Festival Event: Iain Dale - Have I Said Too Much: My Life in Politics & The Media

Award-winning broadcaster Iain Dale has led a life full of incident and success but also some very public failures.

In this refreshingly honest account of his life and careers in business, politics and media, he tells all for the first time.

With the same raw candour that earns him 750,000 weekly listeners, he recounts his journey from driving a combine harvester at age eight to driving the national conversation on LBC, taking in his encounters with a host of household names, including HM Queen Elizabeth II, Sir Cliff Richard, Kylie Minogue, Joan Rivers, Jennifer Saunders, the Duchess of York, Olivia Newton-John, Terry Pratchett and twelve of our fifty-eight Prime Ministers.

He also reflects movingly on coming out at age forty, coming to terms with his thwarted political aspirations, and the heartbreaking phone-ins that have made him the friend theyve never met to millions.

This is the ultimate insiders guide to the corridors of power and the pressures of the studio.

Whether hes nearly throwing up on Margaret Thatcher, coming to blows with senior MPs or accidentally calling the Archbishop of Canterbury something less than pious on live radio, this is Iain Dale off-air and unfiltered.One of Britains leading political commentators and a celebrated broadcaster, Iain Dale presents the evening show on LBC Radio and is a regular contributor to Good Morning Britain, Question Time and Newsnight.

His podcasts include Where Politics Meets History and the award-winning For the Many.

He is a regular columnist for the Telegraph, the New Statesman and The Spectator.

Iain has written or edited more than fifty books, including Why Cant We All Just Get Along, The Prime Ministers and, most recently, Margaret Thatcher, selling more than a million copies in the past twenty-five years.

He is a visiting professor of politics and broadcasting at the University of East Anglia.