John Major
Tom Holland
Michael Scott
Alan Titchmarsh
Marina Litvinenko
Anna Keay
Don McCullin
Ben Kane
Antony Beevor
Lucy Ward
Tracy Chevalier
Ian Hislop
Al Murray
Alice Loxton
Katie Hickman
Minette Batters
Sarah Langford
Michael Morpurgo
Jeremy Bowen
Gabriel Gatehouse
Charlie Higson
Ben Macintyre
Michael Wood
Definitely worth a visit....what have you got to lose?
(Photos courtesy of CVHF website)