{"title": "Churchill on Film: Thaddeus O'Sullivan in Conversation", "start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Wallace Collection", "address": "Manchester Square, W1U 3BN London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://wallacecollection.digitickets.co.uk/tickets", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/wwii", "art", "film"], "description": "An evening talk at the Wallace Collection in which director Thaddeus O'Sullivan joins Dr Lucy Davis, curator of the exhibition Winston Churchill: The Painter, to discuss Winston Churchill and his legacy on screen. Their conversation centres on O'Sullivan's 2009 film Into the Storm, with Brendan Gleeson's Emmy Award-winning portrayal of Churchill as wartime leader, politician and devoted amateur painter. The talk examines the public and private character of Britain's most famous wartime prime minister and the challenges of portraying such an iconic figure on screen. 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Playwright James Graham, a three-time Olivier Award winner, chronicles John Major's rapid rise from obscure Whip to Prime Minister, taking over from Margaret Thatcher in 1990 during a pivotal moment for the UK. 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Sweet Patootee Arts and the Old Royal Naval College Interpretation Team explore how oral testimony and creative research can break through archival silence to restore long silenced histories of British Caribbean lives during the Second World War. From 6pm to 7.30pm visitors can view the exhibition, with the talk and Q&A running from 7.30pm to 8.30pm. 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Drawing on nearly 60 years of access to world leaders, he examines what makes tyrants and how sane societies slip into despotism, from Putin, Assad, Saddam, Gaddafi and Trump to Gorbachev, Mandela, Havel and Zelensky. The second half is an audience question-and-answer session about the events he has covered, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to Tiananmen Square and the Gulf Wars. 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Artist Jane O'Sullivan, an experimental printmaker based in Bethnal Green who works primarily in black ink, takes imagery from the classic 1940 film noir 'The Letter', directed by William Wyler and starring Bette Davis and Gale Sondergaard. Working across Tetrapak etching, monotype, monoprint and woodcut, she experiments with tone and texture and reimagines the film's two powerful female protagonists against its backdrop of a sultry colonial Malayan rubber plantation. This is her first solo exhibition at St Margaret's House and her second noir-inspired one there.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-letter-experiments-in-ink-38806/", "official_url": "https://www.stmargaretshouse.org.uk/events/the-letter-experiments-in-ink", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7c3b1c92c413c67e5d660e3dfb016aa572e6ab7866bdd053c3219f791b8db6fc-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Bayeux Tapestry: Between Myth & History", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "£20, conc. £18, students £15", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_7121129.TcsSection_6930861", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/textile-art/tapestry", "history/middle-ages"], "description": "A talk titled The Bayeux Tapestry: Between Myth & History at the Institut français du Royaume-Uni. Michael Lewis, lead curator of the British Museum's Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, and Leonie Hicks, Professor of Medieval Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University, discuss the significance of 1066 for the English and why the Bayeux Tapestry is such an important record of the Norman Conquest of England. The conversation examines the political circumstances depicted in the Tapestry and what purpose the embroidery might have had for those who created it. It is part of a series of curated events around the Bayeux Tapestry at the French Institute, held in English.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-bayeux-tapestry-between-myth-history-74180/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agenda/the-bayeux-tapestry-between-myth-history/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/41251f0f47e15e051bfae5be613dad7ea71aee22fbadd2f299a24554e6f7b682-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Andrew Davies in conversation with Hadley Freeman", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Daunt Books Notting Hill", "address": "", "price": "£6.00", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "tickets_url": "https://dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/andrew-davies/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/memoir"], "description": "An intimate evening conversation at a bookshop with the screenwriter and novelist Andrew Davies about his new memoir, An Unsuitable Boy: A Life in Scripts. He will be joined in conversation by author and journalist Hadley Freeman, formerly of The Guardian and now a staff writer at The Sunday Times. The memoir weaves together wit, irreverence and vulnerability, reflecting on a life of writing, adapting and collaborating, from post-war Cardiff to the BBC boardroom. The ticket price includes a glass of wine or a soft drink.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/andrew-davies-in-conversation-with-hadley-freeman-41336/", "official_url": "https://dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/andrew-davies/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7d0544d1a1714526e74c2f40d60c2c2aa0de35f8dcc780d344d0f74b42a08f25-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Of Times There Were Before", "start": "2026-11-03T17:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/of-times-there-were-before-film-screening-tickets-2002120456180?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/historiography"], "description": "A documentary film screening, followed by a discussion with the director. 'Of Times There Were Before' is a portrait of Romila Thapar, one of the world's most influential historians and public intellectuals, filmed at her home in New Delhi. Directed and produced by Eshan Sharma and edited by Anant Raina, it began with the question of who the person behind the historian's name is. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/of-times-there-were-before-43655/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/times-there-were", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ab70484a4756c054d26543610c7f85665046d8a07044512675b0a187c2f3a49a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "First Scares", "start": "2026-11-01T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T14:00:00Z", "place": "The Cinema Museum", "address": "Dugard Way 2, SE11 4TH London", "price": "£22.50 – £40", "price_from": "22.50", "price_to": "40.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticketlab.app/series/2886-First-Scares-tickets", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/horror"], "description": "First Scares is a two-show event in which broadcaster and writer Matthew Sweet explores what film or TV moments genuinely terrified stars of stage and screen. The 14:00 session features interviews with Peter Straughan (Conclave), BAFTA-winning Best Actress Joanna Scanlan (After Love) and Angela Allen; the 17:00 session features Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, The League of Gentlemen), Lesley Manville (The Crown, Mrs Harris Goes to Paris), Sharon Duncan-Brewster (Dune) and Carol Morley (The Falling, Typist Artist Pirate King). 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Directed by Antonin Baudry, it follows his struggle to convince the world that the battle for France is not lost, as resistance fighters, rebellious students and determined soldiers gradually rise up to join his cause. 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It comes from award-winning filmmaker Tom McShane and follows Sally Orange MBE, a former Army physiotherapist and mental health campaigner who, after recovering from cancer, takes her mental health message to the highest marathon in the world. The film also features adventurers and experts including Sir Chris Bonington, Al Carns, Hari Budha Magar and Dr Shaunna Burke, and the discussion joins Sally with Tom McShane, Dr Sophie Redlin and Dr Shaunna Burke.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/everyones-everest-sally-orange-mbe-50101/", "official_url": "https://www.rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/everyones-everest/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7472f3429077e2f79317210245849212a3a0fc6f7bb9fee0b3d40979163d2c54-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Speculations", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Canary Wharf Theatre", "address": "Charter Street 4, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.kxtickets.com/whats-on/speculations", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama/thriller"], "description": "A new political thriller staged as a play. Janie Dee stars as journalist Dorothy Kilgallen in the world premiere of Torben Betts' work, directed by Trevor Nunn. Set in New York in 1965, it follows Kilgallen as she investigates the deaths of Marilyn Monroe, John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald, chasing a story someone wants stopped. It is presented by Wild Yak and the Marylebone Theatre.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/speculations-41153/", "official_url": "https://www.kxtickets.com/whats-on/speculations", "image": "https://noky.io/images/03c782afbd53603c956f3ccb3884ecdbd350d90076fefae5ec2afb3e7a79afb6-1200.webp"}]}