 Speakers included Wole Soyinka, Steve Fuller, Clive Stafford Smith, Steve Bell, John Tusa, Billy Bragg, Graham Swift, Oliver James, William Dalrymple, Paddy Ashdown, Nick Cohen, Jasper Fforde, Ziauddin Sardar, David Edgerton, and Kiran Desai.The Festival also ran a short autumn season of lectures, with Steven Pinker, A. C. Grayling, and Martin Bell.The Festival cancelled an appearance by Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson after controversy about his statements on race.