SATURDAY 14 OCTOBER 2.30–3.45pm
Box Office 01242 850270 3.45–4.45pm
L271
The Cheltenham Booker: 1937
Town Hall, Pillar Room £6* Age 12+
Town Hall, Baillie Gifford Stage £10* Which 1937 title deserves to win our very own Booker? Our all-star line-up of Damian Barr, Adam Kay, Jackie Kay, Adam Thorpe and Alex Wheatle discuss A.J. Cronin’s The Citadel, Ernest Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not, Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. They fight it out to determine which would have triumphed, had The Man Booker Prize existed eighty years ago. Chaired by James Walton, with an introduction by John Coldstream. Dedicated to the memory of Ion Trewin.
2.30–3.30pm
L272
Psychology
Addiction: Everybody Hurts The Sunday Times Garden Theatre £10* In 2012, after years of struggling with drug addiction, publisher Sigrid Rausing’s sister-in-law was found dead from an overdose and her brother subsequently arrested. In her powerful memoir, Mayhem, Rausing attempts to make sense of what happened to them and explores the ramifications addiction has on the addict’s family. Joined by music journalist Barney Hoskyns (Never Enough), who shares his own experience of heroin addiction and hard-won recovery, together with Alex Clark they discuss the difficult questions those close to the world of addiction must face.
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LB65
Stories: Agents Of Change
Classic Literature
2.45–3.45pm
L273
The Story Of British Art
Redefining Spaces: The Power Of Public Art
What are our human rights and how can fiction help us understand and embrace them? Nicky Parker (Amnesty International) talks with authors Sita Brahmachari and A L Kennedy (Here I Stand) along with Gill Lewis (A Story Like the Wind) about human rights under threat today, the role stories play in developing awareness and empathy and how we can all take a stand and make a difference.
The Inkpot £12* From Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North, Maggi Hambling’s Scallop to Trafalgar Square’s ever-changing Fourth Plinth, some of our greatest works of art never hang on a wall or see the inside of a gallery. The Courtauld Institute’s Martin Caiger-Smith, author of the major new monograph on Antony Gormley, and leading sculpture and installation artist David Mach discuss the power of art in the public realm.
3.45–4.45pm
L280
Fiction
3–4pm
L274
Lifestyle
Meet The Literary Editors The Nook £10* What do Literary Editors do all day? This is your chance to find out as Andrew Holgate and Robbie Millen (Literary Editors of The Sunday Times and The Times respectively) discuss their roles and share their favourite reads of the Autumn with Georgina Godwin.
Celebrate With... Joanne Harris Hotel du Vin £25*
Ticket includes two glasses of fizz and nibbles. The best-selling author joins James Long to raise a glass to Chocolat, the novel that captured the hearts and imaginations of book, film and chocolate lovers alike. When the exotic Vianne Rocher opens a chocolate boutique just before Lent, can the people of the little French village of Lansquenet resist the temptation of a chocolate truffle? Is Father Reynaud right to fear for the moral danger to his congregation?