Spotlight on Space: Samantha Harvey & Tim Peake on Orbital
3rd November 2025, 19:30
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Midhurst Rother College
Organised by : Petworth Festival
Without doubt the not-to-be-missed event of this years Festival, British astronaut Tim Peake sits down with the Booker Prize winning author of Orbital, Samantha Harvey, to discuss her fictional musings on space and the fragility of human life.
A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. And whilst far from earth, they have never felt more part - or protective - of it. They begin to ask, what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity?