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Live On Stage
Wednesday February 25 2026, 7pm GMT

Hungry for Life! An Evening with Prue Leith

According to Great British Bake Off judge and national treasure Prue Leith the secret to a happy life lies in embracing everyday with joy while accepting our inevitable end.

Prue has had an exhilarating career. She has been a Michelin-starred restaurateur, author, broadcaster, and beloved Bake Off judge. Yet her passion for life has also been shaped by the loss of her brother and first husband. These experiences inspired her to become a leading campaigner for assisted dying in the UK.

On February 25, Prue joins Intelligence Squared live at the Royal Geographical Society to reflect on her remarkable life and share insights from her new memoir Being Old … and Learning to Love It! Expect reflections on love, ageing, joy, and grief — from strutting the catwalk and finding love again in her seventies, to facing life’s hardest goodbyes with humour and grace.

Join us live and ask Prue your own questions about life in the audience Q&A.

Being Old...and learning to love it! (Hardback)
by Prue Leith

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Event Name

Hungry for Life! An Evening with Prue Leith

Speaker

  • Prue Leith

    Bake Off Judge, Michelin-starred restauranter and author

Speakers are subject to change.

Location
  • Royal Geographical Society
  • 1 Kensington Gore
  • Kensington
  • London
  • SW7 2AR
Time
  • Wednesday 25 February 2026
  • 7pm to 8:30pm GMT

Speakers

Speaker

Prue Leith

Bake Off Judge, Michelin-starred restauranter and author

Dame Prue Leith has, over the past sixty years, risen to the top of the British food scene. She has seen huge success as a Michelin-restaurateur, founder of the renowned Leith’s School of Food and Wine, TV cook, food journalist and author. She is perhaps most well-known as a judge on the nation’s favourite TV programme, The Great British Bake Off. She was born in 1940 in South Africa, and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, before moving to England in 1960 to study at the Cordon Bleu Cookery School.

Speakers are subject to change.