Proceeds from the Festival go to
King's Sutton
Parish Church Restoration Fund
2008 Festival programme now available
2008 Programme
Saturday 8 March
SESSION 1
10.15
am Make your Mark
Young
Writers Workshop
FREE
Martin Gurdon, journalist and author of Write On!, a duffer’s guide to writing, leads a fun-filled writing workshop for aspiring writers. Come and have a go. Put pen to paper in the company of fellow wordsmiths.
SESSION 2
11.45am Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance Non-Fiction
FREE
Martin Gurdon shares his ‘other’ passion - hen-manship! A light-hearted ramble through the highways and byways of getting the best from your hens. Martin and his hen explain all.
SESSION
3
1.00pm
A Taste for Life
Non-Fiction
From Shakespeare and Kafka on the stage and in books to A Clockwork Orange and Beverly Hills Cop on the silver screen, Steven Berkoff’s extraordinary career as actor, director and writer has spanned the last 4 decades and taken him to every continent in the world. He talks to Zoe Johnson about his latest book, My Life in Food, in which he explores the transforming nature of food and what it has taught him about culture and companionship.
SESSION
4
2.30pm
Naves or Novels?
Literature
& Religion
Well-known to Radio 4 Today listeners, Richard Harries, recently retired Bishop of Oxford, explores some contentious issues with John Duncan. What is the relationship between literature and religion in contemporary Britain. Where do we go to find insight and inspiration? Who do we look to for wisdom and moral strength? Are books more important than churches? Come and join the debate.
SESSION
5
4.00pm
Working with Words
Penguin
Readers Event
Meet 2 young authors recommended by the Penguin Readers Group. Clare Clark writes dark historical novels - The Great Stink and The Nature of Monsters. Catherine Bailey’s first book is a non-fiction work, Black Diamonds, about Wentworth House in Yorkshire - an estate grown rich on coal and yet with owners beloved of the miners whose work made them rich. Why not bring your book group and join the discussion with Winifred Robinson.
(You are welcome to stay and enjoy a glass of wine with the authors after the show. Penguin goodie bags to take home!)
Sunday 9 March
SESSION
6
1.00pm
Crime: Ancient and Modern
Novels
20 million fans world-wide follow the fortunes of Anne Perry’s detectives: Thomas Pitt (Long Spoon Lane) and William Monk (Dark Assassin) are sleuths in the glamour and squalor of Victorian England; the Reavley family (We shall Not Sleep) brave the mud and blood of the trenches and the shadowy world of espionage during WW1 to solve their crimes. Mark Billingham’s DI Tom Thorne (Lazy Bones, Death Message), on the other hand, practises his dark arts of detection in the thoroughly modern urban landscapes of today. What appeals to a crime writer about different periods of history? Anne and Mark discuss their craft with Patrick Neale (of Jaffe & Neale Bookshop in Chipping Norton).
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SESSION
7
2.30pm
African Odysseys
Travel
In 2004, Tim Butcher, War Correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and a Richard & Judy Book of the Year finalist
followed
in the footsteps of Henry Stanley (He of ‘Dr Livingstone, I presume,’ fame.)
and made the dangerous journey down
the Congo river. Blood
River
is the riveting account of this journey. He and Lawrence
Potter,
teacher, traveller and author of This the World,
share their African experiences with Peter
Kyte.
SESSION 8 SOLD OUT
4.00pm
Wit and Wisdom
Literary
Lives
Writer, barrister and creator of Rumpole of the Bailey, John Mortimer, talks to Garry O’Connor about his long life and career and the people he has met along the way. He shares his reflections on the importance of not giving advice, the pointlessness of pursuing happiness, the wisdom of Yeats and John Stuart Mill and the joy of hearing the echoes of his father’s voice in the laughter of his grandchildren.
Tickets £6.00 per session
Each session lasts about 1hr 15 mins
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You are invited to Choral Evensong at King's Sutton Parish Church Sunday 9th March 6.00 pm
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Our sponsors
This year we are grateful for the support of the Banbury Guardian, who are sponsoring the printing of the programme. Savills are generously providing a banner on the Bodicote Flyover, and Cherwell Valley Silos will erect a banner.
Cherwell Valley Silos
We thank also:
Purely Plants, Middleton Cheney (floral decorations) www.purelyplants.co.uk
&
King's Sutton Scaffolding