Robert Peston
The Kill Switch
In conversation with Aimee Felus
Date: Friday 30 October
Venue: St Mary’s Church
Time: 5.00pm
Ticket: TBC - Price band A
Robert Peston is one of our most instantly recognisable television journalists. As ITV’s political editor, presenter of the politics show ‘Peston’, co-presenter of The Rest is Money podcast, founder of the education charity, Speakers for Schools, and vice president of Hospice UK, Robert is also the author of three ‘Gil Peck’ novels. In his latest, The Kill Switch, the eponymous journalist finds himself a suspect in the murder of sitting Prime Minister Stella Barnsbury who collapses suddenly whilst appearing on his podcast. We find ourselves in a brave new world of megalomaniac technocrats, malevolent AI super-intelligence and cutting-edge brain implants. Gil and his partner Jess realise they must confront a deadly, age-old question: how far will some go in the name of progress...and profit?
The death of a Prime Minister is just the beginning…