Dame Marina Warner’s numerous books, stories and essays explore myth, storytelling, history and society. In Sanctuary she investigates ideas of refuge, hospitality and belonging, and how storytelling helps people endure and understand crisis. Sanctuary was written alongside the project Stories in Transit, which brings young refugees together with artists, writers and musicians in the UK and Sicily. The recipient of dozens of honours and awards, Marina Warner was the second woman to deliver a Reith Lecture for the BBC and the first female president of the Royal Society of Literature.

She will be discussing the changing concepts of sanctuary with Dr Alex Pryce, Senior Tutor of St Edmund's College, Cambridge.