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Wednesday 15th - Sunday 19th September Wednesday 15th - Sunday 192021th September 2021 HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: Celia Imrie Joan Bakewell Aardman Model Making Saul David Darcey Bussell Kate Mosse Sir Anthony Seldon Cathy Rentzenbrink Richard Dawkins Tim Harford Kehinde Andrews Tristan Gooley Ann Cleeves Harriet Walter Anita Sethi Victoria Glendinning Michael Caines Alan Johnson Deborah Moggach Richard Ovenden Jacqueline Wilson MG Leonard Jenny Packham And much more... Before the internet Before the printing press Before the written word Language was heard. Human civilization Founded on the spoken word Men and women coming together. Children learning the ways of their elders. The laughter. The music. The chatter. Minds ignited. Hearts inspired. Be there. AUDIFY® Independent Hearing Care Palatine House | Sigford Road | Exeter | EX2 8NL Tel: (01392) 436714 Web: audify.uk HEARING CHECKS | HEARING TECHNOLOGY | HEARING PROTECTION Before the internet WELCOME FROM THE FESTIVAL PRESIDENT Before the printing press Before the written word ast year was the one that showed how Language was heard. Lmuch we all need stories. In the depths of the pandemic, books provided company Human civilization and consolation; they helped us imagine Founded on the spoken word other worlds and purer air. For authors and Men and women coming together. audiences alike, it could have been a disaster Children learning the ways of their elders. year. In Budleigh, our ingenious and flexible team ensured that we still had a lively festival The laughter. The music. The chatter. programme. A few live events were possible – I was lucky enough to share one of them Minds ignited. Hearts inspired. with James Naughtie. For the most part, technology brought us together, and opened Be there. up new possibilities of worldwide connection. This year it is our hope that we can safely meet, greet, listen, applaud – and do it all in person. We have one of the most inspiring programmes yet, and we can’t wait to share Photo by George Miles it. We aim to welcome old and new friends this September, to feel the buzz of live performance and the joy of simply being there. Optimism is the only way forward. The cafes will be busy, the shops will be bustling, a breeze of debate will ripple through the marquee, and hosts and guests can embrace – or at least, shake hands, and give up that uncouth elbow-bumping. And maybe there will be some sunshine...now wouldn’t that be nice? Dame Hilary Mantel HOW TO BOOK Please note that all tickets include VAT. Student concessions are available. BOOK ONLINE: budlitfest.org.uk • BY PHONE: 0333 666 3366 DURING THE FESTIVAL: Tickets can be purchased from the box office in the Festival Marquee on the Green, Station Road, but are subject to availability. COVID 19 AND YOUR SAFETY The Festival is committed to the care of the team and our audiences and will be following the prevailing Government guidelines as regards distancing and venue capacities. Please check our website at budlitfest.org.uk and our Twitter @budleighlitfest for the most up to date information and any programme changes. For booking information, go to page 41. FOLLOW US ON: Twitter @budleighlitfest, Facebook and Instagram AUDIFY® Independent Hearing Care Palatine House | Sigford Road | Exeter | EX2 8NL Cover image by Cathy King, Devon-based printmaker cathykingprints.com and on sale at Tel: (01392) 436714 Web: audify.uk The Brook Gallery, Budleigh Salterton. See page 37. HEARING CHECKS | HEARING TECHNOLOGY | HEARING PROTECTION Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (registered number1127885). It was founded in 2008 by Susan Ward (1944-2012) 3 FESTIVAL TEAM HON. PRESIDENT: Dame Hilary Mantel DBE CHAIR: Sue Briggs ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Annie Ashworth FESTIVAL COMMITTEE: ASSOCIATES AND ADVISORS: Carol Ackroyd Louise Burrows Bonnie Blackwell Martin Briggs Jane Burton Barbara Farley Jackie Collins Steve Hagger David Cornes Roger Hennah Rosemarie Davis Gerald McEwen Malcolm Elliott George Norman Ruth Jones Emma Richardson Jennie Milverton Caroline Walshaw John Rust-Andrews Hilary Shiels Jennie Stogdon Gareth Thomas We would like to thank the following for their support with this year’s Festival: All our sponsors and supporters; our authors and the publishers who have sent their authors to us; all the staff at Waterstones Exeter; the venues who have made themselves available for the Festival, including the Public Hall, St Peter’s Church, Temple Church, The Masonic Hall and The Church on the Green; McQueenie Mulholland PR and Wigwam PR; Steve Fearn at SFI Media; the staff at Budleigh Library; Pro Sound and Vagabond Marquee Hire; Suzanne Stuart-Banks at The Interior Studio, Budleigh, for setting the stages; Angela Yarwood at Brook Gallery; Loft at the Community Hub; Al Findlay; Posh Nosh and Jed Falby, Festival artist; all our volunteer drivers and stewards and the Festival interviewers. Festival Photographers: Mike Rice and Sarah Stride at Sarah Jayne Photography Festival Film: Andrew Johnstone, Wild Dog Ltd Programme Design: Bonnie Blackwell 4 Box Office 0333 666 3366 www.budlitfest.org.uk Wednesday 15th Sept WORKSHOP LUCIA LEYFIELD PAUL ARNOTT Wild Ink Workshops LOCAL WRITER Mini Marquee on the Green Windrush - The Soul of a Ship £30 including materials Church on the Green • 10am • £10 10am-12pm It is rare for one vessel, so lyrically named, Pop Up Typewriters to carry the weight of such representation Learn to illustrate an exquisite and quirky – hope, conflict, imperialism and shame. tiny vintage typewriter, and learn some For three decades the Windrush was the fantastically failsafe techniques for sketching maritime ‘Zelig’ of the twentieth century, more complicated subjects even if you can’t playing different roles in the most turbulent draw! Make some lovely creative decisions years in modern times. Acclaimed film- adding colour, collage, printed ephemera, maker and Channel 4 producer, and now bits of old books or real type-written notes. local politician, Paul Arnott digs into the Perfect, too, for cards and envelopes to send gripping history of a ship, first designed by a to a friend. Jewish shipbuilder in Hamburg, who played a role as varied as joy vessel for Nazis and 2-4pm prison ship for Jews, until she famously Pocket Book of Art delivered the first migrants from the Learn to make an amazing multifaceted Caribbean to an unwelcoming Britain, before pocket book and fill it with wondrous works sinking off the Algerian coast in 1954. Hear of art! Lucia will show you some really easy the memories of people inextricably linked and very addictive abstract techniques from to this extraordinary merchant ship at the which you can create your own tiny paintings end of empires. and sculptures using paint and collage. A relaxing workshop suitable for all and you don’t need to be able to draw! Lucia is an artist, letterer and creative educator who creates illustrated journals and artist books. See her work on her Instagram account @wildinksketch and at www.wildink.co.uk. Max 10 people Box Office 0333 666 3366 www.budlitfest.org.uk 5 Wednesday 15th Sept LAURA THOMPSON Heiresses – The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies Public Hall • 10am • £12 We’ve all fantasied about what we’d do if we inherited a fortune, but what would life be like if that actually happened? Laura Thompson is author of several critically acclaimed books, including The Dogs: A Personal History of Greyhound Racing which Photo by Lucy McGrath won the Somerset Maugham Award, and AMY JEFFS and the New York Times bestselling Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters. In her LUCY HOLLAND latest razor-sharp survey of the world of Myths and Legends the wealthy heiress, she explores the lives Temple Church • 12pm • £12 of women from the seventeenth to the The British Isles are steeped in fantastical twenty-first centuries including Elizabeth stories that shaped our history. Art historian Sloan whose father owned the land that is Amy Jeffs is the author ofStoryland. now Chelsea; Winnaretta Singer, inheritor of Soaked in mist and old magic, it is a new the sewing-machine fortune, whose salon in illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its Paris showcased work by great composers, wildest landscapes. It retells tales of legend, and Alice Silverthorne who walked her black landscape and the yearning to belong from panther along the Promenade in Nice. ‘Life the Creation through to the arrival of the is less sad with money,’ said one heiress. Normans. Exeter Waterstones bookseller, Laura will ask if that really is the truth. Lucy Holland, shares her riveting debut Sistersong, a story of treachery, love and death set in ancient Britain. Photo by Richaard Blower In partnership with Festival Friends 6 Box Office 0333 666 3366 www.budlitfest.org.uk Wednesday 15th Sept DEBORAH MOGGACH OBE and SUSIE BOYT Stories of Our Lives St Peter’s Church • 2pm • £12 Sometimes the remarkable comes out of the unremarkable and we welcome two authors who explore so sensitively the tapestry of our complicated average lives. Tulip Fever Photo by Birmingham City University and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel author, KEHINDE ANDREWS and Deborah Moggach, is ‘at the height of her ANITA SETHI powers’ according to the Sunday Times in her latest novel The Black Dress. Pru who, Who am I? A Case of Misunderstood abandoned by her long-term husband to Identity contemplate her future alone, buys a black Public Hall • 12pm • £12 dress and discovers a strange new world Movements such as Black Lives Matter, the attending the funerals of people she’s never death of George Floyd, online and sports met. Writer, FT colunmnist and daughter of field racism and controversy about trans Lucian Freud, Susie Boyt explores the lengths rights have pushed the question about we will go to in protecting those we love identity and belonging right to the forefront in her new novel about maternal love and of the international conversation.