7:00pm, Tuesday 1st of April, Virtual Via Zoom
Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn’t commit—and became a notorious tabloid story in the process. Though she was exonerated, it’s taken more than a decade for her to reclaim her identity and truly feel free.
7:00pm, Tuesday 8th of April, Lowry Building (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Drawing on the Japanese concept of 'kiku', sociolinguist and listening expert Haru Yamada will join us at Trouble to share a transformation guide to becoming better listeners in our daily life.
7:00pm, Tuesday 15th of April, The Ministry Southwark
Join us for a powerful and inspiring event celebrating the life, career, and unstoppable spirit of DJ Paulette — a true icon of UK club culture. From her early days spinning vinyl in Manchester’s most legendary venues to commanding dancefloors across the globe, Paulette’s journey is one of resilience, reinvention, and resistance.
6:00pm, Wednesday 30th of April, Union Chapel Islington
The family courts are failing the very people they’re meant to protect. Women seeking safety from abuse are instead met with disbelief, hostility, and a system that too often sides with their abusers.
8:00pm, Wednesday 30th of April, Union Chapel Islington
Emma Jane Unsworth and Dolly Alderton talking about Slags? What’s not to love!?! Bestselling author Emma Jane Unsworth is back with a nostalgic, hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking novel that explores female messiness in all its glory.
6:00pm, Wednesday 7th of May, The Magic Circle Theatre London
From The Only Way is Essex to founding the UK’s No.1 Digital Mental Health App and joining the lineup of Dancing on Ice 2025, Trouble is sitting down with Ferne McCann!
8:00pm, Wednesday 7th of May, The Magic Circle Theatre London
Can a planet have legal rights? Could it be defended in a court of law? How do we redefine a 'right to life'? Join us for a critically important event where Mónica will take us behind the scenes of ten real cases.
7:00pm, Monday 12th of May, Virtual Via Zoom
Cardiac, smooth, skeletal-these three different types of muscle in our bodies make our hearts beat; push food through our intestines, blood through our vessels, attach to our bones and help us move. Individually, they do different things. Collectively, they drive us through our days.
7:00pm, Saturday 28th of June, Conway Hall
A serial entrepreneur, changemaker and one of our most requested speakers at Trouble, Grace Beverley is an innovator by nature. Join us as we meet this incredible force in the world of business.
7:00pm, Thursday 3rd of July, x+why 100 Embankment Manchester
Adriana Brownlee just made history as the youngest ever female climber to summit the world’s tallest mountains (let’s hope she hasn’t peaked…….we’re here all night.)
7:00pm, Thursday 20th of March, The Ministry
“Sometimes I go on news programmes and tell men with bad tans what life is like for little people. I do this because I am a little person, in case you were wondering. It would be an odd thing to do if I wasn't.”
1:00pm, Thursday 6th of March, The Conduit Covent Garden
Can music heal the mind and body? Renée Fleming, celebrated soprano, Grammy winner, and passionate arts advocate, believes it can—and she’s here to share the evidence.
7:00pm, Monday 3rd of March, x+why 100 Embankment Manchester
Dr. Sunita Sah investigates what makes us comply. She is an award-winning, tenured professor and organizational psychologist at Cornell University who has conducted groundbreaking research on defiance, advice, and influence.
2:00pm, Saturday 15th of February, Manchester Central Exchange Auditorium
At Trouble we've been devouring Caitlin’s books and articles for years and it's about time she graced the Trouble stage. Our second speaker of the day is the incredible Lois Shearing who will join us to discuss the significant roles women are starting to play in far-right movements.
7:00pm, Tuesday 4th of February, x+why 100 Embankment Manchester
Some say a courtroom is just a boxing ring with fancier headwear and Selma Masood is a master of both arenas. A high-flying lawyer and competitive boxer, Selma will join us at Trouble to discuss her path to becoming a top-tier lawyer and founding her own international law firm.
7:00pm, Wednesday 2nd of October, The Hearth
Pentecostalism is more than just a faith—it's a global phenomenon. With 600 million followers and growing rapidly, it’s projected that by 2050, one in ten people worldwide will identify with this dynamic Christian movement. Rooted in the Holy Spirit, Pentecostalism promises not just spiritual fulfillment, but success in every aspect of life—mind, body, spirit, and wallet.
7:00pm, Thursday 29th of August, Century Club
Deep breaths: it’s time to talk money! For so long, women have been encouraged to save rather than invest, and to play small, whilst men are encouraged to risk it all. It’s high time we change the narrative and who better to educate us all on the opportunities money can bring and how to play the game than Financial Adviser, Bola Sol?
7:00pm, Thursday 22nd of August, Online via Zoom
BelEve provides young women with opportunities to boost their confidence, self-esteem, and skills, coupled with access to inspirational role models guiding them towards unlocking their full potential. Come along to this Trouble Talk with this wonderful philanthropist and discover the ins and outs of leading a charitable business!
7:00pm, Monday 22nd of July, The Groucho Club
Rosie is best known to her >300k followers for her viral internet ‘interviews’ on Twitter in character as a hapless, desperately loyal Conservative MP. Join us for a night of laughter and tears as we look back at many years of Tory leadership with their greatest troll.
7:00pm, Thursday 18th of January, The Groucho
Can 75 words really capture a moment in time, its details and atmosphere, its character and mood? Christine Coulson’s new, bullet of a novel, One Woman Show, is written almost entirely in 75-word museum wall labels and demonstrates how constraint need not limit storytelling.
7:00pm, Wednesday 10th of January, The Hearth
The papacy is one of the world’s longest-running institutions. It may also be one of the strangest. There have been rival popes, an English pope and even, legend has it, a female pope.
7.00pm, Tuesday 9th of January, London Barge Company, Hackney
Join us for Trouble's second Book Club, featuring Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. There will be drinks and nibbles available throughout the evening and while there will be a Trouble moderator present, we expect you to come with your thoughts and opinions at the ready!
5.00pm, Monday 18th of December, Conway Hall
Get ready for Trouble’s biggest night yet! We have invited some of our most requested speakers to join us for an evening of talks and comedy followed by a private party for our Trouble members.
6pm drinks - 6.30pm event, Thursday 14th of December, DIAGEO
To celebrate the end of the year and a new start on the horizon, drinks brand Diageo have very kindly invited us to their HQ to enjoy some drinks, networking and an event with the brilliant Adrienne Adhami.
7:00pm, Tuesday 12th of December, Dartmouth House
Join us for an evening with three leading tech entrepreneurs. Our three panelists: Georgia Stewart - CEO and co-founder of Tumelo, Deirdre O’Neill - Co-Founder and Chief Commercial & Legal Officer at Hertility Health and Juanita Morgan - Co-Founder and CEO of Value Adders World – will discuss what drove them to start their own businesses.
7:00pm, Monday 11th of December, The House of St Barnabas
Nabila Ramdani is not from the establishment elite: she is a marginalised insider, born and raised in a neglected Paris suburb. With unflinching clarity, she probes the fault lines of her struggling country, exposing the Fifth Republic as an archaic system which emerged from Algeria’s cataclysmic War of Independence.
7:00pm, Wednesday 6th of December, The Hearth
We've all heard that trees can combat much of the climate damage humans have wreaked on our ecosystem, but only if we plant the right ones. Arit Anderson is a garden designer, writer and presenter on BBC Two’s Gardeners’ World and she'll be joining us to talk about her passion for gardening, the environment and the huge importance of tree planting.
7:00pm, Tuesday 21st of November, The Ned
Nobody panic, but our favorite Guardian columnist is coming to Trouble! Drawn from her spectacularly funny Guardian columns, Marina will join us to talk about her bestselling book, What Just Happened?!. The book (which has been updated since publication to include two bonus prime ministers) is a welcome blast of humour and sanity in a world where reality has become stranger than fiction.
6.00pm, Thursday 16th of November, Alexandra Palace Theatre
Troublemaker Katy Galloway is the producer of the next big musical on the West End and it's the UK's answer to Hamilton. Remember, remember the 5th of November? That's right, the musical tells the story of the infamous Guy Fawkes and after two sold-out concerts at Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 2022 featuring Carrie Hope Fletcher and Bradley Jaden, 2023 is set to be the most explosive year yet for the musical.
7:00pm, Tuesday 14th of November, Kindred Hammersmith
Arch Hades is a poet who's amassed a following of over a million and has written five bestselling poetry volumes including Paper Romance and Arcadia. Arch will join us at Trouble to read some of her work and talk about her latest pieces in 21C Human, a collection of poetry and essays detailing the millennial perspective in three parts.
7:00pm, Thursday 9th of November, AllBright
Sowemimo will join us to recount her own experiences as a doctor, patient and activist. Dr Sowemimo's book, Divided, exposes the racial biases of medicine that affect our everyday lives and provides an illuminating - and incredibly necessary - insight into how our world works, and who it works for. This event will reshape how you see health and medicine - forever.
7:00pm, Thursday 2nd of November, Century Club
V (formerly Eve Ensler) wrote a play back in the 90's and you may of heard of it. It's called The Vagina Monologues. V will be joining us at The Trouble Club to discuss her life’s work and her incredible new book Reckoning, which invites the reader to travel the journey of a writer’s and activist’s life and process over forty years.
7.00pm Wednesday 1st of November, SPACES, Finsbury Park
From uncertainty and risk to ambiguity, emotion and non-verbal behaviour, life can be like a game of poker. So approach it like one, with every day critical thinking. Journalist and competitive poker player Alex O’Brien will join us at Trouble to discuss how we can survive and make better life decisions using the rules of the game. In a world full of uncertainty and incomplete information, this is about getting to the truth.
7.00pm Thursday 26th of October, Mortimer House
There are many routes to mental wellbeing and award-winning neuroscientist Camilla Nord is at the forefront of finding them. Camilla will join us at Trouble to guide us on a revelatory tour of the scientific and technological developments that are revolutionizing the way we think about mental health, showing why and how events - and treatments - can affect people in such different ways.
7.00pm Thursday 12th of October, Bloomsbury Tavern
What is the Sharing Economy? How can it help us live more affordable, more sustainable, and ultimately more fulfilling lives? What would happen if for one year a family pledged to share as much as they possibly can? Instead of owning more and more stuff, what it's like to stop owning things and borrow, lend, rent and swap instead?
7.00pm Thursday 5th of October, Mortimer House
Another Story Slam is coming to Trouble. We’ve heard the most wonderful and moving stories from our members and the story slam community in the past and we’re so excited to hear more.
7:00pm, Tuesday 3rd of October, Kindred Hammersmith
The Women's Prize for Fiction has grown into one of the most prestigious literary awards in the UK and it was co-founded by none other than bestselling author, Kate Mosse. As the prize enters its 29th year, we're thrilled that Kate will be joining us to talk about the impact of the prize and how it’s increased recognition for women’s writing across every genre.
7:00pm, Friday 29th of September, The Sloane Club
Jacki Hill-Murphy is an explorer who has spent the last 16 years exploring and filming some of the most inhospitable and remote places on earth. In 2007 Jacki left her job as an English and Drama teacher and set off down the Bobonaza in the Amazon Basin in a dug-out canoe.
7.00pm, Thursday 28th of September, Hackney
Join us for Trouble's second Book Club, featuring Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri. There will be drinks and nibbles available throughout the evening and while there will be a Trouble moderator present, we expect you to come with your thoughts and opinions at the ready!
10am - 12pm, Saturday 23rd of September, Hally’s Parsons Green
Join us for a casual coffee meet-up at Hally’s in the heart of Parsons Green. Nothing formal, just an opportunity to meet and chat with other troublemakers.
