Below is a list of all the speakers who have visited Hexham over the years – some on more than one occasion
Margaret Anstee
What price peace? (UNA)
Yahya Barry
Religious Economics: Can Islam offer anything to Britain?
Simon Beard
The Future of Humanity Depends on the Size of our Population.
Mike Berners-Lee
The Burning Question
Richard Black
Will the lights go out?
John Bourton & Daniel Lenham – Veterans for Peace
How to turn your child into a killer
Frank Boulton
Is there a place for new nuclear build in our energy policy?
Paul Brannen x 2
Why aid is not the answer but taxes might be
Why a ‘wooden’ Northumbrian landscape will spell a brighter future.
Emma Briant
Propaganda and counter terrorism
Sara Bryson x 2
How and why the economic model is broken in Britain.
Prosperity and Justice: A Plan for the New Economy.
Gwen Buck
Power to the people – Shaping UK climate policy through deliberative democracy
Tony Cain
Housing as a Human Right.
John Christensen
How tax havens wrecked the global economy
Michael Clarke x 5
Afghanistan
UK foreign policy
Are other peoples wars really our wars?
Terrorism in Britain: How bad is the problem and how good is the response?What’s left of Global Britain after the Afghanistan debacle?
Ian Cobain
Illegal detention & torture of terrorist suspects
Jocelyn Cockburn
Why are Human Rights divisive?
Luke Cooper
Authoritarian Contagion: The Global Threat to Democracy
Jeremy Corbyn
Nuclear disarmament
Chris Cole
Rise of Drones
Lindsay Cross
Refugees / asylum seekers
Andrew Feinstein
Global Arms Trad
Ann Feltham
The UK and Saudi Arabia: fuelling war and repression
Helen Fenwick
Human Rights Act
Peter Gatrell
Refugees in modern world history: reflections on past and present
David Gee
Army recruitment policy
Peter Greener
New Zealand’s anti-nuclear policies
Dan Gunn
Prison, Prisoners, Politics and Power.
Luke Harding
A Very Expensive Poison
Gerard Hastings x 2
Thinking Like an Ecosystem: The Need for New Stories.
Hyper-consumption: Corporate Marketing versus the Planet
Polly Higgins
Ecocide – the missing 5th crime against peace
Chris Howson
Faith and Liberation
Bruce Kent x 3
What price Trident?
Building a culture of peace
WW1 COs
Chris Kilsby
Climate Change
Judith Kirton-Darling x 2
Alternatives to Austerity – a sustainable new deal?
Trade Deals – realistic concerns or rabble rousing?
Mike Lewis
Death and Taxes – ending tax haven secrecy
Philip Lewis
Christians & Muslims working for peace
Tim Marshall
Divided: Why we’re living in an age of walls.
Karyn McCluskey,
What Is Justice For?
Cathy McCormack
The war against the poor in Britain
Alastair McIntosh
Roots of climate change
Alan McDonald
Christian pacifism (sermon)
Peter MacFadyen
Democracy – fact or fiction? The upsides of down and opportunities in crisis.
Dr Nick Megoran
Making peace by remembering violence: How to recall wars well
Mary Mellor x 2
Making money for peace
Sustainable economics
Tom Mills
Whom does the BBC serve?
Chris Mullin
In defence of politics
Greg Muttitt
Lessons from Iraq on oil, war and democracy
Cardinal Keith O’Brien
Trident and a 21st century faith
Guy Opperman
Prison Reform
Anne Pettifor
Just Money
Greg Philo
More news, fewer views
Rupert Read
The eco-spiritual challenge of our time: Extinction Rebellion as our last best hope
Richard Reeve
Rethinking Security: How the UK can think globally and act responsibly
Nick Ritchie x 2
Nuclear disarmament – fantasy or necessity
Trident – prospects for change
Peter Roderick
Medicare or the NHS? The implications of the Health and Care Bill
Paul Rogers x 14
War on terror
9/11 ten years after
Global energy policy
Conflict, climate change & food
Arab Awakening
Security by Remote Control
Conflicts in the Middle East – what are the chances for peace?
Irregular War – ISIS, Elites, and Revolts from the Margins
Prospects for a more peaceful world
What chance for a nuclear-free world?
Selling the War Machine: Britain and the Arms Trade.
The World After COVID-19
Has the United Nations a future?
Why do we need to rethink security?
Helen Salisbury x 2
The NHS – past, present and future
What can the pandemic teach us about a good society?
Ziauddin Sardar
Islam and peace
Sauro Scarpelli
Control Arms Campaign
Molly Scott Cato
No Climate Justice – No Peace.
Laura Seebohm
Prevention of Gender-based Violence and Abuse
Phil Shiner
UK’s violations of human rights in Iraq & Afghanistan
Hari Shukla
Working for racial and religious harmony in the North East
John Sloboda x 2
Real threats for global security;
Iraq body-count campaign
Peter Stone
Protecting cultural heritage during armed conflict
Viviane Straub
Towards Narratives of Transformation
Geoff Tansey
Food, peace and human thriving in a changing world
Stephen Tindale
Controlling climate change
William Walker
Britain’s Nuclear Weapons
Tim Wallis x2
Unarmed civilian peacekeeping
Nuclear Ban Treaty
Robert Weatherley
Human rights in China: Discourse, diplomacy and defensive nationalism.
Richard Wilkinson
‘Spirit Level’