Aspects Festival

ASPECTS Irish Literature Festival

25 - 29 September 2013 Bangor

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The Museum

HELLO! Welcome to the 22nd annual Aspects Festival - now we’re all grown up, we’re ready to spread our wings!

This year, as well as our usual treats from the cream of Irish writing talent, we have some very special guests from the mainland, plus we have enough comedy, music and film to keep you entertained over a long Autumn weekend.

Household names like Jenni Murray of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, Sir Max Hastings – remember him in the Falklands War? – and Peter Snow will be on stage in our Festival Marquee in the marvellous surroundings of the Walled Garden, we’ll have comedy from Sean Hughes and a special treat for school children in the shape of million-selling author Eoin Colfer.

Five days of talks, readings and performances showing off the best of Irish and British literature – what more could you ask for?!

Colin Bateman Programme Consultant

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IMAGE: Kate Smyth, ‘Antecedent’ lithograph

5 September - 10 October North Down Museum Free

Aspects Exhibition: THE COOP A group show by members of Seacourt Print Workshop in response to The Coop, a novel by Bangor writer Rebecca Reid.

The exhibition presents a series of nineteen original prints by artists from Seacourt Print Workshop. The participating artists were challenged to respond to an allocated chapter in the book without a knowledge of the complete tale.

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wednesday 1.15pm North Down Museum £7/£6

FILM: THEIRS IS THE GLORY Theirs is the Glory is one of the greatest war movies ever made – and you’ve probably never heard of it! It was directed by Brian Desmond Hurst in 1946, with the brilliant concept of filming on the still ruined battlefields of Arnhem and getting the actual soldiers who fought there to recreate their exploits. Thus he produced what on one hand is one of the finest and most realistic war movies of them all, and on the other has something of the feel of a home movie filled with amateur actors; but actors who had fought the Nazis in brutal conditions, seen their comrades killed and then made a miraculous escape. Theirs is the Glory was the first movie made about the Battle of Arnhem and became the largest-grossing war movie for a decade. It is very rarely shown but well worth a viewing.

And the connection to Bangor and Northern Ireland? Brian Desmond Hurst was an Ulsterman and a veteran of the First World War who became an accomplished and prolific film director. He was mentored by John Ford in Hollywood and directed such classics as Malta Story, Scrooge and Tom Brown’s Schooldays, amongst his more than thirty films. His biographer is also his nephew, Bangor man Allan Esler Smith, and we are delighted that Allan will be joining us to introduce the film. One of the stars of the film is another Bangor man, Sgt. Jack Bateman (yes, the uncle of writer and Aspects programme consultant Colin Bateman), who also has one of the most memorable lines in the movie which will have a particular local resonance! Jack’s parents were in the audience and stood for a round of applause when it made its debut at the Tonic Cinema in Bangor in 1946.

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wednesday 7pm Council Chamber, Town Hall £7/£6

LEMN SISSAY Lemn Sissay is truly unique - one of the UK’s most acclaimed poets and a fantastic performer who has appeared on major stages all over the world. His events are life changing, inspirational and very, very funny.

Lemn’s mother arrived in England from Ethiopia in 1966. He was born in Lancashire, very quickly placed in foster care and then into a series of care homes where he lived under the name of Matthew Greenwood. When he left the care system he was finally given a birth certificate showing his real name to be Lemn Sissay and he set about trying to track down his mother. That story is told in his 1995 BBC documentary Internal Flight and his award-winning drama Something Dark. He has written five books of poetry over the past twenty-five years, been artist in residence at London’s Southbank Centre and his work has featured at the Royal Academy and the British Film Institute. He has appeared on The South Bank Show and the BBC series Grumpy Old Men. He was made an MBE in 2010 for services to literature and was the official poet of the London 2012 Olympics.

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wednesday 8.30pm Council Chamber, Town Hall £6

TOM ROB SMITH Tom Rob Smith’s debut novel Child 44 took the world by storm when it was published in 2008 – the superb thriller was long-listed for the Booker Prize and won him the Galaxy Book Award for Best Newcomer in 2009. Set in Soviet Russia in 1953 and inspired by the true-life case of the child killer Andrei Chikatilo, it has led to two sequels, The Secret Speech and Agent Six, and will shortly be turned into a feature film by director Ridley Scott, starring Tom Hardy.

Tom Rob Smith was born in London in 1979. While a student at St. John’s College, Cambridge, he founded InPrint, edited the May Anthologies (an Oxbridge collection of short stories) and had his play, Losing Voices, produced by the prestigious Marlowe Society - the first student play they had ever funded.

After graduating in 2001, Tom won the St John’s College Harper-Wood Studentship for English Poetry and Literature and chose to complete his creative writing studies at Parvin University in Italy. He worked as a writer and script editor on several longrunning television shows before selling his first screenplay, which also won him a commission to adapt a short story by British science fiction writer Jeff Noon.

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thursday 1.15pm North Down Museum £7/£6

LIFE ON TWO WHEELS

with MALACHI O’DOHERTY and GEOFF HILL Two of our finest newspaper men and authors are also famous for their exploits on two wheels. Malachi O’Doherty has embraced the cycle paths of this country after deciding to get healthy and fit and Geoff Hill is a motorbike enthusiast who has seen the world as an award-winning travel writer. They will travel to Bangor – we sincerely hope by their favoured modes of transport – to describe and debate their passion for bike and motorbike and will hopefully not come to blows over which is best! But laughs aplenty are guaranteed.

Malachi is a freelance writer and broadcaster based in Belfast, a contributor to BBC NI and regular writer for the Belfast Telegraph, Irish News and the Guardian, as well as being a regular tweeter with a large following. Geoff Hill has written four travel books and has either won or been shortlisted for a UK Travel Writer of the Year award nine times. He is also a former Irish Travel Writer of the Year and has recently been in America researching his new book.

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thursday 10.30am North Down Museum £10

TV WRITING WORKSHOP

with VANESSA HAYNES So you’ve always wanted to write a funny show for television, but you don’t know what to do next?

Why not join top industry professional Vanessa Haynes in an afternoon workshop on the serious business of writing comedy and drama for television?

Vanessa Haynes will discuss the all-important pilot episode, how to pitch, what to pitch, offer tips on when and where to get an agent, finding the right producer and talk through an atypical development process from script to screen. This workshop is strictly limited to a maximum of twenty people – so get in quick!

Vanessa Haynes joined LWT Comedy in the mid Nineties where she worked in development under legendary producer Humphrey Barclay. She later joined Celador Productions, Kudos and Baby Cow, and has recently set up her own company, Mighty Sprite.

She is one of the most dynamic script editors in the business and is currently working on the next project from the makers of Good Vibrations, script editing the second series of Colin Bateman’s Scup and the new Northern Ireland Screen Portmanteau film initiative.

2.30pm Meet at North Down Museum £3

LITERARY WALK Join Kenneth Irvine, one of the founders of Aspects, on a leisurely stroll around the town as he celebrates our rich and eclectic literary heritage. Charlotte Bingham, Colin Bateman, Frederick Forsythe, Derek Mahon and Michael Longley are among the famous names who will crop up.

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thursday 7pm North Down Museum £7.50

LEESA HARKER Maggie Muff is coming to town! The literary phenomenon with the unique take on the outrageous antics of Northern Irish folk – sexual or otherwise – that has catapulted Leesa Harker to the forefront of Irish writing, while simultaneously out-selling virtually any author you care to think of, is coming to town and Bangor might never be the same again.

Maggie Muff began life on Facebook as a fictional character with plenty to say and was soon attracting so much attention that Leesa was approached by a local publisher to turn Maggie’s musings into a novel – shortly thereafter Fifty Shades of Red, White and Blue appeared and was soon flying off the shelves. Two sequels very quickly hit the shops, Dirty Dancing in Le Shebeen and Maggie’s Feg Run, which sold just as well. But not content to rest on her laurels, Leesa has turned Fifty Shades into a play which has enjoyed sell-out runs in Belfast, Dublin and Glasgow and talks are under way to take the show to Australia as well. Leesa makes very few appearances at literary festivals, so this is your chance to meet the woman behind the books and to find out what makes her tick.

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thursday 8pm Festival Marquee, Walled Garden £12/£10

PETER SNOW Aspects is thrilled to welcome back one of our greatest television broadcasters and historians, Dublin born Peter Snow, with an enthralling illustrated talk on his latest best-seller, When Britain Burned the White House.

9/11 was not the first time the heartland of the United States was struck a devastating blow by outsiders. In August 1814 the United States’ army was defeated in battle by an invading force just outside Washington DC. The President and his wife had just enough time to pack their belongings and escape from the White House before the enemy entered. The invaders tucked into the dinner they found still sitting on the dining-room table – and then set fire to the place.

In his compelling narrative style, Peter Snow recounts the fast-changing fortunes of both sides in this extraordinary confrontation, the outcome of which inspired the writing of the Star Spangled Banner. Using a wealth of material, including eyewitness accounts, Peter describes the personalities on both sides of these spectacular events – including Britain’s fiery Admiral Cockburn, the cautious but immensely popular army commander Robert Ross and beleaguered President James Madison, whose young nation was fighting the world’s foremost military power.

When Britain Burned the White House highlights this unparalleled moment in American history, its farreaching consequences for both sides and Britain and America’s decision never again to fight each other.

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friday

10am Festival Marquee, Walled Garden £5

EOIN COLFER Eoin Colfer, author of the million-selling Artemis Fowl series of children’s adventures, is bringing his fantastic new series to Bangor in the shape of Warp: The Reluctant Assassin, which is already another huge best-seller.

The reluctant assassin in question is Riley, a Victorian boy who is suddenly plucked from his own time and whisked into the twenty-first century, accused of murder and forced on the run. Riley has been pulled into the FBI’s covert W.A.R.P. operation (Witness Anonymous Relocation Program). He and young FBI Agent Chevie Savano are forced to flee terrifying assassin-for-hire Albert Garrick, who pursues Riley through time and will not stop until he has hunted him down. Barely staying one step ahead, Riley and Chevie must stay alive and stop Garrick returning to his own time with knowledge and power that could change the world forever.

This new series comes from a master of children’s fiction whose first creation, Artemis Fowl, is adored the world over. Eoin was born in Wexford and worked as a teacher before the international success of Artemis Fowl. To date the majority of his works have featured on the New York Times best-seller lists. This is one not to be missed!

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friday 4pm The Curve, Bangor Library £10

ZOMBIE COMICS WORKSHOP Ever thought about creating your own comic or graphic novel? The people who brought us the acclaimed Zombie Hi series of comic books are coming to Aspects to pass on their wisdom. Uproar Comics are based in Derry/Londonderry, where as well as working in graphics and design, they’ve scared the pants off us with a series of highly original comics set during a Zombie Apocalypse right here on our doorsteps in Northern Ireland. Their workshop, aimed at those interested in comics from 9 to 99, are strictly limited to twenty places – so get in quick!

Uproar are passionate about passing on the skills of storytelling in their most basic form so that they can be applied to any format, from the actual writing of a story right through to the production of a comic. The workshop will look at how to draw backgrounds, environments and, of course, heroes, then move on to inking, colouring and lettering. This will leave students with a comic book story at the end of the afternoon and the confidence and skills to try their hands at the process on their own.

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friday 7pm Council Chamber, Town Hall £9/£7

COLIN BATEMAN’S CRIME NIGHT Join us for this year’s Crime Night, featuring a panel discussion chaired by Colin Bateman. Some of our top writers will discuss the state of Irish crime fiction, where it has come from and where it’s going, as well as revealing details of what they’re currently working on and you can ask them whatever questions you fancy! Then stay on for a special movie presentation of The New Daughter, based on a short story by Irish writer John Connolly and starring Hollywood legend Kevin Costner.

Joining us on stage will be: Brian McGilloway - his debut novel Borderlands was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association New Blood Dagger on first publication in 2007. Since then his Inspector Devlin novels have become firm favourites. His stand alone novel Little Girl Lost recently went to the top of the e-book charts in the UK, selling over a quarter of a million copies.

Stuart Neville - Armagh born Neville’s first novel The Twelve won major awards all over the world and will shortly be made into a Hollywood movie starring Pierce Brosnan. His most recent novel is a radical departure from the Troubles backgrounds of his previous books; Ratlines being an espionage thriller which focuses on the Nazis who hid out in Ireland in the years following the Second World War. Ian Sansom – English born but a long time Bangor resident, Ian Sansom is a leading academic, reviewer for the national press, the author of the highly popular Mobile Library Mystery Series and a new series which gloriously mixes tourism and murder, The Country Guides, whose first instalment is The Norfolk Mystery.

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Brian McGilloway Stuart Neville

Colin Bateman

Ian Sansom

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friday

9pm Council Chamber, Town Hall ÂŁ3

THE NEW DAUGHTER - MOVIE Rating 12A A special treat in the shape of the little seen 2009 horror/thriller movie starring Kevin Costner, based on a short story by one of our most acclaimed authors John Connolly, who is himself a regular Aspects visitor. John James is a writer; his wife has left him. He moves with his two middle-school children to an isolated house off a dirt road in South Carolina. The property has an Indian burial mound, which fascinates his daughter Louisa, and soon strange and frightening events spell danger for the entire family.

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friday 8pm Festival Marquee, Walled Garden £10

KEVIN DOHERTY AND PETE ROE Two of the finest singer-songwriters take to the Marquee stage in the shape of Kevin Doherty and Pete Roe. Donegal native and Dublin resident, Kevin Doherty has enjoyed a dual career over the last two decades as both a solo artist and member of the folk supergroup, Four Men & A Dog. While his work with the latter has tended towards an eclectic blend of trad, folk and Americana, his own work is more typical singer-songwriter fare. Imagine a Donegal Leonard Cohen reinventing the Closing Time-era Tom Waits and you have the right idea. His new album Seeing Things has been met with critical acclaim.

“Doherty is off on another journey to the heart, with songs of seductive melancholy.

Serious recognition is overdue.” - The Irish Times Pete Roe is a multi-instrumentalist/vocalist, best known as a stalwart of Laura Marling’s band. This year sees Pete’s solo career take centre stage with the launch of his debut album Our Beloved Bubble, which was described as ‘jaw dropping’ (in a good way!) by the NME.

Kevin Doherty

Pete Roe

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saturday 10am Festival Marquee, Walled Garden Free Event

YOUNG WRITERS’ SHOWCASE At Aspects, encouraging young writers in North Down is something we value very highly, and our annual young writers showcase is an important part of this. Often inspired by the Aspects Writers in Schools events, pupils from secondary schools in the Borough have been selected by their teachers to read a new piece of writing and we are delighted to showcase their work in the Aspects Marquee.

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saturday 2pm The Curve, Bangor Library £10

DRIFTWOOD BAY

Create your own hit television show!

Driftwood Bay is a brand new animated children’s show currently in production. It will be airing on Nick Jr and many other channels around the world in 2014.

The talent behind the show are hosting a very special one-off workshop for 12 children aged from 6-9 to help them create their own animated stories as part of the Aspects festival.

The 90 minute workshop will look at the whole creative process of creating a show, giving the participants the opportunity to create their own characters, write a story, learn about storyboarding and create their own scene in stop-frame animation.

This session is hosted by Sixteen South, an EMMY® nominated and BAFTA winning studio in Belfast, and will be led by leading talent from the children’s animation world.

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saturday 3pm North Down Museum ÂŁ6

CS LEWIS CS Lewis has inspired generations of children with his fabulous Chronicles of Narnia, seven classic stories in which magic meets reality and good triumphs over evil. But he wrote more than 30 books, most designed to inspire an adult readership, and became justly renowned as the most popular spiritual writer of his day.

Now world-renowned CS Lewis expert Sandy Smith joins us at Aspects to chat about his new book, CS Lewis and the Island of his Birth, which focuses on the links of Lewis and his family to Ireland, with much emphasis on his local connections.

Sandy is well known in Northern Ireland for his interest and expertise on the life and work of CS Lewis. Over the last 10 years he has been involved with the CS Lewis Association of Ireland and does a popular weekly lecture tour in Northern Ireland on the Belfast links to the Lewis family. He has given lectures to a wide range of groups in Northern Ireland and in the US, to visitors to Belfast from all over the world and on national television. Over the past number of years he has hosted study tours for students from the US in both Belfast and Oxford.

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saturday

7pm North Down Museum ÂŁ6

NEW IRISH WRITING: NEIL MACKAY and PAUL LYNCH Aspects prides itself on shining the spotlight on emerging talent and this year we have two splendid new authors who are creating tremendous waves in the Irish and international literary scenes.

Neil Mackay is a multi-award winning investigative journalist, newspaper executive, non-fiction author, radio broadcaster, film-maker and playwright. He has won around two dozen national and international awards for his newspaper journalism. His muchanticipated debut novel All the Little Guns Went Bang Bang Bang is the story of Pearse Furlong and May-Belle Mulholland, two apparently normal eleven year-olds who meet one summer in small town Antrim in the early 1980s. As their games and shared fantasies spin out of control, their friendship becomes something much darker, with theft, arson and eventually murder all lying ahead.

Paul Lynch was born in 1977 and lives in Dublin. He was the chief film critic of Ireland’s Sunday Tribune, has written regularly for the Sunday Times on film and has also written for the Irish Times, the Sunday Business Post, the Irish Daily Mail and Film Ireland. Red Sky in Morning, his first novel, is a dark tale of oppression which begins with a pursuit across the wild bog lands of Donegal in 1832 and stretches to an epic voyage across the Atlantic to the new American frontier.

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saturday 8.30pm North Down Museum £6

NEW WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION IAN McDONALD AND AIDAN HARTE Manchester born but Bangor raised and educated, Ian McDonald is in many ways our hidden literary star. While working quietly in TV production and consultancy he also leads something of a secret life – unless you’re in the know – as one of the world’s top science fiction writers. And we’re not talking Dr. Who or Star Wars here, we’re talking serious literary and speculative fiction that has won him acclaim and numerous awards. His most recent novel, The Dervish House, centres on Istanbul in 2025 and is a rich mosaic of Islamic life in the new century; a telling novel of future possibilities.

Kilkenny born Aidan Harte boasts a very rare combination of job titles. He currently works as a sculptor in Dublin. Before that he worked in animation and TV and he is now an acclaimed author of historical fantasy fiction. He will talk to us about his trilogy of novels, Irenicon, The Warring States and the forthcoming Spira Mirabilis, which are set in an alternative medieval Italy.

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saturday 7pm Festival Marquee, Walled Garden £12/£10

AN AUDIENCE WITH DAME JENNI MURRAY Join us for our Saturday night special, an audience with one of the UK’s top broadcasters, Dame Jenni Murray OBE, as she talks about her fascinating life and career. For the past 26 years Jenni Murray has been a leading presenter on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. Born in Barnsley, Yorkshire in 1950, she practically grew up with the programme as it was originally launched when she was just four years old. She remembers sitting beside the family’s Bush wireless, listening with her mother and being sent off to the kitchen on spurious errands whenever an item carried a ‘health warning’.Woman’s Hour has never been afraid to tackle controversial issues and was the first radio programme to discuss subjects like the menopause, homosexuality and co-habitation. In those early days listeners were warned of any ‘racy’ content hence the occasional banishment! Jenni, who began her broadcasting career in local radio and regional TV before joining BBC 2’s Newsnight and The Today Programme on Radio 4, started working on Woman’s Hour in 1987. She was made an OBE for her services to radio broadcasting in 1999 and became a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honours list. She regularly writes for newspapers and magazines and has penned a number of books, including Memoirs of a Not So Dutiful Daughter and Is It Me or Is It Hot in Here?, a modern woman’s guide to the menopause.

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saturday

9pm Festival Marquee, Walled Garden £10

SEAN HUGHES We round Saturday night off with loads of laughs from Sean Hughes, one of Ireland’s most celebrated comedians (even if he was born in England!). Sean was one of the new generation of stand-up stars in the 80s and 90s, wining the prestigious Perrier Comedy Award and appearing in his own sitcom, Sean’s Show. He marked his 30th birthday with the Sean Hughes Is Thirty Somehow tour, which was broadcast on Channel 4 in 1995. Hughes returned to stand-up, touring the UK and Australia in 2007 with his show, The Right Side of Wrong. As well as comedy, he has also written collections of prose and poetry and worked on a number of films, including The Commitments and Puckoon. He presented weekend radio shows on BBC Radio London and in 2002 joined BBC6 Music. He has written two novels, The Detainees (1998) and It’s What He Would Have Wanted (2000).

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sunday 2pm North Down Museum £7/£6

BANGOR 400 – a celebration in poetry and prose Novelists, historians, saints and scholars have been writing about Bangor for centuries. Now the man behind the creation of Aspects twenty-two years ago, Kenneth Irvine, has recruited some of our top local actors to present a special oneoff selection of readings to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the granting of our Royal Charter. Four hundred years? Where did the time go?! Come along and hear excerpts from the writings of Columbanus, Bernard of Clairvaux, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, John Hewitt, Moyra Donaldson, Colin Bateman, Gerald Dawe, Ian Adamson and many others, all brought to life by a cast of talented local thespians.

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sunday 3.30pm Festival Marquee, Walled Garden ÂŁ12/ÂŁ10

SIR MAX HASTINGS Spend an afternoon in the company of one of our most popular historians, Sir Max Hastings, as he talks about his life, his work and his new book Catastrophe a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914.

Following his best-selling Second World War chronicle All Hell Let Loose, Catastrophe, follows events from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war.

In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th century’s first terrible act of self-immolation - what was then called The Great War. On the eve of its centenary, Sir Max seeks to explain both how the conflict came about and what befell millions of men and women during the first months of strife.

His narrative of the early battles will astonish those whose images of the war are simply of mud, wire, trenches and steel helmets. He describes how the French Army marched into action amid virgin rural landscapes in uniforms of red and blue, led by mounted officers with flags flying and bands playing and he contrasts this with events such as the bloodiest day of the entire Western war when the French lost 27,000 dead and the terrible cost to the British of holding the Allied line against massive German assaults in the first battle of Ypres.

Sir Max has had a long and distinguished career in journalism which found him reporting from more than 60 countries and covering 11 wars for the BBC and the Evening Standard. During the Falklands campaign Hastings was famously the first journalist to enter the newly liberated Port Stanley. After a decade as editor and then editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, he returned to edit the Evening Standard until his retirement in 2001. He was knighted in 2002. Some retirement!

Sir Max continues to write books on military history and has presented a number of TV documentaries. He also contributes frequent columns and articles to a number of national newspapers.

Sir Max Hastings will be interviewed by Stephen Walker, BBC NI political correspondent and most recently the author of Hide and Seek, the astonishing true story of an Irish priest in the Vatican who defied the Nazi command.

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sunday 7.30pm Festival Marquee, Walled Garden £10

THE PLAY OF THE BOOK ‘This isn’t Art, it’s dirt! This isn’t dirt, it’s Art!’ The Play of the Book is a theatrical performance and concert written by and starring author Ian Sansom, and produced on the Marquee stage by our guests, the highly popular Wireless Mystery Theatre.

Come along and experience this truly unique event in which theatre meets lecture with a live musical score as the author leads the audience through the madness and frustrations of writing a book.

Ian is a long time Bangor resident and author of the best-selling Mobile Library Mystery Series, The Enthusiast, and Paper: An Essay.

This musically minimalist work is influenced by the likes of The Penguin Cafe Orchestra and involves an ensemble of multi-instrumentalists playing cellos, various organs and stringed instruments, as well as the objects from the writer’s study: typewriters, torn paper and whiskey bottles (!), which all come together to create the rhythms that carry Ian’s thoughts and musings.

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ASPECTS AT A GLANCE Please note – Aspects events frequently sell out. Early booking is advisable on all Aspects events to avoid disappointment!

Price £ Full/Conc

Wednesday 25 September 1.15pm

Allan Esler Smith/Theirs is the Glory screening

£7/£6

7.00pm

Lemn Sissay

£7/£6

8.30pm

Tom Rob Smith

£6

Thursday 26 September 10.30am

Vanessa Haynes TV Writing Workshop

1.15pm

Geoff Hill/Malachi O’Doherty

£7/£6 £10

2.30pm

Kenneth Irvine Literary Walk

7.00pm

Leesa Harker

£7.50

£3

8.00pm

Peter Snow

£12/£10

Friday 27 September 10am

Eoin Colfer

£5

2.00pm

Zombie Comics Workshop

£10

7.00pm

Colin Bateman/Brian McGilloway/Stuart Neville/Ian Sansom

8.00pm

Kevin Doherty/Pete Roe

£10

9.00pm

The New Daughter Screening

£3

£9/£7

Saturday 28 September 10am

Young Aspects Showcase

Free

2.00pm

Driftwood Bay Animation Workshop

£10

3.00pm

CS Lewis

£6

7.00pm

Neil Mackay/Paul Lynch

£6

7.00pm

Jenni Murray

8.30pm

Ian McDonald/Aidan Harte

£6

9.00pm

Sean Hughes

£10

£12/£10

Sunday 29 September 2.00pm

Bangor 400: A Celebration of Bangor in the Written Word

3.30pm

Sir Max Hastings

7.30pm

Wireless Mystery Theatre: The Play of the Book

£7/£6 £12/£10 £10

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BOOKING INFORMATION Online

Using debit or credit cards at www.aspectsfestival.com

By Phone

North Down Museum (028) 9127 1200 or Bangor Tourist Information Centre (028) 9127 0069

In Person North Down Museum: Tues – Sat 10.00am to 4.30pm,

Sun 12.00pm to 4.30pm, Mon in July and August 10.00am to 4.30pm www.northdownmuseum.com

Tourist Information Centre: Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri 9.00am – 5.00pm, Wed & Sat 10.00am – 5.00pm www.northdowntourism.com

Concessions Apply to full-time students, children aged 15 and under, the

unwaged, retired persons and parties of 10 or more (subject to

availability). Documentary evidence of entitlement may be requested.

Refund Policy Tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded, so please check them as

soon as you receive them.

Access for Disabled Patrons – We welcome disabled patrons, but would appreciate knowing your requirements in advance. Please contact North Down Museum on 9127 1200.

Bookstall - Will be provided throughout the Festival at Festival venues.

Refreshments - Coffee Cure at the Museum will be open throughout the Festival from 9am – 7pm. Coffee Cure at the Walled Garden will be open for light refreshments prior to each event in the Festival Marquee.

General Information – Please visit www.aspectsfestival.com Transport Information – Please visit www.translink.co.uk All events were correct at the time of going to print. However, circumstances can result to changes in programmes and artists. Aspects reserves the right to make alterations if necessary.

No photography/recording of events.

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Photograph Credits Eoin Colfer.

Photograph by Michael Paynter Paul Lynch.

Photograph by Richard Giligan Stuart Neville. Photograph by Philip O’Neill Lemm Sissay. Photograph by James Ross Tom Rob Smith. Photograph by J Bauer

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