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.

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.

Lumley is an actor, television presenter and former model. She won two Baftas for her role as Patsy Stone in Absolutely Fabulous. Her television work also includes The New Avengers. Film appearances include in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Shirley Valentine, and The Wolf of Wall Street. She is also a well-known campaigner for justice and human rights, most notably for the Gurkha Justice Campaign.

In association with Compassion in World Farming