Live online Author Q&As

Welcome to our series of live online events in which you get to interact and put questions to some of the best sports writers and running authors around. Theses live sessions will take place virtually, on Zoom, and tickets cost £6 per event. So grab yourself a glass a wine, or a cup of tea, find a comfy spot on the sofa, and log in for a fascinating evening/afternoon/morning chat (depending on your timezone).

Access to all events is free to Patreon subscribers (sign up at patron.com/adharanandfinn) and paid Substack subscribers (adharanand.substack.com). Subscribers will be emailed a link 24 hours before the event.

Michael Crawley is a runner, writer and social anthropologist based in Durham. He has been a runner for over 20 years, and ran a 2:20 marathon in 2018. His first book, Out of Thin Air: Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia, documents his time living and training alongside runners in Ethiopia, while his latest book, To the Limit: The Meaning of Endurance from Mexico to the Himalayas, takes a similarly immersive approach, featuring overnight bike rides, ultra marathons and runs into sweltering canyons in Mexico.  

Tickets £6

Richard Askwith is the multi-award-winning author of books such as Feet in the Clouds, Running Free (“a runner’s journey back to nature”), Today We Die a Little (a biography of the great Emil Zátopek) and The Race Against Time (about running in later life). A keen runner for over 40 years, he claims to have achieved “almost nothing” in the sport apart from “life-changing satisfaction”. But he did appear as an extra in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire.

Tickets £6

Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell was the first Black woman to swim for Great Britain. She is also CEO of the 10,000 Interns Foundation, a non-profit that champions underrepresented talent. Her documentary, Breakfast in Kisumu, premiered in 2019, while her first book, These Heavy Black Bones - about her history-making swimming career - was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2024.

Tickets £6