Lecture
Anne Sebba
Wednesday 2.09.2026
Anne Sebba
Mother Teresa, My Encounters with an Icon
Wednesday 2.09.2026
How to watch
This lecture starts on 2 September at 5:00pm (UK).
Summary
In 1980 I wrote a children’s book about Mother Teresa. She collaborated at first but then tried to stop publication. Since then I have written a full-scale adult biography and in 2003 acted as consultant for the Channel 4 award-winning film, The Saint Making Business. In this talk I discuss my encounters with Mother Teresa herself as well as with her successor, Sister Nirmala, and how my views about this global icon have developed over the years.
Anne Sebba
Anne Sebba is a broadcaster, journalist, and lecturer. The author of eleven books, Anne’s most recent title is Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy (2021). She has also written biographies of Jennie Churchill, Mother Teresa, and Laura Ashley, among others. She is currently working on a book about the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz for publication in 2025, the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camps. Anne is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a senior research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research.