TODAY

Clare Balding – My Animals and Other Family, King’s Hall, 7.30pm to 8.30pm. Much-loved broadcaster Claire Balding reveals her unusual early life. Her father was a champion racehorse trainer, as a toddler she rode the legendary Mill Reef and took breakfast with the Queen.

TOMORROW

Michael Morpurgo with Coope, Boyes and Simpson – The Best Christmas Present In The World, King’s Hall, 2pm to 3.15pm. It is 1914 and the famous Christmas truce and an Anglo-German football match in No-Man’s Land. A century later, a soldier’s letter is found in an antique desk. Michael Morpurgo tells the story accompanied by a cappella carols from Coope, Boyes and Simpson.

Prue Leith – My Life on a Plate, King’s Hall, 7.30pm to 8.30pm. Prue Leith, renowned ‘Grand Dame of British Cooking’, talks about her searingly honest, tender and very funny memoir, which straddles love, loss and gastronomic disaster.

SUNDAY

Steve Bell – King’s Hall, 2pm to 3pm. Steve Bell, prominent political cartoonist and creator of the daily Guardian strip, If... talks about his life and work and reflects on If... Bursts Out, which illustrates the death of New Labour from the cartoon riots of 2006 to the arrival of the ‘ConLibDemolition’.

Penny Junor – Prince William, King’s Hall, 4.30pm to 5.30pm. Author and journalist Penny Junor lifts the lid on her most recent royal biography.

John Julius Norwich – A History of England in 100 Places, King’s Hall, 7.30pm to 8.30pm. One of the UK’s best-loved historians tells the political, cultural, social, religious and economic story of England through 100 key places you can still visit today.