Sir Terry Waite KCMG CBE

Saturday 27 June
4pm-5pm
12 (10)
Sir Terry Waite KCMG CBE
Our Festival Patron discusses his lifes work.
As a British human rights activist and author we are thrilled that Sir Terry is also one of our Festival Patrons.
He was the Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, in the 1980s. As an envoy for the Church of England, he travelled to Lebanon to try to secure the release of four hostages, which included the journalist John McCarthy. Terry was then kidnapped and held captive from 1987 to 1991.After his release he wrote Taken on Trust, a memoir about his experiences as a hostage, published in 1994. Since that time he has not only became involved in humanitarian causes and charitable work, he also willingly travelled back to Lebanon to be reunited with his captors.In conversation with Rachel Sloane