Always Print The Myth: Pr And The Modern Age

Alan Edwards, entertainment PR, will give a unique insight into one of the most influential forces in modern society - Public Relations. Alan will reflect on the evolving role of PR within fashion, culture, media, entertainment and sports - examining the way that PR shapes the news we read and the stories we believe. Guests include Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller, renowned photographer Dennis Morris and Lord Tim Bell, former communications advisor to Margaret Thatcher.

There are two events per evening, the guests for the events will be:

Tuesday 21 April
Dylan Jones OBE, Editor of GQ magazine Magazines

Wednesday 22 April
Dan Wootton, Head of Showbiz at The Sun – Showbiz

Thursday 23 April
Tony Parsons, Author and Journalist - Punk

Friday 24 April guest tbc

Saturday 25 April
Tom Watson, MP - Politics

Tuesday 28 April
Sir John Hegarty, Founder of leading advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty - Advertising and Marketing

Wednesday 29 April
Sarah Sands, Editor of the Evening Standard - Newspapers

Thursday 30 April
19.00-20.30 Mystery guest
20.30-22.00 Dennis Morris, renowned music photographer, Bob Marley’s personal photographer and documenter of black British culture Photography and Punk

Friday 1 May
Alastair Campbell, author, journalist and former Director of Communications for the Labour Party

Saturday 2 May Jeremy Deller, Turner Prize winning artist, representative of Britain at the Venice Biennale and creator of Acid Brass project - Art. SOLD OUT.

Tuesday 5 May
19.00-20.30 Hala Jaber, Award winning Sunday Times Foreign Correspondent - Conflict/ the Foreign Correspondent
20.30-22.00 Sir Bob Geldof, musician and campaigner

Wednesday 6 May
Lynne Franks, Founder of Lynne Franks PR - PR

Thursday 7 May
Paddy Harverson - Royals

Friday 8 May
Lord Tim Bell - founder of Bell Pottinger and former communications advisor to Margaret Thatcher

Saturday 9 May
Ken Sunshine - Legendary US PR, founder and President of Sunshine Sachs, a full service agency with offices in NY, LA and Washington, DC with clients including Barbra Streisand, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bon Jovi, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Natalie Portman and Tyler Perry. Sunshine has advised Democratic candidates for many years, including Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and was Chief of Staff to Mayor of New York.

Programme subject to change without warning