Thursday 14 - Sunday 17 June 2018 2018 Programme Andrew Adonis | Paula Battle | Belinda Bauer | Timothy Bentinck John Bercow | Mark Billingham | Tom Bower | Craig Brown | Emma Byrne Castle Theatre Company | Keri Davies | John Dougherty Frederick Forsyth | Antonia Fraser | Rebecca Fraser | Blanche Girouard Griselda Heppel | Mark Lawson | MG Leonard | Tim Marshall Anthony O’Hear | Natasha O’Hear | Ben Okri | Chris Patten Really Big Pants | Anthony Seldon | William Sitwell | Matthew Stadlen Edward Stourton | Frances Welch | Jane Wenham-Jones | Jasper Winn www.bucklitfest.org Serious Lights for Serious Readers Do you sometimes fi nd detail more diffi cult to see these days? Perhaps colours don’t seem quite as vibrant as they once did? Other than using prescription lenses, shedding better light is the only way you can see more clearly. All sight is light. Our three lights are fi tted to the individual needs of your sight and provide many with instant relief from eye strain. 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So welcome to the Festival and we hope that you leave having been inspired, challenged and entertained by the stimulating events. The organising committee: Heather Adams, Mike Bryan, Chloe Woodhead, Christopher Woodhead, Vivienne Wordley Patrons: Carolyn and Robert Cumming, Sir Anthony Seldon With many thanks to: BCG printers, Buckingham Bookshop, Buckingham Town Council, Buckingham Summer Festival, Friends of Buckingham Library, HMA Literary Agency, IngramSpark, Michael Graham, Swan and Pen, The Film Place, The Old Gaol, The University of Buckingham, University of Buckingham Press. www.bucklitfest.org Buckingham BOOKSHOP bookshop.indd 1 25/04/2017 16:29:39 The Buckingham Literary Festival is a not for profit organisation constituted as a Community Interest Company No 10030413. The information shown in this programme was correct at the time of publication. 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Calls cost up to 7p per minute, plus your phone company’s access charge. 137389_BucksLiteraryFestival_HalfPage.indd 1 24/04/2018 10:27 Thursday 14 June Friday 15 June BuckLitFest Literary Visit to IngramSpark and Local Quiz Night 10.30-1pm Fri 15 June To include a delicious Off site at IngramSpark Head Office supper and a drink Lib Tickets £10 2a Infantilise Humanity? A visit to Print-on-Demand and e-book publisher, IngramSpark, to discover 6.30-10.00pm Thu 14 June how to make your book a reality. The Woolpack Well Street MK18 1EP Based at Kiln Farm, Milton Keynes, Tickets £15 pp inc. supper 1a just 12 miles from Buckingham. Bring along a team of 4 or join one on Programme: the night for an evening of fun and 10.30 Meet at Kiln Farm for coffee questions. 11.00 Introduction to self-publishing 11.30 Tour of the works Tickets £15 per person to include 12.15 Sandwich buffet with the supper (with vegetarian option) and opportunity for informal Q & A and a drink. one-to-one advice 13.00 Depart Quiz 7.00 Supper 7.45 You are asked to make your own way More quiz 8.30 to Kiln Farm where you will be met by Results 9.30 one of the Festival team. The address is: Chapter House, Pitfield, Kiln Farm, Milton Keynes MK11 3LW - 5 - Friday 15 June Frederick Forsyth Rebecca Fraser In Conversation The Mayflower 2.00-3.00pm Fri 15 June Generation Radcliffe Centre Tickets £10 3.30-4.30pm Fri 15 June 2b Radcliffe Centre Tickets £10 2c We are delighted to welcome thriller writer, spy and investigative journalist Selected by The Times as a History Frederick Forsyth to open the Book of the Year 2017, The Mayflower Festival. At eighteen, Forsyth was the Generation follows the voyage of youngest pilot to qualify with the RAF. the pioneering British aboard the At twenty-five, he was a journalist Mayflower and identifies the founding in East Berlin during the Cold War. of Plymouth Colony as one of the Before he turned thirty, he was in seminal events in world history. Africa covering the bloodiest civil But the poorly-equipped group of war. Three years later, broke and out Puritans who crossed the Atlantic in of work, he wrote his game-changing the autumn of 1620 had no sense they first novel, The Day of the Jackal. would pass into legend. Forsyth has seen some of the most Rebecca Fraser details domestic exhilarating moments of the last life in the seventeenth century, the century from the inside, travelling the histories of brave and vocal Puritan world, once or twice on her majesty’s women and the contradictions secret service. He’s been shot at, between generations as fathers and he’s been arrested, he’s even been sons made the painful decisions which seduced by an undercover agent. determined their and their family’s futures. Discover how this much admired author started his career, the stories behind his novels and learn about his DID YOU KNOW? latest book due out in September. Festival Friends get discounts on tickets. Join us online at www.bucklitfest.org - 6 - Friday 15 June Tim Marshall Edward Stourton Tom Bower Divided: Why Auntie’s War: The Rebel Prince: The We’re Living in BBC During the Power, Passion an Age of Walls Second World War and Defiance of 6.30-7.30pm Fri 15 June 5.00-6.00pm Fri 15 June Prince Charles Festival Tent Radcliffe Centre Tickets £10 2e 8.00-9.00pm Fri 15 June Tickets £10 2d Festival Tent Broadcaster and Radio 4 Following Prisoners Tickets £10 2f stalwart Edward Stourton of Geography, an delivers a sharp-eyed, wry Few have suffered as international bestseller, and affectionate account of Tim Marshall explores the much humiliation as Prince the BBC’s wartime journey. Charles. Despite his hard divisions caused by wealth, In the pre-television era, work, he has struggled to race, religion and politics. BBC radio played a crucial overcome his unpopularity. The cry ‘Tear down this role as, for the first time, wall’ is losing the argument news of the fighting and Tom Bower, relying on against ‘fortress mentality’, key moments of the war testimony from those close unable to compete with the reached every living room. to the inner sanctum of frightening heights of mass These were the years Clarence House, reveals a migration, the backlash when ‘Auntie’ earned her royal household rife with against globalization, the reputation for bossiness as intrigue. The result is a book resurgence of nationalism, well as reliable purveyor of which uniquely probes into the collapse of Communism truth. But radio also offered and the 9/11 attacks and the character and court of an incomparable tool for the heir to the throne – a their aftermath. These propaganda and a conduit are the faultlines that will view that no one, until now, for coded messages, both has seen. shape our world for years political and personal. to come. Tom Bower is an Well-known for his investigative journalist engaging talks, Marshall noted for his unauthorised is a journalist, author and biographies of many modern broadcaster, known for his and controversial power- analysis of developments brokers including Richard in foreign news and Books can be pre- Branson, Bernie Ecclestone, international diplomacy ordered and bought Mohamed Fayed, Robert and appearing regularly on Maxwell and Tony Blair. the BBC, Sky News and LBC. from The Buckingham Bookshop 01280 820365 Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen - 7 - THE UNIVERSITY OF BUCKINGHAM University of the Year for Teaching Quality MA by Research in DICKENS STUDIES October 2018 - September 2019 A one-year, London-based programme of supervised study and research, with a stimulating programme of seminars and research workshops, led by Professor John Drew and Dr Pete Orford, experts in Dickens and 19th-century studies. Teaching takes place at the Charles Dickens Museum (48 Doughty St, WC1) and at the University of Buckingham’s of ces in Bloomsbury. The course includes eld trips, access to the Museum’s rare collections, and memberships of the International Dickens Fellowship and of the Dickens Society. Recent speakers have included: • Professor Michael Slater • Professor Joanne Shattock • Lucinda Hawksley • Judith Flanders • Dr Tony Williams For further details, please Google ‘University of Buckingham London Programmes’.