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For the Love of Life – Joanna Lumley in conversation with Philip Lymbery
31 January 2025 @ 6.30pm to 7.30pm
About For the Love of Life – Joanna Lumley in conversation with Philip Lymbery
One of Britain’s best-known actresses Dame Joanna Lumley talks about her love of life, of animals and the natural world, and about her animal welfare campaigning.
This preview event for the main festival will see Lumley in conversation with Philip Lymbery, chief executive of Compassion in World Farming and author of Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat, Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Are and Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future. It takes place on the tenth anniversary of the publication of the award-winning Farmageddon.
Lumley and Lymbery will discuss whether the warnings of the harms being done by industrial animal agriculture have been heeded and what needs to be done to save all life on this planet. The discussion will include solutions for positive change, stories of healing, and inspiring reasons for hope.
Lumley is an actor, television presenter, and former model. She won two Baftas for her role as Patsy Stone in Absolutely Fabulous. Her television work also includes The New Avengers. Film appearances include On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Shirley Valentine, and The Wolf of Wall Street. She is also a well-known campaigner for justice and human rights, most notably for the Gurkha Justice Campaign.
In association with Compassion in World Farming.
Tickets
£8.00 – £20.00
Please see important booking information below.
Booking information
Tickets prices:
£8.00 – £20.00
Concessions available
Dates & times:
Friday 31 January 2025 at 6.30pm
Doors open at 6.00pm
Latecomers are permitted to galleries only.
Running time:
1 hour, inclusive of Question and Answer.
Age guidance:
All ages welcome
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