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Speakers, Artists and Performers at Miller's Academy

Confirmed speakers in alphabetical order
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Miller's at Glencot House Invites


Saturday 30th of June 2007
Martin Miller's Midsummer's Dream Party to celebrate the launch of Martin's novel: The Wookey Hole Affair, which will...

Andrew Anthony


Tuesday 25th of September 2007
In 2001 Andrew Anthony was 39, a successful Observer and Guardian journalist who had just become a father. He was per...

Aladin


Wednesday 31st of October 2007
This is a real privilege. Aladin is considered by many to be the most virtuoso magician in the world. His work is des...

Professor A C Grayling


Wednesday 4th of April 2007
Professor Anthony Grayling is is Professor in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London and a Supernumera...

Nancy Abrams


Thursday 12th of October 2006
Astrophysicist and science philosopher, co-author of 'The View of the Centre of the th Universe: discovering our Extr...

Tom Aikens


Tuesday 5th of June 2007
Tom Aikens is indisputedly one of the most exciting young chefs in the UK. In 1996, he joined Pied à Terre as Head Ch...

Dr (Mosaraf) Ali


Wednesday 4th of October 2006
Dr. Ali is one of UK's pioneers of specialist integrated health/medicine, a columnist in Sunday Mail's 'You' magazine...

Professor Ali Ansari


Wednesday 23rd of January 2008
Professor Ali Ansari is the leading expert on contemporary Iran, and modern Persian history in the UK. He is constant...

Fernando Arrabal


Thursday 8th of November 2007
Fernando Arrabal is one of the most elusive and influential literary figures of the twentieth century. He has directe...

Dr. Nick Baylis


Tuesday 8th of May 2007
Dr Nick Baylis of Cambridge University is the world’s foremost well-being scientist,therapist, and teacher trying to...

Vanora Bennett


Monday 16th of October 2006
Former Times journalist and author Vanora Bennett, talks about her highly intelligent new work of historical fiction ...

Boris Berezovsky


Tuesday 29th of May 2007
One of the most controversial figures in contemporary politics and finance, Boris Berezovsky has pursued three succes...

Octavius Black


Monday 8th of October 2007
Octavius is co-author of 'The Mind Gym: wake your mind up', which reached no. 2 on amazon and has been translated int...

Tracy Borman


Wednesday 9th of July 2008
Tracy Borman studied and taught history at the University of Hull and was awarded a PHD in 1997. She went on to a suc...

Martin Boroson


Monday 12th of March 2007
Martin Boroson studied Western philosophy at Yale University and earned an MBA at the Yale School of Management. He t...

Rosie Boycott


Wednesday 18th of April 2007
Rosie Boycott is one of the UK’s leading journalists and broadcasters, and has frequently been in the vanguard of sig...

Alba Branca


Wednesday 18th of April 2007

Louisa Buck


Tuesday 3rd of April 2007
Louisa Buck is a writer and broadcaster on contemporary art, contemporary art columnist for The Art Newspaper, and a ...

Kathleen Burk


Tuesday 30th of October 2007

Jerome Burne


Wednesday 31st of January 2007
Jerome Burne is an award winning medical journalist who writes regularly for the Times and other national newspapers....

Tony Buzan


Thursday 31st of January 2008
Tony Buzan is the inventor of “mind-mapping”, the revolutionary way of recording and processing information that has ...

Simon Callow CBE


Wednesday 9th of May 2007
From Amadeus to Four Weddings and a Funeral, Simon Callow, is one of Britain’s foremost, and best loved actors. He is...

Peter Carvell


Wednesday 20th of June 2007
After reading History at Cambridge, Peter Carvell began his career in the City and advertising world, before becoming...

Tracy Chevalier


Tuesday 3rd of July 2007
Tracy Chevalier grew up in Washington, DC and after university moved to London, where she lives with her husband and ...

Alex Clarke


Tuesday 26th of September 2006
Alex Clarke is by profession, a copywriter – and has worked at agencies like Publicis and BBM Carlson. He is also a j...

Nick Cohen


Tuesday 26th of September 2006
Nick Cohen is a columnist for the Observer, The New Statesman and the Evening Standard. In his Channel Four documenta...

Sebastian Conran


Wednesday 14th of November 2007
Sebastian Conran is Creative Director of the Product and Graphic design studios of Conran and Partners, a 100 strong ...

Dr Margaret Cook


Tuesday 17th of October 2006
Margaret Cook grew up in rural Somerset, then studied medicine at Edinburgh University. Within the student debating/p...

Nick Davies


Tuesday 8th of April 2008
When award-winning journalist Nick Davies investigated his own profession, he found an industry in crisis - undermine...

Dr. Aubrey de Grey


Tuesday 4th of December 2007
Dr. Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist based at Cambridge whose poriginal ideas on the human aging process ...

Neil Denny


Wednesday 21st of November 2007
Neil Denny is a producer and presenter of the Little Atoms Radio Show on Resonance 104.4FM. Little Atoms is a show ab...

Suzannah Dunn


Monday 29th of January 2007
Suzannah Dunn is the author of eight previous books of fiction, including 'Blood Sugar', 'Venus Flaring', 'Tenderhook...

Samir El-Youssef


Wednesday 14th of March 2007
Samir El-Youssef, a Palestinian, was born in Rashidia, a refugee camp in Lebanon and has lived in London since 1990. ...

Renee Elliott


Monday 15th of January 2007
Renee Elliott left her job as a wine writer in 1991 to pursue her dream: to open an organic and natural supermarket t...

Professor Edzard Ernst


Wednesday 4th of June 2008
Professor Edzard Ernst is Britain's, and the world's, first professor of alternative medicine, who has spent over a ...

Peter Florence


Wednesday 18th of April 2007
Peter Florence has founded the world’s five leading literary festivals in Hay, Mantova, Cartagena, Segovia and Parati...

Professor Adrian Furnham


Tuesday 12th of February 2008
Adrian Furnham was educated at the London School of Economics where he obtained a distinction in an MSc Econ., and at...

Charles Glass


Wednesday 11th of October 2006
World-famous journalist, broadcaster and author, Charles Glass was also Chief Middle East Correspondent for ABC News ...

Terry Glavin


Monday 22nd of October 2007
Terry Glavin is a Canadian author and journalist. Among his best known works is "The Last Great Sea", a history of th...

Misha Glenny


Wednesday 23rd of July 2008
As the Central Europe Correspondent first for The Guardian and then for the BBC, Misha Glenny chronicled the collaps...

Oleg Gordievsky


Wednesday 2nd of May 2007
Oleg Gordievsky was the highest ranking KGB agent to defect to the west during the Cold War. He has an unrivalled kno...

Professor John Gray


Tuesday 2nd of October 2007
John Gray’s most recent books are STRAW DOGS (‘That rarest of things, a contemporary work of philosophy, wholly acces...

Professor Germaine Greer


Tuesday 22nd of January 2008
Germaine Greer is one of the most significant and controversial figures of recent times. Born in Melbourne and educat...

Jack Hamilton


Wednesday 2nd of May 2007
Jack Hamilton is a writer and journalist. In 2006 he worked with a Channel 5 documentary Umbrella Assassin - Reveale...

Johann Hari


Wednesday 21st of November 2007
Johann Hari is an award-winning journalist and playwright. Since 2003 he has been a columnist for The Independent, an...

Jacqueline Harvey


Tuesday 15th of January 2008
Jacqueline lights up people’s lives. Whether as a holistic personal fitness trainer based at Covent Garden, as a jour...

Henry Hemming


Tuesday 29th of July 2008
Henry Hemming is 28 years old. After university, he took a year-long journey through the Middle East, for both his ar...

Charles Hill


Wednesday 11th of July 2007
Born in Cambridge, England to an English mother and American father, Charles Hill was educated in England, Germany an...

Peter Hitchens


Wednesday 6th of June 2007
For nearly thirty years Peter Hitchens has been a unique and controversial voice in the British political and cultura...

Michael Horovitz


Wednesday 28th of May 2008
Michael Horovitz is one of the most fascinating, influential and elusive characters of late-twentieth century literat...

Sebastian Horsley


Wednesday 26th of September 2007
One of the most colourful, and controversial figures in contemporary London, Sebastian Horsley has done just about ev...

Kathryn Hughes


Monday 12th of February 2007
Kathryn Hughes is the author of three books on Victorian history. Her most recent, the acclaimed The Short Life and ...

Dr. Tony Hughes


Wednesday 16th of April 2008
Dr. Tony Hughes is a Doctor and specialist in mental illness.

Lucy Hughes-Hallett


Wednesday 7th of November 2007
Lucy Hughes-Hallett is a critic and cultural historian, author of two acclaimed books: Heroes – Saviours, Traitors...

Will Hutton


Wednesday 25th of April 2007
Will Hutton has written several best-selling books including the massively influential “The World We’re In”, “The S...

General Sir Mike Jackson


Wednesday 30th of July 2008
General Sir Mike Jackson GCB CBE DSO served as Chief of the General Staff (CGS) from February 2003 – August 2006, aft...

Oliver James


Monday 19th of March 2007
Oliver James trained and practised as a child clinical psychologist and, since 1987, has worked as a writer, journali...

Clive James


Wednesday 25th of June 2008
Clive James was born in Sydney, Australia in 1939 and was educated at the University of Sydney and Pembroke College, ...

Rachel Johnson


Wednesday 24th of January 2007
Rachel Johnson comes from a large blonde family and has spawned three flaxen-haired children of primary-school age. ...

Kim Kindersley


Wednesday 4th of July 2007
Born in England & having a working background in the entertainment business, Kim has devoted himself to exploring & d...

Nicolas Klotz


Thursday 1st of May 2008
Acclaimed writer/director team, Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval are developing a mode of written and filmic exp...

Christina Lamb


Tuesday 13th of May 2008
Since leaving England aged 21 with a yearning for adventure and an invitation to Benazir Bhutto’s wedding in Karachi...

Yann Martel


Friday 28th of September 2007
The Life of Pi was the best-selling literary sensation that won the prestigious Man Booker Award in 2002. We are priv...

Mr. Jim McNeill


Wednesday 7th of May 2008
With over 24 years of Arctic travelling, Jim McNeill is an accomplished polar explorer, presenter and keynote speake...

Dr Sanda Miller


Wednesday 25th of October 2006
Senior Lecturer of Fashion, Art, Society; Southampton Solent University. Her Ph.D (Courtauld Institute of Art) on Co...

Martin Miller Invites


Wednesday 27th of February 2008
A Miller's Academy Members only party. Member price is £20 which includes one guest. Additional guests are £20 each. ...

Marisol Mosquera


Tuesday 24th of June 2008
Marisol Mosquera is President of Aracari Luxury Travel. Born in Peru, Marisol left her job as an investment banker in...

Andrew Motion


Monday 26th of February 2007
'Compelling, simple & mysterious' Sean O'Brien Sunday Times 'His voice is unlike any other' Lavinia Greenlaw New S...

Delissa Needham


Monday 19th of February 2007
Sex, Sex, Sex What turns women on? Documentary producer Delissa Needham began her media career editing one of ...

Alexander Norman


Monday 9th of June 2008
Alexander Norman has known his Holiness the Dalai Lama since 1988 and has previously worked closely with him on his b...

Members' and Guests' Open Day...


Saturday 2nd of June 2007
This is a member's and guest's Open Day to celebrate The Derby on Saturday 2nd June and watch the event on the big sc...

Jane Owen


Tuesday 27th of May 2008
Jane Owen is a writer, author, editor, broadcaster, designer and speaker specialising in gardens. She also writes opi...

Brian Patten


Wednesday 7th of February 2007
Brian Patten (born 7 February 1946, Liverpool) is a British poet, born in a working-class neighbourhood near the dock...

Anders Petterson


Wednesday 18th of October 2006
Anders Petterson is the Founder and Managing Director of ArtTactic, a London-based art market research and art adviso...

Julia Peyton-Jones


Tuesday 3rd of April 2007
Julia Peyton-Jones studied painting at the Royal College of Art, London, and worked as a practicing artist in London ...

Melanie Phillips


Wednesday 18th of July 2007
Melanie Phillips is a British journalist and author. She is best known for her controversial column about political a...

Lucy Porter


Tuesday 30th of January 2007
Lucy Porter (born 1973) is a British stand-up comedian. She has performed at the Edinburgh Festival, the Brighton...

Martin Miller Presents


Thursday 4th of October 2007
You are invited to join us for an intimate evening meal [non-members contact chef@millersacademy.co.uk to make speci...

Miller's Presents


Sunday 9th of September 2007
Celebrate Summer at Miller's Academy Sunday 9th September 2007 Doors open at 6pm Join us for a late Summer eveni...

Joel Primark


Thursday 12th of October 2006
Astrophysicist and science philosopher, co-author of 'The View of the Centre of the Universe: discovering our Extraor...

Former Ambassador Richard Ralph


Wednesday 28th of February 2007
Richard Ralph left the British diplomatic service in 2006 after a career spanning South-East Asia, southern Africa, E...

Dr. Nick Read


Tuesday 23rd of October 2007
Dr. Nick Read is the author of SICK AND TIRED: TREATING THE ILLNESSES THAT DOCTORS CANNOT CURE. He works in private ...

Pierre Rigal


Tuesday 26th of February 2008

Mary Roach


Tuesday 17th of July 2007
Mary Roach is a journalist who has contributed to GQ, Vogue and New York Times Magazine and is contributing editor fo...

Jon Ronson


Tuesday 17th of July 2007
Jon Ronson is an author, journalist and documentary film maker. His books, Them: Adventures With Extremists and The M...

David Rothkopf


Wednesday 30th of April 2008
David Rothkopf is the widely acclaimed author of Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Counci...

Richard Ruina


Wednesday 23rd of April 2008
Is there is a system that scientifically enables you to attract and seduce women that you would consider ‘out of you...

Ayman Sawaf


Monday 26th of November 2007
Ayman is an international visionary entrepreneur, CEO and best-selling, author. He is one of the original creators of...

Inna Segal


Tuesday 23rd of October 2007
Inna Segal is the creator of 'Visionary Intuitive Healing'. She is an internationally recognized healer, professional...

Dr. Farzana Shaikh


Wednesday 5th of March 2008
Dr Farzana Shaikh is an Associate Fellow of the Asia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chath...

Karolyn Shindler


Friday 6th of December 2019
Discovering Dorothea: The Life of Pioneering Fossil hunter Dorothea Bate

Lionel Shriver


Tuesday 19th of June 2007
Lionel Shriver’s novel We Need To Talk About Kevin, which fearlessly explored the relationship between a mother and h...

Dr. Simon Singh


Wednesday 4th of June 2008
Dr Simon Singh is a bestselling popular science author (The Big Bang, The Code Book and Fermat's Last Theorem) and h...

Adam Sisman


Monday 5th of February 2007
Adam Sisman was educated at St Paul’s School and Sussex University. He worked full time as a publisher’s editor for 1...

Dr Barry Smith


Wednesday 7th of March 2007
Senior lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London, writer and Deputy Director of the Institute of Philosophy ...

Bob Smith


Tuesday 11th of March 2008
Renegade artist, Patrick Brill, aka Bob and Roberta Smith, is hotly tipped to win the prestigious Fourth Plinth in Tr...

Stan Stalnaker


Tuesday 11th of December 2007
Stan Stalnaker is a leading technology futurologist, and expert in global consumer psychology. He is the founder and ...

Lord Steyn


Wednesday 13th of June 2007
Johan van Zyl Steyn, Baron Steyn is a South African/English jurist, and until September 2005 a Law Lord. Born in C...

Ed Stourton


Tuesday 29th of May 2007
Edward Stourton was born in Lagos, Nigeria in November 1957. Educated first at Ampleforth College and then at Trinity...

Tristram Stuart


Wednesday 17th of January 2007
Tristram Stuart graduated from Cambridge in 1999 with a double first in English, winning numerous academic prizes. Si...

Janet Suzman


Wednesday 13th of June 2007
Janet Suzman is one of Britain’s most renowned stage actresses. Born in South Africa to a Jewish family, she is the n...

Alla Svirinskaya


Wednesday 20th of February 2008
"Her famous and famously sceptical patients are a healthy testimony to her extraordinary powers" - Harpers and Queen....

Nassim Taleb


Tuesday 12th of June 2007
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is one of the most important public intellectuals currently writing. He is an essayist, philos...

Jeremy Thomas


Wednesday 16th of April 2008
Jeremy Thomas has had many and varied jobs, including hospital theatre technician, trainee copywriter, cheese waiter,...

Prof Marina Wallace


Monday 23rd of October 2006
Professor Marina Wallace, Director of Artakt, at The Innovation Centre, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design...

Alison Weir


Wednesday 9th of July 2008
Alison Weir is one of Britain's best-loved and most-read popular historians. Her books include Britain's Royal Famil...

David Willetts, MP


Wednesday 6th of June 2007
David Willetts is the Shadow Secretary for Education and Skills, a job recently vacated by one David Cameron. He ente...

Kate Williams


Wednesday 9th of July 2008
Kate Williams is the author of England's Mistress: the Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton, Book of the Week on Radio 4, a...

Susan Winemaker


Wednesday 28th of March 2007
Susan Winemaker is a former Dominatrix. She majored in philosophy, trained as a top chef, but found herself working i...

Eitan Yardeni


Wednesday 19th of March 2008
Eitan Yardeni has played a major role in the globalization of Kabbalah. He is a teacher, role model, and spiritual c...

Jonathon Zittrain


Tuesday 29th of April 2008
Jonathan Zittrain holds the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and is a principal of ...

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