Natalie Bennett

Natalie Bennett is the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, elected last month. She was the founding chair of Green Party Women and a candidate in this year’s London Assembly elections. She’s been a journalist for two decades, having recently stepped down as editor of the Guardian Weekly, previously working for The Times, the Independent, the Bangkok Post and Australian provincial papers. Her academic background includes agricultural science, history, politics and mass communications.

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Sunday 21 October 2012, 1.30pm Barbican Theatre

The Battle against the Fates

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