Delia Smith – Live on Stage in London

Join Britain’s best-loved cookery writer for a call to step back and think more profoundly about the value of the ‘examined life’ and why we need it now more than ever.

Delia Smith earned our trust as one of our most-respected cookery writers. Now she invites us to join her in stepping back and thinking more deeply about ourselves and our world.

We know science is awesome, as are its achievements. Yet so far scientists have managed to side step the most awesome reality of all, the true nature of human life, the source of their own genius. How is it that in the overwhelming immensity of the cosmos, on microscopic earth, human beings exist?

It’s only when we step away from the noise and take time to reflect that we can see how each of us has a responsibility in the universe and are part of a vast and continuing process. Thinking more deeply in this way can help to inspire insights into who we are – and how we can work together to solve the urgent problems of our age.

In this live on stage event, Delia will draw upon writers who have inspired her, including Maslow, Viktor Frankel, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Peter Kropotkin, arguing that humans are finally coming of age. It’s time for us all to step up and think bigger and more ambitiously, and have confidence in our ability to build a future together in these uncertain times.

Delia Smith is Britain’s best-loved and most trusted cookery writer and football club owner. She has worked with food for over fifty years, writing columns and books and broadcasting culinary science from the ground up in a practical, accessible and straightforward style. Her aggregate book sales exceed 21 million, with Delia Smith’s Cookery Course alone selling over six million copies. In addition titles such as How To Cheat At Cooking, How To Cook and Frugal Food which was published for charity.

Alastair Campbell graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in modern languages, he went into journalism, principally with the Mirror Group. When Tony Blair became leader of the Labour Party, Campbell worked for him first as press secretary, then as official spokesman and director of communications and strategy from 1994 to 2003. He continued to act as an advisor to Blair and the Labour Party, including during 2005 and subsequent elections. He is now engaged mainly in writing, public speaking and consultancy and is an ambassador for a number of mental health charities.