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Journalist and acclaimed writer on history and travel Anthony Sattin returns to the festival to talk about two centuries of travel by westerners to Egypt.

In his work A Winter on the Nile, Sattin follows the 19th-century journeys in Egypt of Florence Nightingale and French novelist Gustave Flaubert. They both arrived in the country at the same time and before they shot to fame, one as a saviour of wounded soldiers and the other as the writer of Madame Bovary. Lifting the Veil tells the story of western travellers to Egypt from the explorer James Bruce in 1768 to the 1956 Suez Crisis.

Sattin is a journalist, broadcaster and writer whose main interest is the Middle East and Africa. He is a regular contributor to The Sunday Times travel and books pages. His TV appearances include the BBC series The Tourist and The Thirties in Colour. Sattin will be introduced by Dr Jaromir Malek, an Egyptologist and author who recently retired as keeper of the archives at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.