"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
Friday 31 January 2025, 18:30
Sheldonian Theatre
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 publication of 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. Discussion will include solutions for positive change, stories of healing and inspiring reasons for hope.