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“Stories matter as they allow us to take a journey into our imagination. To go on epic adventures, to fly with dragons, sleuth with detectives or even travel into space! Stories challenge our ideas and Contents expand our horizons.” 2 Diary of Events 19 Food at the Festival 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 To book your tickets: Call: 01796 484626 | Visit: PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com Email: [email protected] Concessions: Friends and Groups: (8+): 10% off tickets Disabled Badge Holders: 20% off tickets Students | U18s | Registered Unemployed: 50% off tickets Only Friends concessions apply to Literary Lunches. All ticket prices and concessions are subject to availability. Full terms and conditions apply. Please note: Event and ticketing information is correct at time of going to print. The programme of events may alter, so please do check online or at the Box Office. We reserve the right to make changes to the programme, ticket prices and seating plans. 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.