BOOKS AT BUXTON 8–24 JULY 2016 buxtonfestival.co.uk
TREVOR ROYLE
ANNE SEBBA
DR LUCY WORSLEY
TIFFANY JENKINS
FLORA FRASER
JEREMY LEWIS
LAURA THOMPSON
DAVID AARONOVITCH
MATTHEW OATES
JOSEPHINE WILKINSON
ANDREW DICKSON
HUGH FRASER
SIMON BRADLEY
SARAH RAVEN
JANET ELLIS
THOMAS PAKENHAM GEORGE GOODWIN
NICK ROBINSON
RICHARD DAVENPORT-HINES
KATHRYN HARKUP VIRGINIA BAILY
PAULA HAWKINS PETER HENNESSY JO BAKER
TAYLOR ED DOWNING VULLIAMY ANDREW LOWNIE
ALEXEI SAYLE
HARRY FREEDMAN
D J TAYLOR
MELVYN BRAGG BENJAMIN WILD JULIA CLAIRE HARMAN BRADBURY
JAMES JINKS
VINCE CABLE
ANNA HOPE
DAVID CRYSTAL
LAURA DAWES
GARETH WILLIAMS PAUL CARTLEDGE PHILIP EADE
BOOKS AT BUXTON SAT 9 JULY
SUN 10 JULY
10am, PAC The Wartime Battle for Britain’s Health
10am, PAC The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
LAURA DAWES Fighting Fit
LAURA THOMPSON
4pm, BOH Showcasing the beauty of Britain
4.45pm, PAC Shell Shock on the Somme
TAYLOR DOWNING JULIA BRADBURY Breakdown Unforgettable Walks
IN CONVERSATION WITH SIMON SELIGMAN
Take Six Girls
MON 11 JULY 2pm, PAC Sunday Times History Book of 2015
SIMON BRADLEY The Railways: Nation, Network & People
10.15am, PAC A Life in Fashion Sponsored by
BENJAMIN WILD Cecil Beaton
TUE 12 JULY 10am, Gardens Marquee Scotland’s last battle and the forging of the British Empire
TREVOR ROYLE Culloden
2pm, PAC How was Shakespeare pronounced?
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DAVID CRYSTAL The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation
4pm, PAC Exploring Agatha Christie’s use of poison
KATHRYN HARKUP & HUGH FRASER A is for Arsenic
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2pm, PAC The true story of Henry VIII’s fifth wife
2pm, PAC Remembering Srebrenica
ED VULLIAMY The War is Dead, Long Live the War
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JOSEPHINE WILKINSON Katherine Howard
BOOKS AT BUXTON 4.45pm, PAC One man’s efforts to preserve historic woodlands
1.45pm, PAC A Life Revisited
THOMAS PAKENHAM The Company of Trees
IN CONVERSATION WITH ROD DUBROWMARSHALL
PHILIP EADE
2pm, Gardens Marquee A tale of unlikely love and dangerous obsession
ANNA HOPE The Ballroom 50% OFaFck
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SAT 16 JULY 10am, BOH The rise of Alternative Comedy
ALEXEI SAYLE
IN CONVERSATION WITH MIKE NEARY
Thatcher Stole My Trousers
FRI 15 JULY WED 13 JULY 10.15am, Gardens Marquee The story of a literary visionary
CLAIRE HARMAN
5pm, PAC Democracy Ancient & Modern
PAUL CARTLEDGE Get a Life!
10.15am, Gardens Marquee Should the treasures of the past stay in museums?
TIFFANY JENKINS GARETH Keeping their Marbles WILLIAMS
IN CONVERSATION WITH MIKE NEARY
IN CONVERSATION WITH SIMON SELIGMAN
A Monstrous Commotion
Charlotte Brontë
THU 14 JULY Sponsored by
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SARAH RAVEN Good Good Food
2pm, PAC The Royal Navy Submarine Service since 1945
PETER HENNESSY & JAMES JINKS The Silent Deep
SUN 17 JULY 10am, PAC Journeys around Shakespeare’s globe
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2pm, PAC The mysteries of Loch Ness
ANDREW DICKSON Worlds Elsewhere Sponsored by
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BOOKS AT BUXTON MON 18 JULY 10am, Gardens Marquee Author of the bestselling Longbourn
JO BAKER
IN CONVERSATION WITH MIKE NEARY
5pm, PAC A struggle for authority and orthodoxy
WED 20 JULY 10.15am, PAC
4.45pm, Gardens Marquee A suspenseful, heartbreaking and inspiring tale of love and war
HARRY FREEDMAN The Life of Guy Burgess ANDREW LOWNIE VIRGINIA BAILY The Murderous Stalin’s Englishman Early One Morning History of Bible Translations
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FRI 22 JULY
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THU 21 JULY 2.15pm, PAC An enthralling portrait of a man, a city and an age
GEORGE GOODWIN Benjamin Franklin in London
TUE 19 JULY 10am, BOH Talking about his gripping historical novel
MELVYN BRAGG Now Is The Time
10.15am, BOH The most talked-about novel of the year
PAULA HAWKINS IN CONVERSATION WITH MIKE NEARY
10.15am, Gardens Marquee Literary Life in England since 1918
D J TAYLOR The Prose Factory
The Girl on the Train
2pm, PAC Women’s lives in Paris 1939–49 Sponsored by
2.15pm, PAC A journey from actress and TV presenter to author
JANET ELLIS TICKETS: £10.50 Pavilion Arts Centre (PAC), Gardens Marquee and Old Clubhouse £12.50 Buxton Opera House (BOH)
IN CONVERSATION WITH MIKE NEARY
The Butcher’s Hook
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2pm, Gardens Marquee Stories from a butterflying life
MATTHEW OATES IN CONVERSATION WITH COLIN SYKES
In Pursuit of Butterflies
ANNE SEBBA Les Parisiennes
BOOKS AT BUXTON SAT 23 JULY 10am, BOH An insider’s perspective on the state of the global financial markets
VINCE CABLE After The Storm
2pm, PAC America’s original First Couple
4.45pm, PAC Remembering a good man and a great editor
FLORA FRASER George & Martha Washington
JEREMY LEWIS David Astor
SUN 24 JULY 12 noon, Old Hall Hotel JOAN BAKEWELL, RICHARD DAVENPORT-HINES & DAVID AARONOVITCH
THE OLDIE LITERARY LUNCH
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WED 20 JULY
7.30pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £17, £21 An illustrated tour through the dark story of our fascination with murder, with Dr Lucy Worsley, BBC TV presenter, renowned historian and Chief Curator at the charity Historic Royal Palaces. She’ll examine some notorious crimes and criminals, but also explain how murder became a form of middle-class entertainment through novels, plays, paintings, and the press, starting with a horrific early nineteenthcentury serial-killer in the East End of London, and ending with the tame drawing-room dramas of Agatha Christie.
AN EVENING OF MURDER WITH DR LUCY WORSLEY
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EARLY MORNING DISCUSSIONS Join us at 9am Upstairs at the Old Clubhouse for illuminating discussions between fascinating figures on topics that touch all of our lives. Further early morning discussions to be announced. Watch the website for details.
FRI 15 JULY
THU 21 JULY
FRI 22 JULY
9am, Old Clubhouse
9am, Old Clubhouse
9am, Old Clubhouse
PETER HENNESSY & NICK ROBINSON The Art of the Political Interview
STEPHEN BARLOW & LAURENCE CUMMINGS Authenticity in Performance
SHIRAZ MAHER & ROD DUBROW-MARSHALL Understanding the Roots of Extremism
The historian, academic and crossbench peer, Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield, talks to Today frontman and former BBC political editor Nick Robinson. Does the ‘softly-softly’ approach yield more results than the more adversarial approach? As politicians become more briefed and polished, does the work of the interviewer need to change to reflect that?
Festival Artistic Director Stephen Barlow and fellow conductor Laurence Cummings talk about the finer points of making interpretative decisions, including a discussion on the value of historically informed performance, the use of original instruments and baroque pitch.
Rod Dubrow-Marshall talks to Shiraz Maher, the writer, journalist and author of Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea. No topic has captured the public imagination of late quite so dramatically as the spectre of global jihadism. While much has been said about the way jihadists behave, their ideology remains poorly understood. In a discussion packed with refreshing and provocative insights, Maher explains how war and insecurity engendered one of the most significant socio-religious movements of the modern era.
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BUXTON FESTIVAL BOOKS WEEKEND 18–20 November 2016
MATTHEW PARRIS on the art of the putdown WILLIAM SITWELL on the man who fed Britain
The Odditorium – an inspiring medley of Antarctic exploration, literary hoaxes, wild avant-garde art, time travel and the world’s largest underground temple
SIMON JENKINS on English cathedrals
Literary Lunch featuring Matthew Dennison on Beatrix Potter and Marina Warner on fairy tale Buxton Poetry Competition prize giving More events to follow. Go to buxtonfestival.co.uk for details and to book tickets now From Radio 4’s It is Rocket Science HELEN KEEN The Science of Game of Thrones
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