Talks

Sep 2025
- Thu 25
  - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Torchfire with Moira Buffini
- Sat 27
  - 10:00 am - 11:00 am
    
    Cressida Cowell
- Mon 29
  - 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys with Mariana Enriquez
- Tue 30
  - 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
    
    Mary Portas: I Shop, Therefore I Am
Oct 2025
- Wed 1
  - 7:30 pm - 11:00 pm
    
    James May at The Forum
    
    £40.00
- Thu 2
  - 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
    
    After Hours at Beckford’s Tower
    
    £10
  - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    An Evening with Susie Dent & Len Pennie
- Fri 3
  - 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    
    Natalie Cassidy: Happy Days
  - 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Tycho Brahe and the restoration of Astronomy
- Sat 4
  - 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
    
    Creative Writing Masterclass with Fleur Hitchcock
  - 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
    
    Meet Liz Pichon
- Sun 5
  - 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
    
    The Lion Inside 10th Anniversary Celebration
  - 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
    
    The Magic of Stories with Hugh Bonneville
- Mon 6
  - 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
    
    Michael Palin
  - 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    How the 1963 Bristol Bus Boycott changed Britain
- Tue 7
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    An Evening with Raymond Blanc
  - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Bloody Awful in Different Ways with Andrev Walden, in conversation with Claire Fuller
  - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Graham Robb for The Discovery of Britain
  - 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Is Consciousness everywhere?
  - 7:30 pm - 9:20 pm
    
    An Evening with Mary Beard
- Wed 8
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Sarah Howe for Foretokens
- Thu 9
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Martin Parr for Utterly Lazy and Inattentive
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Thomasina Mier’s Mexican Table
  - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Role Model with Elle McNicoll
  - 7:30 pm - 11:30 pm
    
    Black tie Dinner & Autumn Nations Q&A with Mike Tindall MBE, Lewis Moody MBE and David Flatman.
- Fri 10
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Dr Julia Shaw for Green Crime: Inside the Minds of the People Destroying the Planet, and How to Stop Them
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Charlie Higson for Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee
- Sat 11
  - 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    
    Stanza 25: poetry workshop
- Mon 13
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Sabrina Ghayour’s Persiana Easy
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Alex Riley for Super Natural: How Life Thrives in Impossible Places
  - 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Sir Robert Dudley: explorer, cartographer, inventor, bigamist
- Tue 14
  - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
    
    Periods around the world: How can we deliver menstrual justice?
    
    Free
  - 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    
    Cultural Organisation Networking – Creative Calendar 2026
    
    £5
  - 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
    
    An Evening with the Boy, the Mole, the Fox & the Horse’s Charlie Mackesy
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Wendy Erskine for The Benefactors
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Folklore: A Journey Through the Past and Present
- Wed 15
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Mona Awad for We Love You, Bunny
  - 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Jimmy Anderson
- Thu 16
  - 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
    
    Nicola Sturgeon for Frankly
  - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Cursed Daughters with Oyinkan Braithwaite
  - 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Reorienting the Renaissance: the case of the Tudors
- Fri 17
  - All day
    
    FilmBath Bath Film Festival 2025
  - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
    
    Faultlines 3: the path to Net Zero – are we doing enough?
  - 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Michael Jackson & the Golden Age of Hollywood
- Sat 18
  - All day
    
    FilmBath Bath Film Festival 2025
- Sun 19
  - All day
    
    FilmBath Bath Film Festival 2025
  - 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
    
    CURATOR’S TALK
  - 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
    
    Godzilla (1954) + Introduction by Steven Sloss
  - 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
    
    Godzilla (1954) + Introduction by Steven Sloss
- Mon 20
  - All day
    
    FilmBath Bath Film Festival 2025
  - 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
    
    People of colour in Georgian Bath
  - 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    How Our Virtual World Impacts Our Physical World
- Tue 21
  - All day
    
    FilmBath Bath Film Festival 2025
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Celebrating Black History Month: Lanre Bakare for We Were There
  - 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
    
    Monsterland with Nicholas Jubber
- Wed 22
  - All day
    
    FilmBath Bath Film Festival 2025
  - 10:30 am - 3:30 pm
    
    Research Showcase: Age Friendly Cities
    
    Free
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Peter Ross for Upon A White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland
- Thu 23
  - All day
    
    FilmBath Bath Film Festival 2025
  - 9:30 am - 5:00 pm
    
    Film Industry Day
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    An Evening with Jung Chang of Wild Swans
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Celebrating Black History Month: Kehinde Andrews for Nobody Can Give You Freedom
  - 7:00 pm - 9:40 pm
    
    Selma (2014) + Q&A with Roger Griffith MBE
- Fri 24
  - All day
    
    FilmBath Bath Film Festival 2025
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Celebrating Black History Month: The Mixed-Race Experience with Emma Slade Edmondson and Nicole Ocran
  - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    It’s Not a Cult with Joey Batey, in conversation with Natasha Pulley
  - 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
    
    Susie Wolff: Driven
- Sat 25
  - All day
    
    FilmBath Bath Film Festival 2025
- Sun 26
  - All day
    
    FilmBath Bath Film Festival 2025
  - 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
    
    Donald Smith Artist’s Talk
- Mon 27
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Janina Ramirez for Legenda: The Real Women Behind the Myths the Shaped Europe
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    An Evening with TJ Klune
- Tue 28
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    A Halloween Extravaganza with Eric LaRocca
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    The Japanese Pantry wth Emiko Davies
  - 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Renaissance Colour Symbolism & Literature
- Wed 29
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Alison Weir for Queens at War
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Leon Craig for The Decadence
  - 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    
    In Conversation with Alan Davies
- Thu 30
  - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
    
    The Watsons: The novel Jane Austen was always writing
    
    £7
  - 6:15 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    An Evening with Andrzej Sapkowski of The Witcher
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    British Museum Lectures: Nordic Noir
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Olly Smith Wine Tasting
  - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Moth Dark with Kika Hatzopoulou
Nov 2025
- Sat 1
  - 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
    
    Anne Brontë: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
  - 11:30 am - 2:00 pm
    
    An Afternoon with Nick Offerman!
- Sun 2
  - 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    An Evening with B.K. Borison of First Time Caller
- Tue 4
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Chloe Michelle Howarth for Heap Earth upon It
  - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    The Wax Child with Olga Ravn
- Wed 5
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Sarah Hendrickx asks Could I Really Be Autistic?: Your First Steps to Self-Discovery
- Thu 6
  - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Frankenstein with MinaLima’s Miraphora Mina & Eduardo Lima
  - 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
    
    Chef Stephen Harris with The Sportman at Home
- Fri 7
  - 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
    
    A Signing with Beloved Children’s Author Oliver Jeffers!
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    An Evening with Angela Harding
- Sat 8
  - 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
    
    BANES WLN Quarterly Coffee Morning
    
    £20
- Sun 9
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    An Evening with Zadie Smith
- Mon 10
  - 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
    
    The Fay Weldon Lecture: The Afterlife of Women’s Writing
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Tom Gilbey’s Thirsty Wine Tasting
- Tue 11
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    An Evening with Adalyn Grace of Belladonna
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Zoe McGee on Courting Disaster
  - 7:30 pm - 11:00 pm
    
    Two Pints Podcast at The Forum
    
    £29.50
- Wed 12
  - 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
    
    Innovation through Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Abir Mukherjee for The Burning Grounds
- Thu 13
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    An Evening with Olivie Blake of The Atlas Six
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Silk Roads: A Flavour Odyssey with Anna Ansari
- Mon 17
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    An Evening with Jay Kristoff
- Tue 18
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    An Evening with Joe Sacco of Footnotes in Gaza and Palestine
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    An Evening with Chloe Gong of These Violent Delights
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Skye McAlpine’s Christmas Companion
- Wed 19
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Jean Sprackland for Night Vision
- Thu 20
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Jeanette Winterson for One Aladdin Two Lamps
- Fri 21
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Japanese Whisky Tasting with Dave Broom
  - 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
    
    Andrew Graham Dixon for Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found
- Thu 27
  - 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Carol Ann Duffy for A Christmas Eve Ghost Story
- Sat 29
  - 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    
    Stanza 25: poetry workshop
Dec 2025
- Wed 3
  - 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    The true costs of pleasure: visiting Georgian Bath
- Fri 5
  - 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Thomas Harriot: Renaissance astronomer, navigator & mathematician
- Mon 8
  - 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    A C Grayling – Making peace in the culture wars
- Tue 9
  - 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
    
    From Hand to Screen to Cloud: What is your Postdigital Positionality?
- Wed 10
  - 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    
    Italy in the Global Renaissance
- Thu 11
  - 3:45 pm - 6:00 pm
    
    Christmas Evening Special Guest: Harriet Lowther
- Sun 14
  - 4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
    
    Phenomenal Women: An Evening with Susannah Harker
- Fri 19
  - 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
    
    What The Dickens