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Heather Saunderson Resident Assistant Stage Manager 3 Banff Mountain Film Festival 19 Book Fair

4 Thursday Events 20 Artists and Writers Bursaries

7 Friday Events 22 Spring Events

11 Saturday Events 24 Saba Douglas-Hamilton

15 Sunday Events 25 2019 Summer Season

18 Literary Lunches

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Transaction Fees: No booking fees apply for phone or face-to-face sales. A handling fee of £1.75 applies to all online purchases. Saturday 2nd 12.45pm – 2.15pm 4.30pm – 5.30pm LITERARY LUNCH Gabriella Bennett Saturday 2nd Banff Mountain Polly Pullar Coorie In, The Scottish Way Film Festival World Tour A Richness Of Martens 6.00pm – 7.00pm Blue Screening 3.00pm – 4.00pm 2.00pm - 5.00pm Richard Holloway Alex Boyd Waiting For The Last Bus Red Screening Pictures Of St. Kilda 7.00pm - 10.00pm The Silent Islands. 7.30pm– 8.30pm Neil Oliver 4.30pm – 5.30pm The Story Of The British Isles Thursday 14th Christopher Baker In 100 Places 10.00am – 11.00am J.M.W. Turner, A Life In Mary Miers Watercolour Sunday 17th and Christina Noble 6.00pm – 7.00pm Journey To A Highland Estate Doddie Weir 10.00am – 11.00am 11.30am – 12.30pm His Name’5 Doddie David Ross Highland Herald Ken Cox 7.30pm – 9.00pm Adventures In Prof Dame Sue Black 11.30am – 12.30pm Woodland Gardening and Dr Richard Shepherd James Crawford 12.45pm – 2.15pm The Truth About Life And Scotland From The Sky LITERARY LUNCH Death 12.45pm – 2.15pm Valentine Fabre, Dent du Géant © Ben Tibbetts Chris Townsend LITERARY LUNCH Walking The Spine Of Scotland Saturday 16th Christopher Fleet 2.00pm - 5.00pm (Blue Screening) | 7.00pm - 10.00pm (Red Screening) 3.00pm – 4.00pm 10.00am – 11.00am Scotland: Defending The Gary Sutherland Jonny Muir Nation Walk This Way The Mountains Are Calling Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour 3.00pm – 4.00pm £15.50 concessions available | £26.00 for both film programmes 4.30pm – 5.30pm 11.30am – 12.30pm Kaye Adams Donald S. Murray Hamish Brown and Nadia Sawalha Banff returns for a fourth incredible An inspirational story of perseverance East Of West, West Of East and John MacLeod Disaster Chef year with two different screenings, each with high-adrenaline riding in stunning Remembering The 12.45pm – 2.15pm 4.30pm – 5.30pm showing a brand new selection of short scenery. Iolaire Disaster LITERARY LUNCH Denise Mina films from the world’s leading adventure Also, This Mountain Life, a multi-award- 7.30pm – 9.00pm Rosemary Goring and Lin Anderson filmmakers. The screenings feature Scotland: Her Story winning film where Martina and her Liz Lochhead with James Crawford amazing adventurers, adrenaline-packed Bloody Scotland 60-year-old mother, Tania, embark on with Steve Kettley 3.00pm – 4.00pm action sports, inspirational, stunning Something Old, an epic ski traverse from Vancouver to Penny Junor 6.00pm – 7.00pm scenery and thought-provoking pieces Something New Alaska – six months and 2,300km of All The Queen’s Corgis Peter Cairns shot from across the globe. SCOTLAND: A Rewilding journeying though relentless mountain Journey Full programme details will be unveiled wilderness and a riveting portrait of the Friday 15th in early January, however we can reveal human passion for adventure, set high in 10.00am – 11.00am Scotland’s Most that this year’s thrilling selection will the peaks of British Columbia. Donald S Murray Welcoming Theatre, 2015, include RJ Ripper - a mesmerising blend of and Robin A Crawford 2016, 2017 & 2018 Visit our website for updates or go to mountain sports and culture, as world- Discovering The Story Of Peat Banff-uk.com to find out more. class mountain biker Rajesh (RJ) Magar Pitlochry Festival Theatre is a Company Limited by Guarantee Registered in Scotland Number Age Guidance: 12 (Under 12’s can attend if 11.30am – 12.30pm SC029243 at the below address. explores his homeland of Nepal, from Andy Howard Scottish Charity Number SC013055 accompanied by an adult.) Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Port-na-craig, Pitlochry, PH16 5DR the chaotic streets of Kathmandu to the The Secret Life Of The Administration: 01796 484600 | Box Office: 01796 484626 Mountain Hare Email: [email protected] | Website: www.PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com mind-blowing Himalayan mountains.

02 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 03 11.30am – 12.30pm | £8.50 Thursday 14th Thursday 14th Ken Cox Adventures In 3.00pm – 4.00pm | £8.50 Woodland Gardening Gary Festival favourite, Ken Cox returns to Winter Words Sutherland with a talk on Woodland Walk This Way Gardening, detailing Gary Sutherland is not your how to landscape with typical nature writer. He Rhododendrons, Magnolias lived on the doorstep of and Camellias. the West Highland Way for many years, ignoring it, With plenty of gorgeous until one day he started to images to accompany his Chris Townsend walk - and walk and walk. talk, Ken will take audiences through the history and Gary tells how evolution of the woodland hills gave him 10.00am – 11.00am | £8.50 12.45pm – 2.15pm gardening style, from the heebie- Mary Miers and Japan and China, to Europe Chris Townsend jeebies, and around the world. He Walking The Spine Of Scotland and forests will also share his insights Christina Noble £24.50 LITERARY LUNCH frightened Journey To A Highland Estate and advice on designing, includes two-course lunch with coffee or tea him. Add to Enter the wonderful world of the Highland Estate with managing and restoring that his deep aversion to two fascinating writers. woodland gardens. Chris Townsend, passionate hillwalker and backpacker, most forms of wildlife. is currently Hillwalking Ambassador for the British Then, one day, he decided Mary Miers will introduce some of the most dramatic and Ken is a third generation Mountaineering Council. Here he turns his attention to tackle the West little-known houses in the romantic north of Scotland, woodland gardener at to the spine of Scotland, ‘The Watershed’ which runs Highland Way… and the with some specially commissioned images, many from Glendoick, Scotland, a between the Atlantic and the North Sea, covering Great Glen Way… and the the world famous Country Life picture archive. nurseryman and author 1200km. Speyside Way. This is a of 11 books on Scottish Christina Noble will focus on one estate – Ardkinglas, tale - with images - of gardens, gardening and Chris describes his walk along the line where fallen rain a 45,000-acre estate at the head of Loch Fyne - now courage, cows, resilience, rhododendrons. runs either west to the Atlantic or east to the North Sea, famous for its Oyster Bar. She’ll tell the story of the showing us some of the stunning images he’s taken feral goats, ambition, estate, based on personal memories, letters and along the way. But this tale isn’t Belgians, ludicrous ledges, household diaries - from her great-grandfather buying just a travelogue, instead Chris cataclysmic quagmires and the estate in 1905, to the community Ardkinglas has will reflect on nature and history, creepy messages spelt out become today, looking at a Highland estate in the conservation and rewilding, land in pine cones! modern world and asking what is it for? What keeps it use and literature, and change in going? Who benefits? a time of limitless potential for ‘This fun travelogue is a super read’ Discover the answer to these and other questions on this both better and worse. fascinating world, with the insight of two great speakers. See page 18 for full menu details. The Sunday Post

Ken Cox

04 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 05 10.00am – 11.00am | £8.50 Friday 15th Thursday 14th Donald S Murray 4.30pm – 5.30pm | £8.50 and Robin A Crawford Donald S Discovering The Story Of Peat Peat. The Dark Stuff. It fascinates both Murray of our speakers opening the second day of the festival. Art historian, Robin and John A Crawford delves Into The Peatlands MacLeod of the Outer Hebrides over the course Remembering The of the year, explaining how they have Iolaire Disaster been created and examining how peat has been used from the Bronze Age In 1918, more than 200 11.30am – 12.30pm | £8.50 onwards. But he also turns his gaze to include many other men perished when His aspects, including the wildlife and folklore associated Majesty’s Admiralty Yacht, Liz Lochhead and Steve Kettley Andy Howard with these lonely, watery places. The Secret Life Of The Iolaire sank, just outside Stornoway Harbour. It was 7.30pm – 9.00pm | £12.50 Playwright-poet, Donald S. Murray spent much of his Mountain Hare one of the worst shipping childhood either playing or working on the moor, on the Andy Howard is a wildlife disasters in British history. Liz Lochhead Isle of Lewis, chasing sheep across empty acres and photographer, ecologist, The 100th anniversary cutting and gathering peat for fuel. His talk extends and expert on the mountain with Steve Kettley hare. of the Iolaire disaster is Something Old, Something New from Lewis and the Highlands to the Netherlands and a time to remember, and Australia, unpicking how this landscape affected him and A selection of favourites, old and new, from fifty (ouch!) “Usually shy, always we’re doing just that in the ways that, for centuries, humans have represented years of bittersweet, polemical, comical, in-character charming, they can run like this event. the moor in literature, art and folktale. monologues, theatre pieces and performance poems by the wind and their presence Donald S. Murray will the former National Poet of Scotland and recipient of the Together their conversation is a fascinating discourse on is an indicator of a healthy discuss his fictional Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, Liz Lochhead. this most Scottish of materials. environment, where account of the tragedy, predators and prey live Plus bluesy, soulful and playful saxophone stuff from As The Women Lay their lives in a constantly musician, composer and occasional actor, Steve Kettley Dreaming, while John shifting balance.” of long-standing quartet, Steve Kettley’s Odd Times, MacLeod brings us a whose varied career includes work touring the UK and In this event Andy will take factual story from the day with residencies in New York and Baltimore. the audience on a journey that so many Scottish with this ultimate survivor, hearts were broken. “An inspirational "Brilliant, raucous accompanied by his own Join us for what will force in British and scabrously stunning images. surely be a moving and “Andy Howard’s vivid fascinating discussion. Poetry… funny, funny" feisty, full of Sunday Times images brilliantly feeling, a fantastic capture this elusive "Funny, frank animal, in all its long- performer.” eared, wiggly-nosed and frisky" Donald S Murray Robin A Crawford John MacLeod Carol Ann Duffy, fabulousness.” Poet Laureate Scotsman The Daily Mail 06 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 07 4.30pm – 5.30pm | £8.50 Friday 15th Friday 15th Christopher 12.45pm – 2.15pm Baker Polly Pullar J.M.W. Turner, A Life In Watercolour A Richness Of Martens Alex Boyd £24.50 LITERARY LUNCH J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) includes two-course lunch with coffee or tea was perhaps the most 3.00pm – 4.00pm | £8.50 Polly Pullar is a writer, photographer and field naturalist. prolific, innovative and She has a particular passion for wildlife, the countryside Alex Boyd one of the best-loved and in particular remote areas of the Highlands and Pictures Of St. Kilda – of all British artists. His outstanding watercolours Islands. The Silent Islands. were bequeathed to Join Polly for a fascinating insight into the story of the Alex Boyd’s photographs the National Gallery of Humphreys family and their pine martens, interspersed of the ever-mysterious Scotland in 1899 by the with natural history, anecdote and Polly’s experiences St. Kilda archipelago show distinguished collector, of the wildlife in the Ardnamurchan - a 50-square-mile the beauty of the islands, Henry Vaughan, and are peninsula in the area of Lochaber. but he also captures the one of the most popular modern signs of military This is a superb chance to explore the life of a much- features of its collection. presence - jarring with the misunderstood animal, and a passionate portrait of empty landscape. This Join Christopher Baker, one of Scotland’s richest habitats – the oakwoods of inter-relationship between Director of the Portrait Doddie Weir Scotland’s Atlantic seaboard. Polly’s previous Winter heritage, myth and Britain’s Gallery, for an illustrated Words appearances have been festival highlights - ongoing role on the world talk that will provide a knowledgeable, fun and packed with energy! stage as a major weapons remarkable overview 6.00pm – 7.00pm | £10.00 See page 18 for full menu details. producer, has had Alex of many of the most returning many times to St. important aspects of Doddie Weir His Name’5 Doddie Kilda, collecting the images Turner’s career. which would eventually Scottish rugby legend, George Wilson Weir is better become The Silent Islands. known to the world as Doddie. Winning 61 caps, he was a fan-favourite of the Scottish crowd, before retiring Alex will take you on the in 2004. journey with him, across the largest isle of Hirta, Then, in 2017, Doddie announced he had motor neurone working slowly from the disease - involving progressive damage to nerves, and hills above Village Bay, or leading to muscle wastage. There is currently no cure, in the valley of Gleann Mòr and most patients diagnosed with this illness die within beyond, pointing out the three years of developing symptoms. plane wreckage, the strange His foundation, My Name’5 Doddie, is raising money – military installations, as more than £1 million – to help find treatments and a cure. well as structures both ancient and modern built by Come along to this special evening and hear Doddie, the St. Kildans themselves. Christopher Baker along with his ghost writer, Stewart Weir, talk over this Polly Pullar funny, moving and fascinating exposé of Doddie’s career and life.

08 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 09 Friday 15th 10.00am – 11.00am | £8.50 circuit of twenty-three Saturday 16th mountains, climbing the Jonny Muir equivalent height of Mount The Mountains Everest and culminating on Are Calling Ben Nevis, to be completed Jonny within twenty-four hours. Muir is a Did he manage it? successful Find out in Jonny’s talk - hill and fell illustrated with some of runner. His the incredible photographs book, The as well as maps contained Mountains within his book. Are Prof Dame Sue Black Dr Richard Shepherd Calling, is 11.30am – 12.30pm | £8.50 7.30pm – 9.00pm | £14.50 the exhilarating story of runners who go to high Hamish Prof Dame Sue Black places. He explores the history and culture of Brown East Of West, in the Pacific. With letters, and Dr Richard Shepherd the sport, and meets the The Truth About Life And Death West Of East journal extracts and notes legends of hill running from his parents, as well Hamish Brown is a Professor Sue Black is known the He’s been involved in some of the most who are revered for their as his own recollections, it legendary climber, walker, world over for her work as a forensic high-profile cases of recent times, but it’s extraordinary endurance. brings the era to life: not traveller and author. His anthropologist and anatomist. From often the lesser-known encounters that only life in the dying days As Jonny discovers the extraordinary book tells uncovering war crimes in Kosovo to prove the most perplexing, intriguing and of the British Empire, but insatiable lure of the hills, the story of his remarkable identifying bodies in the Indian Ocean even bizarre. In or out of the public eye, his also the terrible reality of a calling leads him to the family who were caught tsunami, she’s painstakingly returned evidence has put killers behind bars, freed the invasion of Singapore supreme test of mountain in Japan at the outbreak bodies to their loved ones, often years the innocent and turned open-and-shut into which they escaped. running: Ramsay’s Round of the Second World War after they disappeared. Sue has also cases on their heads. - a daunting 60-mile In 2015, Hamish Brown spent countless hours developing a was awarded an Outdoor ground-breaking technique to identify How do these extraordinary Writers and Photographers paedophiles by vein patterns, and has people manage to separate Guild, Lifetime been at the forefront of her field for work and the rest of their life – Achievement Award for his decades. and what happens when those outstanding contribution From serial killer to natural disaster, lines blur? to outdoor writing and ‘perfect murder’ to freak accident, Dr We’re delighted to bring both Sue and photography. Join Hamish Shepherd takes nothing for granted in Richard to Winter Words for a very special for this colourful and the pursuit of truth. Each post-mortem event where they will discuss their lives, touching account of is a detective story in its own right - and their work and some of the extraordinary his childhood in a time Shepherd has performed over 23,000 cases they’ve covered in their long careers. of enormous political of them. Through skill, dedication and upheaval. insight, he has to get to the truth, to There will be a Q&A session as part of this answer the most pressing question: how event and a book-signing afterwards. Jonny Muir did this person die?

10 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 11 3.00pm – 4.00pm | £8.50 Saturday 16th Penny Junor Saturday 16th All The Queen’s our bodies as they falter, Corgis reflecting on our failings, The Queen has had corgis and forgiving ourselves and by her side ever since she others. was seven years old and A reviewer and writer for persuaded her father to the press, including The buy one for the family. Gabriella Bennett Times, The Guardian and The dogs are the Queen’s The Scotsman, Richard is a constant companions 4.30pm – 5.30pm | £8.50 6.00pm – 7.00pm | £10.00 frequent presenter on radio and Penny’s book reveals and television, hosting a the scraps and scrapes in Gabriella Richard number of BBC series and Rosemary Goring which the dogs have been currently the BBC Radio involved. Bennett Holloway Coorie In, The Waiting For The Last Scotland book review Daughter of Sir John programme, Cover Stories. 12.45pm – 2.15pm Scottish Way Bus Junor and school-mate of He is well known for his Coorie, or còsagach in Now in his ninth Princess Anne, journalist, support of progressive Rosemary Goring Gaelic, is the Scottish decade, former Bishop TV presenter and popular causes, questioning and Scotland: Her Story version of hygge – a of Edinburgh, Richard writer, Penny Junor is addressing complex £24.50 LITERARY LUNCH recently popularised Holloway has spent a possibly best known for ethical issues in the areas includes two-course lunch with coffee or tea Danish word, meaning to lifetime at the bedsides her royal biographies, of sexuality, drugs and create a warm atmosphere of the dying, guiding Scotland’s history has been told originating with Diana: bioethics. and enjoy the good things countless men and women many times, but never exclusively Princess of Wales, earning in life with good people. towards peaceful deaths. Take this opportunity to by its women. In her book, Rosemary her the label of ‘royal In Waiting For The Last get together with one of takes a unique perspective on expert’. Gabriella Bennett has Bus, he presents a positive, the most important and dramatic national events as well travelled the length and This event is a fascinating meditative and profound beloved religious leaders as ordinary life, as experienced by breadth of Scotland and affectionate look at exploration of the many of our time as he extends women down the centuries. speaking to people whose the Queen and her most important lessons we can an invitation to reconsider love of coorie is shown in From the saintly but severe medieval faithful companions - a learn from death: facing life’s greatest mystery their homes, creativity and Queen Margaret via Nan Shepherd must for dog-lovers up to the limitations of through his radical, joyful approach to a life lived well. and Muriel Spark, to today’s First everywhere about what and moving book. Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, Rosemary’s story encompasses really makes our much- Join Gabriella as she women from all stations of class and fame and brings to loved and longest reigning explores what coorie is and life the half of history that has for too long been hidden monarch truly light up. how it has helped nurture or ignored. the astonishing creativity for which Scotland is Rosemary Goring is currently literary editor and columnist famed, despite an often for The Herald and Sunday Herald. harsh and unforgiving See page 18 for full menu details. climate. Richard Holloway Penny Junor

12 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 13 Skye Bridge, along with the Saturday 16th efforts to save Gaelic and Sunday 17th protect ferry services. vast collection of aerial From the fight against photography held in a nuclear waste dump the archives of Historic in Caithness to plans to Environment Scotland. remove half a mountain James will be opening an on the island of Harris, David Ross extraordinary window join David as, through the into our past to tell the 10.00am – 11.00am | £8.50 pages of Highland Herald, remarkable story of a as he reflects on the nation from above. He’ll David Ross important issues which take us back in time Highland Herald affected the Highlands and to show how our great From 1988 to 2017 David Islands during his time of cities have dramatically Ross was the Highland coverage. altered with the ebb and Correspondent of The flow of history, while Herald. His patch stretched 11.30am – 12.30pm | £8.50 whole communities have from the Mull of Kintyre in vanished in the name of the south to the Shetland James 7.30pm – 8.30pm | £14.50 progress. His book reveals island of Unst in the north; Crawford how aerial imagery can and from St. Kilda, in Neil Oliver Scotland From The Sky unearth treasures from the the west, to the whisky The Story Of The British Isles In 100 Places Accompanying the BBC ancient past, uncovering country of Speyside in the Archaeologist, historian, conservationist, Beginning with footprints in the sand documentary series, secrets buried right east. author and broadcaster, Neil Oliver is from humankind’s earliest ancestors, Scotland From The Sky, beneath our feet. best known as presenter of the BBC he takes us via Romans and Vikings, the David helped the first writer and broadcaster Come along to get a documentary series, A History Of Scotland, flowering of religion, through civil war, community land buyout in James Crawford will be glorious bird’s-eye view Vikings and, most prominently, Coast. industrial revolution and two world wars. modern times in Assynt, giving a talk based on of this story of Scotland, From windswept headlands to battlefields covered in-depth, the his lavishly illustrated The Story Of The British Isles In 100 Places from the sky! and ancient trees to magnificent anti-toll campaign on the book which draws on the is his personal account of what makes cathedrals - each of his destinations is a these islands so special, told through place where, somehow, the spirit of the places which have borne witness to the past seems to linger. unfolding of our history. Oliver says. “I have chosen what I consider To Neil, this archipelago of islands is to be the most characteristic features the best place in the world, cradling of the face I have grown up to know and astonishing beauty. The human story here love… fundamental to an understanding is a million years old, and counting. But of the long, slow shaping of the British the tolerant, easy-going peace we have Isles we live in today. In this present enjoyed has been hard won. We have made climate of public fear, disagreement and and known the best and worst of times. uncertainty about the future, I think it is We have been hero and villain and all else timely to look again at the past, the story in between, and we have learned some of this place from its earliest times.” James Crawford lessons.

14 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 15 4.30pm – 5.30pm | £8.50 Sunday 17th Denise Mina Sunday 17th 12.45pm – 2.15pm Salmon and trout filled and Lin the rivers. Lynx, wolf and Christopher Anderson wild boar roamed wooded glades. Today, although Fleet with James it’s easy to be seduced Scotland: Defending Denise Mina Crawford by the raw beauty of the The Nation Scottish landscape, it is Bloody Scotland at Edinburgh Castle, this £24.50 LITERARY LUNCH sadly an ecological shadow includes two-course lunch In Bloody Scotland twelve collection uncovers the of its former self. It doesn’t with coffee or tea of Scotland’s best crime- intimate - and deadly have to be this way. writers use the sinister side - connections between Scotland has had a of the country’s building people and places, and SCOTLAND: A Rewilding uniquely important heritage in stories that are, James will guide you Journey is a rally cry for military history over the by turns, gripping, chilling through a dangerous a wilder Scotland, where last five centuries. Conflict and redemptive - exploring journey into the dark forests abundant with life with England in the 16th Nadia Sawalha and Kaye Adams the potential of Scotland’s shadows of our nation’s are regenerating, where century, Jacobite rebellions iconic sites. buildings - where passion, rivers lined with alder and in the 18th century, 20th plans of mines, enemy to be able to dish up fury, desire and death willow run freely, where century defences and the Join writer and broadcaster maps showing targets, delicious grub fast. collide! damaged peatlands are two world wars, as well as James Crawford as he as well as unrealised revitalised and where the Cold War, all resulted Best friends and television talks to two of the twelve: proposals and projected 6.00pm – 7.00pm | £8.50 oceans support the great in significant cartographic presenters Nadia and Kaye Denise Mina - critically schemes. whales. activity. are well-known panellists acclaimed crime-writer Peter Cairns See page 18 for full menu on the ITV daytime chat who won the CWA Short Join conservation Christopher Fleet, Senior SCOTLAND: A details. show, Loose Women. Nadia Story Dagger for her story photographer Peter Cairns, Map Curator in the National Rewilding Journey rose to fame as Annie in this collection, along who leads the call for a Library of Scotland will It wasn’t so long ago 3.00pm – 4.00pm | £10.00 Palmer in EastEnders, and with the 2017 McIlvanney new vision of a wilder explore the extraordinarily that vibrant, wild forest following her Masterchef Prize and the Theakstons Scotland - a place where rich legacy of the Scottish stretched across much Kaye Adams win, Disaster Chef is Old Peculiar Crime Novel nature works as it should, military, through rare of Scotland. Beavers and Nadia’s sixth cookbook. of the Year Award (twice!); where wildlife flourishes maps, some of which are and Nadia cranes were at home Kaye, meanwhile, is a and Lin Anderson, best and crucially, where people reproduced in book form in extensive wetlands. Sawalha highly respected journalist known as the creator prosper. for the first time. These Disaster Chef and broadcaster, reporting of the forensic scientist maps have been selected Are your family rude about current affairs for ITV and Rhona MacLeod series of for inclusion because your cooking? Do you think STV, currently hosting a crime thriller novels, and of the particular stories cake-bakers come from daily radio show for BBC for her part in founding the they tell about both another planet? Disaster Scotland. annual Bloody Scotland attacking and defending Chef is borne out of crime-writing festival Join Nadia and Kaye as the country: fortification MasterChef-winner Nadia itself. they chat about quick and plans, reconnaissance Sawalha's frustration easy recipes, and how not mapping, battle plans, with Kaye Adams' kitchen From murder in an Iron to be a Disaster Chef! plans of military roads and mishaps. It is a recipe book Age broch, to a dark Peter Cairns routeways, tactical maps, for the culinary-challenged psychological thriller set

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Buy the book! Yeadon’s Booksellers will be selling signed books by guest authors. Their professional booksellers, dedicated, enthusiastic and knowledgeable, will be on-hand to help.

Like to read up in advance? You can order or reserve any book by a Winter Words author now. Have it come to you – or pick up at the Festival. Simply Thursday 14th Feb Friday 15th Feb Saturday 16th Feb Sunday 17th Feb go to www.yeadons.co.uk and complete Chris Polly Pullar Rosemary Christopher an online form. You can also make a Townsend A Richness Goring Fleet Food at the Festival dedication. Spectacular views combined with fresh Walking The Spine Of Martens Scotland: Her Story Scotland: Defending local produce and excellent service from Of Scotland The Nation our attentive staff ensures dining here will Main always be a special experience.

Slowly Braised Poached Loin of Roasted Chicken Haggis, Neeps and Evening Dinners Neck of Scottish Scottish Salmon with Haggis Tatties Saturday 2nd: 5.30pm. Venison with wilted spinach, with wholegrain with a whisky Thurday 14th - Saturday 16th: 6.00pm with roasted lemon and white mustard sauce, cream sauce carrots, a cranberry wine beurre blanc creamed potatoes potato mash and and new potatoes and steamed Open all day The Festival Restaurant and Café Bar rich red wine sauce carrots Pitlochry Station Bookshop is open all day, seven days a week and Desserts provides tasty, fresh and wholesome food and daily specials, all at reasonable prices. Fresh Vanilla Pod Sticky Toffee Apple and Mixed Classic Cranachan Buy a book and donate Cheesecake Pudding Berry Crumble with homemade Satisfy your love of books with a relaxing with a spiced berry with vanilla with custard shortbread browse of the unique Pitlochry Station compÔte ice cream and Bookshop second-hand and new butterscotch sauce bookstall in the foyer between events. From bestsellers and children’s classics to antiquary gems – find a bargain and Coffee or Tea Coffee or Tea Coffee or Tea Coffee or Tea help them raise funds for many different and Mints and Mints and Mints and Mints charities.

18 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 19 ANNOUNCING ENGAGE! 10 NEW IN 2019 WE We invite writers and artists who are at any stage in their career and from all disciplines, genres and WILL OPEN forms to engage and apply. OUR DOORS We’ll offer support to successful creatives to help WRITER germinate and generate new stories and works of TO ARTISTS art: ideas, stories and creations that we hope will find a home here in Pitlochry, or with one of our AND WRITERS Residency Partners. FROM ACROSS These Partners include: Solar Bear, Birds of & ARTIST Paradise, Edinburgh Lyceum, Tron Theatre, HOME, THE UK BY Out of Joint and Actors’ Touring Company, Scottish Playwrights Studio and Federation of Scottish OFFERING 10 Theatres. RESIDENCY RESIDENCIES The Application Process is now open. To apply, please submit 500 words or create a OF VARYING 3 minute video about your idea to: BURSARIES LENGTHS [email protected] TO DEVELOP You should also include a CV. Please note we can only accept submissions digitally. NEW WORK Every application will be assessed by PFT’s Artistic Director and the rest of the Theatre’s Artistic HERE IN Team. If we feel we can offer the support you need PICTURESQUE for your idea, you will then be invited to meet and discuss it face-to-face or via Skype. PITLOCHRY. To discover more details, please go to www.pitlochryfestivaltheatre.com

01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 21 FEBRUARY FRI 22 The Unwanted SPRING SAT 23 Tenors Un Limited MARCH SAT 02 Dad’s Army Radio Show Dad’s Army Radio Show Twisted Tales PROGRAMMEEVENT FRI 08 MÀNRAN at PITLOCHRY FESTIVAL THEATRE SAT 09 Four Go Wild In Wellies (12PM)

SAT 09 Thank You For The Music Tenors Un Limited THU 14 Twisted Tales

FRI 15 Karen Matheson Black Is The SAT 16 The Manilow Songbook Color Of My Voice The Unwanted FRI 22 Re-Take That

SAT 23 Black Is The Color Of My Voice Pasadena Roof Orchestra

THU 28 Elton John Tribute Karen Matheson FRI 29 Sing-A-Long-A Grease

SAT 30 Pasadena Roof Orchestra

Re-Take That APRIL FRI 05 Old Blind Dogs

SAT 06 Legends Of American Country MÀNRAN FRI 19 Saba Douglas-Hamilton Old Blind Dogs All events begin at 7.30pm unless otherwise indicated.

22 Four Go Wild In Wellies Saba Douglas-Hamilton A Life With Elephants Join Saba Douglas- that her father, Iain The rest, as they say, is Hamilton, the highly Douglas-Hamilton, was television history! acclaimed elephant studying. This event will include a conservationist She has worked for Q&A session. and BBC wildlife TV Save The Rhino Trust in Date: Fri 19 April presenter of This Wild Namibia, the National Life and Big Cat Diaries Museums of Kenya and Tickets: £18 for an evening of Save The Elephants Venue: Main Auditorium exciting animal stories and whilst working in Time: 7.30pm and intimate behind- the Samburu National the-scenes tales of her Reserve she was life in Kenya. approached by the BBC. Saba was born in the 24 MAY - 05 OCT Great Rift Valley in Kenya and met her first wild elephant when she was just six weeks old, SUMMER HOLIDAY one of 400 living in the Stage Adaptation by Michael Gyngell Lake Manyara National and Mark Haddigan Park in Tanzania BLITHE SPIRIT by Noël Coward

THE CRUCIBLE by Arthur Miller

BLONDE BOMBSHELLS OF 1943 by Alan Plater

HERITAGE by Nicola McCartney

NORTH AND SOUTH by Elizabeth Gaskell adapted by Janys Chambers

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