The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival 2011 Brochure

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welcome

Buy tickets at cheltenhamfestivals.com The Festivals are constantly evolving and changes for The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival this year will bring a new and exciting dimension to the experience for everyone.

The Festivals embrace some of my most fundamental beliefs; access to high quality culture for people from all backgrounds to enjoy; the opportunity to share our views with others; to deepen our understanding of a whole range of topics and a chance to have fun. I hope you enjoy your personal journey through the treasure-trove of events that make up this year’s Festival.

Artistic Director Sarah Smyth

Executive Director Clair Greenaway

Book It! Director Jane Churchill

Here at Cheltenham we’ve been challenging, provoking and celebrating the best in the world of books for more than 60 years; in 2011 we take our boldest step yet.

Putting on such inspiring and valuable Festivals is costly and the cost can not be covered through ticket-sales alone. With a reduction in public-sector support, we will rely increasingly on you for help and I would ask you to consider being as generous as you can in making a donation when booking your tickets.

Growing dramatically in scale with more than 500 mouth-watering new events, we’re unveiling Cheltenham’s new literary quarter on Montpellier Gardens, just two minutes’ walk from our tented village on Imperial Square. Four brand-new venues, a huge bookshop, a sparkling Spiegeltent Bistro, delicious cafés, and quiet corners to relax with a book, catch up with friends or enjoy storytelling, poetry and our smorgasbord of fantastic free events.

I look forward to seeing you in October and reading your reviews of the Festival.

Donna Renney Chief Executive, Cheltenham Festivals

Contents

As we’re on the move this year, we’ve taken Journeys of Discovery as our theme; our Guest Director Ben Fogle welcomes some of the world’s top explorers and introduces Britain’s first Festival Explorer-in-Residence. Mike Atherton joins sporting heroes from field, track and turf; Jo Shapcott celebrates the joys of poetry and Anjum Anand cooks up a treat on our very first Food Day.

FESTIVAL MAP

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Festival guide

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Festival programme

16 - 68

BOOK IT!

41 - 52

To make your visit as enjoyable possible

Write away

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DOn’t forget…

Festival Index

78 – 81

• To set up an online Wish List from Monday 8 August

Booking information

82 – 85

• Pink = Montpellier Gardens Green = Imperial Square

Visiting the Festival

86 – 87

Find your way round the Festival Quarter Festival highlights

Your day-by-day guide to events

Our Festival for families and young readers Creative workshop programme Find who you want to see How to book tickets

Your guide to Cheltenham and venues with maps

This is a truly thrilling year for us; there’s never been a better time to visit the Festival.

Make a day of it, make a week of it; challenge, question and debate - or sit, read, relax and soak up the atmosphere. Welcome!

The Festival Team

• Prepaid Ticket Collection will only be available at Montpellier Gardens

• Arrive in plenty of time and check the venue on the day • Need help on site? Look out for people in pink!

GET CONNECTED

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FESTIVAL MAP

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The festival quarter Imperial Square The Studio Garden Theatre

Pillar Room Café

The Inkpot

The Times Café

Main Hall

Waterstone’s Festival Book Tent

Festival Box Office (sales only)

Out and About

Robin Hood Den

BIG ON BOOKS

NEW FOR 2011 - PARKING

Don’t forget our venues in central Cheltenham – for a detailed map see page 87:

Weekend Day Parking Passes are now available for Festival-goers to book in advance. We’ll be running a regular shuttle bus from our central Cheltenham car park over the weekends of the Festival – ask the Box Office for more information and don’t forget to book in advance!

The Playhouse Theatre GL53 7HG St Andrew’s Church GL50 1SP The Queen’s Hotel GL50 1NN The Daffodil GL50 2AE Hotel du Vin GL50 3AQ The Montpellier Chapter Hotel GL50 3AS

PARK & RIDE Cheltenham’s Park & Ride operated from Arle Court (GL51 6SY) and Cheltenham Racecourse (GL50 4SH). Parking is free, and the service runs every few minutes (see page 87 for more details).

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Montpellier Gardens RADIO TIMES

The Forum

Waterstone’s Festival Book Tent

BIG ON BOOKS

The Literary Lounge Sky ARTS DEN

CANCER RESEARCH UK

VISCONTI PENS

QWERTY

Davidstow

FeastFest Food Hall

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Spiegeltent Bistro

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Why not try...

Highland Park KEYNOTES Words and whisky A range of free music performances and intimate readings, from some of The Festival’s best talent, all accompanied by a complimentary dram of Highland Park Single Malt Whisky.

Drop into The Highland Park Keynotes Marquee, next to the box office in Montpellier Gardens, to enjoy a complimentary tasting whilst listening to acoustic music acts or readings from some of the Festival’s best talent. Authors will read for 15 minutes at a time, giving insights into the motivation behind their work, reading out small passages and answering audience questions - timings are listed throughout the programme. The music acts will play throughout the day.

Enjoy the world’s greatest literature with ‘the greatest all rounder in the world of malt whisky.’ Michael Jacksons’ malt whisky companion

A Wee Dram For those that would like to take a deeper tasting session, Dominic Roskrow, Editor of Whiskeria and The Spirit Business Magazine, will be running three separate hour-long tasting sessions on the second Saturday of the Festival, 15 October. He will lead guests through various different ages, including the famous 18 Year Old, voted ‘The Best Spirit in the World’ - tickets can be purchased from the box office.

After enjoying one of their perfectly balanced malt whiskies, don’t forget to enter the Highland Park prize draw for a weekend trip to their spiritual home of Orkney.

Lindeman’s

Comedy Quiz Night with Alex Horne and Tim Key

Enjoy a drop while you swap

L260 Thursday 13 October Spiegeltent Bistro 7-10pm £20 per team of four

L052 Saturday 8 October The Literary Lounge 3.45-4.45pm £6

Unleash your grey matter and pit your wits against fellow Festival-goers as comedians Alex Horne and Tim Key present their specially written Festival Quiz. Sure to be great fun, you’ll also get the opportunity to win some fantastic prizes…

L061 Saturday 8 October Spiegeltent Bistro 6-7.30pm £12 We are delighted to be working in partnership with Lindeman’s Wine and Book Club this year.

Burlesque Cabaret L145 Monday 10 October Spiegeltent Bistro 7-10.30pm £25 including buffet supper

Come along to the Spiegeltent Bistro for a bohemian evening of Gallic delights as we celebrate the life of Kiki de Montparnasse, dancer, artist and muse to the avant garde photographer Man Ray. Join us for a delicious French themed supper as a wonderful evening of surprises unfolds – including burlesque dancing, evocative music and an alternative art class from London-based Dr Sketchy, all hosted by the extravagant and irrepressible Ophelia Bitz.

On Saturday 8 October, journalist and author Penny Smith will launch the Lindeman’s Book Swap in The Literary Lounge, and later that evening Lindeman’s will be showcasing their delicious wines in a special tasting event in our glamorous Spiegeltent Bistro.

Throughout the Festival there will be a special Lindeman’s Book Swap bookcase in The Times Café where book-lovers can exchange literary treasures. So why not leave an old favourite tome for someone to inherit, and pick up something new to discover.

Official Wine

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• MONTPELLIER GARDENS • Experience the unique and beautiful world of the Spiegeltent at this year’s Literature Festival. The home of the Spiegeltent Bistro, this lavishly decorated and atmospheric venue is the perfect place to relax, with hot and cold food being served all day, a fully licensed bar and a programme of music and events being held throughout the Festival.

SPECIAL EVENTS

SPECIAL EVENTS

Saturday 8 October Jazz and wine tasting

Thursday 13 October Comedy Quiz Night

Sunday 9 October Sunday lunch with classical music

Friday 14 October Open mic lunchtime

Monday 10 October Kiki de Montparnasse Burlesque night

Saturday 15 October Jazz and whisky sampling Sunday 16 October Sunday lunch with classical music

FOOD SERVED ALL DAY • FULLY LICENSED BAR • FREE ENTERTAINMENT

SEE THE MAIN PROGRAMME FOR MORE DETAILS OF EVENTS

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Your journey starts here. This year’s Festival Guest Directors are taking us on a voyage of discovery through the worlds of adventure, food, sport, and of course literature – celebrating pioneers who go the extra mile to discover something new…

A L KENNEDY

JO SHAPCOTT

ANJUM ANAND BEN FOGLE

MIKE ATHERTON

As a ‘professional adventurer’ Ben Fogle has been to the South Pole, raced across the Sahara and even rowed the Atlantic. As Guest Director (or should that be Expedition Leader?), Ben explores notable journeys of both triumph and disaster, and surveys literary landscapes both imagined and real.

As head chef of the Literature Festival, food writer Anjum Anand focuses on all things foodie, uncovering a world of hidden pleasures and kitchen secrets. She takes us on a culinary world crossing, sampling food, drink, culture and literature in lively interactive events.

Tuesday 11 October Wednesday 12 October

Captaining the sport events at this year’s Festival is English cricket legend and Times correspondent Mike Atherton. 2011 sees some of the nation’s most popular and successful sportsmen take the podium at Cheltenham, and we also look at the art of sports writing.

Saturday 15 October Thursday 13 October Friday 14 October

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2010’s Costa Book of the Year Prize winner Jo Shapcott programmes a selection of events as part of our ever-popular poetry strand. Our aim?

To bring the best of contemporary poetry to the heart of the Festival.

Friday 14 October

Join award-winning novelist A L Kennedy as she explores protest, the paranormal and takes part in a fantastic live performance with pianist James Rhodes.

Don’t forget to join us in the Festival’s new cabaret-style venue, the Spiegeltent, and hear free poetry and music events on the streets of Cheltenham.

Thursday 13 October Friday 14 October Saturday 15 October

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From hot fiction, to the challenges of maintaining a good sex life and a burlesque evening that brings the spirit of Bohemian Paris to life, join us for hot debates, hilarious anecdotes and sizzling performances.

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Return with us to the Edwardian era with a series of fresh and unique events. Taste the food, hear the voices and join us as we turn back the clock.

Participants include Dan Cruickshank, Ivan Day, Roy Hattersley, Lucinda Lambton and Jeremy Musson.

Participants include Suzi Godson, Erica Jong, Neil Pearson, Rowan Pelling and Pamela Stephenson Connolly.

We’re evaluating the economic progress of the last 12 months.

Learn how to manage your hard-earned cash, and hear some of Britain’s most innovative minds discuss their groundbreaking ideas in our Soapbox events.

Participants include Ed Balls, Duncan Bannatyne, Alistair Darling, Will Hutton and Robert Peston.

From side-splitting standup to spoof and satire, catch the latest comedy at Cheltenham Literature Festival.

A legacy can change lives.

We’re looking at different types of legacy - artistic, historical, political and scientific, and exploring how legacies can impact on future generations.

We also look back to great explorers and politicians who have shaped our lives.

Participants include Tony Benn, Peter Hennessy, Colin Thubron, Rita Tushingham and Sara Wheeler.

Participants include Dave Gorman, Shazia Mirza and Mark Watson.

Look out for our new How To… strand to pick up some essential tips – from how to read Virgil to surviving in extreme environments, and from how to make your own way in Elizabethan times, to planning your own great adventure.

Participants include Mary Beard, Dominic Faulkner, James Forrester and Fiona Thornewill

Take a look behind the scenes of some of our most popular television and radio programmes.

What happens during the making of Downton Abbey? How do TV critics decide what to write about? What is it like being in The Archers?

And how does a cook become a TV chef?

Participants include Adam Henson, Julian Fellowes, Eddie Mair, Lorraine Pascale and Arlene Phillips.

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From the Arab Spring to student marches, we discuss why people have taken to the streets and how social media has helped them. We analyse politics at home and abroad, taking a sideways look at the Westminster village.

Participants include Peter Brookes, David Omand, Matthew Parris, Gareth Peirce and Michael Portillo.

Join us to experience some of the freshest literary voices in international writing.

Working in partnership with the Royal Norwegian Embassy, New Books in German and EUNIC London, the Austrian Cultural forum, Czech Centre London, Italian Cultural Institute and European Commission Representation in the UK, we present leading writers and thinkers as well as new talent from around the world.

Participants include Jan Costin Wagner, Anne Holt, Judith Hermann and Anna Kim.

The Literature Festival is committed to celebrating the very best of local writing. Locally Sourced returns for its second year to showcase local writers in this special series of events.

Participants include Alison Brackenbury, Colin Davison, Michael Hasted and Fiona Mountain.

From the influence of religion on the creative process, to the relationship between politics and religion, and the vexed question of how to find inner peace and time for reflection in our busy lives - here is a fascinating series of events for the believer and non-believer alike.

Participants include Leila Aboulela, Father Christopher Jamison, Anne Rice and Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.

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Wish you were here…

ed An exciting array of unique events and activities are plann main throughout the Festival, so why not venture outside the

special... event programme this year and make your visit extra

Bonne Maman Big Read This year’s Bonne Maman Big Read explores Joseph Heller’s iconic Catch-22.

One of the most significant novels of the 20th century, this hilarious and tragic satire on the insanity of war is a rite of passage, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2011.

Join US Airforce Bombardier Yossarian, as he navigates the war in Europe.

Thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him...

Whether you’re new to the book or simply want to revisit it, why not join us in one of our Bonne Maman Big Read book groups (see events L128, L166, L206, L243 and L288).

And look out for the Festival’s very own Yossarian, bringing Heller’s bizarre characters and dark humour to life in Cheltenham (see events L040, L085, L325 and L375)

TIMES2 Live!

Ever wondered what it would be like to be part of a national newspaper’s editorial team? Now’s your chance to find out, as the Times2 editorial team are leaving the

comfort of their London offices to hold their daily meeting at the Literature Festival – and you can come too!

See page 21 for more information.

Sky ARTS Den The Sky Arts Den is the perfect place to relax and make the most of the Cheltenham Literature Festival experience. Hosting a range of free activities and workshops throughout the Festival, it’s also the place where you can find out more about The Book Show on Sky Arts.

Cheltenham EXTRA

hotSpots

There’s more to Cheltenham than you might expect! This year we’re highlighting all of the events which offer a little added extra.

Open air performance at the heart of the Festival Quarter – join us for something new, or take part yourself...

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For more information visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/hotspots

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MONEY TALKS: Soapbox We welcome some of Britain’s most creative, inspiring and unconventional thinkers as they step up onto the Soapbox to speak about the ideas and issues they are most passionate about.

Get involved and join in the discussion as we give you an opportunity to meet them face to face.

Participants include Oli Barrett, John Hegarty and Conor Woodman.

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What’s your legacy?

Bibliotherapy

Cancer Research UK will be here throughout the Festival exploring the theme of ‘Legacy’. Come and visit them at their marquee in Montpellier Gardens to tell them what YOU want to be remembered for, and read other people’s contributions on their special wall. While there, you can also find out more about their life-saving work and why legacies are so important to Cancer Research UK.

Exclusively for Members

Make an appointment to discuss your reading life with bibliotherapist Ella Berthould. She’ll provide the perfect reading prescription and unlock a wealth of new literary opportunities to broaden your horizons....

Sessions take place throughout the day on Saturday 15 October. To book your 20 minute Bibliotherapy consultation please email clair.greenaway@ cheltenhamfestivals.com

LabOratory ADMIXTURE LabOratory is an exciting project bringing biomedical science to life across the four Cheltenham Festivals. Continuing the DNA and Migration theme we have some fantastic events lined up: Tuesday 11 October Lemn Sissay: a genetic journey with genetics Professor Steve Jones and Radio 4 science journalist Quentin Cooper. See page 32.

Wednesday 12 October Science Fiction: DNA Futures with Adam Roberts and Mark Brake.

See page 37.

Saturday 15 October How far back can you go? Family trees, art and science and our special Admixture project! See page 64.

Human migration and genetic inheritance

If you contribute to the research you will get a FREE copy of this specially commissioned sci-art book by Joshua Sofaer, with writings from Chris TylerSmith and David Eagleman. www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/LabOratory

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FREE Copy

o Admi f xture

Admixture tells the story of human migration out of Africa 50,000 years ago and the implications of that journey for our genetic inheritance. But this is a book with a difference because it is made up, literally, of 64 great-great-great-great grandparent books donated by you, the Cheltenham Literature Festival audience.

Look out for our team of young science communicators who are at the Festival during the weekends and are keen to tell you more about the project.

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Member Only

New for 2011

FeastFest Hall Food

Enjoy gastronomic delights and a celebration of Cotswold food in the brand new FeastFest Food Hall in Montpellier Gardens. A wide range of food and drink is being served throughout the Festival with the emphasis on all things local and organic.

Stallholders will be showcasing and selling a range of produce – so you’ll be able to take a little slice of foodie heaven home with you…

Food and drink served all day Fully licensed bar Wide range of food stalls Local and organic produce Look out for special foodie events

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WHY NOT TRY...

Family Fun Time Saturday 8 & Saturday 15 October Imperial Square 11am-2pm Free Watch Imperial Square spring into life with stiltwalkers, Punch and Judy shows, face painters and many more activities for the whole family to enjoy. You can also meet some of your favourite storybook characters and listen to our brilliant storytellers. Plus, it’s all free!

Robin Hood Den Open everyday with storytelling sessions on Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 October Imperial Square Free Enter the exciting world of Sherwood Forest, and find out what it would have been like to be one of heroic outlaw Robin Hood’s merry men. With storytelling and fun activities for kids and adults alike, this experience will really bring the legend to life.

Carte Noire Readings We’re working in partnership with Carte Noire to provide the perfect coffee moment during your busy Festival day. Sit back and relax whilst our romantic hero narrates your favourite literary love scenes, and you enjoy a complimentary cup of Carte Noire coffee. From Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights to Shakespeare’s Sonnets, join us for a seductive coffee break. Events are free, but advance booking is required, and will be taking place in The Literary Lounge.

Official Coffee

Writers in Residence This year, our Writers in Residence travelled all the way from New Zealand and Australia to immerse themselves in the Festival buzz. Join New Zealand writer Witi Ihimaera, author of the moving The Whale Rider and most recently of The Parihaka Woman, Australians Gail Jones, author of Dreams of Speaking, Chris Womersley and Kalinda Ashton, as they discuss their writing and follow their blog on cheltenhamfestivals.com

The Times Reading Room Start your Festival journey in The Times Reading Room located next to the Box Office in Montpellier Gardens. Immerse yourself in the world of books, celebrate great writing and meet Times journalists face to face throughout the Festival.

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THANK YOU

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The Times is delighted to sponsor Cheltenham Literature Festival once again. There is an enormous selection of Times events to choose from this year. We hope that you will join us for The Times Debate on Saturday 15 October, chaired by the Editor, James Harding. Other highlights include Erica Wagner, our literary editor, taking part in an event to celebrate the life and work of Beryl Bainbridge (15 October); and she’s participating in The 1951 Cheltenham Booker Prize event (15 October). Times columnist Caitlin Moran will give us the heads up on How to Be a Woman, the title of her bestselling book.

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

Waterstone’s is proud to be official bookseller and sponsor of The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, our sixth year of being an integral part of the Festival-going experience. This year is one of tremendous excitement and growth for the Festival as it expands into Montpellier Gardens, and we’re thrilled to be a part of that, opening our second Festival bookshop there for the ten days of talks, workshops and debates. In our shops this autumn, we hope to be further developing the theme of journeys of exploration, inviting our customers to sample new ideas, new writers and new ways of perceiving the world, all inspired by this year’s programme of events.

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 a principal sponsor of the ‘Money Talks’ series at this year’s Festival.

As well as inviting some of last year’s speakers back, we also have some brand new voices for the 2011 series as we seek to continue and develop the interesting conversations started at last year’s Festival. This exciting series of events includes Alistair Darling, Will Hutton, Duncan Bannatyne, Lord Digby Jones and more.

SAINTS is offering Festival-goers the opportunity to win an Amazon Kindle and £400 worth of Amazon vouchers. Look out for information at venues around the Festival, or visit the sponsorship pages at www.bgtrustonline.com/cheltenham for further details.

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 will return for a third year as Broadcast Sponsors of Cheltenham Literature Festival as we launch a new series of the highly acclaimed The Book Show.

Host Mariella Frostrup will be joined by an exciting line-up of authors and special guests to share insights and tips for book enthusiasts. Festival goers can also come along to the Sky Arts Den between events to enjoy free activities and workshops throughout the Festival.

Whether you participate or simply sit back and relax, all activities are free of charge for your enjoyment. Sky Arts is delighted to be returning to the Festival, part of the channel’s on-going commitment to bringing the very best literature festivals to book lovers across the UK. We wish you all an enlightening and enjoyable Festival.

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TODAY At a glance

H G Wells

Access All Areas L001 Montpellier Gardens 12-1pm £7 Renowned travel writer, Sara Wheeler has written acclaimed books on Greece, Chile, the Arctic and Antarctica, as well as singular lives of Apsley Cherry-Garrard and Denys Finch Hatton. Following publication of Access All Areas, her selected writings from 1990-2010, she takes us travelling in an enthralling illustrated talk that will transport us to the ends of the earth.

L004 Imperial Square 12-1pm £7 H G Wells was a man of many parts writer, political philosopher, central figure in the Fabian movement, and an ardent practitioner of the concept of free love. Distinguished writer, David Lodge joins Ramona Koval to discuss his latest novel, A Man of Parts, in which he reimagines the eventful life of Wells.

Power Play

Bob Marshall-Andrews

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Sara Wheeler The Language Wars Edward Burne-Jones David Lodge Bob Marshall-Andrews Benedict Allen, Colin Thubron & Sara Wheeler Emma Donoghue & Ellen Feldman Tony Benn Nicola Shulman Every Two Minutes Samuel Palmer Royalty Revealed Matthew Parris David Lodge & John Sutherland Christopher Ondaatje Explorer-in-Residence

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Political Legacies Colin Thubron Mark Tully Anna Del Conte & Josceline Dimbleby Postmodernism Edward Thomas Any Questions The UK All Stars Poetry Slam! Qualifier Ray Mears Simon Hoggart & Bob Marshall-Andrews Pamela Stephenson Connolly Samuel Johnson Sarah Bakewell

Montpellier Gardens

Henry Hitchings

Vivienne Parry

Nicola Shulman

Emma Donoghue & Ellen Feldman

L007 Montpellier Gardens 2-3pm £6 Hear two acclaimed novelists discuss their latest works and the challenges of writing fiction inspired by real-life events. The Orange Prize-shortlisted US writer Ellen Feldman talks about her latest novel, Next to Love, the story of three women at the heart of 20th century America. Emma Donoghue, author of the bestselling Room, discusses The Sealed Letter, a thought-provoking and gripping drama of friends, lovers and marriage.

Off Message

L005 Imperial Square 12-1pm £7 Tony Blair’s least favourite colleague Bob Marshall-Andrews goes Off Message as he casts a mordant eye on whips and rebels, spin and patronage, expenses and legacies. Join him as he looks back on British political life during New Labour’s term of office and presents an intimate picture of what it was like to be its most prominent dissident member.

The Language Wars Henry Hitchings

L002 Montpellier Gardens 12-1pm £6 What issues are really at stake when people argue over correct English usage? In this erudite and entertaining talk, Henry Hitchings, author of The Language Wars and presenter of a new BBC4 series on the subject, takes us through the history of proper English, from the split infinitive and elocution, to swearing and text messaging.

Legacy

Benedict Allen, Colin Thubron & Sara Wheeler Footprints

Edward Burne-Jones

L006 Montpellier Gardens 2-3pm £7 Who are the travellers and explorers who most inspire the travel writers of today? Three of our most distinguished explorers, Benedict Allen, Colin Thubron and Sara Wheeler, engage in a wide-ranging discussion as they choose their own heroes and heroines from among those who have travelled the world, and then written about it.

Fiona MacCarthy

L003 Imperial Square 12-1pm £6 From the angels on our Christmas cards to the stained glass in our churches, the work of Edward Burne-Jones is all around us. In a lavishly illustrated lecture, Fiona MacCarthy, acclaimed biographer of Eric Gill and William Morris, and author of a new life of Burne-Jones, explores and re-evaluates his art and life.

Power Play

Tony Benn

L008 Main Hall 2-3pm £8 Res An MP at 25, Tony Benn became one of the most respected politicians and campaigners in the UK. In 2001, he announced that he was ‘leaving parliament in order to spend more time on politics’. Join us for this keynote interview as he discusses his career and shares his views on the current British political landscape.

Nicola Shulman Thomas Wyatt: Graven With Diamonds

L009 Imperial Square 2-3pm £6 In her penetrating and hugely-acclaimed new book Graven With Diamonds Nicola Shulman explores the life and work of Thomas Wyatt, court poet for Henry VIII; her dazzling reassessment argues for the value of Wyatt’s work as a veiled and fascinating account of the political danger and sexual intrigue of courtly life, from a genuine eye-witness.

Legacy

EVERY TWO MINUTES

L010 Imperial Square 2-3pm £6 Every two minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with cancer. Scientist Vivienne Parry joins the writer and broadcaster Adam Wishart, author of the moving memoir One in Three, and Cancer Research UK’s chief clinician Professor Peter Johnson to discuss the exciting and encouraging story of how science is changing cancer from a disease we die from to one that we live with.

Imperial Square

Out and about

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FRIDAY 7 OCTOBER Sara Wheeler

Benedict Allen

Emma Donoghue

Bob Marshall-Andrews

Matthew Parris

Josceline Dimbleby

Christopher Ondaatje

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Tony Benn

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Samuel Palmer

Rachel Campbell-Johnston

L011 Montpellier Gardens 4-5pm £6 The mystical cornfields, slumbering shepherds and bright sickle moons in the paintings of visionary artist Samuel Palmer have enchanted his admirers since the 19th century. In this beautifully illustrated lecture, Times art critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston, author of the first biography of Palmer for over 35 years, transports us into his Romantic world.

Legacy

David Lodge & John Sutherland

Political Legacies Tony Benn, Peter Hennessy & Matthew Parris

Lives of the Novelists

L014 Imperial Square 4-5pm £7 From Heathcliff to Harry Potter, what makes a character in literature great and memorable to the reader? John Sutherland, academic and critic, and author of numerous entertaining literary anthologies, undertakes a lighthearted probing of this question in the distinguished company of novelist David Lodge.

L017 The Forum 6.30-7.30pm £8 Res Many politicians, including recent British Prime Ministers, spend the latter years of their premiership legacy-building; few former US Presidents are without a library to their name. Veteran politician Tony Benn is joined by writer and journalist Matthew Parris and historian Peter Hennessy to look at past British political leaders, the legacies they dreamed of leaving and the reality of what we actually remember them for today.

Royalty and Republic

Royalty Revealed Sarah Bradford, Philip Eade & Philip Ziegler

L012 Montpellier Gardens 4-5pm £8 Royal correspondents and biographers face particular challenges - how to bridge a distance created by strict protocols?

How to get to the core of a story without being censored? Philip Ziegler, official biographer of Edward VIII, and Sarah Bradford, author of Diana, join Philip Eade, author of Young Prince Philip.

Adventure

Christopher Ondaatje L015 Imperial Square 4-5pm £6 Born in Ceylon in 1933, explorer, writer and philanthropist Christopher Ondaatje is a true child of the British Empire. In this evocative illustrated lecture based on The Last Colonial, his recently published book of autobiographical essays, he looks back on his eventful life, and recounts curious stories and adventures from a vanishing world.

Adventure

Colin Thubron To a Mountain in Tibet

L018 Montpellier Gardens 6.30-7.30pm £6 Shortly after his mother’s death, renowned travel writer Colin Thubron made an extraordinary journey along the pilgrim route to Kailas, a remote mountain sacred to Buddhists and Hindus. He joins Ramona Koval to discuss that elegiac journey, as described in To a Mountain in Tibet, perhaps his most personal travel book yet.

Power Play

Adventure

L013 Main Hall 4-5pm £8 Res Based on the popular Radio 4 series, writer and journalist Matthew Parris reveals the Great Lives of some of the world’s most inspiring and influential characters. From artists to statesmen, authors to scientists, he explores how they influenced the world and what drove them to achieve so much.

Dominic Faulkner

Great Lives

Montpellier Gardens

Anna Del Conte & Josceline Dimbleby

L020 Imperial Square 6.30-7.30pm £6 The child of a travelling diplomat father, Josceline Dimbleby, author of Orchards in the Oasis, found her passion for all things culinary was awakened when she ate sweet and sticky pastry in Damascus.

She is joined by the doyenne of Italian food, Anna del Conte (Cooking with Coco) to reflect on different food cultures, and share their personal memories of tasting the exotic cuisine of other lands.

Postmodernism Style and Subversion

The Last Colonial

Matthew Parris

Bitesize

Explorer-in-Residence L016 Imperial Square 4-5pm £6 Adventurer and Explorer-in-Residence Dominic Faulkner joins us to discuss his amazing journeys and the practical and psychological challenges of exploration in the modern era. He tells the story of The Longest Journey, his most intrepid adventure, which took him from the lowest to the highest point on Earth: an 8000 kilometre cycle from the shores of the Dead Sea to the base of Everest, followed by a successful ascent of the world’s highest mountain.

Mark Tully

India: The Road Ahead

L019 Imperial Square 6.30-7.30pm £6 Over the past twenty years, India has developed into one of the world’s major economies. Travel writer, BBC broadcaster and long time India resident Mark Tully draws on his interviews with ordinary Indians to interpret what this rapid change might mean, both for the country and the world. Join him to contemplate The Road Ahead.

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L021 Imperial Square 6.30-7.30pm £7 From Blade Runner to Thierry Mugler, what does Postmodernism mean, and where did it come from? In this lavishly illustrated talk, Jane Pavitt and Glenn Adamson, curators of a major autumn exhibition at the V&A, show how Postmodernism evolved rapidly from a provocative architectural movement of the early 1970s, to influence all areas of popular culture including art, film, music, graphics and fashion.

Stanzas

Edward Thomas

L022 Imperial Square 6.30-7.30pm £8 Edward Thomas was one of the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Matthew Hollis, author of a new biography of Thomas, All Roads Lead to France, gives us an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost. The event will also include readings from Thomas’ work.

FRIDAY 7 OCTOBER John Sutherland

Kate Chisholm

Colin Thubron

Mark Tully

Simon Hoggart

FRIDAY 7

Rachel Campbell-Johnston

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Any Questions

L023 Montpellier Gardens 7-9pm Free - Advance Booking Required Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate as a panel of four answer questions from the audience. The panellists never know what the questions from the week’s news will be until they hear them - and as it’s live anything could happen.

Adventure

Samuel Johnson

Ray Mears

Kate Chisholm

L025 The Forum 8.45pm-10pm £10 Res Instantly familiar from TV series such as Ray Mears’ Bushcraft and Survival with Ray Mears, bushcraft expert Ray Mears has tested his survival skills all over the world, whilst exploring the traditional culture of indigenous peoples, and following in the footsteps of noted explorers. In a hugely enjoyable event he looks back on some of his enthralling adventures.

L028 Imperial Square 8.45-10pm £6 Dr Samuel Johnson was famous for his way with words. In this illuminating talk, Kate Chisholm, author of Wits and Wives, argues that his character can most clearly be seen through his relationships with the women in his life, from his mother Sarah, and wife Tetty, to formidable 18th century heroines like Mary Wollstonecraft and Hannah More.

Cheltenham Extra

The UK All Stars Poetry Slam! Qualifier L024 Imperial Square 8.30-10pm £4 Fancy a starring role in the UK’s slam extravaganza (event L068)? 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 640 470 or via spielunlimited@gmail.com

Sarah Bakewell

Power Play

Montaigne: How To Live

Simon Hoggart & Bob Marshall-Andrews

L029 Imperial Square 8.45-10pm £6 What’s the best way to get on with other people? How do we get over losing someone we love? How should we live?

Such were the questions posed by 16th century nobleman, Michel de Montaigne whose essays teem with his pertinent thoughts on human existence. His prizewinning biographer, Sarah Bakewell presents an exuberant account of his life.

You Couldn’t Make It Up

L026 Montpellier Gardens 8.45-10pm £10 David Frost complained in an interview last year that the coalition is killing political satire, with a dearth of characters worth making fun of. The Guardian’s Simon Hoggart and former Labour MP Bob Marshall-Andrews ask how poking fun at the coalition compares to ridiculing the likes of Thatcher and Blair.

Cheltenham Blue

Pamela Stephenson Connolly

L027 Main Hall 8.45-10pm £11 Res Bestselling author and leading sex therapist Pamela Stephenson Connolly, of recent Strictly Come Dancing fame, takes us on an eye-opening journey to explode common sex myths. In Sex Life, always entertaining and at times shocking, she creates an intimate portrait of our sexual selves and how they evolve throughout our lives.

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Pamela Stephenson Connolly

Ray Mears

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The Book Show at Cheltenham

Join Mariella Frostrup in the ‘Qwerty’ for Sky Arts’ The Book Show on the 8th and 9th of October.

Be part of a unique live recording featuring the wealth of talent at Cheltenham this year.

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Peter Conradi

Heather Brooke

D J Taylor

Excess Baggage

L030 The Salon 9.30-10.30am Free – Advance Booking Required BBC Radio 4’s Saturday morning programme for and about travellers takes to the road itself, as it is broadcast live in front of a Cheltenham audience.

John McCarthy talks to writers who have made an impression on the world about the impression the world has made on them.

Morning Excess Baggage The Book Show WW2 Adventures Captain Scott’s Lost Photographs The Spanish Civil War Singalong with Julia Donaldson Jeremy Paxman Your Perfect Coffee Moment The Write Stuff

Afternoon 038 Charles Dickens L LB9 Ruby Redfort with Lauren Child L039 Steve Bell & Simon Hoggart L037 The Book Show L041 Soapbox with John Hegarty L042 Words & Whisky LB10 RSPB Wildlife Poetry LB11 Monsters and Shadows L043 Words & Whisky L046 Caitlin Moran L048 Gareth Peirce L364 Times2 Live!

L049 Monty Don & Derry Moore L050 Robert Hardy L051 Best of Times, Worst of Times L047 Ruth Rendell LB14 Chitty Flies Again L040 The Big Reading L044 Words & Whisky L052 Penny Smith L056 Robert Peston L055 Secrets of the TV Critics L096 Celia Imrie L057 After Bin Laden L058 Wellcome Trust Book Prize L054 Catch-22 L045 Words & Whisky L062 Anne Rice

Evening 060 Moscow Rules L L061 Taste Great Wine L063 Misha Glenny L064 What Does it Mean to be a Liberal Democrat?

LB21 How To Get Your Children’s Book Published L065 Frank Skinner L066 Mohammed Hanif & Tahmima Anam L059 John Hegarty & Mark Borkowski L084 Alistair Darling L067 Spiegeltent Jazz Night L068 The UK All Stars Poetry Slam!

L069 The King’s Speech L070 Grace Dent & Caitlin Moran L071 Heather Brooke L073 Andy McNab L074 Joe Dunthorne & Blake Morrison L075 Past Masters L072 Jarvis Cocker

The Book Show

Blake Morrison

Carte Noire Readers

L033 Imperial Square 10-11am £7 From George Orwell to Laurie Lee, the Spanish Civil War influenced a generation of writers and artists. On this, the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the war we welcome historian Paul Preston, world authority on the conflict, along with critic D J Taylor and literary expert Valentine Cunningham, to explore the historical significance and cultural afterlife of one of the defining events of the 20th century.

L035 The Literary Lounge 11-11.30am Free – Advance Booking Required As the wild and tragic hero of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff loves with a shocking intensity. Enjoy a complimentary cup of velvety Carte Noire and join him in all his brooding magnificence as he strides into our Literary Lounge to give a thrilling reading from this all-time romantic classic.

Family Event

Singalong with Julia Donaldson

L031 QWERTY Doors open 9.40am with filming 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 be broadcast weekly on Thursdays at 8pm from October 13th on Sky Arts 1 HD.

Jeremy Paxman

The Spanish Civil War Valentine Cunningham, Paul Preston & D J Taylor

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Sara-Jane Arbury

LB3 Garden Theatre Age 6+ 10-11am £6.50 Join in with Children’s Laureate Julia Donaldson and her husband Malcolm for a grand singalong from her irresistible songbooks and stories. Listen to the brand new Zog song, moo and hiss at the dastardly farmyard antics in What the Ladybird Heard and find out how the villainous rat gets his come-uppance in her latest story, The Highway Rat. With a special guest appearance from the Gruffalo!

Your Perfect Coffee Moment

The Write Stuff

L036 The Salon 11.30am-1pm Free – Advance Booking Required A recording of the long-running literary panel show sees Festival guests join regular team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh to tackle a variety of book-based brainteasers, inspired by an ‘Author of the Week’, and culminating in the panel’s pastiches of that author’s work. James Walton hosts.

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Charles Dickens

Family Event

WW2 Adventures

Claire Tomalin & John Carey

LB2 The Studio Age 8+ 9.30-10.15am £4.50 Stories like this shouldn’t be forgotten.

Meet Mick Manning and Brita Gunström as they present the hairraising exploits of Mick’s father and mother in Tail-End Charlie and Taaf in the WAAF. Find out what it was like to be an RAF air gunner or a WAAF working in the top-secret world of Bletchley Park. From rationing to the Blitz this is a unique account of living through WW2.

Jeremy Paxman Empire

L034 The Forum 11am-12pm £15 Res The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. To launch his new book Empire (also a forthcoming BBC TV series) Jeremy Paxman gives us an enthralling illustrated talk which reveals the Empire’s profound effect on our nation and ourselves.

Adventure

Captain Scott’s LOST PHOTOGRAPHS

L038 Imperial Square 12-1pm £10 Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: journalist, father of ten, tireless traveller, supporter of liberal social causes, and of course, great novelist. His extraordinary life has provided distinguished biographer, Claire Tomalin with her latest subject in Charles Dickens: A Life.

In conversation with author and critic John Carey she discusses the complex character of this man of genius.

Family Event

Ruby Redfort with Lauren Child

LB9 The Inkpot Age 9+ 12-12.45pm £6 Bestselling author of Charlie and Lola and Clarice Bean, Lauren Child introduces readers to her sassy new character: the super genius, code-cracking, daring detective - Ruby Redfort. With a host of unmissable and unforgettable characters in Look into My Eyes, the first adventure in the Ruby Redfort series - You’d betta believe it, kiddo!

David M Wilson

L032 Imperial Square 10-11am £7 Born in Montpellier Parade in Cheltenham, Dr Edward Wilson died with Captain Scott in Antarctica in March 1912. In this stunning illustrated talk, David M Wilson, his great-nephew presents remarkable lost photographs taken by Scott on that final expedition, including panoramas of the landscape, formations of ice and snow and photographs of his fellow explorers.

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SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER Claire Tomalin

Penny Smith

John Hegarty

Misha Glenny

Anne Rice

Gareth Peirce

Theo Padnos

SATURDAY 8

John McCarthy

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Power Play

Steve Bell & Simon Hoggart

L039 Imperial Square 12-1pm £10 Political sketch-writers and cartoonists bring a much-needed entertaining and satirical eye to bear on the daily goingson in parliament. We welcome two of the most distinguished: Simon Hoggart whose collected sketches have just been published, along with legendary cartoonist Steve Bell. Join them for an event like no other.

The Book Show

L037 QWERTY Doors open 12.10pm with filming 12.30-1.30pm £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 be broadcast weekly on Thursdays at 8pm from October 13th on Sky Arts 1 HD.

Family Event

TIMES2 Live!

RSPB Wildlife Poetry

L364 The Literary Lounge 2-3pm Free – Advance Booking Required For the first time ever, The Times2 team and editor Emma Tucker open their daily meeting to our audience as they plan a Festival edition and contemplate the news of the day. What would you like to see in print next week? Drop in to contribute your ideas and brainstorm with the columnists in this exclusive Festival event.

LB10 The Playhouse Age 7+ 1-1.45pm £5 From birds, mammals and fish to trees, flowers and insects, the richness of the British natural world is explored through a stunning collection of the very best in wildlife poetry. Join Celia Warren for a poetry reading - perfect for the whole family!

Monsters and Shadows LB11 The Studio Age 12+ 1-2pm £5 Don’t miss two extraordinary and highlyacclaimed writers in conversation about their recent prize-winning novels. Jason Wallace’s powerful Costa-award-winning novel Out of Shadows is set in a war-torn Zimbabwe. Patrick Ness’s electrifying Monsters of Men, set in a dystopian future, is the final part of his Chaos Walking trilogy, and won this year’s Carnegie Medal.

Monty Don & Derry Moore The Italian Garden

L049 Imperial Square 2-3pm £10 The gardens of Italy rank amongst the great treasures of the world. They have influenced and inspired almost every landscape designer and architect since the Renaissance. Here we accompany gardener and author Monty Don and photographer Derry Moore on their tour of Italy’s glorious gardens, the playground preserves of the wealthy nobility, cardinals, industrialists and glitterati of their time.

Words & Whisky

L043 Highland Park Marquee 1.15-1.30pm Free Relax and unwind at these intimate readings from some of the Festival’s best talents, all accompanied by a complimentary dram of Highland Park Single Malt Whisky.

ROBERT HARDY Money Talks

Soapbox with John Hegarty

L041 The Literary Lounge 12.30-1pm Free One of the world’s leading advertising men, John Hegarty gives advice On Advertising in this short talk, giving you an opportunity to ask the creator of the immortal ‘Vorsprung durch Technik’ lots of questions on how to make it in the advertising world.

L050 Main Hall 2-3pm £12 Res Robert Hardy is one of our most distinctive and best-loved actors, whose extensive career spanning over 40 years takes in some of the most iconic screen and television productions of our time.

From All Creatures Great and Small to Churchill: The Wilderness Years (for which he won a BAFTA) and Harry Potter, he discusses his extraordinary career.

The Times Spotlight Event

Caitlin Moran How to Be a Woman

L046 The Forum 1.30-2.30pm £12 Res Why are pants getting smaller? Why do bras hurt? Why should we girls have to get Brazilians? The brilliant Caitlin Moran, columnist and critic for The Times, reflects on her own womanly journey from childhood and adolescence, through to motherhood and beyond, revealing her provocative and gloriously funny take on How to Be a Woman.

Money Talks

BEST OF TIMES, WORST OF TIMES

Ranald Michie, John Sutherland & D J Taylor

L051 Imperial Square 2-3pm £8 From Hard Times by Charles Dickens, to Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now, themes of money and finance occupied a central place in the Victorian literary imagination. Contemporary writers D J Taylor, John Sutherland join financial historian Ranald Michie explore the Victorian portrayal of money in the stories of our great 19th century novelists, and examine the fascinating economic parallels between their society and ours.

Gareth Peirce

Dispatches from the Dark Side

Words & Whisky

L042 Highland Park Marquee 12.30-12.45pm Free Relax and unwind at these intimate readings from some of the Festival’s best talents, all accompanied by a complimentary dram of Highland Park Single Malt Whisky.

Montpellier Gardens

L048 Montpellier Gardens 2-3pm £8 The radical solicitor Gareth Peirce’s many clients include the Birmingham Six, the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, and Moazzam Begg. She joins us to discuss Dispatches from the Dark Side, her powerful critique of the widespread use of torture in the war on terror, and how it threatens to destroy the moral and legal fabric it claims to be protecting.

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Ruth Rendell

L047 Montpellier Gardens 2.45-3.45pm £8 The prolific author of over seventy novels and creator of Inspector Wexford, Ruth Rendell is one of our most distinguished crime novelists. She joins us to discuss her latest book The Vault which sees the now retired Wexford return to take on a case of fiendish difficulty and danger.

Family Event

Chitty Flies Again

LB14 The Playhouse Age 8+ 2.45-3.30pm £5 Fiction’s best-loved car roars back to life! Almost fifty years after Ian Fleming wrote the original version as a bedtime story for his young son, author Frank Cottrell Boyce (Millions, Cosmic) has given Chitty Chitty Bang Bang a marvellous mechanical makeover. Hear all about his new story, Chitty Flies Again, which follows the Tooting family as they zoom around the world in their magical camper-van.

Bonne Maman Big Read

The Big Reading

L040 Hotel du Vin 3-3.30pm Free In this free live reading, meet Yossarian, US Airforce Bombardier and unlikely hero of Joseph Heller’s seminal Catch-22, this year’s Big Read. In the craziness of war, one man’s clarity shines through in this classic novel, by turns powerfully haunting, sharply satirical and riotously amusing.

Words & Whisky

L044 Highland Park Marquee 3.15-3.30pm Free Relax and unwind at these intimate readings from some of the Festival’s best talents, all accompanied by a complimentary dram of Highland Park Single Malt Whisky.

SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER Peter Taylor

David Omand

Monty Don

Andy McNab

Robert Peston

Tim Lott

Frank Skinner

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Caitlin Moran

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Power Play

L052 The Literary Lounge 3.45- 4.45pm £6 Lindeman’s wines takes over The Literary Lounge for an afternoon of book swapping, wine and discussion with well-known journalist, broadcaster and author Penny Smith. She will share an extract from her favourite book and you will have the opportunity to swap books with other fellow book lovers.

L057 Imperial Square 4-5pm £9 President Obama confidently hailed Bin Laden’s death as a landmark in the war on terror. Join Peter Taylor (author of Talking to Terrorists and presenter of the BBC2 series The War On Terror), Theo Padnos (Undercover Muslim) and David Omand (Securing the State) as they explore if the events on 2 May were more meaningful to the American ballot box than to global security.

Penny Smith

Money Talks

Robert Peston

L056 Main Hall 3.45-4.45pm £12 Res With his typical no-nonsense approach, BBC Business Editor Robert Peston has been the voice of reason on British television during the global financial crisis. He joins us for an exclusive Festival event to share his views on the hottest topics in the world of economics and current affairs.

Words & Whisky

After Bin Laden

L045 Highland Park Marquee 5.30-5.45pm Free Relax and unwind at these intimate readings from some of the Festival’s best talents, all accompanied by a complimentary dram of Highland Park Single Malt Whisky.

Anne Rice

L062 Main Hall 5.30-6.30pm £9 Res Famous for her gothic fiction, notably Interview With a Vampire, made into a film starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, Anne Rice is one of the most widely read authors in the world. In a Festival exclusive, we are delighted to welcome her on a rare visit from the US, to discuss her life and extraordinary novels.

Joanna Bourke, Roger Highfield, Tim Lott, Vivienne Parry & Erica Wagner

L058 Imperial Square 4-5pm £7 From Heathcliff and Little Nell to Jude the Obscure and Brideshead’s Lord Marchmain, a deathbed scene is a true test of a novelist’s mettle. Here our panel of Joanna Bourke, Roger Highfield, Tim Lott and Erica Wagner join Vivienne Parry to discuss the importance and impact of those scenes from a literary, historical and scientific point of view, each citing their most memorable choices.

Moscow Rules

A D Miller & Tom Rob Smith

L060 Montpellier Gardens 6-7pm £7 Dead-drops, dachas, microdots and Moscow Rules; the Cold War may have ended but our appetite for Russiabased spy novels and thrillers remains unabated. In Tom Rob Smith’s Agent 6 a former Soviet Secret Service agent loses everything to tragedy and must reawaken his old instincts to solve the mystery. The author of award-winning Child 44 is joined by A D Miller whose Snowdrops is an intense psychological drama, unfolding over the course of one Moscow winter. They talk about their writing and the enduring appeal of Russia.

Television Tales

SECRETS OF THE TV CRITICS

Andrew Billen, Grace Dent, Alison Graham, Kate Harwood & Kirsty Lang

L055 Montpellier Gardens 4-5pm £8 Lounging in a darkened room with a remote control appears an enviable way to earn a crust. Grace Dent (The Guardian), Andrew Billen (The Times) and Alison Graham (Radio Times) join Kirsty Lang and Kate Harwood (BBC Drama Head of Series and Serials) to discuss what it is really like to watch television for a living. How does a critic choose what to write about, and do the makers of television programmes regard critics as friends, or armchair assassins?

Bonne Maman Big Read

Catch-22

Sarah Churchwell, Mohammed Hanif & Andy McNab

L054 Montpellier Gardens 4.45-5.45pm £8 To celebrate 50 years since it was first published, Catch-22 has been selected as this year’s Big Read. It’s a particularly appropriate choice given that its author, Joseph Heller, did his last ever public event at Cheltenham in 1999. Now, admirers of this classic novel, academic Sarah Churchwell, and authors Mohammed Hanif and Andy McNab discuss its enduring appeal.

How To...

TASTE Great Wine

L061 Spiegeltent Bistro 6-7.30pm £12 Join the Lindeman’s wine expert for an evening masterclass in how to taste great wines. From Sauvignon Blanc to Pinot Grigio and from Merlot to Cabernet Sauvignon, Lindeman’s will take you on a true journey of wine discovery. Tantalise your taste buds with the award winning wines from Lindeman’s.

Photography is not permitted at this event.

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Misha Glenny Dark Market

L063 Imperial Square 6-7pm £7 We bank, shop, learn, work and live online. But who will keep us safe in cyberspace in this burgeoning digital world? Writer and broadcaster Misha Glenny investigates the three fundamental threats that face any computer user in the 21st century: cyber crime, cyber warfare and cyber industrial espionage; the subject of his riveting new book, Dark Market.

Power Play

What Does it Mean to be a Liberal Democrat?

L064 Imperial Square 6-7pm £8 Britain’s political landscape changed profoundly at the last election, when the Liberal Democrats moved from a voice of opposition to a position at the heart of power. A month after their party conference, our panel of leading politicians and commentators explore the challenges of coalition, and what being a Liberal Democrat means today.

Masterclass

How To Get Your Children’s Book Published

LB21 The Playhouse 6-7.30pm £12 Meet and learn from industry experts across a wide spectrum of publishing roles at this very special event designed to be informative, engaging and inspiring. Barry Cunningham, Chicken House MD and Publisher, will be joined

by Amanda Craig, The Times’ Children’s Book Critic, Sophia Bennett, former winner, and Neil Blair, J K Rowling’s literary agent. They will discuss how to get published in a challenging market, and what makes a good book.

Frank Skinner

L065 The Forum 6.30-7.30pm £15 Res Covering such random topics as fat pop stars, the banking crisis, Jedward and of course, football, Frank Skinner, the comedian and columnist for The Times, treats us to some of his Dispatches From The Sofa.

SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER Grace Dent

Alistair Darling

Mohammed Hanif

Tom Rob Smith

A D Miller

Mark Logue

Jarvis Cocker

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Erica Wagner

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Mohammed Hanif & Tahmima Anam

L066 Imperial Square 6.30-7.30pm £6 Two writers who both visited Cheltenham on their hugely acclaimed debuts make a welcome return with eagerly-awaited second novels.

Mohammed Hanif (A Case of Exploding Mangoes) has written Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, a glorious story of second chances, thwarted ambitions and love in unlikely places, set in downtown Karachi.

Author of A Golden Age Tahmima Anam joins him to talk about her new novel The Good Muslim, an epic story of faith, family and war set amidst Bangladesh’s struggle for self-definition.

John Hegarty & Mark Borkowski

L059 Montpellier Gardens 7-8pm £8 Mad Men has given the advertising world considerable allure, but what is it really like? Who better to ask than John Hegarty, the creative brains behind campaigns like ‘Vorsprung durch Technik’, and the author of a new book, Hegarty on Advertising. In conversation with Mark Borkowski, he looks back on four eventful decades in the business.

Money Talks

Alistair Darling

L084 Main Hall 7.15-8.15pm £9 Res From all-night meetings at the White House, to confrontations with the titans of international banking, former Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, was at the centre of events during the financial crisis and discusses what really happened in the eye of the financial storm. He discusses those 1,000 dramatic days, and his new book, Back from the Brink.

Spiegeltent Jazz Night L067 Spiegeltent Bistro 7.30pm-late Free End your Festival day in style as Cheltenham Jazz Festival takes over the Spiegeltent Bistro with the Chris Mapp Quartet.

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Cheltenham Extra

The UK All Stars Poetry Slam!

Power Play

Locally Sourced

L071 Montpellier Gardens 8.45-10pm £8 What are the limits to transparency?

Does privacy still exist? Where lies the balance between freedom and security? Acclaimed author and Freedom of Information campaigner, Heather Brooke discusses her role in the MPs’ expenses scandal and brings us some trenchant dispatches from the information war. She shows how the internet is transforming politics, the subject of her probing new book The Revolution Will Be Digitised.

Jane Bailey, Fiona Mountain & Andrew Taylor

Heather Brooke

L068 Imperial Square 8-11pm £7 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, performance and your applause!

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

Andy McNab

L073 Imperial Square 8.45-10pm £10 What is it really like to be a soldier in the thick of battle? Who better to ask than SAS man turned author, Andy McNab. Here he discusses his new book Dead Centre.

Royalty and Republic

The King’s Speech

Peter Conradi & Mark Logue

L069 The Forum 8.45-10pm £11 Res Despite being unknown and self-taught, Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue cured King George VI of his debilitating stammer and pathological nervousness in front of an audience. You’ve seen the Oscar-winning film, now join us for some fascinating insights into this remarkable story from Mark Logue, grandson of Lionel, and Peter Conradi, together the co-authors of his critically acclaimed biography.

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Joe Dunthorne & Blake Morrison

L074 Imperial Square 8.45-10pm £6 In his taut and brilliantly chilling The Last Weekend, Blake Morrison (And When Did You Last See Your Father?) explores a rivalrous friendship and the green-eyed monster that eats the soul. Meanwhile Joe Dunthorne (Submarine) follows a family as their relationships slowly unravel and the father desperately tries to keep things together in Wild Abandon.

Join them as they discuss and read from their latest novels.

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Grace Dent & Caitlin Moran Tweet Nothings

L070 Montpellier Gardens 8.45-10pm £8 Columnist and author Grace Dent joined Twitter as a place to rant about garbage TV and post photos of her hot new toenail varnish, but soon found herself consumed by the social network phenomenon. Along with Caitlin Moran she takes a hilarious look at what’s really going on in Twitterworld and the influence it has on our lives.

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PAST MASTERS

L075 The Playhouse 8.45-10pm £6 Res Creating vivid characters is key to writing about the past; three writers who have all written acclaimed fiction set in the past share their insights and read from their work. Andrew Taylor’s novel The Anatomy of Ghosts is set in the 18th Century, Fiona Mountain’s Cavalier Queen is set against the background of the Civil War, and Jane Bailey’s Tommy Glover’s Sketch of Heaven is set in the Second World War. They discuss the challenges of breathing authentic life into historical characters.

JARVIS COCKER

L072 Main Hall 9-10pm £15 Res Celebrated Pulp frontman and awardwinning radio broadcaster Jarvis Cocker is widely regarded as one of the most original and memorable lyricists and performers of the last three decades.

Here he joins us exclusively to discuss his new selected lyrics collection Mother, Brother, Lover, and how he cut an original dash in a rock’n’roll world often dominated by reductive cliché.

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Martin Davidson

Bettany Hughes

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The Book Show

TODAY At a glance Morning 076 The Book Show L L077 William Golding L078 Read Virgil L079 Martin Davidson & Ben Macintyre LB24 Horrid Henry L080 Peter Bowles L081 Your Perfect Coffee Moment L399 John Sergeant

Afternoon 083 Meet the Controller L LB29 Ted Hughes - Stories and Poems LB30 Justin’s Jokes LB27 Meg Rosoff & Jennifer Donnelly L082 The Book Show L086 Lunchtime Melodies L087 Soapbox with Oli Barrett L088 Mary Beard L360 Words & Whisky L089 Christopher Lee & Harriet Walter L093 Michael Portillo LB33 How to Steal a Dragon’s Sword L091 The Nick Clarke Debate L092 BBC World Book Club L094 Jane Eyre L095 Tahmima Anam, Anne Rice & Natasha Solomons LB36 Mad, Bad and Dangerous!

L090 Atlantis L085 The Big Reading L361 Words & Whisky LB37 What Makes a Blue Peter Prize Winner L098 Great British Railway Journeys L410 Joanna Lumley L401 Plan Your Own Adventure L099 Translating Holy Texts LB39 War Horse L100 Afternoon Readings LB40 How to Get the Family You Want L110 Jeffrey Archer L362 Words & Whisky LB42 Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell

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Rachel Johnson, Jane Shilling & Harriet Walter Robert Lindsay Francine Stock Downton Abbey A Good Read Afghanistan Evan Davis Harriet Walter Rachel Johnson Andrew Miller & Amy Sackville Stephen Poliakoff Isla Blair & Julian Glover The Wondermentalist Cabaret Larry Lamb

Judy Golding

Horrid Henry

L076 QWERTY Doors open 9.40am with filming 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 be broadcast weekly on Thursdays at 8pm from October 13th on Sky Arts 1 HD.

LB24 Garden Theatre Age 6+ 10-11am £6.50 Join the wonderful, mega-bestselling Francesca Simon as she talks about all things horrid! Find out Horrid Henry’s latest dreadful deeds in this wickedly funny and unique event, and listen in as Francesca reads from her brand new and hilarious Horrid Henry and the Zombie Vampire. Don’t miss out!

Blake Morrison

Christopher Lee

Meet the Controller

L083 The Salon 12-1pm Free – Advance Booking Required Ever wondered what it’s like behind the scenes of one of the UK’s most popular radio stations? Here is your chance to find out, as Gwyneth Williams, Controller of BBC Radio 4, joins us for a question and answer session guided by you.

Peter Bowles

L080 The Forum 11am-12pm £10 Res Told on leaving drama school that he would never play an Englishman, Peter Bowles is probably best known for playing just that. He talks candidly about his distinguished acting career, as well as his celebrated TV roles in Rumpole of the Bailey and of course, To the Manor Born.

William Golding

Judy Golding, Blake Morrison & Meg Rosoff

L077 Montpellier Gardens 10-11am £7 Lord of the Flies author William Golding is one of the greats of 20th century British literature. His daughter Judy Golding, author of The Children of Lovers, a memoir about growing up with this famous father, discusses his life and legacy with contemporary novelists and Golding admirers Meg Rosoff and Blake Morrison.

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Your Perfect Coffee Moment

L081 The Literary Lounge 11-11.30am Free – Advance Booking Required Aloof, brooding and devastatingly sexy!

Join the nation’s favourite romantic hero Mr Darcy as he steps out of the pages of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Enjoy a complimentary cup of velvety Carte Noire coffee with a romantic reading from one of the most popular love stories of all time.

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Read Virgil

Mary Beard, Llewelyn Morgan & Peter Stothard

L078 Imperial Square 10-11am £7 Virgil was one of the greatest poets of Roman times. His epic poem the Aeneid has endured in popularity since it was written in around 25 BC; a significant influence on Western literature. Classics don Mary Beard is joined by Llewelyn Morgan and author and Times Literary Supplement Editor Peter Stothard to present a brilliant beginner’s guide to a richly rewarding poet in this interactive event.

Power Play

John Sergeant

L399 Main Hall 11.45am-12.45pm £10 Res The former BBC political editor, Strictly Come Dancing competitor, writer and broadcaster John Sergeant is rapidly attaining the status of national treasure.

In this revealing and entertaining interview he shares the ups and downs of a career packed with incident and variety.

Martin Davidson & Ben Macintyre

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The Perfect Nazi

L079 Imperial Square 10-11am £8 After decades of family secrecy, documentary maker Martin Davidson discovered that his grandfather was one of Hitler’s most loyal SS officers; a revelation he describes in The Perfect Nazi. In conversation with Ben Macintyre, he reflects on his grandfather’s journey from disillusioned adolescent to Nazi upper echelons; seduced, like millions of others, by Hitler’s regime.

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Family Event

Ted Hughes Stories and Poems Michael Morpurgo & Juliet Stevenson

LB29 Garden Theatre Age 8+ 12-1pm £6.50 Join author and former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo and acclaimed actor Juliet Stevenson as they bring to life Ted Hughes’ magical poetry and wonderfully vivid stories for children from the delightful new audio collections celebrating the work of the much-loved poet.

Family Event

Justin’s Jokes

LB30 The Inkpot Age 4+ 12-12.45pm £6 You’ve seen Gigglebiz, you’ve seen Something Special so now get ready for Justin’s Jokes! Meet the star of CBeebies Justin Fletcher, the man behind Mr Tumble, Gail Force, Professor Muddles and many more as he celebrates the launch of his hilarious new joke book for children. There will be fun for all the family with plenty of sing-a-long songs and oodles of laugh-out-loud jokes!

Meg Rosoff & Jennifer Donnelly

LB27 The Playhouse Age 12+ 12-1 pm £5 A rare chance to meet two highly acclaimed, award-winning writers in conversation. Meg Rosoff’s first novel How I Live Now was a huge hit. She is back with her latest novel There is No Dog, which asks: What would the world look like if God were a teenage boy?

American writer, Jennifer Donnelly’s debut novel A Gathering Light became an instant bestseller. Her new novel Revolution explores family relationships from the French Revolution to present day New York in a beautifully written story of two young women divided by 200 years.

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Anne Rice

Witi Ihimaera

Celia Imrie

Justin Webb

Mariella Frostrup

Rachel Johnson

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Michael Morpurgo

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The Book Show

L082 QWERTY Doors open 12.10pm with filming 12.30-1.30pm £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 be broadcast weekly on Thursdays at 8pm from October 13th on Sky Arts 1 HD.

The Friends’ Festival Lunch

Family Event

Mary Beard

How to Steal a Dragon’s Sword

L088 The Daffodil 12.30-3pm £40 (£35) including two-course set Sunday Lunch menu with amusebouche taster, glass of wine and coffee The classicist, author and broadcaster Mary Beard is at the forefront of the tremendous revival of interest in the classical world. Here she joins us for Sunday lunch and to discuss her life and her writing with friend and fellow classicist, the TLS editor Peter Stothard.

LB33 The Playhouse Age 8+ 1.45-2.30pm £5.50 Cressida Cowell, creator of the How to Train Your Dragon series (now a hugely successful film) is back to tell you all about Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III and his latest adventures in How to Steal a Dragon’s Sword. Find out all about her childhood holidays on a remote island which inspired her love of Vikings and dragons.

The Nick Clarke Debate

Lunchtime Melodies

L086 Spiegeltent Bistro 12.30-2pm Free Cheltenham Music Festival comes to life in the Spiegeltent, with chamber music to accompany your Sunday lunchtime. Drop in and take a break from your busy Festival day.

Money Talks

Soapbox with Oli Barrett

L087 The Literary Lounge 12.30-1pm Free Founder of the Co-Sponsorship Agency and Make Your Mark with a Tenner, Oli Barrett spent two years on the PM’s Council on Social Action.

He joins us to explain why connecting people and ideas is crucial to any business, with plenty of opportunity to ask him questions about the art of networking.

Moira Buffini & Juliet Stevenson

L094 Garden Theatre 2-3pm £8 Res One of the great classics of English literature, Charlotte Brontë’s haunting tale of Jane Eyre has been loved by readers for centuries. Moira Buffini, who wrote the screenplay for the recent film, and actor Juliet Stevenson, who lent her voice to the book’s audio recording, discuss the allure of Jane Eyre.

In memory of Ruth McWilliam

Pathways

TahmiMa Anam, Them and Us? Anne Rice What lies ahead for Natasha SolomonS America’s relationship with & L095 Imperial Square 2-3pm £7 the rest of the world?

How do writers’ religious backgrounds

Words & Whisky

L360 Highland Park Marquee 12.45-1pm Free Relax and unwind at these intimate readings from some of the Festival’s best talents, all accompanied by a complimentary dram of Highland Park Single Malt Whisky.

Legacy

Christopher Lee & Harriet Walter

L089 The Forum 1.30-2.30pm £15 Res In a Cheltenham exclusive we hope to welcome screen legend Christopher Lee, star of the classic Hammer Horror films and more recently Lord of the Rings, and his niece Harriet Walter, admired for her roles in many RSC productions and on screen, as they look back on hugely successful, yet very different acting careers.

L091 The Salon 2-3pm £8 Barack Obama’s election was greeted by a wave of global optimism; today however America’s relationship with the rest of the world seems more complex than ever. Our panel, which includes BBC broadcaster Justin Webb, the author of Notes on Them and Us, and leading American cultural commentator Sarah Churchwell, debates the global and internal challenges facing America as Obama approaches the 2012 Presidential election

influence their writing? The novelists Anne Rice (Interview with a Vampire, the Seraphim series) Natasha Solomons (The Novel in the Viola) and Tahmima Anam (The Good Muslim) have all written novels of extraordinary power in which religion plays a complex part. They discuss their writing and the ebb and flow of faith’s influence on their work.

This event is dedicated to the memory of Nick Clarke, an outstanding broadcaster, consummate interviewer and muchloved 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.

Mad, Bad and Dangerous!

BBC World Book Club Witi Ihimaera

L092 The Literary Lounge 2-3pm Free – Advance Booking Required Put a question to bestselling New Zealand writer Witi Ihimaera at a recording of the book club that unites readers globally on BBC World Service.

The author will talk about his novel Whale Rider, the timeless story of a spirited Maori girl who defied convention and enabled her tribe to reconnect with their ancestral life force. Sign up early to secure your free copy of the book and prepare to ask your question!

Power Play

Michael Portillo

L093 Main Hall 1.45-2.45pm £12 Res His political career took Michael Portillo from MP to Defence Secretary, a break from politics and subsequent return as Shadow Chancellor before he retired from the Commons in 2005. He joins us to talk about his political journey, as well as offering his trademark frank and fascinating perspective on the current affairs issues of the day.

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Jane Eyre

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LB36 The Studio Age 13+ 2.30-3.30pm £5 Join three of our most gripping, insightful and no-holds-barred authors writing for teens today to talk about their latest novels. Melvin Burgess’ Kill All Enemies uncovers what really goes on in a pupil referral unit. Naked by Kevin Brooks is set in a summer of chaos, punk and love, and Sophie McKenzie’s thriller Sister, Missing is the eagerly-awaited sequel to Girl, Missing. Three authors who really tell it how it is…

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Michael Portillo

Peter Bowles

Joanna Lumley

Jeffrey Archer

Evan Davis

Francine Stock

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Atlantis

Angie Hobbs & Bettany Hughes

L090 Montpellier Gardens 2.45-3.45pm £7 The legend of Atlantis is one of the most intriguing mysteries of all time, as explored in Bettany Hughes’ magnificent recent BBC2 programme, which also featured philosopher Angie Hobbs. They present some enthralling geological, archaeological and historical evidence that the legend may have been inspired by a real historical event.

Bonne Maman Big Read

The Big Reading

L085 Montpellier Chapter Hotel 3-3.30pm Free In this free live reading, meet Yossarian, US Airforce Bombardier and unlikely hero of Joseph Heller’s seminal Catch-22, this year’s Big Read.

In the craziness of war, one man’s clarity shines through in this classic novel, by turns powerfully haunting, sharply satirical and riotously amusing.

Great British Railway Journeys

Family Event

L098 Main Hall 3.30-4.30pm £10 Res More than just a mode of transport, Britain’s railways are richly evocative of British society and how it has developed over the last 150 years. Michael Portillo, presenter of the hit BBC series, Great British Railway Journeys, transports us along some classic British railway routes, regaling us with stories of his encounters along the way.

LB39 Garden Theatre Age 12+ 4-5pm £7.50 Michael Morpurgo, the award-winning author of War Horse talks to broadcaster Clare Balding about his best-known book and the incredible journey from his original story first published in 1982 to the National Theatre’s multi awardwinning play, and now the forthcoming film by Steven Spielberg due in our cinemas in January.

War Horse

From Book to Play to Film

Michael Portillo

JOANNA LUMLEY

L410 The Forum 4-5pm £17 Res As a BAFTA-award-winning actress, model, film star and latterly an outspoken and hugely effective campaigner for the Gurkhas and many different charities, Joanna Lumley is one of our best-loved celebrities. She joins us in conversation about her extraordinary life and her new book, Absolutely: A Memoir.

Afternoon Readings

L100 The Salon 4.15-5.30pm Free – Advance Booking Required Hear some the very best contemporary writers visiting this year’s Festival read new short stories specially commissioned for broadcast on BBC Radio 4 during the Festival week. Writers will include Joe Dunthorne and Andrew Miller.

Family Event

L401 The Literary Lounge 4-4.30pm Free – Advance Booking Required Where should you go? Who should you go with? What should you take with you?

Planning is half the fun when you are contemplating an adventure. Explorerin-Residence Dominic Faulkner offers some tips on being prepared.

How to Get the Family You Want

LB40 The Studio Age 9+ 4.30-5.15pm £5 Join Jenny Alexander, author of How to Get What you Want and How to Get the Family You Want and delve into the chaotic world of Peony Pinker! In the second hilarious instalment the plucky heroine is seriously fed up with her family. But how can she go about changing their annoying traits? This fantastic and interactive event has funfilled quizzes and plenty of hot tips on family relationships, friendships and how to get what you want!

Pathways

Family Event

What Makes a Blue Peter Prize winner

LB37 The Playhouse Age 8+ 3.30-4.30pm £5 Both Lauren St John and Ali Sparkes have won the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award; Ali for her adventure Frozen in Time and Lauren is this year’s winner for Dead Man’s Cove, the first in her new mystery series. Join them to hear about their latest novels, Unleashed and Kidnap in the Caribbean, and find out what makes winning a Blue Peter Book Award so special!

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Words & Whisky

L362 Highland Park Marquee 5.30-5.45pm Free Relax and unwind at these intimate readings from some of the Festival’s best talents, all accompanied by a complimentary dram of Highland Park Single Malt Whisky.

Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell

Plan your own adventure L361 Highland Park Marquee 3.15-3.30pm Free Relax and unwind at these intimate readings from some of the Festival’s best talents, all accompanied by a complimentary dram of Highland Park Single Malt Whisky.

L110 Montpellier Gardens 4.45-5.45pm £8 Former politician, and multi-million selling author Jeffrey Archer needs very little introduction. He joins us to talk about his latest novel, Only Time Will Tell. Covering the years from 1920 to 1940, it is the first volume in a new multi-generational family saga entitled The Clifton Chronicles, said to be his most ambitious work in four decades.

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Words & Whisky

Jeffrey Archer

Translating Holy Texts

L099 Imperial Square 4-5pm £7 From the King James Bible to the Bhagavad Gita, the translation of sacred texts raises many complex issues, from the theological and linguistic to the artistic and cultural. Language expert Stephen Prickett, and playwright David Edgar are joined by author of The Good Muslim Leila Aboulela to discuss this fascinating process.

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LB42 The Playhouse Age 10+ 5.30-6.30pm £5 Join the award-winning creators of The Edge Chronicles, Far-Flung Adventures and Muddle Earth for a brand new high octane, fantasy epic Wyrmeweald. Let Paul Stewart take you on a journey to a wild-west world where awesome dragonlike beasts roam supreme, while Chris Riddell shows you how he creates the amazing illustrations that bring this new world to life.

SUNDAY 9 OCTOBER Julian Fellowes

Stephen Poliakoff

Jessica Fellowes

Harriet Walter

Larry Lamb

Amy Sackville

Jane Shilling

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Rachel Johnson, Jane Shilling & Harriet Walter

L103 Imperial Square 6-7pm £8 Society’s attitude to age, especially in relation to women, is complex and ambivalent; women in the public eye often face this particularly acutely. Jane Shilling, author of The Stranger in the Mirror, joins acclaimed actress Harriet Walter, author of Facing It: Reflections on Images and curator of the acclaimed exhibition Infinite Variety, and The Lady’s Editor Rachel Johnson, author of A Diary of the Lady, to discuss some of the challenges women face in an imageconscious society and ask what needs to change.

Robert Lindsay

L101 Garden Theatre 6-7pm £10 Res One of our best-loved actors, Robert Lindsay has enjoyed a stellar career in TV roles such as Wolfie in Citizen Smith and the dentist Ben Harper in My Family, and on the stage in parts as diverse as The Entertainer and Onassis. He joins us in conversation to discuss his life and work.

A Good Read

Rachel Johnson

L107 The Salon 6.30-7.30pm Free – Advance Booking Required Expect lively conversation and passionate opinions as presenter Harriett Gilbert and two Festival guests recommend their favourite books

L111 Imperial Square 8-9pm £8 Women’s magazines, from The Ladies’ Mercury in 1693 to today’s glossies, have traditionally reported on relationship problems, fashion, food and more.

Now they face stiff competition from newspapers with ever-expanding supplements and the internet. Rachel Johnson, who in A Diary of the Lady hilariously told of her first year as editor of the iconic weekly, joins us to discuss the challenges ahead for women’s magazines.

Power Play

Afghanistan

L097 Montpellier Gardens 7-8pm £8 The decision to slowly withdraw British and American forces from Afghanistan has caused controversy within military and political circles. Britain’s former ambassador to Afghanistan Sherard Cowper-Coles (Cables from Kabul) and Afghan novelist and broadcaster Zarghuna Kargar (Dear Zari) discuss with foreign correspondent David Loyn what challenges lie ahead for the Afghan people and their country.

Andrew Miller & Amy Sackville

L112 Imperial Square 8.15-9.15pm £6 Spanning a single day and a 100 years, Amy Sackville’s stunning debut The Stillpoint reveals the truth about an Arctic explorer as well as a crumbling marriage.

Also delving into the past, Andrew Miller’s Pure traces a story of friendship, desire and love set in a pre-Revolutionary Parisian cemetery. Join them to hear about the challenges of bringing the past back to life on the page.

Money Talks

Stephen Poliakoff

Evan Davis

L113 The Forum 8.45-10pm £10 Res Creator of seminal TV dramas Caught on a Train and Gideon’s Daughter as well as productions for the big screen such as Glorious 39, Stephen Poliakoff’s career began when he wrote and directed for the stage. He joins us to talk about directing his first new play in 12 years, My City, at the Almeida Theatre, starring Tracey Ullman.

Made in Britain

Francine Stock

In Glorious Technicolour

L104 Imperial Square 6.15-7.15pm £7 How does cinema reflect our world?

Francine Stock, presenter of Radio 4’s The Film Programme takes us on an enthralling personal journey through a century of cinema, from the first Lumière Brothers films, to the perception-altering 3-D of Avatar, as she explores our changing relationship with the silver screen.

Television Tales

Downton Abbey

Julian Fellowes, Jessica Fellowes, Gareth Neame & Dan Stevens

L106 The Forum 6.30-7.45pm £17 Res Downton Abbey has captured the imagination of the nation, and has become the benchmark for quality drama, and a commentary on all things British. As the hit series returns to our screens, we explore The World of Downton Abbey with author Jessica Fellowes, Oscar-winning screenwriter and series creator Julian Fellowes, actor Dan Stevens (Matthew Crawley) and executive producer Gareth Neame.

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L102 Main Hall 7-8pm £10 Res What is Britain good at, and how does it pay its way in the world today? Evan Davis, author of and presenter of BBC2 series Made in Britain, joins us to discuss what we make, and why it matters - from manufacturing and technology, to design and the service industries.

HARRIET WALTER

L105 Imperial Square 8-9pm £7 Hugely acclaimed for her work on both stage and screen Harriet Walter is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable actors of our time. From Pride and Prejudice to Atonement and from Macbeth to Mary Stuart, she looks back over her extraordinary career to date and shares some fascinating insights into an acting life.

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Isla Blair & Julian Glover

L108 QWERTY 8.45-10pm £7 Res A delightful ‘in conversation’ hour with two renowned actors, who also happen to be husband and wife. Isla Blair has starred in numerous films and plays, and recently published A Tiger’s Wedding, a moving memoir about her Indian childhood. Julian Glover’s stage and screen career encompasses everything from the RSC to Star Wars, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade and most recently Game of Thrones.

The Wondermentalist Cabaret

L114 The Salon 8.45-10pm Free – Advance Booking Required Matt Harvey presents a comedy-infused, musically-enhanced, slightly interactive poetry cabaret, joined by fellow poet A F Harrold, and musical comedian Helen Arney. The audience will contribute a crowd-sourced poem on a theme of their choice which has, in past shows, ranged from the delights of gerbils to garden sheds.

What will you choose?

Larry Lamb

L109 Imperial Square 8.45-10pm £10 Best known for his portrayals of Archie Mitchell in EastEnders and as the loveable dad in Gavin and Stacey, actor Larry Lamb has had a varied career. He joins his son, George Lamb, to talk about his turbulent childhood and making it on stage and screen, as revealed in his recent autobiography, Mummy’s Boy.

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Jane Brown

Gyles Brandreth

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Paint Like Turner

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Alison Weir The Everyman Theatre Gyles Brandreth & Franny Moyle A History of Royal Weddings Nicholas Rankin Big Read Book Group Pre-Raphaelite Women Capability Brown Virginia Nicholson Simon Baron-Cohen & Richard Lloyd Parry The Queen The Founding Gardeners Bella Bathurst Poetry Café

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Kwasi Kwarteng

Your Perfect Coffee Moment

L115 Montpellier Gardens 10-11am £7 The painter Mike Chaplin, presenter of Channel Four’s Watercolour Challenge, recently worked with Tate Britain to re-create the techniques of the consummate watercolourist J M W Turner. In this absorbing talk, he paints live on stage, and gives a fascinating practical insight into Turner’s approach to colour and line.

L120 The Literary Lounge 11.15-11.45am Free – Advance Booking Required Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Join the young bard William Shakespeare himself as he muses aloud on love, desire and beauty in his poignant and romantic sonnets. Relax with a complimentary cup of velvety Carte Noire for a more seductive coffee break.

Alison Weir

Franny Moyle

Alison Weir

L123 Montpellier Gardens 12-1pm £6 Anne Boleyn’s sister, Mary – ‘the great and infamous whore’ - was mistress to both Henry VIII of England and Francois I of France, but her story had a happier ending. In this absorbing, illustrated event, acclaimed historian Alison Weir will be in conversation about this fascinating, and widely misunderstood Tudor woman, the subject of her latest biography.

Locally Sourced

The Everyman Theatre

Adventure

Explorers of the Nile Tim Jeal

The Edwardians

L116 Montpellier Gardens 10-11am £6 Between 1856 and 1876, five British explorers - Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, Samuel Baker, David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley - attempted to discover the source of the White Nile, risking their lives and reputations in the quest. In this illustrated talk, Tim Jeal, author of Explorers of the Nile tells the stories of these extraordinary expeditions.

Edwardian Portraits Jan Marsh & Alastair Sooke

L121 Imperial Square 11.45am-12.45pm £7 The Victorians and Edwardians believed passionately in the historical importance of their age and wanted to record the great figures of their time. The Edwardian sitters featured in Jan Marsh and Peter Funnell’s A Guide to Victorian and Edwardian Portraits offer a vivid insight into a fascinating and fast-changing society. She joins art critic Alastair Sooke to choose their top five portraits to reveal the spirit of a remarkable age.

A Chronicle of Russia Martin Sixsmith

L117 Imperial Square 10-11am £6 Russia is a land of contradictions: a cultured nation of artistic originality, yet one that rules by the iron fist, often eager to sacrifice the individual for the collectivist cause. In this riveting illustrated talk based on his landmark Radio 4 series, the former BBC Moscow correspondent Martin Sixsmith provides a 1,000 year chronicle of the Wild East.

Ghosts of Empire Kwasi Kwarteng

L122 Imperial Square 11.45am-12.45pm £6 Many of the world’s trouble spots have resulted from the chaotic retreat of empire, with the legacy of Britain’s withdrawal from Iraq, Kashmir, Burma, Sudan, Nigeria and Hong Kong continuing to haunt politicians and diplomats to this day. So argues Kwasi Kwarteng, historian and Conservative MP, in this talk based on his provocative new book, Ghosts of Empire.

Adventure

Spinsters Abroad Victorian Women Explorers

L119 Imperial Square 10-11am £6 From Mary Kingsley to Gertrude Bell, what spurred so many Victorian women to leave behind the security and comfort of their homes to undertake perilous journeys of thousands of miles? Denied such freedom at home, how were they able to travel so freely in exotic lands?

Author Dea Birkett gives a fascinating illustrated account of the lives and extraordinary experiences of these courageous pioneers.

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L124 Montpellier Gardens 12-1pm £7 Coinciding with the reopening of Cheltenham’s very own Everyman Theatre, built to original designs by Frank Matcham, after recently going through major refurbishment as well as celebrating its 120th anniversary, writer Michael Hasted presents the illustrated history of what is truly A Theatre for All Seasons.

Gyles Brandreth & Franny Moyle Oscar Wilde

L125 Imperial Square 12-1pm £8 Why does Oscar Wilde continue to fascinate, 100 years after his death? We ask two writers, steeped in all things Wildean. Gyles Brandreth is the author of the Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries, the latest of which is Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders. He is joined by Franny Moyle, author of a recent, acclaimed biography of Oscar’s wife, Constance.

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Royalty and Republic

A History of Royal Weddings

Sarah Gristwood, Kate Williams & Alison Weir

L126 Montpellier Gardens 2-3pm £8 In the year that brought us William and Catherine’s marriage, we mark the occasion with historians Kate Williams, Sarah Gristwood and Alison Weir, co-authors of The Ring and the Crown: A History of Royal Weddings 1066-2011.

They bring us glittering tales of royal nuptials down the ages: the amusing, the poignant, and the downright bawdy.

MONDAY 10 OCTOBER Virginia Nicholson

Paul Moorhouse

Bella Bathurst

Katherine Frank

Andrea Wulf

Simon Jenkins

David Crystal

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Nicholas Rankin

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Nicholas Rankin

Virginia Nicholson

L127 Montpellier Gardens 2-3pm £6 Having probed the British genius for deception for us in a popular event last year, Nicholas Rankin, author of Churchill’s Wizards, makes a welcome return to Cheltenham to tell the enthralling illustrated story of Ian Fleming’s Commandos, a unit of men tasked with stealing enemy intelligence during the Second World War, who were also to inspire James Bond.

L133 Montpellier Gardens 4-5pm £7 Why do we tend to think of World War II as a man’s war, when millions of women, in the Services and on the Home Front also played their part? In this event, Virginia Nicholson, author of Millions Like Us, provides a fascinating account of women’s lives, both in war and in peacetime.

Ian Fleming’s Commandos

The Founding Gardeners

Millions Like Us

Andrea Wulf

L136 Imperial Square 4-5pm £7 America’s founding fathers, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison all combined revolutionary zeal with a passion for gardening, botany and horticulture. In this enthralling, illustrated talk, Andrea Wulf, author of The Founding Gardeners, reveals how these great men of politics created an American Eden which influenced the birth of the US nation.

Bonne Maman Big Read

Big Read Book Group

L128 Montpellier Gardens 2-3pm £3 Full of bizarre characters and black humour, Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 follows Captain Joseph Yossarian, a US bomber, as he desperately tries to survive the madness of World War II. Grab a cup of tea and a biscuit and join Jane Bailey for this book group to discuss this year’s Bonne Maman Big Read.

Bella Bathurst

Simon Baron-Cohen & Richard Lloyd Parry L134 Montpellier Gardens 4-5pm £7 What do we mean when we describe human behaviour as ‘evil’? Debating this challenging question are Simon Baron-Cohen, expert in developmental psychopathology and the author of Zero Degrees of Empathy, and Richard Lloyd Parry, author of People Who Eat Darkness, about the murder of Lucie Blackman by a man described by the trial judge as ‘extremely evil’.

Pre-Raphaelite Women Jan Marsh & Franny Moyle

L129 Main Hall 2-3pm £7 Res In the mid-1800s the Pre-Raphaelites drew extraordinary women such as Janey Morris and Lizzie Sidall into their circle and recruited the most ravishing models from the Victorian slums. The crucial role played by women in the movement is sometimes overlooked, eclipsed by scandals, jealousies and betrayals.

Franny Moyle (Desperate Romantics) and Jan Marsh (The Pre-Raphaelite Circle) reappraise the legacy of these remarkable women.

Capability Brown

L135 Imperial Square 4-5pm £7 To mark the Diamond Jubilee in 2012, the National Portrait Gallery is staging a new exhibition which brings together sixty varied images of Elizabeth II. In this illustrated talk, the curator of the exhibition, Paul Moorhouse, probes the ways in which these images demonstrate a world of changing values during the Queen’s sixty-year reign.

Stanzas

Carol Ann Duffy & John Sampson

L130 Imperial Square 2-3pm £7 The landscape gardener, Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown changed the face of 18th century England, designing the parks for dozens of our great houses from Blenheim Palace to Harewood House, many of which endure today.

His biographer, Jane Brown, traces the great man’s life, from his childhood in rural Northumberland to his subsequent meteoric rise to become omnipotent gardener to the rich and famous.

Montpellier Gardens

Simon Jenkins

L138 Imperial Square 5.30pm-6.15pm Free We are delighted to present a rare chance to hear a reading by Víctor Rodriguez Núñez, one of Cuba’s most noteworthy contemporary writers. As well as reading a selection of his poetry, he will also be in conversation about his work.

Paul Moorhouse

L139 The Forum 6.30pm-7.30 pm £10 Res To mark the publication of The Bees, her first new poetry collection since the prize-winning Rapture in 2005, we are delighted to welcome the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, for an unmissable evening of poetry with music by John Sampson.

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Dennis Turner & Hugh Pym

Stanzas

Poetry Café

The Queen

L140 Montpellier Gardens 6.30-7.30pm £7 Caponata; pasta with anchovies and breadcrumbs; couscous, and cassata.

The ‘true simplicity’ of Sicilian cooking is a huge influence on popular Italian chef and restaurateur, Giorgio Locatelli.

He reveals exactly what it is about the island’s cuisine that excites him, and how it has inspired his latest cookery book, Made in Sicily.

Financial Futures

Victor Rodriguez Núñez

Royalty and Republic

Giorgio Locatelli

The Bicycle Book

L137 Imperial Square 4-5pm £6 ‘When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race’ (H G Wells). What is it about the bicycle that so enchants us? And why do its devotees become so obsessed?

Bella Bathurst, author of The Bicycle Book, freewheels through cycling’s best stories, strangest incarnations and most eccentric characters to bring us a perfectly balanced portrait of man and machine, and an engaging history of pedal power.

Zero Degrees of Empathy

Bitesize

L141 Montpellier Gardens 6.30-7.30pm £7 What are the prospects for the British and the world economy as it struggles to emerge from the recession? Join us for a rare chance to debate the key economic issues of the day with Dennis Turner, chief economist of HSBC, and BBC Chief Economics Correspondent Hugh Pym.

A Short History of England

L142 Imperial Square 6.30-7.30pm £7 The distinguished journalist Simon Jenkins, now Chairman of the National Trust, joins us to discuss his new book A Short History of England, in which he skillfully weaves together all the significant events, themes, individuals and dates in our history, from the Battle of Catterick in AD 598, to today’s coalition government.

The World’s Most Expensive Paintings Alastair Sooke

L143 Imperial Square 6.30-7.30pm £7 Works by Picasso, Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Klimt and Rubens all feature in the list of the ten most expensive paintings to sell at auction. In his recent BBC1 documentary, the art critic Alastair Sooke investigated the stories behind the astronomic prices art can reach and entered a world of secrecy and rivalry, passion and power. Here he joins us to discuss the allure of these extraordinary pictures.

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Joe Dunthorne

Lee Child

Simon Baron-Cohen

Peter Ginn

Alex Langlands

Kiki de Montparnasse

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Robinson Crusoe Katherine Frank

L144 Imperial Square 6.30-7.30pm £6 If Daniel Defoe had died in 1718, the year before he wrote Robinson Crusoe, few of us would have heard of him. But where did Crusoe come from? And why has he remained so popular? In this fascinating illustrated talk author Katherine Frank explores the intertwined lives of Defoe and of sea captain Robert Knox, the model for his famous hero.

Working in Partnership

Cheltenham Blue

Kiki de Montparnasse

L145 Spiegeltent Bistro 7-10.30pm £25 including buffet supper Join Jose-Luis Bocquet and Catherine Muller, authors of the stunning graphic novel based on the life of the beautiful Kiki de Montparnasse, painter, actress, nightclub singer and muse to Man Ray, for an evening of delicious food, burlesque dancing and an extraordinary art lesson courtesy of Londonbased Dr Sketchy, hosted by the inimitable Ophelia Bitz.

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Horizons

Pirates of the Caribbean

Voices from Iraq

Inaam Kachachi & Samuel Shimon

L149 Montpellier Gardens 8.45-10pm £6 Tales of pirates in the Caribbean, from Blackbeard to Calico Jack, have been the stuff of legend since the 18th century, but in this richly illustrated talk, naval historian David Cordingly brings their swashbuckling true stories vividly to life, as told in his book, Spanish Gold: Captain Woodes Rogers and the Pirates of the Caribbean.

L146 Imperial Square 7-8pm £6 Set in war-torn Iraq, Inaam Kachachi’s The American Granddaughter follows Zeina whose return to her homeland leads her to question all her values.

Samuel Shimon’s An Iraqi in Paris is the captivating story of a young Iraqi filmmaker whose flight to Paris results in the most extraordinary encounters.

Join them as they discuss and read from their work.

Pathways

The Edwardians

Rabbi Lionel Blue

Edwardian Farm

L150 Imperial Square 8.45-10pm £8 In his inimitable way, Rabbi Lionel Blue dispenses wisdom and wit in equal measure, whilst provoking us to think about the spiritual in our lives. He joins us to discuss his extraordinary life and the importance of his faith to him.

L147 The Forum 8.45-10pm £7 Res For the hit BBC series Edwardian Farm, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn spent a year immersing themselves in a recreated Edwardian community, cultivating crops, restoring boats, fishing, rearing animals and much more. They look back on the experience, and what it taught them about the lost heritage of this fascinating era.

John Landis

David Crystal

Monsters in the Movies

The Story of English

L151 Imperial Square 8.45-10pm £9 With cult films The Blues Brothers and An American Werewolf in London to his name, as well as the iconic video for Michael Jackson’s Thriller, John Landis is one of Hollywood’s most renowned directors.

On a rare UK visit, he joins us to talk about his illustrious career, and what’s so fascinating about Monsters in the Movies.

L148 Montpellier Gardens 8.45-10pm £8 Loaf, Fopdoodle, Twittersphere. These are among the words that best illustrate the huge variety of influences that have helped to shape our vernacular language, according to David Crystal, linguistics expert, and author of The Story of English in 100 Words. He takes us on an intriguing, and often downright surprising trip along the byways of our language.

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Lee Child

L152 Imperial Square 8.45-10pm £7 One of the world’s bestselling thriller writers, Lee Child’s novels featuring former US military policeman, Jack Reacher, have been translated into forty languages, and consistently reach number one in bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic. He joins us to discuss his hugely successful career, and his latest novel, The Affair.

DAVID VANN

L153 Imperial Square 8.45-9.45pm £6 David Vann’s debut Legend of A Suicide was hailed by the Independent as ‘one of the most brilliant pieces of fiction published in the last five years’.

A virtuosic master of character and atmosphere, his latest novel Caribou Island charts the playing out of an intense relationship against a brooding Alaskan backdrop. ‘Stunning … Heartwrenching and gorgeous’ (The New Yorker). A rare and unmissable chance to hear one of America’s greatest contemporary writers discussing and reading from his work.

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Survive Elizabethan Times

TODAY At a glance Morning 154 Survive Elizabethan Times L L155 Shelley L156 The English Castle L157 The British Secret Service L159 Your Perfect Coffee Moment

Afternoon 160 Pevsner L L161 Survive Exploring the Extremes L162 Roy Hattersley L163 John Julius Norwich L164 Quentin Cooper, Steve Jones & Lemn Sissay L165 Virginia Woolf L166 Big Read Book Group LW22 Bookbinding Workshop L167 Through the Eyes of a Child L168 Adam Hart-Davis L169 Edward Stourton L186 David Hockney L170 The Churchills L173 Edna O’Brien L171 Leonardo da Vinci L172 Edwardian Legacies L174 Poetry Café

Evening 178 L L175 L176 L177 L179 L180

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Eating for Health Steve Redgrave Mark Kermode Jonathan Sacks & Jim Al-Khalili Roy Strong Christopher Brookmyre & Jasper Fforde European Literature Night Gloucestershire Writers’ Network Duncan Bannatyne Dave Gorman Angela Hartnett Colin Dexter & Ken Dodd Achieve Inner Peace Jim Al-Khalili Anne Holt & Rosamund Lupton Mugabe and the White African

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Roy Hattersley

Stanzas

The Edwardians

L157 Imperial Square 10-11am £7 The British Secret Service is shrouded in myth; for those on the outside our understanding of what it is to be a spy is largely shaped by James Bond and John le Carré. Gordon Corera, BBC Security Correspondent and author of The Art of Betrayal: Life and Death in the British Secret Service provides some unprecedented insights into the realities of life in the Secret Service, based on his interviews with insiders from MI6, MI5 and GCHQ.

L162 Imperial Square 12.30-1.30pm £9 The Edwardian era was no sun-dappled interlude of calm and hedonism before the upheavals of 1914-18, but rather the moment our modern world began.

Setting the scene for the Festival’s Edwardian strand, Roy Hattersley, politician, historian and author of a book on the period brings to life a world on the cusp of change.

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Shelley

Your Perfect Coffee Moment

Fiona Sampson

L155 Montpellier Gardens 10-11am £7 A radical figure and social campaigner, Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote some of the finest lyric verse in England before his untimely death by drowning in 1822.

In a beautifully illustrated talk, renowned poet Fiona Sampson provides a fascinating insight into Shelley’s work, and reassesses his reputation as one of the major figures in the Romantic movement.

L159 The Literary Lounge 11.15-11.45am Free - Advance Booking Required Sit back, relax, and enjoy a complimentary cup of velvety Carte Noire coffee and a romantic reading from the handsome Sergeant Troy, the dashing but unreliable soldier who mesmerises Bathsheba Everdene in Hardy’s classic Far From the Madding Crowd.

The English Castle

Pevsner

John Goodall

Buildings of England

L156 Imperial Square 10-11am £6 Our landscape is richly studded with castles, which today are largely objects of curiosity. For centuries however, they were at the heart of the kingdom’s social and political life. In a lavishly illustrated talk, John Goodall, architectural editor of Country Life and author of The English Castle brings to life the history of these redoubtable landmarks.

L160 Montpellier Gardens 12-1pm £6 A champion of Modernism, Nikolaus Pevsner was a central figure in British post-war reconstruction. But it was his Buildings of England series, first published 60 years ago in 1951, that made his name synonymous with English architecture.

His biographer, Susie Harries discusses Pevsner’s life and legacy, and examines his sometimes controversial opinions on a selection of Gloucestershire’s buildings.

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Survive Exploring the Extremes

L161 Montpellier Gardens 12-1pm £6 Explorer Fiona Thornewill reached the South Pole solo and unaided in a record-breaking 42 days in 2004, walking and skiing over 700 miles in the process.

Festival Explorer-in-Residence Dominic Faulkner has climbed Everest and completed a solo descent of the Green and Colorado rivers. They discuss their extraordinary feats and answer the question: how do you push both your mind and your body through experiences such as these?

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John Julius Norwich

The British Secret Service Gordon Corera

L154 Montpellier Gardens 10-11am £6 Immerse yourself in the sights, sounds, tastes and smells of Elizabethan England and join James Forrester, author of the dazzling new historical thriller The Roots of Betrayal and otherwise known as historian Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England, as he welcomes you to a vivid and surprising evocation of a lost world.

Edward Stourton

Roy Hattersley

Edwardian Life and Times

John Julius Norwich

A History of England in 100 Places

L163 Imperial Square 12.30-1.30pm £8 From battlefield to sacred building, from castle to cottage, from the Bridgwater Canal to Blackpool Pier, historian John Julius Norwich tells the political, cultural, social, religious and economic story of England through one hundred key places you can still visit today, in this fascinating and thought-provoking illustrated talk.

LabOratory

Quentin Cooper, Steve Jones & Lemn Sissay

L164 Imperial Square 12.30-1.30pm £6 How much choice do we really have when it comes down to who we are?

Award-winning author Lemn Sissay is joined by Genetics Professor Steve Jones and Radio 4 science journalist Quentin Cooper to explore the role that genetics, upbringing and lifestyle choices play in forming our identities.

This project and event have been funded by the Wellcome Trust and are part of our cross-festival series exploring DNA migration.

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Jonathan Sacks

Jasper Fforde

Christopher Brookmyre

Ken Dodd

Steve Redgrave

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Virginia Woolf

Adam Hart-Davis

Leonardo da Vinci

Sporting Life

L165 Montpellier Gardens 2-3pm £7 Seventy years after her death, Virginia Woolf continues to haunt and inspire. In this illuminating talk, Alexandra Harris, winner of the Guardian First Book Award for Romantic Moderns, and author of a new book on Woolf considers this towering figure of literary modernism and her role in the Bloomsbury Group, placing her novels in context and tracing her fascinating literary legacy.

L168 Imperial Square 2.30-3.30pm £7 Philosophers, religions and scientists have tried to explain time as everything from a perfect cycle to ever-increasing chaos. In this timely illustrated talk, the scientist, author and broadcaster Adam Hart-Davis attempts to explain the biggest idea in the universe, the subject of The Book of Time.

L171 Main Hall 4.30-5.30pm £8 Res Leonardo da Vinci is one of the central figures in Western art, revered for his extraordinary artistic, scientific, and technological achievements. In this lavishly illustrated talk, Martin Kemp, author of the acclaimed Leonardo, and one of the world’s leading authorities on his work, takes us through the whole span of the great man’s career.

L175 The Forum 6.30-7.30pm £15 Res With London 2012 not far away join sporting icon Steve Redgrave for a look back at some of the highlights and infamous moments of Olympic history.

From Mark Spitz to Kelly Holmes, the Jamaican bobsled team to Black Power 1968, he recounts stories and reveals what makes these moments truly great.

Alexandra Harris

Bonne Maman Big Read

members Book Group

L166 Montpellier Gardens 2-3pm £3 Full of bizarre characters and black humour, Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 follows Captain Joseph Yossarian, a US bomber, as he desperately tries to survive the madness of World War II. Join Jane Bailey for this exclusive Members Festival Book Group, including afternoon tea.

The Book of Time

Martin Kemp

Edward Stourton

Legacy

L169 Imperial Square 2.30-3.30pm £8 Based on his hugely popular Daily Telegraph columns, join broadcaster Edward Stourton as he considers the whole gamut of things canine whilst out and about with his much-loved spaniel, Kudu. Why are issues such as war, bravery, office politics and current affairs all given sudden clarity and a new sanity when viewed through the prism of walking the dog?

Edwardian Legacies

Nicola Beauman, Piers Brendon & Roy Hattersley

L172 Imperial Square 4.30-5.30pm £7 From Lloyd George to Frances Hodgson Burnett, who were the outstanding individuals of the Edwardian era, and what was their legacy? Join author and journalist Roy Hattersley (The Edwardians), historian Piers Brendon (The Decline and Fall of the British Empire) and publisher Nicola Beauman, founder of Persephone Books, as they nominate their personal Edwardian heroes, and discuss their achievements.

David Hockney Martin Gayford

Bookbinding Workshop LW22 Montpellier Gardens 2-5pm £45 (inc. £15 of materials) 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.

Through the Eyes of a Child

Stephen Kelman & Sarah Winman

L167 Imperial Square 2.15-3.15pm £6 Writing fiction from a child’s perspective presents particular challenges for the adult novelist. Sarah Winman, author of the acclaimed and bestselling debut When God Was a Rabbit and Stephen Kelman, author of the remarkable Pigeon English are two writers who have pulled it off with great aplomb. They join us to reveal how they went about it.

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Steve Redgrave

L186 The Forum 4-5pm £8 Res In this illuminating illustrated event based on his book A Bigger Message, art critic Martin Gayford looks back on a decade of conversations with David Hockney, in which the artist reflects on life, landscape, the people he has encountered, and the problems and paradoxes of representing a threedimensional world on a flat surface.

Mark Kermode

L176 Main Hall 6.30-7.30pm £10 Res Don‘t miss your chance to say hello to Mark Kermode as he makes a welcome return to the Festival. The always outspoken be-quiffed film critic asks what’s wrong with modern movies could it be The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex?

Pathways

Jonathan Sacks & Jim Al-Khalili Stanzas

Sara-Jane Arbury & Marcus Moore Poetry Café

L174 Imperial Square 5.30-6.15pm Free Those feisty Cheltenham regulars, SaraJane Arbury and Marcus Moore make a triumphant return to the Poetry Café to perform some of their greatest hits in an event that will fairly fizz with funny and fabulous wordplay.

The Churchills Mary Soames

L170 Montpellier Gardens 4-5pm £7 Now in her 89th year, Mary Soames is the youngest and only surviving child of Winston and Clementine Churchill. To celebrate the publication of her memoir, A Daughter’s Tale, she joins her daughter Charlotte Peel to look back on her largely idyllic childhood, her experiences of wartime, and to share reminiscences of her famous parents.

Bitesize

Eating for Health

L178 Imperial Square 6-7pm £6 Food and good health are directly interconnected. But why do we sometimes choose food based on price or ease, ignoring that we are what we eat? Our panel of nutritionist Jane Clarke naturopath and herbalist Elizabeth Peyton-Jones join Guest Director Anjum Anand to discuss how we can eat ourselves to physical and mental health.

Edna O’Brien

L173 Imperial Square 4-5pm £7 Fifty years after leaving County Clare for London, Edna O’Brien remains the doyenne of Irish fiction, and one of our most lyrical, yet subversive writers. She joins us in conversation with Ramona Koval to discuss her distinguished writing career, along with her latest short story collection, Saints and Sinners.

Programmed by Anjum Anand

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L177 Imperial Square 6.30-7.30pm £9 Is the relationship between religion and science necessarily antagonistic? Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in his most recent book The Great Partnership argues for a complementary and mutually enriching relationship between the two. He joins physicist and broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili, to debate the issues he raises.

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Dave Gorman

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Visions of England

L179 Montpellier Gardens 7-8pm £8 Even in the 21st century, the idea of England as a rural arcadia still persists.

Making a welcome return to Cheltenham, Roy Strong argues that it is this very vision - aesthetic, pastoral and patriotic - which offers a solution to the present English identity crisis, a subject tackled in his thought-provoking book, Visions of England.

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Christopher Brookmyre & Jasper Fforde

L180 Montpellier Gardens 7-8pm £8 Though both write loosely in the crime genre, novelists Christopher Brookmyre and Jasper Fforde take their highly original writing to very different places.

They join us to discuss their work, along with their respective latest novels, Where The Bodies Are Buried and One of Our Thursdays is Missing.

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Bitesize

Gloucestershire Writers’ Network

Angela Hartnett

L185 Montpellier Gardens 8.45-10pm £7 L185D The Montpellier Chapter Hotel 6.30-8.30pm £45 including dinner Renowned for her informal, grounded style of cooking, Angela Hartnett is one of the UK’s leading female chefs and restaurateurs. She joins us to reflect on her childhood experiences of cooking with her Italian grandmother, the inspiration for the classic, simple European recipes in her new cookbook, A Taste of Home.

L182 Montpellier Gardens 7.30-8.30pm £6 Local writers and winners of the Gloucestershire Writers’ Network competition, judged by writers Sue Gibbs, Tricia Wastvedt and Sue Chadd, present their eclectic mix of writing inspired by the Festival theme of ‘Discovery’, with performance poet Mac McFadden.

In a special Festival partnership, the Montpellier Chapter hotel restaurant is offering you a delicious three-course dinner before Angela Hartnett’s event (L185) with dishes inspired by her new book, A Taste of Home. We are offering a special purchase price, which includes your event ticket, three-course lunch, a drink on arrival and a glass of wine.

Money Talks

Duncan Bannatyne

L183 The Forum 8.45-10pm £15 Res Everyone in business is susceptible to mistakes which, though common, can be costly, embarrassing, time-consuming and even career-ending. Who better to tell us how to avoid them than Duncan Bannatyne; entrepreneur, philanthropist, star of BBC’s Dragons’ Den and author of 43 Mistakes Every Business Makes.

Horizons

L397 Main Hall 8.45-10pm £12 Res It doesn’t seem as if Ken Dodd and Colin Dexter will ever retire. Still irrepressible in their 80’s (which of course are the new 60’s) both men are amongst our most prolific creators of entertainment. They both continue to perfect what they are most loved for - making words work for an audience. Both gentlemen are language addicts. Their obsession with the origins of words and how they are used has been a much needed regular fix for them for over half a century. Secretly each others greatest admirers, Fiona Lindsay brings them together for the first time to compare notes and spark off each others talent.

Laugh Out Loud

Dave Gorman

L184 QWERTY 8.45-10pm £8 Res Comedian Dave Gorman thinks it’s a shame that adults don’t call round to ask their friends to play anymore. So he knocked on the biggest door imaginable - the internet - and asked 76,000 people for a game. He joins us to tell the uproarious tale of what ensued, in Dave Gorman vs The Rest of the World.

In partnership with EUNIC London, Austrian Cultural Forum, Czech Centre London, Italian Cultural Institute and European Commission Representation in the UK.

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Achieve Inner Peace Rabbi Lionel Blue & Father Christopher Jamison

L187 Imperial Square 8.45-10pm £8 All of us have a contemplative urge that is often suppressed by our hectic contemporary lives. So believes Father Christopher Jamison, the Abbot from BBC TV’s The Monastery. He is joined by Rabbi Lionel Blue to discuss how - in a personal and practical way - some of our great religious traditions can show the way to a more contemplative, and fulfilling life.

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L188 Imperial Square 8.45-10pm £10 The West should see the Islamic world through new eyes, and the Islamic world should take pride in its extraordinarily rich heritage. So says Jim Al-Khalili, renowned science communicator and author of Pathfinders. His illuminating talk celebrates 700 golden years of Arabic science and its forgotten pioneers, who shaped our understanding of the universe well before the European Renaissance.

Anne Holt & ROSAMUND LUPTON

L189 Imperial Square 8.45-10pm £6 In this special event we welcome two of the world’s finest crime and thriller writers. Anne Holt, formerly of the Oslo Police Department, is the author of two Norwegian-set crime series and most recently Fear Not. She is joined by Rosamund Lupton, author of Sister and Afterwards, to discuss the continuing appeal of crime and thriller writing.

Colin Dexter & Ken Dodd

European Literature Night

L181 Imperial Square 7-8pm £6 Three of Europe’s most exciting contemporary literary voices come to Cheltenham to read from and discuss their remarkable work. Joining broadcaster Rosie Goldsmith are Austrian writer Anna Kim, author of the Kosovo-set Frozen Time, Italian novelist Diego Marani, author of the acclaimed New Finnish Grammar, and Emil Hakl of the Czech Republic and author of On Flying Objects.

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Mugabe and the White African

L190 The Playhouse 8.45-10pm £7 Res Acclaimed documentary Mugabe and the White African produced by Gloucestershire and Wales-based Arturi Films won the Royal Television Society’s Best Documentary Award, and was nominated for a BAFTA. In celebration of this local success story David Pearson and Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock discuss the extraordinary true story behind the film, accompanied by some gripping clips.

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TODAY At a glance Morning 191 David Marquand L L192 Allan Mallinson & Stella Tillyard L193 The Edwardian Table L194 Venice L195 Ursula Moray Williams L196 Your Perfect Coffee Moment L197 Paul Farley & Michael Symmons Roberts

Afternoon 198 Tim Wonnacott L L199 Norman Davies L200 Anjum Anand & Nikki Bedi L201 Hunter Davies L203 Wallis Simpson L204 Ranulph Fiennes L205 Military Writing L206 Big Read Book Group LW23 Bookbinding Workshop L207 Suzy Atkins & Valentine Warner L208 The Masters of Sitcom L209 Diana Athill L210 Marina Warner L211 Allegra McEvedy L212 Gervase Phinn L213 Nancy Mitford L214 Max Hastings L215 Science Fiction Futures L216 Poetry Café

Evening 217 Penelope Keith L L218 Andrew Graham-Dixon L219 Money Matters L220 Fern Britton L221 Celebrating Home Cooking L222 Alastair Hignell L223 Our Common Ground L224 Terry Wogan L226 Terence Rattigan: A Celebration L225 Joe Simpson L227 Peter Sissons L228 Religion and Politics L229 Lorraine Pascale L230 The Kalevala

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Mark Urban

Ursula MoRay Williams

L191 Montpellier Gardens 10-11am £6 Is Europe’s extraordinary post-war recovery over? With continuing financial crises across the continent, and ethnic and religious disturbances on the rise, it looks that way, argues David Marquand, former Labour MP, and author of The End of the West. In this compelling lecture, he offers a diagnosis of Europe’s ills, and points the way toward a better future.

L195 Imperial Square 10-11am £6 Gobbolino the Witch’s Cat and The Little Wooden Horse are among the all-time classics of children’s literature, and the life and career of their author Ursula Moray Williams, born one hundred years ago and who spent much of her life in Gloucestershire, were truly remarkable.

In a wonderful illustrated talk, Williams’ biographer Colin Davison tells the enthralling story of her life, much-loved work and fascinating Gloucestershire connections.

Allan Mallinson & Stella Tillyard Eighteenth-Century Lives

Carte Noire Readers

L192 Montpellier Gardens 10-11am £6 In its excitement, brutality and sheer panache, the Regency period is one of the most compelling in our history. For a vivid insight into the reality of Regency life and the challenges of recreating it in fiction, join former Brigadier Allan Mallinson, creator of the Matthew Hervey series, and acclaimed historian and now novelist Stella Tillyard, author of the spellbinding Tides of War.

Your Perfect Coffee Moment

L196 The Literary Lounge 11.15-11.45am Free - Advance Booking Required Enjoy your complimentary cup of velvety Carte Noire as D’Artagnan the brave and charming young hero of Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers swashbuckles his way to our Literary Lounge for a thrilling reading. Can the honour of the queen be saved and the dastardly cardinal thwarted?

Bitesize

The Edwardian Table Ivan Day

Ranulph Fiennes

Valentine Warner

Norman Davies Vanished Kingdoms

L199 Montpellier Gardens 12-1pm £7 Burgundy, Aragon, Saxe Coburg Gotha.

The story of Europe is littered with the names of Vanished Kingdoms, which nevertheless once played a crucial part in history. Eminent European historian Norman Davies reminds us of the lives and afterlives of these lost realms, how they rose and fell, and why their names are still worth remembering today.

Bitesize

Anjum Anand & NIKKI BEDI

L200 Imperial Square 12-1pm £6 Anjum Anand, author and star of BBC2’s Indian Food Made Easy and last year’s I Love Curry has travelled across the UK and around the world creating delicious Indian food that is light, healthy and bursting with flavour. In this relaxed discussion and food demonstration, she joins presenter and broadcaster Nikki Bedi to discuss her love of Indian food and the pleasures of cooking it.

Programmed by Anjum Anand

Adventure

L193 Imperial Square 10-11am £6 Join food historian and cook Ivan Day (from BBC 2’s Royal Upstairs Downstairs) as he talks about the extraordinary world of the pioneering Edwardian chef Agnes Marshall – and demonstrates the surprisingly hi-tech secrets behind the creation of her exquisite ices and desserts.

The John Moore Event

Paul Farley & Michael Symmons Roberts Edgelands

L197 Imperial Square 11.45am-12.45pm £6 Few writers celebrate the unloved postindustrial wastelands that are neither city nor countryside, but in this event, Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts do just that, inviting us to marvel at the strange beauty of allotments, gravel pits, business parks, landfill sites, and all those mysterious in-between places which are blank spaces on our map.

Venice

Roger Crowley

L194 Imperial Square 10-11am £7 In five turbulent centuries, Venice rose from a place of poor lagoon dwellers to the richest city on earth: a brilliant mosaic fashioned from what it bought, traded, borrowed and stole. In a lavishly illustrated talk, historian and author, Roger Crowley draws upon first-hand accounts to give us a glittering account of this City of Fortune.

Tim Wonnacott A Life in Antiques

L198 Montpellier Gardens 12-1pm £6 In the recent BBC2 series Royal Upstairs Downstairs, the auctioneer and popular star of Bargain Hunt travelled in the footsteps of Queen Victoria, visiting the houses, castles and stately homes she visited throughout her life. Here Tim Wonnacott discusses the series, his favourite country houses and his life in the world of antiques.

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Hunter Davies Wainwright’s Walks

L201 Imperial Square 12-1pm £7 Alfred Wainwright, author of the famous Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells was also an eloquent and diligent correspondent. His biographer Hunter Davies has recently edited The Wainwright Letters. He joins us to tell the story of Wainwright’s extraordinary life, his love for the lakes and some of the greatest of his walks.

Royalty and Republic

Wallis Simpson

Anne Sebba & Hugo Vickers

L203 Montpellier Gardens 2-3pm £8 This year sees the publication of two new biographies of Wallis Simpson, or ‘that woman’ as she was referred to by the Queen Mother. Their respective authors, Anne Sebba (That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor) and Hugo Vickers (Behind Closed Doors) reflect on her life story, and discuss whether she deserved to be a figure of hatred for loving a king.

WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER Hugo Vickers

Anne Sebba

Diana Athill

Gervase Phinn

Allegra McEvedy

Marina Warner

Peter Sissons

WEDNESDAY 12

Suzy Atkins

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Adventure

Ranulph Fiennes

L204 Montpellier Gardens 2-3pm £8 Polar survivor; policeman; Gestapotortured woman; MI5 double agent; fire-fighter. These are among the twelve ordinary people who are heroes for legendary explorer, Ranulph Fiennes, and the subjects of his book, My Heroes: Extraordinary Courage, Exceptional People.

In this inspiring illustrated talk, he reveals what their extraordinary actions have taught him.

Max Hastings, Michael Howard, allan mallinson & Mark Urban

L205 Montpellier Gardens 2-3pm £7 Do you need to be a soldier to write about soldiering? In this fascinating event we ask whether direct military experience is a prerequisite for effective military writing. The Times’ contributor Allan Mallinson, author and former Brigadier, is joined by historians Max Hastings and Michael Howard and Newsnight Diplomatic Editor Mark Urban to debate the value of military experience in writing authentically on military matters.

Bonne Maman Big Read

Big Read Book Group

L206 Montpellier Gardens 2-3pm £3 Full of bizarre characters and black humour, Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 follows Captain Joseph Yossarian, a US bomber, as he desperately tries to survive the madness of World War II. Grab a cup of tea and a biscuit and join Jane Bailey for this book group to discuss this year’s Bonne Maman Big Read.

Bitesize

Bitesize

Suzy Atkins & Valentine Warner

Allegra McEvedy

L211 Imperial Square 4-5pm £6 An event about knives - but have no fear!

They will be in the safe hands of broadcaster and chef Allegra McEvedy who will be demonstrating how the tools of her trade can reflect the food of different cultures, as described in her new book, Bought, Borrowed and Stolen: Recipes and Knives from a Travelling Chef.

L207 Imperial Square 2-3pm £7 In this utterly mouth-watering cookery demonstration Suzy Atkins, author of How to Make Your Own Drinks, teams up with chef and food writer Valentine Warner who knows all about what constitutes The Good Table. They will be showing us plenty of new ideas to ensure that we are both well fed, and watered.

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Science Fiction Futures

L215 Imperial Square 5-6pm £6 Acclaimed science fiction writer, Adam Roberts, author of Yellow Blue Tibia and By Light Alone joins author and broadcaster Mark Brake to explore the fact and the fiction of science fiction, DNA and possible science fiction futures.

This event, funded by the Wellcome Trust is part of our cross-festival series exploring DNA migration.

Gervase Phinn

L212 Imperial Square 4-5pm £7 Former schools inspector and born raconteur Gervase Phinn shares some of his hilarious tales of his experiences in the education system, and introduces us to the world of Little Village School, his funny and poignant first novel for adults.

The Masters of Sitcom Ray Galton, Alan Simpson & Christopher Stevens

Nancy Mitford

Mary Lovell, Stella Tillyard & Kate Williams

L208 Imperial Square 2-3pm £7 The writers of such classic shows as Hancock’s Half Hour, Comedy Playhouse and Steptoe and Son, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson are the fathers of British sitcom. They join us for a look back at their long comedy collaboration, in conversation with author Christopher Stevens, editor of a new collection of their scripts and sketches: The Masters of Sitcom.

L213 Montpellier Gardens 4.30-5.30pm £8 As a member of the Mitford family, Nancy Mitford’s achievements as an author - from Love In A Cold Climate to The Sun King - are easily overshadowed by the extraordinary, and sometimes controversial, story of her sisters. Join us to explore the life and works of this important figure in 20th century letters with biographer Mary Lovell, author of The Mitford Girls, and historians Stella Tillyard and Kate Williams.

Diana Athill

L209 Imperial Square 3.15-4.15pm £7 In a series of remarkable memoirs, including the Costa-winning Somewhere Towards the End, Diana Athill has provided us with unique insights, both into the business of ageing, and her own literary journey from editor to author. Now 93, she joins Ramona Koval in conversation to look back on her distinguished and eventful life.

Max Hastings

L214 Montpellier Gardens 4.30-5.30pm £8 A starving child in Leningrad, a soldier in North Africa, or a civilian in Dresden, those caught up in the Second World War lived through hell. Distinguished historian Max Hastings draws on first hand accounts across the conflict, as collected in his definitive new history All Hell Let Loose, to convey the realities of war.

Bookbinding Workshop LW23 Montpellier Gardens 2-5pm £45 (inc. £15 of materials) 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.

LabOratory

The Cheltenham Lecture

Marina Warner The Arabian Nights

L210 Montpellier Gardens 4-5pm £6 Magic is a way of dreaming the impossible; a state of thinking supremely demonstrated by The Arabian Nights, with their flying carpets, hidden treasures and sudden revelations. So says Marina Warner, novelist and expert on myths and fairy tales in her new book Stranger Magic. She joins us to explore the wonders of these enchanting stories.

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Fiona Sampson & Chris Wallace-Crabbe Poetry Café

L216 Imperial Square 5.30-6.15pm Free Join us in the Poetry Café for a rare opportunity to hear Chris WallaceCrabbe, one of Australia’s leading poets, and award-winning poet Fiona Sampson, as they read from their latest work.

The Edwardians

Penelope Keith

L217 The Forum 6.30-7.30pm £10 Res The much-loved BAFTA-winning actress Penelope Keith discusses her life and tells the story of Edwardian ‘It girl’ and motoring pioneer Dorothy Levitt, the subject of a recent BBC4 special. She retraces Levitt’s 1905 journey from London to Liverpool in a De Dion motor car, with the aid of Dorothy’s pioneering handbook, The Woman and the Car.

Andrew Graham-Dixon Caravaggio: Part Two

L218 QWERTY 6.30-7.30pm £8 Res Continuing from last year’s Festival event, art critic, broadcaster and writer Andrew Graham-Dixon joins us to discuss the second part of his illuminating biography of the great Caravaggio. Join him as he follows the artist through streets filled with cardinals and whores, prayer and violence, vividly describing A Life Sacred and Profane in a fascinating illustrated event.

WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER Andrew Graham-Dixon

Alastair Hignell

Lorraine Pascale

Bill Granger

Fern Britton

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Terry Wogan

WEDNESDAY 12

Penelope Keith

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Money Talks

Money Matters

Clare Francis, John Kay & Paul Lewis

L219 Montpellier Gardens 6.30-7.30pm £6 More than ever, Britons are concerned about what happens to their hard-earned money. Financial journalist Paul Lewis, presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Moneybox Live, John Kay, author of The Long and the Short of It and Obliquity, and Clare Francis, editor of moneysupermarket. com, give you invaluable up-tothe-minute advice and answer your questions on how to successfully navigate the world of personal finance.

Fern Britton

L220 Main Hall 6.30-7.30pm £9 Res Instantly recognisable from her many presenting roles on prime time TV, including ITV’s This Morning, Fern Britton’s warmth, humour and empathy have made her a hugely popular figure.

She joins us to talk about her varied career; and New Beginnings, her recently published first novel, set in the world of television that she knows so well.

Bitesize

Anjum Anand & Bill Granger

Celebrating Home Cooking

L221 Imperial Square 7-8pm £7 In every home the kitchen is always at the heart, nourishing body and soul.

Looking at the importance of home cooking, and passing down our heritage and family history via food and recipes, Anjum Anand joins Bill Granger (Bill’s Everyday Asian).

The Summerfield Lecture

Alastair Hignell When the Goalposts Shift

L222 Imperial Square 7-8pm £7 How does one come to terms with a dramatic shift in life’s goalposts?

How does it change one’s view of the world? Following illustrious sporting careers as both England rugby player and Gloucestershire cricketer, Alastair Hignell, became a leading BBC sports commentator. After diagnosis with Multiple Sclerosis, he became a legendary and tireless fundraiser, and was awarded the CBE for his services to sport and to charity. Exploring these questions, he talks about his inspirational life and work.

Terence Rattigan: A Celebration

Pathways

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Richard Harries & Mary Warnock

L226 Montpellier Gardens 8.45-10pm £8 Terence Rattigan is undergoing a remarkable revival in his centenary year with a wave of critically-acclaimed productions, including Trevor Nunn’s recent West End staging of Flare Path, and a new screen version of The Deep Blue Sea in the offing. Actress Penelope Keith, Rattigan’s long-time companion Adrian Brown and biographer Michael Darlow, all great admirers of Rattigan’s plays discuss his life, and legacy as a dramatist.

L228 Imperial Square 8.45-10pm £8 Religion has always been a powerful force in US politics, yet Alastair Campbell famously said ‘we don’t do God’.

However, from ‘Faith in the City’ to the ‘Big Society’, religion and politics in contemporary Britain seem inextricably linked. Our distinguished panel members Mary Warnock, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Richard Harries discuss Britain’s thorny relationship between church, mosque, synagogue and state.

Adventure

Television Tales

L225 Montpellier Gardens 8.45-10pm £7 Touching the Void is one of the most famous mountaineering books ever written; an astonishing true survival story. Its author Joe Simpson brilliantly nails the bubbling fear that accompanies climbers, and the knife-edge moments that separate the survivors from the dead. He joins us to discuss his thrilling new novel, The Sound of Gravity, set partly on a stormbound mountain.

Cooking on Screen

Joe Simpson Locally Sourced

OUR Common Ground

L223 Imperial Square 7-8pm £6 Join the poets Alison Brackenbury, Mario Petrucci and James Simpson as they read from Our Common Ground, a celebration of the richness and diversity of the British countryside and its farming tradition. Produced in association with The Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, it features more than 100 poems both modern and traditional.

Lorraine Pascale L229 Imperial Square 8.45-10pm £7 Having made a huge splash on the culinary scene with the bestselling Baking Made Easy, Lorraine Pascale is back with Home Cooking Made Easy, her second cookbook and TV series, in which she treats us to recipes for soups, roasts and much more. She joins us to share her passion for delicious and simple home cooked food.

Power Play

Terry Wogan

Peter Sissons

L224 The Forum 8.45-10pm £15 Res One of the most recognisable faces and voices in the British media, Terry Wogan recently made a tour of his native land, for a book entitled Wogan’s Ireland. He regales us with his impressions of the place, after so many years living away; a magical mix of the personal and the political, the humorous and the tragic.

Life in the News

L227 Main Hall 8.45-10pm £12 Res As reporter and anchor for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, Peter Sissons was wounded in the Biafran War, as well as being the first reporter to announce the death of the Queen Mother.

Here he discusses his fascinating memoir When One Door Closes, exploring the ever-changing face of the news and the challenges of being a foreign correspondent.

Programmed by Anjum Anand

Montpellier Gardens

Religion and Politics

Adrian Brown, Michael Darlow & Penelope Keith

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Storytelling

The Kalevala

L230 Imperial Square 8.45-10pm £6 Stories of creation, the birth of song, the origin of fire, all unfolding in an ancient world rich in spirits of forest, sea and sky; The Kalevala is one of the world’s classics of oral storytelling, a rich repository of Finland’s mythic past. Storyteller Nick Hennessey travelled to Finland and won the national competition for retelling The Kalevala; he brings these ancient stories to life in an unmissable live performance.

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The festival for families & young readers

7 – 16 oCTOBER 2011 Box Office 01242 505 444 Regent Arcade Cheltenham

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Talk Talk Squawk!

Angelina Ballerina

LB1 The Playhouse Age 6-10 9.30-10.15am £5 Find out what animals say to each other when they think humans aren’t listening!

Meet former zoologist and presenter of the Really Wild Show Nicola Davies as she talks about her new books Talk Talk Squawk and Dolphin Baby in this fun, fact-filled event about animals and how they communicate.

St Andrew’s Church Age 4-6 £5.50 LB4 10-10.30am LB8 11.15-11.45am LB90 12.30-1pm Don‘t miss the chance to see Angelina‘s adventures brought to life before your eyes by her creator, Katharine Holabird together with a real ballerina. Hear all about Angelina and the Royal Wedding and other stories. Don’t forget your tutu!

Samurai v Ninja!

Family Event

WW2 Adventures

LB6 The Playhouse Age 9-13 11.15am-12.15pm £5 Meet Chris Bradford, author of the award-winning Young Samurai series, and learn what it takes to become a young samurai. Witness an authentic samurai sword display, listen to a dynamic all-kicking, all-punching reading and discover the mystic secrets of the deadly ninja. Dare you challenge the ninja?

LB2 The Studio Age 8+ 9.30-10.15am £4.50 Stories like this shouldn’t be forgotten.

Meet Mick Manning and Brita Gunström as they present the hairraising exploits of Mick’s father and mother in Tail-End Charlie and Taaf in the WAAF. Find out what it was like to be an RAF air gunner or a WAAF working in the top-secret world of Bletchley Park. From rationing to the Blitz this is a unique account of living through WW2.

Nature Adventures

LB7 The Studio Age 6-9 11.15am-12pm £4.50 What’s happening outside? Join Mick Manning and Brita Gunström for a Nature Adventures show with live drawing, quiz-style questions and handson mystery objects. Look out for the common and not so common sights we might encounter when we step outdoors.

Family Event

Singalong with Julia Donaldson

LB3 Garden Theatre Age 6+ 10-11am £6.50 Join in with Children’s Laureate Julia Donaldson and her husband Malcolm for a grand singalong from her irresistible songbooks and stories. Listen to the brand new Zog song, moo and hiss at the dastardly farmyard antics in What the Ladybird Heard and find out how the villainous rat gets his come-uppance in her latest story, The Highway Rat. With a special guest appearance from the Gruffalo! www.childrenslaureate.org.uk

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Family Event

Ruby Redfort with Lauren Child

LB9 The Inkpot Age 9+ 12-12.45pm £6 Bestselling author of Charlie and Lola and Clarice Bean, Lauren Child introduces readers to her sassy new character: the super genius, code-cracking, daring detective - Ruby Redfort. With a host of unmissable and unforgettable characters in Look into My Eyes: the first adventure in the Ruby Redfort series - You’d betta believe it, kiddo!

Family Event

RSPB Wildlife Poetry

LB10 The Playhouse Age 7+ 1-1.45pm £5 From birds, mammals and fish to trees, flowers and insects, the richness of the British natural world is explored through a stunning collection of the very best in wildlife poetry. Join Celia Warren for a poetry reading - perfect for the whole family!

Monsters and Shadows

LB11 The Studio Age 12+ 1-2pm £5 Don’t miss two extraordinary and highlyacclaimed writers in conversation about their recent prize-winning novels. Jason Wallace’s powerful Costa-award-winning novel Out of Shadows is set in a war-torn Zimbabwe. Patrick Ness’s electrifying Monsters of Men, set in a dystopian future, is the final part of his Chaos Walking trilogy, and won this year’s Carnegie Medal.

SATURday 8 October

Pip and Posy with Axel Scheffler

LB12 St Andrew’s Church Age 3-5 2-2.45 pm £6 Join the Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler as he introduces his wonderful new characters Pip & Posy! Good friends (most of the time!) This charming pair will delight toddlers and parents alike with their adventures, and there might even be a personal appearance from Pip and Posy themselves!

Family Event

Chitty Flies Again

LB14 The Playhouse Age 8+ 2.45-3.30pm £5 Fiction’s best-loved car roars back to life! Almost fifty years after Ian Fleming wrote the original version as a bedtime story for his young son, author Frank Cottrell Boyce (Millions, Cosmic) has given Chitty Chitty Bang Bang a marvellous mechanical makeover. Hear all about his new story, Chitty Flies Again, which follows the Tooting family as they zoom around the world in their magical camper-van.

The Wombles

The Studio Age 6+ £5.50 LB16 3-3.45pm LB19 4.30-5.15pm More than 40 years since they were created by Elisabeth Beresford, The Wombles are back! Join us for storytelling, Wombles sock-puppet making (please bring a sock with you!) and lots more, including a special appearance from Great Uncle Bulgaria himself.

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Pirates, Princesses and Trains!

Write On! 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.

LB15 St Andrew’s Church Age 4-6 3.45-4.30pm £4.50 Get ready for the rip-roaring adventure of a lifetime! Meet swashbuckling pirates, galloping bandits, a rampaging dinosaur, perilous rapids, and a really cool princess in illustrator Sarah McInytre’s new books, When Titus Took the Train and You Can’t Scare a Princess! Then make your own adventure board game to take away and play!

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.

Tree Top Adventure!

LB18 The Playhouse Age 8-12 4.30pm-5.15pm £4.50 Let author Andrew Peters (also known as the tall poet) take you on an exhilarating treetop adventure! This exciting live show will feature juggling, digeridoo and dramatic readings from his new fantasy Ravenwood set in the breath-taking, mile-high world of a giant canopy of trees.

Arctic Illustration

LB5 St Andrew’s Church Age 6-10 10am-12pm £15 Karin Littlewood loves drawing and stories and has illustrated many beautiful picture books. She will show you her artwork from her new book, Immi, set in the frozen Arctic and help you to make your very own Immi complete with fishing rod and all the magical things she finds!

Masterclass

How To Get Your Children’s Book Published

LB21 The Playhouse 6-7.30pm £12 Meet and learn from industry experts across a wide spectrum of publishing roles at this very special event designed to be informative, engaging and inspiring. Barry Cunningham, Chicken House MD and Publisher, will be joined

by Amanda Craig, The Times’ Children’s Book Critic, Sophia Bennett, former winner, and Neil Blair, J K Rowling’s literary agent. They will discuss how to get published in a challenging market, and what makes a good book.

Writing Horror WITH TOMMY Donbavand

LB13 St Andrew’s Church Age 11-15 1-3pm £15 Scary Scribes! Join Scream Street author, Tommy Donbavand, as he helps you plan and write your own tale of terror!

Write Your Own Storybook

LB17 St Andrew’s Church Age 8-12 4-6pm £15 Have you ever wanted to write a story but wondered where to start? Usborne author Louise Stowell, is here to help!

Young budding writers will pick up all sorts of writing tips and tricks, from how to think up story and character ideas and how to plan and plot stories.

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Visiting the Festival with Children Please adhere to the recommended age range specified for all Book It! events (with a LB 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.

SUNday 9 October

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Mega Mash-Up!

If You’re Happy and You Know It

LB22 The Studio Age 7-10 9.30-10.15am £4.50 Ever wondered what would happen if dinosaurs went head-to-head with Romans on Mars? Or gorillas and aliens battled it out in the desert? Well, wonder no more! Join Tim Wesson and Nikalas Catlow as they tell you EXACTLY what would happen... ...and draw it all for you, in front of your very eyes!

LB26 The Studio Age 2-5 11.15 am-12pm £4.50 Come along and join writer and singer Anna McQuinn for some sleeves-rolled up art, and the chance to enjoy some familiar (and not-so familiar) songs and nursery rhymes. Children will have lots of opportunity to join in the gluing, sticking, singing and acting, and adults can join in too if they like!

Fashion and Friendship

Family Event

Justin’s Jokes

LB30 The Inkpot Age 4+ 12-12.45pm £6 You’ve seen Gigglebiz, you’ve seen Something Special so now get ready for Justin’s Jokes! Meet the star of CBeebies Justin Fletcher, the man behind Mr Tumble, Gail Force, Professor Muddles and many more as he celebrates the launch of his hilarious new joke book for children. There will be fun for all the family with plenty of sing-a-long songs and oodles of laugh-out-loud jokes!

Happy Birthday Peepo!

LB23 The Playhouse Age 10-13 10-10.45am £4.50 Fun, friendship, fashion and gossip with Sophia Bennett, author of the fabulous Threads series, and Joanna Nadin, author of the Rachel Riley series and laugh-out-loud new novel Buttercup Mash. There’s a chance to win some prizes; so get dressed up in your brightest, craziest, most sparkly outfit!

Queen’s Hotel Age 3-5 £5.50 LB28 11.45am-12.15pm LB32 1-1.30pm LB35 2.15-2.45pm Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the delightful picture book Peepo!, by Janet & Allan Ahlberg. with professional storyteller Justine de Mierre. A fun, lively and interactive event including plenty of songs, games and storytelling!

Family Event

Horrid Henry

Meg Rosoff and Jennifer Donnelly

LB24 Garden Theatre Age 6+ 10-11am £6.50 Join the wonderful, mega-bestselling Francesca Simon as she talks about all things horrid! Find out Horrid Henry’s latest dreadful deeds in this wickedly funny and unique event, and listen in as Francesca reads from her brand new and hilarious Horrid Henry and the Zombie Vampire. Don’t miss out!

Fabulous Flapdoodles

LB25 Queen’s Hotel Age 4-6 10-10.45am £4.50 Are you scared of the things that go bump in the night? Never fear - the Fabulous Flapdoodles are here! Join illustrator Emily Golden and find out where she gets her ideas for her drawings, meet some crazy characters from The Fabulous Flapdoodles and The Loon on the Moon, and even have a go at drawing your very own monster!

LB31 The Studio Age 6-8 1-1.45pm £4.50 Poor Penny really is not very dreadful it’s just that disaster seems to follow her around! Take cover as Joanna Nadin shares tales of mischief-making, mayhem and “BRILLIANT IDEAS”! Learn how to choose a trusty scapegoat, a good disguise and more with Penny’s survival guide quiz. There is even a Penny mask to take home!

LB27 The Playhouse Age 12+ 12-1pm £5 A rare chance to meet two highly acclaimed, award-winning writers in conversation. Meg Rosoff’s first novel How I Live Now was a huge hit. She is back with her latest novel There is No Dog, which asks: What would the world look like if God were a teenage boy?

American writer, Jennifer Donnelly’s debut novel A Gathering Light became an instant bestseller. Her new novel Revolution explores family relationships from the French Revolution to present day New York in a beautifully written story of two young women divided by 200 years.

Family Event

Family Event

LB36 The Studio Age 13+ 2.30-3.30pm £5 Join three of our most gripping, insightful and no-holds-barred authors writing for teens today to talk about their latest novels. Melvin Burgess’ Kill All Enemies uncovers what really goes on in a pupil referral unit. Naked by Kevin Brooks is set in a summer of chaos, punk and love, and Sophie McKenzie’s thriller Sister, Missing is the eagerly-awaited sequel to Girl, Missing. Three authors who really tell it how it is…

Ted Hughes – Stories and Poems

LB29 Garden Theatre Age 8+ 12-1pm £6.50 Join author and former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo and acclaimed actor Juliet Stevenson as they bring to life Ted Hughes’ magical poetry and wonderfully vivid stories for children from the delightful new audio collections celebrating the work of this much-loved poet.

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Penny Dreadful

How to Steal a Dragon’s Sword

LB33 The Playhouse Age 8+ 1.45-2.30pm £5.50 Cressida Cowell, creator of the How to Train Your Dragon series (now a hugely successful film) is back to tell you all about Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III and his latest adventures in How to Steal a Dragon’s Sword. Find out all about her childhood holidays on a remote island which inspired her love of Vikings and dragons.

Mad, Bad and Dangerous!

SUNday 9 October

Buy tickets at cheltenhamfestivals.com

Family Event

Family Event

LB37 The Playhouse Age 8+ 3.30-4.30pm £5 Both Lauren St John and Ali Sparkes have won the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award; Ali for her adventure Frozen in Time and Lauren is this year’s winner for Dead Man’s Cove, the first in her new mystery series. Join them to hear about their latest novels, Unleashed and Kidnap in the Caribbean, and find out what makes winning a Blue Peter Book Award so special!

LB40 The Studio Age 9+ 4.30-5.15pm £5 Join Jenny Alexander, author of How to Get What you Want and How to Get the Family You Want and delve into the chaotic world of Peony Pinker! In the second hilarious instalment the plucky heroine is seriously fed up with her family. But how can she go about changing their annoying traits? This fantastic and interactive event has funfilled quizzes and plenty of hot tips on family relationships, friendships and how to get what you want!

What Makes a Blue Peter Prize winner

Great Sheep Shenanigans

LB38 Queen’s Hotel Age 5-7 3.30-4.15pm £4.50 With a stunningly cunning plan a wolf named Lou Pine finds a disguise that is sure to deliver a lamb stew or two.

But this flock of sheep aren’t quite the dumb mutton they seem. Find out what happens in The Great Sheep Shenanigans and get crafty with fabulous illustrator, Mei Matsuoka as she shows you how to make your very own woolly sheep.

Family Event

War Horse

From Book to Play to Film

LB39 Garden Theatre Age 12+ 4-5pm £7.50 Michael Morpurgo, the award-winning author of War Horse talks to broadcaster Clare Balding about his best-known book and the incredible journey from his original story first published in 1982 to the National Theatre’s multi awardwinning play, and now the forthcoming film by Steven Spielberg due in our cinemas in January.

Write On! Workshops

How to Get the Family You Want

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.

Vampires v Werewolves Gameshow LB41 Queen’s Hotel Age 7-11 5.15-6pm £4.50 Are you a vampire or a werewolf?

Dress as your spookiest Halloween character and join in the mayhem as Tommy Donbavand unleashes his Vampires v Werewolves Game Show.

With fast-paced action-packed activities based around the spook-tacular Scream Street series, brace yourself for howls versus growls and more noise than a crowd of banshees!

Pop Ups with Robert Crowther

LB34 St Andrew’s Church Age 7-10 2-4pm £15 From trains to planes to monster trucks, Robert Crowther has made every mode of transport pop up! Learn how to create different types of pop-ups and make some Amazing Pop Up Big Machines of your own at this hands-on paper engineering masterclass.

Family Event

Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell

LB42 The Playhouse Age 10+ 5.30-6.30pm £5 Join the award-winning creators of The Edge Chronicles, Far-Flung Adventures and Muddle Earth for a brand new high octane, fantasy epic Wyrmeweald. Let Paul Stewart take you on a journey to a wild-west world where awesome dragonlike beasts roam supreme, while Chris Riddell shows you how he creates the amazing illustrations that bring this new world to life.

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Visiting the Festival with Children Please adhere to the recommended age range specified for all Book It! events (with a LB 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.

WEEKDAYS

Box Office 01242 505 444

Friday 7 October

Monday 10 October

Tuesday 11 October

Schools’ Event

Schools’ Event

Schools’ Event

LS1 Imperial Square Years 1-3 11.30am-12.30pm £4 Here is the ever-popular Julia Donaldson live on stage in her brilliant new singalong show. Join in with all your favourites from The Gruffalo and Other Songs, and Room on the Broom and Other Songs. Watch her and husband Malcolm’s hilarious re-enactment of What the Ladybird Heard (a tale of dastardly deeds in the farmyard).

LS3 Imperial Square Years 3-6 10-11am £4 What happens when a sleeping army wakes? Meet Francesca Simon, the author of the hugely popular Horrid Henry series, as she talks about her fantastic new adventure, The Sleeping Army. Enter the mysterious and exciting other world of murderous giants, dragons, and Viking gods. And find out what happens when the ancient Lewis Chessmen come to life in the British Museum!

LS6 Imperial Square Years 2-4 10-11am £4 Join James Mayhew as he talks about the inspiration behind his much-loved Katie series, how imagination creates pictures and books, how he paints and just why he loves discovering things about famous artists. This year, Katie goes to Scotland and meets the Loch Ness monster! Join James, Katie and Nessie on a true Highland adventure and see James paint live on stage!

Myths and Legends with Francesca Simon

Singalong with Julia Donaldson

Schools’ Event

Malorie Blackman

Schools’ Event

LS2 Imperial Square Years 7-9 1.30pm- 2.30pm £4 Join one of our most respected and popular authors in a rare Festival appearance as Malorie Blackman discusses her writing and her eagerlyawaited new novel Boys Don’t Cry. This gripping story tackles the realities of teenage fatherhood, prejudice and homophobia with her customary blend of sensitivity and humour.

Edge Chronicles to Muddle Earth with Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell

LS4 Imperial Square Years 5-7 11.45am-12.45pm £4 Join the award-winning creators of The Edge Chronicles, Far-Flung Adventures, Barnaby Grimes and Muddle Earth for a high octane event on how they invent their fantasy worlds together. Go with Paul Stewart on a journey to the Edge, to Muddle Earth, and to a Wild-West, and watch Chris Riddell create the amazing illustrations that bring their incredibly imaginative worlds to life.

Schools’ Event

Take a Pencil for a Walk with Bruce Ingman

LS5 Imperial Square Years 1-3 1.30-2.30pm £4 What is it like to work with Allan Ahlberg? How do you turn ideas into picture books? Join award-winning illustrator Bruce Ingman as he brings characters and stories to life in front of your very eyes in this lively creative event. He will also be introducing his brilliant new character Ronny Rock in the world exclusive unveiling of Ronny Rock starring in Monster Cake Meltdown.

Fun @ Four

Alienography with Chris Riddell

LB43 The Studio Age 4-7 4-4.30 pm £4 Alienography: or How to Spot an Alien Invasion is the book that illustrator Chris Riddell always wanted to make. Hear all about his spoof-guide to alien invasion and be mesmerised as he recreates his extra terrestrial characters before your very eyes!

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The Greatest Picture Show with James Mayhew

Schools’ Event

Dinosaurs and Meerkats with Ian Whybrow

LS7 Imperial Square Years 2-4 11.45am-12.45 pm £4 Join the ever-inventive Ian Whybrow to hear all about his latest funny fiction for young readers. Set in the Kalahari, Meerkat Madness is the first in a hilarious action-adventure series about a group of meerkat pups and their eccentric babysitter Uncle Fearless. In Harry and the Dinosaurs: Roar to the Rescue we find out what happens to Harry when he grows too old for the bucketful of dinosaurs.

Schools’ Event

Gladiator! The Fight for Freedom with Simon Scarrow

LS8 Imperial Square Years 6-8 1.30-2.30 pm £4 Recruited as a gladiator, young Marcus Cornelius Primus faces a new life of brutal training, governed by strict rules, as he learns the skills of an elite warrior.

Travel with author Simon Scarrow on a journey back to Ancient Rome and the often brutal lives of the gladiators in his blockbusting novel Gladiator: Fight for Freedom.

Fun @ Four

Harry and the Dinosaurs

LB44 The Studio Age 3-6 4-4.30pm £4 Come and say “ROARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!” with Ian Whybrow, creator of the hugely popular Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs series. Buckets full of fun for everyone!

WEEKDAYS

Buy tickets at cheltenhamfestivals.com

Wednesday 12 October

Thursday 13 October

Friday 14 October

Schools’ Workshop

Schools’ Workshop

Schools’ Event

Imperial Square Years 6-7 £5 LS9 10-11am LS12 1.30-2.30pm Join in an art workshop using the inspiring words of teenage diarist Anne Frank. Pupils will spend a creative hour reflecting on the dangers of intolerance, their own identity, their own dreams and work collectively to create a ‘map’ of their thoughts and feelings.

Imperial Square Years 3-5 £5 LS13 10-11am LS15 11.45am-12.45 pm LS20 1.30-2.30pm Science is full of weird and wonderful language that poetry just loves - quarks and quasars, atoms and ammonites, electrons and electricity - to name a just a few. Join poet James Carter and create your very own sizzling science poem for display on our website. He’ll also be reading from his exciting new poetry book, How To Turn Your Teacher Purple, and may even bring his guitar too!

Anne Frank Workshop with the Anne Frank Trust

Schools’ Event

The Life, Times and Diary of Anne Frank with the Frank Trust

LS10 Imperial Square Years 6-8 11.45am-12.45pm £4 The Diary of a Young Girl was first published in 1947. Come and hear the story of Anne Frank and her family, and how she came to be one of the biggest-selling authors of all time, in this thought-provoking presentation and talk from the Anne Frank Trust.

Schools’ Event

Duty Calls with James Holland

LS11 Imperial Square Years 7-9 1.30-2.30pm £4 Join military historian and WW2 expert James Holland in this fascinating and highly interactive ‘show and tell’ - with genuine WWII memorabilia - and hear about his gripping new novel Duty Calls: Dunkirk. Try on and handle soldiers’ uniforms, RAF jackets, rifles, pistols and machine guns (not loaded!).

Fun @ Four

Boats and Beaches with Thomas Docherty

LB45 The Studio Age 3-6 4-4.30pm £4 Let’s go To the Beach! Come on a miniadventure with Thomas Docherty.

Using giant props and live drawings, Thomas also tells the story of how Little Boat makes new friends – as well as finding out what you need for the perfect seaside trip.

How to Turn Your Teacher Purple with James Carter

On the move again with Philip Reeve

LS17 Imperial Square Years 5-7 10-11.00 am £4 Hear Philip Reeve introduce his new Mortal Engines story Scrivener’s Moon in which the city of London begins to move on wheels! New London terrifies the world beyond, and armies determined to stop it are gathering to attack. A great war is about to change the future of the human race.

Schools’ Event

Raise the Roof with Kaye Umansky

LS18 Imperial Square Years 3-5 11.45am-12.45 m £4 Join the magical Kaye Umansky as she raises the roof at one of her uproarious events. Lots of fun as she talks about her classic character Pongwiffy and all her other fun and fiendish creations. Full of rhymes raps, readings and lots of laughs.

Schools’ Event

John Dougherty

LS14 Imperial Square Years 3-5 11.45am-12.45pm £4 Author, songwriter and poet John Dougherty invites you to join him as he brings his Zeus and Jack Slater stories to life with dramatic readings, audience participation and plenty of jokes and puns. What is it like to be an author and how does publishing work? Why should you have sympathy for your longsuffering teachers?

Schools’ Event

Roger McGough

LS19 Imperial Square Years 3-6 1.30-2.30pm £5 Join Roger McGough for a wonderful poetry performance and watch him illustrate rare breeds, real and imaginary from his An Imaginary Menagerie. Find out about the anaconda in a Honda, the useful catapillow, the reliable teapet, those exceedingly naughty kiwis - and many more animals - then choose your own favourite.

Schools’ Event

Adventure, Friendship, Treason and Betrayal with Berlie Doherty

LS16 Imperial Square Years 4-6 1.30-2.30 pm £4 Will Montague is a page to Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII. But these are dangerous times and, as the King’s favourite, Will gains many enemies in Court. Treason is the exciting new historical novel from award-winning author Berlie Doherty.

Baby Bookworms

Montpellier Gardens Age 6-18 months £6 for parent and baby LB47 2-2.20pm LB48 2.45-3.05pm Have you ever wondered when to introduce your baby to a book? The answer is probably, sooner than you think! The youngest of babies can enjoy exploring texture, shape and sound in this interactive workshop. It is a perfect session for parents and babies to enjoy together. Book early to avoid disappointment!

Fun @ Four

Hey Little Bug!

LB46 The Studio Age 3-6 4-4.30pm £4 Get ready for action rhymes, music and poems a plenty full of bugs, bubbles, puddles, pirates, dinosaurs and travelling around the world with performance poet James Carter from his new collection Hey, Little Bug! Poems for Little Creatures.

Fun @ Four

Stories and Rhymes with Kaye Umansky

LB49 The Studio Age 3-6 4-4.30pm £4 Join Kaye Umansky for a fun-filled session of stories, songs, rhymes and chants! Tap along with the Three Tapping Teddies and croak a chorus with the wide-mouthed tree frog!

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Visiting the Festival with Children Please adhere to the recommended age range specified for all Book It! events (with a LB 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.

SATURday 15 October

Box Office 01242 505 444

Where’s Spot?

Peter Rabbit

How to Draw HORRIBLE Science

H.I.V.E. with Mark Walden

LB50 The Studio Age 3-5 9.30-10.15am £6 Where’s Spot? Have you seen him?

Come along and join in the fun at this storytelling session featuring games, dancing, and a chance to meet the world’s most lovable puppy!

LB55 The Studio Age 4-7 11-11.45am £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.

LB51 The Playhouse Age 8-12 10-10.45am £5 Are you a budding artist with a fascination for fungus? Or a crazy cartoonist with a passion for poisonous plants? Then join Tony De Saulles, illustrator of the bestselling Horrible Science series for a masterclass in how to draw all things horrible. Packed full of drawing tips and foul scientific facts, it’s all horribly here in this not-to-be missed event.

LB56 The Playhouse Age 10-14 11.45am-12.30pm £5 Former video games designer and producer Mark Walden is the creator of the action-packed H.I.V.E. series. All villains, no matter how dastardly, want to train at The Higher Institute of Villainous Education. Be the first to hear all about the next instalment of Otto’s adventures in Aftershock.

Family Event

World of Happy

Family Event

LB57 St Andrew’s Church Age 4-7 11.45am–12.30pm £4.50 Join the author and creator of Purple Ronnie and Edward Monkton Giles Andreae and illustrator Janet Cronin in a hands-on event as they talk about their new series, World of Happy. Joy and happiness for everyone in these thirteen funny stories about belching sharks, dancing hippos, knitting gorillas and drumming crickets!

Johnny Ball

LB52 The Inkpot Age 12+ 10-11am £6 Confused? You will be! Legendary TV presenter and all-round boffin Johnny Ball serves up fun, brain-bending puzzles from his new book Ball of Confusion.

Based on his regular slot from daughter Zoe Ball’s national radio show, his maths teasers will keep you entertained for hours.

Babbit with Lydia Monks

Family Event

An Imaginary Menagerie with Roger McGough

LB53 St Andrew’s Church Age 4-7 10-10.45am £5 Babbit gets taken on a picnic but it’s not quite as much fun as he hoped when he’s captured by some monsters in the woods. But all is not lost when Little One comes to the rescue. Join much loved writer and illustrator Lydia Monks for her new book Babbit! There will be a chance to make your own collage of Babbit too.

LB58 Garden Theatre Age 8+ 12-1pm £7 Roger McGough is one of our bestknown and best-loved poets. Join him for a wonderful poetry performance and watch him illustrate a veritable zoo of rare breeds, real and imaginary from An Imaginary Menagerie. Find out about the anaconda in a Honda (don’t ask him for a ride, you might end up inside), the useful catapillow, the reliable teapet, and those exceedingly naughty kiwis!

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Destined for Greatness

LB59 The Studio Age 13+ 12.45-1.45pm £4.50 Meet three brilliant writers exploring charismatic historical figures in new ways. Traitor’s Kiss by Pauline Francis is the captivating true story of the young Elizabeth I, set in the treacherous world of Tudor England. Discover what turns the handsome, idealistic Henry into a cruel delusional tyrant in VIII by H M Castor.

Bestselling author Mary Hoffman tells the story behind one of the world’s bestknown sculptures in David.

Family Event

Alana Dancing Star with Arlene Phillips

LB61 The Playhouse Age 6+ 1.30-2.15pm £6 If you love dancing, come and meet world-famous choreographer Arlene Phillips, author of Alana Dancing Star the hottest new series in girls’ fiction.

Full of magic, glamour, glitter and loveable characters; every book is a different dance spectacular! Hear the stories and see the dance steps with real dancers. Dance dress optional!

Letters from an Alien Schoolboy

LB62 St Andrew’s Church Age 7-10 1.30-2.15pm £4.50 Did you know that aliens from the planet Faa are living on earth disguised as humans? And very funny they find us too! A horrifyingly hilarious tale of alien attacks, daring deeds, great big enormous wobbly BADDIES and teeny weeny wibbly BADDIES! Ros Asquith has been monitoring them - join her for a hilarious session with Flowkwee the alien schoolboy in Letters from an Alien Schoolboy!

SATURday 15 October

Peppa Pig

LB63 Imperial Square Age 3-6 4-4.45pm £6 The world’s most famous pig comes to Cheltenham! Giggle and snort your way through a riotous show with the irresistible, delightful Peppa Pig. Enjoy interactive storytelling, a singalong and the chance to meet your favourite pig in person!

Family Event

How the Olympics Came to be

LB64 The Studio Age 6+ 2.30-3.15pm £5 As we all get ready for London 2012, discover the Greek gods and mythical heroes that inspired the very first Olympic Games. Storyteller Helen East reads from her new book, How the Olympics Came to Be. Beautiful illustrations bring Mount Olympus and the ancient games alive.

Catwalk Queens with Cathy Hopkins

LB65 St Andrew’s Church Age 11-14 3-3.45pm £5.50 Cathy Hopkins taps into all the things teen girls love in her latest series, Million Dollar Mates, set in an upmarket London apartment block. She will be talking about the latest in the series, Catwalk Queen, and for an extra special indulgence she will be joined by those lovely smelling soap-sellers Lush for demos and pampering treats.

Sir Charlie Stinky Socks

LB66 The Playhouse Age 5-7 3.15-4pm £5 Join brilliant author and illustrator Kristina Stephenson for a really big adventure with Sir Charlie Stinky Socks and the Tale of the Terrible Secret! Get ready for thrilling interactive storytelling, incredible props, music and hilarious songs… don’t miss this!

Buy tickets at cheltenhamfestivals.com

Traction Man is Back!

Write On! Workshops

LB67 The Studio Age 6-8 4-4.45pm £4.50 Traction Man and Scrubbing Brush are at the beach! Traction Man even has his special Squid-Proof Scuba Suit, perfect for exploring the secret crevices of the Rockpool. Join prize-winning author and illustrator Mini Grey as she tells you in words and pictures about the exploits of the daring duo in Traction Man and the Beach Odyssey.

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

Tales from India

LB69 St Andrew’s Church Age 7+ 4.45pm-5.30pm £4.50 Come on a magical journey with master storyteller Jamila Gavin as she brings to life Hindu tales of evil kings, beautiful princesses and epic battles between good and evil in Tales from India and School for Princes. The author is joined by award-winning artist Amanda Hall whose sumptuous illustrations illuminate these classic stories you’ll be delighted and intrigued in equal measure.

Make Olympic Medals with Helen East and Anna Saunders

LB54 St Andrew’s Church Age 7-11 10am-12pm £15 Following their very successful visit last year – the British Museum are back with another hands-on workshop.

Helen East and Anna Saunders lead this exciting session, in which children will explore the history of Olympic medals and learn about the heroes of ancient Greece, while designing and creating their own individual gold medals.

Family Event

Tintin

LB70 The Playhouse Age 10+ 5-6pm £5 Blistering barnacles! As the release of the film Secret of the Unicorn approaches, join two huge fans and Tintin experts to find out everything you ever wanted to know about Tintin. Raphaël Taylor’s new book, Hergé, looks at the man and the creative genius behind the world’s most adventurous boy reporter and Michael Farr is the author of Tintin the Complete Companion.

Graphic Novels Workshop with Emma Dodds and K A Gerrard

LB60 St Andrew’s Church Age 10-14 1-3pm £15 Award-winning illustrator Emma Dodd leads a hands-on workshop with author K A Gerrard on how to put together your own graphic novel. Drawing on their experience of their first graphic novel for children, A Roman Rescue, they will offer participants step-by-step help and advice on layout, dialogue and illustration.

Terror Unleashed!

LB71 The Studio Age 12+ 5.30-6.30pm £4.50 Join three masters of the macabre for a spine-chilling discussion guaranteed to terrify you to the core. In Will Hill’s debut novel Department 19, the top secret Department 19 is at the centre of a war on vampires, but does it really exist?

American writer Ilsa J Bick’s novel Ashes is set in a dystopian future full of flesheating monsters and in David Gatward’s series, The Dead Lazarus Stone is about to turn sixteen when, one night, his normal life is ripped to shreds by a skinless figure drenched in blood…

Writing Comedy with Ros Asquith

LB68 St Andrew’s Church Age 9-12 4-6pm £15 Ros Asquith is one of the funniest writers for children. She achieved worldwide fame for her Teenage Worrier books and is also a cartoonist for The Guardian. Her latest title is Letters from an Alien Schoolboy: Cosmic Custard. In this special comedy workshop she will share tips on how to create funny characters and stories - and probably tell some good jokes too!

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Visiting the Festival with Children Please adhere to the recommended age range specified for all Book It! events (with a LB 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.

SUNday 16 October

Box Office 01242 505 444

Monstersaurus

Family Event

Mr Gum with Andy Stanton

LB72 The Studio Age 4-7 9.30-10.15am £6 The aliens love underpants and Monty loves inventing… but what crazy creature is he going to cook up? Join Ben Cort, illustrator of the bestselling Aliens Love Underpants series, as he introduces the star of his brand new picture book, Monstersaurus. Chaos and crazy antics guaranteed, plus a special guest!

LB75 The Inkpot Age 7+ 10-11am £5 Mad, bad and dangerously funny to know! That’s Andy Stanton - the crazy creator of the ludicrously silly and award-winning Mr Gum books. Get ready to laugh until you cry with an event full of much hilarity and madness and hear about all the latest Mr Gum goings-on from Andy himself!

The Amazing Legotastic Building Event

Rainbow Magic

Queen’s Hotel Age 6-9 £6 LB73 9.30-10.15am LB77 11.15am-12pm Back by popular demand. 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 mosaic and create the final masterpiece!

LB76 The Studio Age 6-8 11.15am-12pm £6 It’s time to don your fairy wings and bring your wands along for some fairy fun, glittery games and craft activities. It’s the year for Princess Fairies and promises to be a very Royal affair!

On Your Farts, Get Set, Go!

Family Event

LB78 The Playhouse Age 7-11 11.45am-12.30 pm £5 Do you know who played in the longest tennis match ever and which striker’s shorts fell down when he took a penalty?

Find out with Mitchell Symons, the revolting reference expert and prizewinning author of Why Eating Bogeys Is Good for You and new book, On your Farts, Get Set, Go!

Potentially Catastrophic Science

LB74 The Playhouse Age10+ 10-10.45am £5 Sean Connolly brings his Potentially Catastrophic Science book to life in this hands-on event, demonstrating awesome experiments using everyday stuff from around the house. Be among the first learn how to parachute an egg from an upstairs window, distil DNA from a half-eaten banana and spark lightning in your mouth!

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Family Event

David Walliams

LB79 Garden Theatre Age 9+ 12-1pm £7 Joe has a lot of reasons to be happy.

About a billion of them, in fact. Joe’s rich. Really, really rich. Joe’s got his own bowling alley, his own cinema, even his own butler who is also an orangutan.

But there’s just one thing he really needs: a friend…Little Britain star David Walliams shares his hilarious, touching and extraordinary new fable Billionaire Boy: and gives a sneak preview of Gangsta Granny his new book published in November.

Family Event

Run Wild!

LB80 The Studio Age 4+ 1-2pm £5 Run Wild by Jo Schofield and Fiona Danks is packed full of inspirational ideas for outdoor parties, games and adventures. Let your imagination run wild and have a go at making wonderful mythical and magical creatures from natural materials such as clay, sticks, feathers and seeds.

Claude on Holiday

LB81 Queen’s Hotel Age 5-8 1-1.45pm £4.50 Claude is no ordinary dog! When Mr and Mrs Shinyshoes set off for work, Claude decides what adventure he wants to have that day. Join Alex T Smith, author and illustrator of the fantastic Claude series for an interactive illustration workshop. What adventure will you have with Claude and Sir Bobblysock today?

SUNday 16 October

Family Event

Ladybird Live!

LB82 The Playhouse Age 4-6 1.30-2.15pm £5 Join favourite performance poet Murray Lachlan Young for plenty of dance, rhyme, song and animal noises as he hosts a hilarious and vibrant storytelling extravaganza. The show will include specially-filmed segments of famous personalities reading classic fairy tales.

Why not come dressed-up as a Ladybird?

Partytime with Kipper

Queen’s Hotel Age 3-5 £5.50 LB84 2.45-3.15pm LB87 4-4.30pm Come and meet your favourite little dog Kipper, created by Mick Inkpen.

Hear all about his friends, including Wibbly Pig who has ten balloons to play with, if only he can keep hold of them!

Join wonderful storyteller Liz Fost for stories, games and songs. A party not to be missed!

Puppies and Kittens with Holly Webb

LB85 The Studio Age 6-9 3-3.45pm £4.50 Guaranteed to delight Holly Webb fans old and new! Meet the author of Lost in the Snow, Alfie all Alone, My Naughty Little Puppy and many more. Hear her read from her bestselling books, see some of her cute inspirations and get creative with craft activities. A must for all animal lovers! Flashoom! See you there!

Buy tickets at cheltenhamfestivals.com

Write On! Workshops

Family Event

Animal Tales with Terry Jones and Michael Foreman

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.

LB86 The Playhouse Age 8+ 3.15-4pm £5 Find out the secret of immortal jellyfish and hear the tale of the mischievous Mongolian deep-fried bat in the hilarious Animal Tales by ex-Python Terry Jones and fabulous illustrator Michael Foreman. Enjoy an afternoon of stories, drawings and fun that will delight both adults and children alike.

Crazy Comic Strips with the Etherington Brothers

LB88 The Studio Age 8-11 4.45-5.30pm £5 Roll up! Roll up! Join The Dandy contributors the Etherington Brothers for a hilarious exploration of words, pictures and comic storytelling! Create your own bizarre characters and crazy comic strips with help from these energetic young talents. Every child will receive a free copy of the Etherington Brothers Go Nuts! comic-making booklet.

FLASHOOM! See you there!!

Collage Workshop with Sam Usher

LB83 St Andrew’s Church Age 6-9 2-4pm £15 Get crafty with Sam Usher, author and illustrator of fantastic hide-and-seek picture book Can You See Sassoon? in a unique opportunity to work closely with him and create your own Sassoon-style picture.

Family Event

Vikings!

LB89 The Playhouse Age 10+ 5-6pm £4.50 Join two authors steeped in the myths and legends of the Norse gods and heroes for some amazing Viking tales.

In award-winning storyteller Kevin Crossley-Holland’s Bracelet of Bones a young girl sets out alone in a tiny boat to find her father. West of the Moon by Katherine Langrish is a fantasy set in a time of dark magic and fearsome creatures amid Vikings and heroes.

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Visiting the Festival with Children Please adhere to the recommended age range specified for all Book It! events (with a LB 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.

EDUCATION

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Young Writers’ Day

Debating matters

Cheltenham College Junior School Friday 14 October 9.15am-3pm £20 We are delighted to be working with the fantastic staff at Cheltenham College Junior School again this year. They provide a wonderful venue, delicious refreshments and a very warm welcome to all the young writers who attend - the Young Writers’ Day wouldn’t be possible without them.

Signed Events

L249 Thursday 13 October 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.

In partnership with Gloucestershire Deaf Association we are offering signing at a selection of Festival events this year. 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

Joining us this year is the fantabulous Liz Kessler. Liz LOVES writing.

She particularly enjoys the process of finding ideas and figuring out how they fit together – and helping others do the same.

For children who love writing, and work hard at writing, and want to be an even better writer, this will be a great opportunity to join her for this day of fun writing sessions all geared to helping budding authors find ideas and build them into fully-fledged stories. On top of this Liz will answer all your burning questions, share her top tips, and inspire you to make your writing even better than it already is.

Contact For more information about our Education Programme and events for schools visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/education or contact Philippa Claridge on 01242 775891

About Liz Kessler Liz Kessler studied English at Loughborough University, has worked as a teacher and a journalist, and has an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University. After taking a year off to travel around Europe in a camper van, Liz now lives in Cornwall.

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Afternoon 237 The Suffragettes L L238 Love Match L239 Simon Sebag Montefiore L240 Eric Gill L241 The Hajj L242 Lucien Pissarro L243 Big Read Book Group LW24 Bookbinding Workshop L244 Lucy Worsley L245 Lewis Wolpert L246 Being Human L247 The Legacy of War L248 Joan Bakewell L249 Debating Matters L250 Degas L251 Carol Drinkwater & Michael Wright L253 Poetry Café L256 Sebastian Barry & Joan Bakewell

Evening 255 Clarissa Dickson Wright L L257 Ed Balls, Paul Mason & Will Hutton L258 Sue Johnston L252 The Birth of Rugby L260 Comedy Quiz Night L261 The Titanic L262 Lorca L263 Simon Hopkinson L264 From Pitch to Press Box L265 Maurice Saatchi & Mark Borkowski L266 A L Kennedy & James Rhodes L267 Will Hutton L268 Jim Crace & John Crace L269 Mark Watson L270 Writers in Residence

Montpellier Gardens

Ann Wroe

Ancient Egypt

Locally Sourced

L231 Montpellier Gardens 10-11am £7 Despite fewer opportunities to experience the realities of the front line, women war artists have created works of remarkable power and insight.

In this richly illustrated talk, Kathleen Palmer, curator of Women War Artists, an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, celebrates the fascinating achievements of female war artists from the First World War to the present day.

L235 Imperial Square 10-11am £7 The history of Ancient Egypt is ultimately the story of the attempt to unite a disparate realm and defend it against hostile forces. In this richly illustrated talk, Toby Wilkinson, author of The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt provides a riveting account of the world’s first nation state, and reveals the dark side of the Pharaohs.

L238 Montpellier Gardens 12-1pm Free – Advance Booking Required This performance of Alice Jolly’s play is a unique piece of theatre. We meet Dave and Abdul, both about to get married.

For Abdul it’s an arranged marriage, for Dave a love match. When they meet at the cricket, it’s clear they know all about the game. But what does Abdul know about the woman he is marrying? And what do either of them know about love?

Toby Wilkinson

Just My Type

Morning 231 Women War Artists L L232 Orpheus L233 The Crusades L235 Ancient Egypt L234 Just My Type L236 Your Perfect Coffee Moment

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Lewis Wolpert

Simon Garfield

L234 Imperial Square 10.30-11.30am £6 Garamond, Trebuchet, Palatino, Tahoma… typefaces are fascinating in their variety, and the stories behind them are often enthralling. In this richly illustrated talk, Simon Garfield, author of Just My Type, explains what the Beach Boys have in common with easyJet; why it’s okay to like Comic Sans, and much more as he takes us on a delightful tour of fonts.

Orpheus Ann Wroe

L232 Montpellier Gardens 10-11am £6 Since ancient times, the legend of Orpheus has transfixed mankind. Ann Wroe, author of a new book about this mythical musician, poet and lover tells us of her search for his origins, from the forests where he walked and the mountains where he worshipped, to the artefacts, texts and philosophies that surround him.

Carte Noire Readers

Your Perfect Coffee Moment

The Crusades

L236 The Literary Lounge 11.15-11.45am Free – Advance Booking Required As the wild and tragic hero of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff loves with a shocking intensity. Enjoy a complimentary cup of velvety Carte Noire as you join him in all his brooding magnificence as he strides into our Literary Lounge to give a thrilling reading from this all-time romantic classic.

Peter Frankopan

L233 Imperial Square 10-11am £7 In 1096, an expedition of extraordinary scale and ambition set off from Western Europe on a mass pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and three years later, the Holy City was captured from its Muslim overlords. But what were the events that prompted the First Crusade?

In this richly illustrated talk, historian and author Peter Frankopan provides some answers.

The Edwardians

The Suffragettes

L237 Montpellier Gardens 12-1pm £7 The long and bitter struggle for the vote drove the female campaigners of the Edwardian era to extreme lengths.

Here we join historian and actress Lucy Adlington (in period clothing) as she brings the suffrage movement vividly to life in a dramatic re-enactment, followed by a discussion with leading historian and suffrage expert June Purvis.

Chaired by Helen Taylor.

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Love Match

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

Pathways

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Jerusalem: The Biography

L239 Imperial Square 12-1pm £7 The story of the holy city of Jerusalem is an epic and immensely colourful one. In this sumptuously illustrated talk, Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem: The Biography brings its history alive, through the stories of the men and women who have created, ruled and inhabited it, from King David to his own great-great uncle.

Eric Gill

L240 Imperial Square 12.30-1.30pm £6 Despite his prodigious output, and widespread influence on 20th century British art, Eric Gill’s scandalous personal life has coloured his reputation. In this richly illustrated lecture, Ruth and Joe Cribb, authors of Eric Gill and curators of a British Museum exhibition on the artist, offer intriguing insights into his unorthodox world and artistic genius.

Pathways

The Hajj

L241 Montpellier Gardens 2-3pm £6 The Hajj is the largest pilgrimage in the world, and a sacred duty for all Muslims, with millions making the journey to Makkah each year. In this fascinating illustrated talk, Venetia Porter, curator of a major new exhibition at the British Museum, traces the history and ritual of this sacred Journey to the Heart of Islam.

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Venetia Porter

Clarissa Dickson Wright

Sue Johnston

Jon Whiteley

Carol Drinkwater

Moray MacLennan

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The Alan Hancox Lecture

Lucien Pissarro

L242 Montpellier Gardens 2-3pm £6 Lucien Pissarro was the eldest son of Camille, the leading Impressionist painter. He was also the founder of a unique private printing press in England: The Eragny Press. In this richly illustrated event, Jon Whiteley from the Ashmolean Museum, and co-curator of an acclaimed exhibition about the Press, reflects on its aesthetic aims and achievements.

Bonne Maman Big Read

Big Read Book Group

L243 Montpellier Gardens 2-3pm £3 Full of bizarre characters and black humour, Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 follows Captain Joseph Yossarian, a US bomber, as he desperately tries to survive the madness of World War II. Grab a cup of tea and a biscuit and join Jane Bailey for this book group to discuss this year’s Bonne Maman Big Read.

Bookbinding Workshop LW24 Montpellier Gardens 2-5pm £45 (inc. £15 of materials) 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.

Lucy Worsley If Walls Could Talk

L244 Imperial Square 2-3pm £8 Why did the flushing toilet take so long to catch on? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? Why did we once fear fruit? In this lively illustrated talk, Lucy Worsley, presenter of BBC series If Walls Could Talk, reveals some juicy, smelly and truly intimate insights into the history of domestic life.

Montpellier Gardens

Lewis Wolpert

Celia Imrie

L096 The Forum 4-5pm £12 Res As a child, Celia Imrie planned to join the Royal Ballet and marry Rudolf Nureyev.

Instead she became a much-admired actress, famous for her roles in Acorn Antiques, dinnerladies and Calendar Girls.

In conversation with Fidelis Morgan she treats us to tales of her adventures, both on stage and off, as recounted in her memoir, The Happy Hoofer.

Age Matters

L245 Imperial Square 2.30-3.30pm £7 By 2050, over a third of people in the developed world will be over sixty - how should we deal with the imbalance between generations? In You’re Looking Very Well: The Surprising Nature of Getting Old, Lewis Wolpert explores the implications of our ageing population and through it all, tries to better understand his own ageing.

Debating Matters

Stanzas

L249 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.

Being Human

Neil Astley & Esther Morgan

L246 Imperial Square 3.15- 4.15pm £6 Much-loved poetry anthology, Being Human offers hundreds of thoughtful and passionate poems about living in the modern world to touch the heart, stir the mind and fire the spirit. Its editor, Neil Astley and poet Esther Morgan join us to read poems from the anthology, and discuss the heartfelt responses it has provoked in readers.

Degas

Ann Dumas

L250 Imperial Square 4.30-5.30pm £8 This autumn, the Royal Academy of Arts stages Degas Dancers: Eye and Camera, a landmark exhibition on Edgar Degas’s preoccupation with the ballet. In this lavishly illustrated talk, art historian and exhibition curator Ann Dumas traces the development of the artist’s progressive engagement with the figure in movement, through drawings, pastels, paintings, prints, sculpture and photography.

Richard van Emden & Frederick Taylor The Legacy of War

L247 Montpellier Gardens 4-5pm £6 Two acclaimed historians provide absorbing new perspectives on the ending and aftermath of the two World Wars. Richard van Emden, author of The Quick and the Dead, looks at the families whose lives were devastated by the loss of fallen loved ones during World War I. And Frederick Taylor, author of Exorcising Hitler reflects on Germany in the aftermath of defeat in 1945.

Adventure

Carol Drinkwater & Michael Wright French Leave

L251 Imperial Square 4.30-5.30pm £7 Wine, sun, bucolic bliss… Many of us hanker after a different life in rural France. Meet two English authors who have taken the plunge, actress Carol Drinkwater (Return to the Olive Farm), and Telegraph columnist Michael Wright (Je t’aime a la Folie) as they discuss the delights and the downsides of living the dream.

Joan Bakewell

L248 Montpellier Gardens 4-5pm £7 Famous for her distinguished career as a journalist and broadcaster, Joan Bakewell is now also an acclaimed novelist. She discusses her life and latest novel, She’s Leaving Home. Set in Liverpool, it traces the lives of three family members as the 1960s dawn, capturing all the intensity and passion of that swinging decade.

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Esther Morgan & Lawrence Sail Poetry Café

L253 Imperial Square 5.30-6.15pm Free A chance to hear two acclaimed poets perform work from their latest collections. Esther Morgan reads from Grace, in which she examines our need for purpose, and for signs that might help us decide what to do with our lives. Lawrence Sail reads from Waking Dreams, a retrospective collection of his work from the past four decades.

Sebastian Barry & Joan Bakewell

L256 Montpellier Gardens 5.45-6.45pm £7 Author of the Costa Award-winning The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry is renowned for his exquisite prose and story-telling gifts. In conversation with Joan Bakewell he discusses his eagerlyanticipated new novel, On Canaan’s Side.

Set in Ireland and America, and spanning nearly seven decades, it is a heartbreaking story of memory, war, family ties and love.

Bitesize

Clarissa Dickson Wright

L255 Montpellier Gardens 6.30-7.30pm £8 In this splendidly personal account of English nosh, popular food writer and chef Clarissa Dickson Wright explores what it was like to sit down to the meals of previous ages, and tells the enthralling stories of the chefs, cookery book writers, gourmets and gluttons who have shaped our taste in food.

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Simon Hopkinson

Sebastian Barry

Will Hutton

Mark Watson

Mike Atherton

Toby Wilkinson

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Money Talks

Ed Balls, Paul Mason & Will Hutton

L257 Main Hall 6.30-7.30pm £12 Res Almost exactly a year after George Osborne’s spending review was announced, we reprise last year’s Festival event on the economy and continue the debate. Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Ed Balls, renowned economics thinker Will Hutton and BBC Newsnight’s Economics Editor Paul Mason join this high-profile discussion on the issues dominating the financial world over the last 12 months.

The Edwardians

Sporting Life

The Titanic

Mike Atherton, SIMON HUGHES & Matthew Syed

L261 Imperial Square 7-8pm £9 To commemorate the Titanic’s first and only voyage, we invite you back to April 1912. In a dazzling solo performance, actor and author Lucy Adlington takes on the role of dress designer Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon as she describes the fatal night the Titanic sank, giving us a fascinating account of life on board, before tragedy struck.

From Pitch to Press Box

L264 The Forum 8.45-10pm £10 Res Having made the difficult journey from professional sportsman to successful sports journalist, Mike Atherton, chief cricket correspondent of The Times and author of Glorious Summers and Discontents, former Middlesex bowler turned Daily Telegraph sports analyst Simon Hughes, and Matthew Syed, former table tennis champion and author of Bounce, will discuss the two very different (or similar) halves of their careers.

Lorca

Sue Johnston

L258 Imperial Square 6.30-7.30pm £8 Familiar from her roles in Brookside, The Royle Family and Waking The Dead, Sue Johnston is one of our most versatile and popular actresses. With her autobiography Things I Couldn’t Tell My Mother just out, she joins us to reminisce about her Liverpudlian childhood, her distinguished acting career - and exactly what it was she couldn’t tell her mother.

Sporting Life

The Birth of Rugby

L252 Montpellier Gardens 7-8pm £6 In 1908 an extraordinary match was played between the England and New Zealand rugby teams: the first ever rugby international. And it took place here in Cheltenham. Joining us to tell the story of the men who made rugby history and the tragedy that befell them on the voyage home are John Haynes, author of All Blacks to All Golds; sports historian Tony Collins; and Lesley Vainikolo, the New Zealand rugby legend, now playing for Gloucester RFC.

L262 Imperial Square 7-8pm £6 Marking the 75th anniversary of Federico García Lorca’s execution in the Spanish Civil War, Pablo Medina and Mark Statman discuss the life and work of the poet and playwright arguably best known for his seminal play The House of Bernarda Alba. They will also read some of his poetry, which strongly influenced Laurie Lee.

Will Hutton

L267 Main Hall 8.45-10pm £12 Res Student riots, teachers’ strikes, local government cuts and libraries threatened with the axe - much has changed since Will Hutton was here last year. In this hard-hitting talk Observer columnist, executive Vice-Chair of The Work Foundation and author of Them and Us: Changing Britain, challenges the workability of capitalism, reflects on the effects of the last 12 months of cuts and what lies ahead, and argues for a revision of our system and values, based on fairness.

Programmed by Mike Atherton

JIM CRACE & John Crace MORAY MACLENNAN & Mark Borkowski

L265 QWERTY 8.45-10pm £8 Res Although simplicity looks easy, it is not, but it is the key to ensuring effective communication. Here, PR guru and Guardian journalist Mark Borkowski is joined by Moray MacLennan, CEO Worldwide of M&C Saatchi, the world’s most successful advertising agency to discuss Brutal Simplicity of Thought, the distillation, in words and pictures of the Saatchi method of creativity.

The Montpellier Chapter Festival Dinner

Simon Hopkinson The Good Cook

L263 Montpellier Chapter Hotel Restaurant 7-9.30pm £50 (inc threecourse dinner, a drink on arrival, a glass of wine) If you would relish the prospect of sitting down to eat in the company of one of Britain’s greatest cooks, here’s your chance. Join renowned food writer and presenter of BBC series The Good Cook, Simon Hopkinson at this lovely dinner featuring his favourite dishes, followed by a question and answer session.

Cheltenham Extra

A L Kennedy & James Rhodes

L266 The Salon 8.45-10pm £10 Res In a one-off collaboration, writer A L Kennedy joins classical pianist James Rhodes in a unique, extraordinary and entertaining mix of music, stand-up and conversation exploring love and relationships.

Join them for an unmissable event!

Cheltenham Extra

Comedy Quiz Night Alex Horne & Tim Key

L260 Spiegeltent Bistro 7-10pm £20 per team of four In a Cheltenham first, comedians Alex Horne and Tim Key invite you to join them for a specially created Festival Quiz. It’s time to make use of all the trivia you’ve been collecting, as we invite you to take on fellow Festival-goers and pit you wits against our quizmasters in a night of unashamed competitive indulgence…

Montpellier Gardens

Money Talks

Programmed by A L Kennedy

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L268 Imperial Square 8.45-10pm £8 Loved by readers and feared by writers everywhere, John Crace’s hilarious pastiches in his Digested Reads column in The Guardian are now collected in Brideshead Abbreviated. Here he shares his favourites and discusses his new book Vertigo: One Football Fan’s Fear of Success, with fellow writer and football fan Jim Crace.

Laugh Out Loud

Mark Watson

L269 Imperial Square 8.45-10pm £7 The comedian, author, sports pundit and husband, as Mark Watson has been known to describe himself, is familiar from his appearances on such TV shows as Mock the Week and Have I Got News for You. Making a welcome return to Cheltenham, he talks about life, the universe and his latest novel Eleven.

Writers in Residence

L270 Imperial Square 8.45-10pm £6 Joining us all the way from Australia and New Zealand, our Writers in Residence, Kalinda Ashton, Gail Jones, Chris Womersley and Witi Ihimaera, have immersed themselves in the Festival over the past few days. Here is your chance to ask them what they make of it, and to them discuss their outstanding writing.

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Mike Atherton

Chris Mullin

Christina Dodwell

Lucinda Lambton

Dan Cruickshank

L271 The Forum 10-11am £7 Res The writer, photographer and broadcaster on matters architectural Lucinda Lambton is renowned for her infectious enthusiasm and delight for her eclectic and often eccentric subjects. She joins us for an illustrated event looking back on her wonderfully varied career, and to discuss her latest book, Palaces for Pigs and Other Beastly Dwellings.

L278 The Forum 12-1pm £7 Res The architectural history of the British ancestral home mirrors the social and economic history of our nation. In this beautifully illustrated talk based on his BBC series The Country House Revealed, Dan Cruickshank brings the secret histories of six great private houses none of them open to the public - to life.

Palaces for Pigs

TODAY At a glance Morning 271 Lucinda Lambton L L272 Oliver Burkeman L273 Ian Kershaw L275 The Battle of Towton L277 Your Perfect Coffee Moment

Afternoon 278 Dan Cruickshank L L279 Caroline Moorehead L280 Wagner and Verdi L281 Nicholas Kenyon & Alan Powers L282 The Palace and the Press L283 The National Poetry Competition Winners L284 You Heard It Here First…

L401 Words & Whisky L285 The Edwardian Country House L286 Byron L287 War Wives L289 Horseback Adventures L290 Republic vs. Royalty L291 Small is Beautiful L288 Big Read Book Group L402 Words & Whisky L296 Arthur Miller L292 Howard Jacobson L293 Wendy Cope L294 The West End Front L295 Chris Mullin L297 The Great Food Debate L298 Celebrating Indian Women L299 Poetry Café L403 Words & Whisky

Evening L304 Digby Jones L301 Profiling the Greats L302 Mark Beaumont L303 Jonathan Ross - Turf L300 A L Kennedy & Mark Thomas L305 David Harsent, Sean O’Brien & Paul Muldoon L306 Virginity L310 Howard Marks L307 Jonathan Ross L308 Will Self L309 C K Williams L311 A P McCoy L312 Linda Edsjö & Abbi Patrix L313 Jan Costin Wagner & Val McDermid L314 Sex on the Page L411 Johnny Vegas

The English Country House

Caroline Moorehead

Oliver Burkeman

A Train in Winter

Finding Happiness...

L272 Montpellier Gardens 10-11am £7 How can we be happy? With centuries of advice from Aristotle to Paul McKenna to choose from, how can we decide which ideas really work? Oliver Burkeman, Guardian columnist and author of Help!: How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done presents his witty and insightful findings on the matter.

L279 Montpellier Gardens 12-1pm £6 In January 1942 a cattle truck train left a station north of Paris, bound for Auschwitz. On board were 230 women, all members of the early French resistance, arrested by the Nazis. Drawing on interviews with survivors, Caroline Moorehead tells their compelling and courageous stories, as documented in her new book, A Train in Winter.

Hitler

Wagner and Verdi

L273 Montpellier Gardens 10-11am £6 Why did Nazi Germany keep on fighting at the end of World War II when defeat loomed so large? Ian Kershaw, eminent historian, and author of The End: Hitler’s Germany 1944-5, vividly recreates the nightmarish final months of the Third Reich, and shows how both its leaders and its people responded to imminent defeat.

L280 Montpellier Gardens 12-1pm £7 Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner tower over 19th century music, and were the greatest operatic composers of their time, yet were apparently profoundly different in their personalities, approaches to music and drama, and their complex legacies.

Or were they? Peter Conrad, author of Verdi and/or Wagner explores whether it is possible to love them both.

Peter Conrad

Ian Kershaw

Caroline Moorehead

Paul Muldoon

Stanzas

The National Poetry Competition Winners

L283 Imperial Square 12-1pm £6 Every year, the National Poetry Competition attracts thousands of entries.

In an event organised in partnership with the Poetry Society, the 2010 winners of the much-coveted National Poetry Prize, Paul Adrian, Josephine Haslam and Matthew Sweeney join Jo Shapcott to read their winning entries and a selection of new work.

Programmed by Jo Shapcott

Locally Sourced

You Heard It Here First...

L284 Spiegeltent Bistro Submissions from 12pm with readings from 12.30-2pm Free Would you like to bring your writing to the Festival stage? New for 2011, we’re inviting writers to join us for an open-mic session in the Spiegeltent Bistro. From poetry to prose, fiction and beyond, bring along a five-minute excerpt of your work to Cheltenham this October.

Words & Whisky

The Battle of Towton

The City of London

L275 Imperial Square 10-11am £6 The Battle of Towton, which concluded the first War of the Roses, was ferocious and brutal, as the armies of Edward IV and Henry VI engaged with murderous weaponry, and in appalling conditions. In this fascinating illustrated talk, George Goodwin, historian and author of Fatal Colours: Towton 1461, expertly recreates the events which led to England’s bloodiest battle.

Nicholas Kenyon & Alan Powers

L281 Imperial Square 12-1pm £8 The City of London is rich in architectural landmarks: both historic like St Paul’s Cathedral and Mansion House, and modern like the Barbican and the ‘Gherkin’. Nicholas Kenyon and Alan Powers, co-editors of a new book on the Square Mile, join us for an engrossing talk on the City’s architectural traditions, and its innovations.

L401 Highland Park Marquee 1.30-1.45pm Free Relax and unwind at these intimate readings from some of the Festival’s best talents, all accompanied by a complimentary dram of Highland Park Single Malt Whisky.

The Edwardians

Carte Noire Readers

Your Perfect Coffee Moment

Royalty and Republic

The Palace and the Press

L277 The Literary Lounge 11.15-11.45am Free – Advance Booking Required Aloof, brooding and devastatingly sexy!

Join the nation’s favourite romantic hero Mr Darcy as he steps out of the pages of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Enjoy a complimentary cup of velvety Carte Noire coffee with a romantic reading from one of the most popular love stories of all time.

L282 Imperial Square 12-1pm £7 Thousands of media outlets across the globe celebrated the Royal Wedding.

However, the media and the Royals have frequently clashed, fighting over every last bit of information and privacy. The Times’ royal correspondent Valentine Low, royal biographer Penny Junor and royal writer Tim Heald explore the ambivalent and fascinating relationship between Fleet Street and the Royals.

Chaired by Ion Trewin.

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Oliver Burkeman

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The Edwardian Country House

Dan Cruickshank, Lucinda Lambton & Jeremy Musson

L285 The Forum 2-3pm £7 Res As Downton Abbey-mania grips television viewers once again this autumn, we ask: What was the reality of life in the great Edwardian country house? Our expert panel Lucinda Lambton (Palaces for Pigs), Dan Cruickshank (The Country House Revealed) and Jeremy Musson (Up and Down Stairs) explore the myths and realities of this carefully constructed and intimate hierarchy.

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Mark Beaumont

Nicholas Kenyon

C K Williams

Wendy Cope

Howard Jacobson

Digby Jones

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Stanzas

Byron

Paul Muldoon

L286 Montpellier Gardens 2-3pm £7 With the publication of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage in 1812, Lord Byron became the most famous poet of his age, as well as one of its most notorious characters.

The distinguished poet Paul Muldoon (Moy Sand and Gravel, Horse Latitudes) offers this accessible and passionate introduction to one of the most important poets in our literature, as part of Faber’s Poet to Poet series.

Small is Beautiful

L292 Montpellier Gardens 3.45- 4.45pm £7 A year on from winning the Booker Prize for The Finkler Question, novelist Howard Jacobson makes a welcome return to Cheltenham. In conversation with Ramona Koval, he discusses his writing and life beyond the Booker, as well as Whatever It Is, I Don’t Like It, a new collection of his acclaimed journalism.

L291 Imperial Square 2-3pm £7 In the centenary year of E F Schumacher’s birth we examine the legacy of this titan of 20th century economic and ecological thought. In his recent BBC Radio 4 documentary Schumacher’s Big Society Jonathon Porritt explored his lasting influence; he is joined by former Labour politician Chris Mullin and Schumacher’s daughter Barbara Schumacher to discuss the continuing relevance of his ideas, recently championed by MPs across the political divide. Introduced by Virginia Schumacher.

War Wives

Bonne Maman Big Read

L287 Montpellier Gardens 2-3pm £7 How do the wives and partners of our servicemen manage whilst their loved ones are thousands of miles away on the frontline? Over the course of a year, Kitty Dimbleby followed the wives of members of 2 Royal Welsh Battalion.

She provides some moving insights into the women behind our heroes, the inspiration for her book, Daffodil Girls, and is joined here by the wife of a soldier talking about her personal experience.

L288 Montpellier Gardens 3.30-4.30pm £3 Full of bizarre characters and black humour, Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 follows Captain Joseph Yossarian, a US bomber, as he desperately tries to survive the madness of World War II. Grab a cup of tea and a biscuit and join Jane Bailey for this book group to discuss this year’s Bonne Maman Big Read.

Kitty Dimbleby

Howard Jacobson

Chris Mullin, Jonathon Porritt, Barbara Schumacher & Virginia Schumacher

Stanzas

Wendy Cope

L293 The Forum 4-5pm £8 Res From a motorway service area to her ambivalent relationship with religion, much-loved poet Wendy Cope covers a wide range of subject matter, and blends sadness and joy in her new volume of poems, Family Values. She joins us to read from, and discuss this compassionate new collection, her first for ten years.

Big Read Book Group

The West End Front Matthew Sweet

L294 Montpellier Gardens 4-5pm £6 During World War II, the Ritz, the Savoy, the Dorchester and Claridge’s teemed with spies, con-artists, deposed royals and exiled politicians. In an enthralling illustrated talk, Matthew Sweet, author of The West End Front, exposes the wartime secrets of London’s grand hotels and brings alive a lost world of scandal, intrigue and fortitude.

Adventure

Horseback ADVENTURES

Christina Dodwell, Louella HanburyTenison & Robin Hanbury-Tenison

L289 Imperial Square 2-3pm £7 Join Christina Dodwell and husband and wife team Louella and Robin Hanbury-Tenison, an intrepid trio of explorers who have each completed remarkable long-distance journeys on horseback. Sharing extraordinary tales of their travels across the globe, they ask why, in this hi-tech age, does this centuries-old form of transport retain its appeal, and what are the practicalities of equine exploration?

Royalty and Republic

Republic vs. Royalty

Robert Blackburn, Bea Campbell & Robert Hardman

L290 Imperial Square 2-3pm £6 The British Royals fascinate people across the globe, and arguably exert huge influence behind the scenes. Join journalist and author Bea Campbell, constitutional expert Robert Blackburn and royal journalist and author Robert Hardman to discuss the monarchy’s constitutional role, its history and possible future evolution.

Montpellier Gardens

Words & Whisky

Power Play

L402 Highland Park Marquee 3.30-3.45pm Free Relax and unwind at these intimate readings from some of the Festival’s best talents, all accompanied by a complimentary dram of Highland Park Single Malt Whisky.

Celebrating Indian Women

Sonia Faleiro & Dipika Rai

L298 Imperial Square 5.15-6.15pm £6 A chance to hear two acclaimed Indianborn writers discuss their work. Sonia Faleiro is an award-winning reporter, and the author of Beautiful Thing, a haunting account of Bombay’s dance bars. Dipika Rai is the author of Someone Else’s Garden, an intensely involving and evocative Indian novel, perfect for fans of Slumdog Millionaire.

Stanzas

LIZ BERRY, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Kate Potts & JO SHAPCOTT Poetry Café

L299 Montpellier Gardens 5.30-6.15pm Free – Advance Booking Required Jo Shapcott joins three of today’s most exciting young poets, Kate Potts, Karen McCarthy Woolf, and Liz Berry, on stage to read from their work.

Programmed by Jo Shapcott

Words & Whisky

L403 Highland Park Marquee 5.30-5.45pm Free Relax and unwind at these intimate readings from some of the Festival’s best talents, all accompanied by a complimentary dram of Highland Park Single Malt Whisky.

Chris Mullin

L295 Imperial Square 4-5pm £7 Political memoirs often disappoint.

Not those by former Labour MP Chris Mullin, whose acclaimed diaries have been described as the ‘sharpest and most revealing since Alan Clark’s’ (Simon Hoggart, The Guardian). He joins us to discuss A Walk-On Part, his third and final volume of diaries, which provides a witty and wickedly indiscreet insider’s view of Blair’s rise to power.

Arthur Miller

The Great Food Debate

Christopher Bigsby

L296 Imperial Square 3.30-4.30pm £7 Arthur Miller is one of the giants of 20th century literature; a prominent figure in American literature and theatre for over sixty years. Christopher Bigsby, author of a landmark two-volume biography of Miller, discusses the life and art of this most influential of writers.

Felicity Lawrence, Jonathon Porritt & Colin Tudge

L297 Imperial Square 4.30-5.30pm £6 With an ever-increasing global population, one of our greatest challenges this century will certainly be that of developing sustainable food production practices for the longer term. Colin Tudge, author of Good Food For Everyone Forever, will discuss this enormous challenge with award-winning writers and campaigners Felicity Lawrence and Jonathon Porritt.

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Money Talks

Digby Jones

Making Britain Better

L304 Imperial Square 5.45-6.45pm £7 One of the world’s most acclaimed business commentators, former CBI head Digby Jones turns the spotlight on critical national and international business issues. In Fixing Britain, he lays out the essential reforms needed on all levels, from Westminster to education, the public and private sector, for the Business of Reshaping our Nation.

FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER Howard Marks

Jo Shapcott

Jonathan Ross

Val McDermid

Will Self

Jonathan Ross

George Goodwin

FRIDAY 14

Mark Thomas

Box Office 01242 505 444

Sporting Life

Jack Hobbs AND Harold Larwood Profiling the Greats

L301 Imperial Square 6.30-7.30pm £9 How do you bring a sporting hero to life on the page? Join our distinguished panel of biographers as they discuss this challenge and their very different subjects: Duncan Hamilton on renowned fast bowler Harold Larwood and Leo McKinstry on legendary opening batsman Jack Hobbs. Chaired by Mike Atherton.

Programmed by Mike Atherton

Sporting Life

Mark Beaumont

The Man Who Cycled the Americas

L302 Imperial Square 6.30-7.30pm £6 As if smashing the record for cycling round the world wasn’t enough, Mark Beaumont then pedalled 15,000 miles along the spine of the Americas, from Anchorage in the north to Ushuaia at the tip of South America. In an illustrated interview The Man Who Cycled the Americas looks back on this epic achievement.

Jonathan Ross Turf

L303 The Forum 7-8pm £12 Res Famous for celebrity-packed and banterfilled chat shows, Jonathan Ross is also a huge fan of graphic novels and collector of comics. In 2010 he realised a long-held dream when he published Turf, a story of gang wars between gangsters and vampires. He joins The Times’ Tom Gatti in this exclusive Festival event to discuss his consuming passion for the genre and share his experiences of making his comic-writing debut.

Cheltenham Extra

Jonathan Ross

A L Kennedy & Mark Thomas

Films to See Before You Die

L307 The Forum 8.45-10pm £16 Res If you had to make five cinema visits last a lifetime, which films should you see? Who better to ask than Jonathan Ross, the UK’s leading cinema critic and host of the BAFTA Film awards. With over a decade spent reviewing movies for the nation at the helm of the BBC’s flagship Film programme, he reveals his favourite cinematic moments and presents an eclectic selection that will help you uncover hidden gems and impress your friends!

L300 Montpellier Gardens 7-8pm £9 Power to the people! From Martin Luther King’s march on Washington to recent student protests in London - we never shy away from fighting our cause. Here political activist and comedian Mark Thomas, who took on Coca-Cola, the arms trade and Israel’s Barrier in his own inimitable fashion, joins A L Kennedy to discuss protesting and protest songs.

Programmed by A L Kennedy

Linda Edsjö & Abbi Patrix Pas de Deux

L312 The Playhouse 8.45-10pm £7 Res In a rare appearance, one of Europe’s leading storytellers, Abbi Patrix brings his dazzling new show to Cheltenham.

In an enthralling performance co-created with Erica Wagner, he joins virtuoso marimba player Linda Edsjö to explore love, life and the mysteries of human relationships in a thrilling blend of new and traditional stories.

Jan Costin Wagner & Val McDermid

Stanzas

David harsent, sean o’brien & Paul Muldoon

Will Self

L308 Montpellier Gardens 8.45-10pm £7 Will Self is one of most extraordinary and idiosyncratic literary voices. In his dazzling and hallucinatory new novel Walking to Hollywood he pushes memoir to the limits of invention in this extreme satire on celebrity, exploring some of our deepest fears and anxieties with characteristic fearlessness and jagged humour.

L305 Montpellier Gardens 7-8pm £6 In an event specially curated and introduced by Jo Shapcott, we join three of Britain’s finest poets Paul Muldoon, David Harsent and Sean O’Brien for a rare opportunity to hear them read from their hugely-acclaimed work.

Programmed by Jo Shapcott

L313 Imperial Square 9-10pm £6 The popularity of crime fiction shows no sign of waning, with European writers currently proving as popular as their British counterparts. Discussing their latest novels are Val McDermid from Scotland, whose new novel is The Retribution, and Jan Costin Wagner from Germany, author of Winter of the Lions, set in Finland.

Cheltenham Blue

Virginity

Cheltenham Blue

Suzi Godson & Kate Monro

Sex on the Page

L306 Imperial Square 7.15-8.15pm £6 Losing your virginity - a tricky subject…

Kate Monro went on a mission to find out how people experienced The First Time, hearing incredible stories, sometimes funny, sometimes sad. She is joined by The Times’ sex expert Suzi Godson (The Sex Book) as they give us a unique and revealing insight into modern sexuality.

Stanzas

C K Williams

L309 Montpellier Gardens 8.45-10pm £6 Hailed by Paul Muldoon as ‘one of the most distinguished poets of his generation’, C K Williams is known for his intense and searching originality, a poet who believes in poetry as a tool to speak the truth. He joins us on a visit from US to read from his work, startlingly intense anecdotes on love, death, secrets and wayward thought.

Howard Marks

L310 Imperial Square 7.30-8.30pm £10 Britain’s best-loved retired dope dealer, Howard Marks, aka Mr Nice, is now quite nicely turning his hand to writing fiction, with a major series of crime novels in the pipeline. He joins us to discuss his life, the making of the film Mr Nice with Rhys Ifans and his latest novel, The Score.

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Storytelling

Sporting Life

A P McCoy

L311 Imperial Square 8.45-10pm £15 The most successful jump-jockey ever, A P McCoy was crowned champion jockey for the first time in 1996, and has since collected a record 16 consecutive champion jockey titles. In 2010, he became the first jockey to win BBC Sports Personality of the Year. He joins us to look back on his remarkable life and career.

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L314 Imperial Square 9-10pm £7 Putting passion onto the page isn’t always easy and many writers struggle with putting sex into words. Jonathan Beckman of the Literary Review, who award the annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award, former editrice of the Erotic Review Rowan Pelling and celebrated actor Neil Pearson share some hot, and some not-so-hot fictional encounters.

Johnny Vegas

L411 Main Hall 9.15-10.15pm £16 Res ‘I’ve been Johnny Vegas so long now.

I just want to go back to where I came from and try to find out exactly where I got him.’ So writes Michael Pennington, better known as the hugely popular Johnny Vegas, the hilarious stand-up comedian and TV star. Hear all about Becoming Johnny Vegas from the man himself as he joins us for a frank and funny conversation.

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SATURDAY 15 OCTOBER

SATURDAY 15 OCTOBER

Amanda Foreman

Box Office 01242 505 444 Martin Bell

Ben Fogle

Power Play

Family Event

L315 Montpellier Gardens 10-11am £7 The icon of BBC war reporting and Britain’s first independent MP for 50 years, Martin Bell never shies away from speaking his mind. He joins us to discuss his remarkable life at the frontlines of both journalism and politics, and his new poetry collection, For Whom the Bell Tolls, a wry take on duplicitous politicians, allconsuming media and celebrity culture.

LB52 The Inkpot Age 12+ 10-11am £6 Confused? You will be! Legendary TV presenter and all-round boffin Johnny Ball serves up fun, brain-bending puzzles from his new book Ball of Confusion.

Based on his regular slot from daughter Zoe Ball’s national radio show, his maths teasers will keep you entertained for hours.

Martin Bell

TODAY At a glance Morning 315 Martin Bell L L316 Victorian Values L317 Amanda Foreman L318 Cold War Spies LB52 Johnny Ball L319 Captain Scott L320 Your Perfect Coffee Moment LB57 World of Happy

Afternoon 321 Fashion and Opera L L322 What Does Conservatism Mean in 2011?

L323 Melvyn Bragg L324 Celebrating Beryl Bainbridge LB58 Roger McGough L326 Soapbox with Conor Woodman L327 Words & Whisky LB59 Destined for Greatness L328 Words & Whisky L331 Walking with the Wounded LB61 Alana Dancing Star L332 A S Byatt L333 Mervyn Peake L334 Clive James L335 Penelope Lively L336 The 2011 Man Booker Prize Shortlist Event LB64 How the Olympics Came to Be L402 Build The Perfect Team L325 The Big Reading L329 Words & Whisky L337 A Wee Dram L340 Strictly Come Dancing L341 The New Protest Movement L342 Ben Okri L343 A Lion Called Christian L344 The 1951 Cheltenham Booker Prize LB69 Tales from India L403 Make The Most of a Gap Year L338 A Wee Dram LB70 Tintin L330 Words & Whisky LB71 Terror Unleashed!

Evening 345 L L346 L347 L349 L350 L339 L348 L351 L352 L353 L355 L356 L357 L358 L359

How Far Back Can You Go? Marcus Brigstocke Cheltenham Festival The Times Debate The Arab Uprising: Where Next?

A Wee Dram Roald Amundsen Brian Aldiss Spiegeltent Jazz Night Ben Fogle Erica Jong Shazia Mirza Richard Wiseman & A L Kennedy True Love China Miéville

Helena Matheopoulos

Johnny Ball

Melvyn Bragg

Robert Service

Fashion and Opera Helena Matheopoulos

L321 Montpellier Gardens 12-1pm £7 Fashion and opera are natural arenas for collaboration. In an exuberantly illustrated talk, former Fashion Editor of Tatler, Helena Matheopoulos shows us how opera has inspired ten visionary fashion designers to create breathtaking costumes for some extraordinary productions, as explored in her book, Fashion Designers at the Opera.

Adventure

VICTORIAN VALUES

Captain Scott

Owen Jones & Shiv Malik

Ben Fogle, Kari Herbert & Huw Lewis-Jones

L316 Montpellier Gardens 10-11am £7 Public debate about poverty today has seen a return of the Victorian-era distinction between the “undeserving” and “deserving” poor. Shiv Malik, journalist and author of Jilted Generation: How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth, and Owen Jones, author of Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, discuss why society is again debating who deserves state support and who doesn’t.

L319 The Forum 11am-12pm £9 Res With the centenary of Captain Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole fast approaching, intrepid TV presenter Ben Fogle, who himself recently visited Scott’s base camp for his BBC2 programme The Secrets of Scott’s Hut, is joined by polar expert Huw Lewis-Jones and explorer Kari Herbert to discuss Scott’s achievements and his legacy.

Power Play

What does Conservatism mean in 2011?

L322 Montpellier Gardens 12-1pm £8 Following the Tory party conference in Manchester, join The Times’ Editor James Harding and our panel of leading politicians and commentators to discuss the state of play in David Cameron’s party. After an eventful and challenging year for the government, what does Conservatism mean in 2011?

Programmed by Ben Fogle

Amanda Foreman A World on Fire

Melvyn Bragg

L317 Imperial Square 10-11am £7 During the American Civil War, an extraordinary web of connections existed between both sides and the British. In this riveting talk, Amanda Foreman, award-winning historian and bestselling author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire vividly recreates the first modern war through the lives of hundreds of the participants, as portrayed in her acclaimed book, A World on Fire.

The King James Bible Carte Noire Readers

Your Perfect Coffee Moment

L320 The Literary Lounge 11-11.30am Free – Advance Booking Required Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Join the young bard William Shakespeare himself as he muses aloud on love, desire and beauty in his poignant and romantic sonnets. Relax with a complimentary cup of velvety Carte Noire for a more seductive coffee break.

L323 Main Hall 12-1pm £8 Res Since its publication in 1611, the King James Bible has been the bestselling book in the world and, many believe, the one with the greatest impact. In this event to celebrate the 400th anniversary of its publication, broadcaster and author, Melvyn Bragg is our authoritative and compelling guide to this Book of Books.

Working in Partnership

Power Play

Cold War Spies Robert Service

Family Event

L318 Imperial Square 10-11am £7 In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, an extraordinary collection of opportunists, journalists and spies, including Arthur Ransome, traded information and brokered deals between Russia and the West. Robert Service, acclaimed historian of the Soviet era, and author of Spies and Commissars brings alive this ragtag group, and the shadowy times in which they operated.

World of Happy

LB57 St Andrew’s Church Age 4-7 11.45am–12.30pm £4.50 Join the author and creator of Purple Ronnie and Edward Monkton Giles Andreae and illustrator Janet Cronin in a hands-on event as they talk about their new series, World of Happy. Joy and happiness for everyone in these thirteen funny stories about belching sharks, dancing hippos, knitting gorillas and drumming crickets!

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Celebrating Beryl Bainbridge

L324 Imperial Square 12-1pm £7 In July 2010 the literary world mourned one of its most prolific and compelling figures with the death of Beryl Bainbridge, one of our greatest contemporary novelists. Her fellow authors Penelope Lively and Paul Bailey and The Times’ Literary Editor Erica Wagner join Man Booker Prizes Literary Director Ion Trewin to pay tribute to the great writer and hear readings from her work.

Out and about

SATURDAY 15 OCTOBER A S Byatt

Clive James

Penelope Lively

Caitlin Moran

Libby Purves

David Aaronovitch

Roger McGough

SATURDAY 15

Conor Woodman

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Family Event

An Imaginary Menagerie with Roger McGough

LB58 Garden Theatre Age 8+ 12-1pm £7 Roger McGough is one of our bestknown and best-loved poets. Join him for a wonderful poetry performance and watch him illustrate a veritable zoo of rare breeds, real and imaginary from An Imaginary Menagerie. Find out about the anaconda in a Honda (don’t ask him for a ride, you might end up inside), the useful catapillow, the reliable teapet, and those exceedingly naughty kiwis!

Money Talks

Soapbox with Conor Woodman

L326 The Literary Lounge 12.30-1pm Free He travelled Around the World in 80 Trades, buying and selling anything from camels to carpets. Conor Woodman also discovered how Unfair Trade gravely affects the developing world every year. Having tested accepted economic wisdom, he joins us to explain his simple, but radical solution to creating a fairer world.

Words & Whisky

Mervyn Peake

Family Event

LB64 The Studio Age 6+ 2.30-3.15pm £5 As we all get ready for London 2012, discover the Greek gods and mythical heroes that inspired the very first Olympic games. Storyteller Helen East reads from her new book, How the Olympics Came to Be. Beautiful illustrations bring Mount Olympus and the ancient games alive.

Adventure

L333 Montpellier Gardens 2-3pm £6 One of Britain’s most creative and imaginative minds, Mervyn Peake was an author, artist, poet and illustrator, most famously known for his wonderfully strange Gormenghast books. Marking the centenary of his birth, his son Sebastian Peake and novelist China Miéville discuss the extraordinary and brilliant genius of his work with Guest Director A L Kennedy. Chaired by The Guardian’s Sarah Crown.

L328 Highland Park Marquee 1.15-1.30pm Free Relax and unwind at these intimate readings from some of the Festival’s best talents, all accompanied by a complimentary dram of Highland Park Single Malt Whisky.

A L Kennedy, China Miéville & Sebastian Peake

Walking with the Wounded

L331 The Forum 1.30-2.30pm £9 Res Four amputee soldiers, each a hero of recent conflicts, embarked on an extraordinary four-week unaided trek to the North Pole, to raise money for the rehabilitation of injured comrades.

Members of the Walking with the Wounded team will join Ben Fogle to talk about this awe-inspiring feat of endurance, the subject of a new BBC documentary series and accompanying book.

L334 Main Hall 2-3pm £8 Res During his time as presenter of Radio 4 series A Point of View author Clive James talked about anything that captured his imagination - providing a chronicle of life in 21st century Britain along the way. Join him to hear his reflections on everything, from wheelie bins to plastic surgery, 24 to giving up smoking, car parks to Chinese elections.

Destined for Greatness

LB59 The Studio Age 13+ 12.45-1.45pm £4.50 Meet three brilliant writers exploring charismatic historical figures in new ways. Traitor’s Kiss by Pauline Francis is the captivating true story of the young Elizabeth I, set in the treacherous world of Tudor England. Discover what turns the handsome, idealistic Henry into a cruel delusional tyrant in VIII by H M Castor. Bestselling author Mary Hoffman tells the story behind one of the world’s best-known sculptures in David.

Montpellier Gardens

L402 The Literary Lounge 3-3.30pm Free – Advance Booking Required Good teamwork brings huge benefits to all sorts of different endeavours. It can even save lives! But what is the key to successful teambuilding? Explorerin-Residence Dominic Faulkner has the answers.

Bonne Maman Big Read

The Big Reading

Programmed by Ben Fogle

L335 Imperial Square 2-3pm £8 Hugely acclaimed novelist Penelope Lively, author of the Whitbread Awardwinning A Stitch in Time and the Booker Prize-winning Moon Tiger, looks back on her writing life, considers the influence of what she reads upon how she writes. and for the first time talks about her eagerlyawaited new novel How It All Began.

Family Event

L327 Highland Park Marquee 12.30-12.45pm Free Relax and unwind at these intimate readings from some of the Festival’s best talents, all accompanied by a complimentary dram of Highland Park Single Malt Whisky.

How To…

build the perfect team Clive James

Penelope Lively Words & Whisky

How the Olympics Came to be

Alana Dancing Star with Arlene Phillips

LB61 The Playhouse Age 6+ 1.30-2.15pm £6 If you love dancing, come and meet world-famous choreographer Arlene Phillips, author of Alana Dancing Star the hottest new series in girls’ fiction. Full of magic, glamour, glitter and loveable characters; every book is a different dance spectacular! Hear the stories and see the dance steps with real dancers.

Dance dress optional!

The 2011 Man Booker Prize SHORTLIST EVENT

L336 The Inkpot 2-3pm £7 We hope to welcome some of the most exciting names in contemporary fiction who have all been shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, awarded on Tuesday 18th October. Join Man Booker Prizes Literary Director Ion Trewin to hear our panel discuss and read from their shortlisted novels and answer your questions.

A S Byatt

L332 Montpellier Gardens 2-3pm £7 The Ragnarok myth, or Twilight of the Gods, forms the endgame of Norse mythology and the climax to Wagner’s Ring cycle. The distinguished Booker Prize-winning novelist A S Byatt joins us to discuss her work and On Ragnarok: The End of the Gods, her highly personal and politically charged retelling of this dramatic myth. Chaired by Ramona Koval.

L325 Montpellier Chapter Hotel 3-3.30pm Free In this free live reading, meet Yossarian, US Airforce Bombardier and unlikely hero of Joseph Heller’s seminal Catch-22, this year’s Big Read.

In the craziness of war, one man’s clarity shines through in this classic novel, by turns powerfully haunting, sharply satirical and riotously amusing.

Bibliotherapy Exclusively for Members Make an s Member appointment to discuss your Only reading life with bibliotherapist Ella Berthould.

She’ll provide the perfect reading prescription and unlock a wealth of new literary opportunities to broaden your horizons....

Sessions take place throughout the day on Saturday 15 October. To book your 20 minute Bibliotherapy consultation please email clair.greenaway@ cheltenhamfestivals.com

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SATURDAY 15 OCTOBER Meredith Hooper

Geir Kløver

Penny Vincenzi

Joshua Sofaer

Marcus Brigstocke

Robin Oakley

Darren Bennett & Lilia Kopylova

SATURDAY 15

Ben Okri

Box Office 01242 505 444

Words & Whisky

L329 Highland Park Marquee 3.30-3.45pm Free Relax and unwind at these intimate readings from some of the Festival’s best talents, all accompanied by a complimentary dram of Highland Park Single Malt Whisky.

A Wee Dram

L337 Spiegeltent Bistro 3.30-4.30pm £8 Join Dominic Roskrow, Editor of Whiskeria and The Spirit Business Magazine, as he leads you on a journey of discovery through the craft of whisky making and tasting, whilst enjoying samples of Highland Park’s 12, 18 and 25 year old malts.

Television Tales

Strictly Come Dancing

Arlene Phillips with Darren Bennett & Lilia Kopylova

L340 The Forum 4-5pm £12 Res We celebrate the transforming power of dance in a discussion with three individuals who have each had dazzling careers in this demanding field. Ex-Strictly Come Dancing judge Arlene Phillips shot to fame as the founder of the dance group Hot Gossip and is a hit-making West End choreographer. Darren Bennett and Lilia Kopylova are most successful professional couple ever on Strictly Come Dancing, and are the stars and choreographers of the hit show Latin Fever. They are currently involved in the new government initiative Essentially Dance, bringing dance to schoolchildren in the UK.

The Prospect Debate

The 1951 Cheltenham Booker Prize

THE NEW PROTEST MOVEMENT

L344 Imperial Square 4-5.30pm £7 Which 1951 book deserves to win our very own Booker? You have the vote!

Join Man Booker Prizes Literary Director Ion Trewin and our panel of judges, Amanda Foreman, Natalie Haynes, A L Kennedy, Alex Preston and Erica Wagner, as they debate the merits of Daphne du Maurier’s My Cousin Rachel, Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair, J D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids and Anthony Powell’s A Question of Upbringing. With an introduction by John Coldstream.

Khaled al Khamissi, Martin Bell, Bronwen Maddox & Shiv Malik

L341 Montpellier Gardens 4-5pm £7 From student riots to the Arab Spring and the Greek crisis, 2011 has brought people onto the streets in huge numbers.

Martin Bell, journalist Shiv Malik (Jilted Generation) and Egyptian writer Khaled al Khamissi (Taxi) join Prospect editor Bronwen Maddox to explore the new age of protest - and to ask whether the real passion is yet to come.

Ben Okri

L342 Montpellier Gardens 4-5pm £7 Booker Prize-winning novelist and poet Ben Okri is a passionate advocate of the written word. He reflects on A Time for New Dreams, his recent collection of linked essays in which he considers such diverse subjects as childhood, selfcensorship, the role of beauty, and the importance of education.

Family Event

Family Event

Tintin

LB70 The Playhouse Age 10+ 5-6pm £5 Blistering barnacles! As the release of the film Secret of the Unicorn approaches, join two huge fans and Tintin experts to find out everything you ever wanted to know about Tintin. Raphaël Taylor’s new book, Hergé, looks at the man and the creative genius behind the world’s most adventurous boy reporter and Michael Farr is the author of Tintin the Complete Companion.

Words & Whisky

L330 Highland Park Marquee 5.30-5.45pm Free Relax and unwind at these intimate readings from some of the Festival’s best talents, all accompanied by a complimentary dram of Highland Park Single Malt Whisky.

Tales from India

LB69 St Andrew’s Church Age 7+ 4.45-5.30pm £4.50 Come on a magical journey with master storyteller Jamila Gavin as she brings to life Hindu tales of evil kings, beautiful princesses and epic battles between good and evil in Tales from India and School for Princes. The author is joined by award-winning artist Amanda Hall whose sumptuous illustrations illuminate these classic stories. You’ll be delighted and intrigued in equal measure.

Adventure

Ben Fogle, Virginia McKenna & John Rendall A Lion Called Christian

L343 Main Hall 4-5pm £8 Res Purchased as a cub from Harrods and eventually returned to the wild in Africa, the 1971 clips of the touching reunion between Christian and his human foster parents became a YouTube sensation.

Accidental Adventurer Ben Fogle, John Rendall, and the actress and campaigner Virginia McKenna discuss Christian’s remarkable story and the ongoing effort to preserve Africa’s lion population.

How To…

make the most of a gap year

L403 The Literary Lounge 5-5.30pm Free – Advance Booking Required A gap year can be great opportunity but planning it and getting the most out of it has its own challenges. In a practical session for students and parents alike, Explorer-in-Residence Dominic Faulkner offers advice on developing ideas, planning and enjoying a great gap year, and answers your questions.

Programmed by Ben Fogle

A Wee Dram

L338 Spiegeltent Bistro 5-6pm £8 Join Dominic Roskrow, Editor of Whiskeria and The Spirit Business Magazine, as he leads you on a journey of discovery through the craft of whisky making and tasting, whilst enjoying samples of Highland Park’s 12, 18 and 25 year old malts.

Terror Unleashed!

LB71 The Studio Age 12+ 5.30-6.30pm £4.50 Join three masters of the macabre for a spine-chilling discussion guaranteed to terrify you to the core. In Will Hill’s debut novel Department 19, the top secret Department 19 is at the centre of a war on vampires, but does it really exist?

American writer Ilsa J Bick’s novel Ashes is set in a dystopian future full of flesheating monsters and in David Gatward’s series, The Dead, Lazarus Stone is about to turn sixteen when, one night, his normal life is ripped to shreds by a skinless figure drenched in blood…

LabOratory

How Far Back Can You Go?

L345 Montpellier Gardens 6-7pm £6 We all sometimes wonder where we come from, and for scientists our DNA tells a fascinating story. Join historian and BBC presenter Nick Barratt, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at UCL, Mark Thomas, artist Joshua Sofaer and Daniel Glaser, Wellcome Trust, as we explore these themes and get a free copy of Admixture which has been created specially for the Festival.

This project and event have been funded by the Wellcome Trust and are part of our cross-festival series exploring DNA migration.

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SATURDAY 15 OCTOBER China Miéville

Arlene Phillips

Erica Wagner

A L Kennedy

Virginia McKenna

John Rendall

Sebastian Peake

SATURDAY 15

Richard Wiseman

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Marcus Brigstocke

L346 Imperial Square 6-7pm £8 ‘There’s probably no God ... but I wish there was. I’ve got some things I need to ask him.’ Join comedian and actor Marcus Brigstocke in his hilarious and touching search for faith following the death of his best friend, the subject of his new Edinburgh show, and his book, God Collar.

Sporting Life

A Wee Dram

Ben fogle

L339 Spiegeltent Bistro 6.30-7.30pm £8 Join Dominic Roskrow, Editor of Whiskeria and The Spirit Business Magazine, as he leads you on a journey of discovery through the craft of whisky making and tasting, whilst enjoying samples of Highland Park’s 12, 18 and 25 year old malts.

L353 The Forum 8.45-10pm £12 Res Ben Fogle has had a life for which the word extraordinary is barely adequate.

He has rowed across the Atlantic, walked to the South Pole and run the Sahara.

He has survived a tropical illness that required two months of chemotherapy and been bitten by a rabid dog. So how did a cripplingly shy, geeky, perenially homesick, spotty boy end up achieving all this? Join the Accidental Adventurer himself to find out….

Robin Oakley, Sam Waley-Cohen & Robert Waley-Cohen

L347 Imperial Square 6-7pm £10 Racing correspondent Robin Oakley’s The Cheltenham Festival: A Centenary History tells the story of how three days of jump racing beneath Cleeve Hill became a vast sporting event attracting an average of 50,000 spectators per day.

Here he joins 2011 Gold Cup-winning jockey Sam Waley-Cohen, and chairman of National Hunt racing Robert WaleyCohen to celebrate 100 thrilling years.

Adventure

Cheltenham Blue

L348 Imperial Square 6.30-7.30pm £7 Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Roald Amundsen’s South Pole Expedition, the Fram Museum in Oslo publishes the translated diaries of his crew members.

Geir Kløver, the Museum’s director, is joined by Meredith Hooper, Antarctic expert and author of The Longest Winter, to discuss the extraordinary challenges that Amundsen’s party faced in 1911.

L355 Imperial Square 8.45-10pm £10 Erica Jong’s 1973 classic Fear of Flying, with its frank and fearless take on sex, relationships and power, defined a generation and sold over 20 million copies. In a rare visit to the UK, she talks about her writing and new book Sugar In My Bowl: Real Women Write About Sex, a provocative collection of essays about sex from some of the most respected female authors writing today.

Roald Amundsen

ERICA JONG

Debate

Probity and Freedom: can we retain both in the media?

L349 The Forum 6.15-7.30pm £10 Res The repercussions of the phone hacking scandal have been profound, and are likely to be played out for some time to come. Our panel of leading journalists, writers and commentators join The Times Editor James Harding to discuss where this leaves media regulation, the balance of power between the press, the police, the public and politicians, and what might lie ahead as events continue to unfold.

Power Play

The Arab Uprising: Where Next?

L350 Montpellier Gardens 6.30-7.30pm £8 In the wake of the Egyptian presidential elections and as the situation in Libya continues to evolve, join Libyan writer Hisham Matar (Anatomy of a Disappearance), Egyptian novelist and film-maker Khaled al Khamissi (Taxi), and former Reuters reporter Johnny West (Karama: Journeys Through the Arab Spring) as they explore the current state of play and what lies ahead in the countries of the ‘Arab Spring’.

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Laugh Out Loud

Shazia Mirza

L356 Imperial Square 8.45-10pm £10 She could have married a rich man and lived in a mansion with servants, bidets, and horses. But instead Shazia Mirza drives up and down the country, trying to make people laugh. And now she’s dabbled in jokes, no Muslim man wants to marry her anyway. Don’t miss her very funny stand-up show.

Brian Aldiss Making People

L351 Imperial Square 7.15-8.15pm £6 From Frankenstein to Blade Runner, the idea of creating life has for centuries inspired writers; science fiction in particular has explored the merging of machines with humans or machines resembling human form. Iconic science fiction writer Brian Aldiss (Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, Hothouse) explores the genre’s enduring fascination with the boundary between man and machine.

Chaired by The Guardian’s Sarah Crown.

Spiegeltent Jazz Night L352 Spiegeltent Bistro 7.30pm-late Free End your Festival day in style as Cheltenham Jazz Festival takes over the Spiegeltent Bistro, presenting George Montague and his energetic mix of rock, pop, soul and blues, underpinned with vintage R&B and jazz.

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Cheltenham Extra

Richard Wiseman & A L Kennedy The Paranormal Revealed

L357 Imperial Square 8.45-10pm £7 Acclaimed for her writing and winning the Costa Book of the Year for Day, A L Kennedy discusses her new novel The Blue Book, partly set in the world of money-making fake mediums preying on their victims’ traumas. She joins Richard Wiseman, author of Paranormality, as he attempts some eyeopening experiments and to discuss why we see what isn’t there.

Programmed by A L Kennedy

True Love

Jill Mansell, Adele Parks & Penny Vincenzi

L358 Montpellier Gardens 9-10pm £6 Does true love exist in real life? Or is it a creation of romantic novelists that lives only on the page? Three bestselling practitioners of the romance genre, Jill Mansell (To the Moon and Back), Adele Parks (About Last Night) and Penny Vincenzi (The Decision) join us to explore how love fits into a modern woman’s life, in fact and fiction.

China Miéville

L359 Imperial Square 9-10pm £6 Though it has won him the Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction three times, the work of China Miéville defies categorisation, and he has been hailed as one of the most extraordinary voices writing today. In a welcome return to Cheltenham after a successful turn as Guest Director here last year, he discusses his compelling latest novel, Embassytown, which features a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe. Chaired by The Guardian’s Sarah Crown.

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Adam Henson

Michael Berkeley

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The Shakespeare Lecture

Patsy Rodenburg

Morning 365 Patsy Rodenburg L L367 Neil Oliver L368 Survive The Battle of Marathon LB75 Mr Gum with Andy Stanton LB74 Potentially Catastrophic Science L369 Adam Henson L370 Your Perfect Coffee Moment

Afternoon 371 Robert Harris L L373 I’ve Never Read L374 Judith Hermann & Polly Samson LB79 David Walliams L377 Words & Whisky L376 Charley Boorman & Russ Malkin LB82 Ladybird Live!

L381 Rita Tushingham L382 Victoria Hislop L384 The Great Education Debate L385 Lennox & Freda L378 Words & Whisky L404 Finance Your Adventure L383 Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall LB86 Animal Tales with Terry Jones and Michael Foreman L386 Ian Hislop L379 Words & Whisky L375 The Big Reading L387 Ibsen: A Celebration L394 Lisa Randall L390 Jane Austen L391 What Does Labour Stand For? L389 Upstairs, Downstairs LB89 Vikings!

L380 Words & Whisky

L365 Montpellier Gardens 10-11am £10 RSC and National Theatre voice coach Patsy Rodenburg has coached many of the biggest stars of stage and screen.

Recently listed number 15 in The Times’ most influential people in theatre list, she is acknowledged as one of the world’s leading voice coaches and is about to direct Richard III: she joins us to discuss how the process of tackling the physical challenges of speaking Shakespeare’s words aloud can shape an actor’s interpretation and offer new and fascinating insights into the plays.

Lisa Randall

Carte Noire Readers

LB75 The Inkpot Age 7+ 10-11am £5 Mad, bad and dangerously funny to know! That’s Andy Stanton - the crazy creator of the ludicrously silly and award-winning Mr Gum books. Get ready to laugh until you cry with an event full of much hilarity and madness and hear about all the latest Mr Gum goings-on from Andy himself!

L370 The Literary Lounge 11-11.30am Free - Advance Booking Required Sit back, relax, and enjoy a complimentary cup of velvety Carte Noire coffee and a romantic reading from the handsome Sergeant Troy, the dashing but unreliable soldier who mesmerises Bathsheba Everdene in Hardy’s classic Far From the Madding Crowd.

Your Perfect Coffee Moment

Family Event

Potentially Catastrophic Science

LB74 The Playhouse Age10+ 10-10.45am £5 Sean Connolly brings his Potentially Catastrophic Science book to life in this hands-on event, demonstrating awesome experiments using everyday stuff from around the house. Be among the first learn how to parachute an egg from an upstairs window, distil DNA from a half-eaten banana and spark lightning in your mouth!

Neil Oliver

A History of Ancient Britain

L367 Main Hall 10-11am £7 Res Who were the first Britons, and what was the land that they inhabited like?

Neil Oliver, popular presenter of BBC series Coast and A History of Scotland is our expert guide to 12,000 years of human occupation in these islands; also the subject of A History of Ancient Britain, his enthralling new TV series and accompanying book.

ROBERT HARRIS

L371 Montpellier Gardens 12-1pm £9 Set in the competitive world of the global money markets, The Fear Index is the chilling new contemporary thriller from Robert Harris, author of the bestselling Enigma, Fatherland and The Ghost. He joins us to discuss his writing and the attractions and challenges of portraying the world of high finance.

Television Tales

Adam Henson Countryfile

L369 The Forum 11am-12pm £10 Res BBC1’s hugely popular Countryfile visits the most beautiful places in the British countryside and the people who make it special, as well as investigating rural and environmental issues. Here Cotswold farmer Adam Henson (Adam’s Farm) shares fond memories and fascinating insights into British country life.

How To...

Survive The Battle of Marathon

L368 Imperial Square 10-11am £7 As one of history’s great turning points, the Battle of Marathon marked the rise of classical Greek civilization, even shaping our world today. With the help of swords, shields and fighting skills, writer, historian and battle re-enactor Christian Cameron brings the battle to life on stage, with all its human drama and tragedy.

Marcus Brigstocke, Natalie Haynes, Shazia Mirza & Toby Young I’ve Never Read...

L373 Imperial Square 12-1pm £8 Join host Marcus Brigstocke from Radio 4’s I’ve Never Seen Star Wars, comedian Shazia Mirza, journalist Toby Young and comedian and author Natalie Haynes in a light-hearted discussion of their reading likes and dislikes. Each panellist has been asked to take a literary leap into the unknown as they tackle an unfamiliar book or genre - would they recommend the experience? Join them to find out.

Judith Hermann & Polly Samson

Evening

L374 Imperial Square 12-1pm £6 Two acclaimed short story writers, Germany’s Judith Hermann, author of Alice, and Polly Samson, author of Perfect Lives, discuss both their own latest collections, and the short story tradition.

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Mr Gum with Andy Stanton

Speaking Shakespeare

TODAY At a glance

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SUNDAY 16 OCTOBER Imogen Stubbs

Judith Hermann

Natalie Haynes

Victoria Hislop

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Jonathan Kent

Janet Todd

SUNDAY 16

Neil Oliver

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Family Event

David Walliams

LB79 Garden Theatre Age 9+ 12-1pm £7 Joe has a lot of reasons to be happy.

About a billion of them, in fact. Joe’s rich. Really, really rich. Joe’s got his own bowling alley, his own cinema, even his own butler who is also an orangutan.

But there’s just one thing he really needs: a friend… Little Britain star David Walliams shares his hilarious, touching and extraordinary new fable Billionaire Boy: and gives a sneak preview of Gangsta Granny, his new book published in November.

Legacy

Words & Whisky

Rita Tushingham

L378 Highland Park Marquee 2.30-2.45pm Free Relax and unwind at these intimate readings from some of the Festival’s best talents, all accompanied by a complimentary dram of Highland Park Single Malt Whisky.

L381 Montpellier Gardens 2-3pm £9 As the star of films such as A Taste of Honey and Dr Zhivago, and the hit comedy series Bread, Rita Tushingham has had a long and remarkable career.

Interviewed here with her daughter Aisha Bicknell, she talks about acting, fame, family life and her recent role as a campaigner for Cancer Research UK, following Aisha’s recovery from breast cancer.

How To…

Finance your Adventure

L404 The Literary Lounge 2.30-3pm Free – Advance Booking Required Whether your adventure is big or small, it has to be financed. Join Explorer-inResidence Dominic Faulkner for practical advice and an insider’s guide to raising the funds and getting the sponsorship to make your trip possible.

Victoria Hislop Words & Whisky

L377 Highland Park Marquee 12.30-12.45pm Free Relax and unwind at these intimate readings from some of the Festival’s best talents, all accompanied by a complimentary dram of Highland Park Single Malt Whisky.

L382 Montpellier Gardens 2-3pm £7 Her debut novel The Island was a runaway success; and was chosen as a Richard & Judy Summer Read. Her second novel The Return was also a bestseller. Now here’s your chance to hear from Victoria Hislop about the inspiration behind her third riveting novel, The Thread, set in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1917 and 2007.

Family Event

Animal Tales with Terry Jones and Michael Foreman

LB86 The Playhouse Age 8+ 3.15-4pm £5 Find out the secret of immortal jellyfish and hear the tale of the mischievous Mongolian deep-fried bat in the hilarious Animal Tales by ex-Python Terry Jones and fabulous illustrator Michael Foreman. Enjoy an afternoon of stories, drawings and fun that will delight both adults and children alike.

Ian Hislop

L386 The Forum 3.30-4.30pm £14 Res This October marks 50 years since the publication of the very first issue of Private Eye, the now quite indispensable satirical magazine. Ian Hislop, its editor since 1986, joins us to discuss some of the highlights - and lawsuits - of the past five decades.

Bitesize

Adventure

Charley Boorman & Russ Malkin Amazing Adventures

L376 The Forum 1-2pm £12 Res Adventurer, motorbike fanatic and presenter of compelling TV series like Long Way Round, Charley Boorman makes a welcome return to Cheltenham to share the thrills and spills of Extreme Frontiers, his forthcoming Channel 5 series. He is joined by his co-presenter, Russ Malkin, adventure travel expert, and author of Big Earth: 101 Amazing Adventures.

Family Event

Hugh FearnleyWhittingstall

L383 Main Hall 2.30-3.30pm £10 Res L383D The Daffodil 12-2.15pm £60 including lunch (which will be served promptly at 12.15pm) Familiar from his many appearances on television, and renowned for his indispensable River Cottage cookbooks, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is one of our most respected food writers and chefs. He joins us to discuss all things culinary, and in particular the delights of vegetables, the subject of his new book and Channel 4 series.

The Great Education Debate

Melissa Benn, Chris Healy, Anthony Seldon & Toby Young

L384 Imperial Square 2-3pm £9 As the government dismantles the apparatus that has regulated state education for decades, will sponsored academies and free schools provide new paths to success, or will choice remain an illusion for the majority? Join author and campaigner Melissa Benn, journalist Toby Young, and head teachers Anthony Seldon (Wellington College) and Chris Healy (Balcarras School) as they discuss the way ahead for the next generation of schoolchildren.

In a special Festival partnership, The Daffodil restaurant is inviting you for a heartening Sunday lunch before Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s event (L383) with dishes inspired by his new book. We are offering a special purchase price, which includes your event ticket, three-course lunch, champagne on arrival and a Daffodil goody bag including a signed copy of Veg: River Cottage Everyday (RRP £25).

Ladybird Live!

LB82 The Playhouse Age 4-6 1.30-2.15pm £5 Join favourite performance poet Murray Lachlan Young for plenty of dance, rhyme, song and animal noises as he hosts a hilarious and vibrant storytelling extravaganza. The show will include specially-filmed segments of famous personalities reading classic fairy tales.

Why not come dressed-up as a Ladybird?

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Lennox & Freda

Michael Berkeley, Carmen Callil & Tony Scotland

L385 Imperial Square 2-3pm £7 When Lennox Berkeley married Freda Bernstein in 1946, it seemed an improbable love story. And yet within ten years, he was a happier man and, alongside Benjamin Britten, one of the foremost composers of his time. Tony Scotland, author of Lennox & Freda, is joined by the couple’s son, Michael Berkeley, to reflect on their remarkable marriage and the music it inspired.

Chaired by Carmen Callil.

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Words & Whisky

L379 Highland Park Marquee 3.30-3.45pm Free Relax and unwind at these intimate readings from some of the Festival’s best talents, all accompanied by a complimentary dram of Highland Park Single Malt Whisky.

Bonne Maman Big Read

The Big Reading

L375 Hotel du Vin 3.30-4pm Free In this free live reading, meet Yossarian, US Airforce Bombardier and unlikely hero of Joseph Heller’s seminal Catch-22, this year’s Big Read.

In the craziness of war, one man’s clarity shines through in this classic novel, by turns powerfully haunting, sharply satirical and riotously amusing.

SUNDAY 16 OCTOBER Charley Boorman

Ian Hislop

Ba Clemetsen

Felicity Finch

Charles Collingwood

Eddie Mair

Jean Marsh

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Ibsen: A Celebration Ba Clemetsen, Jonathan Kent & Imogen Stubbs

L387 Montpellier Gardens 4-5pm £8 During his lifetime and today, Henrik Ibsen has won international acclaim as a groundbreaking dramatist. Jonathan Kent, celebrated director of the recent National Theatre production of Emperor and Galilean, is joined by Ba Clemetsen, Oslo National Theatre’s expert on experimental Ibsen adaptations, and actress Imogen Stubbs, who recently starred in Little Eyolf, to explore the particular challenges of adapting Ibsen in modern times.

Power Play

Television Tales

L391 Imperial Square 4-5pm £8 Defeated in the general election, the Labour Party has set out to win back the public’s support, electing Ed Miliband to lead the rejuvenation. Following the party conference season, join The Times’ Editor James Harding and our panel of leading politicians and commentators as they discuss the party’s future and what Labour stands for in 2011.

L392 The Forum 6-7.15pm £12 Res What is it like for an actor to play the same character for decades? With more than 16,000 episodes broadcast, the world’s longest running soap still attracts audiences of over five million. We explore the continuing appeal of this rural drama with Editor Vanessa Whitburn, and long-serving cast members Charles Collingwood (Brian Aldridge), Felicity Finch (Ruth Archer) and Tim Bentinck (David Archer). Chaired by Eddie Mair.

What Does Labour Stand For?

The Archers

Adventure

Jean Marsh

Knocking on Heaven’s Door

L394 Montpellier Gardens 4-5pm £7 The latest developments in physics could radically change our understanding of the universe. And who better to explain them than Lisa Randall, eminent theoretical physicist, and author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door. In this exciting and enlightening event, she reveals how answering the latest scientific questions could ultimately tell us who we are, and where we came from.

Jane Austen

Deidre Le Faye & Janet Todd

L390 Imperial Square 4-5pm £9 As one of our greatest writers, Jane Austen’s novels have been enjoyed by generations of readers, but few are familiar with the fascinating body of work she created as a girl. Jane Austen expert Deidre Le Faye is joined by Janet Todd, editor of the Cambridge edition her novels, to discuss the Juvenilia.

Accompanied by a programme of readings from Jane Austen’s early works.

Charley Boorman & Ed Stafford

L389 Main Hall 4.30-5.30pm £10 Res The TV series Upstairs, Downstairs and House of Eliot are British institutions which continue to be fondly remembered today. Actress Jean Marsh co-created both series, and starred as Rose Buck in the original Upstairs, Downstairs, as well as its’ recent revival on our screens. She joins us to talk about her career on the small screen as well as her turn-of-the-century novel Fiennders Abbey.

Epic Journeys

L393 Montpellier Gardens 6-7pm £8 While Walking the Amazon, Ed Stafford not only encountered alligators and tropical storms on this world-first expedition, but also the terrible effects of deforestation. He joins fellow adventurer Charley Boorman, who has seen equal devastation across the world, caused by pollution and political unrest, as they share anecdotes and memories of the world’s most beautiful, and fragile, environments.

Family Event

Vikings!

LB89 The Playhouse Age 10+ 5-6pm £4.50 Join two authors steeped in the myths and legends of the Norse gods and heroes for some amazing Viking tales.

In award-winning storyteller Kevin Crossley-Holland’s Bracelet of Bones a young girl sets out alone in a tiny boat to find her father. West of the Moon by Katherine Langrish is a fantasy set in a time of dark magic and fearsome creatures amid Vikings and heroes.

Words & Whisky

L380 Highland Park Marquee 5.30-5.45pm Free Relax and unwind at these intimate readings from some of the Festival’s best talents, all accompanied by a complimentary dram of Highland Park Single Malt Whisky.

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Graeme Archer & Oliver Kamm The Political Network

L396 Imperial Square 6-7pm £6 Political bloggers like Guido Fawkes or Iain Dale have broken stories and shaped public opinion. But what is the future of the political blogger? Has their power begun to wane? The Times’ Oliver Kamm and Graeme Archer, blogger on Conservative Home, discuss the future of political blogging.

Julia McKenzie

Upstairs, Downstairs Lisa Randall

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L395 Imperial Square 6.30-7.30pm £8 The impoverished widow Mrs Forrester in the BBC’s lavish Cranford series was the most recent of many starring roles for the popular and versatile actress Julia McKenzie. Join her as she talks about her long, successful career, and what is was like to don the stout shoes and tweed suit of Agatha Christie’s redoubtable Miss Marple.

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Our programme of creative writing 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.

Writing Convincing Characters

Writing Convincing Dialogue

Masterclasses

LW03 Tuesday 11 October 10am-1pm £25 The prolific and much-feted author of last year’s chilling The Anatomy of Ghosts and the writer of the successfully televised Fallen Angel, Andrew Taylor will lead a focussed and engaging session on bringing your characters to life.

LW07 Thursday 13 October 10am- 1pm £25 Writing great dialogue is all about allowing your characters to speak in a voice that is uniquely theirs. Toby Litt, experienced creative writing tutor and author of the acclaimed King Death and I play the drums in a band called okay, will give expert guidance on writing dialogue that sizzles.

Are you looking to publish your first book? Why not join us for a Masterclass to find out more about children’s publishing or get the insider’s view of the industry?

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.

Fic ‘n’ Mix The Festival offers a modular course on all aspects of fiction and life writing. Students can choose from individual workshops or book a combination of five (one workshop from each weekday) for a comprehensive five-day course.

All courses are capped at a maximum of thirty people.

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

Andrew Taylor

Toby Litt

Writing Convincing Characters

Writing Convincing Dialogue

Richard Beard

LW04 Tuesday 11 October 2pm-5pm £25 This specially-programmed workshop is run by the National Academy of Writing and here director Richard Beard, author of Lazarus is Dead, will explore the art of developing rich, multi-dimensional characters.

Tiffany Murray

LW08 Thursday 13 October 2-5pm £25 Author of the beautifully quirky Diamond Stay Halo and creative writing teacher Tiffany Murray is the perfect candidate to help you discover how to create dialogue that is both realistically convincing and charged with personality.

Setting the Scene Lucy English

How to Get Published Richard Skinner

LW01 Monday 10 October 10am-1pm £25 A director of the Faber Academy creative writing programme, Richard Skinner is also a highly accomplished novelist, whose debut The Red Dancer has been translated into seven languages. As a professional manuscript reader he is uniquely placed to give balanced and authoritative guidance to those looking to publish.

How to Get Published Jo Herbert

LW02 Monday 10 October 2-5pm £25 As editor of the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook and an experienced seminar leader, Jo Herbert is just the person to provide much-needed practical advice on making the all-important first publication approach.

Writing a Good Plot

LW05 Wednesday 12 October 10am-1pm £25 Wondering how to create an opening full of intrigue? Join tutor Lucy English, critically acclaimed author of Children of Light and Our Dancing Days, for an expert’s take on this tricky - and vital aspect of your writing.

M J Hyland

LW09 Friday 14 October 10am-1pm £25 Constructing a compelling narrative is vital in the art of novel-writing.

M J Hyland, acclaimed author of Carry Me Down and This Is How, and an experienced tutor, will guide you through the process of shaping a plot that will captivate your readers.

Setting the Scene Jill Dawson

LW06 Wednesday 12 October 2pm-5pm £25 If you’re struggling to create a spellbinding opening to your work of fiction, join Jill Dawson, experienced writing teacher and author of The Great Lover, to explore the process of crafting a beginning that will leave your readers desperate for more.

Writing a Good Plot Witi Ihimaera

LW10 Friday 14 October 2-5pm £25 One of the most prominent Maori writers and Festival Writer-in-Residence for this year, we are thrilled to welcome Witi Ihimaera, author of The Whale Rider and most recently of The Parihaka Woman, for a session on crafting a compelling plot.

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Masterclasses take place at The Playhouse Theatre.

How To Get Your Children’s Book Published

LB21 Saturday 8 October 6-7.30pm £12 Meet and learn from industry experts across a wide spectrum of publishing roles at this very special event designed to be informative, engaging and inspiring. Barry Cunningham, Chicken House MD and Publisher, will be joined

by Amanda Craig, The Times’ Children’s Book Critic, Sophia Bennett, former winner, and Neil Blair, J K Rowling’s literary agent. They will discuss how to get published in a challenging market, and what makes a good book.

Getting Published The Insider’s View

LW11 Tuesday 11 October 2pm-3:30pm £12 Working as an editor and publicist for Profile books, Rebecca Gray, herself an experienced tutor, has an unparalleled overview of a book’s journey from that initial flash of inspiration to the joy of holding it in your hands. In this unique masterclass, she will present an insider’s view of the whole process of becoming a published writer.

WRITE AWAY Greg Mosse

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.

Starting to Write with Jacob Ross

LW12 Saturday 8 & Sunday 9 October 10am-4pm daily £100 (inc. lunch) If you’d like to write, but struggle to find a way into the process, this intensive workshop is just the thing for you.

Jacob Ross, author of the superb and acclaimed Pynter Bender and Arvon tutor, will guide you through the creative process with a blend of practical exercises and discussion.

Creating a Novel with Greg Mosse

LW13 Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 October 10am-4pm daily £100 (inc. lunch) In this brand new course, Greg Mosse, programme leader at West Dean College, 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.

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Writing Genres

Jamila Gavin

LW18 Saturday 15 October 10am-1pm £25 One of our finest children’s writers, Jamila Gavin’s books include the Guardian Award winning Surya Trilogy, and the phenomenally successful Coram Boy, winner of the Whitbread Prize for Children’s fiction and adapted into an acclaimed play for the National Theatre.

An experienced creative writing teacher, she is the perfect guide to developing your children’s book.

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 Montpellier Chapter.

Life Writing Sarah Bakewell

Travel and Exploration Writing

LW14 Saturday 8 October 10am-1pm £25 In her dazzlingly original and illuminating How to Live, Sarah Bakewell brought her hero Montaigne to life. Join her to learn how best to approach the process of researching and turning a life into beautiful prose.

Meredith Hooper

Writing for the Web Suzanne Worthington

LW15 Saturday 8 October 2-5pm £25 In the age of digital media, it is vital that we understand how these new modes of communication affect our language use. In this fascinating session, Suzanne Worthington, an expert in digital media and digital producer for the RSC, joins us to offer advice and guidance on how to adapt your writing to a changing media environment

Writing Crime

LW19 Saturday 15 October 2-5pm £25 As the writer of The Longest Winter: Scott’s Other Heroes, Meredith Hooper is an expert on the Antarctic and former writer-in-residence there for the US National Science Foundation. She brings a wealth of experience to this session on the challenges - and manifold pleasures of travel and exploration writing.

Writing Poetry David Morley

LW20 Sunday 16 October 10am-1pm £25 Professor of writing at Warwick University and author of Enchantment, David Morley is an award-winning teacher and poet. In this session he will explore the art of crafting a poem, offering support and guidance to participants at any level.

Writing Journalism

Laura Wilson

LW16 Sunday 9 October 10am-1pm £25 An expert in the genre, Laura Wilson is an acclaimed author of many novels, including A Capital Crime, and is the crime fiction reviewer for The Guardian, making her the perfect tutor to lead this class on crafting spellbinding crime fiction.

David Aaronovitch

LW21 Sunday 16 October 2-5pm £25 or Free for Full Time Students The Times journalist and author of Voodoo Theories: The Role Of Conspiracy Theories In Shaping Modern History, David Aaronovitch brings unbeatable knowledge and experience to this practical workshop focused on writing comment and opinion pieces for newspapers. This workshop marks the launch of The London Library Student Writing Prize in association with The Times and Fresh Minds.

Researching and Writing Family History Nick Barratt

LW17 Sunday 9 October 2-5pm £25 Author of Lost Voices from the Titanic and genealogy expert behind the hugely popular Who Do You Think You Are?, Nick Barratt makes a welcome return to the Write Away programme for invaluable advice on how best to research and write about your ancestry.

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bookcraft Bookbinding Workshop

Montpellier Gardens £45 (inc. £15 of materials) LW22 Tuesday 11 October 2-5pm LW23 Wednesday 12 October 2-5pm LW24 Thursday 12 October 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.

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FESTIVAL INDEX

Box Office 01242 505 444

David Aaronovitch

71

Nicola Beauman

33

Heather Brooke

23

Jim Crace

56

Leila Aboulela

26

Mark Beaumont

60

Christopher Brookmyre

34

John Crace

56

Glenn Adamson

17

Jonathan Beckman

60

Kevin Brooks

Nikki Bedi

36

Adrian Brown

38

Joe Cribb

54

Jane Brown

29

Ruth Cribb

54

25

Janet Cronin

48, 62

25, 44

Sue Crossley

33, 37, 55, 71

Lucy Adlington

54, 56

Paul Adrian

58

Khaled al Khamissi Brian Aldiss

64, 65 65

Jenny Alexander

26, 45

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Martin Bell

62, 64

Steve Bell

21

Moira Buffini

Melissa Benn

67

Melvin Burgess

Tony Benn

16, 17

38

Darren Bennett

64

Jim Al-Khalili

33, 34

Sophia Bennett

22, 43, 44, 70

Benedict Allen

16

Tahmima Anam

23, 25

25, 44

Amanda Craig

Oliver Burkeman

58

Kevin Crossley-Holland

A S Byatt

63

Roger Crowley

Carmen Callil

67

Sarah Crown

22, 43, 70

51, 68 36 63, 65

Tim Bentinck

68

Christian Cameron

66

Robert Crowther

45

Michael Berkeley

67

Bea Campbell

59

Dan Cruickshank

58

Liz Berry

59

Rachel Campbell-Johnston

17

David Crystal

30

63

John Carey

20

Barry Cunningham

James Carter

47

Valentine Cunningham

20

Fiona Danks

50

Anjum Anand

33, 36, 38

Giles Andreae

48, 62

Ella Berthould

Sara-Jane Arbury

23, 33

Ilsa J Bick

49, 64

Graeme Archer

68

Aisha Bicknell

67

H M Castor

Jeffrey Archer

26

Christopher Bigsby

59

Nikalas Catlow

44

Alistair Darling

23

Helen Arney

27

Andrew Billen

22

Mike Chaplin

28

Michael Darlow

38

Kalinda Ashton

56

Dea Birkett

28

Lauren Child

20, 42

Martin Davidson

24

Ophelia Bitz

30

Lee Child

30

Hunter Davies

36

Robert Blackburn

59

Kate Chisholm

18

Nicola Davies

42

Malorie Blackman

46

Sarah Churchwell

Norman Davies

36

Jane Clarke

33

Evan Davis

27

Ros Asquith

48, 49

Neil Astley

55

Mike Atherton

56, 60

48, 63

22, 43, 70

22, 25

Diana Athill

37

Isla Blair

27

Suzy Atkins

37

Neil Blair

22, 43, 70

Ba Clemetsen

68

Colin Davison

36

Jane Bailey

23, 29, 33, 37, 55, 59

Rabbi Lionel Blue

30, 34

Jarvis Cocker

23

Jill Dawson

70

Paul Bailey

62

Jose-Luis Bocquet

30

John Coldstream

64

Ivan Day

36

Joan Bakewell

55

Charley Boorman

67, 68

Charles Collingwood

68

Justine de Mierre

44

23, 56

Tony Collins

56

Tony De Saulles

48

Anna del Conte

17

Sarah Bakewell

18, 71

Mark Borkowski

Clare Balding

26, 45

Joanna Bourke

22

Sean Connolly

Johnny Ball

48, 62

Peter Bowles

24

Peter Conrad

58

Grace Dent

50, 66

22, 23

Ed Balls

56

Alison Brackenbury

38

Peter Conradi

23

Colin Dexter

34

Duncan Bannatyne

34

Chris Bradford

42

Quentin Cooper

32

Clarissa Dickson Wright

55

Simon Baron-Cohen

29

Sarah Bradford

17

Wendy Cope

59

Jonathan Dimbleby

18

Melvyn Bragg

62

David Cordingly

30

Josceline Dimbleby

17

Nick Barratt

64, 70

Oli Barrett

25

Mark Brake

37

Gordon Corera

32

Kitty Dimbleby

59

Sebastian Barry

55

Gyles Brandreth

28

Ben Cort

50

Thomas Docherty

47

Bella Bathurst

29

Piers Brendon

33

Frank Cottrell Boyce

21, 43

Emma Dodd

49

Cressida Cowell

25, 44

Ken Dodd

34

Christina Dodwell

59

Mary Beard Richard Beard

24, 25 70

Marcus Brigstocke Fern Britton

65, 66 38

Sherard Cowper-Coles

78

27

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Berlie Doherty

47

Katherine Frank

30

Susie Harries

32

Simon Hopkinson

56

Monty Don

21

Peter Frankopan

54

Alexandra Harris

33

Alex Horne

56

Robert Harris

66

Michael Howard

37

Julia Donaldson

20, 42, 46

Mariella Frostrup

Malcolm Donaldson

20, 42, 46

Ray Galton

37

A F Harrold

27

Bettany Hughes

26

Tommy Donbavand

43, 45

Simon Garfield

54

David Harsent

60

Simon Hughes

56

Jennifer Donnelly

24, 44

Tom Gatti

60

Adam Hart-Davis

33

Will Hutton

56

Emma Donoghue

16

David Gatward

Angela Hartnett

34

M J Hyland

70

John Dougherty

47

Jamila Gavin

Matt Harvey

27

Witi Ihimaera

Dr Sketchy

30

Martin Gayford

33

Kate Harwood

22

Celia Imrie

55

Carol Drinkwater

55

K A Gerrard

49

Josephine Haslam

58

Bruce Ingman

46

Carol Ann Duffy

29

Harriet Gilbert

27

Michael Hasted

28

Howard Jacobson

59

Ann Dumas

55

Peter Ginn

30

Max Hastings

37

Clive James

63

23, 26

Daniel Glaser

64

Roy Hattersley

32, 33

Father Christopher Jamison

34

17

Misha Glenny

22

John Haynes

Tim Jeal

28

49, 63

Julian Glover

27

Natalie Haynes

Simon Jenkins

29

Joe Dunthorne Philip Eade Helen East

20, 21, 24, 25

49, 64 49, 64, 71

56 64, 66

25, 56, 70

David Edgar

26

Suzi Godson

60

Tim Heald

58

Peter Johnson

16

Linda Edsjรถ

60

Emily Golden

44

Chris Healy

67

Rachel Johnson

27

Lucy English

70

Judy Golding

24

John Hegarty

Sue Johnston

56

The Etherington Brothers

51

Rosie Goldsmith

34

Nick Hennessey

38

Digby Jones

59

Sonia Faleiro

59

John Goodall

32

Peter Hennessy

17

Gail Jones

56

Paul Farley

36

George Goodwin

58

Adam Henson

66

Owen Jones

62

Dave Gorman

34

Jo Herbert

70

Steve Jones

32

Dominic Faulkner 17, 26, 32, 63, 64, 67

Alison Graham

22

Kari Herbert

62

Terry Jones

51, 67

Sebastian Faulks

20

Andrew Graham-Dixon

37

Judith Hermann

66

Erica Jong

65

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

67

Bill Granger

38

Roger Highfield

22

Penny Junor

58

Ellen Feldman

16

Rebecca Gray

70

Alastair Hignell

38

Inaam Kachachi

30

Jessica Fellowes

27

Mini Grey

49

Will Hill

Oliver Kamm

68

Julian Fellowes

27

Sarah Gristwood

28

Ian Hislop

67

Zarghuna Kargar

27

Jasper Fforde

34

Brita Gunstrรถm

Victoria Hislop

67

John Kay

38

Ranulph Fiennes

37

Emil Hakl

Henry Hitchings

16

Penelope Keith

Felicity Finch

68

Amanda Hall

Angie Hobbs

26

Stephen Kelman

33

49, 64

Michael Farr

Justin Fletcher Ben Fogle

24, 44 62, 63, 64, 65

20, 42 34 49, 64

37, 38

60

Mary Hoffman

48, 63

Martin Kemp

33

Louella Hanbury-Tenison

59

Simon Hoggart

18, 21

A L Kennedy

56, 60, 63, 64, 65

59

Katherine Holabird

42

Jonathan Kent

68

22, 23

James Holland

47

Nicholas Kenyon

58

62, 65, 68

Matthew Hollis

17

Mark Kermode

33

34

Ian Kershaw

58

Liz Kessler

52

Tim Key

56

62, 64

Robin Hanbury-Tenison

Michael Foreman

51, 67

Mohammed Hanif

James Forrester

32

James Harding

Liz Fost

51

Robert Hardman

59

Anne Holt

Clare Francis

38

Robert Hardy

21

Meredith Hooper

Richard Harries

38

Cathy Hopkins

48, 63

49, 64

Duncan Hamilton

Amanda Foreman

Pauline Francis

21, 23

79

65, 71 49

FESTIVAL INDEX

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Anna Kim

34

Russ Malkin

Geir Kløver

65

Allan Mallinson

Lilia Kopylova

64

Mick Manning

Ramona Koval

16, 17, 33, 37, 59, 63

Kwasi Kwarteng Murray Lachlan Young

28 51, 67

67

George Montague

65

Vivienne Parry

16, 22

36, 37

Derry Moore

21

Lorraine Pascale

38

20, 42

Marcus Moore

23, 33

Abbi Patrix

60

Jill Mansell

65

Caroline Moorehead

58

Jane Pavitt

17

Chris Mapp Quartet

23

Paul Moorhouse

29

Jeremy Paxman

20

Diego Marani

34

Caitlin Moran

21, 23

Sebastian Peake

63

George Lamb

27

Howard Marks

60

Esther Morgan

55

David Pearson

34

Larry Lamb

27

David Marquand

36

Fidelis Morgan

26

Neil Pearson

60

Lucinda Lambton

58

Jan Marsh

Llewelyn Morgan

24

Charlotte Peel

33

John Landis

30

Jean Marsh

Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock

34

Rowan Pelling

60

Kirsty Lang

22

Bob Marshall-Andrews

David Morley

71

Robert Peston

22

Alex Langlands

30

Paul Mason

56

Michael Morpurgo

24, 26, 44, 45

Andrew Peters

43

Hisham Mater

65

Blake Morrison

23, 24

Mario Petrucci

38 33

Katherine Langrish

51, 68

28, 29 68 16, 18

Felicity Lawrence

59

Helena Matheopoulos

62

Ian Mortimer

32

Elizabeth Peyton-Jones

Deidre Le Faye

68

Mei Matsuoka

45

Greg Mosse

71

Arlene Phillips

48, 63, 64

Christopher Lee

25

James Mayhew

46

Fiona Mountain

23

Gervase Phinn

37

Paul Lewis

38

John McCarthy

20

Franny Moyle

28, 29

Gareth Peirce

21

Huw Lewis-Jones

62

Karen McCarthy Woolf

59

Paul Muldoon

59, 60

Stephen Poliakoff

27

Fiona Lindsay

34

A P McCoy

60

Catherine Muller

30

Jonathon Porritt

59

Robert Lindsay

27

Val McDermid

60

Chris Mullin

59

Venetia Porter

54

Toby Litt

70

Allegra McEvedy

37

Tiffany Murray

70

Michael Portillo

Karin Littlewood

43

Mac McFadden

34

Jeremy Musson

58

Kate Potts

59

62, 63

Roger McGough

47, 48, 63

Joanna Nadin

44

Alan Powers

58

Richard Lloyd Parry

29

Sarah McIntyre

43

Gareth Neame

27

Alex Preston

64

Giorgio Locatelli

29

Virginia McKenna

64

Patrick Ness

21, 42

Paul Preston

20

Julia McKenzie

68

Virginia Nicholson

29

Stephen Prickett

26

John Julius Norwich

32

June Purvis

54

Victor Rodriguez Núñez

29

Hugh Pym

29

22, 23

Robin Oakley

65

Dipika Rai

59

Penelope Lively

25, 26

David Lodge

16, 17

Mark Logue

23

Sophie McKenzie

Tim Lott

22

Leo McKinstry

Mary Lovell

37

Andy McNab

Valentine Low

58

Anna McQuinn

44

Edna O’Brien

33

Lisa Randall

68

David Loyn

27

Ray Mears

18

Sean O’Brien

60

Nicholas Rankin

29

Joanna Lumley

26

Pablo Medina

56

Ben Okri

64

Steve Redgrave

33

Rosamund Lupton

34

Ranald Michie

21

Neil Oliver

66

Philip Reeve

47

Fiona MacCarthy

16

China Miéville

63, 65

David Omand

22

John Rendall

64

Ben Macintyre

24

A D Miller

Christopher Ondaatje

17

Ruth Rendell

21

Moray MacLennan

56

Andrew Miller

26, 27

Theo Padnos

22

James Rhodes

56

Bronwen Maddox

64

Shazia Mirza

65, 66

Kathleen Palmer

54

Anne Rice

Eddie Mair

68

Lydia Monks

48

Adele Parks

65

Chris Riddell

Shiv Malik

62, 64

Kate Monro

60

Matthew Parris

17

Adam Roberts

25, 44 60

22

80

22, 25 26, 45, 46 37

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Patsy Rodenburg

66

Tom Rob Smith

22

Janet Todd

68

Vanessa Whitburn

68

Dominic Roskrow

64, 65

Mary Soames

33

Claire Tomalin

20

Jon Whiteley

55

Meg Rosoff

24, 44

Joshua Sofaer

64

Ion Trewin

58, 62, 63, 64

Ian Whybrow

46

Jacob Ross

71

Natasha Solomons

25

Emma Tucker

21

Toby Wilkinson

54

Jonathan Ross

60

Alastair Sooke

28, 29

Colin Tudge

59

C K Williams

60

Jonathan Sacks

33

Ali Sparkes

26, 45

Mark Tully

17

Gwyneth Williams

24

Amy Sackville

27

Lauren St John

26, 45

Dennis Turner

29

Kate Williams

Lawrence Sail

55

Ed Stafford

Rita Tushingham

67

David M Wilson

20

Kaye Umansky

47

Laura Wilson

71

Fiona Sampson

32, 37

Andy Stanton

68 50, 66

28, 37

John Sampson

29

Mark Statman

56

Mark Urban

37

Sarah Winman

33

Polly Samson

66

Kristina Stephenson

49

Sam Usher

51

Richard Wiseman

65

Anna Saunders

49

Pamela Stephenson Connolly

18

Lesley Vainikolo

56

Adam Wishart

16

Simon Scarrow

46

Christopher Stevens

37

Richard van Emden

55

Terry Wogan

38

Axel Scheffler

43

Dan Stevens

27

David Vann

30

Lewis Wolpert

55

Jo Schofield

50

Juliet Stevenson

24, 25, 44

Johnny Vegas

60

Chris Womersley

56

Barbara Schumacher

59

Paul Stewart

26, 45, 46

Hugo Vickers

36

Tim Wonnacott

36

Virginia Schumacher

59

Francine Stock

27

Penny Vincenzi

65

Conor Woodman

63

Tony Scotland

67

Peter Stothard

24, 25

Lucy Worsley

55

Simon Sebag Montefiore

54

Edward Stourton

33

Jan Costin Wagner

60

Suzanne Worthington

71

Anne Sebba

36

Louise Stowell

43

Mark Walden

48

Michael Wright

55

Anthony Seldon

67

Roy Strong

34

Robert Waley-Cohen

65

Ann Wroe

54

Will Self

60

Imogen Stubbs

68

Sam Waley-Cohen

65

Andrea Wulf

29

John Sergeant

24

John Sutherland

Robert Service

62

Matthew Sweeney

58

Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Matthew Sweet

59

David Walliams

Jo Shapcott

58, 59, 60

Erica Wagner

17, 21

Jason Wallace

22, 62, 64

21, 42 37 50, 67

Jane Shilling

27

Matthew Syed

56

John Walsh

Samuel Shimon

30

Michael Symmons Roberts

36

Harriet Walter

25, 27

Nicola Shulman

16

Mitchell Symons

50

James Walton

20

Francesca Simon

24, 44, 46

20

Andrew Taylor

23, 70

Marina Warner

37

20, 21

Valentine Warner

37 38

Alan Simpson

37

D J Taylor

James Simpson

38

Frederick Taylor

55

Mary Warnock

Joe Simpson

38

Helen Taylor

54

Celia Warren

21, 42

Lemn Sissay

32

Peter Taylor

22

Mark Watson

56

Peter Sissons

38

RaphaĂŤl Taylor

Holly Webb

51

Martin Sixsmith

28

Mark Thomas

64

Justin Webb

25

Frank Skinner

22

Mark Thomas

60

Alison Weir

28

Richard Skinner

70

Fiona Thornewill

32

Tim Wesson

44

Alex T Smith

50

Colin Thubron

16, 17

Johnny West

65

Penny Smith

22

Stella Tillyard

36, 37

Sara Wheeler

16

49, 64

81

Toby Young Philip Ziegler

66, 67 17

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Key Dates 8 August Programme available to browse and add to wishlist online 15-16 August Members’ priority booking (online only) 17 August Members’ priority booking (online, by telephone and in person) 22-23 August Public booking (online only) 24 August Public booking (online, by telephone and in person)

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Box Office 2 Montpellier Gardens (Opens Friday 7 October) Box Office 3 Imperial Square (Opens Saturday 1 October)

Saturday 1 October – Thursday 6 October

The main box office for in-person sales during the Festival will be at the entrance to Montpellier Gardens. All prepaid tickets must be collected here. The Imperial Square Box Office is for sales only.

Regent Arcade 9am – 6pm

Opening hours (Regent Arcade Box Office only)

Imperial Square 1pm – 6pm

Monday 15 – Sunday 28 August

Ticket sales during the Festival

Wednesday – Saturday 9am – 7pm (8pm by phone) Sunday 11am – 5pm

Bank Holiday Monday 29 August

Friday 7 October – Sunday 16 October

Closed

Regent Arcade 9am – 6pm (7pm by phone)

Tuesday 30 August – Friday 30 September

Montpellier Gardens and Imperial Square 9am – the start of the last event of the day

Monday – Saturday 10.30am – 4.30pm Sunday Closed

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Don’t know where to begin choosing events? Only free to attend on certain days? Looking for a specific performance? Our online booking system helps you find the events you’re looking for faster than ever before with enhanced filtering functionality to help you narrow down your choices to suit your requirements. Plus, we’ve made it even easier to book tickets when they go on sale with Wish Lists.

You can book tickets online from 22 August, simply visit our website and click the ‘Find Events & Book Tickets’ link at the top of every page.

DON’T HAVE A COMPUTER? Gloucestershire Libraries are supporting The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival by providing online support within the county for people wishing to book in their local library. Drop in computers and large screen PC’s will be available on request on the ‘online only’ booking dates of 15, 16, 22 and 23 August. In selected libraries ‘Computer Buddies’ will be available to assist people if help is required.

Contact your local library for more information.

And also don’t forget to look out for Big Read Book Groups in Gloucestershire Libraries this autumn!

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Terms and conditions Membership

Reserved Seating

Full Members are entitled to a 10% discount on full-price tickets.

We endeavour to offer reserved seating wherever possible.

Many events in the Main Hall, Garden Theatre, The Inkpot, The Forum, QWERTY, The Salon, and The Playhouse offer reserved seating.

Discounted tickets can only be used by the Member, and discounts cannot be applied on tickets which include food or drink in the price. Visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/ membership to find out more.

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, which will be refunded within 30 days.

In addition, Literature Festival Founding Members are entitled to £5 off The Literary Lunch (event L088).

Concessions Those 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 and drink in the price.

Latecomers Please arrive in plenty of time for your event. Please note that your ticket will specify the site (Imperial Square or Montpellier Gardens) rather than the venue of your event so please allow plenty of time to confirm which venue your event is taking place in and take your seat. It is not always possible to admit latecomers.

Please be prepared to show relevant ID at the Box Office and upon admission to events. For information about access please see cheltenhamfestivals/visitorinformation for venue contact details.

Credit/Debit Cards Visa, Mastercard, Solo and Maestro are accepted. Please provide a card number, issue number, expiry date, security code, name and address of the card holder.

Only one concession may apply per ticket.

Concessionary rates do not apply to the following events: Events which include food or drink, Book It! events, Write Away workshops, L008, L013, L017, L025, L026, L027, L034, L046,

Additional Information for Families

L050, L056, L065, L084, L069, L070, L073, L072, L080, L399, L089, L093, L094, L096, L098, L102, L101, L106, L109, L113, L129, L139, L147, L171, L175, L176, L183, L184, L186, L397, L217, L218, L220, L224, L227, L254, L255, L257, L260, L264, L265, L266, L267, L278, L285, L293, L301, L303, L307, L310, L311, L319, L323, L331, L334, L340, L343, L347, L349, L353, L355, L356, L357, L369, L371, L376, L383, L386, L387, L390, L389, L392, L393, L397, L410.

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.

Cheltenham Festivals reserves the right to offer last minute promotions and discounts.

Group Booking

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.

Book 10 tickets for any one event and get the 10th absolutely free!

For all Book It! events excluding Write On and Book It! for Parents a ticket must be purchased for each adult and each child attending.

Ticket Prices Ticket prices are shown next to each event. Please be prepared to show relevant ID at the Box Office and upon admission to events. For all Book It! events except Write On Workshops and Book It! for Parents a ticket must be purchased for each adult and each child attending.

Contact 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

Ticket Collection Tickets can be collected from the Box Office in Regent Arcade, Cheltenham. During the Festival, tickets can be collected only from the Festival Box Office in Montpellier Gardens.

If you require a copy of this brochure in large print format please call 01242 774400

Cheques Please make cheques payable to CF Productions.

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Membership Cheltenham Festivals membership gives you priority booking, 10% discount on tickets and other great benefits. Just tick the relevant boxes below: I’m already a member No I don’t want to join just now Yes, I would like to join as:

Associate £20 (priority booking only)

or Full (priority booking and discount): Individual £35

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Concessionary £15 (25 and under, registered disabled and unemployed)

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IMPERIAL SQUARE

Waterstone’s Festival Book Tent

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The Festival Quarter

Waterstone’s Festival Book Tents

This year’s Festival is largely focused across two sites – Imperial Square and, brand new for 2011, Montpellier Gardens just a street away.

There will be a Festival Book Tent on Imperial Square and Montpellier Gardens. Please be aware that each author’s books are only available at the site their event takes place on.

Box Offices

Info points

There are three Box Offices this year. One in Regent Arcade, one in Imperial Square and one in Montpellier Gardens. The main box office for in-person sales during the Festival will be at the entrance to Montpellier Gardens.

All prepaid ticket collections must be made there.

The Imperial Square Box Office is for sales only.

Got a question? During the Festival, there will be an information point on each site, providing information and help.

Staying in Cheltenham Cheltenham offers a range of accommodation, catering for all budgets. Go to visitcheltenham.com for more information.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Cheltenham Festivals President Dame Judi Dench CH Vice-Presidents Eleanor Budge Charles Fisher Edward Gillespie Graham Lockwood Sir John Manduell CBE Sir Peter Marychurch KCMG Sir Michael McWilliam KCMG Ion Trewin Board of Trustees Peter Bond Chair Dominic Collier Vice Chair Sue Blanchfield Lewis Carnie Jonathan Carr Christopher Cook Peter Elliott Professor Russell Foster Professor Averil Macdonald Dr Gill Samuels CBE Diane Savory Margaret Austen (company secretary) Chief Executive Donna Renney PA to the Chief Executive Louisa Blankson Director of Operations Helena Bibby Business Development Director Siân Morgan Finance Office Paul Jenkins Aline Imray Christine Mulqueen Development Office Jules Foster Steve Burgess Nell Douglas Miller Lisa Garrett Suzy Hillier Kathryn Honeywill Anthony Oliver Harriet Persey Lara Wilson - Intern Georgia Hickman - Intern Patrons Manager Arlene McGlynn Leonora Society Manager Nicola Lawson Education Philippa Claridge Rose Wood Shelley Owen - Intern

Press & Marketing Chris Pearson Laura Brand Fenner Curtis James Davis David Drakeley Helen Evans Amy Hulyer Candice Pearson Pete Riley

Festival Chair Dominic Collier Artistic Director Sarah Smyth Executive Director Clair Greenaway Book It! Director Jane Churchill

Production Adrian Hensley Christina Poulton Jemma Price

Festival Guest Directors Anjum Anand Mike Atherton Ben Fogle A L Kennedy Jo Shapcott

Jazz Festival Ian George Phil Woods

Literature Festival Producer Christin Stein

Science Festival Sharon Bishop Gina Collins Ashley Kent Luiza Patorski

Literature Festival Manager (Programming) Judith Lüdenbach

Festival Advisory Group Fiona Allen Keith Blackmore Nicholas Clee Geraldine Collinge Nick Higham Dotti irving China Miéville Alex O’Connell Caroline Raphael Mark Turner Erica Wagner PR Consultancy Colman Getty PR 0207 6312666 The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival is presented

by Cheltenham Festivals, a company limited by guarantee.

Charity No. 251765

Literature Festival Manager Charles Haynes

The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival is a member of the British Arts Festivals Association www.artsfestivals.com

Festival Development Director Sarah Rawlings

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

LabOratory Project Manager Julia Jenkins

Festival Co-ordinator Nicola Tuxworth

FameLab Manager Claire Rocks

2011 Project Manager Sophie George

Box Office Melodie Robson Jean Baynham Martin Perks Zoe Walker and all those who join the box office team throughout the year

Festival Development Officer Claire Coleman

The Festival volunteers and events managers, the managers and staff of all Festival venues and all Festival hotels, James Harding and everyone at The Times, James Daunt and everyone at Waterstone’s, John Coldstream, Gloucestershire Libraries, Gloucestershire Deaf Association, Caroline Sanderson, Paul Milton, Fiona Lindsay, Richard Whitehead, Alice Cooper

Music Festival Meurig Bowen Annabel Marsland Alexis Paterson

Festival Programming Assistant Michael Smith (DCMS Jerwood Creative Bursary Scheme Postholder) Festival Administrator Carol Malcolmson

Tessitura Systems Manager Pete Riley

Festival Assistant Hannah Evans

Brand & Festival Design Document.is/

Festival Interns Isabella Uhlig Alexandra Khorobrykh Rachael Kirby

Brand Consultant Howard Milton Auditors Hazelwoods Ltd

Festival Committee Pamela Armstrong Jane Bailey Christine Chambers Hereward Corbett Marianne Hinton Gerald Isaaman Penelope Lomax Charmaine Murphy Lavinia Sidgwick

Registered Office 28 Imperial Square Cheltenham GL50 1RH Company No. 456573 Charity No. 251765 VAT Registration No. 100114013 Main Switchboard Number 01242 774400

Photo Credits: Adrian Sherratt (Allan Mallinson), Adrian Pope (Fiona Sampson), Alan Davidson (Robert Peston), Angus Muir (Joe Dunthorne), Anne McCarthy (John McCarthy), Avalon (Dave Gorman), Biba Bisch (Amanda Foreman), Bryan Adams (Virginia McKenna), Caroline Forbes (Esther Morgan), Caroline Irby (Franny Moyle), Caroline Latimer (Julian Fellowes), Charles Hopkinson (Francine Stock, Polly Samson), Charlie Chan (Quentin Cooper), Chris Close (China Miéville), Chris Floyd (Grace Dent), Chris Terry (Angela Hartnett), Christopher Kim (Lisa Randall), Clive Boursnell (Roy Strong), Colin Bell (Jonathan Ross), Conor Cahill (Jim Al-Khalili, Vivienne Parry), Dina Matar (David Vann), Elke Bock (Marina Warner), Emma Hardy (Jean Marsh), Endstart Photo (John Landis), Georgia Oetker (Harriet Walters), Helen Sail (Lawrence Sail), Hugo Burnard (Simon Sebag Montefiore), Jane Brown (Tony Benn), Jay Brooke (Marcus Brigstocke), Jerry Bauer (Ben Mcintyre, Ruth Rendell, Sebastian Faulks, Will Self), Jo Michael (Anne Holt), Joel Kaplan (David Lodge), John Boos (Mark Urban), John Millar (Simon Jenkins), John Swannell (Fern Britton), Johnny Culme-Seymour (Josceline Dimbleby), Johnny Ring (Andy McNab), Katie van Dyck (D J Taylor), Keith Ducatel (Ed Stafford), Laura Mozes (Ellen Feldman), Leila Romaya (Roger McGough), Leonard Schlichting (Christian Cameron), Lucy Cavendisha (Janet Todd), Mari Roberts (Jasper Fforde), Mark Crick (Diana Athill), Mark Gerson (Blake Morrison), Mary Cross (C K Williams), Matt Writtle (John Carey), Matthew Bakewell (Joan Bakewell), McLeod (Alistair Darling), Michael Abrahams (Lewis Wolpert), Michael Frayn (Claire Tomalin), Michael Noll (Carol Drinkwater), Michael Trvillion (A S Byatt), Mike Carsley (Natasha Solomons), Mimsy Moller (Val McDermid) Muir Vidler (Simon Hopkinson), Neil Cooper (Larry Lamb, Patsy Rodenburg), Neil Genower (Robert Lindsay), Niall McDiarmid (Ray Mears, Sara Wheeler), Nimra Busha (Mohammed Hanif), Nina Subin (Tariq Ali), Oliver Morris (Paul Muldoon), Oliver Poole (Roger Crowley), Paul Rider (A D Miller), Peter Schiazza (Amy Sackville), Ralph Glenny (Misha Glenny), Rankin (Jarvis Cocker), Richard Canon (Michael Morpurgo), Richard Lea-Hair (Lucy Worsley), Richard Murphy(Gervase Phinn), Rick Pushinsky (Heather Brooke), Robert Banks (Clive James), Robin Farquhar-Thomson (Fiona MacCarthy), Robin Matthew (Mary Soames), Sally Soames (Robert Harris), Sarah Lee (John Sutherland), Saskia Manners (Andrea Wulf), Susan Gordon Brown (Meredith Hooper), Susana Neves (Joshua Soafer), Sutton Hibbert (Joe Simpson), Suzi Ahlburg (Stella Tillyard), Swannell (Jeffrey Archer), Terrel Carver (Judy Golding), The Irish Times (Sebastian Barry), The One Show (Gyles Brandreth), Tudor Jenkins (Kwasi Kwarteng), Tundi Eugenia Haulik (Sarah Bakewell), Ben Cavanna (Sara-Jane Arbury), Sally Soames (Robert Harris), Alex Michel (Michael Berkeley).

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The Festival would also like to thank all those who have provided advice, collaboration and support: Our storytelling events are programmed in association with Ben Haggarty and The Crick Crack Club.

A & C Black, Acumen, Anova Books, Arrow, Atlantic, Aurum Press, Biteback, Bloodaxe, Bloomsbury, British Museum Press, Canongate, Chorion, Clerkenwell Press, Continuum, Dorling Kindersley, Enitharmon, Faber, Francis Lincoln, Granta, HarperCollins (Collins, Fourth Estate, HarperPress), Headline, Hodder & Stoughton, Icon, John Murray, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, J R Books, Little Brown, Louise Greenberg Books, Michael O’ Mara Books, National Portrait Gallery Press, Octopus, Orion, Oxford University Press, PanMacmillan, Penguin (Penguin General, Penguin Press, Allen Lane, Michael Joseph), Phaidon, Picador, Princeton University Press, Profile, Quadrille, Quercus, Random House (Cornerstone, Harvill Secker, Ebury, Yellow Jersey, Vintage, The Bodley Head, Chatto & Windus, Jonathan Cape), Self Made Hero, Serpent’s Tail, Short Books, Simon & Schuster, Tate Publishing, Thames & Hudson, Tindal Street Press, Transworld, V&A Publishing, Verso, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Yale University Press Andersen Press, The Anne Frank Trust, Anova, Barefoot Books, A & C Black, Bloomsbury, British Museum Press, Chicken House, David Fickling, Egmont Press, Faber, Frances Lincoln, Gullane Children’s Books, HarperCollins Childrens Books, Hodder Children’s Books, Icon, Ladybird, Little Tiger, Macmillan Children’s Books, Nosy Crow, Orchard Books, Orion Children’s Books, Oxford University Press, Piccadilly Press, Puffin, Quercus, Random House Children’s books, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Stripes, Templar, Usborne, Walker Books, Warne

We want to hear from you!

It’s not just stars and famous authors who can get involved at this year’s Cheltenham Literature Festival. We want to hear from you too! Whether it’s sharing your favourite Festival moments on Facebook, telling us about your favourite book on Twitter or catching all the behind-the-scenes gossip with our Festival Blog, there are loads of ways to join in.

How to enter Step one

Ways to get involved

Make sure you’ve connected with us on Facebook.

Win a luxury hotel stay

If you haven’t yet, go to: facebook.com/cheltenhamfestivals and hit the ‘like’ button.

You could win a night’s stay at a luxury hotel with our special Facebook competition. This year’s Literature Festival theme is ‘Journeys of Discovery’, and to celebrate we’d like you to go on a little adventure. Just take a photo of yourself with your brochure in an exciting location and upload it onto our Facebook page. It could be taken on holiday, at work or just somewhere unique. The Cheltenham Festivals staff will choose their favourite picture and the entrant will win a one night’s stay at the luxurious Lower Slaughter Manor, Gloucestershire (lowerslaughter.co.uk). A lucky runner-up will win Sunday lunch for four people in Lower Slaughter’s sister hotel, Washbourne Court in their award-winning restaurant (www.washbournecourt.co.uk).

Step two Take a picture of you and your Festival brochure somewhere interesting

Competition rules are available at cheltenhamfestivals.com/terms-conditions

Step three

Twitter tales

Upload the image to our Facebook page (facebook.com/cheltenhamfestivals); and be sure to tag yourself.

Feeling creative? We’ve asked author, columnist and comedian Natalie Haynes to write a starter tweet, which will be posted on Twitter on 15 August. All you have to do is finish the narrative in one tweet.

You’re done!

Here’s the starting line….

Cheltenham always seemed like such a respectable town to me. It was the very last place I expected to discover…

So it’s down to you – just tweet your finishing line including #cheltlitfest.

If you fancy reading other people’s mini twitter tales, as well as catching all the Festival buzz, just search for #cheltlitfest.

GET CONNECTED

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PATRONS

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Life Patron

Janet and Jean-François Cristau

Simon Collings

Patricia Routledge CBE

Charles Fisher

Michael and Felicia Crystal

Christopher Dreyfus

Khal and Zoe Rudin

Graham and Eileen Lockwood

Wallace and Morag Dobbin

James Fleming

Lavinia Sidgwick

The McWilliam family in loving memory of Ruth McWilliam

Mr and Mrs George Dowty

Kate Fleming

Meredithe Stuart-Smith

The Walker Family

Peter and Sue Elliott

Maurice Gran

Sharon Studer and Graham Beckett

Fiona and Jeremy Hartley

Professor A C Grayling

Jonathan and Gail Taylor

Simone Hindmarch-Bye

Huw and Nicki Gwynn-Jones

Arthur and Ann Webb

Lord and Lady Hoffmann

Marianne Hinton

Professor Lord Winston

Elizabeth Jacobs

Stephen Hodge

Anne Wood

Jennifer Bryant-Pearson

Sir Peter and Lady Marychurch

Michael and Jacqueline Woof

Dominic Collier in memory of Karen Hood

Sir Michael and Lady McWilliam

Anthony Hoffman and Dr Christine Facer Hoffman

Janet and Charles Middleton

Richard and Peta Hoyle

Corporate Patron

Michael and Angela Cronk

The Helena Oldacre Trust

Jeremy Hitchins

Mr & Mrs P Roberts

Jonathan and Cassinha Hitchins

John and Susan Singer

Stephen and Tania Hitchins

Esther and Peter Smedvig

Simon and Emma Keswick

Fiona and David Symondson

Howard and Jay Milton

Giles and Michelle Thorley

Mark and Elizabeth Philip-Sørensen

Steve and Eugenia Winwood

Peter Stormonth Darling Charitable Trust

Peter and Alison Yiangou

Mary and Timothy Mitchell

Festival Patron

Robert Padgett

Platinum Patron Mark and Sue Blanchfield Peter and Anne Bond

Gold Patron Anonymous Jack and Dora Black Eleanor Budge Charlie Chan Clive Coates and Ann Murray Stuart and Gillian Corbyn

Keith Jago

HSBC

Dr Martin Knight Brett and Emma Logan

Michael and Elizabeth Jones, Silverley Consulting

Lady Elaine Marriott

Willans LLP Solicitors

Rosamund and Geoff Marshall Juliet and Jamie McElvie Mark McKergow and Jenny Clarke Professor Angela Newing Sir David and Lady Pepper

Kate Adie

Leslie Perrin

Mark and Maria Bentley

Maggie Phillips

Stephen and Victoria Bond

Hugh Poole-Warren

James and Angela Brown

Jonathon Porritt

Jonathan and Daphne Carr

Professor Keith Millar and Professor Margaret Reid

Robert Cawthorne and Catherine White

From £800 a year, the Patrons Scheme is a wonderful way to support the Festivals, to meet like-minded people, engage with our staff and see behind the scenes. For information on how to join contact

Arlene McGlynn, Patrons Manager 01242 775857 arlene.mcglynn@ cheltenhamfestivals.com

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