The Power of Anxiety

Dr Sian Williams is one of the UK’s most respected broadcasters, familiar to millions from her many years presenting BBC Breakfast and Radio 4. Alongside her distinguished career in television and radio, she is also a qualified psychologist with a deep interest in emotional wellbeing.

In this thoughtful and illuminating event, she will discuss her book The Power of Anxiety with Festival Chair Lucy Cotter, exploring how a feeling so often seen as negative can, in fact, become a source of strength, insight and resilience. Drawing on psychological research as well as personal experience, Sian examines why anxiety affects so many of us and how we can better understand – and harness – it in our everyday lives.