An Evening with Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Lucy Hughes-Hallet
Lucy Hughes-Hallett the award winning author and critic spoke on the cult of the celebrity.  She discussed how the manipulation of news for purposes of propaganda and the use of famous figures to sell merchandise may seem peculiar to the age of modern mass media, but in fact this has been part of our culture for centuries.

Lucy has written widely on literature, art and theatre, winning the Catherine Pakenham Award for journalism and the Fawcett Prize for her book on Cleopatra.  She was television critic of the Evening Standard for seven years.  Lucy has been a Judge of the W.H. Smith Literary Award and she reviews regularly for the Sunday Times Books section.