Highlights

Fergal Keane, Uni of Bath, Oakfield Campus, Marlowe Avenue, 7.30pm, tomorrow

David Starkey, Arts Centre, Devizes Road, 6pm, Friday

David Baddiel, Wyvern Theatre, 6pm, Sunday

Clare Short, Arts Centre, Devizes Road, 12.30pm, Monday, May 9

Michael Eavis, Community Crossroads (old railway museum), 7.30pm, Wednesday, May 11

William Hague, Arts Centre, Devizes Road, 12.20pm, Thursday, May 12

Michael Buerk, Arts Centre, Devizes Road, 6pm Thursday, May 12

Alistair McGowan, Arts Centre, pictured, Devizes Rd, 8pm, Friday, May 13

Jon Snow, Arts Centre, Devizes Road, 12.30pm, Sunday, May 15

Dom Joly, Wyvern Theatre, 6pm, Sunday, May 15

On the fringe

The Swindon Fringe Festival is underway and today there will be the first of three audience participation events at the Beehive pub, Prospect Hill.

First up is a Martin Newall poetry workshop at 3pm. Martin will follow this with a performance of his work on the same day at 8.30pm.

On Wednesday at 8.30pm there will be a Traditional Monologue competition. Monolgues will be provided. Finally on Wednesday, May 11, at 8.30pm, Tom Harris invites storytellers to join him for an evening of home-grown myth and wonder.