The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival brochure 2010

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WELCOME

Last year we celebrated the 60th anniversary of The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, and the 2010 programme is very special for us all, as we begin the journey of re-imagining and reshaping the Festival for the next sixty years.

I am incredibly proud of the programme of events which the Festival team has created for this October - every page in this brochure has something truly unique on it, adding to the magical experience that Cheltenham offers. Collaboration is at the heart of our programming, and we’re delighted to be working with many valuable partners in 2010.

This is a Festival experience like no other. We look forward to seeing you in October, Donna Renney Chief Executive, Cheltenham Festivals

We’re casting our net far and wide this year, with a rich haul of some of the most exciting voices from around the world; alongside Philip Pullman, A S Byatt, Peter Ackroyd and Stephen Hawking, we‘ll be joined by Bernhard Schlink, Jostein Gaarder and iconic Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro.

Dreams and Nightmares - our theme this year takes in vampires, angels, gods and monsters, from Frankenstein and Dracula to H G Wells and John Wyndham. And how do we write about the future, the unconscious and the supernatural? Join us for a spine-tingling voyage into gothic horror, utopian dreams and dizzying future fiction.

If you’re worried about what the more immediate future holds, look out for Guest Director Will Hutton’s events on finance – and we’ll be taking stock of the shifting political landscape in the company of Alastair Campbell, Peter Mandelson and Shirley Williams – more details about our event series are on pages 4 and 5.

On a lighter note… Stephen Fry, Michael Parkinson, Kirstie Allsopp and Jo Brand are all joining us this year; Kevin McCloud takes us on a grand tour of architecture and design, whilst Nigella Lawson and Antonio Carluccio will be cooking up a storm, and China Miéville reveals the world of future fiction. We’re always passionate about poetry - look out for Owen Sheers’ wonderful series of events – and join Mary Beard as she opens up the ancient world to everyone.

Whether you’re a Festival first-timer or one of our countless loyal friends, expect to be inspired, entertained and enlightened. There’s something very special about Cheltenham in the autumn; whether you want to nourish, stimulate, recharge or simply relax, we hope you’ll join us in one of the most beautiful settings of any festival for another electrifying ten days that’ll stay with you forever.

CONTENTS PLAN YOUR FESTIVAL 4 – 5

The Festival Team

Ideas to debate and explore this October

WHILST YOU'RE AT THE FESTIVAL 6 – 7 Free activities, unique projects & our Festival fringe

FESTIVAL PROGRAMME 10 – 50

Your day by day guide to the full exciting line-up...

BOOK IT! 29 – 40

Artistic Director Sarah Smyth

Executive Director Clair Greenaway

Book It! Director Jane Churchill

Festival Manager Judith Lüdenbach

Festival Manager Christin Stein

Marketing Manager Laura Parker

Festival Co-ordinator Nicola Tuxworth

Festival Assistant Jemma Price

Festival Administrator Carol Malcolmson

voices off Director Sara-Jane Arbury

Our Festival for families and young readers

WRITE AWAY 52 – 53

Our programme of creative workshops

FESTIVAL INDEX 60 – 61 Find your favourite author… fast

VISITING CHELTENHAM 63 – 68

Your guide to Cheltenham, Festival maps and booking details

Development Manager Sarah Rawlings

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PLAN YOUR FESTIVAL You will find cutting-edge debate, inspiring authors, creative ideas and so much more in this year’s programme. Here are just a few Festival themes to explore on your literary journey...

OWEN SHEERS

MARY BEARD

KEVIN MCCLOUD

WILL HUTTON

CHINA MIÉVILLE

STANZAS

SEX, DEATH AND TRAGEDY

DESIGN FOR LIFE

MONEY TALKS

FUTURE FICTIONS

Guest Director Mary Beard takes a fresh look at the classical world

Guest Director Kevin McCloud leads us on a journey into the world of architecture and design

Guest Director Will Hutton contemplates the challenges of a new economic world

We join Guest Director China Miéville to explore the world of future fiction

The last two years have seen a seismic shift in the economic landscape.

Join some of the world’s leading experts to explore the future of finance and reflect on the fascinating parallels between the financial crisis of 1929 and today.

In his three specially programmed events, China Miéville takes us on a journey through the fantastic world of British science fiction, explores the challenges facing the novice reader and considers the place of SF in the literary landscape.

We’ll also be celebrating the work of H G Wells and John Wyndham, and entering the realm of Doctor Who...

Guest Director Owen Sheers celebrates poetry in all its forms This year we bring a wealth of poets to Cheltenham, as well as celebrating some of the most beautiful verse from across the ages and from all four corners of Britain. Alongside our wide range of discussions and lectures why not try Poetry Café, our free weekday sessions showcasing a range of contemporary poets.

Participants include Jackie Kay, Andrew Motion, Don Paterson and Jo Shapcott.

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From the challenges of Latin verse to the glory of gladiators on screen, the world of the Greeks and Romans inspires and enthrals us all. Who were the heroines of the classical world and which are the best cinematic representations of ancient life? Join us to consider which writer might have won an Ancient Booker Prize and to contemplate what these ancient societies can teach us about the way we live today.

Participants include Lindsey Davis, Germaine Greer, Bettany Hughes and Peter Stothard.

From the finishing touches that make a home your own to the architectural decisions needed for a sustainable future, we consider the architects who have inspired us to reimagine our built environment and bring together some of the leading broadcasters and writers in the field to offer their own brand of design magic.

Participants include Kirstie Allsopp, Leo Hickman, Gavin Stamp and Deyan Sudjic.

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Participants include Liaquat Ahamed, Alistair Darling, Howard Davies and Niall Ferguson.

Participants include Iain M Banks, M John Harrison, Gwyneth Jones and Michael Moorcock.

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BITESIZE Gourmet gurus and delicious dishes...

From wine and chocolate to baking and desserts, we uncover a world of hidden pleasures and kitchen secrets. Unleash your inner domestic goddess and develop your culinary skills as we whet your appetite with cooking demonstrations and the chance to taste with the experts.

Participants include Rachel Allen, Antonio Carluccio, Nigella Lawson and Olly Smith.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE Go behind the headlines to explore an extraordinary year in politics After an unprecedented election campaign, we take the temperature of the coalition government, uncover the reality of political power, explore the remarkable history of British Prime Ministers and examine the parallels between governments past and present.

Participants include Alastair Campbell, Baroness Jay, Peter Mandelson and Shirley Williams.

DREAMWORKS

HAUNTINGS

WAR STORIES

We unlock the power of the unconscious

A spine-tingling voyage into the other-worldly and the uncanny

Hidden histories behind the headlines

From the fears our nightmares present to the desires our dreams betray, the secret world of the unconscious has provided a rich resource for writers and thinkers across the ages. We ask how and why we dream, and explore the role of dreams in literature.

Participants include Jonathan Bate, Sarah Churchwell, Maggie Gee and Alberto Manguel.

From classic ghost stories, books of spells and chilling tales to angels, vampires, monsters and the mythic archetypes buried deep in our unconscious, we explore the supernatural in all its literary manifestations.

Bringing their personal stories to life, we welcome veterans of major 20th century conflicts and explore the secret sacrifices of MI6 and the Special Forces.

Participants include Diana Souhami, Stuart Tootal, Mark Urban and Alistair Urquhart.

Participants include Peter Ackroyd, Susan Hill, Penelope Lively and Audrey Niffenegger.

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HORIZONS International writing at its best Working in partnership with the Norwegian Embassy, Canada Council for the Arts and New Books in German, we welcome leading writers from around the world. Join us on a journey into new literary landscapes.

Participants include Jostein Gaarder, Nalo Hopkinson, Zoë Jenny, Jo Nesbø, Frank Schätzing and Bernhard Schlink.

LOCALLY SOURCED Home grown talent Crossing genres and uniting published and unpublished authors, we welcome local writers to the Festival in this special series of events.

This is your chance to enjoy local writing at its best.

Participants include Alison Brackenbury, Russell James, Michael Tod and Jonathan Stedall.

SECRET GARDENS A little green fingered inspiration From the power of herbs and the secrets of propagation to the inspirational role of female horticulturalists and the shape of modern landscape design, we consider the world at the bottom of your garden.

Participants include Stephen Anderton, Carol Klein, Jekka McVicar and Dan Pearson.

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ENTERPRISE Leading entrepreneurs share their secrets and reveal the hidden pulse of business Innovative ideas, risktaking and self-belief have been the driving force behind the British economy for hundreds of years. This series explores the role of women in business, the challenges and rewards of social entrepreneurship and the transformational power of philanthropy.

Participants include Cath Kidston, Arthur Potts Dawson, Levi Roots and Laura Tenison.

LAUGH OUT LOUD Get ready to laugh your socks off...

Continuing a strong tradition of comedy at the Festival, we bring together some of Britain’s leading laughter merchants for a raucous celebration of all things light-hearted.

Participants include Jo Brand, Jenny Éclair, Chris Evans and Phill Jupitus.

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WHILST YOU'RE AT THE FESTIVAL...

CARTE NOIRE READERS YOUR PERFECT COFFEE MOMENT We’re working in partnership with Carte Noire to provide the perfect break during your busy Festival day. Sit back and relax whilst our guest reader narrates your favourite literary love scenes, and you enjoy a complimentary cup of Carte Noire coffee.

From Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to Nick Hornby’s About A Boy and many more besides, join us for Your Perfect Coffee Moment. Events are free and will be taking place throughout the Festival.

For more information visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/cartenoire

BONNE MAMAN BIG READ

HIGHLAND PARK MARQUEE

Join us for our Bonne Maman Big Read in association with Vintage Classics – Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd.

The classic tale of passion and love has fascinated readers since its publication in 1874. Join Gabriel Oak, Sergeant Troy and Farmer Boldwood as they battle for Bathsheba Everdene’s affection.

Renowned whisky-makers Highland Park will be with us throughout both Festival weekends, offering complimentary tastings of their award winning single malt whisky range, recently voted the ‘best spirit in the world’. They will also be hosting some great events, including free drop-in sessions to hear a range of brilliant local authors read from their work. Why not pop in for a wee dram and enter their prize draw to win a trip to their spiritual home, Orkney, or book a ticket for one of three special in-depth whisky events hosted by world whisky ambassador of the year, Gerry Tosh.

In addition to events at the Festival, we’ll be hosting free book groups in the months leading up to the Festival. So why not read Far from the Madding Crowd with your book group this summer? For more information on the Bonne Maman Big Read visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/bigread or email bigread@cheltenhamfestivals.com See 280 for our event exploring Far From the Madding Crowd, 113, 143, 205 and 240 for our Festival Book Groups and 173 for our exclusive Members’ Book Group with afternoon tea.

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See page 14 for events 276 and 277 for Highland Park Whisky Tasting, and 278 for our exclusive Members’ Whisky Tasting.

Look out for readings throughout the Festival weekends.

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FAMILY FUN DAYS WORD ON THE STREET LIVE LITERATURE AT A VENUE NEAR YOU voices off is about live literature that’s alive – fun, exciting, different, quirky, eccentric, inspiring.

Sometimes the Festival fringe, other times more mainstream – voices off is truly indefinable!

With its unique identity and maverick style, it’s a performance programme that occupies a special place at the heart of the Festival.

Check out the prize poets, stunning storytellers, adventurous authors and thrilling thespians appearing in a variety of venues and make up your own mind!

Saturday 9 & Saturday 16 October A fantastic free-for-all around the town on each Saturday of the Festival! Roving minstrels, wacky wordsters, street dancers, circus artistes, singers, musicians, stiltwalkers – words are on the move so get into the groove!

FREE SPEECH

Festival Weekends (pages 15, 19, 46 and 48) It’s loud, it’s exciting and it’s all happening over at the voices off Stage! Throughout both weekends, a plethora of poets, performers and musicians will entertain the crowds and YOU on the hour from noon onwards.

Make sure you clock them!

Saturday 9 & Saturday 16 October Imperial Gardens 11am-2pm Free Meet your favourite characters, enjoy our exciting storytellers and learn some very impressive circus skills as Imperial Gardens springs into life for our FREE family fun days!

With stiltwalkers, Punch & Judy shows, face painters, a bouncy castle and jugglers galore - the Literature Festival has never been so full of fun!

On Saturday 9 October don’t miss the launch of our fantastic Big Draw project join popular artist and scientist Lizzie Burns as she ventures into an illustrated world of dreams and nightmares. Budding young artists get the chance to create their very own masterpiece as the unconscious comes to life.

Keep an eye on cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature for the full weekend line up!

TWEET POETRY A writing residency with a difference! We had the Beats in the 60’s, now it’s the Tweet Generation, and that is exactly what we are inviting you to do – generate tweets!

Resident poet A F Harrold will be keeping a close eye on Twitter, as he writes a specially commissioned poem based on tweeted contributions from the public.

Follow @chelttwitfest to keep up with the project - from 1 September he’ll be asking for a range of suggestions, so make sure you tweet him your ideas! We’ll be showing his progress at cheltenhamfestivals.com/blog and the finished poem will be revealed at event 329 on Sunday 17 October.

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LABORATORY LabOratory is one of our most exciting projects, bringing biomedical science to life at all four of our Festivals.

This year’s theme is Performance under Pressure. From comedians to bomb disposal experts – the pressures of the job are high.

Find out how they cope both physically and emotionally. cheltenhamfestivals.com/laboratory

SKY ARTS ZONE Playing host to a range of activities throughout the Festival, the Sky Arts Zone is the perfect spot to meet friends, learn more about The Book Show on Sky Arts and make the most of the unique Cheltenham experience...

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The Times is delighted to sponsor Cheltenham Literature Festival once again.

There is a great selection of Times events to choose from this year. We hope that you will join us for The Times Debate on Barack Obama’s presidency on Saturday 9 October, chaired by the Editor, James Harding. Other highlights include Erica Wagner, our literary editor, interviewing Salman Rushdie, Giles Coren on anger management and Mike Atherton on cricket. You will also have the chance to join us in The Times Café, or come to our Editor’s Choice sessions with writers such as Ben Macintyre, Matthew Parris and Libby Purves.

Highlights from the Festival will appear in the paper and for additional videos, blogs, live chats and reviews please visit thetimes.co.uk We look forward to welcoming you to The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival.

Alex O’Connell, Arts Editor, The Times

2010 marks the fifth year that Waterstone’s has been involved with Cheltenham Literature Festival. In that half decade we have been proud to associate with a flourishing Festival; seen The Centaur consolidate its position as a huge venue for live literature, with Oscar winners, Nobel Laureates and political figures of international significance appearing there; as well as the range and diversity of events increase at the venues in town including, among other things, a superb programme of children’s writers. We believe that the future holds even more exciting things for literature at Cheltenham.

The Festival Book Tent in Imperial Gardens is at the heart of your Festival experience, stocking new and classic titles by all the visiting authors.

To reserve signed books before the Festival, call Waterstone’s on 01242 571 779 or email enquiries@cheltenham-33-41thepromenade.waterstones.com

The Scottish American Investment Company P.L.C. (SAINTS) is delighted to be sponsor of the Money Talks series at this year’s Festival. Covering financial and economic books, these events include Liaquat Ahamed, Niall Ferguson, Will Hutton and more.

It’s not all about finance and the economy! SAINTS is offering Festival-goers the opportunity to win £800 worth of books from events across the Festival. Look out for information around the Festival venues or visit the sponsorship pages at www.bgtrustonline.com/chelt for further information.

SAINTS is an investment trust that has been in existence since 1873. The fund is managed

by Edinburgh based investment management firm Baillie Gifford. For more information on SAINTS visit www.saints-it.com

Sky Arts is proud to launch the new series of its flagship show from the world-renowned Cheltenham Literature Festival. Hosted by Mariella Frostrup, The Book Show is a hugely popular weekly programme dedicated entirely to books and attracts a wealth of A-list authors, from Stephen Fry to Hilary Mantel.

This year The Book Show promises another exciting line-up of guests, plus insight and tips for book enthusiasts, and Sky Arts is delighted to bring it back to Cheltenham for the second year running.

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KAREN ARMSTRONG

A S BYATT

4 Main Hall 2-3pm £7 Res Set in Edwardian times, The Children’s Book is a darkly sumptuous and panoramic novel about predators and innocents, war and peace, art and society, and devastating family secrets.

The acclaimed novelist, critic and Booker Prize winner A S Byatt joins us to discuss this, her latest, and much-praised work.

Chaired by Ramona Koval.

The Case for God

This year we are working in partnership with the Canada Council for the Arts to welcome Nalo Hopkinson, Shandi Mitchell and Lisa Moore as the Festival Writers in Residence.

Nalo Hopkinson is the Jamaican-born author of Aurora Award-winning The New Moon’s Arms, and her work often draws on Caribbean traditions of storytelling.

Lisa Moore is the acclaimed author of Alligator, winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Canada and the Caribbean, and longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.

Shandi Mitchell is a debut novelist and filmmaker, whose Under This Unbroken Sky won the Commonwealth regional Prize for First Book (Canada/ Caribbean) and was selected as one of Waterstone’s New Voices 2010.

Michael Wood

1 Main Hall 12-1pm £7 Res Karen Armstrong, one of our most distinguished commentators on religious affairs is uniquely qualified to examine the future of God in our modern world.

In an eloquent and inspirational talk, she puts The Case for God, showing how we can build a faith that speaks to the needs of our troubled and dangerously polarised age.

Melvyn Bragg

Peter Ackroyd

Horizons

ISMAIL KADARE

7 Town Hall 3.15-4.15pm £6 Acclaimed for his work and narrative deftness around the globe, Albanian writer Ismail Kadare won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize. This is a rare opportunity to see this literary giant, as he discusses his writing and new novel, The Accident, set against the tumultuous backdrop and aftermath of the war in the Balkans.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Anthony Sattin

5 Everyman Theatre 3-4pm £6 Res In an extraordinary coincidence, Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert took the same journey along the Nile in 1849. Anthony Sattin presents his brilliant account of two individuals at the crossroads of life. As Flaubert roistered in brothels, and Nightingale sought enlightenment in the temples, both were entranced, moved and liberated by A Winter on the Nile.

Future Fictions

GEORGE ORWELL

2 Everyman Theatre 1-2pm £6 Res A lifelong socialist, George Orwell made politics a major theme in his fiction.

His political fable Animal Farm and the dystopian 1984 have become classics which have lost none of their power sixty years after his death. Leading Orwell scholar Peter Davison opens up new perspectives on the journalist and writer and his powerful visions of the future.

ALEX BELLOS

Adventures in Numberland 6 Town Hall 3.15-4.15pm £6 For some Adventures in Numberland join Alex Bellos as he gets our brain cells firing with this edifying and enjoyable exposition on the basic principles of maths and how they underpin every aspect of our lives.

BRITISH WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

3 Town Hall 1-2pm £6 What are the challenges facing wildlife photographers today? What is their role in highlighting the wealth and diversity of British wildlife, as well as the importance of wildlife conservation?

In a Festival exclusive, we’re delighted to welcome the winner of the British Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2010, as featured in British Wildlife Photography Awards: Collection 01.

War Stories

HEROES OF WAR

Michael Ashcroft & Nigel Steel 8 Town Hall 3.15-4.15pm £6 The Lord Ashcroft Gallery at the Imperial War Musuem, which opens this autumn, will house the largest collection of Victoria Cross and George Cross medals in the world. Michael Ashcroft, author of Victoria Cross Heroes and the forthcoming George Cross Heroes, whose collection of 162 VC’s forms the basis for this new Gallery, joins curator and historian Nigel Steel to consider the importance of medals for valour, and the process of creating an exhibition.

MICHAEL WOOD The Story of England

9 Main Hall 4-5pm £8 Res In this illustrated lecture, hugely popular TV historian Michael Wood gives us a personal insight into his enthralling new BBC series, The Story of England, in which he builds a complete picture of one English community over fifteen centuries, and in the process, a microcosmic Who Do You Think You Are? for the nation.

The Festival Writers in Residence will be in Cheltenham throughout the Festival – look out for their blog at cheltenhamfestivals.com/ literature, and why not join them for event 12 Creating Imaginary Landscapes.

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11 Town Hall 5-6pm £7 Following mayflies dancing above the water and otters slipping through reeds, Philippa Forrester and Charlie Hamilton James’ Halcyon River Diaries captures their family’s experience of life on the riverbank. The awardwinning wildlife filmmakers join us for a beautifully illustrated, intimate portrait of a secret world.

Horizons: Writers in Residence

CREATING IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES

Nalo Hopkinson, Shandi Mitchell & Lisa Moore 12 Town Hall 5-6pm £6 Award-winning writers Nalo Hopkinson, author of The Salt Roads and The New Moon’s Arms, Lisa Moore, author of Open and February, and Shandi Mitchell, author of Under This Unbroken Sky, are three of Canada’s leading novelists, whose work shares singular vision and intensity. They discuss the key decisions they make when starting a novel, and how those decisions influence the development of plot, character and language. And what are the key pieces of advice each would give to new or aspiring writers? Join them to find out.

13 Town Hall 6.30-7.30pm £9 From the shrieking, door-slamming ghost of Hinton Manor to the headless bear of Kidderminster, the English reputedly see more ghosts than any other nation.

In this spine-tingling event, renowned novelist and historian Peter Ackroyd joins us to discuss The English Ghost, his chilling new compilation of spectre sightings through the ages.

16 Everyman Theatre 7-8pm £7 Res The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, a novel about the legacy of the Holocaust, has enjoyed global renown since it was first published in 1995. In a rare UK visit and Festival exclusive, its acclaimed author joins us to discuss his writing, including his latest novel, The Weekend.

BERNHARD SCHLINK

JOHN BOYNE & JOSEPH O’CONNOR

19 The Inkpot 8.45-10pm £7 Res Join two acclaimed Irish novelists as they discuss how they translate fact into fiction. John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, explores the last years of the Romanovs and the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in The House of Special Purpose, while in Ghost Light, Joseph O’Connor, author of Star of the Sea, explores the life and relationships of playwright J M Synge.

Hauntings

GUILLERMO DEL TORO

14 Town Hall 7-8pm £7 Multi award-winning Guillermo del Toro, writer and director of Pan’s Labyrinth and the Hellboy series, is one of the most visionary and inventive filmmakers working today. He joins us in a Festival exclusive to discuss his brand new novel, The Fall, the sequel to his acclaimed debut The Strain, which forms part of his modern-day vampire trilogy, co-authored with Chuck Hogan.

JAMES ELLROY

17 Everyman Theatre 8.45-10pm £8 Res Celebrated for his laconic prose style, James Ellroy is the bestselling author of L A Confidential, The Black Dahlia and Blood’s a Rover. He joins us on a rare visit from the US and reflects on his memoir, The Hilliker Curse, which takes an unflinching look at his shattered childhood, delinquent teens, breakdowns and love affairs. Chaired by Ramona Koval.

SIMON HOGGART

ANDREW MARR

A Long Lunch

18 Main Hall 8.45-10pm £12 Res We are delighted to welcome celebrated journalist and presenter Andrew Marr for an exclusive Festival event. Exploring the impact of technology on our consumption of journalism, he joins us to consider the impact of the Internet on the reporting of current affairs and asks what is the future of news?

15 Town Hall 7-8pm £8 One of our wittiest political commentators, Simon Hoggart shares some of his funniest memories in his hilarious memoirs A Long Lunch. What really happened at the Lady Chatterley trial? What exactly did Enoch Powell say to Bill Haley? And just why did John Sergeant drive a flight attendant to fury?

Find out the answers to all these and more as he looks back on forty years of journalism.

MARK KERMODE

20 Garden Theatre 9-10pm £9 Res Outspoken, opinionated and never lost for words, Mark Kermode is the UK’s leading film critic. Join the famed quiffwearer, Exorcist enthusiast and sometime cult figure for some wittertainment as he discusses the reel life adventures of a film obsessive, and to find out why sometimes It’s Only a Movie.

THE UK ALL STARS POETRY SLAM! QUALIFIER 21 HSBC Book It! Tent 7-8.30pm £4 Fancy a starring role in the UK’s slam extravaganza (event 60)? Then take a stanza on stage and see if your poetry and performance has what it takes.

Or come and join the applaudience – there’s all to cheer for! Twenty poets only, first come first served, contact Marcus Moore on 01285 640470 or email spielunlimited@gmail.com

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B31 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 13+ 5-6pm £6 (£4) Acclaimed author, Sharon Dogar, will be discussing her much talked about new novel, Annexed, and answering questions on this poignant comingof-age story. A unique opportunity to explore the fictionalised account of Peter van Pels’ journey from life in the Annexe with Anne Frank to his tragic end in the concentration camps.

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10 Everyman Theatre 5-6pm £8 Res Melvyn Bragg is familiar to millions, both as the presenter of the thoughtprovoking In Our Time on BBC Radio 4, and for the long-running arts documentary series, The South Bank Show. He joins us to look back over his long and distinguished career as broadcaster and writer.

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MICHELANGELO AND LEONARDO Jonathan Jones

Saturday is a day bursting with free Festival fun!

Enjoy the very best literary banter with Festival guests in two free Cheltenham editions of The Book Show with Mariella Frostrup; indulge in the perfect coffee break with the seductive sounds of the Carte Noire readers; and soak up the Festival buzz as storytellers, jugglers and your favourite characters take over Imperial Gardens for the day!

Plus BBC Radio 4 kick off their weekend of events with Start the Week, Bespoken Word and Open Book – join us and be part of these free exciting broadcasts!

WORD ON THE STREET 12-5pm The Brewery Free

Pick a fruit from her copper poet-tree and let vision-in-pink chanteuse Sally Crabtree serenade you with the poem or song your choice inspires. Or why not dial a poem in her very own Poetry Phone Box? She’ll be popping in and out of Dwell and Habitat from 1pm!

22 Parabola Arts Centre 10-11am £7 Res In 1504 Michelangelo and Leonardo competed to paint the walls of a room in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio. This, argues art critic Jonathan Jones, author of The Lost Battles, was the artistic duel that defined the Renaissance. He joins us to tell the gripping tale of this clash of two 16th century titans.

THE BOOK SHOW

Mariella Frostrup

Family Event

Jonathan Fenby

JOHN BOYNE

25 The Inkpot 10-11am £6 Res For thirty years, Charles de Gaulle personified many of the traits of his country which fascinate the rest of the world, and saw himself ‘carrying France on my shoulders’. Jonathan Fenby presents his definitive, highly enjoyable biography, The General: Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved, revealing the many faces of this remarkable leader; both as devoted family man and supreme political tactician.

F1 The Playhouse Age 7+ 11.30am-12.15pm £6 (£4) Join John Boyne, author of the multiaward winning The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, as he presents his second novel for young readers. Noah Barleywater Runs Away is a fairytale with a mystery at its heart. Find out who Noah Barleywater is and exactly why he’s running away.

Power to the People

PETER STOTHARD On the Spartacus Road

26 Everyman Theatre 10-11am £7 Res Editor of the Times Literary Supplement, Peter Stothard embarked on a 2,000 mile odyssey across Italy to follow in the footsteps of slave hero Spartacus and his army of rebels; a quest he records in his book, On the Spartacus Road. He retraces this fascinating journey in conversation with Ramona Koval.

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YOUR PERFECT COFFEE MOMENT

27 Town Hall 11.15-11.45am Free - Advance Booking Required Whilst you take a well earned break, our guest reader will narrate a love scene from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

Sit back and relax with a complimentary cup of Carte Noire coffee and enjoy a more seductive coffee break. For more information visit cheltenhamfestivals. com or www.cartenoire.co.uk

RICHARD DANNATT & ALLAN MALLINSON

24 Main Hall 10-11am £8 Res General Sir Richard Dannatt was Chief of the General Staff for three years until 2009, the culmination of a distinguished career in the army, during which he served in conflicts from Northern Ireland to Afghanistan. He joins military historian and Times contributor, Allan Mallinson to discuss his autobiography, Leading From the Front.

Circus performer Catrin Osborne has Great Expectations as she brings one of Dickens’ most inspired characters to life. Make sure you meet the giant Miss Havisham!

Drop into the Poetry Pod, a glittery 1950s micro-venue, and have a poetic experience served up by Alison Brumfitt. Add your lines to the Neverending Poem!

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Hanif Kureishi

CHARLES DE GAULLE

Sex, Death and Tragedy

23 Garden Theatre 10-11am £5* We’re delighted to welcome Mariella Frostrup and Sky Arts, our Broadcast Partner, back to Cheltenham. This is your opportunity to be part of the UK’s leading weekly show dedicated to books, as three Festival authors discuss their writing. The Book Show will broadcast weekly from Thursday 14 October at 7pm on Sky Arts 1HD. For more information visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature

Jonathan Fenby

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

28 Main Hall 12-1pm £9 Res Best known for his work as Director of Communications and Strategy for Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell is one of the most controversial figures in recent politics. In an event guaranteed to be rich in scrutiny and raw insight, he looks back on the early years of New Labour as described in the first volume of his uncut diaries, Prelude to Power.

The Oldham Foundation

SEBASTIAN FAULKS

29 Everyman Theatre 12-1pm £8 Res Famed for fictional works as diverse as Birdsong and Devil May Care, Sebastian Faulks is one of our most prominent and popular writers. He makes a welcome return to Cheltenham to discuss his most recent novel, A Week in December, which follows the lives of seven characters over seven days in contemporary London.

SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER

Box Office 0844 576 7979 Martin Creed

Armstrong & Miller

THE BOOK SHOW

30 Garden Theatre 12-1pm £5* We’re delighted to welcome Mariella Frostrup and Sky Arts, our Broadcast Partner, back to Cheltenham. This is your opportunity to be part of the UK’s leading weekly show dedicated to books, as three Festival authors discuss their writing. The Book Show will broadcast weekly from Thursday 14 October at 7pm on Sky Arts 1HD. For more information visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature

Philip Pullman

Salman Rushdie

Alberto Manguel

Natasha Walter

Family Event

Dreamworks

C1 The Centaur 12-1pm £11 Res Set to royally entertain us with another series of their eponymous sketch show on BBC1, double act Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller have now packed its best-loved characters and some entirely new ones into The Armstrong and Miller Book. Join them for an uproarious sneak preview.

F3 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 7+ 1-1.45pm £6 (£4) We’re going on a word hunt! Prepare to be wowed by the wonderful world of words. Get the gift of the gab and add vim to your vocab as lively linguists Marcus Moore and Sara-Jane Arbury explore the history of words and provide top tips on becoming a wizard word collector. A must for all budding young writers!

Maggie Gee, Alberto Manguel & China Miéville

ARMSTRONG & MILLER

OXFORD WORD WIZARDS

WORDS AND WHISKY

Waterstone’s Festival Lunch

31 The Inkpot 12-1pm £6 Res With a diverse body of work encompassing plays, novels, short stories and screenplays, award-winning writer Hanif Kureishi has never shied away from controversial topics, with race, nationalism, immigration and sexuality all regular themes. He joins Steven Gale to discuss his career to date, and his new Collected Stories.

MARTIN CREED

32 Parabola Arts Centre 12-1pm £7 Res Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Creed is always in search of the essential nature of things, creating a world in which reality appears transformed by logical rules. He joins us to look back on over 20 years of artistic Works that are simultaneously subtle and spectacular, austere and playful.

Martin Amis

Laugh Out Loud

*Charitable donation to Sky Rainforest Rescue

HANIF KUREISHI

Alistair Darling

Highland Park Marquee Free 34 1.15-1.30pm 35 2.15-2.30pm 36 3.15-3.30pm 37 6.15-6.30pm Need a break from the Festival buzz? Sit back, relax and enjoy some of the best voices in contemporary British writing with complimentary samples of Highland Park single malt whisky, recently voted ‘the best spirit in the world’.

PHILIP PULLMAN

33 Hotel du Vin 12.30–3pm £70 / £80 (inc. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, RRP £14.99) From his Victorian Sally Lockhart series and the seminal His Dark Materials to his recent exploration of the life of Christ, Philip Pullman is a writer with a diverse and much-celebrated output on the page. In a special Festival Lunch event, join him as he discusses his life and work.

This event will include a delicious threecourse lunch including wine followed by an interview with Philip Pullman. You have the choice of purchasing a ticket including a signed copy of The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (RRP £14.99).

FANTASTIC FICTIONS

39 The Inkpot 2-3pm £6 Res Described by Borges as ‘a treasure-house of memory’, internationally-acclaimed Argentinian writer Alberto Manguel’s Black Water anthology of fantastical fiction is a classic of its kind, ranging from H G Wells and Kafka to Cocteau and Calvino. He is joined by China Miéville, author of The City & The City, and Maggie Gee, acclaimed author of The Ice People, to choose and discuss their favourite tales of the fantastic.

Money Talks

ALISTAIR DARLING

40 Main Hall 2-3pm £10 Res At the height of his political career, Alistair Darling was given the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer in 2007, becoming the second most powerful man in government. He joins Will Hutton to reflect on the challenges of having to manage the worst recession since the Great Depression and talks about his views on what the future holds for the British economy.

LIVING DOLLS

Jane Cunningham, Libby Purves & Natasha Walter 38 Parabola Arts Centre 2-3pm £6 Res With many of today’s young women deftly avoiding the label ‘feminist’ and some of their older sisters finding that growing old gracefully - and botox free - is no longer an option, are women being forced into an increasingly narrow vision of femininity? Natasha Walter, author of Living Dolls, joins The Times’ Libby Purves, author of Shadow Child and women’s marketing guru Jane Cunningham to discuss the complex messages women receive from marketing, politics and the media.

Family Event

NICK BUTTERWORTH

F2 The Playhouse Age 5+ 1-1.45pm £6 (£5) Join bestselling author and illustrator, Nick Butterworth, for storytime fun and entertainment as he talks about his bestloved characters, including Percy the Park Keeper, Q Pootle 5, plus his lovable new creation, Trixie the Witch’s Cat!

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SALMAN RUSHDIE

41 Everyman Theatre 2-3pm £9 Res In a rare Festival visit one of our most prominent contemporary writers, Salman Rushdie, author of the Booker Prize-winning Midnight’s Children, joins Erica Wagner, literary editor of The Times, to discuss his life and work, and new novel, Luka and the Fire of Life.

SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER Kevin Macdonald

Mary Beard

START THE WEEK

42 Garden Theatre 2.15-3.15pm Free – Advance Booking Required Join Andrew Marr and four guests at this special recording. They will be discussing the ideas that are bringing the Festival to life and setting the cultural agenda for the week ahead. The show will be broadcast at 9am on Monday 11 October on BBC Radio 4.

A WEE DRAM…

Town Hall £6 276 3.30-4.30pm 277 5-6pm 278 7-8pm (Members only) Why is whisky called the water of life?

Join Global Whisky Ambassador of the Year Gerry Tosh on a journey of discovery, exploring the craft of whisky making and sampling different ages from the Highland Park range, including their 18 year old malt, recently voted ‘the best spirit in the world’.

ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH

43 Main Hall 4-5pm £9 Res The Number 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, The Sunday Philosophy Club, Corduroy Mansions and 44 Scotland Street; these four series encompass just some of the fictional creations of the prolific bestselling writer Alexander McCall Smith. Join him as he returns to Cheltenham to treat us to a look at his new novel, The Charming Quirks of Others.

Sex, Death and Tragedy

SWORDS, SANDALS AND CELLULOID

Mary Beard, Kevin Macdonald & Maria Wyke

Maria Wyke

Book online cheltenhamfestivals.com Amanda Craig

Louise Doughty

Sarah Dunant

Family Event

THE TIMES DEBATE

JUDITH KERR

Alastair Campbell, Bonnie Greer, James Harding, Peter Hennessy & Justin Webb

F4 The Playhouse Age 8+ 4.15-5pm £6 (£4) This year is the 40th anniversary of one of the UK’s favourite felines – Mog, created

by Judith Kerr. This is a rare opportunity to meet the author, whose other classic books include When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit and The Tiger Who Came to Tea. She discusses her childhood, fleeing Hitler’s Germany and her life and work with Nicolette Jones, Children’s Books Editor for The Sunday Times.

C2 The Centaur 4-5.15pm £12 Res President Obama: Has the Dream Survived?

As we approach the US mid-terms, is President Obama meeting the expectations of the American people and the world? And from TV debates to Twitter, how did Obama’s election influence the way in which Britain’s recent ballot-box battle was fought and covered by the media? Alastair Campbell, distinguished historian Peter Hennessy, playwright and critic Bonnie Greer and Today’s Justin Webb join Times Editor James Harding to take the temperature of US politics and ask: do we always follow where America leads?

Justin Webb

Rachel Johnson

RACHEL JOHNSON

49 The Inkpot 6-7pm £6 Res Entering the time-capsule HQ of The Lady, new Editor Rachel Johnson realized she was facing the challenge of a lifetime. In A Diary of The Lady, we follow her as she ditches ads for walk-in baths and persuades big names to write for peanuts, attempting to drag the venerable title from the 19th to the 21st century.

Power to the People

PETER MANDELSON

OPEN BOOK

47 Garden Theatre 4.30-5.30pm Free – Advance Booking Required Join Mariella Frostrup and guests for a special edition of Open Book, BBC Radio 4’s weekly book programme. Mariella mingles with the award-winning writers and world renowned thinkers at this year’s Festival.

C3 The Centaur 6.30-7.45pm £15 Res In a rare Festival appearance, one of New Labour’s three founding architects, Peter Mandelson, discusses his time in and out of government during a historic period of change in British politics, as well as the defining political relationships of his life with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

The Oldham Foundation Money Talks

MARTIN AMIS

WILL HUTTON

45 Everyman Theatre 4-5pm £8 Res One of the most talked-about and renowned English writers of our time, Martin Amis makes a welcome return to Cheltenham. In conversation with Ramona Koval of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, he discusses his life, work and latest novel, The Pregnant Widow.

The Shakespeare Lecture

DON PATERSON

Shakespeare’s Sonnets 48 Parabola Arts Centre 6-7pm £9 Res Award-winning poet Don Paterson explores the inner workings of the bard’s poems in his Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets. He delves deep into their hidden structures and techniques, their narratives and brilliance, unveiling why they are as thrilling and persuasive today as they were in 1609, with live readings by an actor of some of the greatest sonnets.

AMANDA CRAIG, LOUISE DOUGHTY & SARAH DUNANT

46 Parabola Arts Centre 4-5pm £6 Res A mother’s loss of her child lies at the heart of Louise Doughty’s Whatever You Love, while Amanda Craig’s Hearts and Minds explores the dangers faced by immigrant women in London. They are joined by Sarah Dunant, whose Sacred Hearts follows a girl forced into convent life in 16th century Italy, to discuss the extraordinary challenges their characters face.

Programmed by Owen Sheers

44 The Inkpot 4-5pm £8 Res From Spartacus to Gladiator, Hollywood has an enduring fascination with the blood-soaked history of Ancient Greece and Rome. What are the challenges of bringing the ancient world to life for cinema-goers? Classicists Maria Wyke and Mary Beard, and Kevin Macdonald, director of the forthcoming The Eagle and The Last King of Scotland, explore the historical reality and the modern invention behind this cinematic genre.

Programmed by Mary Beard

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50 Everyman Theatre 6.30-7.30pm £7 Res The suddenness and depth of the recession has raised questions about the workability of capitalism. In Them and Us, celebrated economic expert and Guest Director Will Hutton discusses Politics, Greed and Inequality, setting out to provide a new model in which fairness must be placed at the heart of the new capitalism.

Programmed by Will Hutton

SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER

Box Office 0844 576 7979

52 Garden Theatre 6.30-7.30pm Free – Advance Booking Required BBC Radio 4’s Bespoken Word was the first programme on UK radio or television dedicated to the now über-trendy genre performance poetry – that alternative palette available to poets in which the performance is prerequisite to the piece.

Lyrical, visceral, rhythmic, charming and quick-witted, it’s a parade of verbal toursde-force; occasionally controversial; frequently funny; always entertaining.

EDITOR’S CHOICE

53 HSBC Book It! Tent 7-8pm Free Join participants from today’s events, and journalists from The Times to consider your favourite Festival moments and discuss some of the hot literary topics of the day. For more information visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature

Hauntings

BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS

Martin Jarvis, Andrew Lycett & Nicholas Royle

Michael Cockerell, Peter Hennessy, Simon Hoggart & Baroness Jay

55 Parabola Arts Centre 8-9pm £6 Res Ancient churchyards, twilit country lanes, eerie voices heard on the wind - for some the uncanny and often terrifying world of Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories has never been surpassed, and the influence of masters such as M R James, Wilkie Collins, Dickens and Conan Doyle has lasted to this day. Acclaimed actor Martin Jarvis, writer and publisher Nicholas Royle and biographer Andrew Lycett choose, discuss and read extracts from their favourite chilling tales.

58 Main Hall 8.45-10pm £10 Res From Gladstone to Thatcher, Churchill to Blair, Prime Ministers have always shaped the office to adapt to the unique challenges of their time. TV documentary maker Michael Cockerell, who has interviewed eight Prime Ministers and leading politician Baroness Jay, the daughter of former Prime Mininster James Callaghan, join Simon Hoggart and historian Peter Hennessy to discuss the office’s history and the unique challenges it faces in the new coalition.

Chaired by Newsnight’s Gavin Esler.

Money Talks

The Oldham Foundation

HOWARD DAVIES, WILL HUTTON & JOHN KAY

Storytelling

Financial Futures

FAIRY TALES FOR GROWN UPS

56 Garden Theatre 8.45-10pm £10 Res The collapse of the global economy was narrowly avoided, but what lies ahead?

Guest Director Will Hutton is joined by Howard Davies, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science, and economic expert John Kay, author of Obliquity, to explore the economic challenges of a changing world.

The Grateful and the Dead 59 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 12+ 9-10pm £7 World renowned for his dynamic and challenging performances, allow Ben Haggarty to lure you into the richly metaphorical world of a full-blooded fairy tale for grown-ups. Dark, beautiful and startling by turn, this is a story of dreams, guides and the repayment of debts.

Programmed by Will Hutton

54 The Playhouse 7.30-8.30pm £6 Res In 1400 a descendant of the ancient rulers of western Celtic Britain began a war which effectively expelled the English from Wales. Controversial author Alex Gibbon explores his current research, the enigma of ‘King Arthur’, and his fascinating book The Mystery of Jack of Kent and the Fate of Owain Glyndŵr.

60 The Inkpot 8-11pm £6 Prepare for a poetic flight of fancy as fifteen do-or-die-versifiers compete to transport you beyond your wildest dreams with their bardic bravado. Which wordster will become your ultimate fantasy or worst nightmare? Heavenly hosts Sara-Jane Arbury and Marcus Moore preside over proceedings while random judges rate the writing, performances and your applause.

Remember: you’re lighting everyone’s pipe-dream…

FREE SPEECH!

12-5pm voices off Stage at The Brewery Free 12pm Steve Rooney & Emma Purshouse Poems delivered with extra comic toppings 1pm Mark Niel A poet who REALLY loves audiences…

2pm Cheltenham Improvisers Orchestra World premiere performance of Shopping List For An Unfinished Symphony 3pm Chloë Midnight Storyteller shoots star tales in your direction

4pm Alison Brumfitt & Sally Crabtree Scrumptious poetry, songs and scribble-nibbles

57 Everyman Theatre 8.45-10pm £9 Res Bestselling novelist and Gloucestershire resident Jilly Cooper makes a welcome return to the Festival to talk about her racy and wonderfully entertaining new novel Jump! In a fabulously entertaining romp through the world of jump racing, we are introduced to a riotous mix of wonderful characters led by the hilarious, heroic and gutsy racehorse Mrs Wilkinson.

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A King in Crisis

THE UK ALL STARS POETRY SLAM!

20 %

KING ARTHUR

Sara-Jane Arbury & Marcus Moore

Power to the People

CLASSIC CHILLS

JILLY COOPER Locally Sourced

Bonnie Greer

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BESPOKEN WORD

Ben Haggarty

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51 Main Hall 6.30-7.30pm £12 Res One of the most compelling writers working today, renowned author Philip Pullman joins us to discuss his gripping re-imagining of the story of Christianity in The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, marking his greatest imaginative leap to date.

Jilly Cooper

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PHILIP PULLMAN

Peter Mandelson

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Don Paterson

SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER

Book online cheltenhamfestivals.com Keith Jeffery

Monty & Sarah Don

Wendy Moffat

War Stories

Bitesize

61 Main Hall 10-11am £7 Res Essential reading for anyone interested not only in the history of espionage, but also modern British history and government, Keith Jeffery’s History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 forms an authoritative account of the world’s best-known intelligence service.

He joins The Times‘ Ben Macintyre to discuss the remarkable history of this extraordinary organization.

64 Garden Theatre 10-11am £8 Res Food and garden writers Monty and Sarah Don always inject a warm sense of home and family into their cookbooks.

So it is in the tradition of the Women’s Institute rather than celebrity chefdom that they join us to discuss The Home Cookbook, their celebration of British domestic cooking as it has evolved over the centuries.

MI6 REVEALED

Join us today as we celebrate the joys of reading and writing. In a Festival first, Tweet Poetry gives you the chance to create your very own masterpiece!

Find out more in our Festival Guide on page 7.

Festival writers join BBC Radio 4 on stage to read brand new stories. Come along and be the very first to hear the best in short story writing.

Don’t forget to take up your chance to win £800 worth of Festival books, courtesy of SAINTS Investment Trust.

Look out for information around the Festival venues, visit the SAINTS BIG on BOOKS tent or visit www.bgtrustonline.com/chelt for further information.

THE TIMES NATIONAL CROSSWORD CHAMPIONSHIP

Jim Crace

MONTY & SARAH DON

Sex, Death and Tragedy

In recognition of The Leonora Society

Mary Beard & Llewelyn Morgan

THE POWER OF STORY

HOW TO READ A LATIN POEM

62 Parabola Arts Centre 10-11am £6 Res Biting satire, poignant declarations of love and sweeping, epic narrative; Latin poetry has much to offer the modern reader. Classics don Mary Beard and ancient poetry expert Llewelyn Morgan present a fascinating beginner’s guide to a richly rewarding genre.

Jim Crace, Alberto Manguel & Scarlett Thomas

65 The Inkpot 10-11am £6 Res No story is an island; for readers and writers alike narratives have always held complex relationships to other past and present tales. Scarlett Thomas, author of Our Tragic Universe, Jim Crace, acclaimed author of All That Follows, join Alberto Manguel, whose All Men Are Liars is a fascinating homage to literature and its shapeshifting inventions, to discuss their latest novels, and how they weave other narratives into their own.

Programmed by Mary Beard

E M FORSTER Wendy Moffat

63 Everyman Theatre 10-11am £7 Res Although he died at the age of 90 in 1970, E M Forster never published another novel after A Passage to India in 1924. In this illustrated talk, Wendy Moffat, the author of a ground-breaking new biography of the author, explains why, revealing how deeply his ideas on tolerance, sexuality and love permeated every aspect of his life.

Carte Noire Readers

YOUR PERFECT COFFEE MOMENT

66 Town Hall 11.15-11.45am Free – Advance Booking Required Whilst you take a well earned break, our guest reader will narrate a love scene from Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South.

Sit back and relax with a complimentary cup of Carte Noire coffee and enjoy a more seductive coffee break. For more information visit cheltenhamfestivals. com or www.cartenoire.co.uk

Sunday 10 October Cheltenham College Junior School

This year is the 40th anniversary of The Times National Crossword Championship and some of the quickest minds in word games will be in Cheltenham during the Festival.

First to solve the puzzle will be crowned National Champion.

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Scarlett Thomas

Alexander McCall Smith

BEN MACINTYRE Operation Mincemeat

67 The Inkpot 12-1pm £7 Res When a sardine fisherman spotted a corpse floating in the sea off the coast of Spain in April 1943, it set in train a sequence of events that would change the course of the Second World War. Bestselling author, columnist and Associate Editor of The Times, Ben Macintyre joins us to retell the enthralling true spy story of Operation Mincemeat.

LYNDA BELLINGHAM

68 Everyman Theatre 12-1pm £8 Res Quick-witted Loose Women panellist, spirited competitor on Strictly Come Dancing, immortalised for many as the OXO mum and well known for her work on All Creatures Great and Small, Lynda Bellingham is a much-loved star of stage and screen. But as she reveals in her intimate autobiography Lost and Found, life has not always been easy.

She joins Hardeep Singh Kohli to discuss her inspiring story of heartache and determination on the long road to wisdom and maturity.

STEPHEN HAWKING

C4 The Centaur 12-1.15pm £15 Res One of the leading scientific thinkers of our time, Stephen Hawking joins us in a rare personal appearance. He reflects on The Grand Design, and explains why he now thinks our belief in a single model for unravelling the mysteries of the universe may be misplaced.

SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER

Box Office 0844 576 7979 Lynda Bellingham

Ben Macintyre

Stanzas

ANDREW MOTION

69 Parabola Arts Centre 12-1pm £7 Res Join the former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion as he reads from his new collection of war poems. Following on from the ground-breaking The Cinder Path, Laurels and Donkeys explores scenes of the conflicts of the 20th and 21st century, ranging from the First World War to the war in Afghanistan.

Andrew Motion

Stephen Hawking

Mick Fitzgerald

The Friends’ Festival Lunch

Family Event

ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH

SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERIES

71 The Daffodil 12.30-3pm £35 (£30) including two-course set menu, glass of wine and coffee From Scotland to Botswana and back via the bestseller lists, author Alexander McCall Smith offers glimpses into unusual worlds full of incredibly memorable characters. He joins us for Sunday lunch to discuss his life and books, including The Number 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and 44 Scotland Street.

F6 The Playhouse Age 9+ 1-2pm £6 (£4) The Sherlock Holmes stories are still as popular today as they were 100 years ago! Join two lifelong fans, Andrew Lane, author of Young Sherlock Holmes, and Simon Cheshire, whose stories about the schoolboy private detective, Saxby Smart, follow in the footsteps of the great man himself, to uncover the secrets of the world’s most famous detective.

Money Talks

TAXING TIMES

AFTERNOON READINGS

Anatole Kaletsky, Paul Mason & Justin Webb 70 Main Hall 12-1pm £10 Res In the face of an autumn of cuts and years of austerity to come Newsnight’s Economics Editor Paul Mason, The Times’ Anatole Kaletsky, author of Capitalism 4.0: Birth of a New Economy, and BBC Radio 4 Today’s Justin Webb debate what lies in store and consider the economic, political and social impact the cuts will have. Chaired by Newsnight’s Gavin Esler.

Family Event

JACQUELINE WILSON

F5 Garden Theatre Age 8+ 12-12.45pm £6 Jacqueline Wilson is one of the bestselling authors of the past decade and her books have been translated into 34 languages! Come and hear this living legend talk about her life as a writer and all about her brand new book, The Longest Whale Song.

Peter Hennessy

77 Garden Theatre 2-3.15pm Free – Advance Booking Required Louise Doughty, Sarah Dunant and Susan Hill will be on stage to read brand new stories for BBC Radio 4’s Afternoon Readings. Come and take part in the recording and be the very first to hear the best in short story writing.

Cheltenham Racecourse Festival Lunch

LUNCH WITH MICK FITZGERALD

72 Hotel du Vin 12.30-3pm £60 / £75 (inc. Cheltenham World of Jump Racing, RRP £25) From winning the Grand National on Rough Quest, to the Gold Cup on See More Business, Mick Fitzgerald is distinguished as one of the most talented jockeys of his generation. Join him for a luxurious lunch and a celebration of the sport of kings, its equine and human heroes and its most memorable moments, many of them at Cheltenham.

VIRGINIA IRONSIDE, EDDIE MAIR & BARBARA WANT Love and Loss

78 The Inkpot 2-3pm £6 Res Barbara Want, wife of the late muchloved Radio 4 broadcaster Nick Clarke, has written Why Not Me?, a moving portrayal of the reality of loss and grieving. Author and Independent columnist Virginia Ironside explores the anger and challenges of the grieving process in ‘You’ll Get Over It’ - The Rage of Bereavement, written after the death of her father. Here they join broadcaster Eddie Mair to share their thoughts on love, loss and the grieving process.

This event will include a delicious threecourse lunch including wine followed by an interview with Mick Fitzgerald. You have the choice of purchasing a ticket including a signed copy of Cheltenham World of Jump Racing (RRP £25). \

WORDS AND WHISKY

Highland Park Marquee Free 73 1.15-1.30pm 74 2.15-2.30pm 75 3.15-3.30pm 76 6.15-6.30pm Need a break from the Festival buzz? Sit back, relax and enjoy some of the best voices in contemporary British writing with complimentary samples of Highland Park single malt whisky, recently voted ‘the best spirit in the world’.

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Anthony Thwaite

Barbara Want

WALKING ON THE PAGE

Justin Cartwright, Duncan Minshull & Redmond O’Hanlon 79 Parabola Arts Centre 2-3pm £6 Res From Dickens to Dostoyevsky, Kipling to Kafka, walking is a powerful metaphor in classic fiction as well as a fascinating insight into a writer’s life and times.

Keen walker and acclaimed travel writer Redmond O’Hanlon and award-winning novelist Justin Cartwright join Duncan Minshull, editor of wonderful walking anthology The Burning Leg, to discuss their favourite walks and walkers in classic literature.

Supported by Dominic Collier Stanzas

PHILIP LARKIN

Martin Amis, Andrew Motion & Anthony Thwaite 80 Main Hall 2-3pm £10 Res Marking the 25th anniversary of Philip Larkin’s death, Anthony Thwaite reveals previously unpublished correspondence between Larkin and his lover Monica Jones in Letters to Monica. He is joined by writer Martin Amis and former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion to discuss the great poet’s life and work, accompanied by readings from the collection.

GERMAINE GREER

C5 The Centaur 2-3pm £10 Res Witty, controversial and never less than brilliant, Germaine Greer is arguably the most influential feminist writer of our time. The Female Eunuch, first published in 1976, is a landmark in the history of the women’s movement. Since then she has written many other agenda-setting works, including Boy and The Whole Woman. Here she looks back over her eventful life and writing career.

SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER Germaine Greer

Graham Norton

Book online cheltenhamfestivals.com Craig Brown

Eleanor Bron

PETER HENNESSY

SUE TOWNSEND

81 Everyman Theatre 2-3pm £7 Res The Soviet threat, the IRA, Al-Quaeda.

How have ministers and the military justified Britain’s nuclear capability since 1945? In what circumstances might the Prime Minister authorise the use of nuclear weapons and how would his orders be carried out? Distinguished historian Peter Hennessy, author of The Secret State, explores the ways in which our nation has prepared for the worst.

83 Parabola Arts Centre 4-5pm £6 Res The name Sue Townsend will forever be associated with that marvellous comic character Adrian Mole, first encountered as a troubled adolescent, and now a middle-aged man enduring The Prostrate Years. His creator joins us to talk about social satire, the Mole years, and continuing to write despite illness.

The Secret State

AFTER TWILIGHT

B28 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 12+ 4-5pm £4.50 Three masters of the macabre battle it out to decide who has the upper hand. Is it Venetian vampires in Marcus Sedgwick’s The Kiss of Death, L A Weatherly’s evil angels in new novel Angel, or the last hereditary werewolf of Steve Feasey’s Changeling series?

Which do you prefer?

Power to the People

HOW WAS IT FOR YOU?

Peter Hennessy, Simon Hoggart, Emily Maitlis, Lembit Öpik & Nick Robinson 82 Main Hall 4-5.15pm £10 Res TV debates, Twitter and fevered discussions in smoke-free rooms; everyone agrees that this year’s election was extraordinary and the outcome unprecedented. Former MP Lembit Öpik and Emily Maitlis join Simon Hoggart, historian Peter Hennessy and, we hope, BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson to exchange behind-the-scenes stories and discuss what made this election so remarkable.

Clive Anderson

Alice Roberts

THE MUSIC GROUP

85 Garden Theatre 4-5pm Free – Advance Booking Required Comedian and General Practitioner Dr Phil Hammond is no stranger to the medicinal properties of music. Three guests choose a track to share and explain their choice. ‘Getting together to share medicine is frowned upon’, Phil says. ‘Sharing music is almost always therapeutic - even when one’s chosen opera and another thrash metal’.

Adrian Mole - The Prostrate Years

CLIVE ANDERSON, MAGGIE GEE, MICHAEL NEVE & ALICE ROBERTS

Sue Townsend

Martin Jarvis

Family Event

HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT

F8 The Playhouse Age 13+ 5.45-6.30pm £6 (£4) Do you want to have a more fulfilling future? More confidence or happiness or success in love? Nina Grunfeld, author of How to Get What You Want, her first book for teens, and founder of Life Clubs, will start you thinking about getting what you want with practical tips and exercises to help you reach your true potential.

Sex, Death and Tragedy

THE ANCIENT BOOKER

Doctor, Doctor...

CRAIG BROWN & ELEANOR BRON

84 The Inkpot 4-5pm £6 Res From George Eliot’s Dr Lydgate to Dr Zhivago, and Patrick O’Brien’s Stephen Maturin to Hugh Laurie’s portrayal of House, doctors and other medical professionals have always occupied a fascinating place in our cultural imagination. Clive Anderson, Alice Roberts, Michael Neve and Maggie Gee choose their favourite medical characters in literature, theatre or film and tv, and explore the complex and often ambivalent role that they play in our artistic culture.

86 Everyman Theatre 4-5pm £8 Res Since 1989, Craig Brown has been writing the Private Eye celebrity diary, spoof records of the daily contemplations of the rich and famous.

He is joined by actress Eleanor Bron as they read from The Lost Diaries, including such gems as John Prescott’s trip to Royal Ascot, Virginia Woolf on arm-wrestling or W G Sebald enjoying an ice lolly on the beach.

Laugh Out Loud

GRAHAM NORTON

C6 The Centaur 4-5.15pm £15 Res If you’ve got a problem, it’s time to Ask Graham! Drawn from his Daily Telegraph columns, presenter and comedian Graham Norton joins us to reveal his hilarious and wise advice on relationships, life and just about everything. From Father Ted to Saturday mornings on Radio 2, La Cage aux Folles and so much more, this is one cheeky chappy you won’t want to miss.

The Oldham Foundation

Family Event

RETURN TO THE HUNDRED ACRE WOOD

F7 The Playhouse Age 7+ 4.15-5pm £7 (£5) It’s almost impossible to imagine a British childhood without Winnie the Pooh. Hear about Pooh’s new adventures as David Benedictus reads from Return to the Hundred Acre Wood and talks about how he created some of the new characters while illustrator Mark Burgess draws the pictures. Honey sandwiches included!

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Mary Beard, Lindsey Davis, Germaine Greer, Natalie Haynes & Peter Stothard 87 Main Hall 6-7.15pm £10 Res Ancient Greek and Roman literature is a rich treasure trove just waiting to be unlocked by a contemporary audience - compelling, funny, lyrical and often shocking. Join Guest Director Mary Beard, Lindsey Davis, author of the Falco novels, classicist and cultural commentator Natalie Haynes, author of The Ancient Guide to Modern Life, Editor of the TLS Peter Stothard and polemicist Germaine Greer as they each introduce us to their favourite classical title. It’s an ancient Booker Prize debate! Which one will you read?

Programmed by Mary Beard

Dreamworks

UTOPIAS

Julian Baggini, John Carey & Anthony Kenny 88 Parabola Arts Centre 6-7pm £7 Res Writers and thinkers have for centuries imagined a myriad of ideal worlds.

Literary critic John Carey, editor of the now-classic Faber Book of Utopias and biographer of William Golding, philosopher Julian Baggini, author of Do They Think You’re Stupid?, and Anthony Kenny, author of A New History of Western Philosophy, choose their favourite literary and philosophical utopias and discuss our constant urge to define the perfect world.

SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER

Box Office 0844 576 7979 Tessa Jowell

95 The Inkpot 8-9pm £7 Res Shooting to international fame with his third novel Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder joins us from Norway in a Festival exclusive to speak about his writing, his deep concerns about environmental change and his most recent novel, The Castle in the Pyrenees, both a love story and a novel of ideas.

Women in Politics

91 Garden Theatre 6-7pm £7 Res With only one woman in the Cabinet, would Emmeline Pankhurst be turning in her grave? Our panel of female politicians including Labour’s Tessa Jowell join Radio 4’s PM presenter Eddie Mair to explore their own experiences and the changing role of women in politics.

They share some of their own favourite political moments and what inspired them to enter the Commons.

This debate is dedicated to the memory of Nick Clarke, an outstanding broadcaster, consummate interviewer and much-loved friend of the Festival for many years. The annual award for the year’s most outstanding broadcast interview, The Nick Clarke Award, will be presented as part of this event.

96 Garden Theatre 8-9pm £8 Res Elizabeth Gaskell’s wittily observed tales of a simple and innocent community under threat from forces beyond its control were brought memorably and delightfully to life in the hugely popular BBC series Cranford.

The series creators Sue Birtwistle and Susie Conklin, authors of The Cranford Companion, join Jenny Uglow, Gaskell’s biographer and Cranford’s historical advisor, for a behind-the-scenes look at this heartwarming drama.

Storytelling

ISIS IS YOU SIS AND HECATE TANGO

THE INCAS

93 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 14+ 8-10.30pm (inc. interval) £7 Teetering between the sharply hilarious and the devastatingly provocative, this pair of roller-coaster performances combines mythology, fairytale and playground rhyme. Xanthe Gresham delves deep into Isis and Osiris, the Egyptian tale of love versus murder, rape and betrayal, and brings Hecate, the great Greek goddess of blackness and beginnings back onto the dance floor.

John Hemming

CLIVE ANDERSON

QUENTIN LETTS & LEMBIT ÖPIK

97 Parabola Arts Centre 8-9pm £6 Res In their great Andean empire, the Incas developed the world’s finest masonry techniques and built in locations of breathtaking beauty. In this illustrated talk, leading expert John Hemming guides you though the world-famous sites of the Monuments of the Incas, including the legendary Machu Picchu, the terraced ruins of Pisac, and many more archaeological treasures.

94 Main Hall 8-9pm £10 Res Comedy writer, broadcaster and barrister Clive Anderson joins us for a rare Festival appearance. From his role as President of the Woodland Trust, to his time as host of Whose Line is it Anyway? and BBC Radio 4’s ever popular Loose Ends he considers the highs and lows of a hugely varied career.

Keep Calm and Carry On 98 Everyman Theatre 8.15-9.15pm £8 Res With the economy going belly-up, the climate in meltdown and England’s football team still locked in a dark cupboard, hilarious parliamentary sketchwriter Quentin Letts is on the rampage again. He joins recentlyunemployed MP Lembit Öpik, who’s working out where to go next, to commiserate and let off steam as they try to get to grips with the insanity of modern life and politics. Perhaps all we can do is ‘Keep Calm And Carry On’. Or at least buy the poster.

FREE SPEECH!

voices off Stage Regent Arcade 12-5pm Free 12pm Capoeira A game, fight and dance all rolled into one, supervised by Professor Primo of Oficina Da Capoeira.

Originally created by African slaves in Brazil, the accompanying songs are inspired by their poems of struggle and celebration of life.

1pm Joel Denno & Kombat Kit Striking figures of speech 2pm Catherine Brogan High-octane poet who packs a punch

3pm Bohdan Piasecki Prize-winning slam poetry from a Polish perspective 4pm Buzzwords Cheltenham’s popular monthly poetry café takes the page to the stage

Supported by Cheltenham Business Partnership

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TESSA JOWELL & EDDIE MAIR

Sue Birtwistle, Susie Conklin & Jenny Uglow

99 The Playhouse 8-9.45pm £6 Res A tale of nocturnal horror on the Suffolk coast, considered a masterpiece in the canon of ghostly stories by M R James.

In this gripping one-man show, Robert Lloyd Parry brings the character of James alive to deliver an eerie and dramatic telling of the tale. The Ash Tree, a story of witchcraft and vengeance, provides an extra terrifying thrill…

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The Nick Clarke Debate

CRANFORD

OH, WHISTLE, AND I’LL COME TO YOU, MY LAD

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90 Everyman Theatre 6-7.30pm £9 Res Presenting a unique and hugely entertaining one-man performance, join award-winning actor Martin Jarvis as he brings to life P G Wodehouse’s celebrated characters - the amiable and blithe Bertie Wooster and his profoundly brilliant valet, the immortal Jeeves.

The performance will be recorded and broadcast later in the year on BBC Radio 4.

C7 The Centaur 6.30-7.45pm £19 Res Born in London’s povertystricken Elephant & Castle, Michael Caine can now look back on a glittering career, spanning five decades and having earned him two Oscars. The star of Zulu, The Italian Job and The Cider House Rules joins us to discuss his extraordinary journey from The Elephant to Hollywood.

Nunkie Theatre Company presents

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Martin Jarvis

Robert Lloyd Parry

JOSTEIN GAARDER

92 HSBC Book It! Tent 6-7pm Free Join participants from today’s events, and journalists from The Times to consider your favourite Festival moments and discuss some of the hot literary topics of the day. For more information visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature

MICHAEL CAINE

JEEVES IN MANHATTAN

Gavin Esler

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EDITOR’S CHOICE

Lembit Öpik

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ALICE ROBERTS

89 The Inkpot 6-7pm £7 Res Exploring the evolution of The Complete Human Body, Alice Roberts gets under your skin with an access all areas guide to anatomy. From its development and form to its function and disorders, she presents a breathtaking portrait of the human body, as it’s never been seen before.

Quentin Letts

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Michael Caine

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Sue Birtwistle & Susie Conklin Jostein Gaarder

MONDAY 11 OCTOBER Amanda Vickery

Stephen Anderton

Book online cheltenhamfestivals.com M A S Abdel Haleem

Design for Life

Secret Gardens

Amanda Vickery

104 Town Hall 11.45am-12.45pm £7 One of the greatest English gardeners of the 20th century, Christopher Lloyd’s garden at Great Dixter immortalised his vision as a plantsman and writer.

The Times’ gardening correspondent Stephen Anderton, who had unique archive access, presents an intimate portrait of the man, his life and his legacy. Chaired by Tim Richardson.

THE GEORGIAN HOME 100 Town Hall 10-11am £7 The Georgian house is a byword for proportion and elegance, but what did it mean to its inhabitants? In Behind Closed Doors Amanda Vickery weaves together material from over fifty archives to offer a unique illustrated insight into the Georgian homes of English men and women. Join her as she discusses Georgian life with her customary wit and verve.

Elizabeth Chatwin & Nicholas Shakespeare

Francis Spufford

BRUCE CHATWIN: HIS LIFE AND LETTERS

CHRISTOPHER LLOYD

Elizabeth Chatwin, Susannah Clapp & Nicholas Shakespeare

The European Lecture

MICHAEL BURLEIGH Moral Combat

101 Everyman Theatre 10-11am £6 Res Acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh’s incisive Moral Combat explores moral choices made by individuals in the Second World War under circumstances difficult to imagine: when heroism is inevitably flawed and tempered by moral compromise. Original, perceptive, remarkable in scope; this is an unforgettable and hugely important Second World War history, examining the moral sentiment of entire societies and their political leaders.

YOU PEOPLE

102 Town Hall 10-11am Free Playwright Alice Jolly and Cheltenham’s Cultural Ambassadors have together developed this new play about barriers to communication. Members of diverse communities struggle with jargon, bureaucracy and peculiarly British manners in this humorous and thoughtprovoking piece of Forum Theatre.

A professional production from The Cheltenham Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham Borough Council and The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival.

CHEKHOV AND TOLSTOY

MADAM RACHEL: BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER Helen Rappaport

105 Town Hall 12-1pm £7 Victorian fraudster Madame Rachel had everything: a Mayfair address, the title of ‘purveyor to Her Majesty the Queen’, and a clientele that was aristocratic, rich – and gullible. Lured by the promise of eternal beauty to be found in her lotions and potions, they found instead something far darker – a con-woman who made a career out of lies, treachery, and the false hopes of her victims. In a fascinating illustrated talk, Helen Rappaport tells the true story of a Victorian scandal involving blackmail, fraud, high-profile trials, false promises, love affairs, suicide and bankruptcy.

WHY DO WE DREAM? Mark Blagrove & Iain Edgar

106 Town Hall 12-1pm £6 Dreams take us into strange worlds, sometimes uplifting and inspiring, sometimes frightening. But how and why do we dream? Join leading psychologist and dream expert Mark Blagrove, Psychology Professor at Swansea University, and anthropologist Iain Edgar, who teaches on culture and dreaming at Durham University, as they explore the world of dreams.

Mark Urban

Write Away: Theatre

SHAKESPEARE’S LOVE LETTERS

W25 The Playhouse 2-5pm £15 Join theatre director and writer Phillip Breen in an exploration of Shakespeare’s Sonnets and gain insight into the passionate and emotional landscape of these epic poetic miniatures. This workshop will explore the physicality of the language, its poetry, violence and humour in order for its full meaning to land on the ear and excite the listener.

Participants should come having learnt a sonnet of their choice.

Dreamworks

THE QUR’AN

109 Town Hall 2-3pm £7 When William Blake exhibited his paintings in 1809, the press ridiculed his artistic efforts and ultimately broke their creator’s spirit. In this illustrated talk, Tate curator Martin Myrone explores Blake’s visionary art, and explains why his work so misunderstood by his contemporaries, is today considered to be decisive in the shaping of the Romantic period.

112 Town Hall 2-3pm £6 Recognized as the world’s greatest literary masterpiece in Arabic, Islam’s holy book has now been translated

by M A S Abdel Haleem, a translation acclaimed for the clarity and beauty of its writing and its faithfulness to the original, and now published alongside the original Arabic text. Join him for a fascinating insight into this revered religious work.

SIMON WINCHESTER

Bonne Maman Big Read

110 Town Hall 2-3pm £6 Join Simon Winchester, the author of the bestselling The Surgeon of Crowthorne and The Map That Changed the World, for an enthralling journey around the shores and the islands of the Atlantic Ocean.

He traces the biography of this immense ocean and its influence on the lives of those who have lived beside and upon it.

Chaired by Ramona Koval.

113 Town Hall 3-4pm Free – Advance Booking Required Join the editor of The Times’ Book Club, Alyson Rudd, in this special Festival Book Group and discuss our Bonne Maman Big Read, Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd. Follow proud and beautiful Bathsheba Everdene in this tale of passionate love and terrible misunderstandings, set in the rural idyll of Wessex.

Atlantic

Dreamworks

Simon Winchester

108 Town Hall 12-1pm £7 Biographer Nicholas Shakespeare and Bruce Chatwin’s widow Elizabeth Chatwin have collaborated on Under the Sun, a definitive collection of the wealth of letters he left behind, and a valuable and illuminating record of one of the greatest and most enigmatic travel writers of the 20th century. They join writer Susannah Clapp to discuss his life and his extraordinary writing.

WILLIAM BLAKE

M A S Abdel Haleem

BOOK GROUP

SECURING THE STATE David Omand

111 Everyman Theatre 2-3pm £8 Res Former GCHQ boss David Omand has been at the heart of British defence and security for more than 25 years; a former leading light of the Cabinet Office and Joint Intelligence Committee, there are few better placed to reveal our government’s daily balancing of security against civil liberties. Join him for a unique guide to the challenges and ethical dilemmas faced by those Securing the State.

Rosamund Bartlett

103 Town Hall 10-11am £7 Following her acclaimed biography of Anton Chekhov, Rosamund Bartlett has turned her attention to Leo Tolstoy, in her fascinating A Russian Life, examining the life and work of this towering figure against the backdrop of one of country’s most turbulent periods. Here she compares these two literary lions revealing the connections between them as they celebrate their 150th and 100th anniversaries respectively.

David Omand

RED PLENTY Francis Spufford

107 Everyman Theatre 12-1pm £6 Res What if the Soviet ‘miracle’ had worked and the communists had discovered the secret to prosperity, progress and happiness? The USSR’s magical ‘planned economy’ would gush forth an abundance that the penny-pinching capitalist countries could never match - and for a brief period in the late 50’s it looked as if the dream might actually come true. In Red Plenty, Francis Spufford paints a fascinating picture of that moment in history, how it came about, and how the illusion vanished.

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War Stories

MARK URBAN Task Force Black

114 Town Hall 4-5pm £7 After British and American forces invaded Iraq in April 2003, the SAS was soon on the attack, targeting Al-Qaeda and other insurgent groups with an intensity never before practised by the service. The diplomatic and defence editor of BBC’s Newsnight, Mark Urban gives a dramatic account of that time, and presents Task Force Black.

MONDAY 11 OCTOBER

Box Office 0844 576 7979 Jackie Kay

Jo Brand

Design for Life

THE SECRET LIVES OF BUILDINGS Edward Hollis

115 Everyman Theatre 4-5pm £7 Res In this radical re-imagining of architectural history, Edward Hollis takes us on a journey through The Secret Lives of Buildings. He reveals the hidden histories of the Parthenon and the Alhambra, and explores the monuments of our own day, from the Berlin Wall to the fibre-glass theme parks of Las Vegas.

THE VIRGINIA MONOLOGUES Virginia Ironside

116 Town Hall 4-5pm £7 Virginia Ironside’s hilarious one-woman show about the perils of sixtysomethinghood garnered rave reviews at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, acclaimed as ‘beautiful, funny, sensible and smart… an absolute delight’ (The Scotsman).

Come and enjoy her sharp revelations on the glories of ageing: unlimited drugs, boring for Britain, fun at funerals and grandchildren.

PAST LIVES, PAST LOVES Clare Clark, Suzannah Dunn & Daisy Goodwin

117 Town Hall 4-5pm £6 Whilst Daisy Goodwin’s My Last Duchess follows an American heiress to 1890s Britain, Clare Clark introduces us to a woman sent to the Savage Lands of Louisiana in 1704 and Suzannah Dunn creates a vivid fictional account of The Confession of Katherine Howard. They explore the lives of three extraordinary women and the challenges of portraying historical characters in fiction.

Stanzas

JACKIE KAY & SIMON MURRAY Poetry Café

118 Town Hall 5.30-6.15pm Free A powerful new anthology, Red showcases the humour, passion and reflection that make Black British poetry a defining force. Contributors Jackie Kay, award-winning writer and author of Red Dust Road, and Simon Murray, spoken word artist and author of Kill Myself Now, launch this surprising and fascinating new collection in a Festival exclusive.

Jenny Éclair

Arabella Weir

David Nicholls

CHILDREN OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Ellen MacArthur

BY THE SWORD Richard Cohen

123 Town Hall 7-8pm £6 The art and science of sword-fighting goes back almost to the dawn of civilization and has been an obsession for much of mankind throughout recorded history, from gladiators and musketeers to samurai warriors, swashbucklers and Olympians. Former Festival Director Richard Cohen traces the course of swordsmanship with wit and erudition in a fascinating illustrated event.

In Their Shoes

119 Garden Theatre 6-7.30pm £5 (18 and under free) This unique performance project celebrates the remarkable history of Gloucestershire and involves primary school children from six schools across the county. Brenda Read-Brown researched six historical episodes, each linked to one of the six districts of Gloucestershire, and the children will perform pieces inspired by her findings.

With subjects as diverse as the Cotswold Olympicks, the siege of Gloucester and the devastating Tewkesbury floods of 2007 this promises to be an evening full of delightful surprises and unusual insights.

Locally Sourced

GLOUCESTERSHIRE WRITERS’ NETWORK

124 The Playhouse 7.30-8.30pm £6 Res Local writers and competition winners from the Gloucestershire Writers’ Network present their wonderful mix of writing inspired by the Festival theme of ‘Dreams and Nightmares’, with performance poet Peter Wyton, former Gloucestershire Poet Laureate.

Supported by The Ernest Cook Trust Laugh Out Loud

JENNY ÉCLAIR & ARABELLA WEIR

120 Everyman Theatre 6.30-7.30pm £10 Res Self-confessed Grumpy Old Women, Jenny Éclair and Arabella Weir are also very funny women. We bring them together to pool their gripes, work through their anxieties and give us all a laugh as they segue in and out of their respective books, Chin Up Britain and The Real Me is Thin.

John Simpson

Robin Ince

Laugh Out Lout

JENNY ÉCLAIR

127 Everyman Theatre 8.45-10pm £10 Res Chin Up Britain is a tongue-in-cheek call to arms. Now is the time to return to common sense and embrace a new austerity, says the inimitable stand-up comedian and novelist Jenny Éclair.

She shares her helpful and hilarious tips for changing the way we live, including beauty on a budget and a guide to gate-crashing.

JACKIE KAY

128 Town Hall 9-10pm £6 The award-winning poet and novelist Jackie Kay was adopted by Scottish Communists as a child. In this compelling event, based on her memoir, Red Dust Road, she reveals how she traced her Nigerian birth father, a born-again Christian, and her birth mother, a Mormon, and in the process discovered a story she couldn’t have made up.

JOHN SIMPSON Unreliable Sources

125 Garden Theatre 8.45-10pm £8 Res The BBC’s World Affairs Editor John Simpson has long been a familiar face on our screens, reporting from across the globe. Now he moves closer to home to look at how the British press has reported key moments over the last hundred years, in this talk based on his book Unreliable Sources. Can the press ever really be free, and would it even wish to be so?

DAVID NICHOLLS One Day

121 The Inkpot 6.30-7.30pm £7 Res 15th July, 1988. Emma and Dexter meet on the night of their graduation.

Tomorrow they go their separate ways.

Where will they be on this one day in every year that follows? Such is the ingenious plot of bestselling One Day by David Nicholls. He joins Tiffany Murray to discuss how this widely acclaimed novel came to be.

ELLEN MACARTHUR

126 Main Hall 8.45-10pm £10 Res When she broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe in 2005, Ellen MacArthur gained the admiration of a nation. Last year, she announced her retirement from competitive sailing. She joins us to tell us why, also discussing her extraordinary life and going Full Circle.

Laugh Out Loud

JO BRAND

122 Main Hall 6.30-7.30pm £12 Res Back by popular demand, one of Britain’s best-loved comedians, Jo Brand discusses Can’t Stand Up for Sitting Down, the richly entertaining second instalment of her autobiography. She reminisces about her TV career and the road to finding fame as an outspoken commentator on life’s foibles and silliness. Chaired by Paul Blezard.

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LabOratory

ROBIN INCE & RICHARD WISEMAN Under Pressure: Comedy Live

129 Town Hall 8.30-10pm £8 In a special one-off version of his Bad Book Club, Robin Ince and guests explore strange literature from killer crab novels to Mills & Boon, whilst also being scrutinised by psychologist Richard Wiseman. What goes through performers’ minds and bodies as they face the unexpected? Combining music, comedy and dance, join us for quite possibly the funniest scrutinising of the psychology of performance you’ll ever see!

LabOratory A three year project bringing biomedical science to life across the Festivals

TUESDAY 12 OCTOBER Lucy Worsley

Roy Hattersley

Christopher Riopelle

Book online cheltenhamfestivals.com Daisy Hay

Tony Benn

Dominic Sandbrook

Patrick Barkham

Sarah Raven

COURTIERS

THE ANDES

Secret Gardens

Enterprise

130 Town Hall 10-11am £6 During the reigns of King George I and his son King George II, the elegant assembly room at Kensington Palace was a place of skulduggery, where fans whistled open like flick-knives.

Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator of the Historic Royal Palaces, unlocks its secret world and brings to life its memorable characters in this eye-opening talk based on her book, Courtiers.

134 Everyman Theatre 12-1pm £6 Res Stretching halfway across a continent and spanning an incredible range of scenery, climate and cultures, the story of The Andes is one of history, science, myth and danger. From the Caribbean to Tierra del Fuego, and from the Incas to Simon Bolivar, join Michael Jacobs for an amazing journey through seven countries in this stunningly illustrated talk.

138 Town Hall 2-3pm £6 Influential garden designer and Observer columnist Dan Pearson joins us to consider his personal inspirations and provide insight into the world of landscape design. From working with nature to incorporating art into your horticultural vision, he encourages you to see gardening in a different light in this illustrated talk.

Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year 2010

Lucy Worsley

THE CRUSADES Thomas Asbridge

131 Town Hall 10-11am £6 One of the world’s foremost authorities on the subject, Thomas Asbridge offers a vivid history of The Crusades, as Moslems and Christians fought for domination of the Holy Land. In a fascinating illustrated talk, he explores how these holy wars reshaped the medieval world.

DIAGHILEV AND THE BALLETS RUSSES

132 Everyman Theatre 10-11am £7 Res Sergei Diaghilev was a gifted impresario, curator and director, whose Ballets Russes company expanded the frontiers of theatre in the early 20th century. Jane Pritchard, curator of a major new V&A exhibition, examines Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes, looking at his life, work and cultural milieu in this illustrated talk.

Enterprise

SOCIAL ENTERPRISE

133 Town Hall 10-11am £6 Social Enterprise is about changing the world through business, and we’ll be uniting leading entrepreneurs to consider this emerging field. Arthur Potts Dawson, a chef who decided to take on Tesco with The People’s Supermarket, joins Social Enterprise Ambassador and Chief Executive of Hill Holt Wood, Karen Lowthrop, and Tony Kendle, Foundation Director of The Eden Project.

DAN PEARSON

Michael Jacobs

Supported by Michael and Angela Cronk

Enterprise

INSPIRING PHILANTHROPY

MAP OF A NATION

135 Town Hall 12-1pm £6 Patronage has always been crucial to the development of the arts, but what motivates the modern entrepreneur to enter the realm of philanthropy?

As Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre, Michael Attenborough has experienced first-hand the power of philanthropy in enabling the production of bold and distinctive work. He joins Nigel Newton, founder and Chief Executive of Bloomsbury Publishing, to consider the role of the philanthropist in nurturing new talent and supporting the cultural sector.

Rachel Hewitt

139 Town Hall 2-3pm £6 Ordinance Survey maps are a muchloved part of British life, whose extraordinary history began amidst 18th and 19th century political turmoil.

Leading historian Rachel Hewitt tells the thrilling illustrated story of intrepid cartographers lugging brass theodolites up mountains against a turbulent backdrop of political revolution and rebellion to create the Map Of A Nation that made Britain visible to itself for the first time.

YOUNG ROMANTICS Daisy Hay

140 Everyman Theatre 2-3pm £7 Res Love, betrayal, sacrifice and friendship played out against a background of political turbulence and intense literary creativity. Such were the intertwined lives of the Young Romantics: Shelley, Byron, Leigh Hunt and their circle.

Biographer Daisy Hay sheds fascinating light on the tangled communal lives of this artistically influential and astonishingly youthful group.

Power to the People

DAVID LLOYD GEORGE Roy Hattersley

136 Main Hall 12-1pm £7 Res Politician turned acclaimed writer Roy Hattersley presents his new biography of the Liberal prime minister and ‘great outsider’, David Lloyd George, a man who rose from ‘cottage bred’ origins to pioneer old age pensions, sickness pay and unemployment benefit.

PICASSO

Christopher Riopelle

The Oldham Foundation

141 Main Hall 2-3pm £7 Res From his earliest years, Picasso was a passionate student of figures such as Rembrandt, Goya and Cézanne, transforming their art of the past into audacious paintings of his own. In this fascinating illustrated talk, Christopher Riopelle, curator at the National Gallery, explores Picasso’s artistic journey Challenging the Past.

WHY DO WE LIE? Dorothy Rowe

137 Town Hall 12-1pm £6 Why do we lie? To avoid humiliation?

To keep in control? Lying is easier than searching for the truth and accepting it, no matter how inconvenient. We lie to others, and, even worse, we lie to ourselves. Join psychologist Dorothy Rowe as she discusses Why We Lie and considers whether we are capable of changing.

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LAURA TENISON

142 Town Hall 2-3pm £6 What are the qualities needed to succeed as an entrepreneur? What motivates women, in particular, to start their own businesses and what role do they play in breaking down stereotypes? Laura Tenison, Founder and Managing Director of JoJo Maman Bébé and Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year 2010, joins us to contemplate the unique challenges facing women in business, and consider her role in inspiring others to exploit their entrepreneurial vision. Chaired

by Allison Pearson, internationally bestselling author of I Don’t Know How She Does it and I Think I Love You.

Bonne Maman Big Read

BOOK GROUP

143 Town Hall 3-4pm Free – Advance Booking Required Join local author Jane Bailey in this Festival Book Group and discuss our Bonne Maman Big Read, Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd. Follow proud and beautiful Bathsheba Everdene in this tale of passionate love and terrible misunderstandings, set in the rural idyll of Wessex.

Bitesize

SARAH RAVEN

144 Town Hall 4-5pm £7 Food and garden writer Sarah Raven has the knack of devising delectable and very do-able recipes for seasonal home cooking. Considering the very best of Food for Family and Friends, she guides us through the year with ideas for dishes for every occasion that will appeal to best friends, children, uncles and mothers-inlaw alike.

The John Moore Lecture

THE BUTTERFLY ISLES

145 Town Hall 4-5pm £6 There are 59 species of British butterfly, from the Chequered Skipper to the Glanville Fritillary, and many are extremely rare. Lifelong butterfly enthusiast Patrick Barkham blends natural history with absorbing personal insight, as he recalls his memorable journey in search of all 59 of them over the course of one summer, The Butterfly Isles.

TUESDAY 12 OCTOBER

Box Office 0844 576 7979 Fergal Keane

FLORENCE ON FIVE FLORINS A DAY Charles Fitzroy

146 Everyman Theatre 4-5pm £7 Res The witty, fascinating and fact-packed Renaissance Florence on Five Florins a Day provides all the practical advice you need for a journey back to the golden age of one of Europe’s great cities. From Leonardo to Michelangelo, Charles Fitzroy, a descendant of the Medicis, offers an illustrated guide to the unmissable highlights of Florentine art and architecture, and offers cautionary advice on avoiding bandits, mercenaries and condottieri.

Power to the People

TONY BENN, ROY HATTERSLEY & DOMINIC SANDBROOK

147 Main Hall 4-5pm £9 Res Much-maligned before the election, coalitions have in fact regularly led Britain in times of national crisis, from the National Governments of the 1930s to Churchill’s wartime coalitions.

Historian Dominic Sandbrook joins Roy Hattersley and Tony Benn to discuss the highs and lows of coalitions and minority governments, from David Lloyd George to Cameron and Clegg.

The Oldham Foundation Stanzas

COLETTE BRYCE & RODDY LUMSDEN Poetry Café

148 Town Hall 5.30-6.15pm Free One of the liveliest and most inventive poets in Britain, Roddy Lumsden’s Third Wish Wasted is concerned with wishes and desires, contemplating youth, beauty and fame. He joins award-winning poet Colette Bryce who explores the complexities of love and identity in her compelling Self-Portrait in the Dark.

Matthew Parris

George Clarke

Alexei Sayle

Naomi Alderman

Locally Sourced

FERGAL KEANE

ANDREW CHAPMAN, RUSSELL JAMES & MICHAEL TOD

Road of Bones

149 Town Hall 6.30-7.30pm £8 Having reported for the BBC on conflicts across the world for 25 years, Fergal Keane brings a profound understanding of the pitiless nature of war to bear as he tells us of the last great stand of empire the brutal siege at Kohima in 1944, which forms the subject of his book, Road of Bones.

From Plot to Page

153 Town Hall 7-8pm £6 A satisfying plot is the essence of a great novel. Novelists Russell James, Michael Tod and Andrew Chapman discuss their writing, sharing with us how they shape stories and exploring the writer’s fascinating journey from plot to page.

Power to the People

ANDREW BRYSON & MATTHEW PARRIS

MAGGI HAMBLING

Parting Shots

150 Everyman Theatre 6.30-7.30pm £7 Res Maggi Hambling is one of our most distinguished painters and sculptors.

Among her best known public works is Scallop, a striking steel sculpture on Aldeburgh beach in Suffolk, celebrating Benjamin Britten. Singularly unafraid of controversy, she discusses her landmark work and her life.

154 Main Hall 8.45-10pm £9 Res Until 2006, Britain’s ambassadors were encouraged to write a valedictory despatch when leaving a foreign posting, producing highly entertaining and often indiscreet reports. Based on the acclaimed Radio 4 series, columnist Matthew Parris, a former employee of the Foreign Office, and BBC journalist Andrew Bryson discuss a collection of these hilarious Parting Shots.

Hauntings

Tiffany Murray

The Wraiths

SIMON HEFFER Strictly English

157 Everyman Theatre 8.45-10pm £6 Res His amusingly despairing emails to colleagues at the Telegraph about grammatical mistakes have attracted a growing band of ardent fans. Now Simon Heffer makes an impassioned case for correct English and offers practical advice on how to avoid mangled sentences in Strictly English: the Correct Way to Write… and Why It Matters.

NAOMI ALDERMAN & TIFFANY MURRAY

158 Town Hall 9-10pm £6 Two celebrated writers present their second novels. Naomi Alderman, winner of the Orange Award for New Writers for Disobedience, discusses the charmed world of learning, ambition and desire at university in The Lessons, while Tiffany Murray, author of Happy Accidents, explores the seductive lure of fame and a rock’n’roll childhood in Diamond Star Halo.

The Oldham Foundation

FRANKENSTEIN

151 Town Hall 6.30-7.30pm £6 Arguably the world’s most famous work of horror fiction, Frankenstein remains an extraordinary exploration of the limits of human creativity. To explore the book behind the myth and why it still mesmerizes us today, join Mary Shelley’s biographer Miranda Seymour, horror and fantasy film critic Kim Newman and Daisy Hay, author of Young Romantics.

ALEXEI SAYLE

155 Town Hall 8.45-10pm £7 Born in Liverpool, the only child of two Communists who ate salad and read Soviet Weekly, much-loved comedian Alexei Sayle had an unusual childhood.

Already an acclaimed writer for his short stories and novels, he joins us to take an entertaining look back at his often confusing upbringing, and how Stalin Ate My Homework.

GCHQ IN FOCUS

Richard Aldrich, David Omand & David Pepper

THE WRAITHS

159 The Playhouse 8-9.45pm £6 Res Beautiful and mysterious, beguiling and menacing, six piece band The Wraiths specialize in setting classical poems to music, creating haunting edgy ballads that linger long after the last note. Hear works by Dickinson, Wilde, Hardy, Keats et al. as you’ve never heard them before, courtesy of singer Mog Fry’s compelling voice and lead musician Jon Hunt’s multiinstrumental imagination. Gorgeous.

Design for Life

152 Main Hall 6.30-7.30pm £9 Res From its wartime origins at Bletchley Park to its current place at the forefront of global intelligence-gathering, GCHQ has one of the most fascinating histories of any national security organisation.

Historian and security expert Richard Aldrich is joined by former GCHQ Directors David Omand and David Pepper to discuss the remarkable story of GCHQ’s development over the years and the challenges it faces today.

GEORGE CLARKE

156 Garden Theatre 8.45-10pm £10 Res A home is a container of dreams, according to architect and presenter George Clarke, a familiar face from programmes like Build a New Life, Restoration Man and The Home Show.

Here he presents The Home Bible, sharing advice and top tips gleaned from years of experience to help you realise the true potential of your abode.

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Richard Aldrich

WEDNESDAY 13 OCTOBER Sue Shephard

Martin Gayford

FROM THE THIRTIES TO THE BLITZ Juliet Gardiner

160 Everyman Theatre 10-11am £7 Res Acclaimed social historian Juliet Gardiner gives fresh and intimate insights into what life was like during two of the most eventful periods in modern British history, in this enlightening talk on The Thirties, and The Blitz.

The Alan Hancox Lecture

JOHN CRAIG

The Wood Engravings of Gordon Craig 161 Town Hall 10-11am £6 Son of the celebrated actress Ellen Terry, Gordon Craig briefly followed in his mother’s footsteps before attempting the radical advancement of theatre presentation and design. John Craig, himself an engraver, talks about his grandfather’s ideas and graphic art, showing a wide selection of his engraved work.

Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall

Book online cheltenhamfestivals.com Owen Sheers

Max Hastings

Secret Gardens

Stephen Sondheim

163 Town Hall 10-11am £6 Floral artist and author of the Constance Spry Cookery Book, Constance Spry rose from a poverty stricken childhood to the height of London society. In an illuminating illustrated talk, her biographer Sue Shephard reveals the surprising life of this formidable domestic goddess who became a household name.

Carte Noire Readers

Travellers’ Tales

Martin Gayford

167 Town Hall 12-1pm £8 Having many times ventured to the most remote and dangerous places on earth, Robin Hanbury-Tenison is one of our most distinguished explorers. Who better then to deliver this illustrated lecture on The Great Explorers, in which he profiles some of the courageous men and women who have changed our perception of the world around us.

171 Town Hall 2-3pm £7 Art critic Martin Gayford spent seven months sitting for celebrated portrait painter Lucian Freud; a period he records in Man With a Blue Scarf. In conversation, he describes the entire creative process, from the first sitting, through to his meeting with the purchaser of the finished painting, giving us a unique ‘sitter’s eye view’ of the artist and his working practices.

EDMUND DE WAAL

YOUR PERFECT COFFEE MOMENT

The Hare With Amber Eyes 168 Town Hall 12-1pm £6 Part treasure hunt, part family saga, world-renowned ceramicist Edmund de Waal’s richly original memoir The Hare With Amber Eyes tells the story of his unexpected inheritance of a fascinating collection of Japanese ‘netsuke’ figurines.

Spanning nearly two centuries and covering half the world, his search for their history traces the network of a remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century. ‘You have in your hands a masterpiece.’ (The Sunday Times)

164 Town Hall 11.15-11.45am Free – Advance Booking Required Whilst you take a well earned break, our guest reader will narrate a love scene from Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent.

Sit back and relax with a complimentary cup of Carte Noire coffee and enjoy a more seductive coffee break. For more information visit cheltenhamfestivals. com/cartenoire or www.cartenoire.co.uk

BOOKBINDING WORKSHOP

EDWARD HEATH Philip Ziegler

162 Town Hall 10-11am £6 Distinguished biographer Philip Ziegler gives us a timely reassessment of the remarkable political career of Edward Heath. With insights based on exclusive access to personal papers unavailable to previous biographers, he presents the first fully rounded portrait of our most enigmatic former Prime Minister, his personal life, and his role in 20th century politics.

Dreamworks

CARL JUNG AND THE POWER OF DREAMS

172 Town Hall 2-3pm £6 Archetypes, personas and the collective unconscious - Carl Jung’s work revolutionised psychology and psychotherapy and profoundly influenced how we explore our inner worlds. In a fascinating illustrated talk, Jungian authority Sonu Shamdasani presents a vivid insight into Jung’s life and work, exploring his belief that dreams act as a window to our unconsciousness.

Bitesize

MINISTRY OF FOOD

Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall

Locally Sourced

169 Everyman Theatre 2-3pm £7 Res Domestic doyenne Jane FearnleyWhittingstall helps modern families beat the crunch by applying wartime wisdom. In The Ministry of Food, written to accompany a fascinating exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, she divulges thrifty ways to do everything from growing your own to baking and preserving.

WHERE ON EARTH IS HEAVEN?

165 Town Hall 11.45am-12.45pm £6 In answer to his young son’s question Where on Earth is Heaven?, and drawing on his long career as a BBC documentary film-maker, Jonathan Stedall explores the great mysteries of life and death, heaven and earth, and our human potential – his quest greatly enriched by his biographies of Tolstoy, Gandhi and Jung, and his work with John Betjeman and Laurens van der Post.

A HISTORY OF MAGIC Owen Davies

170 Town Hall 2-3pm £6 What are Grimoires? If you’re a fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Charmed, you might know that they are books of spells, used for both benign and sinister purposes. In a fascinating illustrated talk historian Owen Davies explores the History of Magic Books, and how they have influenced history over the last two thousand years.

War Stories Power to the People

Mike Atherton

ROBIN HANBURY-TENISON LUCIAN FREUD

CONSTANCE SPRY

Write Away: Bookcraft

Town Hall £45 (inc. £15 of materials) W23 10am-1pm W24 2-5pm Join conservator Sue Crossley for an introduction to historic bookbinding skills. Using traditional hand tools you will make a leather bound journal from cotton rag printing paper and vegetable tanned goat skins in a range of beautiful colours. The finished journals are soft, tactile and extremely durable, with a wide variety of uses including writing, drawing and sketching with watercolour.

This workshop is suitable for complete beginners.

Diarmaid MacCulloch

THE FORGOTTEN HIGHLANDER

166 Everyman Theatre 12-1pm £7 Res The last surviving member of the Scottish regiment the Gordon Highlanders who were captured in Singapore, Alistair Urquhart was conscripted at age 19.

He survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai, and was later forced to work in a mine near Nagasaki where two months later a nuclear bomb dropped. Join this Forgotten Highlander to hear his incredible story of survival.

Write Away: Theatre

ON CHARACTER

W26 The Playhouse 2-5pm £15 Theatre and television director Robert Delamere, leads a practical workshop on the process of bringing a character to life on stage. Explore in forensic detail how to unravel a playwright’s intention for a character and the performance choices available on the journey of a character from page to stage.

The Oldham Foundation

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Write Away: Masterclass

MAURICE GRAN & LAURENCE MARKS Writing for the Theatre

W11 The Playhouse 2-3.30pm £12 Res Having created popular sitcoms such as Birds of a Feather and Goodnight Sweetheart, the writing duo Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks have now turned their talent to writing for the stage. Join them for this in-depth discussion on how to write for the theatre, with plenty of opportunities to ask questions and advice.

Bonne Maman Big Read

MEMBERS BOOK GROUP

173 Town Hall 3-4pm £6 Join us for this exclusive Members Festival Book Group, including afternoon tea and a reading from this year’s Bonne Maman Big Read, Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd. Local author Jane Bailey leads you on an exploration of this passionate tale and its beautiful heroine Bathsheba. Sit back, relax and enjoy...

WEDNESDAY 13 OCTOBER

Box Office 0844 576 7979

175 Main Hall 4-5pm £7 Res The distinguished historian and journalist Max Hastings characterises his forebears as a ‘tribe of eccentrics’. Here he brings his enthralling family history to life with tales of the glamorous and famous who peopled it, and reminisces about his own fraught childhood, asking Did You Really Shoot the Television?

HILARY SPURLING Pearl Buck in China

176 Everyman Theatre 4-5pm Res Winning the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for her acclaimed life of Matisse sealed Hilary Spurling’s reputation as one of our most accomplished biographers. She shares her insights into the life of her latest subject: Pearl Buck, the now neglected Nobel Prize-winning novelist and her extraordinary upbringing in a China virtually unknown to the West.

Laugh Out Loud

KENNETH WILLIAMS Fenella Fielding & Christopher Stevens

177 Town Hall 4-5pm £7 Beloved as the manic star of Carry On films, Kenneth Williams was also a complex character and serious actor. Christopher Stevens, who presents a full portrait in the first ever authorised biography, is joined by Williams’ co-star Fenella Fielding as they remember the extraordinary life of a star Born Brilliant.

Stanzas

FABER NEW POETS Poetry Café

178 Town Hall 5.30-6.15pm Free Aiming to identify and support emerging talents at an early stage, Faber New Poets offers mentorship and encouragement.

Join the four emerging and hugely talented young poets Joe Dunthorne, Annie Katchinska, Sam Riviere and Tom Warner as they read from their work. They are joined by editor Matthew Hollis.

DIARMAID MACCULLOCH

THE REAL ROALD DAHL

Laugh Out Loud

179 Everyman Theatre 6.30-7.30pm £7 Res Christianity, one of the world’s great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history and has profoundly influenced politics and human society.

Presenter of the BBC2 series and author of the landmark book A History of Christianity, Diarmaid MacCulloch explores Christianity through the ages in an enthralling talk. ‘…a prodigious, thrilling, masterclass of a history book…’

(Financial Times)

183 Town Hall 7-8pm £7 His wild imagination, quirky humour and linguistic elegance have enthralled millions of readers of all ages, but the man behind Willy Wonka and The BFG remains an enigma. Donald Sturrock’s Storyteller: Roald Dahl is the authorised biography of the man who has been described as an adventurer and an eternal child. Here he joins daughter Ophelia Dahl to reveal the great writer as we have never seen him before.

187 Garden Theatre 8.45-10pm £10 Res The descendant of a certain 17th century architect? Or a royal bodyguard? Or perhaps both? In a richly entertaining genealogical quest, the inimitable Jeremy Hardy, comedian and Radio 4 regular, invites us to delve into his family history, to investigate some of the dubious ancestral claims set out in his book My Family and Other Strangers.

A History of Christianity

Ophelia Dahl & Donald Sturrock

JEREMY HARDY

Bitesize

JONATHAN AGNEW, MIKE ATHERTON & DAVID LLOYD

ANTONIO CARLUCCIO

184 Everyman Theatre 8.45-10pm £9 Res Popular Italian chef Antonio Carluccio began his career fifty years ago, quickly learning the benefits of buying fresh foods wisely, cheaply and often. His philosophy has changed remarkably little since. He joins us to extol the pleasures of good food, and explain why he loves Simple Cooking.

Cricketing Legends

180 Town Hall 6.30-7.30pm £12 From the moments we all remember, to the players who live on in legend, our panel considers the greatest moments of national and international test cricket.

Former England Captain Mike Atherton joins former Leicestershire and England fast bowler Jonathan Agnew, author of Thanks Johnners and legendary commentator David Lloyd, author of The World According to Bumble, to consider the players, the commentators, the overs and the outs which have kept you on the edge of your seat. Chaired by The Times’ Richard Whitehead.

MAGGIE O’FARRELL, TREZZA AZZOPARDI & SADIE JONES Family Ties

188 Town Hall 9-10pm £6 The most powerful and yet most challenging bonds we hold in life are our relationships - with friends, family and colleagues. To discuss the complexities of putting them onto the page in their mesmerising novels, join Trezza Azzopardi, author of The Song House, Sadie Jones, author of Small Wars, and Maggie O’Farrell, author of The Hand That First Held Mine.

MICHAEL PARKINSON

185 Main Hall 8.45-10pm £15 Res Fred Astaire, Muhammad Ali, Billy Connolly, Elton John; in over twentyfive years of broadcasting, Michael Parkinson gave us warm and perceptive interviews with the world’s biggest stars from stage, screen, sport, comedy, politics and journalism. Join him for a look back at some of the most memorable of Parky’s People.

FIONA PHILLIPS

181 The Inkpot 6.30-7.30pm £7 Res After fifteen years, Fiona Phillips made the difficult decision to quit her job at GMTV to spend more time with her father, who, as her mother before, had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. In the wonderfully honest Before I Forget she shares fond memories and reaches out to everyone who has to cope with this terrible disease today.

Hauntings

VAMPIRES BITE BACK

Dan Jones, Kim Newman & Tina Rath 186 Town Hall 8.45-10pm £6 From Nosferatu to Buffy, Dracula to Twilight, vampires hold an enduring fascination. But when did our favourite bogeyman transform from monster to heartthrob? Historian Dan Jones, vampire expert Tina Rath and Kim Newman, film critic and horror expert, discuss the history of vampires in literature, film and television, and consider their lasting appeal.

STEPHEN SONDHEIM

182 Town Hall 6.30-7.30pm £12 Academy Award winner Stephen Sondheim is one of the finest composers and lyricists of our time. His work for stage and screen includes Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, and the lyrics for West Side Story. On a rare visit from the US he looks back on his illustrious career and presents his new book, Finishing the Hat.

FRUITCAKE

Ten Commandments from the Psych Ward 189 The Playhouse 8.45-10pm £6 Res Comic, poet and reformed psychiatric nurse, Rob Gee presents Fruitcake, a user-friendly guide to losing the plot. Charting a night shift on an acute psychiatric ward and featuring acclaimed dub poet Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze in disembodied mode as the voice of God, Fruitcake is a rollercoaster ride of comedy and poignant observation. ‘Gee has pitched it perfectly… witty, skilful… hugely entertaining!’ (Chortle)

FESTIVAL CLUB

190 Slak 10pm onwards Free Dreamy DJ Jonnie Connelly turns tables to create your ultimate dance fantasy.

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MAX HASTINGS

Rob Gee

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Programmed by Owen Sheers

Sadie Jones

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174 Town Hall 4-5pm £6 As two of the legendary Dymock Poets, Edward Thomas and Robert Frost struck up one of the closest and most important literary friendships of the last century, cut short by Thomas’ tragic early death during the First World War. Poet and editor Matthew Hollis, whose long awaited Edward Thomas biography will be published in 2011, joins Owen Sheers to discuss this inspiring friendship.

Trezza Azzopardi

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Matthew Hollis & Owen Sheers

Maggie O’Farrell

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ROBERT FROST AND EDWARD THOMAS

Jeremy Hardy

EX CL be US

Stanzas

Antonio Carluccio

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Fiona Phillips

THURSDAY 14 OCTOBER Diana Souhami

Andrew Graham-Dixon

Jekka McVicar

Book online cheltenhamfestivals.com David Albert Jones

Gavin Stamp

Carol Klein

Rachel Allen

Paul Henry

War Stories

Secret Gardens

Stanzas

Secret Gardens

Diana Souhami

Judith Hann & Jekka McVicar

Douglas Dunn, Paul Henry, Matthew Hollis, Jo Shapcott & Owen Sheers

203 Town Hall 4-5pm £7 Growing your own plants is not only hugely satisfying but also sustainable and cheap. Too often, though, gardeners are intimidated by propagation and the challenge of raising their own seedlings.

Join gardening expert and broadcaster Carol Klein as she talks with her usual infectious enthusiasm about her new book Grow Your Own Garden - How to Propagate All Your Own Plants.

EDITH CAVELL 191 Town Hall 10-11am £6 Having won a Whitbread Award for the much-praised Selkirk’s Island, Diana Souhami here joins us to shed light on the intriguing subject of her latest biography: First World War heroine Edith Cavell who was shot by the Gestapo in 1915 for sheltering British and French soldiers and helping them escape over the Belgian border.

HERB HEAVEN

POET’S TOUR OF BRITAIN

195 Town Hall 12-1pm £6 Tomorrow’s World presenter and the next President of the Herb Society, Judith Hann runs a cookery school from her beautiful Cotswold herb garden, whilst Gardener’s World regular Jekka McVicar, author of Jekka’s Herb Cookbook, has run an organic herb nursery for over twenty years. They discuss the power of these heavenly plants and consider how to unleash their full culinary potential.

200 Town Hall 2-3pm £7 Following the hugely popular BBC2 series, Guest Director Owen Sheers leads us on A Poet’s Tour of Britain. He is joined on his tour by acclaimed poets Jo Shapcott, Paul Henry, Matthew Hollis and Douglas Dunn, representing the four corners of the island of Britain.

The poets will be reading from their own work as well as from their favourite poems of place across the ages.

Hauntings

A HISTORY OF ANGELS IAN MORTIMER

192 Everyman Theatre 10-11am £6 Res Was Henry V a hero? Was he even a greater man than his father? Can we get closer to these men at a distance of six hundred years? Historian Ian Mortimer, author of four medieval biographies and the bestselling Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England, has been widely acclaimed for developing new ways of understanding the past. Here he presents his pioneering approach to the Lancastrian kings.

ROMANTIC MODERNS

193 Town Hall 10-11am £7 The 1930s and 40s, the era of John Betjeman, Evelyn Waugh, Florence White, Elizabeth Bowen, the Sitwells, John Piper and Cecil Beaton, was a time of modern renaissance argues Alexandra Harris, author of Romantic Moderns. In this illustrated talk, she makes an absorbing case for the importance of the writers, artists and imagination of that time.

Carte Noire Readers

YOUR PERFECT COFFEE MOMENT

194 Town Hall 11.15-11.45am Free – Advance Booking Required Whilst you take a well earned break, our guest reader will narrate a love scene from Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White.

Sit back and relax with a complimentary cup of Carte Noire coffee and enjoy a more seductive coffee break. For more information visit cheltenhamfestivals. com/cartenoire or www.cartenoire.co.uk

Programmed by Owen Sheers

196 Town Hall 12-1pm £6 What are angels? Can we distinguish them from gods, faeries, ghosts, and aliens? Why do they remain so popular?

And what might they teach us about human existence? The author of Angels, A History, David Albert Jones joins us to consider all these questions and more, in a thought-provoking talk.

JANE AUSTEN

Claire Harman, Lucasta Miller & Janet Todd 201 Town Hall 2-3pm £7 Jane Austen is possibly the world’s bestloved author, a touchstone for readers and writers alike - yet extraordinarily her books were out of print for many years after her death. Claire Harman’s Jane’s Fame traces her rediscovery and the subsequent explosion of popular interest in her life and works. She joins Lucasta Miller, author of The Brontë Myth, and Janet Todd, general editor of Jane Austen in Context, to discuss the author and how she conquered the world.

PIRATES OF BARBARY Adrian Tinniswood

197 Everyman Theatre 12-1pm £6 Res Pirates of Barbary is an extraordinary account of the wild and exotic corsairs who terrorised the Mediterranean throughout the 17th century. Some were Christian, some Muslim, some criminals, some devout warriors. Here Adrian Tinniswood sheds light on a remarkable clash of civilisations and a unique culture, including pirate etiquette and intimidation tactics.

Write Away: Theatre

YOUR VOICE

CARAVAGGIO

W27 The Playhouse 2-5pm £15 Charmian Hoare is a voice and dialect specialist who has worked with most of our leading theatre companies and actors.

During this practical workshop she will explore with you how to use your voice and think about language effectively. She will nurture your own distinctive sound and help you to discover the full potential of your voice.

Andrew Graham-Dixon 198 Main Hall 12-1pm £7 Res Caravaggio lived what is probably the darkest and most dangerous existence of any of the great painters. In conversation, the leading art critic and broadcaster Andrew Graham-Dixon discusses his dramatic new biography, Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane, which shows how compelling art emerged from the artist’s extraordinarily wild and troubled life.

Design for Life

BRITAIN’S LOST CITIES

Secret Gardens

Gavin Stamp

GARDENING WOMEN

202 Everyman Theatre 2-3pm £7 Res Following the bombing raids of WW2, post-war planners continued the destruction of Britain’s city centres.

Medieval churches, Tudor alleyways and Georgian terraces vanished for ever, to be replaced by concrete office-blocks and shopping malls. In this evocative illustrated talk on Britain’s Lost Cities, Gavin Stamp shows us exactly what has gone forever.

Catherine Horwood

199 Town Hall 2-3pm £6 From Flora, Roman goddess of plants, to today’s gardeners at Kew, women have always gardened, growing vegetables for the kitchen and herbs for medicine cupboards. In this beautifully illustrated talk, acclaimed historian and writer Catherine Horwood explores Gardening Women’s huge influence on horticulture through the ages, often in the hostile environment of male-dominated institutions.

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CAROL KLEIN

Design for Life

ARCHITECTURAL HEROES Tom Dyckhoff, Matthew Rice & Gavin Stamp

204 Everyman Theatre 4-5pm £8 Res Few subjects divide opinion as much as architecture, with many iconic buildings both loved and loathed in equal measure. But who are the real heroes of the built environment? Gavin Stamp, Tom Dyckhoff and Matthew Rice discuss the architects whose work they most value and admire.

Bonne Maman Big Read

BOOK GROUP

205 Town Hall 4-5pm Free – Advance Booking Required Join Woman & Home’s Books Editor Fanny Blake for this special Festival Book Group to discuss our Bonne Maman Big Read, Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd. Follow proud and beautiful Bathsheba Everdene in this tale of passionate love and terrible misunderstandings, set in the rural idyll of Wessex.

TESTING TIMES

Wasfi Kani & Rick Trainor 206 Town Hall 4-5pm £6 In a climate of universal cuts, what does the future hold for higher education and the arts in Britain? Are difficult sacrifices inevitable or are there more creative solutions to be found? Our panel, including Rick Trainor, Principal of King’s College London, and Wasfi Kani, founder of Grange Park Opera, debate the challenges to be met and the thorny issues involved.

THURSDAY 14 OCTOBER

Box Office 0844 576 7979 Jo Shapcott

Kirstie Allsopp

DEBATING MATTERS

207 The Playhouse 4-5.30pm Free Join the heated debate, as sixth-form students from across the region take to the podium in today’s final. The winner of our schools debating competition will go through to the next round of the Institute of Ideas Debating Matters Competition.

Bitesize

Liaquat Ahamed

Ian Botham

Michael Holroyd

Design for Life

KIRSTIE ALLSOPP

211 Main Hall 6.30-7.30pm £15 Res A familiar face on our screens from shows such as Location, Location, Location, Kirstie Allsopp is an established expert on buying and selling houses. But she is passionate about making them into homes too, as her latest venture, Kirstie’s Homemade Home demonstrates. She joins us to celebrate its second series, and her enticing accompanying book.

Stanzas

PAUL HENRY & JO SHAPCOTT

Programmed by Owen Sheers

THE MYTHS OF ANCIENT EGYPT

Joyce Tyldesley

Anything But Love

Horizons

214 Town Hall 7-8pm £6 Expressing her love for nature, Alison Brackenbury’s Singing in the Dark features poems about the creatures with whom we share the world, while Jenny Lewis’ Fathom reflects on the layers of the past that create a life. They are joined

by Jane Draycott who creates a world of echoing voices and reflections in Over.

218 The Inkpot 8.45-10pm £6 Res An international star of crime fiction, Jo Nesbø joins us for a rare visit from Norway to talk about his new Harry Hole thriller, the brilliant and utterly gripping The Snowman. He is joined by awardwinning Scottish crime author Stuart MacBride who talks about his fierce McRae adventure Dark Blood. Chaired by Peter Guttridge.

JO NESBØ & STUART MACBRIDE

The Laurie Lee Lecture

MICHAEL HOLROYD

The Summerfield Lecture

215 Everyman Theatre 8.45-10pm £7 Res Acclaimed biographer Michael Holroyd’s A Book of Secrets is a treasure-trove of hidden lives and family mysteries: an exploration of the complex lives of some extraordinary women, from Alice Keppel, mistress of the Prince of Wales, to novelist Violet Trefusis, lover of Vita Sackville-West. It’s also the story of Ravello’s haunting Villa Cimbrone, through which they all passed. Join him as he discusses the biographer’s fascinating journey.

DAVID WILLETTS

212 Everyman Theatre 6.30-7.30pm £7 Res What will the future hold? David Willetts, Minister of State for Universities and Science and author of the criticallyacclaimed The Pinch, argues that the baby-boomer generation have thrived at the expense of their children.

He explores the implications and legacy of the boomers’ demographic power and presents his own vision of what this means for the future.

Poetry Café

209 Town Hall 5.30-6.15pm Free With an original and daring voice, Jo Shapcott follows up her award-winning three collections with the memorable and bold Of Mutability, exploring the nature of chance. She is joined by Paul Henry who launches The Brittle Sea: New & Selected Poems, imbued throughout with the lyric, emotional intensity that has established him as one of Wales’ leading poets.

Jo Nesbø

Locally Sourced

ALISON BRACKENBURY, JANE DRAYCOTT & JENNY LEWIS

RACHEL ALLEN

208 Main Hall 4.30-5.30pm £8 Res Brought up in Dublin, popular TV chef and Saturday Kitchen regular, Rachel Allen left home at eighteen to study at the prestigious Ballymaloe cookery school. In this appetizing event, she joins Hardeep Singh Kohli to chat about Entertaining at Home and demonstrate some of her delectable recipes for great family food.

Olly Smith

Hauntings

HORROR STORIES

Ramsay Campbell, Sarah Pinborough & Lisa Tuttle 219 Town Hall 9-10pm £6 What is the lure of horror? Leading horror and fantasy writer Lisa Tuttle, editor of the acclaimed Skin of the Soul horror anthology, joins Ramsey Campbell, author of The Grin of the Dark and Sarah Pinborough, author of A Matter of Blood, to discuss their writing, and why scaring ourselves to death makes us feel better.

BBC1’S QUESTION TIME

BBC1’s Question Time hopes to be visiting Cheltenham for a recording of the political debate show.

Money Talks

LIAQUAT AHAMED

IAN BOTHAM

The Lords of Finance

216 Main Hall 8.45-10pm £15 Res With England’s winter Ashes tour of Australia just around the corner, who better to assess our team’s prospects and reflect on the history of this celebrated contest, than cricketing hero Ian Botham. In a rare opportunity to meet this sporting legend, he discusses A Lifetime Love Affair with Cricket’s Greatest Rivalry. Chaired by The Times’ Richard Whitehead.

213 Town Hall 6.30-7.30pm £7 The current financial crisis has only one parallel – the Wall Street Crash of 1929, followed by the Great Depression.

Liaquat Ahamed tells the gripping story of The Lords of Finance, considering the role of individuals at the heart of global catastrophe, and considering the elite group of early 20th century bankers whose decisions could have avoided financial meltdown.

210 Town Hall 6.30-7.30pm £6 In her Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt, leading expert Joyce Tyldesley guides us through vivid and strange stories from this extraordinary civilisation. Join the author as she explains in an illustrated talk how pyramid friezes, archaeological finds and contemporary documents shed a fascinating light on this ancient people and their everyday lives and beliefs.

Bitesize

OLLY SMITH

217 Garden Theatre 8.45-10pm £10 Res Already a regular on Saturday Kitchen, rising culinary star Olly Smith has also presented Iron Chef for Channel 4. Ready your taste buds as he extols the joys of flavour, and shows you how to achieve taste heaven with food that’s great to drink with, the subject of his new book, Eat and Drink. Chaired by Paul Blezard.

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Narrow House presents

ANYTHING BUT LOVE

220 The Playhouse 8.45-10pm £6 Res Enjoy an evening in the company of two remarkable women: the wit, poet and dramatist Dorothy Parker and fellow wordsmith and equally hard-drinking Dorothy Fields - a great amongst female lyricists. This unique meeting of minds sees the two Dorothys laugh, drink, reminisce and bitch, while romping through songs that include I Won’t Dance, A Fine Romance and The Way You Look Tonight.

He looked at her intently and poured the expresso shot into the milky froth. “A perfect cappuccino� she said, blushing.

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THE FESTIVAL FOR FAMILIES & YOUNG READERS

8 – 17 October Box Office 0844 576 7979 cheltenhamfestivals.com

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SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER

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JEREMY STRONG GOES BANANAS!

Family Event

Family Event

F1 The Playhouse Age 7+ 11.30am-12.15pm £6 (£4) Join John Boyne, author of the multiaward winning The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, as he presents his second novel for young readers. Noah Barleywater Runs Away is a fairytale with a mystery at its heart. Find out who Noah Barleywater is and exactly why he’s running away.

F3 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 7+ 1-1.45pm £6 (£4) We’re going on a word hunt! Prepare to be wowed by the wonderful world of words. Get the gift of the gab and add vim to your vocab as lively linguists Marcus Moore and Sara-Jane Arbury explore the history of words and provide top tips on becoming a wizard word collector. A must for all budding young writers!

JOHN BOYNE

B1 The Playhouse Age 7-11 10-10.45am £6 Are you ready for a truly bonkers and hilarious experience? Be prepared to laugh your socks off with Jeremy Strong!

Hear all about his new cosmic creation Dr Bonkers as well as how he went from doughnut stuffer to multi-award-winning author. There’ll be comic energy, silliness and slapstick guaranteed!

ALIENOGRAPHY WITH CHRIS RIDDELL

B6 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 5+ 11.30am-12.15pm £5 Don’t miss your chance to meet the hugely talented Chris Riddell who will take you on a journey into the imaginative worlds of his latest books, Ottoline at Sea and Alienography. Meet polar bear cobblers, hungry trolls and learn essential intergalactic survival techniques such as how to shake hands with a Bubonic Strangler.

MOG’S BIRTHDAY

B2 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 4-6 10-10.45am £6 Come and celebrate 40 years of everyone’s favourite feline, Mog! Hear all about Mog’s many adventures and join in with plenty of furry fun and antics.

And don’t miss the chance to meet the famous cat herself! Purrfect!

OXFORD WORD WIZARDS

MAKE A PICTURE BOOK!

B7 St Andrew’s Church Age 4-6 1.45-2.30pm £5 Scissors and glue at the ready! Join picture book author and artist Petr Horáček and find out how to write and illustrate your very own Suzy Goose picture book to take home and read to your friends and family.

DINO FC

Family Event

MOOMINS!

NICK BUTTERWORTH

St Andrew’s Church Age 4-6 £5 B72 10-10.30am B73 11.15-11.45am B74 12.30-1pm Join in the celebrations for the 65th anniversary of the Moomins books, with a fun, interactive event for children.

Join children’s workshop leader Liz Burton-King for lots of games, songs, activities and an interactive telling of Moomin and the Birthday Button, one of a new series of Moomin picture books, bringing the enchanting characters to a younger audience.

F2 The Playhouse Age 5+ 1-1.45pm £6 (£5) Join bestselling author and illustrator, Nick Butterworth, for storytime fun and entertainment as he talks about his bestloved characters, including Percy the Park Keeper, Q Pootle 5, plus his lovable new creation, Trixie the Witch’s Cat!

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B8 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 6-9 2.30-3.15pm £4.50 Calling all football and dinosaur fans join author and illustrator of the Dino FC series, and M.I. High creator, Keith Brumpton for this premiership event.

Meet the craziest team in the Jurassic World as he draws Terry Triceratops and the rest of the Dino FC gang. Have a go yourself and you might get the chance to win an original drawing.

SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER

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DARREN SHAN

B9 The Playhouse Age 10+ 2.30-3.30pm £5 Before Twilight was even thought of, Darren Shan brought us the dark and mysterious world of the vampire clan in The Saga of Darren Shan.

He returns to the world of Larten Crepsley in Birth of a Killer, an epic blood soaked journey with a vampire who started out as a nobody but ended up changing the world. Forever!

AMY WILD, ANIMAL TALKER

B12 St Andrew’s Church Age 6-9 4.45-5.30pm £4.50 Amy Wild has a secret, she can talk to animals! Join Diana Kimpton, the author of Amy Wild, Animal Talker and The PonyMad Princess series, and discover the story behind Amy’s adventures as she reveals the inspiration for the squeaking and squawking island overflowing with animal magic.

B10 St Andrew’s Church Age 6-8 3.15-4pm £5 Come and join Flossie Crums and her fairy friends as they take you on a magical baking adventure. Author Helen Nathan will be bringing her character to life on stage and then showing everyone how to decorate Flossie’s beautiful cookies and cupcakes. Messy hands and big smiles guaranteed!

JAN FEARNLEY

B11 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 4-7 4-4.45pm £4.50 Join the much-loved award winning author/illustrator Jan Fearnley for an enthralling hands-on session. Hear Jan read from Arthur and the Meanies, her new picture book about friendship, and make your very own tiger mask inspired by one of the characters!

B13 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 10+ 5.30-6.30pm £5 Recruiting all TimeRiders! Ever wondered what would happen if time travel existed? Travel through time with Alex Scarrow, author of the fantastic new adventure series, TimeRiders as he hosts a thrilling history gameshow taking team members from the audience and some clues from his new book in the series, TimeRiders: Day of the Predator.

Our popular series of workshops is specifically designed for children.

The capacity of these workshops is kept low to enable the children to be able to engage in more depth with a specific subject or to have more dedicated time for a make-and-do project.

In an exciting collaboration for 2010, we are delighted to welcome specialist practitioners from the Royal Shakespeare Company to Cheltenham, presenting a series of exciting and dynamic workshops for children of all ages.

SCREENWRITING WITH KEITH BRUMPTON

B15 St Andrew’s Church Age 11-15 11am-1pm £15 Calling all M. I. High fans! A workshop in which you’ll learn the inside track on how a TV episode is put together, then get to try your hand at scriptwriting your own M.I. High episode with the show’s creator and lead writer, Keith Brumpton.

CATHY CASSIDY

B14 The Playhouse Age 10+ 5.45-6.30pm £5 Cathy Cassidy is one of the UK’s leading children’s authors. Her warm and funny fiction, including Angel Cake, Dizzy, Scarlett, Sundae Girl and GingerSnaps, has won her an army of dedicated fans. Hear her talk about Cherry Crush, the first book in a brand new series Chocolate Box Girls, and learn all her best tips for daydreaming (and how to get away with it!).

POP-UP MASTERCLASS

B16 St Andrew’s Church Age 6-10 2-4pm £15 We all love pop-up books, and now you have the chance to learn how to make your own. Join two of the Walker Books’ designers as they teach you how to be a pop-up paper engineer. Prepare to create some impressive pop-ups and come up with your very own 3D adventure story.

Family Event

JUDITH KERR

F4 The Playhouse Age 8+ 4.15-5pm £6 (£4) This year is the 40th anniversary of one of the UK’s favourite felines – Mog, created

by Judith Kerr. This is a rare opportunity to meet the author, whose other classic books include When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit and The Tiger Who Came to Tea. She discusses her childhood, fleeing Hitler’s Germany and her life and work with Nicolette Jones, Children’s Books Editor for The Sunday Times.

THEATRE WORKSHOPS

You are only required to purchase a ticket for each child attending, and not for any accompanying adults. If you do not intend to remain at the workshop with your child then we ask parents/ guardians to drop children off at the venue, sign them in and leave a mobile contact number in case of emergencies.

Please ensure that you are able to collect your child from the workshop venue at the specified end time.

TIMERIDERS GAMESHOW FLOSSIE CRUMS

WRITE ON! WORKSHOPS

STORY SONGS WITH SALLY CRABTREE

221 Habitat, The Brewery 3-3.30pm Free Settle down for a session of stories and songs with children’s author, storyteller and pink princess Sally Crabtree!

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The RSC has a superb record of innovative and inspiring programmes designed to connect children and young people with Shakespeare and open up theatre-making to new audiences.

From interactive storytelling sessions for the very young, to sessions on stage combat and special effects, there really is something here for everyone.

A ticket must be purchased for each person attending. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult (see page 64 for more details).

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

B67 The Playhouse Age 9+ 10-11am £10 A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most accessible plays, full of enchanting language and unforgettable characters. Try acting and role play with our RSC practitioners in this practical workshop which looks at different aspects of this ever-popular comic masterpiece in a fun and informative framework.

STORYTELLING WORKSHOP

B68 The Playhouse Age 5-8 12-1pm £10 Join our RSC practitioners for an allaction storytelling workshop introducing the magical plot of one of Shakespeare’s best-loved (and funniest) stories.

A first introduction to A Midsummer Night’s Dream for a young audience with interactive fun and plenty of participation.

SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER

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MR GUM WITH ANDY STANTON

BOOKABOO WITH LUCY GOODMAN

DINOSAUR COVE

HORRIBLE HARRIET, OLD TOM AND MR CHICKEN

B17 The Playhouse Age 7+ 10-10.45am £5 Mad, bad and dangerously funny, the riotous Andy Stanton will make you laugh your knees off as he talks about book eight in the award winning Mr Gum series, Mr Gum and the Secret Hideout!

Bring your laughing gear for an event with Andy you will never forget. Will Mr Gum ever stop his dastardly behaviour?

Join the author and find out here!

B20 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 3-6 11.30am-12.15pm £6 A story a day or I just can’t play! CITV’s smash-hit rock puppy Bookaboo from the award-winning CITV series is here for one day only! Join Lucy Goodman and don’t miss out on your chance to meet him and hear about his brand new story books.

Remember to bring along your favourite story book to share with him too!

B18 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 5-8 10-10.45am £5 Step into the late Cretaceous period, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, with intrepid explorer Tyranna Stone, sister of the famous Rex, on her expedition into Dino World. Dinosaur fun for everyone in this exciting interactive event all about your favourite prehistoric giants.

B21 Queen’s Hotel Age 5-7 11.30am-12.15pm £4.50 From Mr. Chicken to Old Tom, Leigh Hobbs has created some wonderfully quirky picture book characters. Come along and find out how Leigh creates these funny and fantastic characters and maybe even draw some yourself. Lots of fun for all the family who like their stories filled with smelly cats, giant chickens and a very horrible little girl called Harriet!

THE SCIENCE OF STUFF

B19 The Playhouse Age 8-12 11.30am-12.15pm £5 From spiders and ghosts to dentists and the dark… join top scientist and author Glenn Murphy for an exhilarating journey into our deepest, darkest fears.

Find out where fears come from, why we feel fear and why it’s okay to be scared sometimes. One fascinating and funny ride with audience participation guaranteed.

Family Event

JACQUELINE WILSON

F5 Town Hall Age 8+ 12-12.45pm £6 Jacqueline Wilson is one of the bestselling authors of the past decade and her books have been translated into 34 languages! Come and hear this living legend talk about her life as a writer and all about her brand new book, The Longest Whale Song.

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WILD THINGS TO DO WITH WOODLICE

B22 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 6-9 1-1.45pm £4.50 From how to stalk a shrew and make a bee barn, to how to construct a woodlouse maze out of Lego, Wild Things to do with Woodlice is packed full of amazing nature activities for every day of the year. Come and join author Michael Cox and get stuck into nature with fun and exciting activities straight out of his new book!

Family Event

SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERIES

F6 The Playhouse Age 9+ 1-2pm £6 (£4) The Sherlock Holmes stories are still as popular today as they were 100 years ago! Join two lifelong fans, Andrew Lane, author of Young Sherlock Holmes, and Simon Cheshire, whose stories about the schoolboy private detective, Saxby Smart, follow in the footsteps of the great man himself, to uncover the secrets of the world’s most famous detective.

BEARS ON THE STAIRS!

B23 Queen’s Hotel Age 4-6 1-1.45pm £4.50 Watch award-winning illustrator Lynne Chapman draw pictures and read her brand new book, Bears on the Stairs. You’ll be able to create your own crazy creature for the top of the stairs and, if you’re good at guessing games, you could win one of her drawings to take home!

SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER

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MAISY AND FRIENDS

B24 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 3-5 2.30-3.15pm £6 Maisy and her friends are putting on a show – and everyone’s invited! Celebrate 20 years of Maisy and the brand new book Maisy’s Show in this interactive funfilled Maisy event. Come and meet Maisy and collect your special party-bag!

MERMAIDS AND FAIRY GOD-SISTERS

B25 Queen’s Hotel Age 7-11 2.30-3.15pm £4.50 Join bestselling author Liz Kessler as she introduces the enchanting worlds of mermaids and fairy god-sisters through her popular Emily Windsnap and Philippa Fisher tales. Hear all about a writer’s inspiration in this interactive talk about friendship and dreams coming true.

TONY ROSS

B26 The Playhouse Age 5+ 2.45-3.30pm £5 Be prepared for mischief and mayhem with Tony Ross as he entertains you with brilliant stories and gives you a behindthe-scenes look into how he creates his hilarious characters. Guaranteed giggles!

HENRY’S HOUSE WITH PHILIP ARDAGH

B27 Queen’s Hotel Age 6-8 4-4.45pm £4.50 Head for Henry’s House with the hilarious bestselling children’s author Philip Ardagh, for a fact-packed and fun-packed event where anything can happen! Step inside and discover roaming dinosaurs, valiant knights and planets that are out of this world. There will be lots of fascinating facts, mad props and silly antics so riotous fun is guaranteed!

AFTER TWILIGHT

WRITE ON! WORKSHOPS

B28 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 12+ 4-5pm £4.50 Three masters of the macabre battle it out to decide who has the upper hand. Is it Venetian vampires in Marcus Sedgwick’s The Kiss of Death, L A Weatherly’s evil angels in new novel Angel, or the last hereditary werewolf of Steve Feasey’s Changeling series? Which do you prefer?

Our popular series of workshops is specifically designed for children. The capacity of these workshops is kept low to enable the children to be able to engage in more depth with a specific subject or to have more dedicated time for a make-and-do project.

You are only required to purchase a ticket for each child attending, and not for any accompanying adults. If you do not intend to remain at the workshop with your child then we ask parents/ guardians to drop children off at the venue, sign them in and leave a mobile contact number in case of emergencies.

Please ensure that you are able to collect your child from the workshop venue at the specified end time.

Family Event

RETURN TO THE HUNDRED ACRE WOOD

F7 The Playhouse Age 7+ 4.15-5pm £7 (£5) It’s almost impossible to imagine a British childhood without Winnie the Pooh. Hear about Pooh’s new adventures as David Benedictus reads from Return to the Hundred Acre Wood and talks about how he created some of the new characters while illustrator Mark Burgess draws the pictures. Honey sandwiches included!

WRITING STORIES WITH LIZ KESSLER

B29 Queen’s Hotel Age 8-12 11am-1pm £15 Do you love writing? Do you wish you had more ideas? Or have you got hundreds already but don’t know where to begin? Perhaps you’ve started a story and stalled halfway through?

Sound familiar? Then make haste to this writing workshop with Liz Kessler, the bestselling author of the Emily Windsnap and Philippa Fisher children’s books, for some fun ways to fire up your imagination and get your creative juices flowing.

Family Event

HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT!

F8 The Playhouse Age 13+ 5.45-6.45pm £6 (£4) Do you want to have a more fulfilling future? More confidence or happiness or success in love? Nina Grunfeld, author of How to Get What You Want, her first book for teens, and founder of Life Clubs, will start you thinking about getting what you want with practical tips and exercises to help you reach your true potential.

CARTOON WORKSHOP WITH LEIGH HOBBS

B30 Queen’s Hotel Age 7-11 2-4pm £15 Life’s a doodle when you enjoying creating cartoon characters. Come and join Leigh Hobbs and get some top tips from the creator of Horrible Harriet and Mr. Chicken. Good times guaranteed and lots of fun.

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VISITING THE FESTIVAL WITH CHILDREN Please adhere to the recommended age range specified for all Book It! and Family events (with a B and F booking number). These ages are carefully chosen in consultation with publishers and performers, taking into account the event length, format and content.

Children under 12 years must be accompanied by a responsible person aged 16 or over, approved by the parent/guardian, and prices are kept as low as possible to allow for this. A responsible person aged 16 or over approved by the parent/ guardian can accompany up to 6 children to an event. Cheltenham Festivals maintains a Child Protection Policy, but cannot act in loco parentis or take responsibility for unsupervised children. If your child is disruptive you may be asked to leave an event.

For all events except Write On! workshops a ticket must be purchased for each person attending.

See page 64 for more details.

WEEKDAYS

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FRIDAY 8 OCTOBER

MONDAY 11 OCTOBER

TUESDAY 12 OCTOBER

Schools’ Event

Schools’ Event

Schools’ Event

S1 Town Hall Key Stage 2 11.45am-12.45pm £5 Meet bestselling author Jeremy Strong and be prepared to laugh your socks off! Comic energy, silliness and slapstick guaranteed!

S4 Town Hall Key Stage 1-2 10-11am £4 Be prepared for mischief and mayhem with Tony Ross as he entertains you with brilliant stories and gives you a behindthe-scenes look into how he creates his hilarious characters. Guaranteed giggles!

S8 Town Hall Key Stage 2 10-11am £4 Join Stewart Ross as we put Henry VIII on trial – was he a misunderstood monarch or a cruel monster? Watch the trial of Henry unfold before your very eyes in this fast-paced interactive event.

And the verdict? You decide!

JEREMY STRONG

TONY ROSS

Schools’ Event

SHAKESPEARE ON TOAST

Schools’ Event

S7 Town Hall Key Stage 3 1.30-2.30pm £4 Actor Ben Crystal presents Shakespeare on Toast, his introduction to Shakespeare and his work. He uses role play, word play and interaction with the audience in a memorable and exciting one-man show.

NICK BUTTERWORTH

S2 Town Hall Key Stage 1-2 1.30-2.30pm £4 Join bestselling author and illustrator, Nick Butterworth, for storytime fun as he talks about his best-loved characters, including Percy the Park Keeper.

STEWART ROSS

Schools’ Event

DAVID ROBERTS & ALAN MACDONALD

S9 Town Hall Key Stage 1-2 11.45am-12.45pm £4 Join illustrator David Roberts and author Alan MacDonald for fun and mischief with everyone’s favourite dirt-magnet, Dirty Bertie.

Fun @ Four

WATCH OUT, LITTLE WOMBAT!

Schools’ Event

GERVASE PHINN

S3 Town Hall Key Stage 2 1.30-2.30pm £4 Award-winning author Gervase Phinn will be performing an hilarious sequence of poetry from his latest collection, There’s an Alien in the Classroom, and offering tips for would-be writers.

B32 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 3-6 4-4.30pm £4 Little Wombat just loves to explore. Don’t you, too? Join prize-winning author and illustrator Charles Fuge for a fun-filled storytelling session about everyone’s favourite little wombat. And just maybe you’ll help him find that elusive Bunyip!

ANNEXED

B31 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 13+ 5-6pm £6 (£4) Acclaimed author, Sharon Dogar, will be discussing her much talked about new novel, Annexed, and answering questions on this poignant comingof-age story. A unique opportunity to explore the fictionalised account of Peter van Pels’ journey from life in the Annexe with Anne Frank to his tragic end in the concentration camps.

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Fun @ Four

DIRTY BERTIE WITH DAVID ROBERTS

B33 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 4-7 4-4.30pm £4 Join in with author and illustrator David Roberts for fun and mischief with everyone’s favourite dirt-magnet, Dirty Bertie. Hilarious, smelly fun for the young and young-at-heart!

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WEDNESDAY 13 OCTOBER

THURSDAY 14 OCTOBER

FRIDAY 15 OCTOBER

Schools’ Event

Schools’ Event

Schools’ Event

S14 Town Hall Key Stage 1-2 10-11am £4 James Mayhew tells us how his imagination creates pictures and books, how he paints and why he loves discovering strange and wonderful things about famous artists such as Monet, Van Gogh, Velazquez and Renoir.

S17 Town Hall Key Stage 2 10-11am £4 Discover the Greek Myths, heroes (and heroines!) of every shape and size and learn all about a writer’s life and inspiration as author Lucy Coats takes you on a mythical journey.

S21 Town Hall Key Stage 1-2 10-11am £4 Have you ever met a socktopus or a camel wearing pants? What about a kung-fu-cow or a shark that glows in the dark? Come along to see author and illustrator Nick Sharratt who will introduce you to all sorts of funny creatures, and help him invent some more.

JAMES MAYHEW

Schools’ Event

CRESSIDA COWELL

S15 Town Hall Key Stage 2 11.45am-12.45pm £4 Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is a truly unusual and hilarious hero. Join Cressida Cowell, the author of the brilliant How to Train Your Dragon series for swashbuckling adventures, madcap humour and of course, lots of deadly dragons.

LUCY COATS

NICK SHARRATT

Schools’ Event

CAROLINE LAWRENCE

S18 Town Hall Key Stage 2 11.45am-12.45pm £4 Why is Caroline Lawrence so fascinated by the ancient world, and how does she write such great stories? This illustrated talk looks at creating a character, developing plot structures, and uses artefacts and real episodes from history to provide an intriguing insight into the world of Flavia and her detective friends.

Schools’ Event

ROALD DAHL EVENT

S22 Town Hall Key Stage 2 11.45am-12.45pm £5 Expert Claire Field can answer every question you have about Roald Dahl!

Watch a specially-commissioned film made by the Dahl Foundation, featuring unique archive material and interviews with those who knew him best.

Schools’ Workshop

REAL-LIFE ROMANS

S16 Town Hall Key Stage 2 1.30-2.30pm Free – Ticket Required Sally Grindley has travelled the world in search of great stories and here is your chance to find out how her travels have inspired her writing.

Town Hall Key Stage 2 £5 S19 10-11am S20 1.30-2.30pm Experience Roman life through a fascinating hands-on workshop run by the world-renowned Corinium Museum.

Examine real 2,000 year-old Roman artefacts, find out how the Romans lived and, make a Roman-inspired shield or mask to take home. All materials provided.

Fun @ Four

Fun @ Four

Fun @ Four

B34 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 4-7 4-4.30pm £4 Ella Bella longs to be a ballerina. When she opens a magical music box, she is whisked into a world of ballet and fairy tales. Watch and hear James Mayhew bring her to life as she encounters the most famous ballet of all time - Swan Lake.

B35 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 4-7 4-4.30pm £4 Join author and illustrator Sarah Garland and see how Eddie learns to make and mend things, and finally saves the birds from a ferocious cat with his new skills. Action drawing guaranteed!

B36 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 4-7 4-4.30pm £4 Do you believe in fairies? Come along to this magical show and learn all about the world of the Flower Fairies, the enchanting creatures that live amongst flowers, plants and trees everywhere.

Learn their secrets, join in with their dance and come dressed as your favourite fairy!

Schools’ Event

SALLY GRINDLEY

ELLA BELLA BALLERINA WITH JAMES MAYHEW

Schools’ Event

DAVID ALMOND

S23 Town Hall Key Stage 2-3 1.30-2.30pm £4 Meet multi-award winning author David Almond, as he discusses his highly anticipated new novel, My Name is Mina, the prequel to the critically acclaimed, bestselling Skellig.

EDDIE’S TOOLBOX WITH SARAH GARLAND

FLOWER FAIRIES

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VISITING THE FESTIVAL WITH CHILDREN Please adhere to the recommended age range specified for all Book It! and Family events (with a B and F booking number). These ages are carefully chosen in consultation with publishers and performers, taking into account the event length, format and content.

Children under 12 years must be accompanied by a responsible person aged 16 or over, approved by the parent/guardian, and prices are kept as low as possible to allow for this. A responsible person aged 16 or over approved by the parent/ guardian can accompany up to 6 children to an event. Cheltenham Festivals maintains a Child Protection Policy, but cannot act in loco parentis or take responsibility for unsupervised children. If your child is disruptive you may be asked to leave an event.

For all events except Write On! workshops a ticket must be purchased for each person attending.

See page 64 for more details.

SATURDAY 16 OCTOBER

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NICK SHARRATT

CHERUB

B37 The Playhouse Age 4+ 10-10.45am £5 Have you ever met a socktopus or a camel wearing pants? What about a kung-fu-cow or a shark that glows in the dark? Come along to see author and illustrator Nick Sharratt who will introduce you to all sorts of funny creatures, and help him invent some more. There’ll be drawing, rhyming and a bit of rock and roll!

B40 The Inkpot Age 10+ 10-11am £5 Ever wondered how the bestselling CHERUB series was created? Author Robert Muchamore talks about how he left the teenage hooligans behind, quit the desk job and came up with CHERUB and the Henderson’s Boys series. Find out what happens in James Adams’ last adventure. What will the future hold for CHERUB?

CELEBRATE 30 YEARS WITH SPOT!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY THOMAS!

B43 Parabola Arts Centre Age 4-7 12-12.45pm £6 This year is Thomas the Tank Engine’s 65th birthday! Come and hear all about his cheeky adventures from storyteller Liz Fost and join in the fun to celebrate the famous blue engine and his friends.

You might even meet the Fat Controller himself! And there’s a Thomas goody bag for each child who comes to the party!

THE AMAZING LEGOTASTIC BUILDING EVENT

B38 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 3-5 10-10.45am £6 Where’s Spot? Have you seen him?

Celebrate Spot’s 30th birthday with a special show based on his favourite story, Where’s Spot? Join in the fun with this storytelling session featuring games, dancing, plus a chance to meet the world’s most lovable puppy!

Family Event

DAVID ALMOND & GERALDINE MCCAUGHREAN

F9 The Playhouse Age 10+ 11.30am-12.30pm £6 (£5) Here’s your chance to meet renowned writers David Almond and Geraldine McCaughrean as they discuss their highly anticipated new novels; David’s prequel to Skellig, My Name is Mina and Geraldine’s sequel to Stop the Train, Pull Out All the Stops. A fascinating insight into the world of imagination.

MYSTERIES AND MAZES

B39 St Andrew’s Church Age 8-12 10-10.45am £4.50 Blackhope Tower is full of mysteries: a strange painting, a labyrinth and skeletons appearing in a locked room.

Author and Illustrator, Teresa Flavin will introduce you to The Blackhope Enigma world of mazes, monsters and pirates and show you how to draw an illustrated maze of your own.

PETER RABBIT

B41 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 4-7 11.30am-12.15pm £6 Hop along to this charming interactive puppet show where The Tale of Peter Rabbit is brought to life! Help Peter escape from Mr McGregor’s garden and help him on his journey.

SLEEP SHEEP

B42 St Andrew’s Church Age 4-6 11.30am-12.15pm £4.50 Join author and illustrator Hannah Shaw for an event of a very sheepish kind. She will read from her new book, Sleep Sheep and do live drawing and help you do some drawing, too! Best of all, you get to make your own sheep to take home!

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B44 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 6-9 1-1.45pm £6 Come along to this special LEGO event where you can help a LEGO builder construct a real LEGO model. Team up with your friends as you each build a piece of the model to create the final masterpiece!

MAGICAL ICE LOLLIES

B45 St Andrew’s Church Age 5-7 1-1.45pm £4.50 Make your very own magic ice lolly whilst author and illustrator Thomas Docherty tells his latest story, Ruby Nettleship and the Ice Lolly Adventure. With plenty of audience participation, live drawing and giant props this will be lots of fun for all.

THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD

B46 The Playhouse Age 9-13 1.15-2pm £5 Discover the magical spells which were buried with ancient Egyptian mummies to help them on their journey through the afterlife. Travel back in time with Richard Parkinson from the British Museum for a fascinating exploration of Hunefer and his Book of the Dead, full of beautiful illustrations of gods and monsters.

SATURDAY 16 OCTOBER

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MURDEROUS MATHS!

B47 The Playhouse Age 7-11 2.45-3.30pm £5 Come along to see Kjartan Poskitt and his mind-mashingly Murderous Maths.

Be amazed by fantastic number tricks, flexagons and magic squares and have some fiendish fun in the weird and wonderful world of mathematics. It’s maths with the laughs added in!

Family Event

Family Event

BARRY CUNNINGHAM’S X-FACTOR

F12 The Playhouse Age 12+ 4.15-5.15pm £5 (£4) The legendary Barry Cunningham, publishing’s answer to Simon Cowell, is credited with discovering J K Rowling.

He is here to talk about his knack for spotting talent and will be joined by two top teen writers, Lucy Christopher, author of the award winning Stolen, and C J Skuse, author of Pretty Bad Things.

WAYBULOO STORY-TIME AND YOGO

St Andrew’s Church Age 2-5 £6 B48 2.30-3.15pm B49 4-4.45pm Enter a magical place called Nara; a land of happiness and laughter that’s home to the Piplings. Join Liz Fost for an interactive story-time and afterwards relax doing your favourite animal yogo moves from the show.

Family Event

DOCTOR WHO QUIZ

F11 Town Hall Age 7-14 4-5pm £7 (£6) Who is the biggest Doctor Who fan?

Come as a team with family and friends (max 4 to a team) and test your TARDIS knowledge in an out-of-this-world challenge! Join our mystery quizmaster to find out if you can exterminate the opposition and take home a fabulous prize. We hear a Cyberman is out and about!

THEATRE WORKSHOPS

Our popular series of workshops is specifically designed for children. The capacity of these workshops is kept low to enable the children to be able to engage in more depth with a specific subject or to have more dedicated time for a make-and-do project.

In an exciting collaboration for 2010, we are delighted to welcome specialist practitioners from the Royal Shakespeare Company to Cheltenham, presenting a series of exciting and dynamic workshops for children of all ages.

You are only required to purchase a ticket for each child attending, and not for any accompanying adults. If you do not intend to remain at the workshop with your child then we ask parents/ guardians to drop children off at the venue, sign them in and leave a mobile contact number in case of emergencies.

Please ensure that you are able to collect your child from the workshop venue at the specified end time.

ADVENTURE!

F10 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 9+ 2.30-3.30pm £4.50 Everyone loves a rip-roaring adventure story! Three masters of intrigue, Eleanor Updale, author of funny new detective story Johnny Swanson; Graham Marks, whose latest title Mean Streets is set in 1920s Chicago, and Natasha Narayan, whose heroine Kit Salter returns in The Book of Bones, talk murder and mayhem.

WRITE ON! WORKSHOPS

RAINBOW MAGIC TWILIGHT FAIRIES

B50 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 6-8 4.15-5pm £6 Rainbow Magic is the number one bestselling series for girls. Learn how you can make a magical dream-catcher with the Twilight Fairies! With dance, music, games and craft activities. Don’t forget your wands and wings!

A ticket must be purchased for each person attending. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult (see page 64 for more details).

BLOOD, GUTS AND GORE

B69 The Playhouse Age 8+ 10-11am £10 How do you fake a black eye? A split lip?

A bloody nose? Find out how to do all this and worse with Brenda Leedham, formerly head of the RSC’s make-up and wigs department. Not for the faint-hearted!

MAKE A PICTURE BOOK WITH JESSICA SOUHAMI

B51 St Andrew’s Church Age 7-10 11am-1pm £15 Discover how to create suspense with pictures and text and learn about the role of the “spread” in a picture book.

Find out how traditional tales moved with the people that told them, changing to reflect their new environment... Then take a tale to a new location and create your own picture book version of a traditional tale with author illustrator Jessica Souhami.

Family Event

CELIA REES & MARY HOOPER

F13 The Playhouse Age 11+ 6-7pm £5 (£4) Join two of the most popular voices in historical fiction for young adults, talking about the thrill of researching and writing about some of the Britain’s most dangerous and intriguing periods in history. Mary Hooper’s Fallen Grace is a rags-to-riches story of Grace who works for a family of villainous undertakers in Victorian London. Celia Rees’ The Fool’s Girl is set in Elizabethan England and takes inspiration from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

PULLING PUNCHES

B70 The Playhouse Age 10-14 12-1pm £10 When is a fight not a fight? Find out all about thespian fisticuffs, stunts and swordplay in this dynamic session on the basics of stage combat lead by an RSC practitioner. Come and have a go at this exciting skill in a safe and fun environment.

MAKING MUMMIES

B52 St Andrew’s Church Age 8-12 2-4pm £15 Explore the afterlife in ancient Egypt and learn about how bodies were mummified in this exciting workshop with leader Helen Rousseau. You’ll get the chance to wrap up a 3D mummy complete with amulets and headdress.

DISORDERLY ANIMALS!

222 Habitat, The Brewery 3-3.30pm Free Come and meet an Imaginary Menagerie of crazy creatures with mischief-maker Marcus Moore!

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MATILDA AND FRIENDS

B71 The Playhouse Age 11+ 2-4pm £15 Bring some drama to your drawings!

Work with the RSC to discover how to draw fantastically revolting friends, disgustingly horrible teachers, or your very own version of Matilda, all using theatre and drawing techniques.

SUNDAY 17 OCTOBER

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HORRIBLE HISTORIES

MAN OF THE MATCH

B53 The Playhouse Age 8-12 10-10.45am £5 Join Martin Brown, illustrator of the phenomenally popular Horrible Histories series, as he shows you step-by-step how he brings history to life. From the Groovy Greeks to the Gorgeous Georgians, learn to draw all the nasty bits of history in a witty cartoon style. See how he creates his illustrations the ‘horrible’ way and join in with your own gory drawings!

B56 The Playhouse Age 9+ 11.30am-12.15pm £5 A sports journalist at the top of his game, Dan Freedman has travelled with the England football team and regularly writes about the Premiership clubs, and according to Owen Hargreaves “Dan knows his football”. Find out how writing and sport fit together in his life, and the inspiration behind his Jamie Johnson football fiction series.

ALIENS LOVE UNDERPANTS!

Family Event

ROBERT WINSTON

F14 Parabola Arts Centre Age 8+ 12-1pm £7 (£5) Res Meet the most powerful, complicated computer network that exists - your brain! Join Robert Winston as he introduces young readers to their own brain, explaining what the different parts of it do, how they work together and how it changes at different stages throughout life in his latest title What Goes On In My Head?

OLIVIA

B57 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 4-7 11.30am-12.15pm £6 Olivia, the cute star of picture books and her very own TV animation, has a big imagination and dressing up is her favourite thing to do! There’ll be Olivia-themed fun, music and stories.

And you may even get to meet Olivia herself! Come dressed up and you may win a prize!

B54 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 4-7 10-10.45am £6 Join illustrator Ben Cort and your favourite pants-loving aliens in Cheltenham. This year, the aliens are getting festive, so come along to celebrate the release of brand new picture book, Aliens Love Panta Claus!

There may even be a visit from an intergalactic friend…

ALIENS AND MONSTERS

TROLLIFIC FUN!

B58 Queen’s Hotel Age 4-7 11.30am-12.15pm £4.50 Sarah McIntyre loves monsters and aliens – they feature in many of her books such as Morris the Mankiest Monster and You Can’t Eat a Princess.

Listen to stories, join in the action and make your own monster to take home!

Come dressed as an alien or monster, too!

B55 Queen’s Hotel Age 6-8 10-10.45am £4.50 Meet The Grunt and The Grouch, a mischievous duo with a taste for all things disgusting and grotty. Tracey Corderoy, creator of these troublesome trolls, will be reading from her books and providing an introduction to the weird and wonderful world of these hilarious, hygienically-challenged characters. Not for the faint-hearted!

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A MILLION BRILLIANT POEMS

F15 The Playhouse Age 8+ 1-1.45pm £6 (£4) Come and join poet and anthologist Roger Stevens for an entertaining and poetry packed event, with performances from his latest books, On My Way to School I Saw A Dinosaur and A Million Brilliant Poems, one of the best collections of contemporary children’s poems ever!

BEAST QUEST

B59 HSBC Book It! Tent 1-1.45pm Age 6-9 £6 Calling all valiant knights and questors!

Six mystical beasts are guarding magical golden armour for the evil wizard Malvel.

In this interactive event help the good wizard Aduro to solve cryptic puzzles and free the beasts from Malvel’s evil spell. Exclusive Beast Quest goodies for all children attending!

SUNDAY 17 OCTOBER

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Family Event

WRITE ON! WORKSHOPS

DARE TO BE SCARED!

F17 The Playhouse Age 10+ 4-4.45pm £6 (£4) Spend a terrifyingly terrific afternoon with Chris Priestley, author of the deliciously dark Tales of Terror series, and Justin Richards, author of new supernatural horror series The School of Night and Creative Consultant for the BBC Doctor Who novels, as they create mayhem and mischief. Not for the fainthearted!

Our popular series of workshops is specifically designed for children. The capacity of these workshops is kept low to enable the children to be able to engage in more depth with a specific subject or to have more dedicated time for a make-and-do project.

You are only required to purchase a ticket for each child attending, and not for any accompanying adults. If you do not intend to remain at the workshop with your child then we ask parents/ guardians to drop children off at the venue, sign them in and leave a mobile contact number in case of emergencies.

Please ensure that you are able to collect your child from the workshop venue at the specified end time.

Family Event

B65 Queen’s Hotel Age 9-14 11am-1pm £15 Find out how to write your own Doctor Who story, from ‘pre-titles’ sequence to explosive finale! Justin Richards, BBC Books Creative Consultant for the Doctor Who novels, will help you invent characters and terrifying monsters and decide where – and when – to set your story. You can also ask questions and discuss all things Doctor Who!

DINOPANTS

B63 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 6-9 4.15-5pm £5 Come and laugh your socks off with Ciaran Murtagh, author of the pantastic Dinopants stories. Here is a fun, interactive happening to get children up on their feet and the room filled with laughter and creativity.

For all events except Write On! workshops a ticket must be purchased for each person attending.

See page 64 for more details.

MAKE A COMIC WITH SARAH MCINTYRE

CHAVS, SNOBS AND THE AFTERLIFE

B66 Queen’s Hotel Age 7-11 2-4pm £15 Bring your own pen and a lot of gusto for this action packed comic book making workshop with Sarah McIntyre, the inventor of the Pickle Rye world, home to Lettuce the rabbit and Vern the sheep.

Her artwork is laced with silliness and humour; no wonder she’s one of the original Fleece Station artists, a collective whose grand title derives from their love of drawing… sheep!

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B64 The Playhouse Age 11+ 5.30-6.30pm £4.50 Join two top authors as they talk about creating the perfect teenage voice.

Grace Dent followed Diary of a Chav with the hilarious Diary of a Snob, about the exploits of Poppet Montague Jones.

Tamsyn Murray’s My So Called Afterlife features Lucy Shaw: ghost of Carnaby Street men’s toilets.

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B61 Queen’s Hotel Age 4-6 2.30-3.15pm £6 Hip Hip Hooray! It’s time to celebrate Charlie and Lola’s birthday. Join us in celebrating the 10th anniversary of the publication of Lauren Child’s original and award-winning Charlie and Lola picture books at our fabulous birthday party - with heaps of fun activities, party games and storytelling!

WRITE A DOCTOR WHO STORY WITH JUSTIN RICHARDS

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARLIE AND LOLA!

B62 Queen’s Hotel Age 4-7 4-4.45pm £5 Join Kathryn White, author of Click Clack Crocodile’s Back and Ruby’s School Walk, for an imaginative session of creatures, crocodiles and crafting! Essential for children with overactive imaginations and a penchant for make-believe…

Children under 12 years must be accompanied by a responsible person aged 16 or over, approved by the parent/guardian, and prices are kept as low as possible to allow for this. A responsible person aged 16 or over approved by the parent/ guardian can accompany up to 6 children to an event. Cheltenham Festivals maintains a Child Protection Policy, but cannot act in loco parentis or take responsibility for unsupervised children. If your child is disruptive you may be asked to leave an event.

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F16 The Playhouse Age 7+ 2.30-3.15pm £6 (£5) Meet much-loved author and illustrator Michael Foreman in this interactive event as he tells how his childhood in wartime Suffolk and travels around the world have inspired a publishing career of nearly 300 books, including the award-winning War Boy and War Game and his latest title Fortunately, Unfortunately. A lucky few might even get to sketch with him on stage!

CROCODILES AND OTHER BEASTS!

Please adhere to the recommended age range specified for all Book It! and Family events (with a B and F booking number). These ages are carefully chosen in consultation with publishers and performers, taking into account the event length, format and content.

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THE ART OF MICHAEL FOREMAN

VISITING THE FESTIVAL WITH CHILDREN

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B60 Queen’s Hotel Age 5-7 1-1.45pm £4.50 Join author and illustrator Christopher Wormell for a hands-on storytelling and drawing session. Help him invent new stories and characters and hear all about his latest picture book, One Smart Fish, as well as his some of his other popular stories like The George and the Dragon.

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FESTIVAL PROJECTS

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YOUNG SCREENWRITERS’ WORKSHOP WITH ELIZABETH FREESTONE

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The Playhouse Sunday 10 October 2-5pm We are delighted to be working with the Everyman Theatre’s Young Writers’ Lab to host a workshop for young screenwriters. The afternoon session will cover finding your voice and writing dialogue.

For more information about our Education Programme and Schools’ Events, please visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/education or contact Philippa Claridge on 01242 775891.

Theatre director and writer Elizabeth Freestone leads a practical workshop that explores how you can find the right tone of voice to communicate the story you wish to tell as well as helping you put words into other people’s mouths and write dialogue.

CHILDREN OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE

119 Garden Theatre 6-7.30pm Monday 11 October £5 (18 and under free) This unique project celebrates the remarkable history of Gloucestershire and involves primary school children from six schools across the county. Writer Brenda ReadBrown has researched six historical episodes, each one linked to one of the six districts of Gloucestershire, and written from a child’s-eye view. The schools taking part are:

DEBATING MATTERS

207 The Playhouse Thursday 14 October 4–5.30pm Free We are delighted to host the Cheltenham qualifying round for the Institute of Ideas and Pfizer Debating Matters Competition. Teams of sixth form students will battle through heats at 1.15pm and 2.30pm, debating the hot topics of the day in front of an astute judging panel. The final debate will decide which team goes through to the next round – and possibly the national final.

Staunton and Corse C of E Primary (Forest of Dean) Oak Hill Primary (Tewkesbury) Churchdown Village Junior (Gloucester) Greatfield Park Primary (Cheltenham) Eastcombe Primary (Stroud) Sapperton C of E Primary (Cotswold)

The Summerfield Lecture

DAVID WILLETTS

Within a demanding time frame, each school will work with actor, producer and dramatist Fiona Ross in a series of workshops, to produce a short piece of drama based on ‘their’ story. All six pieces will be performed at the Festival on Monday 11 October. With subjects as diverse as the Cotswold Olympicks, the siege of Gloucester and the devastating Tewkesbury floods of 2007 this promises to be an evening full of delightful surprises and unusual insights.

212 Everyman Theatre Thursday 14 October 6.30-7.30pm £7 Res The prestigious Summerfield Lecture is given this year by David Willetts, Minister of State for Universities and Science and author of the critically-acclaimed The Pinch. What will the future hold? He argues that the baby-boomer generation has thrived at the expense of their children, explores the implications and legacy of the boomers’ demographic power and presents his own vision of what this means for the future.

Supported by The Ernest Cook Trust

Thanks to the generous support of the Summerfield Charitable Trust we have 100 tickets to give away to sixth form students for this event.

YOUNG WRITERS’ DAY

Cheltenham College Junior School Friday 15 October 9.15am-3.00pm £20 Our Young Writers’ Day is now in its third year, and we are once again grateful to Cheltenham College Junior School for providing a wonderful venue, delicious refreshments and a warm welcome to all the young gifted and talented writers who attend this very special day.

SIGNED EVENTS

Following on from last year’s pilot project, we are delighted to be working with Gloucestershire Deaf Association to offer signing at a handful of Festival events. A British Sign Language interpreter will be on stage and we have allocated the most appropriate seats for members of the audience who would like to benefit from this service. Please ask the box office for more information or visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature

This year we welcome author Graham Marks to lead our Young Writers’ Day. Graham has written everything from comics and film tie-ins, to many critically acclaimed novels for children and young adults.

Graham will lead a day of intensive workshops on developing a great character and a convincing and enthralling plot. He will give his author’s insight into the process, and constructively feedback to each pupil throughout the day. The day will culminate in these young writers sharing their work, and possibly even devising a performance!

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THE BOOK SHOW LIVE FROM CHELTENHAM. Sky Arts is bringing you a brand new series of The Book Show.

Join Mariella Frostrup for the first episode recorded live from The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival.

The inside story for book lovers.

THURSDAYS AT 7PM FROM 14TH OCTOBER BROADCAST PARTNER

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FRIDAY 15 OCTOBER Levi Roots

Willie Harcourt-Cooze

LabOratory

UNDER PRESSURE: PERFORMANCE ON THE FRONT LINE

Book online cheltenhamfestivals.com Stephen Fry

Ann Dumas

Bitesize

LabOratory

In a special Festival partnership, The Daffodil restaurant is offering an opportunity to join Willie HarcourtCooze for a delicious chocolate-inspired lunch after event 226. We are offering a special purchase price which includes your event ticket, three-course lunch and a goody bag which will include a signed Willie’s Chocolate Bible (RRP £25) as well as other VIP treats.

CANALETTO

224 Main Hall 10-11am £7 Res Marking the opening of the landmark exhibition Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals at the National Gallery, curator Charles Beddington talks about the extraordinary variety of ‘Venetian view’ painting of the 18th century. In juxtaposing Canaletto’s work with that of other key painters, he shows in a beautifully-illustrated event why the painter came to dominate the genre.

Sex, Death and Tragedy

SOCRATES

Bettany Hughes 225 Everyman Theatre 10-11am £7 Res The TV historian and biographer of Helen of Troy, Bettany Hughes, author of The Hemlock Cup, is an expert at bringing ancient history to life for a 21st century audience. In this illustrated talk, she shares her enthusiasm for her latest subject: warrior, lover and philosopher Socrates, and considers his search for the good life.

ZOË JENNY & HELEN SIMPSON

Willie Harcourt-Cooze, Thomasina Miers & Levi Roots 226 Town Hall 10.30-11.30am £7 227 The Daffodil 12.30-3pm £60 Food culture in Britain today is more exciting than ever. Thomasina Miers, Masterchef winner and author of Mexican Food Made Simple, chocolatier and author of Willie’s Chocolate Bible, Willie Harcourt-Cooze, and Levi Roots, Reggae Reggae Sauce creator and author of Food for Friends have each made a unique contribution to the British food scene.

Join them to share their passion for great ingredients and their love of food.

Peter Snow

Horizons

REAL FOOD

223 Town Hall 10-11am £6 The recent success of The Hurt Locker put a spotlight on the work of bomb disposal experts, like Chris Hunter, who regularly made life and death decisions on the front line in Iraq and Afghanistan.

How did he handle the pressure? Could you? Hear his story and find out how the human brain allows us to remain calm and think quickly under pressure from neuroscientist Tali Sharot.

A three year project bringing biomedical science to life across the Festivals

Stuart Tootal

230 Town Hall 12-1pm £6 Two writers placing the texture and detail of modern life under the microscope with virtuoso skill discuss their acclaimed work. Helen Simpson, author of the superb short story collection In-Flight Entertainment joins Swiss author Zoë Jenny, author of The Pollen Room and The Sky is Changing, whose work has been compared to Plath and Hemingway in its concision and power. Chaired by Rebecca Jones.

Future Fictions

JOHN WYNDHAM

231 Town Hall 12.30-1.30pm £6 From The Day of the Triffids to the post-apocalytpic The Chrysalids and The Midwich Cuckoos, John Wyndham created some of the most terrifying visions of possible futures ever imagined.

Novelist Jane Rogers, bestselling author Christopher Priest and Arthur C Clarke Award-winning writer M John Harrison explore the author and his literary legacy.

Chocolate is one of the good things in life, and chocolate lovers should not miss this melt-in-the-mouth experience!

Lionel Shriver

Nigella Lawson

Write Away: Masterclass

ALISON BAVERSTOCK

How to Promote and Publish Your Work - The Unconventional Way W12 The Playhouse 2-3.30pm £12 Res Getting your work into the public eye has changed hugely over the last few years: book, serial publication, website, blog? There are a multitude of routes, but which are the most effective, and how should you best promote your work? In this masterclass, acclaimed tutor and author Alison Baverstock discusses the options open to writers and the best ways to reach the widest possible audiences, whether already published or yet to reach the printed page.

War Stories

STUART TOOTAL Danger Close

237 Everyman Theatre 2-3pm £7 Res As the first senior commander to provide an account of the war in Afghanistan, Stuart Tootal created a gritty portrayal of an unforgiving conflict in Danger Close. His true story of Helmand from the leader of 3 PARA gives a dramatic and moving insight into the sharp end of war. Chaired by Allan Mallinson, Times contributor and author of The Making of the British Army.

WORDS AND WHISKY

Highland Park Marquee Free 232 1.15-1.30pm 233 2.15-2.30pm 234 3.15-3.30pm 235 6.15-6.30pm Need a break from the Festival buzz? Join Highland Park to sample their awardwinning whisky and listen to some of the best voices in contemporary British writing.

Sex, Death and Tragedy

ANCIENT HEROINES

228 Everyman Theatre 12-1pm £7 Res Fascinating and alluring, brave and outspoken, tragic or doomed; classical history and mythology abounds with unforgettable female figures. Panellists Stella Duffy, Bettany Hughes and Lucy Hughes-Hallett join Charlotte Higgins for a fascinating debate as they each choose a woman from the ancient world whom they particularly admire. Who will you vote for?

THE REAL VAN GOGH: THE ARTIST AND HIS LETTERS

Programmed by Mary Beard

Dreamworks

FAIRY TALES Nicholas Tucker

238 Town Hall 2-3pm £6 From the Brothers Grimm and Andrew Lang to Tim Burton, fairytales have always been far more than just stories for children; many see them as a safe way of confronting our deepest anxieties and channelling the unconscious. Join fairy tale expert Nicholas Tucker as he explores the world of fairy tales ancient and modern in a fascinating illustrated talk.

Ann Dumas

236 Main Hall 2-3pm £7 Res The Real Van Gogh at the Royal Academy of Arts this spring was one of its most successful exhibitions ever. Focusing on the artist’s remarkable correspondence, it provided unique insights into his complex mind. Ann Dumas, the exhibition’s curator, reflects on how it helped redefine our understanding of one of the most revered figures in the Post-Impressionist movement.

STEPHEN FRY

229 Main Hall 12-1pm £16 Res Award-winning comedian, actor, presenter and director Stephen Fry is rarely far from our screens, and perfectly inhabits the description ‘national treasure’. He joins us in conversation to discuss his newly published memoir, a courageously frank, poignant and often very funny account of some of the most turbulent times in his life.

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TED HUGHES

Christopher Reid & Erica Wagner 239 Town Hall 2.30-3.30pm £6 Ted Hughes’ letters are a magnificent and revealing record of his life and work.

Poet Christopher Reid, who edited a selection of the letters of Ted Hughes, joins The Times’ Erica Wagner to discuss this exceptional, eloquent and moving record of an extraordinary life, with live readings by an actor of letters specially selected by Christopher Reid.

FRIDAY 15 OCTOBER

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Thomasina Miers

Bonne Maman Big Read

BOOK GROUP

240 Town Hall 3-4pm Free – Advance Booking Required Join local author Jane Bailey in this Festival Book Group and discuss our Bonne Maman Big Read, Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd. Follow proud and beautiful Bathsheba Everdene in this tale of passionate love and terrible misunderstandings, set in the rural idyll of Wessex.

Adam Sisman

Phill Jupitus

Ruby Walsh

Kevin McCloud

GILES COREN

Laugh Out Loud

244 Main Hall 4.30-5.30pm £8 Res What transformed Arthur, Duke of Wellington into an undefeated military genius? Peter Snow, respected broadcaster and co-presenter of BAFTAwinning series Battlefield Britain, traces the enthralling story of his evolution from a backward, sensitive schoolboy into an aloof but brilliant commander, in this illustrated talk based on his book, To War With Wellington.

248 Everyman Theatre 6.30-7.30pm £8 Res Footballers, flip-flops, Formula One, wheelie luggage, cycle helmets, and dogs. Giles Coren, renowned columnist for The Times, gets worked up about many things! Fortunately, he has some tried and tested techniques for letting off steam, which he shares with us in this tongue-in-cheek, self-help approach to Anger Management For Beginners.

252 Main Hall 8.45-10pm £12 Res Familiar to TV viewers as team captain on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and to radio listeners as a regular on I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, comedian Phill Jupitus sets his alarm clock and looks at exactly what it takes to be a breakfast radio DJ, the subject of his new book, Good Morning Nantwich.

To War With Wellington

Anger Management

CATH KIDSTON

Future Fictions

241 Town Hall 3.30-4.30pm £6 H G Wells is the author of a wealth of science fiction classics, from The Time Machine to The War of the Worlds.

Christopher Priest, author of The Prestige, philosopher and cultural historian John Gray and science fiction critic John Clute discuss this seminal author, his work and influence on subsequent writers.

Design for Life

BUILDING THE FUTURE Tom Dyckhoff, Chris Goodall, Leo Hickman & Kevin McCloud

242 Everyman Theatre 4-5pm £8 Res Straw, old tyres, entire hillsides; the challenge of creating sustainable homes has given birth to some of our most strikingly innovative buildings - many seen on Kevin McCloud’s Grand Designs. Yet green homes are just one part of the wider sustainability jigsaw we need to piece together in taking on climate change and the challenge of living greener lives. Kevin McCloud, Leo Hickman, author of A Good Life and Chris Goodall, author of How to Live a Low-Carbon Life: The Individual’s Guide to Tackling Climate Change join Tom Dyckhoff to discuss building greener homes and the broader sustainability issues we need to tackle to save our world.

Programmed by Kevin McCloud

249 Garden Theatre 6.30-7.30pm £10 Res Setting up her first shop in 1992 in London’s Holland Park, Cath Kidston went on to conquer the world with her quirky prints, becoming one of Britain’s most loved designers and an author whose craft books are amongst the bestselling in the world. She joins us to talk about her extraordinary success across the globe, her new book Stitch!, and the inspiration behind her unique style.

Stanzas

LACHLAN MACKINNON & CHRISTOPHER REID Poetry Café

245 Town Hall 5.30-6.15pm Free Celebrated for collections including The Song of Lunch, Christopher Reid won the Costa Book of the Year Award for the deeply personal and moving A Scattering.

He is joined by Lachlan Mackinnon whose fourth collection Small Hours explores personal and historical contingency and the loss of a friend.

HUGH TREVOR-ROPER AND ALAN CLARK

Horizons

Adam Sisman & Ion Trewin

ANN CLEEVES & ANDREA MARIA SCHENKEL

246 The Inkpot 6.30-7.30pm £6 Res Whether revealing all in diaries or authenticating fake Hitler diaries, both Alan Clark and Hugh Trevor-Roper felt sure their biographers ‘would have fun’ with their long-standing correspondence, but what were the real challenges of writing the lives of these two extraordinary 20th century figures?

Their respective biographers Ion Trewin and Adam Sisman contemplate the challenges of capturing the essence of two larger-than-life characters who made both friends and enemies in equal measure.

Writing Crime

250 Town Hall 7-8pm £6 A woman’s body is discovered leaving the close knit community of Fair Isle in no doubt of a killer in their midst, in Ann Cleeves’ fourth Shetland quartet novel Blue Lightning. She joins Andrea Maria Schenkel, whose new novel Bunker delves deep into the unfathomable abyss of human character as a cat and mouse game unfolds, to talk about their passion for writing crime. Chaired by Peter Guttridge.

Bitesize

LIONEL SHRIVER

243 Town Hall 4.30-5.30pm £6 Author Lionel Shriver came to fame with her extraordinary and shocking Orange Prize-winning novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, which became a huge bestseller. She joins us to talk about being a writer, and her striking and thought-provoking books, including her latest novel, So Much For That. Chaired by Rebecca Jones.

Jonny Fluffypunk

PETER SNOW

Enterprise

H G WELLS

Roddy Doyle

RUBY WALSH

NIGELLA LAWSON

251 Everyman Theatre 8.45-10pm £9 Res The only jockey to have won all four of the home Grand Nationals, Ruby Walsh is a racing phenomenon. In his searingly honest and compelling autobiography, the charming and much-loved sports personality talks candidly about the key working relationships in his life - with Paul Nicholls, Willie Mullins and his father, legendary Ted Walsh.

247 Main Hall 6.30-7.30pm £18 Res One of our most celebrated cooks, Nigella Lawson joins us to discuss her passion for food and cooking from the heart of the home, the binding ethos behind the recipes in her new book and TV series, Kitchen.

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PHILL JUPITUS

Design for Life

KEVIN MCCLOUD

253 Garden Theatre 8.45-10pm £10 Res Interiors guru and presenter of Grand Designs, Kevin McCloud was once described as the ‘David Attenborough of the building site’. Here he discusses The 43 Principles of Home, offering his unique commentary on the way we live now, from materialism to sustainability, craftsmanship to comfort, and kitchen layouts to choosing colours.

Programmed by Kevin McCloud

RODDY DOYLE

254 The Inkpot 8.45-10pm £7 Res In The Dead Republic, Booker Prizewinning novelist Roddy Doyle follows A Star Called Henry and Oh, Play That Thing to conclude his trilogy of novels which tell the history of Ireland in the 20th century. He joins us in conversation, to discuss this latest novel, and its memorable hero, Henry Smart.

Storytelling

CONJURE TALES

255 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 12+ 8.45-10.45pm (inc. interval) £7 Join two of Britain’s greatest AfroCaribbean storytellers, Jan Blake and TUUP, for a thunderous exploration of sorcery and shapeshifting. Working with the magic of contraries, these are disturbing, terrifying, humorous and poignant tales of the ghosts, duppies and conjure folk that haunt the Caribbean and the Americas.

TONGUE IN YOUR CHEEK

256 Slak doors open 8pm, show 8.30pm–late £6 A treat for hearts and hearing parts! Stand-up poet and give-up guitarist Jonny Fluffypunk fuses wry autobiography with rickety rants, while Ginger Poet Anna Freeman infuses her poems with avocado oil to stop premature aging. If that isn’t enough, prepare for the surreal punk, funk, catholic, electric comedy phenomenon that is Mik Artistik’s Ego Trip. Awesome.

SATURDAY 16 OCTOBER Shirley Williams

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Douglas Hurd

Power to the People

Bitesize

257 Main Hall 10-11am £10 Res Daughter of Vera Brittain, Shirley Williams’ fascination with politics began as she climbed the bookshelves of her father’s library. A Labour Party member for 35 years, and one of the famous ‘Gang of Four’ who broke away to form the SDP in 1981, she has witnessed many of the great political events of the last sixty years. Join her as she looks back on her remarkable career and shares her experiences of the turbulent front line of British politics.

Artemis Cooper, Jill Norman & Rose Prince

SHIRLEY WILLIAMS

Our Festival fringe takes over the town! Look out for the voices off Stage at The Brewery as a host of poets, storytellers and stand-ups take literature to the streets in their own unique way.

Laughter guaranteed on the hour from 12noon onwards!

Head over to the Highland Park Marquee in Imperial Gardens as local authors bring the written word to life – plus indulge in some liquid refreshment with a dram of Scotland’s finest!

Giles Tremlett

ELIZABETH DAVID

260 Town Hall 10-11am £8 With A Book of Mediterranean Food in 1950, Elizabeth David brought the sunshine of the South to the often drab British post-war diet. Her friend and long-time editor Jill Norman and authorized biographer Artemis Cooper are joined by food writer Rose Prince, author of Kitchenella, to explore a life filled with adventure and a love for food and cooking.

The Oldham Foundation

The Brewery 12-5pm Free

Engage the verse-services of Emergency Poet On Call Marcus Moore. He’ll be out and about delivering free rhymes so look out for his trademark top hat and tails in Habitat and Dwell from 1pm!

Make sure you select a verse or two from witty ditty dispenser Matt Black’s Poetry Jukebox!

Jonathan Powell

Future Fictions

HOW TO READ SCIENCE FICTION

M John Harrison, Toby Litt & Nalo Hopkinson 263 The Inkpot 12-1pm £6 Res Are you open-minded about science fiction but don’t know where or how to start? For an introduction to some recommended reads and an expert guide to this alien world join Toby Litt, author of Journey Into Space, Nalo Hopkinson, and Arthur C Clarke Award-winning author of Nova Swing, M John Harrison, as they explore some beguiling writing.

Programmed by China Miéville

CATHERINE OF ARAGON

Carte Noire Readers

YOUR PERFECT COFFEE MOMENT

Giles Tremlett

258 Parabola Arts Centre 10-11am £6 Res The image of Catherine of Aragon has always been eclipsed by the vivacious Anne Boleyn, despite being a passionate auburn-haired beauty when marrying Henry VIII. In the first new biography for over four decades, historian Giles Tremlett draws on fresh material in tracing the dramatic events of her life in a fascinating illustrated talk.

261 Town Hall 11.15-11.45am Free – Advance Booking Required Whilst you take a well earned break, our guest reader will narrate a love scene from Thomas Hardy’s Far From The Madding Crowd. Sit back and relax with a complimentary cup of Carte Noire coffee and enjoy a more seductive coffee break. For more information visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/cartenoire or www.cartenoire.co.uk

Design for Life

WORD ON THE STREET

James Naughtie

NORMAN FOSTER Deyan Sudjic

Power to the People

DOUGLAS HURD & ED YOUNG Foreign Secretaries

264 Garden Theatre 12-1pm £10 Res Former Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd joins Ed Young to shed an insider’s light on two centuries of that illustrious office. He looks back at the personalities, arguments, successes and failures that have characterised the role, and its incumbents, as detailed in his appropriately titled book Choose Your Weapons.

The Oldham Foundation

259 Everyman Theatre 10-11am £7 Res Responsible for some of the most recognizable buildings of our time, including Beijing’s new airport and the Berlin Reichstag dome, Norman Foster is a globally admired architect. Here his official biographer Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, explores his personal journey and his huge creative impact on what we see around us.

Family Event

DAVID ALMOND & GERALDINE MCCAUGHREAN

F9 The Playhouse Age 10+ 11.30am-12.30pm £6 (£5) Please see page 36 for more details.

THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD

Flamboyant fashions, popular poetry and sensual songs from the time of Marie Antoinette and Mad King George, courtesy of Lady Georgianna! Enter the fairytale…

262 Everyman Theatre 12-1pm £7 Res A major new exhibition at the British Museum on the Journey Through the Afterlife: The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead explores the perilous journey the ancient Egyptians believed lay between death and the perfect afterlife. Curator John Taylor is our guide to their magical beliefs in this exclusive and lavishly illustrated talk.

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Power to the People

MICHAEL CRICK, JAMES NAUGHTIE & JONATHAN POWELL Power Play

265 Main Hall 12-1pm £10 Res As Blair’s Chief of Staff, Jonathan Powell worked at the heart of political power for more than ten years. As he argues in The New Machiavelli, the Italian philosopher’s lessons can still be applied today. He is joined by Today’s James Naughtie and Newsnight’s political editor Michael Crick to discuss where power in contemporary British politics truly lies.

The Oldham Foundation

SATURDAY 16 OCTOBER

Box Office 0844 576 7979

266 The Greenway Hotel 12.30-3pm £65 In a special Festival partnership, The Greenway Hotel is offering an opportunity to join Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire for a delicious three-course lunch before event 280.

We are offering a special purchase price which includes a ticket for event 280, three-course lunch and a goody bag which will include a signed copy of Wait for Me (RRP £20) as well as other VIP treats.

Posy Simmonds

GRACIELA CHICHILNISKY, CHARLES EMMERSON & JONATHON PORRITT Green Futures: After Copenhagen

272 Parabola Arts Centre 2-3pm £7 Res What is the future for the global green agenda following the fraught and inconclusive Copenhagen summit of 2009?

The economist Graciela Chichilnisky author of Saving Kyoto and creator of the carbon market of the Kyoto Protocol, and geopolitics expert Charles Emmerson, author of The Future History of the Arctic, join Jonathon Porritt, Founder Director of Forum for the Future, to debate the challenges of addressing the climate crisis within the political and economic realities of our time.

Highland Park Marquee Free 267 1.15-1.30pm 268 2.15-2.30pm 269 3.15-3.30pm 270 6.15-6.30pm Need a break from the Festival buzz? Sit back, relax and enjoy some of the best voices in contemporary British writing with complimentary samples of Highland Park single malt whisky, recently voted ‘the best spirit in the world’.

275 Everyman Theatre 2-3pm £8 Res Award-winning novelist and playwright, Michael Frayn is one of a select band of writers to have succeeded both in drama and in prose. The subject of this year’s Cheltenham Lecture is his moving and engrossing childhood memoir, My Father’s Fortune, in which he tries to see the past through the eyes of his parents and others who shaped his early life.

F11 Town Hall Age 7-14 4-5pm £7 (£6) Who is the biggest Doctor Who fan?

Come as a team with family and friends (max 4 to a team) and test your TARDIS knowledge in an out-of-this-world challenge! Join our mystery quizmaster to find out if you can exterminate the opposition and take home a fabulous prize. We hear a Cyberman is out and about!

ADVENTURE!

F10 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 9+ 2.30-3.30pm £4.50 Please see page 37 for more details.

273 The Inkpot 2-3pm £6 Res Why is there never any science fiction on the Booker shortlist? Yet why have so many ‘literary’ novelists, from Atwood to Ishiguro, borrowed their stories from science fiction? Where does sci-fi lie on the literary landscape? What are the issues of perception surrounding this genre and its counterpart ‘literary fiction’, and how porous are the borders between them? Join critic and former Booker Judge John Mullan and Guest Director China Miéville, Arthur C Clarke Awardwinning author of The City & The City, for a fascinating debate.

Bonne Maman Big Read

THOMAS HARDY

Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Liz Jensen, Posy Simmonds & Claire Tomalin 279 Everyman Theatre 4-5pm £9 Res A tale of love and misunderstanding, Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd has fascinated readers since its publication in 1874. Acclaimed Hardy biographer Claire Tomalin is joined by cultural historian Lucy Hughes-Hallett, author of Cleopatra, Liz Jensen, author of The Rapture, and cartoonist Posy Simmonds, author of Tamara Drewe, to explore this year’s Bonne Maman Big Read.

Programmed by China Miéville

Laugh Out Loud

DEBORAH, DOWAGER DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE 280 Main Hall 4-5pm £12 Res The youngest of the celebrated Mitford sisters and long-time chatelaine of Chatsworth, Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire celebrated her 90th birthday earlier this year. With her memoirs Wait for Me just published, she joins us in conversation with Simon Seligman to look back on her eventful life and discuss her illustrious family.

In a special Festival partnership, we are working with publishers Penguin to bring this event, which takes place in advance of the publication of Dawn’s debut novel, to Cheltenham. Your ticket will include an exclusive signed copy of A Tiny Bit Marvellous (RRP £18.99), which will be delivered direct to your door in early November.

Bees: From Hive to Honey 281 Parabola Arts Centre 4-5pm £7 Res Conscious of the environmental threats to our bee population, BBC presenter Bill Turnbull decided to enter the mysterious world of beekeeping. He joins fellow bee enthusiast James Naughtie to discuss these vital and rather wonderful creatures, and considers the many setbacks and brief triumphs on the route to becoming a member of The Bad Beekeepers’ Club.

THE 2010 MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER

282 Town Hall 4-5pm £7 In a Festival exclusive we hope to welcome the winner of the 2010 Man Booker prize, announced on Tuesday 12 October. Look out for regular Prize updates at cheltenhamfestivals.com/ literature and be amongst the first to congratulate the winner of the world’s most celebrated literary awards. Chaired

by Ion Trewin.

Family Event

BARRY CUNNINGHAM’S X-FACTOR F12 The Playhouse Age 12+ 4.15-5.15pm £5 (£4) Please see page 37 for more details.

This event is excluded from Membership discount

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271 Garden Theatre 2-3pm £8 Res Historian, author and presenter of landmark television series The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson surveys the life and times of banker Siegmund Warburg.

He reveals how Warburg, a refugee from Nazi Germany, became the dominant figure in the post-war City of London, and put ethics at the heart of banking.

274 Main Hall 2-3pm £30 Res (inc. A Tiny Bit Marvellous, RRP £18.99) One of our best-loved comediennes Dawn French has now written her first novel A Tiny Bit Marvellous, a sharp, funny and utterly compelling tale about a modern family as they lurch towards meltdown. She joins us to discuss her novel and her scintillating career as one of the queens of British comedy.

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DAWN FRENCH

DOCTOR WHO QUIZ

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Money Talks

Gok Wan

Family Event

Family Event

CHINA MIÉVILLE & JOHN MULLAN

Bill Turnbull

The Cheltenham Lecture

MICHAEL FRAYN

Future Fictions

WORDS AND WHISKY

Claire Tomalin

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LUNCH WITH DEBORAH, DOWAGER DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE

China Miéville

EX CL be US

The Greenway Hotel Festival Lunch

Niall Ferguson

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SATURDAY 16 OCTOBER Dom Joly

Iain M Banks

EDITOR’S CHOICE

283 HSBC Book It! Tent 6-7pm Free Join participants from today’s events, and journalists from The Times to consider your favourite Festival moments and discuss some of the hot literary topics of the day. For more information visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature

Family Event

CELIA REES & MARY HOOPER

F13 The Playhouse Age 11+ 6-7pm £5 (£4) Please see page 37 for more details.

Fatima Bhutto

Book online cheltenhamfestivals.com Chris Evans

Stuart Maconie

FRANK SCHÄTZING The Swarm

284 Parabola Arts Centre 6-7pm £6 Res Multi-million bestselling author Frank Schätzing’s The Swarm paints a terrifying picture of a world in which the inhabitants of the deep oceans have turned on humanity, and is a powerful warning of the perils of upsetting the earth’s ecological balance. He joins Forum for the Future’s Ben Tuxworth to discuss his writing and the perilous consequences of man’s interference with the environmental order.

THE 1960 CHELTENHAM BOOKER PRIZE

285 The Inkpot 6-7.30pm £8 Res Which 1960 book deserves to win our very own Booker? You have the vote!

Join Ion Trewin and our panel of judges, James Naughtie, Susan Hill, Toby Litt, Sarah Churchwell and Erica Wagner, as they debate the merits of Lynne Reid Banks’ The L-Shaped Room, Muriel Spark’s The Ballad of Peckham Rye, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls and David Storey’s This Sporting Life. With an introduction by John Coldstream.

Rose Tremain

Matt Harvey

Future Fictions

Storytelling

Laugh Out Loud

286 Garden Theatre 6.30-7.30pm £8 Res Author of over twenty novels, Iain M Banks is one of the most popular science fiction writers working today. He joins us to discuss Surface Detail, the latest addition to his Culture cycle of novels, which centre on an interstellar, utopian society, peopled by both artificial intelligences and humanoids.

290 HSBC Book It! Tent Age 12+ 8-9.30pm £7 Dan Yashinsky and Brian Katz join us from Canada for this storytelling treat. How can we balance scientific knowledge with the truth, beauty and wisdom of stories? In this extraordinary canta storia a father tells stories to his baby son in the middle of the harrowing, high-tech world of a neo-natal intensive care unit. Rhyme by rhyme, story by story, he becomes an emergency storyteller, adding a human voice to the monitors’ ubiquitous beeps.

294 Main Hall 8.45-10pm £15 Res One of our most recognisable broadcasters, the irrepressible Chris Evans has taken the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show to new heights since his debut at the start of 2010. Making a welcome return to Cheltenham, and with a second helping of autobiography, It’s Not About Me, he looks back on the hurly burly of his eventful TV and radio career.

IAIN M BANKS

TALKING YOU IN

Supported by The Patrons of Cheltenham Festivals

Laugh Out Loud

Laugh Out Loud

STUART MACONIE

DOM JOLY Horizons

Jerry Hall

291 Everyman Theatre 8.45-10pm £9 Res The possessor of laid-back Lancastrian tones familiar to millions of radio listeners, Stuart Maconie has also forged a reputation as a perceptive and highly entertaining travel writer. He puts down his bag and takes off his headphones to tell us about his Adventures on the High Teas and the search for Middle England.

287 Everyman Theatre 6.30-7.30pm £9 Res Having grown up in war-torn Beirut, Dom Joly, the audacious comedian and star of Trigger Happy TV, has a taste for travel to odd places. Let him be your somewhat alternative travel guide as he describes his sightseeing trips to some of the world’s most unlikely holiday destinations, and find out what it’s like to be The Dark Tourist.

CHRIS EVANS

THE SPICE OF LIFE VARIETY SHOW

295 The Playhouse 8.30-11pm £6 Res Actor/writer Ben Moor performs Coelacanth, a tale of love, tree climbing and a deeply oblivious fish, Swerve Dance Theatre Company presents Tall Stories celebrating the beauty of books, and Wimbledon’s wordster and BBC Radio 4 Saturday Live poet Matt Harvey entertains from his latest collection Where Earwigs Dare. Discmaster Slow Lee Gonzalas provides incidental music.

FREE SPEECH! JERRY HALL

292 Garden Theatre 8.45-10pm £10 Res Supermodel Jerry Hall has lived an eventful life, both in the eye of the lens, and as the subject of celebrity gossip.

To mark publication of her illustrated autobiography, My Life in Pictures, she reflects on the glamour, the rock star lifestyle, and what it is like to have one of the most recognisable faces in the world.

GOK WAN

288 Main Hall 6.30-7.30pm £15 Res As the presenter of Gok’s Fashion Fix and How to Look Good Naked, Gok Wan has inspired people across Britain to love the body they’re in. In his inspiring memoir Through Thick and Thin, he talks not only about becoming a fashion icon but also shares intimate memories of growing up as an overweight teenager on a Leicester housing estate.

ROSE TREMAIN

293 The Inkpot 8.45-10pm £7 Res Orange Prize winner Rose Tremain is one of our most versatile contemporary writers, her novels strikingly varied in their settings and subject matter. She joins us to discuss her latest novel, Trespass, a powerful and unsettling tale, set in the Cevennes Mountains of southern France.

FATIMA BHUTTO

289 Parabola Arts Centre 8-9pm £6 Res Niece of the late Benazir, Fatima Bhutto is a member of one of the world’s best known political dynasties, and a family scarred by tragedy across several generations. She joins us to discuss her turbulent heritage, the subject of her extraordinary and passionate memoir, Songs of Blood and Sword.

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voices off Stage The Brewery 12-5pm Free 12pm Lady Georgianna Words and music of the 18th century pleasure garden - unforgettable!

1pm Sonia Hendy-Isaac & U of G Creative Writing Students Creative Writing students from the University of Gloucestershire showcase their work 2pm Matt Black & Dan Duke A wealth of words from two poetic treasures

3pm Lady Georgianna The racy ladies provide more Georgian hits!

4pm Marcus Moore Poems made to make you go mmmm…

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Here at Baillie Gifford we take great pride in our sponsorship of events at some of the country’s most prestigious literary festivals. And in our daily work in investments we do our very best to emulate the diligence and imagination that successful writers bring to the creative process.

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SUNDAY 17 OCTOBER

Book online cheltenhamfestivals.com Jeremy Lewis

John Heilbron

Lyndall Gordon

GRAHAM GREENE

GALILEO

297 Town Hall 10-11am £7 One of the greatest writers of the 20th century, Graham Greene came from an upper middle-class English world. In this fascinating discussion, Jeremy Lewis, author of Shades of Greene, offers an insight into Greene’s remarkable family, whilst Tim Butcher, author of Chasing the Devil, gives an account of Greene’s life-changing 350 mile trek across Liberia and Sierra Leone - accompanied by 26 bearers, a case of scotch and a fragrant cousin.

301 Everyman Theatre 10-11am £6 Res Mathematician, musician, artist, writer, philosopher, and gadgeteer: Galileo was a true Renaissance Man. In this illustrated lecture, John Heilbron, Galileo’s biographer, paints a rounded picture of the man and places him firmly within the rich culture of his time.

Tim Butcher & Jeremy Lewis

We’re ending the Festival on a high with another packed day!

It’s also the perfect opportunity to tell us about your Festival experience and what you’d love to see in 2011. Fill in our online questionnaire or join us in person at 2.30pm for event 316 Best of the Fest at the Town Hall as we look back at the Festival highlights. cheltenhamfestivals.com/howwasitforyou

John Heilbron

voices off Stage The Promenade Free

12pm Cheltenham Improvisers Orchestra Enjoy a performance of Window Shopping For A Fast Movement 1pm Mac McFadden A Mar-mighty poet with down-to-earth verse 2pm Earshot Spoken word from regulars at Cheltenham’s performance poetry and prose night

3pm Brenda Read-Brown Mixes business with the pleasure of slick rhythm and rhymes 4pm Outdoor Charleston Workshop!

Try your hand (and feet) at an openair 1920’s dance class!

Harry Hill

Susan Hill

Money Talks

TALES OF THE CITY

304 Town Hall 12-1pm £6 From The Bonfire of the Vanities to Enron, the City has always inspired and fascinated writers and thinkers.

Acclaimed novelist and journalist Henry Sutton, author of Get Me out of Here, and city expert and Times columnist Robert Cole, explore the electrifying appeal of the world of high finance with city trader turned novelist Alex Preston, author of This Bleeding City.

Carte Noire Readers

YOUR PERFECT COFFEE MOMENT

Locally Sourced

302 Town Hall 11.15-11.45am Free – Advance Booking Required Whilst you take a well earned break, our guest reader will narrate a love scene from Nick Hornby’s About A Boy. Sit back and relax with a complimentary cup of Carte Noire coffee and enjoy a more seductive coffee break. For more information visit cheltenhamfestivals. com/cartenoire or www.cartenoire.co.uk

THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF CHELTENHAM

298 Parabola Arts Centre 10-11am £6 Res Famously the most complete Regency town in Britain, there’s much more to Cheltenham Spa than meets the eye…

In her talk ‘Dethroning George III’, local historian Anthea Jones presents a fascinating guide to the history of Cheltenham both before George III famously stayed in the town, and into the 21st century.

Dreamworks

FREE SPEECH!

Jonathan Bate

SUSAN HILL & JAMES NAUGHTIE

FROM KUBLA KHAN TO MANDERLEY

303 Everyman Theatre 12-1pm £8 Res From her latest Simon Serrailler case, The Shadows in the Street, and chilling supernatural story The Small Hand, to her beautiful exploration of literary treasures, Howards End is on the Landing, Susan Hill is one of our most versatile and distinguished writers. She joins James Naughtie to discuss her life in writing.

Jonathan Bate, Sarah Churchwell & Daniel Pick 299 Town Hall 10-11am £6 Kubla Khan, Wuthering Heights, Rebecca… dreams have always been fertile ground for writers and artists - but what are the most powerful literary dreams and nightmares? Join Shakespeare scholar and writer Jonathan Bate, writer and broadcaster Sarah Churchwell from the University of East Anglia, and expert on literature and its relationship to cultural fantasies, Daniel Pick as they discuss their personal choices.

CHOPIN

Adam Zamoyski 305 Garden Theatre 12-1am £7 Res Prince of the Romantics, Chopin was born two centuries ago, yet his musical legacy surrounds us and his work is still widely revered. Most of us know little of the man himself, however. In this lecture, the composer’s biographer, Adam Zamoyski admirably fills the gap, placing Chopin within the intellectual and spiritual environment of his day.

Laugh Out Loud

HARRY HILL

306 Main Hall 12-1pm £11 Res The giant-collared comedian and revered host of TV Burp, Harry Hill makes a welcome return to the Festival to treat us once more to his inimitable world view, in an hour of tomfoolery that will include a look at his spoof autobiography, Livin’ the Dreem - which has been irresistibly described as Samuel Pepys meets Katie Price.

Family Event Stanzas

Family Event

Lyndall Gordon & Diana Quick

F14 Parabola Arts Centre Age 8+ 12-1pm £7 (£5) Res Meet the most powerful, complicated computer network that exists - your brain! Join Robert Winston as he introduces young readers to their own brain, explaining what the different parts of it do, how they work together and how it changes at different stages throughout life in his latest title What Goes On In My Head?

ROBERT WINSTON

EMILY DICKINSON

300 Town Hall 10-11am £8 Emily Dickinson is one of the most iconic poets of all time, but has often been portrayed as a woman disappointed in love who shut herself away. Her biographer Lyndall Gordon sheds new light on the character of this explosive genius, revealing a woman beyond her time in Lives Like Loaded Guns. Including readings from acclaimed actress Diana Quick.

Supported by Cheltenham Business Partnership

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A MILLION BRILLIANT POEMS

F15 The Playhouse Age 8+ 1-1.45pm £6 (£4) Come and join poet and anthologist Roger Stevens for an entertaining and poetry packed event, with performances from his latest books, On My Way to School I Saw A Dinosaur and A Million Brilliant Poems, one of the best collections of contemporary children’s poems ever!

SUNDAY 17 OCTOBER

Box Office 0844 576 7979 Norman Lebrecht

Armando Iannucci

Family Event

ANTONIA FRASER & MARK LAWSON

DARE TO BE SCARED!

F17 The Playhouse Age 10+ 4-4.45pm £6 (£4) Spend a terrifyingly terrific afternoon with Chris Priestley, author of the deliciously dark Tales of Terror series, and Justin Richards, author of new supernatural horror series The School of Night and Creative Consultant for the BBC Doctor Who novels, as they create mayhem and mischief. Not for the fainthearted!

314 Main Hall 2-3pm £9 Res Antonia Fraser, prize-winning biographer, and Harold Pinter, one of the greatest playwrights of the age, lived together from August 1975 until his death in 2008. In conversation with Mark Lawson, she looks back on their enduring marriage, and eventful life together, as described in her moving memoir, Must You Go?

Future Fictions

ANDREW RAWNSLEY

311 Everyman Theatre 2-3pm £8 Res A devastating analysis of New Labour’s irresistible rise and slow decline, Andrew Rawnsley’s The End of the Party became the seminal book on a government riven with in-fighting and division. Five months on from the election that saw Gordon Brown dislodged from power, the author joins us to look back on the dying days of New Labour.

The Oldham Foundation

WHY MAHLER? Norman Lebrecht

312 Garden Theatre 2-3pm £7 Res Mahler’s music seems to capture our modern day yearnings and anxieties like no other. Renowned arts writer, critic and the author of Why Mahler?, Norman Lebrecht explores the Mahler Effect, whereby one man and his ten symphonies changed the world, and reflects on the role that music plays as a soundtrack to our lives.

AUDREY NIFFENEGGER

315 Town Hall 2-3pm £6 The best graphic novels are a potent alchemy between words and pictures, and trained artist and bestselling novelist Audrey Niffenegger’s The Night Bookmobile is a hauntingly-illustrated magical and mysterious tale. The bestselling author of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry joins The Times’ Tom Gatti to discuss her latest work.

British Science Fiction

317 The Inkpot 4-5pm £6 Res From H G Wells to John Wyndham, Britain has been home to some of the most groundbreaking and successful classic science fiction writers. Explore past classics and the best of the current crop as authors Iain M Banks, Gwyneth Jones, Michael Moorcock and Guest Director China Miéville discuss this very British tradition.

313 Parabola Arts Centre 2-3pm £6 Res We can draw our lessons from history either carefully, or badly. So says prizewinning Oxford historian, Margaret MacMillan in The Uses and Abuses of History. In a thought-provoking lecture, she shows how historical events have been used, twisted or ignored to suit the purposes of those who come afterwards.

Patrick Wright

318 Garden Theatre 4-5pm £7 Res How do contemporary writers create ghosts in their fiction? What traditions do they draw on? What are the challenges they face? Novelists Susan Hill, Penelope Lively and Andrew Taylor, who have all written hauntingly beautiful modern ghost stories, join us to discuss capturing the true power of the supernatural on the page.

KIM CATTRALL & JANET SUZMAN Cleopatra

319 Main Hall 4-5pm £12 Res One of the great works of the theatrical canon, Antony & Cleopatra features arguably Shakespeare’s strongest, most awe-inspiring female character.

Renowned actress and director Janet Suzman discusses her autumn production of the play and we hope she will be joined by Sex & the City star Kim Cattrall, who returns to her native Liverpool as Queen of the Nile.

B64 The Playhouse Age 11+ 5.30-6.30pm £4.50 Join two top authors as they talk about creating the perfect teenage voice.

Grace Dent followed Diary of a Chav with the hilarious Diary of a Snob, about the exploits of Poppet Montague Jones.

Tamsyn Murray’s My So Called Afterlife features Lucy Shaw: ghost of Carnaby Street men’s toilets.

JESSE ARMSTRONG, SIMON BLACKWELL & ARMANDO IANNUCCI The Thick of It

322 Main Hall 6-7pm £9 Res Dark Lord of Spin Malcolm Tucker, star of The Thick of It, is in deep trouble; he’s left top-secret and potentially explosive government files on a train… His creator Armando Iannucci joins series writers Jesse Armstrong, co-creator of Peep Show, and Simon Blackwell, whose credits include Have I Got News For You and The Kumars at No. 42, to reveal the secrets of The Thick Of It: The Missing Dosac Files and how they brought one of our best-loved comic monsters to life.

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The Uses and Abuses of History

PASSPORT TO PEKING

CHAVS, SNOBS AND THE AFTERLIFE

BEST OF THE FEST MARGARET MACMILLAN

320 Everyman Theatre 4-5pm £9 Res Prunella Scales and Timothy West join canal expert Tim Coghlan in a celebration of the extraordinary life and remarkable achievements of Tom Rolt, engineer, prolific author and the man whose elegiac work Narrowboat sparked the campaign to save Britain’s inland waterways, transforming them into today’s vibrant, much-loved network.

Writing Ghosts

SUSAN HILL, PENELOPE LIVELY & ANDREW TAYLOR

316 Town Hall 2.30-3.30pm Free Join Artistic Director Sarah Smyth, Executive Director Clair Greenaway and Donna Renney, Chief Executive of Cheltenham Festivals, to share your views about this year’s Cheltenham Literature Festival and contribute ideas for next year.

Tom Rolt: Narrowboat Man

Hauntings

Family Event

F16 The Playhouse Age 7+ 2.30-3.15pm £6 (£5) Meet much-loved author and illustrator Michael Foreman in this interactive event as he tells how his childhood in wartime Suffolk and travels around the world have inspired a publishing career of nearly 300 books, including the awardwinning War Boy and War Game and his latest title Fortunately, Unfortunately. A lucky few might even get to sketch with him on stage!

TIM COGHLAN, PRUNELLA SCALES & TIMOTHY WEST

321 Parabola Arts Centre 4-5pm £6 Res In the delightfully eclectic Passport to Peking, part comedy, part travelogue and part cultural history, Patrick Wright uncovers the story of the British delegations that journeyed to see the new China in 1954. He discusses the genuine insights and comic misadventures of these unlikely travelling companions, including Clement Atlee and the artist Stanley Spencer.

Programmed by China Miéville

THE ART OF MICHAEL FOREMAN

Margaret MacMillan

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Power to the People

IAIN M BANKS, GWYNETH JONES, MICHAEL MOORCOCK & CHINA MIÉVILLE

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Hauntings

DOCTOR WHO: THE COMING OF THE TERRAPHILES

HIGHGATE CEMETERY

323 Town Hall 6-7pm £7 Join us for the launch of the brand new Doctor Who novel, The Coming of the Terraphiles, with Michael Moorcock, award-winning creator of the Elric Saga and Mother London. Find out what the influential science fiction and fantasy giant has in store for the Doctor and Amy Pond.

325 Town Hall 6-7pm £7 Highgate cemetery, final resting place of writers including Christina Rossetti, George Eliot and Karl Marx, holds a unique place both in the artistic imagination and in literary history. Audrey Niffenegger has long been fascinated by Highgate, the setting for Her Fearful Symmetry. She joins historian and author of Necropolis, Catharine Arnold, to explore the extraordinary history of London’s most famous cemetery.

STEVEN BERKOFF

NORMAN DAVIES

Michael Moorcock

324 Everyman Theatre 6-7pm £8 Res Renowned actor, writer and director Steven Berkoff has an extraordinarily diverse CV. As his memoir, Diary of a Juvenile Delinquent, reveals however, his path to acting was a chequered one, due to an often troubled, hand to mouth wartime childhood. He joins us to look back on how his career was launched, against the odds.

Lost Realms

326 Parabola Arts Centre 6-7pm £6 Res Europe’s deceptively settled political landscape has in fact been in flux for centuries. From the Empire of Aragon to the Five, Six or Seven Kingdoms of Burgundy, Europe is littered with now-extinct kingdoms and states which once exerted huge political and military influence. In a fascinating talk, celebrated historian Norman Davies peers through the cracks of history to reveal The Lives and Afterlives of Europe’s Lost Realms.

Penelope Lively

Audrey Niffenegger

Steven Berkoff

A F Harrold

JONATHAN BATE & SIMON CALLOW

327 Town Hall 8-9pm £8 Internationally known for his performances in Four Weddings and A Funeral and Shakespeare in Love, Simon Callow can look back on a lifetime of acclaimed acting and writing. He talks to Jonathan Bate, with whom he joined forces for the celebrated new play The Man from Stratford, to discuss his alternative autobiography My Life in Pieces.

TWEET POETRY

329 Town Hall 11-11.30am Free Beat Poetry becomes Tweet Poetry in the age of electronic social networking, so it’s time to hear how the Festival’s resident tweetnik A F Harrold has fared as he unveils his epic poem - written using ideas and suggestions from the public via Twitter (see p7 for details).

STEPHEN FREARS & POSY SIMMONDS

328 Town Hall 8-9pm £7 Inspired by Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd, Posy Simmonds’ graphic novel Tamara Drewe offers mischief and melodrama against the backdrop of village life. She is joined by Stephen Frears, award-winning director of Dangerous Liaisons and The Queen, who directed the novel’s adaptation, and cast Gemma Arterton as the newspaper columnist returning to her rural roots.

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Naomi Alderman

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Our programme of creative workshops is a core element of the Festival and recognised nationwide for the quality of its tutors. Write Away offers a wide variety of courses in terms of both content and length, and workshops are aimed at all levels of ability.

We are delighted to include Masterclasses, Theatre and Bookcraft in this year’s programme.

SETTING THE SCENE

LIFE WRITING

W3 Tuesday 12 October 10am-1pm £20 If you’re struggling with finding a spellbinding beginning to your work of fiction, join experienced tutor and acclaimed writer Tiffany Murray, author of Diamond Star Halo and Happy Accidents, and Senior Lecturer at The University of Glamorgan, for this workshop, providing you with first-hand knowledge on setting the scene.

W7 Thursday 14 October 10.30am-12pm £15 As hugely successful biographers, Carole Angier and Sally Cline have now published the inspiring and witty Arvon Book of Life Writing. Join them for this workshop on how to turn real life into writing, be it memoir, autobiography or biography, with lots of exercises and in-depth discussion.

FIC ‘N’ MIX The Festival offers a modular course on all aspects of writing fiction and life writing. Students can chose from individual workshops or book a combination of five (one workshop from each weekday) for a comprehensive five-day course on fiction. All courses are capped at a maximum of thirty people.

All workshops in this series take place at St Andrew’s Church.

WRITING CONVINCING DIALOGUE Jacob Ross

W1 Monday 11 October 10am-1pm £20 Finding a unique voice for each character is a great challenge, but also the secret to creating convincing dialogue in fiction.

Join experienced Arvon tutor, editor and acclaimed writer Jacob Ross, author of Pynter Bender, in this fascinating workshop, where he will provide expert advice and practical exercises.

SETTING THE SCENE Helen Cross

W2 Monday 11 October 2-5pm £20 Wondering how to write that all important opening passage? Author of the highly acclaimed My Summer of Love and most recently Spilt Milk, Black Coffee, Helen Cross gives guidance and practical advice on how to set the scene and leave your readers desperate for more.

Carole Angier & Sally Cline

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WRITING CONVINCING CHARACTERS

WRITING CONVINCING DIALOGUE

Diana Souhami

Naomi Alderman

W8 Thursday 14 October 2-5pm £20 As one of Britain’s most acclaimed biographers and award-winning author of Selkirk’s Island, Coconut Chaos and Edith Cavell, Diana Souhami will give you invaluable advice and guidance in bringing convincing characters to life on the page.

W4 Tuesday 12 October 2-5pm £20 The author of the award-winning Disobedience and the captivating new novel The Lessons, Naomi Alderman will use practical exercises and the inspiration of great authors to improve your ability to write dramatic, intriguing and convincing dialogue in fiction.

HOW TO GET PUBLISHED

WRITING A GOOD PLOT

Alison Baverstock

MASTERCLASSES If you are desperate to learn more about writing for the theatre or find out about unconventional ways to get published, but aren’t ready for an intense workshop, why not join our masterclasses? Shorter than our workshops, they give you an excellent opportunity to soak up information, immerse yourself in the subject and listen to the advice given by our experts.

WRITING FOR THE THEATRE

W11 Wednesday 13 October The Playhouse 2-3.30pm £12 Having created popular sitcoms such as Birds of a Feather and Goodnight Sweetheart, the writing duo Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks have now turned their talent to writing for the stage. Join them for this in-depth discussion on how to write for the theatre, with plenty of opportunities to ask questions and advice.

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Owen Sheers

W9 Friday 15 October 10am-1pm £20 The highly celebrated and experienced tutor Alison Baverstock, author of Is There a Book in You? and Marketing Your Book, an Author’s Guide, provides unbeatable insider knowledge in this workshop, discussing the best ways for writers to have their work published.

W5 Wednesday 13 October 10am-1pm £20 Join our Guest Director Owen Sheers, award-winning poet, author of Resistance and presenter of BBC 4’s A Poet’s Guide to Britain, in this engaging workshop. He will offer hands-on advice and insider knowledge on how to develop a storyline and a well-structured plot.

HOW TO GET PUBLISHED

WRITING CONVINCING CHARACTERS

Jo Herbert

W10 Friday 15 October 2-5pm £20 As editor of the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook and experienced seminar leader, Jo Herbert is the person to turn to if you’re not sure how to make a first publication approach, providing you with practical and first hand advice.

Trezza Azzopardi

W6 Wednesday 13 October 2-5pm £20 Learn how to avoid clichés when creating one of the most crucial components of a successful piece of fiction, convincing characters, in this workshop with Trezza Azzopardi, award-winning author of The Hiding Place and The Song House and lecturer at the University of East Anglia.

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ALISON BAVERSTOCK

How to Promote and Publish Your Work - The Unconventional Way W12 Friday 15 October The Playhouse 2-3.30pm £12 Res Getting your work into the public eye has changed hugely over the last few years: book, serial publication, website, blog? There are a multitude of routes, but which are the most effective, and how should you best promote your work? In this masterclass, acclaimed tutor and author Alison Baverstock discusses the options open to writers and the best ways to reach the widest possible audiences, whether already published or yet to reach the printed page.

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CREATIVE WRITING AND BEYOND As in previous years, we continue to offer our popular two-day workshops, capped at a maximum of twenty people and suitable for all levels of ability.

All workshops in this series take place at the luxurious Hotel du Vin, and the prices are inclusive of teas, coffees and lunch at the hotel restaurant.

CREATING A NOVEL WITH GREG MOSSE

W13 Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 October 10am-4pm daily £100 (incl lunch) Designed by Greg Mosse, creative writing programme leader at West Dean College, this course offers 20 determined and imaginative participants a glimpse of how to plan and execute the entire sweep of a novel, including detailed advice on plot, character, location, dialogue, revision, structure, suspense and style.

STARTING TO WRITE WITH STELLA DUFFY

W14 Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 October 10am-4pm daily £100 (incl lunch) If you want to write, but don’t quite know where and how to start, join this intensive workshop. Stella Duffy, experienced creative writing tutor and acclaimed author of The Room of Lost Things and Theodora, will help you breathe life into your material, through a mixture of practical exercises, games, and discussion.

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Scarlett Thomas

WRITING CRIME

WRITING GENRES

Peter Guttridge

W19 Saturday 16 October 10am-1pm £20 If you want a stab at writing crime fiction, join novelist and The Observer’s crime fiction critic Peter Guttridge for this thrilling workshop. The author of City of Dreadful Night and six other crime novels will give advice on plotting dark tales of murder and mystery which will keep readers spellbound until that all important ending.

These are excellent stand-alone workshops or supplements to one of our other sessions. Courses are capped at a maximum of thirty people.

All workshops take place at the Parabola Arts Centre.

PLOT YOUR NOVEL Louise Doughty

W15 Saturday 9 October 10am-1pm £20 Where is your story going? Do you have an idea for a novel but aren’t quite sure where to take it? Join Louise Doughty, acclaimed author of Whatever You Love and the how-towrite guide A Novel in a Year for an intensive workshop all about the beginning, middle and end.

STARTING TO WRITE Scarlett Thomas

W16 Saturday 9 October 2-5pm £20 If you want to write but don’t know how to start, join Scarlett Thomas, author of the bestselling The End of Mr Y and Our Tragic Universe, as she guides you through the first creative writing steps with the help of practical exercises and discussions.

FOOD WRITING W20 Saturday 16 October 2-5pm £20 If you are desperate to share your love for food and cooking but are struggling to put culinary experiences into words, join this delectable workshop! Acclaimed food writer Jill Norman, author of, amongst others, Herb & Spice and editor of numerous Elizabeth David recipe collections, will help you find your culinary voice, combining excellent advice and exercises.

Celia Rees

W21 Sunday 17 October 10am-1pm £20 As the bestselling author of Witch Child, Pirates! and The Fool’s Girl, Celia Rees is one of Britain’s foremost writers for teenagers. In this interactive workshop she will give plenty of practical exercises and advice on how to write for the younger generation, sharing some of her secrets along the way.

Adam O’Riordan

W17 Sunday 10 October 10am-1pm £20 Winner of, amongst others, an Arts Council England writer’s award and one of Britain’s most exciting poetic voices, Adam O’Riordan has just published his debut collection In the Flesh. He joins us as The Cheltenham Ladies’ College’s writer in residence to offer practical advice and exercises in this inspiring workshop.

WRITING ROMANTIC FICTION Katie Fforde

W22 Sunday 17 October 2-5pm £20 If you are dying to write about love and romance, join experienced tutor and hugely popular author of such bestsellers as Love Letters and A Perfect Proposal, Katie Fforde, in this workshop. With her insider’s knowledge of writing romantic fiction, she will inspire you with practical exercises and expert advice.

WRITING JOURNALISM Robert Crampton

W18 Sunday 10 October 2-5pm £20 The Times journalist and author of the popular and highly entertaining weekly column Beta Male, Robert Crampton brings his extensive knowledge and experience of writing journalism to this workshop, with plenty of practical advice and exercises to help you develop your journalistic skills.

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BOOKCRAFT BOOKBINDING WORKSHOP

Wednesday 13 October Town Hall £45 (inc. £15 of materials) W23 10am-1pm W24 2-5pm Join conservator Sue Crossley for an introduction to historic bookbinding skills.

Using traditional hand tools you will make a leather bound journal from cotton rag printing paper and vegetable tanned goat skins in a range of beautiful colours. This workshop is suitable for complete beginners.

Jill Norman

WRITING FOR TEENAGERS

WRITING POETRY

Katie Fforde

THEATRE SHAKESPEARE’S LOVE LETTERS

W25 Monday 11 October The Playhouse 2-5pm £15 Join theatre director and writer Phillip Breen in an exploration of Shakespeare’s Sonnets and gain insight into the passionate and emotional landscape of these epic poetic miniatures. This workshop will explore the physicality of the language, its poetry, violence and humour in order for its full meaning to land on the ear and excite the listener. Participants should come having learnt a sonnet of their choice.

ON CHARACTER

W26 Wednesday 13 October The Playhouse 2-5pm £15 Theatre and television director Robert Delamere, leads a practical workshop on the process of bringing a character to life on stage. Explore in forensic detail how to unravel a playwright’s intention for a character and the performance choices available on the journey of a character from page to stage.

YOUR VOICE

W27 Thursday 14 October The Playhouse 2-5pm £15 Charmian Hoare is a voice and dialect specialist who has worked with most of our leading theatre companies and actors.

During this practical workshop Charmian will explore with you how to use your voice and think about language effectively. She will nurture your own distinctive sound and help you to discover the full potential of your voice.

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FESTIVAL INDEX

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Peter Ackroyd

11

Alastair Campbell

12, 14

Ben Haggarty

15

Jonathan Agnew

25

Ramsay Campbell

27

Louise Doughty Roddy Doyle

14, 17, 53 43

M A S Abdel Haleem

20

Liaquat Ahamed

27

John Carey

18

Jane Draycott

27

Jerry Hall

46

Naomi Alderman

23, 52

Antonio Carluccio

25

Stella Duffy

Maggi Hambling

23

Richard Aldrich

23

Justin Cartwright

17

Dan Duke

46

Charlie Hamilton James

11

Rachel Allen

27

Cathy Cassidy

31

Ann Dumas

42

Dr Phil Hammond

18

Kirstie Allsopp

27

Kim Cattrall

49

Sarah Dunant

14, 17

Robin Hanbury-Tenison

24

David Almond

35, 36, 44

Andrew Chapman

23

Douglas Dunn

26

Judith Hann

26

42, 53

Martin Amis

14, 17

Lynne Chapman

32

Suzannah Dunn

21

Willie Harcourt-Cooze

42

Clive Anderson

18, 19

Elizabeth Chatwin

20

Joe Dunthorne

25

James Harding

14

26, 43

Jeremy Hardy

25 26

Stephen Anderton

20

Cheltenham Improvisers Orchestra 15, 48

Tom Dyckhoff

Carole Angier

52

Simon Cheshire

Jenny Éclair

21

Claire Harman

Sara-Jane Arbury

13, 15, 30

17, 32

Graciela Chichilnisky

45

Iain Edgar

20

Alexandra Harris

26

15

James Ellroy

11

M John Harrison

42, 44

Charles Emmerson

45

A F Harrold

50

Matt Harvey

46

Philip Ardagh

33

Chloё

Alexander Armstrong

13

Lucy Christopher

37

Jesse Armstrong

49

Sarah Churchwell

46, 48

Gavin Esler

15, 17

Karen Armstrong

10

Susannah Clapp

20

Chris Evans

46

Max Hastings

Catharine Arnold

50

Clare Clark

21

Sebastian Faulks

12

Roy Hattersley

Mik Artistik’s Ego Trip

43

George Clarke

23

Jan Fearnley

31

Stephen Hawking

Thomas Asbridge

22

Ann Cleeves

43

Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall

24

Daisy Hay

Michael Ashcroft

10

Sally Cline

52

Steve Feasey

Natalie Haynes

18

Mike Atherton

25

John Clute

43

Jonathan Fenby

12

Simon Heffer

23

Michael Attenborough

22

Lucy Coats

35

Niall Ferguson

45

John Heilbron

48

Michael Cockerell

15

Katie Fforde

53

John Hemming

19

Tim Coghlan

49

Claire Field

35

Sonia Hendy-Isaac

Richard Cohen

21

Fenella Fielding

25

Peter Hennessy

Trezza Azzopardi Julian Baggini Jane Bailey Iain M Banks

25, 52 18 22, 24, 43 46, 49

18, 33

25 22, 23 16 22, 23

46 14, 15, 18

John Coldstream

46

Mick Fitzgerald

17

Paul Henry

26, 27

Patrick Barkham

22

Robert Cole

48

Charles Fitzroy

23

Jo Herbert

52

Rosamund Bartlett

20

Susie Conklin

19

Teresa Flavin

36

Rachel Hewitt

22

Leo Hickman

43

Charlotte Higgins

42

Jonathan Bate

48, 50

Jonnie Connelly

25

Jonny Fluffypunk

43

Alison Baverstock

42, 52

Artemis Cooper

44

Michael Foreman

39, 49

Jilly Cooper

15

Philippa Forrester

11

Harry Hill

48

36, 37

Susan Hill

17, 46, 48, 49

Mary Beard

14, 16, 18

Charles Beddington

42

Tracey Corderoy

38

Liz Fost

Lynda Bellingham

16

Giles Coren

43

Antonia Fraser

49

Charmian Hoare

Alex Bellos

10

Ben Cort

38

Michael Frayn

45

Leigh Hobbs

Cressida Cowell

35

Stephen Frears

50

Simon Hoggart

32

Dan Freedman

38

Edward Hollis

12, 15, 31

Anna Freeman

43

Matthew Hollis

David Benedictus

18, 33

26, 53 32, 33 11, 15, 18

Tony Benn

23

Michael Cox

Steven Berkoff

50

Sally Crabtree

Fatima Bhutto

46

Jim Crace

16

Elizabeth Freestone

40

Michael Holroyd

Sue Birtwistle

19

Amanda Craig

14

Dawn French

45

Mary Hooper

37, 46

Nalo Hopkinson

11, 44

Matt Black

44, 46

27

John Craig

24

Mariella Frostrup

Simon Blackwell

49

Robert Crampton

53

Stephen Fry

42

Petr Horáček

30

Mark Blagrove

20

Martin Creed

13

Charles Fuge

34

Catherine Horwood

26

Fanny Blake

26

Michael Crick

44

Jostein Gaarder

19

Bettany Hughes

Jan Blake

43

Helen Cross

52

Steven Gale

13

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

24, 53

Juliet Gardiner

24

Chris Hunter

34

Sarah Garland

35

Douglas Hurd

Tom Gatti

49

Will Hutton

24

Armando Iannucci

Paul Blezard

21, 27

Ian Botham

27

John Boyne

11, 12, 30

Barry Cunningham

37, 45

Alison Brackenbury

27

Jane Cunningham

13

Martin Gayford

Melvyn Bragg

11

Ophelia Dahl

25

Maggie Gee

Jo Brand

21

Richard Dannatt

12

Rob Gee

Phillip Breen

Sue Crossley Ben Crystal

12, 13, 14

21 25, 26

13, 18 25

Virginia Ironside

44 13, 14, 15 49 21 17, 21

20, 53

Alistair Darling

13

Lady Georgianna

19

Howard Davies

15

Alex Gibbon

15

Russell James

Eleanor Bron

18

Norman Davies

50

Slow Lee Gonzalas

46

Martin Jarvis

15, 19

Craig Brown

18

Owen Davies

24

Chris Goodall

43

Baroness Jay

15

Martin Brown

38

Lindsey Davis

18

Lucy Goodman

32

Keith Jeffery

16

Alison Brumfitt

12, 15

Peter Davison

10

Daisy Goodwin

21

Zoë Jenny

42

Keith Brumpton

30, 31

Edmund de Waal

24

Lyndall Gordon

48

Liz Jensen

45

11

Andrew Graham-Dixon

26

Rachel Johnson

14

24, 52

Alice Jolly

20

John Gray

43

Dom Joly

46

Clair Greenaway

49

Anthea Jones

48

Bonnie Greer

14

Dan Jones

25

David Albert Jones

26 49

23

Guillermo del Toro

Andrew Bryson

23

Robert Delamere

Mark Burgess

24, 53

18, 33

Joel Denno

19

Michael Burleigh

20

Grace Dent

39, 49

Liz Burton-King

30

Tim Butcher

48

Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire

45

Thomas Docherty

36

Nick Butterworth

13, 30, 34

Maurice Gran

Germaine Greer

17, 18

Michael Jacobs

42

Catherine Brogan

Colette Bryce

44, 46

Robin Ince

42 42, 45

22 23

Xanthe Gresham

19

Gwyneth Jones

11, 34

Sally Grindley

35

Jonathan Jones

12

18, 33

Nicolette Jones

14, 31

A S Byatt

10

Sharon Dogar

Michael Caine

19

Monty Don

16

Nina Grunfeld

Simon Callow

50

Sarah Don

16

Peter Guttridge

60

27, 43, 53

Rebecca Jones

42

FESTIVAL INDEX

Box Office 0844 576 7979 Sadie Jones

25

Shandi Mitchell

11

Andrew Rawnsley

Tessa Jowell

19

Wendy Moffat

16

Brenda Read-Brown

21, 40, 48

Donald Sturrock

25

Phill Jupitus

43

Ben Moor

46

Celia Rees

37, 46, 53

Deyan Sudjic

44

Ismail Kadare

10

Lisa Moore

11

Christopher Reid

42, 43

Henry Sutton

48

Anatole Kaletsky

17

Michael Moorcock

Donna Renney

49

Janet Suzman

49

Wasfi Kani

26

Marcus Moore

Matthew Rice

26

Swerve Dance Theatre Company

46

Annie Katchinska

25

Llewelyn Morgan

16

Justin Richards

39, 49

Andrew Taylor

49

Brian Katz

46

Ian Mortimer

26

Tim Richardson

20

John Taylor

44

Jackie Kay

21

Greg Mosse

53

Chris Riddell

30

Laura Tenison

John Kay

15

Andrew Motion

17

Christopher Riopelle

22

Scarlett Thomas

Fergal Keane

23

Robert Muchamore

36

Sam Riviere

25

Anthony Thwaite

17

Tony Kendle

22

John Mullan

45

Alice Roberts

Adrian Tinniswood

26

Anthony Kenny

18

Glenn Murphy

32

David Roberts

34

Michael Tod

23

Mark Kermode

11

Simon Murray

21

Nick Robinson

18

Janet Todd

26

Jane Rogers

42

Claire Tomalin

45

Steve Rooney

15

Stuart Tootal

42

49, 50 13, 15, 30, 37, 44, 46

Tamsyn Murray

18, 19

Jeremy Strong

30, 34

22 16, 53

Judith Kerr

14, 31

Liz Kessler

33

Tiffany Murray

Cath Kidston

43

Ciaran Murtagh

39

Levi Roots

42

Gerry Tosh

14

Diana Kimpton

31

Martin Myrone

20

Fiona Ross

40

Sue Townsend

18

Carol Klein

26

Natasha Narayan

37

Jacob Ross

52

Rick Trainor

26

Kombat Kit

19

Narrow House

27

Stewart Ross

34

Rose Tremain

46

Ramona Koval

10, 11, 12, 14, 20

Helen Nathan

31

Tony Ross

33, 34

Giles Tremlett

Hanif Kureishi

13

Andrew Lane

17, 32

James Naughtie

39, 49

49

21, 23, 52

44, 45, 46, 48

Helen Rousseau

37

Ion Trewin

44 43, 45, 46

Jo Nesbø

27

Dorothy Rowe

22

Nicholas Tucker

42

Caroline Lawrence

35

Michael Neve

18

Nicholas Royle

15

Bill Turnbull

45

Mark Lawson

49

Kim Newman

23, 25

Alyson Rudd

20

Lisa Tuttle

27

Nigella Lawson

43

Nigel Newton

22

Salman Rushdie

13

TUUP

43

Norman Lebrecht

49

David Nicholls

21

Dominic Sandbrook

23

Ben Tuxworth

46

Brenda Leedham

37

Mark Niel

15

Anthony Sattin

10

Joyce Tyldesley

27

Quentin Letts

19

Audrey Niffenegger

49, 50

Alexei Sayle

23

Jenny Uglow

19

Jenny Lewis

27

Jill Norman

44, 53

Prunella Scales

49

Eleanor Updale

37

Jeremy Lewis

48

Graham Norton

18

Alex Scarrow

31

Mark Urban

20

Nunkie Theatre Company

19

Frank Schätzing

46

Alistair Urquhart

24

Toby Litt

44, 46

Penelope Lively

49

Joseph O’Connor

11

Andrea Maria Schenkel

43

Amanda Vickery

David Lloyd

25

Maggie O’Farrell

25

Bernhard Schlink

11

Erica Wagner

Robert Lloyd Parry

19

Redmond O’Hanlon

17

Marcus Sedgwick

18, 33

Ruby Walsh

43

Karen Lowthrop

22

David Omand

20, 23

Simon Seligman

45

Natasha Walter

13

Roddy Lumsden

23

Lembit Öpik

18, 19

Miranda Seymour

23

Gok Wan

46

Andrew Lycett

15

Adam O’Riordan

53

Nicholas Shakespeare

20

Barbara Want

17

Ellen MacArthur

21

Catrin Osborne

12

Sonu Shamdasani

24

Tom Warner

Stuart MacBride

27

Michael Parkinson

25

Darren Shan

31

L A Weatherly

18, 33

Diarmaid MacCulloch

25

Richard Parkinson

36

Jo Shapcott

26, 27

Justin Webb

14, 17

Alan MacDonald

34

Matthew Parris

23

Tali Sharot

Kevin Macdonald

14

Don Paterson

14

Nick Sharratt

Ben MacIntyre

16

Allison Pearson

22

Lachlan Mackinnon

43

Dan Pearson

Margaret MacMillan

49

Stuart Maconie

46

Eddie Mair Emily Maitlis Allan Mallinson

17, 19 18 12, 42

20 13, 42, 46

25

42

Arabella Weir

21

35, 36

Timothy West

49

Hannah Shaw

36

Kathryn White

22

Owen Sheers

25, 26, 52

David Pepper

23

Sue Shephard

Fiona Phillips

25

Lionel Shriver

Gervase Phinn

34

Posy Simmonds

Bohdan Piasecki

19

Daniel Pick

48

39

Richard Whitehead

25, 27

24

David Willetts

27, 40

43

Shirley Williams

45, 50

Jacqueline Wilson

Helen Simpson

42

Simon Winchester

John Simpson

21

Robert Winston

20 38, 48

Peter Mandelson

14

Sarah Pinborough

27

Hardeep Singh Kohli

Richard Wiseman

21

Alberto Manguel

13, 16

Jonathon Porritt

45

Adam Sisman

43

Michael Wood

10

Graham Marks

37, 40

Kjartan Poskitt

37

C J Skuse

37

Christopher Wormell

39

Laurence Marks

24, 52

Arthur Potts Dawson

22

Olly Smith

27

Lucy Worsley

22

Andrew Marr

11, 14

Jonathan Powell

44

Sarah Smyth

49

The Wraiths

23

48

Peter Snow

43

Patrick Wright

49

25

Maria Wyke

14

26, 52

Peter Wyton

21

Paul Mason

17

Alex Preston

James Mayhew

35

Christopher Priest

42, 43

Stephen Sondheim

39, 49

Diana Souhami

16, 27

44 17, 32

Alexander McCall Smith

14, 17

Chris Priestley

Geraldine McCaughrean

36, 44

Professor Primo

19

Jessica Souhami

37

Dan Yashinsky

46

Kevin McCloud

43

Rose Prince

44

Francis Spufford

20

Ed Young

44

Mac McFadden

48

Jane Pritchard

22

Hilary Spurling

25

Adam Zamoyski

48

Sarah McIntyre

38, 39

Philip Pullman

13, 15

Gavin Stamp

26

Philip Ziegler

24

Jekka McVicar Thomasina Miers China Miéville

26

Emma Purshouse

15

Andy Stanton

32

42

Libby Purves

13

Jonathan Stedall

24

13, 45, 49

Diana Quick

48

Nigel Steel

10

Ben Miller

13

Helen Rappaport

20

Christopher Stevens

Lucasta Miller

26

Tina Rath

25

Roger Stevens

38, 48

Duncan Minshull

17

Sarah Raven

22

Peter Stothard

12, 18

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Cheltenham Festivals

The Festival would like to thank the following for their support:

President Dame Judi Dench CH Vice-Presidents Eleanor Budge Charles Fisher Edward Gillespie Graham Lockwood Sir John Manduell CBE Sir Peter Marychurch KCMG Ion Trewin

The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival

Artistic Director Sarah Smyth Executive Director Clair Greenaway

voices off Director Sara-Jane Arbury

Chief Executive Donna Renney

Literature Festival Manager (Programme) Judith Lüdenbach

HR & Office Manager Helena Bibby

Festival Development Manager Sarah Rawlings

Finance Office Paul Jenkins Aline Imray Jenny Kolot

Festival Marketing Manager Laura Parker

Development Office Jules Foster Claire Coleman Kathryn Honeywill Harriet Persey Legacy Officer Rose Wood Press & Marketing Chris Pearson Laura Brand Caroline Coxhead Fenner Curtis Amy Hulyer Rachel Lewis Pete Riley Education Philippa Claridge Production Adrian Hensley Christina Poulton Box Office Sue Davies Karen Sayer Brand & Festival Design Document Brand Consultant Howard Milton

The Festival would also like to thank all those who have provided advice, collaboration and support:

Book It! Director Jane Churchill

Cheltenham Festivals Board Sir Michael McWilliam Chair Peter Bond Deputy Chair Lewis Carnie Jonathan Carr Dominic Collier Christopher Cook Peter Elliott Russell Foster Martin Knight Gill Samuels

Executive Assistants Louisa Blankson Carol Stephenson

The Festival volunteers and event managers, the managers and staff of all Festival venues and all Festival hotels, James Harding and everyone at The Times, Dominic Myers and everyone at Waterstone’s, Jon Andriessen, John Coldstream, Demelsa Coleman, Simon Connelly, Chris Cundy, Gloucestershire Libraries, Gloucestershire Deaf Association, Caroline Sanderson, Geraldine Collinge, Paul Milton, Fiona Lindsay, Steve Rooney, Mark Hurrell and everyone at BBC Radio Gloucestershire

Festival Chair Dominic Collier

Our storytelling events are programmed in association with Ben Haggarty and The Crick Crack Club AC Black, Aitken Alexander, Alma Books, Atlantic, Aurum Press, Bloodaxe, Bloomsbury, British Museum Press, Canongate, Carnegie Publishing, CB Editions, Chatto, Colman Getty, Faber, Fig Tree, FMCM, Gollancz, Granta Books, HarperCollins (Blue Door, Collins, Fourth Estate, HarperPress), Hawthorn Press, Headline, Hesperus, Hodder, Hurst, Hutchinson, John Murray, JR Books, Legend Press, Little Brown, Macmillan, Mainstream, Merlin Elite, Midas PR, Octopus, Orion, Oxford University Press, PanMacmillan, Peepal Tree Press, Penguin General, Penguin Press, Picador, Polygon, Profile, Profile books, Quadrille, Quercus, Racing Post Books, Random House (Cape, CCV, Chatto, Chatto & Windus, Cornerstone, Ebury, Harvill Secker, Vintage, Vintage Classics, Virgin), Royal Academy of Arts, Serpent’s Tale, Simon & Schuster, Sphere, Tate Publishing, Thames & Hudson, The Antell Agency, Transworld, UK Touring, V&A Publishing, Verso, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Yale University Press.

Festival Guest Directors Mary Beard Will Hutton Kevin McCloud China Miéville Owen Sheers Literature Festival Manager (Operations) Christin Stein

Andersen, Barefoot, BBC, Bloomsbury, British Museum Press, Catnip, Chicken House, DK, Egmont Press, Egmont Publishing, Faber, Frances Lincoln, Gullane, Hachette, HarperCollins, Icon, Ladybird, Little Tiger, Macmillan, Meadowside, Orion, OUP, Piccadilly Press, Puffin, Quercus, Ragged Bears, Random House, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Stripes, Templar, Usborne, Walker Books, Warne, Wizard Photo Credits:

Festival Co-ordinator Nicola Tuxworth

J Amean (Fatima Bhutto), Sven Arnstein (Martin Jarvis), Dewald Aukema (Niall Ferguson), Andrew Bainbridge (Jim Crace), Geoff Barton (Norman Lebrecht), Jerry Bauer (Karen Armstrong, Lyndall Gordon, Michael Holroyd, Jackie Kay, Ben Macintyre), Jules Beresford (p3, p6, p7, p8, p10, p12), Philip Bermingham (Liaquat Ahamed), Sam Bowles (Ian Botham), Jane Bown (Tony Benn, Roy Hattersley, Posy Simmonds), KT Bruce (Philip Pullman), Ray Burmiston (Fiona Phillips), Ben Cavanna (Sara-Jane Arbury, Marcus Moore), Graham Clark (Alexander McCall Smith), Chris Close (China Miéville), Robin Cormack (Mary Beard), Karen Felix-Dexter (Sara-Jane Arbury, Marcus Moore), John Foley (Iain M Banks), Isabel Fonseca (Martin Amis), Franny Freeman (James Ellroy), Captain Nick French (Stuart Tootal), Ben Graville (Susan Hill), Sue Greenhill (Antonia Fraser), Rich Hardcastle (Phill Jupitus), Charles Hopkinson (Peter Ackroyd, Amanda Craig, Sarah Dunant, Sadie Jones, Natasha Walter), Naomi Hudson (Sally Crabtree), Nicky Johnston (Lynda Bellingham), Stuart Leech (Andrew Motion), Trevor Leighton (Armando Iannucci), Rolf Marriott (Craig Brown), David Martin/Fotopress (Alistair Urquhart), Robin Matthews (Jilly Cooper), Mark McCauley (Mark Urban), Niall McDiarmid (Michael Parkinson), Murdo McLeod (Don Paterson, Peter Snow), Mcnamee (Jo Shapcott), Lis Parsons (Nigella Lawson), Rankin (Chris Evans), Pete Riley (Sara-Jane Arbury, Jane Churchill, Clair Greenaway, Judith Lüdenbach, Carol Malcolmson, Laura Parker, Jemma Price, Sarah Rawlings, Sarah Smyth, Christin Stein, Nicola Tuxworth, p6, p7, p16, p44, p48), Jonathan Ring (Germaine Greer, Daisy Hay), Graeme Robertson (Hilary Spurling), Beowulf Sheehan (Salman Rushdie), Owen Sheers (Paul Henry), Adrian Sherratt (Allan Mallinson), Chris Terry (Ellen MacArthur), Michael Trevillion (A S Byatt), Eva Vermondel (Lionel Shriver), Ellen Warner (Rose Tremain), Philip Waterson (Stephen Hawking), Karolina Webb (Guillermo del Toro), Andrew Yarme (Alice Roberts)

Festival Assistant Jemma Price Festival Administrator Carol Malcolmson Festival Interns Hannah Evans Pippa Kay Festival Advisory Committee James Heneage Festival Chair to July 2010 Pamela Armstrong Jane Bailey Christine Chambers Hereward Corbett Marianne Hinton Gerald Isaaman Penelope Lomax Charmaine Murphy Lavinia Sidgwick PR Consultancy Colman Getty PR 0207 6312666 The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival is presented

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VISITING THE FESTIVAL

Box Office 0844 576 7979

BOX OFFICE MAIN HALL

PILLAR ROOM

THE INKPOT

THE TIMES CAFÉ

HSBC BOOK IT! TENT

GARDEN THEATRE

WATERSTONE’S FESTIVAL BOOK TENT SKY ARTS ZONE

HIGHLAND PARK MARQUEE

Imperial Square, Cheltenham Imperial Square is the hub of the Festival, with the Main Hall located in the Town Hall, and the Garden Theatre, HSBC Book It! Tent, The Inkpot, Sky Arts Zone, Highland Park Marquee and The Times Café in Imperial Gardens.

LOCAL BUSES Free Shuttle Buses We will be offering free shuttle buses from the Town Hall to The Centaur on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 October. If you would like to take advantage of this complimentary service please register your interest with the Box Office. Places are limited, and need to be reserved in advance.

Our Festival Book Tent will be open every day from 9.30am to the end of the last event, and there are café facilities on site. On both Saturdays of the Festival the Gardens will come to life with free activity for families to enjoy.

See page 7 for more details.

To The Centaur The D bus departs every few minutes from 8.30am till 7.30pm on Saturdays from Clarence Street to Cheltenham Racecourse, where The Centaur is located. On Sundays the service operates every half hour, and stops 2 minutes walk from the Park & Ride by Cheltenham Racecourse.

Festival Info Point The Festival Info Point in the Town Hall foyer will be able to provide details about local transport, including trains, taxis and buses, as well as information about places to eat, drink, stay and visit whilst you are in Cheltenham. Alternatively visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/visitorinformation

TRAINS Cheltenham Spa is well served by CrossCountry trains and First Great Western, including direct services from London Paddington, Bristol, Birmingham, Swindon, Cardiff, Plymouth, Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Festival Venues Festival events continue to take place in a range of venues around Cheltenham. Visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/visitorinformation for detailed directions and a comprehensive map of Festival venues.

Cheltenham Spa Railway Station is located approximately 1 mile from the Town Centre. Local buses depart into Cheltenham town centre every few minutes from Cheltenham Spa Railway Station.

Most venues are within easy walking distance of the Town Hall and town centre car parking is marked on the Festival Map. You should allow extra time when travelling from the Town Hall to The Centaur or The Greenway Hotel. Visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/visitorinformation for a comprehensive list of car parks.

National Rail Enquiries 0845 748 4950

TAXIS Starline 01242 250250 A2B 01242 580580

Food and Drink We are delighted to be working with the Town Hall caterers, Fosters Event Catering. The Festival Café in the Pillar Room will be open from 9.30am daily for snacks, meals and drinks.

PARK & RIDE If you prefer to use Cheltenham’s Park & Ride service, this is located at Arle Court (near M5 Junction 11) and Cheltenham Racecourse (GL50 4SH). Parking is free and the service runs every few minutes. Please note that times vary on Sundays. Visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/ visitorinformation for details on bus times to and from the Park & Ride and operating hours.

Café Everyman is open all day from 10am to 6.30pm during the Festival. The menu ranges from home-made soup, cake and filled rolls to full main meals freshly made on the premises. The County Bar is open until late, serving a range of wine, beer and soft drinks.

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Concessions Patrons aged 25 and under, full time students and registered unemployed are entitled to half-price tickets for Festival events. Registered disabled are entitled to half-price tickets and a free ticket for their support worker/ personal assistant - please note there will be a reduced charge for tickets which include food or drink in the price.

Tickets on sale to Members from 8am Monday 9 August 2010

Please be prepared to show relevant ID at the Box Office and upon admission to events. For information about access please see cheltenhamfestivals.com/visitorinformation for venue contact details.

Tickets on general sale from 9am Monday 16 August 2010

Ticket Prices Ticket prices are shown next to each event, with an under 18s rate shown in brackets for Family Events. Please be prepared to show relevant ID at the Box Office and upon admission to events.

Festival Box Office

Group Booking

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Only one concession may apply per ticket.

Concessionary rates do not apply to the following events: Book It! events, Write Away workshops, Family Events, Schools’ Events, Centaur events,18, 20, 33, 40, 51, 71, 72, 82, 87, 89, 94, 120, 122, 126, 127, 154, 156, 180, 182, 184, 185, 187, 211, 216, 217, 227, 229, 247, 249, 251, 252, 253, 266, 274, 276, 277, 278, 280, 288, 292, 294, 306, 319, 322.

Phone

0844 576 7979 Monday 9 & Tuesday 10 August 2010 8am – 10pm From Wednesday 11 August 2010 Mon – Fri 10am – 8pm, Sat 9.30am – 5.30pm, Sun 11am – 3pm

Cheltenham Festivals reserves the right to offer last minute promotions and discounts.

Reserved Seating All events at the Everyman Theatre and The Centaur offer reserved seating.

Many events in the Main Hall, Garden Theatre, The Inkpot, Parabola Arts Centre and The Playhouse offer reserved seating.

In Person

Town Hall, Imperial Square, Cheltenham GL50 1QA Monday 9 & Tuesday 10 August 2010 8am – 8pm From Wednesday 11 August 2010 Mon – Sat 9.30am – 5.30pm During the Festival 9.30am until 15mins after the start of the last event

Latecomers Please arrive in plenty of time for your event. Latecomers will not be admitted.

Refunds Please check your tickets as soon as you receive them. The Festival cannot refund money or exchange tickets, except in the case of a cancelled event.

Please check cheltenhamfestivals.com for bank holiday opening hours.

Credit/Debit Cards Visa, Mastercard, Solo and Maestro accepted. Please provide a card number, issue number, expiry date, name and address of the card holder.

Other options available until 48hrs before the event Email boxoffice@cheltenham.gov.uk Fax 01242 573902 using booking form (opposite) Post using booking form & including a SAE

Cheques Please make cheques payable to ‘Cheltenham Borough Council’.

Additional Information for Families

Discounts & Concessions Members are entitled to a 20% discount on full price tickets at their choice of fifteen events. Discounted tickets can only be used by the Member, and cannot be applied on tickets which include food or drink in the price, or on events W23, W24 and 274. Visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/membership to find out more.

Please adhere to the age range specified for children’s and family events.

Children under 12 years must be accompanied by a responsible person aged 16 or over, approved by the parent/guardian, and prices are kept as low as possible to allow for this. Any such person can accompany a maximum of 6 children to an event. Cheltenham Festivals maintains a Child Protection Policy, but cannot act in loco parentis or take responsibility for unsupervised children. If your child is disruptive you may be asked to leave the event.

Literature Festival Founding Members are entitled to a 20% discount on full price tickets at their choice of fifteen events, £1 off all subsequent events (excluding Book It! and Write Away) and £5 off The Friends’ Festival Lunch.

Lost children will be taken to the Info Point. Please ensure your children have your mobile phone number; wristbands are available from the Info Point if required.

Friends are entitled to £1 off all events (excluding Book It! and Write Away) and £5 off The Friends’ Festival Lunch.

Contact

Membership

If you have any specific comments about any aspect of the Festival, please write to: Clair Greenaway Literature Festival Executive Director Cheltenham Festivals, 109 Bath Road, Cheltenham GL53 7LS clair.greenaway@cheltenhamfestivals.com

If you require a copy of this brochure in large print format please call 01242 774403.

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Membership Codes Associate £15 (priority booking only, does not include discounts) Concessionary £15 (25 and under, registered disabled and unemployed) Individual £31 Joint £47 Family £52

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R Registered Unemployed D Registered Disabled SW Support Worker/ Personal Assistant

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Life Patron

Gold Patron

Festival Patron

Charles Fisher Graham and Eileen Lockwood

Anonymous David and Clare Astor Jack and Dora Black Sue and Mark Blanchfield Eleanor Budge Charlie Chan Clive Coates and Ann Murray Stuart and Gillian Corbyn Janet and Jean-François Cristau Michael and Felicia Crystal Wallace and Morag Dobbin Peter and Sue Elliott Lord and Lady Hoffmann Elizabeth Jacobs Sir Peter and Lady Marychurch Fiona McLeod Sir Michael McWilliam The Helena Oldacre Trust Esther and Peter Smedvig Fiona and David Symondson Giles and Michelle Thorley Janet Wedge and Charles Middleton Steve and Eugenia Winwood Peter and Alison Yiangou

Kate Adie Anonymous Chris Baylis Mark and Maria Bentley Stephen and Victoria Bond Jonathan and Daphne Carr Robert Cawthorne and Catherine White Simon Collings Christopher Dreyfus Viscount and Viscountess Esher James Fleming Kate Fleming Maurice Gran Professor A C Grayling Huw and Nicki Gwynn-Jones Marianne Hinton Stephen Hodge Anthony Hoffman and Dr Christine Facer Hoffman Richard and Peta Hoyle Keith Jago Michael and Elizabeth Jones Martin Knight

Corporate Patron HSBC Willans LLP Solicitors Platinum Patron Peter and Anne Bond Jennifer Bryant-Pearson Dominic Collier in memory of Karen Hood Michael and Angela Cronk Jeremy Hitchins Jonathan and Cassinha Hitchins Stephen and Tania Hitchins Simon and Emma Keswick Howard and Jay Milton In memory of Jørgen Philip-Sørensen

Lady Elaine Marriott Rosamund and Geoff Marshall Mark McKergow and Jenny Clarke Mary and Timothy Mitchell Professor Angela Newing Robert Padgett Sir David and Lady Pepper Leslie Perrin Maggie Phillips Hugh Poole-Warren Jonathon Porritt Patricia Routledge CBE Keith Salway Lavinia Sidgwick Jonathan and Gail Taylor Professor Lord Winston Anne Wood Michael and Jacqueline Woof

For further information on the Patrons Scheme please contact Arlene McGlynn, Patrons Manager 01242 775857 arlene.mcglynn@cheltenhamfestivals.com

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