Chair: Tony Jones

Ben Macintyre, the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, combines a literary gift for thrilling espionage writing with the rigour of a historian. His latest work, Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle, explores the astonishing true story of prisoners inside an ’inescapable’ Nazi prison camp in the Second World War. Macintyre talks to Tony Jones about his oeuvre and what it means to write a nonfiction novel.

Event details: Sun 05 Mar, 10:45am on the East Stage