Tom Bradby
Thursday 23 April
A familiar face as one of the twin anchors of ITV’s News at Ten as well as the journalist famous for his revelatory interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in 2023.
Tom Bradby is also the author of multiple thrillers. His latest - Red Scorpion - is set in the deadly world of Colombian drug cartels.
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Interviewer:
Stewart Collins
Cambridge-educated Stewart Collins is a former winner of the BAFA award for 'Outstanding Contribution to British Arts Festivals', and the UK Festival Awards ‘Headliner of the Year’ for presenting Elton John at Henley Festival in 2016. He is a writer, presenter, and former professional singer turned festival artistic director. Stewart has curated festivals in multiple centres notably, Henley Festival, of which he was director for 30 years, The Holders Season Barbados (20 years) and both Petworth Festival (15 years) and its sister, The Petworth Literary Festival, which he founded in 2012. He also founded the Stoke-on-Trent Literary Festival with Tristan Hunt and Emma Bridgewater in 2014.
Red Scorpion
The anchor of ITV’s News at Ten, Tom Bradby was named the Royal Television Society’s Network Presenter of the Year in his first year in the role. A journalist with ITN for 30 years, Tom himself made headlines when hosting the explosive interview in 2023 with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. He is also a much-published author, and has now produced his tenth thriller, Red Scorpion.
The new stand-alone thriller sees Dr Laura Strong struggling to balance her pressurised job as an A&E doctor with caring for her brother. So when she gets a job to look after a South American coffee magnate’s unwell young son,
she jumps at it. Unwittingly, she finds herself caught up in tech deadly world of Colombian drug cartels and is forced to re-evaluate everything she knew.