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Showing a changing programme of solo and group exhibitionsembracing figurative and abstract painting and sculpture
High Street, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, GL55 6AG Tel: 01386 841555
[email protected] www.campdengallery.co.uk
PROGRAMME FOR FEAR, HORROR & SUPERSTITION
elcome to our ninth festival, celebrating Frankenstein’s bicentenary with
Fiona Sampson’s 2018 biography of Mary Shelley. Explore new gothic
novels, rebuilding the gothic Houses of Parliament, ancient woodlands, the
ghost, umbrellas, dying, spying, witches, and houses in fiction. Enjoy a literary lunch
and WI tea. Get creative at the poetry-writing and letter-press workshops. Watch the
film of the Australian gothic novel Picnic at Hanging Rock. Rediscover Paradise Lost
with John Carey. Learn more about Dracula, Northanger Abbey, and Grenfell Tower.
Hear Harriet Walter discuss women in Shakespeare, and analyse with Carol
Drinkwater her Big Book Group novel, a precursor to the #MeToo campaign. Miranda
Seymour presents In Byron’s Wake featuring Ada Lovelace. Peter Hart reflects on the
final weeks of WW1. Jane Robinson honours the suffragists #Vote100, and 2017
Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro and actor Mark Williams share their
passion for book collecting. And finally, pianist Lucy Parham and actor Henry
Goodman telling the story of the exiled Rachmaninoff. Tokes Food and Drink provides
the evening bars, and the coffee bar on the event packed Festival Saturday. Our
thriving Cotswold town with historic buildings; hotel, B&B and self-catering
accommodation; and restaurants, tearooms, pubs and independent shops is the
perfect festival destination.
Vicky
‘A unique opportunity for students to have their horizons broadened, perspectives challenged, and to engage in debate long after the event has finished. I can’t recommend it enough.’John Sanderson BA (Hon), MA Principal Chipping Campden School
This year’s Chipping Campden School Festival Representatives are Abi and Meaghan
Borzoi Bookshop Tel: 01451 830268 www.borzoibookshop.co.uk
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Friends of the Festival Please help to fund this Festival: minimum donation of £25
Please make cheques payable to
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2018 Friends at the time of going to press:
Jane Gadsby, Bob & Pug Wilbur, Jan & David Tomlinson, Jane Glennie, Pamela Marsh,
Peta Dollar, Bridget Lewis, Diana Franks, Celia Jones, Gina Blomefield, Peter & Eveline
Dyer, Rosemary Dewar, Stuart McTavish, Max & Ailsa Scott, Jean Upton, Carol Jackson,
The Rigg Family Aston Road, Blanche & Brian Chatfield, Rosemary & Alistair Voaden,
Philippa & Derek Wakelin, Arthur and Rachel Cunynghame: Loose Chippings Books, Gill
Mawdsley, David & Diana Evans, Peter & Jean Gell, Gillie Lewis, Michael & Wendy Henley,
Sally Dymott, Anon, Anne Thomas, Richard & Mimi Stephens, Ann Allen, Andy & Sarah
Smith: Honey Pot Cottages
FRIENDS’ RECEPTION
This will be held on Sunday 13 May. By email invitation only
Dates for 2019 Chipping Campden Literature Festival 7-11 May
TUESDAY 8 MAY
THE ESSENTIAL PARADISE LOST10.30am Upper Room Town Hall £10
John Carey discusses his edited highlights of Milton’s Heaven and Hell
with David Grylls: from the superhuman defiance of a ruined archangel
to a pair of tragic lovers …responsible for the fate of the whole human
race.
‘A celebration of a lifetime’s devotion to literature’ Financial TimesJohn Carey, Emeritus Professor at Oxford University, is one of our greatest living academics.
His books include studies of John Donne, Charles Dickens and William Makepeace
Thackeray, as well as The Intellectuals and the Masses, What Good Are the Arts? and A lifeof William Golding. His memoir, The Unexpected Professor, was a Sunday Times best seller.
David Grylls, Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford and a literature tutor at the University’s
Department for Continuing Education, has lectured widely in the USA and Europe. He
reviews contemporary fiction for The Sunday Times. His publications include books on
Charles Dickens and George Gissing.
This event is sponsored by Cutts of Campden, Ford in The Cotswolds
Tel: 01386 840213 www.cuttsofcampden.co.uk
COTSWOLD HOUSE LUNCH WITH RORY CLEMENTS 12 noon Cotswold House Hotel £29
After a two course lunch with a glass of wine Rory Clements
presents his latest Tom Wilde thriller: Hitler's generals need to
know Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory secrets…
Rory Clements, journalist and novelist: his Revenger won the
2010 CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award. His John
Shakespeare series of novels are currently in development for TV by the team behind
Poldark and Endeavour. The first Tom Wilde novel Corpus was a 2016 Sunday Times best
seller. ‘ intriguing lead character, intricate plot and fascinating historical context’ Daily MailReservations with Cotswold House Hotel and Spa only Tel: +44 (0)1386 840330
www.bespokehotels.com/cotswoldhouse
PAUL HENRY’S POETRY WORKSHOP1–4pm Town Hall (12 places only) £35
Includes tea and coffee + ticket to THE GLASS AISLE
New and experienced poets develop their writing in a friendly,
supportive atmosphere.
‘Henry is working at the core of lyric poetry, with love and loss
and the “deeper river”. The Poetry Review. ‘a poet’s poet … with an endlessly inventive imagination’ U.A. Fanthorpe
Paul Henry, a Writing Fellow at the University of South Wales, has presented programmes
for BBC Radio Wales and Radio 3 and 4. His ten collections of poetry include Boy Running(shortlisted for the 2016 Wales Book of the Year). His work is widely anthologised.
THE GLASS AISLE4.15–5pm Town Hall £5
Paul Henry reads from his latest collection, including songs from the
performance version @theglassaisle. It moves between rage and stillness,
past and present, music and silence.
‘haunting, elegiac collection, about music, and made of music.’ Gillian Clarke
TUESDAY 8 MAY
IN SEARCH OF MARY SHELLEY7pm Chipping Campden School Hall £8
Free to full-time students
Doors open 6.30pm TOKE’S Bar
To mark #Frankenstein200 Fiona Sampson writes: ‘I wanted to
discover a Mary Shelley for our times: to find the girl behind the
book, and to reconstruct what writing it must have been like. Her
story is every bit as archetypal as that of Mary’s two most famous
characters – her life and relationships with men couldn’t be more
relevant for our #MeToo era.’ The GuardianFiona sifts through letters, diaries and records to uncover a complex, generous character
trying to fulfil her own passionate commitment to writing when to be a woman writer was an
extraordinary and costly anomaly.
‘Sampson is as adept as Frankenstein himself, giving life to a figure who convincingly aches
and bleeds.’ The Guardian Evening Standard London best seller. A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.
‘fascinating and ambitious biography’ The Irish TimesFiona Sampson, MBE, and prize-winning poet and writer is published in more than thirty
languages. 2005-2012 Editor of Poetry Review, Fiona is now Editor of Poem and Professor
of Poetry at the University of Roehampton, where she is the Director of the Roehampton
Poetry Centre. She is a Fellow and Council Member of the Royal Society of Literature, a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and the English Association, and Trustee of the
Wordsworth Trust. Her publications include twenty-seven volumes of poetry, criticism and
philosophy of language. Recent works include: a new edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley; TheCatch; Lyric Cousins: Musical Form in Poetry; and Limestone Country.
This event is sponsored by Cutts of Campden, Ford in The Cotswolds
Tel: 01386 840213 www.cuttsofcampden.co.uk
MAKING THE MONSTER8.30pm Chipping Campden School Hall £8
Free to full-time students
Doors open 8pm TOKE’S Bar
Kathryn Harkup, who wowed the Chipping Campden
audience with her presentation of A Is For Arsenic in 2017,examines the science and scientists that influenced the
teenager, Mary Shelley #WomenInSTEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) is
a 2018 media campaign. The years before 1818 saw huge advances in our understanding
of the natural sciences, in areas such as electricity and physiology. Sensational science
demonstrations caught the imagination of the general public, while the newspapers were full
of lurid tales of murderers.
Kathryn Harkup after completing a doctorate on her favourite chemicals, phosphenes, for
six years ran the outreach in engineering, computing, physics and maths at the University of
Surrey, writing talks on science topics that would appeal to bored teenagers. Now a
freelance communicator, she delivers talks and workshops on the quirky side of science.
This event is sponsored by The BRI www.campdenbri.co.uk
With thanks to TOKE’S Food and Drink
Tel: 01386 849345 www.tokesfoodanddrink.co.uk
BOOKING FORM
TUESDAY 8 MAY
Lunch with Rory Clements Tel: +44 (0)1386 840330
Reservations with Cotswold House Hotel onlywww.bespokehotels.com/cotswoldhouse E:[email protected]
Price Quantity Total
Paradise Lost £10
Poetry Workshop £35
The Glass Aisle £ 5
Mary Shelley £ 8
Making the Monster £ 8
WEDNESDAY 9 MAY
The Witch £ 7
Brolliology £ 7
WI Tea: Nature & Arts £17
Dracula’s Father £ 8
Mr Barry’s War £ 8
THURSDAY 10 MAY
Maxwell Knight £ 7
21st C Gothic Fiction £10
House of Fiction £ 7
Jane Austen £ 7
The Big Book Group £ 7
FRIDAY 11 MAY
The Last Bus £ 7
Grenfell Hope £ 7
Patchwork Poets £ 5
Film Matinee £ 5
Brutus £14
SATURDAY 12 MAY
Printing Workshop £48
The Last Battle £ 8
Hearts and Minds £ 8
In Byron’s Wake £ 8
Book Collecting £ 10
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Elegie on Saturday 12 May must be booked through the Music Festival
www.campdenmusicfestival.co.uk
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WEDNESDAY 9 MAY
THE WITCH: A HISTORY OF FEAR FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE PRESENT10am Upper Room Town Hall £7
'Ronald Hutton examines attitudes on witchcraft and the treatment of
suspected witches across the world, and from ancient pagan times to
current interpretations. His fresh anthropological and ethnographical
approach focuses on cultural inheritance and change while
considering shamanism, folk religion, the range of witch trials, and
how the fear of witchcraft might be eradicated.
‘a rigorous interdisciplinary approach’ The New York Times‘Magisterial’ The Guardian‘we would do well to learn from the history Hutton depicts’ The Washington Post‘Highly recommended for those fascinated by the nature and extent of the notorious
European witch trials’ Sir Tony Robinson
Ronald Hutton professor of history, University of Bristol, is a documentary maker and a
leading authority on ancient, medieval, and modern paganism, on the history of the British
Isles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and on the global context of witchcraft
beliefs. His books include Blood and Mistletoe, Pagan Britain, and The Rise and Fall ofMerry England.
BROLLIOLOGY: A HISTORY OF THE UMBRELLA IN LIFE AND LITERATURE11.30am Upper Room Town Hall £7
The kasa-obake or the umbrella ghost is one of
the most prominent forms of the Japanese yokai,
or monstrous spirits. Marion Rankine
demonstrates how the umbrella has been
regarded with reverence, superstition and
fascination: the umbrella appears over 120 times
in Dickens; Derrida and Nietzsche both wrote
about umbrellas; Leonard Bast in E.M. Forster’s
Howard’s End ‘could not quite forget his stolen
umbrella.’ And Will Self’s Umbrella was on the
2012 Booker shortlist.
‘A work of profound scholarship and imaginative engagement’ The Literary Review‘an eloquent and lively account’ The Observer‘Illuminating and entertaining’ The Telegraph ‘Brolliology offers the feeling of having consumed something delicious but light’
The Washington PostMarion Rankine is a London-based writer and bookseller. She has contributed to among
other publications The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, Overland and For Books’Sake. Dennis Johnson founder of Melville House publisher of Brolliology says, ‘I first met
Marion when my wife and I walked into Foyles and she tried to sell us a copy of one of our
own books.’
WEDNESDAY 9 MAY
WI TEA: NATURE & ARTS AFTERNOON 2pm Upper Room Town Hall £17
To include WI tea and cake
‘Bad things happen in woods…It’s possible that we have cleared
and destroyed our woods because we fear their wildness’
Chapter 8: Blood in The Forest
Peter Fiennes’ illustrated talk on The Ancient Woods and New
Forests of Britain.
‘Fiennes mixes a deep knowledge of trees with an acute eye for
the best writing about them, quoting liberally from Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Kipling and Tennyson. He acknowledges that the “lives we have chosen are
prising us apart from the natural world, and we are more likely to experience a woodland
through watching Countryfile than by breathing in the actual, living trees”, then sets out a
clear path by which we might reconnect with nature…It feels set to become a classic of the
genre’ The Observer‘Steeped in poetry, science, folklore...& magic Fiennes is an eloquent, elegiac chronicler of
copses...& the wildwood’ Sunday Express‘A passionate ramble through Britain’s complicated relationship with its woodland’ Daily MailPeter Fiennes as publisher for Time Out published their city guides as well as books about
London’s trees and Britain’s countryside. He is the author of To War With God, a moving
account of his grandfather’s service as a chaplain in the First World War.
Interval
Susan Owens delves into a wealth of
sources – illuminated manuscripts,
paintings, magic lantern slides,
woodcut engravings, novels and
poems – to explore how ghosts
fascinate, terrify and inspire; how they
have inhabited a wide range of roles
from medieval times to the present day,
and how they reflect our changing
attitudes, our hopes and fears,
featuring a dazzling range of artists
including William Blake, Henry Fuseli
and Paul Nash alongside such writers
as Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, Thomas Hardy, Hilary Mantel and many more.
‘a lively guide to that most persistent of spooky figures—and to the obsession with
mortality...Best to keep a light on’ The Economist ‘A work of profound scholarship and imaginative engagement’ The Literary Review‘an eloquent and lively account’ The Observer‘Illuminating and entertaining’ The TelegraphSusan Owens is an art historian and freelance curator (formerly Curator of Paintings at the
Victoria & Albert Museum) with expertise in British art and a particular interest in drawings
and watercolours. She is co-curator of an exhibition about Christina Rossetti, opening at the
Watts Gallery this year. She regularly contributes to publications including the TES and
World of Interiors.
With thanks to Chipping Campden WI
SATURDAY 12 MAY
ELEGIE: RACHMANINOFF A HEART IN EXILEIn conjunction with Chipping Campden Music Festival
7.30pm to approximately 9.15pm St James’ Church
Reserved £30 & £25 Unreserved £23 Students £1
Regular festival goers will be familiar with the enormously popular
programmes of words and music compiled and scripted by Lucy
Parham. The narrative, scripted from letters
and diaries, follows Rachmaninoff from his youth in Russia, through
his subsequent self-imposed exile in 1917 and finally to California
USA, where he died in 1943. The programme includes many of his
best-loved works for solo piano, including a selection of Preludes,
Etudes-Tableaux and Moments Musicaux, some of his own
transcriptions and the haunting Elégie, as well as works by Scriabin
and Tchaikovsky.
Henry Goodman is an actor, known for Notting Hill (1999),
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and Taking Woodstock (2009). He
won the Laurence Olivier Theatre award for Best Actor 1993 in the
musical Assasins and in 2000 for his memorable Shylock.
Lucy Parham had her Royal Festival Hall concerto debut at the age of 16, has made
numerous recordings, and played throughout the UK as a concerto soloist with most major
British orchestras. She has toured extensively abroad, and is a regular presenter on BBC
Radio 3 and 4.
‘There is nothing more satisfying than listening to great music, beautifully performed, while,
at the same time, learning a little about the world in which it came into being and about the
people who created it. Lucy Parham’s concerts offer just that – a wonderful way to spend a
couple of hours.’ Simon Russell Beale
This event must be booked through the Music Festival
www.campdenmusicfestival.co.uk
Acknowledgements
Front Cover: @Jane Clarke
Author Images: John Carey ©Matt Writtle, Rory Clements ©Madeleine Clements,
Carol Drinkwater ©Paul Cooper/REX Shutterstock, Paul Henry ©Zed Nelson,
Kazuo Ishiguro ©Jeff Cottenden, Laura Purcell ©Ph2o Photography,
Fiona Sampson ©Ekaterina Voskresenskaya, Harriet Walter ©Georgia Oetker
Design: www.graphicprintpartnership.com
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IN BYRON’S WAKE 2pm Chipping Campden School £8 Free to full-time students
Doors open 1pm TOKE’S All Day Coffee Bar
Miranda Seymour talks about her latest book in which she draws on
fascinating new material to reveal the ways in which Lord Byron,
long after his death, continued to shape the lives and reputations of
the mathematical Annabella Milbanke whom he married in 1815,
and their daughter the future Ada Lovelace. Ada, who never knew
her father, predicted, as nobody would do for another century, the
dawn of our modern computer age and explored the analysis of distant stars.
Miranda Seymour is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been a visiting
professor at Nottingham Trent University. She began writing as a historical novelist, moving
from fiction into biography during the 1980s with her remarkable group portrait of Henry
James and his literary circle: A Ring of Conspirators. Her other biographies include that of
Otteline Morrell and Robert Graves & her Life of Mary Shelley.'the most dazzling life of a female writer to have come my way for a decade'
Financial Times.
BOOK COLLECTING3.30pm Chipping Campden School £10
Free to full-time students
Doors open 1pm
TOKE’S All Day Pop-Up Coffee Bar
‘Anyone who has a book collection and a garden wants for nothing’ Cicero
Kazuo Ishiguro, Lindsay Mackie and Mark Williams discuss the unique pleasures
second-hand bookshops and book collecting can offer. From the rarefied world of
Antiquarian and the Modern First Editions and the minutiae of edition and issue points, to
those who buy and collect whatever appeals, book collecting can be a pursuit to suit all
budgets, tastes and proclivities!
Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017. An internationally
acclaimed, prizewinning novelist, he is a UEA graduate of Malcolm Bradbury’s Creative
Writing course. The author of seven novels and one short story collection. The Remains ofthe Day won the 1989 Booker prize. His latest novel is #The Buried Giant.Lindsay Mackie has written for the Guardian and is a partner in The New Weather
Cooperative think tank and a consultant with the New Economics Foundation. She is
heavily involved in setting up literacy and extra curricular programmes for UK schools.
Lindsay set up the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Award for Young People in 2000
schools within four years. Also, she spearheaded 300 reading clubs with Education Extra
and is a co-founder of the schools charity Filmclub.
Mark Williams is an actor well-known for roles on the big and small screen. He played
Arthur Weasley in the Harry Potter film adaptations. As well as his roles as Father Brown
and in the Fast Show, Mark more recently contributed his voice to Channel 4’s We areGoing on a Bear Hunt.
This afternoon’s events are sponsored by Draycott Books
Tel: 01386 841392 @DraycottBooks
WEDNESDAY 9 MAY
WHO IS DRACULA’S FATHER?7pm Chipping Campden School Hall £8
Free to full-time students
Doors open 6.30pm TOKE’S Bar
John Sutherland presents his toothsome new
collection of literary puzzles in which he scrutinises
the fine and not-so-fine points of Bram Stoker’s
Gothic masterpiece, Dracula and its
shape-shifting, bloodsucking Count. Learn about Stoker’s love-rivalry with Oscar Wilde, his
‘dreadful’ stage adaptation of Dracula, performed to an audience of two, a tantalising dropped
prelude set in Munich. Take a peek behind Dracula’s cloak and find out: Who is Dracula’s
father? Who, for that matter, is Quincy P. Morris? Why does the Count take such pointless
risks? And why are there still so few vampires?
The book also includes Dracula Digested by John Crace, author of The Guardian's Digested
Reads column.
John Sutherland is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus at University College London and an
eminent scholar in the field of Victorian fiction, and is author of many works including TheLongman Companion to Victorian Fiction and the bestselling popular titles Is Heathcliff a Murderer? and Can Jane Eyre be Happy?, and such scholarly jeux d’esprit as Curiosities ofLiterature.Abraham "Bram" Stoker born in Dublin in 1847, is best known today for his 1897 novel
Dracula. In his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving,
and business manager of Irving’s Lyceum Theatre in London. He died in 1912.
MR BARRY’S WAR8.30pm Chipping Campden School Hall £8
Free to full-time students
Doors open 8pm TOKE’S Bar
Caroline Shenton’s illustrated account of how the
brilliant classical architect Charles Barry won the
competition to build a new Houses of Parliament
after the fire of 1834; and how his chance of a
lifetime turned into the most nightmarish building
programme of the century. Rallying the genius of
his collaborator Augustus Pugin, the interior
demanded spectacular new Gothic features not seen since the Middle Ages. The quarter of
a mile river frontage was constructed in the treacherous currents of the Thames, and its
gigantic towers required feats of civil engineering and building technology never used
before.
‘An achievement as intricate and splendid as Mr Barry’s own’ Lucy Worsley
‘beautifully crafted…politics laid on with a mason’s trowel’ Lord Michael Dobbs
Caroline Shenton was Director of the Parliamentary Archives at Westminster from 2008
to 2014, and prior to that was a senior archivist at the National Archives at Kew. Her first
book The Day Parliament Burned Down won the inaugural Political Book of the Year Award
in 2013, and Mary Beard called it 'microhistory at its absolute best'.
This evening’s events are sponsored by The Noel Arms Hotel
Tel: 01386 840317 www.bespokehotels.com/noelarmshotel
THURSDAY 10 MAY
M MAXWELL KNIGHT, M15’S GREATEST SPYMASTER 10am Upper Room Town Hall £7
‘The Frankenstein Mutation of the Fascist movement to which Max
had belonged…tore at parts of his identity and the way he
remembered his past.’ Maxwell Knight was rumoured to be an
inspiration for the James Bond character ‘M’ . Henry Hemming in his
own words celebrate[s]…brave men and women who chose to let go
of a part of themselves – who gave over their lives, really, anony-
mously and for very little reward – to a spymaster they trusted, and
for a country they believed in.’ This year ‘M’ is to be adapted for a
television drama by Matt Charman, who was nominated for an Oscar
for his work on Bridge of Spies.
‘a terrific book, well researched and superbly written’ The GuardianHenry Hemming studied history at university. He has written for, among others, the Economist, The Times, FT Magazine and The Washington Post. His five previous works of
non-fiction include Misadventure in the Middle East and most recently, Churchill’s Iceman.
21ST CENTURY GOTHIC FICTION 11.30am Upper Room Town Hall £10
Sue Cook explores with Laura Purcell and Lynn Shepherd the
enduring appeal of gothic fiction: ‘How is it that fear - the primitive
defense mechanism that warns us to fight or flee when faced with
danger - can be pleasurable? And yet that paradoxical wish to be
frightened is as ancient as narrative art itself. From Grendel
lumbering murderously out of the darkness in the eighth century
poem “Beowulf,” through the tales recorded by the Grimms and
down to our own age, storytellers have catered to our desire to be
made fearful.’ The Huffington PostLaura Purcell a former bookseller, is author of The Silent Companions. Inspired by the work of Shirley Jackson and Susan
Hill, and set in a crumbling country mansion, it was the 2017 BBC
Radio 2 Book Club choice for Halloween.
‘A sinister slice of Victorian gothic...creepy and page-turning’ The Times Lynn Shepherd studied English at Oxford and was a copywriter. The Pierced Heart was
inspired by Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and described by Ian Rankin as ‘tense,terrific’. Her other
books include Murder at Mansfield Park, The Solitary House (The Spectator and Sunday Express Crime Book of the Year 2012) and ATreacherous Likeness which was a BBC History magazine historical
novel of the year and ‘an absolute must’ Daily MailSue Cook is one of the UK’s most experienced broadcasters. Her BBC
TV shows include Crimewatch UK, the Children in Need appeal and
Holiday; and to radio listeners she’s been a familiar voice since the 70s
on many series and individual programmes, including You and Yoursand, more recently, Making History for Radio 4. Sue is now a
successful novelist and is currently working on adapting her first novel,
On Dangerous Ground for a film of the same title.
This morning’s events are sponsored by Cotswold House Hotel and Spa
Tel: 01386 840330 www.bespokehotels.com/cotswoldhouse
SATURDAY 12 MAY
LETTERPRESS BOOK JACKET WORKSHOP10am - 4pm Church Rooms £48 (6 places only)
To include tea and coffee
Louisa Hare invites you to design and print your own eye
catching book jacket. Lino,cutting tools, ink and paper are provided and you will be shown
how to cut your illustration. Louisa will bring a portable press, plus a selection of metal
display typefaces, from which you can choose to best suit your design.
Louisa Hare is a well-known letterpress printer. Over thirty years ago she set up her small
publishing business. Best known for the range of internationally distributed
Shakespeare postcards, Louisa’s business, First Folio Cards,
continues to flourish.
THE LAST BATTLE: ENDGAME ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 2018 10.30am Chipping Campden School £8
Free to full-time students Doors open 10am
TOKE’S All Day Pop-up Coffee Bar
Peter Hart invites us to reflect on the centenary of the
end of WWI and draws on the experience of both generals
and ordinary soldiers, and dwells with equal weight on
strategy, tactics and individual experience, to bring to life the nature of the dramatic fighting
on the Western Front in the final crucial eight weeks of of the Great War. His talk will be
illustrated by extracts from the poignant accounts of the veterans.
Peter Hart is the oral historian at the Imperial War Museum and is a household name in the
field of military history for those with an interest in first hand accounts from the veterans
themselves. He has written extensively on the First World War. His books include Gallipoli,The Great War and Voices from the Front.‘All good history books should be an assault on myth, and in Gallipoli Peter Hart mounts a
supremely effective attack’ Daily Mail
HEARTS AND MINDS12 noon Chipping Campden School £8 Free to full-time students
Doors open 11.30am TOKE’S All Day Pop-up Coffee Bar
Jane Robinson presents Hearts and Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote #Vote100.
Drawn from diaries, letters and unpublished personal accounts, this is
the remarkable story of the suffragists’ six week protest march in the
long hot summer before WWI: the story of ordinary women stepping
out onto the streets of Britain to effect extraordinary change. At our
2014 Festival Jane presented her WWI history A Force to be Reckoned With, and in 2015 her history of illegitimacy In the Family Way. Both events were
a resounding success.
Jane Robinson read English at Somerville College Oxford, and is a full-time writer and
lecturer, specialising in social history through women’s eyes. She is a fellow of the Royal
Geographical Society, member of the Society of Authors, and founder member of Writers
in Oxford. Jane’s other seven titles include Blue Stocking ‘A gem of a book’ Sunday Times
This morning’s events are sponsored by The Noel Arms Hotel Tel: 01386 840317
www.bespokehotels.com/noelarmshotel
FRIDAY 11 MAY
WOMEN AT THE CENTRE OF SHAKESPEARE’S STAGE 7pm Chipping Campden School Hall £14 Free to full-time students
Doors open 6.30pm TOKE’S Bar There will an interval
Harriet Walter in conversation with Sam Walters and
Auriol Smith on Harriet’s remarkable acting career as
told in her book on the exploration of the
Shakespearean canon through the eyes of a
self-identified ‘feminist actor’.
Harriet Walter CBE has played almost all of
Shakespeare’s heroines, notably Ophelia, Helena,
Portia, Viola, Imogen, Lady Macbeth, Beatrice and
Cleopatra, mostly for the Royal Shakespeare
Company. Her Brutus at the all female production of
Julius Caesar at Donmar Warehouse was widely
acclaimed and was soon followed by Henry IV. Harriet has also played numerous other
great classical stage roles including the Duchess of Malfi, Hedda Gabler and Linda in Deathof a Salesman and has created many roles in new plays such as Arcadia and Sweet Panic.
She has also starred in countless films and in television dramas. Her other books are OtherPeople’s Shoes, Macbeth and Facing It .
Sam Walters MBE, educated at Merton College Oxford, trained as an actor at LAMDA. He
retired in 2014 as Artistic Director of the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London which
he founded in 1971 and ran for 42 years! He also directed in the West End, in many
regional theatres, and at drama schools.
Auriol Smith is an actor, theatre director, and founder member and former associate
director of the Orange Tree Theatre. She has also directed in the West End, regional
theatres and at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
INTERVAL
The co-editors of Much Ado About Nothing: A Critical ReaderPeter J Smith and Deborah Cartmell join Harriet Walter and Auriol
Smith for a panel discussion on arguably Shakespeare’s funniest
play Much Ado about Nothing. Chaired by Sam Walters.
Peter J Smith, reader in Renaissance literature at Nottingham
Trent University, and former trustee of the British Shakespeare
Association, is the author of Between Two Stools and SocialShakespeare. He has published recently on Othello on screen and
Derek Jarman's film version of The Tempest.Deborah Cartmell is Professor of English at De Montfort
University. She has contributed to numerous publications on
screen adaptations of literary texts.
This event is sponsored by Cotswold House Hotel and Spa
Tel: 01386 840330 www.bespokehotels.com/cotswoldhouse
With thanks to TOKE’S Food and Drink
Tel: 01386 849345 www.tokesfoodanddrink.co.uk
HOUSE OF FICTION 2pm Upper Room Town Hall £7
From the darkest fantasies of Horace Walpole’s Otranto– inspired by his own ‘little Gothic castle’ at Strawberry Hill – to
modern takes on the English country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and
Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson draws on authors’ biographies,
letters, diaries and the novels themselves to examine how authors’
personal experiences helped to shape the homes that have
become the icons of English literature.
‘A fascinating study of the houses that have obsessed our most
famous writers’ The Sunday TimesPhyllis Richardson grew up in Southern California, and moved to London in 1992. She
studied English literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, and University
College, London. She is the co-ordinator of the Foundation Year in English Literature at
Goldsmiths, University of London and has written on architecture and urban development
for the Financial Times, The Observer and DWELL magazine, and reviews literary fiction in
the TLS. Her many books on architecture and design include the highly successful XSseries, Nano House and Superlight.
JANE AUSTEN: THE BANKER’S SISTER 3.30pm Upper Room Town Hall £7
With special reference to Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey,
a satire of the Gothic novels popular at the time of its
writing (1798-9), Emma Clery presents a radically new
vision of Jane Austen, revealing how her works were
shaped by an acute awareness of the economic scandals,
crises and speculation that marked the Regency era.
‘masterful and scholarly interpretation of Austen’s family dynamics, political links, and
financial successes and failures provides an interesting and fresh approach to the study of
this illustrious novelist’s life and legacy’ New York Journal of BooksE J Clery is Professor of Eighteenth Century Literature at the University of Southampton
and also works at the Centre for Early Women’s Writing at Chawton Great House. She
frequently appears on UK radio and TV talking about Jane Austen and her contemporaries,
literary history and the cultural history of economics. Her five books include the bestselling
The Rise of Supernatural Fiction. She lives close to Winchester Cathedral where Jane
Austen is buried.
This afternoon’s events are sponsored by The Bantam Tearooms in the High Street
THURSDAY 10 MAY
THURSDAY 10 MAY
SUE COOK’S BIG BOOK GROUP 7pm Upper Room Town Hall £7
Doors open at 7pm TOKE’S Wine Bar
Sue Cook invites the audience to discuss with author, Carol
Drinkwater, her 2017 novel: A missing daughter; a desperate
mother! Through a night of loss and horror, when a series of
terrorist attacks bring Paris to a standstill, celebrated
photographer Kurtiz Ross confronts her ghosts and discovers
that the past of the
octogenarian French actress
Marguerite Courtney, who
has befriended her, might
hold the key to her own future. In telling Marguerite’s
story, Carol draws on events in her own life thus
unwittingly writing a precursor to the #MeToo media
campaign.
'A story to savour’ Dinah Jefferies, bestselling author of The Tea Planter's WifeCarol Drinkwater is a multi-award-winning actress who is best known for playing Helen
Herriot in the BBC television series All Creatures Great and Small. She has since written
twenty-one fiction and non-fiction books, including four memoirs set on her olive farm in the
south of France, which have sold over a million copies worldwide.
Sue Cook’s biography is on page 6
This evening’s event is sponsored by Paula Kaplan
With thanks to TOKE’S Food and Drink
Tel: 01386 849345 www.tokesfoodanddrink.co.uk
WAITING FOR THE LAST BUS 10am St James’ Church £7 Free to full-time students
Post-talk refreshments in aid of Church funds
Where do we go when we die? Or is there nowhere to go? Is
death something we can do or is it just something that happens
to us?
Richard Holloway is back by popular demand after his 2017 talk
on his highly regarded book A Little History of Religion. This
year he presents a positive, meditative and profound
exploration of the many important lessons we can learn from
death: facing up to the limitations of our bodies as they falter,
reflecting on our failings, and forgiving ourselves and others. An
invitation to reconsider life's greatest mystery by one of the
most important and beloved religious leaders of our time.
Richard Holloway now in his ninth decade has spent a lifetime at the bedsides of the
dying, guiding countless men and women towards peaceful deaths. He was Bishop of
Edinburgh from 1986 and from 1992 Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. He resigned
both positions in 2000. He is well-known for his support of progressive causes. He has
reviewed for many publications including The Times, The Guardian, Sunday Herald, and
The Scotsman. His more than twenty books include the best selling Leaving Alexandria: AMemoir of Faith and Doubt. He is a frequent presenter on radio and television.
FRIDAY 11 MAY
FRIDAY 11 MAY
GRENFELL HOPE11.45am St James’ Church £7 Free to full-time students
Pre-talk refreshments in aid of Church funds
Gaby Doherty outlines what it was like living in North
Kensington before and after the fire on 14 June 2017 at
Grenfell Tower, the 24-storey block of public housing flats.
She and her husband Sean and their four children live in a flat
across from Grenfell Tower, and Sean (a Church of England
minister) was the first clergy person on the scene. Gaby’s
account features the testimony of and commentary on the
community that experienced the fire, and the amazing stories
of hope that followed in its wake. With short readings by Auriol
Smith and Sam Walters.
Gaby Doherty was born a farmer’s granddaughter who from the age of 5-18 lived on a farm
in rural Somerset with the nearest shops three miles away. After studying English at
Reading and then Theology at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, her faith led her to volunteer in
Nottingham in an Urban Priority Area. She wanted to live alongside the poor, a condition
she insisted upon when Sean asked her to marry him! For three years Gaby and Sean
worked in a multicultural church in Cricklewood, before Gaby and Sean moved to West
London .
Auriol Smith and Sam Walters’ biographies are on page 10.
With thanks to St James’ Church, Richard Stephens and Sally Dymott
PATCHWORK POETS3pm Church Rooms £5 To include tea or coffee
Ann Allen hosts this inclusive poetry session: first the Patchwork Poets,
who meet regularly, will give a presentation of their poems, and then
there will be an opportunity for audience members to share their work.
Ann’s first poetry collection is Michelangelo Can Paint an Angel.
FILM MATINEE: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK3pm Court Room Old Police Station £5
(1hour 55 mins)
Starring Rachel Roberts and directed by Peter
Weir, the 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock is an
adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s 1967 book, arguably
one of the most important Australian novels of all
time. The ethereal opening sequences focus on the inexplicable disappearance of three
girls and a mistress on an innocent school outing in 1900. The film goes on to explore the
repercussions of this, setting Victorian morality, values and hypocrisy against a gothic
Australian background, enhancing the sense of "other" ness and the supernatural. There
are parallels with today's society – press intrusion, mass hysteria, mob rule and alienation –
and with Shakespeare's The Tempest, where a similar unravelling of society creates a
climate of other worldliness.
‘has a hypnotic spell’ The New York Times‘a legend that went viral well before the world as we know it existed’ (2014) The Guardian
With thanks to Campden Film Society
