Arthur Smith will be in conversation with
Idler magazine editor Tom Hodgkinson and your host will be Idler Academy director Victoria Hull.
We’ll have philosophical insight from Dr Mark Vernon and the discussion will be followed by a live Q&A.
It is an online event. Bring your friends. It should be like meeting up in the pub for an interesting conversation. We leave the meeting open at the end so you can carry on chatting.
About the speakers:
Arthur Smith is a comedian, writer and broadcaster. He studied at the University of East Anglia, Norwich and speaks fluent French having spent a year as an English assistant in the Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris. In 2015 the University also made him an honorary doctor of letters. He started his working life as a dustman, a singer in an obscure rock band and a teacher of English to foreign students. Eventually, he became a professional entertainer and has since performed all over the world and written every form of comedy from stand-up one-liners to full-length plays and screenplays.