Chestnut announce guest speakers

EA Festival is back on tour with Chestnut this autumn featuring a dinnertime talk series that is as tantalising and starry as last year’s. Among this year’s speakers are Isabella Tree, Albert Read and Anne Glenconner.

Isabella Tree is the renowned rewilder who brought the subject into the public’s consciousness with her groundbreaking bestseller, Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm. Following on from the international success of that book, she has just published The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small.

Albert Read including British Vogue, Vanity Fair, Wired and World of Interiors. He is in a unique position to observe trends in the worlds of media and design. His first book, The Imagination Muscle, is published this year.

Albert Read is managing director of Conde Nast Britain, overseeing some of the world’s most influential magazines and media businesses, n Keep an eye on Chestnut’s social media for event dates and venues.

Anne Glenconner is one of the most beloved and iconic residents of East Anglia. When she wrote Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown, at the age of 87, she had no idea that the book - about her life as Princess Margaret's lady in waiting for over 30 yearswould become an international runaway hit and launch a new chapter of her life. Since then she has written two murder mysteries and, most recently, a follow-up to her personal memoir, Whatever Next? Lessons from an Unexpected Life.

About EA Festival

EA Festival is East Anglia’s top ideas and performing arts festival. This summer it will return to Hedingham Castle on the 10th and 11th June with an exciting programme that includes V&A Director Tristram Hunt, Country Life Editor-in-Chief Mark Hedges, veteran BBC Four presenter Justin Webb, disinformation specialist Marianna Spring, renowned TV producer John Lloyd and acclaimed nature writer Mark Cocker. You can learn more and buy tickets at www.eafestival.com