WHAT'S YOUR MAP? Live at Hay Festival

David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, author, presenter and BAFTA winning film-maker. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester, writes journalism and comment for The Observer, The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Voice and BBC History Magazine, and is the author of several books including the critically acclaimed Black and British: A Forgotten History (2016).

In 2019 he was awarded an OBE for services to history and community integration. David is also a recipient of the BAFTA Special Award, the British Academy's Presidents Medal and the Norton Medlicott Medal For Services to History.

Emma Jane Unsworth is a BAFTA-nominated, BIFA-winning screenwriter and bestselling novelist. Emma has written episodes for popular television programmes including The Buccaneers (Apple/The Forge) and Stephen Merchant’s The Outlaws (BBC/Amazon), for which she was nominated for a BAFTA.

She is currently developing several of her own TV projects as well as writing a film and a musical. She adapted her novel Animals into a feature film. The film, directed by Sophie Hyde, premiered at Sundance 2019 and Emma won a BIFA for her script.

Her latest novel Slags (2025), a critically acclaimed success, follows her second novel Adults (2020), an instant Sunday Times bestseller.

Tim Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than 30 years of reporting experience. He was diplomatic editor at Sky News, and before that was working for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. He has reported from 40 countries and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Israel.

He is the author of the No. 1 Sunday Times bestsellers Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (2015) and The Power of Geography: Ten Maps that Reveal the Future of Our World (2021).

A map enthusiast and expert, Jerry has been writing about history and cartography for over twenty years. He is a prize-winning presenter, curator, and a best-selling author.

His books include Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World (1997), A History of the World in Twelve Maps (2012), Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained (2014), and This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World (2016), and most recently The Four Points of the Compass: the Unexpected History of Direction (2024).

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