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A WARM You will find much-loved writers and WELCOME performers who will be familiar from to the fourth television and radio, sharing their Chagword, a tips for surviving life, their culinary weekend adventures, and their madcap romps of literary through history and, by the way, delights held Ambridge. against the spectacular backdrop of You will have the chance to witness Dartmoor and its ancient stannary the pictorial riches of the Devon town. landscape and its inhabitants, poetry We are so excited to that takes its lead from share our incredible the joyous irrepressibility 2019 programme with of dogs, and novelists who you. There really is both remind us of the something for everyone restorative pleasures of here, including a new reading and inspire us in the experiment - a very mysterious art of writing. special day just for our On Saturday night we younger readers on feature a world premiere Saturday 9 March. Expect much from one of the country’s most laughter, mayhem and “messing about beloved storytellers. in boats”. We hope that you will enjoy all that Indeed the feeling in the team was Chagword 2019 that we all deserved a little fun, given has to offer and the uncertain times in which we leave refreshed find ourselves, and with that in mind and restored we have compiled a diverse and by the myriad entertaining programme aimed very worlds of writers much at lifting the communal spirits. and their books.

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4 chagword.co.uk who, when & where... Saturday 9th March - Children’s Bookfest 10.00am - 11.00am Sarah McIntyre Chagford Primary School £3.50 11.30am - 12.30pm Philip Reeve Chagford Primary School £3.50 and Sarah McIntyre 12.45pm Short Story Prizegiving (11yrs + under) Chagford Primary School 2.00pm - 3.00pm Nick Baker Chagford Primary School £3.50 Doors open 4.00pm Pocketwatch Theatre Company Jubilee Hall £5.00 Show starts 4.30pm The Wind in the Willows Friday 22nd March

Doors open 6.45pm Bar Available Jubilee Hall £7.50 Talk starts 7.30pm Jo Brand Saturday 23rd March 10.00am - 11.00am Sam Willis and James Daybell Jubilee Hall £7.50 11.30am - 12.30pm Prue Leith Jubilee Hall £7.50 2.00pm - 3.00pm Robin Ravilious Jubilee Hall £7.50 3.30pm - 4.30pm Salley Vickers Jubilee Hall £7.50 5.00pm Short Story Prizegiving Jubilee Hall

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Just imagine if you were having a coffee at the Three Crowns and the Queen walks in ... or Mr Darcy met Superman...Where, when, why and what happens is up to you. These unlikely pairings can be between fictional and non-fictional characters, the choice is yours. How it Works Write your story, it must be your own work and not have been published before, inspired by the theme Extraordinary Meetings. Don’t put your name on it, but complete the entry form (download from our website chagword.co.uk)and attach it to your story. The stories will be judged by authors Sam North and Jane Feaver. What are the Prizes? Adults (16+ years) 1st prize £50 2nd prize £30 12 to 15 years 1st prize £30 2nd prize £20 8 to 11 years 1st prize £20 2nd prize £15 7 and under 1st prize £10 2nd prize £5

Closing date Friday 8th February 2019

chagword.co.uk 7 Children’s Bookfest Saturday 9 March 10am - 11am Sarah McIntyre NEE-NAR, NEE-NAR! Action stations! It’s all in a day’s work for a dippy Diplodocus who joins the Dinoville firefighters – with comic results! Join writer-illustrator legend Sarah McIntyre for an interactive storytime with the Dinoville firefighters as they slide down poles, race to the rescue and untangle a clumsy T-Rex. Learn how to draw your own Diplodocus! Fun for the whole family. Ages 3+ £3.50 + accompanying adult free Chagford Primary School 11.30am - 12.30pm Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre The fabulous writer/illustrator double act Reeve and McIntyre take you on a magical adventure in this show about Kevin, the roly-poly flying pony. Max is a young boy living in an ordinary tower block. He longs for adventure in his life – then one day – DOOF! – a flying pony called Kevin crashes into his flat, blown in by a magical storm! The storm causes a huge flood and soon Max’s town is submerged by water. Luckily for the town, Max has a flying pony to come to the rescue, and luckily for Kevin, he has a new best friend and a constant supply of his favourite thing – biscuits. Ages 4+ £3.50 + accompanying adult free Chagford Primary School 2pm - 3pm Nick Baker There is no better person to inspire the youngster curious about the natural world than the amazing TV naturalist and author, Nick Baker. His lively and energetic style encourages children to observe and investigate the natural world around them and he fosters understanding by providing practical information and fun activities. Ages 5+ £3.50 + accompanying adult free Chagford Primary School

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Photo by Daniel Whistler Robin Ravilious Salley Vickers James Ravilious: A Life The Librarian

Nearly twenty years after his untimely death, Salley Vickers is a highly-acclaimed writer, the reputation of James Ravilious as one of perhaps best known for her best-selling the greatest photographers of English rural novels, Miss Garnet’s Angel and The Cleaner life still grows. of Chartres. His remarkable body of work, recording the Here she introduces us to her latest book, The daily life of a remote, unspoilt part of north Librarian, a charmingly subversive novel Devon between the 1970s and 1990s, is about a library in 1950s England. now recognised as a major contribution not The book is a moving testament to the joy only to the recent history of Devon but more of reading and the power of books to change widely to the cultural history of the English and inspire us all and so, very appropriately, countryside in the later twentieth century. features as Chagword’s Great Read, with an extended Q&A session for audience Robin, his widow, draws a picture of an participation. engaging, gifted man and illustrates her talk with many of his extraordinary photographs. “Deliciously readable”. Daily Mail “Vickers has a formidable knack for laying open the human heart.” The Sunday Times Sponsored by Dartmoor Magazine Sponsored by and The Green Man Café WBW Solicitors chagword.co.uk 15 SHARING success

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16 chagword.co.uk Saturday 23rd March Doors open at 6.45pm - Bar available - Performance starts 7:30pm Michael Morpurgo In the Mouth of the Wolf Photo by Phil Crow

In a world premiere, Sir Michael Morpurgo Michael Morpurgo is an internationally performs his new novel, In the Mouth of the renowned children’s author based in Devon. Wolf. This deeply personal and thrilling story He’s written over 130 titles, many of which draws on real-life events: the different paths have become classics - War Horse, Private that Michael’s two charismatic uncles, Pieter Peaceful, Why the Whales Came, The and Francis, took during the course of the Butterfly Lion, Kensuke’s Kingdom. Second World War. Forty years ago, he and his wife, Clare, set up While Pieter joined the air force to fight, the charity Farms for City Children, which Francis was a committed pacifist working continues to support over 3,000 children a on a farm. But circumstances were year to spend a week extraordinary and unpredictable, and what working on a farm in happened next would change both their lives the countryside. for ever, compelling Francis to play his own Suitable for age 12+. dramatic part ‘in the mouth of the wolf’. This event is in aid of Sponsored by Foot Anstey

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Ian Robertson and Henry Blofeld Nell Leyshon In conversation How to Write: A talk

The ‘voice of rugby’ chats to the ‘voice What is a writer’s voice and where does it of cricket’! Your chance to eavesdrop by come from? How do we find it and how do invitation to two of the best-loved sports we keep it? In this talk, with storytelling at commentators talking about their long and its heart, Nell will discuss and demystify extraordinary careers on the airwaves. creativity and the writing process. Come along and be inspired to find your own voice. In his latest book, Rugby: Talking A Good Game, the former Scotland fly-half looks Nell Leyshon is an award-winning back over “47 years of fun with the BBC” playwright and novelist. Her plays include during which he covered nine British and Comfort me with Apples, winner of an Irish Lions tours and eight World Cups – Evening Standard Award, and Bedlam, the remember his spine-tingling description first play by a woman to be performed at of Jonny Wilkinson’s drop goal in 2003? Shakespeare’s Globe. Nell’s first novel, Black Impossible to forget. Dirt, was long-listed for the Orange Prize and The Colour of Milk has been published For over half a century, Henry Blofeld has worldwide. conveyed his unfailing enthusiasm for the Last year she performed her own work, Three game of cricket and in his book, Over and Letters, at the RSC, a performance that was Out, he reveals the secrets of life in the subsequently broadcast from the Edinburgh commentary box and of the rich cast of Festival on Radio 3. characters with whom he shared it. Sponsored by Sponsored by Blacks Delicatessen Casa Magnolia 18 chagword.co.uk Sunday 24th March Sunday 24th March 2:00pm - 3:00pm 3:30pm - 4:30pm Photo by David Harland

Christopher Reid Andrew Miller and Tiffany Atkinson Now We Shall Be Entirely Free Christopher Reid is the author of a highly Andrew Miller is a multi-award-winning varied body of work, for both adults and author, most notably of the Costa prize for children. A Scattering, a collection of elegies his novel, Pure. for his wife Lucinda, was Costa Book of the Here, against a backdrop of the Napoleonic Year 2009. His latest publication, Old Toffer’s Wars, he creates a vividly realised cat and Book of Consequential Dogs, sets out to do mouse tale that carries us from Somerset to for dogs what Old Possum did for cats. He the Scottish Isles. is now working on an edition of Seamus Both gripping and beautifully written, the Heaney’s correspondence. novel has been lavished with praise by critics Tiffany Atkinson is the author of three and readers alike, hailed by many as one of prize-winning collections, Kink and Particle the best books of 2018. (Seren, 2006), Catulla et al (Bloodaxe Books, 2011) and So Many Moving Parts (Bloodaxe “Historical or otherwise, this is fiction - storytelling - at Books, 2014). its best.” Spectator She is currently working on a poetic sequence “One of the most impressive novelists at work today” on pain, illness and recovery, work that won Irish Times the 2014 Medicine Unboxed Prize and will be published by Bloodaxe next year. Tiffany is a professor of poetry at UEA. Sponsored by Sponsored by Malcolm and Nicky Keyte Gidleigh Park Hotel chagword.co.uk 19 Sunday 24th March Timothy Bentinck Doors open 5:00pm Bar available Being David Archer: And Other Talk 5.30pm - 6.30pm Unusual Ways of Earning a Living

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