St Martin-in-the-Fields’ Autumn Lecture Series 2024 brings together a group of inspirational speakers to share their own sources of inspiration. What are the influences that form our identity, our faith, our beliefs, our creativity and the values by which we live? What are the things in our own lives that mark us, change us, challenge us and make us who we are? Leading figures from the world of politics, art, culture, history, media and faith talk about the formative influences of their lives and challenge us to reflect upon our own sources of inspiration and the values for which we live or long.
“These lectures and talks offer us a privileged insight into the hearts and souls of people who shape our public consciousness today, and offer us opportunities to ponder and feel gratitude for our own sources of inspiration.” Revd Dr Sam Wells, Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields.
Zeinab Badawi is an award winning broadcaster, journalist and filmmaker. She is President of SOAS, University of London, and is an honorary fellow of her alma mater, St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Born in Sudan she has worked in the British media for several decades. In her inspirational new book An African History of Africa, Zeinab Badawi guides us through Africa’s spectacular history from the very origins of the species, through ancient civilisations and remarkable kings and queens to the miseries of conquest and the elation of independence. Visiting more than thirty different countries to write her book she unearths through the voices of Africans themselves the buried epic histories of the oldest inhabited continent on the planet.