Following the four How We Live Next talks on Health, Environment, Work and Social Justice, the panel, including an educator, a manufacturer, a doctor and a politician, will discuss these key issues and how they might affect us at a local level. After the discussion chaired by A.C. Grayling, the panellists will answer your questions in a live online Q&A.

Questions can be submitted in advance at www.litfest.org

A.C. Grayling is Master of the New College of the Humanities, London, where he is also Professor Philosophy. He has contributed to many leading newspapers and radio and tv programmes and has twice been a judge of the Booker Prize (2003, 2014). Most recent are The History of Philosophy (2020) and The Good State: On the Principles of Democracy (2020).

Professor Robert Barratt, Eden Project Chair of Education and Engagement at Lancaster University, is the Head of Eden Project Learning.

Gina Dowding is a Lancaster City Councillor, Lancashire County Councillor and the former Green MEP for the North West.

Mark Cropper is Chairman of James Cropper at Burneside, Kendal and founder of Ellergreen, a small hydro developer and service provider.

Dr Sakthi Karunanithi MBBS M.D MPH FFPH, has been the Lancashire Director of Public Health and Well-being since 2013.

How We Live Next: Panel Discussion with A.C. Grayling