Buxton Festival Literary Leaflet 2015

LITERARY SERIES FASCINATING STORIES & CELEBRATED SPEAKERS

Leading authors and famous personalities with great stories to tell Bill Oddie Miriam Margolyes Louis de Bernières Cormac Murphy-O’Connor Helen Macdonald Helen Castor William Waldegrave AN Wilson Peter Hennessy Antonia Fraser Penny Junor Christopher Frayling Will Hutton The Oldie Literary Lunch and many more Box Office: 0845 127 2190 buxtonfestival.co.uk In association with

AN EVENING WITH...

THE OLDIE LITERARY LUNCH

KATHY LETTE, RONNI ANCONA, MAUREEN LIPMAN & MEERA SYAL 7.30pm–9pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £16, £20 Join outspoken and hilarious novelist Kathy Lette and her posse of Love Goddesses, Ronni Ancona, Maureen Lipman and Meera Syal, for a hilarious, frank and free-wheeling chat about their lives, loves, careers, favourite cakes, pet peeves and passions.

KATE MOSSE on The Taxidermist’s Daughter JONATHAN FRYER on unconventional figures PRUE LEITH on a culinary life

Kathy Lette cites amongst her career highlights once teaching Stephen Fry a word; Salman Rushdie, the limbo; and scripting Julian Assange’s cameo in The Simpsons’ 500th episode. Her latest novel is Courting Trouble, the first of a planned series in which she brings her unique voice to the crime genre.

Actress Ronni Ancona has delighted audiences with her uncannily accurate impressions (in shows alongside Alistair McGowan) and in popular dramas including Last Tango in Halifax, Hope Springs and The Trip. She is currently starring in the West End musical Bend It Like Beckham.

Sunday 26 July 12 noon–3pm Book signing 12 noon–1pm Lunch 1pm Old Hall Hotel Tickets: £62

Maureen Lipman is one of Britain’s most popular actresses, through her many roles on stage and screen, and also her wonderfully warm, honest and humorous memoirs.

Writer and actress Meera Syal is best known as co-writer and is star of the popular TV comedy series Goodness Gracious Me and The Kumars at No 42. She is the author of bestselling novels Anita and Me and Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee, and her latest, The House of Hidden Mothers, is published this Summer.

What better way to wind up another great Literary Series at Buxton Festival, with The Oldie’s celebrated Literary Lunch – coming for the first time to Buxton.

As a foreign reporter, Jonathan Fryer’s voice will be familiar from BBC Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent. As a historian, he has published a dozen books focusing on particularly debauched Hosted by Jeremy Lewis, the Lunch figures, including Oscar Wilde, welcomes three terrific authors Dylan Thomas, and the inhabitants with fascinating stories to tell. of Soho in its hedonistic heyday of the Fifties and Sixties.

Kate Mosse – author of Labyrinth and The Winter Ghosts – makes Restaurateur, founder of Leith’s her Oldie Literary Lunch debut to Cookery School and author of a tell us about The Taxidermist’s dozen cookery books, Prue Leith Daughter, a gothic psychological is a self-described glutton for life, thriller set on the flooded as detailed in her memoir Relish. marshlands of the author’s native Not content to stay in the kitchen, West Sussex on the Eve of St Leith has also turned her hand to Mark, 1912. novel-writing. She will speak about her most recent fiction, as well as a life spent immersed in food.

MENU Buck’s Fizz on arrival Wine with meal • Old Hall Paté, Red Onion Confit, Melba Toast Smoked Salmon & Asparagus Salad, Dill Crème Fraiche • Roast Leg of Lamb with a Shallot and Red Currant Jus with New Potatoes, Roast Potatoes and Seasonal Vegetables Sea Bass fillet with a Cream Watercress Sauce, New Potatoes, Roast Potatoes and Seasonal Vegetables Broccoli and Stilton Tartlet with Mixed Salad, Lemon and Dill Crushed New Potatoes • Vanilla Crème Brulée, Shortbread Biscuit Meringue Nest filled with Chocolate Dipped Strawberries and Chantilly Cream • Tea or Coffee with Minted Chocolates

In partnerhip with

Box Office: 01298 72190 or 0845 127 2190 or online at buxtonfestival.co.uk (where you can find information on all Festival events)

Box Office: 01298 72190 or 0845 127 2190 or online at buxtonfestival.co.uk (where you can find information on all Festival events)

LITERARY EVENTS 11 JULY

12 JULY

LITERARY EVENTS 2pm, PAC

A N WILSON Victoria: A Life

HELEN 10.15am, PAC MACDONALD ANDREW ROBERTS H is for Hawk Napoleon the Great

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2pm, PAC

10.15am, PAC

2pm, PAC

5pm, PAC

RICHARD DAVENPORTHINES Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes

FERDINAND MASOUD MOUNT BANISADR The Tears of the Rajas Destructive & Terrorist Cults

3.45pm, PAC

4.30pm, PAC

GORDON CORERA 10.15am, PAC Intercept: The MARK BOSTRIDGE Secret History of Vera Brittain & Computers & Spies The First World War

16 JULY

18 JULY

19 JULY

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2pm, PAC

CLAUDIA RENTON Those Wild 4.45pm, PAC Wyndhams JAMES REBANKS The Shepherd’s Life

ROBERT DOUGLASFAIRHURST The Story of Alice

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10.15am, BOH

ANTONIA FRASER in conversation with

Dame Janet Smith My History

17 JULY 10.15am, BOH

10.15am, PAC

PENNY JUNOR Prince Harry

HELEN CASTOR Joan of Arc

15 JULY 10.15am, PAC

20 JULY 10.15am, BOH

WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE A Different Kind of Weather

JEAN SEATON

in conversation with

Dame Janet Smith Pinkoes & Traitors

13 JULY 10.15am, BOH

SARAH QUILL Ruskin’s Venice Sponsored by

14 JULY

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10.15am, PAC

LOUIS DE BERNIÈRES The Dust That Falls From Dreams

4pm, PAC

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2pm, PAC

SELINA HASTINGS The Red Earl

KEN HOWARD & HAROLD RILEY Light and Dark & Street Dogs

2pm, PAC

ANNE DE COURCY Margot at War 2pm, PAC

JUDITH FLANDERS The Making of Home

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2pm, BOH

2pm, PAC

CORMAC MURPHY- CHRISTOPHER O’CONNOR FRAYLING An English Spring The Yellow Peril: Dr Fu Manchu & The Rise of Chinaphobia

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Tickets: £10.50 (Pavilion Arts Centre – PAC), £12 (Buxton Opera House – BOH) Box Office: 01298 72190 or 0845 127 2190 or online at buxtonfestival.co.uk (where you can find information on all Festival events)

Tickets: £10.50 (Pavilion Arts Centre – PAC), £12 (Buxton Opera House – BOH) Box Office: 01298 72190 or 0845 127 2190 or online at buxtonfestival.co.uk (where you can find information on all Festival events)

EARLY-MORNING TALKS

LITERARY EVENTS 4.45pm, PAC

2pm, PAC

WILL HUTTON How Good Can We Be?

MARC MORRIS MIRIAM King John: Treachery, MARGOLYES Tyranny & The Road Dickens’ Women to Magna Carta

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2pm, BOH

25 JULY 10.15am, BOH

BILL ODDIE Unplucked

Upstairs in the Old Clubhouse, 9am.

Tickets: £10.50 14 July

10.15am, PAC

ANTHONY KING Who Governs Britain?

PETER MOORE The Weather Experiment

EARLY-MORNING POETRY RECITALS Upstairs in the Old Clubhouse, 9am. Tickets: £10.50 11 July

JOHN HEMMING Naturalists in Paradise

10.15am, BOH

SINCLAIR McKAY The Secret Life of Fighter Command

2pm, PAC

HENRY MARSH Do No Harm

CAROLE HILLENBRAND Islam

TONY LITTLE An Intelligent Person’s 18 July Guide to Education SIMON REES The Wood below Coelbren

4.30pm, PAC

10.15am, BOH

ROBERT SACKVILLE-WEST The Disinherited

2pm, PAC

MATTHEW DENNISON Behind the Mask: Vita Sackville-West

Paper, Ink, Action!

Providing a convivial opportunity to create, edit, share and critique work; discuss themes, form, meaning and the relevance of reading and performing poetry.

19 July

HISTORICAL FICTION WORKSHOP

Ann Featherstone

24 July

23 JULY

Lee Wood Hotel, 1pm–3pm Tickets: £20 (including tea & coffee)

F Philip Holland

23 July

16 July

24 JULY

WRITING WORKSHOPS

F PHILIP HOLLAND 12 July POETRY WRITING Lend Me Your Ears WORKSHOP

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22 JULY

10.15am, BOH

21 July

PETER HENNESSY Establishment & Meritocracy

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21 JULY

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DAVID CRANE Went The Day Well?

Witnessing Waterloo

17 July

PETER STANFORD Judas: The Most Hated Name in History

LEWIS DARTNELL The Knowledge: 25 July How To Rebuild Our HELEN MORT World From Scratch Division Street

Ann Featherstone, author of Walking in Pimlico and The Newgate Jig tells you how to get started in the popular genre of Historical Fiction.

Tickets: £10.50 (Pavilion Arts Centre – PAC), £12 (Buxton Opera House – BOH) Box Office: 01298 72190 or 0845 127 2190 or online at buxtonfestival.co.uk (where you can find information on all Festival events)

Box Office: 01298 72190 or 0845 127 2190 or online at buxtonfestival.co.uk (where you can find information on all Festival events)

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