REVEL GUEST

Revel Sarah Guest OBE (born 14 September 1931 in London) is a filmmaker, journalist, author and farmer and is chair of the Hay Festival. Revel is also the Chair of The Golden Valley Pony Club.
A politician’s daughter (her father, Oscar Guest and his three brothers served as MPs with their cousin, Sir Winston Churchill), she was educated at Bedgebery School and the London School of Economics. After working as a secretary for Jo Grimond in the House of Commons, she stood as the then youngest ever female Conservative parliamentary candidate (for Swansea East) in the 1955 election. She then became assistant editor of Time and Tide and in 1957 left to become press officer for the UK Council of the European Movement and later wrote a syndicated column from America for the Westminster Press.