We are honoured to invite you to meet journalist Cheng Lei whose life was abruptly transformed when she was detained in China on false charges of espionage and to hear her story.

'It's only through losing freedom that we learn to truly appreciate it. When our canvas is bare we celebrate one drop of colour.' Cheng Lei, TED2025

Lei's memoir is a powerful and harrowing account of her three-year ordeal in China that began with her arrest in August 2020. This is vivid and brave writing that offers a rare glimpse into China's ultra-secret state-security prisons and what it takes to survive such incarceration with your humanity intact.

Free, but bookings are essential.

Please book here.