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As the dust settles on the York Festival of Ideas 2025 Online, we are delighted to say that after 97 events over 13 days, we have already had an audience numbering in excess of 30,000. We have reached people in 137 countries across the globe and our audience survey is already showing that 99% of 1,336 respondents would recommend the festival to a friend. We are incredibly pleased that our rapid response to the unprecedented circumstances has resulted in such positive outcomes.

But it’s not over yet…

We are delighted to welcome you to watch many of our fabulous events again, for free. Whether you are interested in History, Art, Fashion, Science, Politics, Sociology or Economics we have talks of a whole range of topics from How to Grow a Human to the History of the Kimono and the Secret Science of Superheroes.

We hope you enjoy exploring...

'Such a festival. Such a welcome. To be able to perform, to tell my story with my friends in one of the great buildings of the world, and to do it as part of a festival that enables everyone to come who wants to come, I found hugely inspiring. I love the idea of a festival of ideas that is free at the point of delivery. In an ideal world that is how it should always be.  Long may this festival continue and may I be invited back from time to time to enjoy the place, the people and the idea.’ 

Sir Michael Morpurgo