Booking fees
£4 booking fee per online/phone transaction.
No fee when tickets are booked in person.
Booking fees are per transaction and not per ticket. If your booking contains several events the highest booking fee will apply. The booking fee may be reduced on certain events. Members do not pay booking fees.
Anita Anand
Anita Anand is the prize-winning journalist, presenter, and historian, who has written a number of books on British and Indian history. Her most recent book, The Patient Assassin, won the Pen Hessell-Tiltman prize for high literary merit. She hosts the BBC4 radio show, Any Answers, regularly hosts their flagship show, PM, and co-hosts the multi-million downloaded Empire Podcast.
William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple is the best-selling historian and art-historian, who has written a number of books on Indian history including most recently the prize-winning The Anarchy. He is one of the co-founders and co-directors of the world’s largest literature festival, the Jaipur Literature Festival, is the host of the multi-million downloaded Empire Podcast, and in 2018 he won the President’s Medal at the British Academy for “outstanding service to the cause of the humanities and social sciences”.