Here's the guest speakers for Harrogate's next entertaining Berwins Salon North event

Berwins Salon North is back at the Crown Hotel in Harrogate on Thursday, April 20.

The clock is ticking for the return of Berwins Salon North to Harrogate in an entertaining and stimulating evening of ideas in arts, science and psychology – plus the occasional G&T.

Presented by Harrogate International Festivals on Thursday, April 20 at Crown Hotel, the event will see three expert speakers deliver TED-style talks designed to excite people’s curiosity and change their lives for the better.

Each guest speaker will face the challenge of engaging their audience within a 25-minute set, interspersed with intervals and time for a well-crafted G&T.

Anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar will explores the importance of friendship, the way different types of friendship and family relationships intersect, and just how complicated the business of making and keeping friends actually is.

Jude Rogers, journalist, lecturer, arts critic and broadcaster, will ask why music plays such a deep-rooted role in so many lives, from before we are born to our last days. Her latest book, The Sound of Being Human, is about music’s power to help us tell our own stories, whatever they are, and make them sing.

The final speaker, chartered psychologist Kimberley Wilson, will reveal the role of food and nutrients in brain development and mental health: from how the food a woman eats during pregnancy influences the size of her baby’s brain, and hunger makes you mean; to how nutrient deficiencies change your personality.

As always, Berwins Salon North in Harrogate will be hosted by its founder Helen Bagnall.

For tickets and information, visit www.harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/whats-on/berwins-salon-north-20-april-2023/