Name: Special Event | Joanne Briggs | The Scientist Who Wasn’t There
Start: 2025-11-03T20:00:00+00:00
Location: The Bull Hotel, Bridport (34 East Street, Bridport)

$Special Event | Joanne Briggs | The Scientist Who Wasn\u2019t There$

Joanne Briggs – The Scientist Who Wasn’t There – A True Story of Staggering Deception
Bridport Prize winner Joanne Briggs will be in conversation with Manni Coe, this year’s Bridport Prize judge, about her astonishing new book. Renowned scientist Professor Michael Briggs – space expert at NASA, adviser to the World Health Organisation, successful Big Pharma executive – fell from grace amid a scandal that broke in 1986. Soon after, he was dead, struck down by a mystery illness in a foreign country. Briggs left behind hundreds of people who believe they are victims of his negligence, and he left his daughter, Joanne. After decades of wondering who her father really was, Joanne decided to investigate, and in hypnotic prose, she uncovers the secret that shaped her father’s entire life and made his story more fantastic than any science fiction. As she discovered, Briggs’s greatest invention was himself.
In conversation with Manni Coe.