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Speakers, Artists and Performers at Miller's Academy

Confirmed speakers in alphabetical order
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Sir Christopher Meyer


Sir Christopher Meyer was the UK Ambassador to the United States from 1997-2003. He was the man who first introduced ...

Black Cat White Cat


Serbian Director, Emir Kusturica's critically acclaimed 1998 Black Cat White Cat is a fast-paced, exuberant masterpie...

Paul Mason


As the the economics editor of BBC Newsnight, Paul Mason has become the unofficial voice of the Credit Crunch. His ne...

Breakfast at Tiffany's


Adapted from the Truman Capote novella, this stylish classic features career defining performances from Audrey Hepbur...

Peter Bergen


In 1997, as a producer for CNN, Bergen produced Osama bin Laden's first television interview, in which he declared wa...

Adaptation


Charlie Kaufman is one of the most acclaimed, cutting edge film-makers in the world. He is perhaps best known for wri...

David Aaronovitch


David Aaronovitch is a controversial, award-winning journalist, who has worked in radio, television and newspapers...

Lawrence of Arabia


Starring Peter O'toole, David Lean's epic, depicting the life of TE Lawrence, is almost universally regarded as one o...

Vince Cable MP


Vincent Cable is the Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and speaks for his party on issues of Financ...

Glengarry Glen Ross



Carole Stone


Carole Stone is London’s undisputed queen of networking. Carole joined the BBC as a secretary, and after working ...

Marina Hyde


Marina Hyde has a hard won reputation as one of the funniest and most admired journalists in the UK. She has worked a...

Dr. Leo Ruickbie


Dr. Leo Ruickbie is the leading authority on both the history, and contemporary practice, of witchcraft in Britain. L...

Annie Hall


Just about everyone's favourite Woody Allen Movie. The 1977 classic tells the story of Alvy (Allen) and Annie (Diane ...

Andrew Roberts


Described as "the pre-eminent British Historian of his generation" (The American Spectator), Andrew Roberts is one B...

Down By Law


Jim Jarmusch's 1986 breakthrough Down By Law is a much loved cult-classic of American Cinema. Starring Tom Waits, Joh...

Sleuth


Featuring the stellar pairing of Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine, Joseph L Mankiewicz's Sleuth is a tense psycholo...

James Frey


James Frey is one of the most important, and controversial, writers of recent years, His memoirs A Million Little Pie...

Tom Hodgkinson


TOM HODGKINSON is editor of the much loved magazine, The Idler, which he founded in 1993. He is the author of the cul...

Raging Bull


Martin Scorcese's epic biopic of the legendary troubled boxer Jake LaMotta features probably the finest performance o...

Catharine Blyth


Conversation – do you get enough? The Art of Conversation offers a guided tour of a neglected pleasure, and one that...

When Harry Met Sally


We couldn't resist. It's the Sunday after Valentine's Day and we are showing maybe the most romantic movie ever made,...

Pan's Labyrinth


Giullermo del Toro's stunning fantasy Pan's Labyrinth came out in 2006, and was immediately hailed as a modern classi...

Shawn Cohen


Shawn Cohen is one of the leading experts in the tarot and the psychic arts in the UK. She has travelled the world, w...

Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb


The Members Sunday Film Club kicks off with Stanley Kubrick's classic 1964 Cold War comedy Dr. Strangelove. Starri...

Sebastian Horsley


Back by popular demand! Sebastian's event at Miller's last year was completely sold out. It is a pleasure to welcome ...

Howard Jacobson


One of Britain's best known and most distinctive literary voices, Howard Jacobson is the author of nine novels and fo...

Jake Chapman


Jake and Dinos Chapman are the enfants terrible of contemporary British art. They have rocked the art world more than...

Trevor Silvester


Trevor Silvester is an internationally recognised therapist and NLP trainer. He is the founder of Cognitive Hypnother...

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James Knox


James Knox ran The Spectator in the 1980s and is currently Managing Director of The Art Newspaper, the "bible of the ...

Professor A C Grayling


Professor Anthony Grayling is is Professor in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London and a Supernumera...

Edward Lucas


© Robert Kowalewski / Agencja Gazeta Edward Lucas is currently Deputy Editor, International Section, Central and Ea...

Alain de Botton


Alain de Botton is one of the most well-known philosophers in the UK, and the author of eight bestselling books, incl...

General Sir Mike Jackson


General Sir Mike Jackson GCB CBE DSO served as Chief of the General Staff (CGS) from February 2003 – August 2006, aft...

Henry Hemming


Henry Hemming is 28 years old. After university, he took a year-long journey through the Middle East, for both his ar...

Misha Glenny


As the Central Europe Correspondent first for The Guardian and then for the BBC, Misha Glenny chronicled the collaps...

Tracy Borman


Tracy Borman studied and taught history at the University of Hull and was awarded a PHD in 1997. She went on to a suc...

Clive James


Clive James was born in Sydney, Australia in 1939 and was educated at the University of Sydney and Pembroke College, ...

Marisol Mosquera


Marisol Mosquera is President of Aracari Luxury Travel. Born in Peru, Marisol left her job as an investment banker in...

Alexander Norman


Alexander Norman has known his Holiness the Dalai Lama since 1988 and has previously worked closely with him on his b...

Michael Horovitz


Michael Horovitz is one of the most fascinating, influential and elusive characters of late-twentieth century literat...

Christina Lamb


Since leaving England aged 21 with a yearning for adventure and an invitation to Benazir Bhutto’s wedding in Karachi...

Mr. Jim McNeill


With over 24 years of Arctic travelling, Jim McNeill is an accomplished polar explorer, presenter and keynote speake...

Nicolas Klotz


Acclaimed writer/director team, Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval are developing a mode of written and filmic exp...

David Rothkopf


David Rothkopf is the widely acclaimed author of Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Counci...

Jonathon Zittrain


Jonathan Zittrain holds the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and is a principal of ...

Richard Ruina


Is there is a system that scientifically enables you to attract and seduce women that you would consider ‘out of you...

Jeremy Thomas


Jeremy Thomas has had many and varied jobs, including hospital theatre technician, trainee copywriter, cheese waiter,...

Nick Davies


When award-winning journalist Nick Davies investigated his own profession, he found an industry in crisis - undermine...

Bob Smith


Renegade artist, Patrick Brill, aka Bob and Roberta Smith, is hotly tipped to win the prestigious Fourth Plinth in Tr...

Dr. Farzana Shaikh


Dr Farzana Shaikh is an Associate Fellow of the Asia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chath...

Pierre Rigal



Alla Svirinskaya


"Her famous and famously sceptical patients are a healthy testimony to her extraordinary powers" - Harpers and Queen....

Professor Adrian Furnham


Adrian Furnham was educated at the London School of Economics where he obtained a distinction in an MSc Econ., and at...

Tony Buzan


Tony Buzan is the inventor of “mind-mapping”, the revolutionary way of recording and processing information that has ...

Professor Ali Ansari


Professor Ali Ansari is the leading expert on contemporary Iran, and modern Persian history in the UK. He is constant...

Professor Germaine Greer


Germaine Greer is one of the most significant and controversial figures of recent times. Born in Melbourne and educat...

Jacqueline Harvey


Jacqueline lights up people’s lives. Whether as a holistic personal fitness trainer based at Covent Garden, as a jour...

Stan Stalnaker


Stan Stalnaker is a leading technology futurologist, and expert in global consumer psychology. He is the founder and ...

Dr. Aubrey de Grey


Dr. Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist based at Cambridge whose poriginal ideas on the human aging process ...

Neil Denny


Neil Denny is a producer and presenter of the Little Atoms Radio Show on Resonance 104.4FM. Little Atoms is a show ab...

Sebastian Conran


Sebastian Conran is Creative Director of the Product and Graphic design studios of Conran and Partners, a 100 strong ...

Fernando Arrabal


Fernando Arrabal is one of the most elusive and influential literary figures of the twentieth century. He has directe...

Lucy Hughes-Hallett


Lucy Hughes-Hallett is a critic and cultural historian, author of two acclaimed books: Heroes – Saviours, Traitors...

Aladin


This is a real privilege. Aladin is considered by many to be the most virtuoso magician in the world. His work is des...

Kathleen Burk



Dr. Nick Read


Dr. Nick Read is the author of SICK AND TIRED: TREATING THE ILLNESSES THAT DOCTORS CANNOT CURE. He works in private ...

Inna Segal


Inna Segal is the creator of 'Visionary Intuitive Healing'. She is an internationally recognized healer, professional...

Octavius Black


Octavius is co-author of 'The Mind Gym: wake your mind up', which reached no. 2 on amazon and has been translated int...

Professor John Gray


John Gray’s most recent books are STRAW DOGS (‘That rarest of things, a contemporary work of philosophy, wholly acces...

Yann Martel


The Life of Pi was the best-selling literary sensation that won the prestigious Man Booker Award in 2002. We are priv...

Sebastian Horsley


Back by popular demand! Sebastian's event at Miller's last year was completely sold out. It is a pleasure to welcome ...

Andrew Anthony


In 2001 Andrew Anthony was 39, a successful Observer and Guardian journalist who had just become a father. He was per...

Melanie Phillips


Melanie Phillips is a British journalist and author. She is best known for her controversial column about political a...

Mary Roach


Mary Roach is a journalist who has contributed to GQ, Vogue and New York Times Magazine and is contributing editor fo...

Charles Hill


Born in Cambridge, England to an English mother and American father, Charles Hill was educated in England, Germany an...

Lionel Shriver


Lionel Shriver’s novel We Need To Talk About Kevin, which fearlessly explored the relationship between a mother and h...

Lord Steyn


Johan van Zyl Steyn, Baron Steyn is a South African/English jurist, and until September 2005 a Law Lord. Born in C...

Nassim Taleb


Nassim Nicholas Taleb is one of the most important public intellectuals currently writing. He is an essayist, philos...

David Willetts, MP


David Willetts is the Shadow Secretary for Education and Skills, a job recently vacated by one David Cameron. He ente...

Tom Aikens


Tom Aikens is indisputedly one of the most exciting young chefs in the UK. In 1996, he joined Pied à Terre as Head Ch...

Boris Berezovsky


One of the most controversial figures in contemporary politics and finance, Boris Berezovsky has pursued three succes...

Simon Callow CBE


From Amadeus to Four Weddings and a Funeral, Simon Callow, is one of Britain’s foremost, and best loved actors. He is...

Dr. Nick Baylis


Dr Nick Baylis of Cambridge University is the world’s foremost well-being scientist,therapist, and teacher trying to...

Jack Hamilton


Jack Hamilton is a writer and journalist. In 2006 he worked with a Channel 5 documentary Umbrella Assassin - Reveale...

Will Hutton


Will Hutton has written several best-selling books including the massively influential “The World We’re In”, “The S...

Rosie Boycott


Rosie Boycott is one of the UK’s leading journalists and broadcasters, and has frequently been in the vanguard of sig...

Julia Peyton-Jones


Julia Peyton-Jones studied painting at the Royal College of Art, London, and worked as a practicing artist in London ...

Susan Winemaker


Susan Winemaker is a former Dominatrix. She majored in philosophy, trained as a top chef, but found herself working i...

Oliver James


Oliver James trained and practised as a child clinical psychologist and, since 1987, has worked as a writer, journali...

Samir El-Youssef


Samir El-Youssef, a Palestinian, was born in Rashidia, a refugee camp in Lebanon and has lived in London since 1990. ...

Martin Boroson


Martin Boroson studied Western philosophy at Yale University and earned an MBA at the Yale School of Management. He t...

Dr Barry Smith


Senior lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London, writer and Deputy Director of the Institute of Philosophy ...

Former Ambassador Richard Ralph


Richard Ralph left the British diplomatic service in 2006 after a career spanning South-East Asia, southern Africa, E...

Andrew Motion


'Compelling, simple & mysterious' Sean O'Brien Sunday Times 'His voice is unlike any other' Lavinia Greenlaw New S...

Delissa Needham


Sex, Sex, Sex What turns women on? Documentary producer Delissa Needham began her media career editing one of ...

Kathryn Hughes


Kathryn Hughes is the author of three books on Victorian history. Her most recent, the acclaimed The Short Life and ...

Brian Patten


Brian Patten (born 7 February 1946, Liverpool) is a British poet, born in a working-class neighbourhood near the dock...

Jerome Burne


Jerome Burne is an award winning medical journalist who writes regularly for the Times and other national newspapers....

Lucy Porter


Lucy Porter (born 1973) is a British stand-up comedian. She has performed at the Edinburgh Festival, the Brighton...

Suzannah Dunn


Suzannah Dunn is the author of eight previous books of fiction, including 'Blood Sugar', 'Venus Flaring', 'Tenderhook...

Rachel Johnson


Rachel Johnson comes from a large blonde family and has spawned three flaxen-haired children of primary-school age. ...

Tristram Stuart


Tristram Stuart graduated from Cambridge in 1999 with a double first in English, winning numerous academic prizes. Si...

Renee Elliott


Renee Elliott left her job as a wine writer in 1991 to pursue her dream: to open an organic and natural supermarket t...

Dr Sanda Miller


Senior Lecturer of Fashion, Art, Society; Southampton Solent University. Her Ph.D (Courtauld Institute of Art) on Co...

Prof Marina Wallace


Professor Marina Wallace, Director of Artakt, at The Innovation Centre, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design...

Anders Petterson


Anders Petterson is the Founder and Managing Director of ArtTactic, a London-based art market research and art adviso...

Dr Margaret Cook


Margaret Cook grew up in rural Somerset, then studied medicine at Edinburgh University. Within the student debating/p...

Vanora Bennett


Former Times journalist and author Vanora Bennett, talks about her highly intelligent new work of historical fiction ...

Adaptation


Charlie Kaufman is one of the most acclaimed, cutting edge film-makers in the world. He is perhaps best known for wri...

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