Words by the Water Festival of Words and Ideas 1 – 10 March 2013 Theatre by the Lake, Keswick Welcome to Melvyn Bragg, Words by the Water Words by the Water’s President WHAT IS THE POINT OF WORDS BY THE WATER?

What is the point of festivals like Words by the Water? There are many points – where to start? Thousands of people come to Words by the Water with diverse interests. Some will be interested in politics, others have a concern for the environment; some will have a love of history, others a curiosity about science or economics or philosophy. Many who attend have a general fascination with people and the world, so many topics interest them. Words by the Water aims to cater for a wide variety of people.

For this very reason perhaps, there is a warmth, liveliness and buzz such as you find at As I write this, I’ve just come back from the best parties. One of the points of festivals walking on Hampstead Heath in thick mists. It seems to be the chance for communities to was almost as if the Heath had been painted come together: the like-minded and the not-so- new colours. People and dogs loomed, like-minded. appeared and disappeared as might-be ghosts of artists like Constable and Dickens and Don’t rely on this short and limited response Lawrence, and especially Keats who lived to the question, “What is the point of Words nearby and, who knows, might have got a whiff by the Water?” Come to Theatre by the Lake of his inspiration from this particular sight in in March, join in the festival and provide your this particular place. own answers. One of the aspects of the Lake District is that Festival Directors: the sites and places have given rise to poems, Kay Dunbar, Stephen Bristow, novels, essays and stories for well over 200 Chloë Bar-Kar and Videl Bar-Kar years now, and so we drift through a place as much marked by literature as it is by landscape. The new site of course is Theatre by the Lake. Just across the lake is an island which used to be called St. Erebert’s after the saint who lived there in the 7th Century, and his greatest wish was to die on the same day as St. Cuthbert, and meet him in heaven.

Meetings of a more earthly variety now take facebook.com/wayswithwords place at a festival devoted to words, which attracts literally thousands of wordseekers follow us @ways_with_words looking perhaps, like St. Erebert, for their small #wayswithwords purchase on an elevated kingdom. Thank you to:

The Advisory Group Members: Sue Allan Christopher Burns Richard Eccles (Cumbria Life) James & Janaki Fryer Spedding (Mirehouse) Patric Gilchrist (Theatre by the Lake) Philippa Harrison Gwenda and Lucy Matthews (Bookends) Elizabeth Stott Helen Towers (Reader Development Officer)

The Publishers: Abacus, Biteback Publishing, Bloomsbury,

Chatto & Windus, Doorstop, Ebury Publishing, www.bookscumbria.com Faber and Faber, Fourth Estate, Granta, Guardian Books, Harper Collins, Hodder and Stoughton, Litfest & Smith, Little Brown, Martha Halford PR, Orion, We are pleased Oxford University Press, Palgrave MacMillan, Penguin General, Penguin Press, Polity Press, to be supporting Profile Books, Quarto Books, Random House, Saraband, Simon & Schuster, Square Peg, Words by the Water Thames & Hudson, The Bodley Head Ltd, and look forward Verso Books, Vintage, Virago, Yale University Press to seeing you at the Festival Bookshop, Theatre by the Lake. Sponsor:

We also welcome you to our shops Bookends 56 Castle Street Carlisle Tel 01228 529067 Bookends 66 Main Street Keswick Support in Kind: Tel 017687 75277 and Bookcase 17 Castle Street Carlisle Tel 01228 544560, for rare and secondhand books and new classical CDs Friday 1 March – Main House

2.30pm James Naughtie Main House Radio 4 legend James Naughtie £9 explains how he selected 60 public figures from all walks of life who defined our times, for the Diamond Jubilee. The result was a fascinating insight into creativity and achievement, from Doris Lessing Sponsored by to . How were they picked and do you agree with the selection?

4pm Sandi Toksvig Main Comedy and Fiction House Comedian and broadcaster Sandi £9 Toksvig discusses her work and her inventive new novel about a young woman, Valentine Grey, who dons her cousin’s uniform and goes to

James Naughtie fight in the Boer War. Exploring gender, liberty, empire and injustice, the novel follows Indian-born Valentine who must now cope with the insufferable English weather and society.

5.30pm Chris Mullin Main A Very British Coup House Chris Mullin revisits his acclaimed £9 political satire, ‘A Very British Coup’, after a new Channel 4 series, ‘Secret State’, has been broadcast, inspired by his original book. The drama of a Labour leader fighting to dissolve the monopoly of a newspaper magnate is more prescient than ever before. Main House Day Ticket - £21 for 3 events (not including 8pm event) Sandi Toksvig Friday 1 March – Studio

8pm - Arthur Smith 4.15pm Paul Scott 10pm Exposed! Studio Willows, Windmills and Main An evening of sublime playfulness £8 Wild Roses – Landscape, House from the star of ‘Grumpy Old Men’, Pattern and Promiscuity £12 ‘QI’, ‘Have I Got News For You’ A story of confected, printed and BBC Radio 4’s ‘Loose Ends’. landscapes - their travels through

A one-man show crammed with media, material, cultures, jokes, anecdotes, short stories, geographies - and an exploration of poems and songs, guaranteed their contemporary re-animation. to bring a night of hilarity, mirth Paul Scott is an artist, author and and scandal . . . with just a touch educator. His artworks can be found of rudeness thrown in for good in public spaces and collections measure. around the globe, including the There will be a 30 min. interval. Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

There will be an exhibition of Paul’s ceramic work during the festival – Paul Scott: Cumbrian Blue(s) Fri 1 March - Mon 25 March Arthur Smith Saturday 2 March – Main House

11am Stuart Prebble Main House Secrets and Submarines £9 Stuart Prebble uses his meticulous journalistic skills to tell a story of Britain...through a submarine. HMS Conqueror is the only sub to have sunk an enemy ship since WWII. Prebble investigates whether Margaret Thatcher deliberately sunk the ship that killed 323 men in an Argentine cruiser, and delves into the murky history of the Simon Hoggart Claire Tomalin Falklands war. 2.30pm Claire Tomalin Main House Charles Dickens and Queen 12.45pm Simon Hoggart £9 Victoria: A Surprising Main House House of Fun: 20 Glorious Relationship £9 Years in Parliament Claire Tomalin is a masterful Simon Hoggart recalls his 20 years biographer who has breathed life as parliamentary sketch writer into some of our best-loved writers, and political commentator for the including Mary Wollstonecraft, Guardian. From with Samuel Pepys and Jane Austen. his verb-free sentences, to Michael She now turns her pen to Charles Fabricant with his My Little Pony Dickens. Come and hear the hair piece and David Cameron, intriguing story of the novelist and who really hates being drawn the queen. with a condom on his head, this is instant history with a comic twist. 4.15pm Melvyn Bragg Main House The Great William Tyndale, £9 1494 - 1536 Tyndale was a scholar and theologian whose translation of the New Testament was the first to be printed in English. His simple, clear style was a model for subsequent English translations of the bible. Melvyn Bragg, Words by the Water’s president, presents a case for him being the greatest Englishman who ever lived. 8pm Jack Straw Main House in conversation with £9 Chris Mullin A Ringside View From many years at the forefront of government fellow Labour politicians, Jack Straw and Chris Mullin, offer authoritative insights into the complex and fascinating world of British politics and discuss some of the seminal Melvyn Bragg Tony Hawks decisions that have shaped the 6pm Tony Hawks world we live in . Main House Transforming Words: £9 A Journey from Book to Film Comedian, author amd Radio 4 regular, Tony Hawks, takes us through the challenges of changing a book into a film. Illustrated with clips from the films made from his books ‘Round Ireland With A Fridge’ and ‘Playing the Moldovans at Tennis’, he will discuss the problems he faced and the solutions he attempted. Proceeds from this event will go to The Tony Hawks Centre for children with cerebral palsy in Moldova.

Main House Day Ticket - £35 for 5 events (not including 8pm event) Jack Straw Saturday 2 March – Studio – More Than Money

12.15pm Colin Crouch 3.45pm Paul Ormerod Studio What’s Left of What’s Right? Studio How Networks Can £8 Our Economy £8 Revolutionise the World and Our Future The author of ‘The Death of Why, when the financial system all Economics’, ‘Butterfly Economics’ but collapsed, did the free market and ‘Why Most Things Fail’, Paul emerge not only unscathed, but Ormerod argues that the financial largely unchallenged? In plain, crisis exposes the limits of modern animated English, Colin Crouch economics, and the need to adapt to examines the ‘too big to fail’ modern living. He explores network corporations, the danger of lobbyists, effects - the idea that people often and the shape of things to come. change their behaviour simply because of others, and the perils and 2pm Colin Mayer possibilities therein. Studio Crisis, Commitment £8 and the Corporation 5.30pm Mrs Moneypenny Studio In the midst of global financial Straight Talking £8 turmoil, Colin Mayer turns his eye to Mrs. Moneypenny’s weekly column the role of the business corporations in the Financial Times and her that shape so much of our world. He role as presenter of Channel 4’s asks why so many firms are failing us, ‘Superscrimpers’ have garnered her and sets out an agenda for converting many devoted fans. Her views and the corporation into a twenty-first advice are always frank, humorous century organization that we will and full of wisdom. Today she will value and trust. enlighten us on the state we’re in, and about her latest book, ‘Mrs. All Studio Moneypenny’s Careers Advice for events today are Ambitious Women’. sponsored by Studio Day Ticket - £24 for 4 events

Mrs Moneypenny BAILLIE GIFFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL SPONSORSHIP

LITERATURE ADDS TO REALITY, IT DOES NOT SIMPLY DESCRIBE IT. IT ENRICHES THE NECESSARY COMPETENCIES THAT DAILY LIFE REQUIRES AND PROVIDES; AND IN THIS RESPECT, IT IRRIGATES THE DESERTS THAT OUR LIVES HAVE ALREADY BECOME.

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11am Michael Frayn 2pm Salley Vickers Main Writing Farce Main Writing Influences House and Other Challenges House There is something special about £9 £9 Much-loved playwright, novelist and the medieval Cathedral of Chartres journalist Michael Frayn discusses the and the mysterious woman, named challenges of writing comedy in the Agnès Morel, who is to be found light of his new, acclaimed, farcical cleaning it each morning. No one novel ‘Skios’, together with the other quite knows where she came comedic, dramatic, fictional and from. Salley Vickers, author of the philosophical works that make up his celebrated ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’, well-known canon. discusses her new novel, ‘The Cleaner of Chartres’, a compelling 12.30pm Simon Armitage story of tragedy, second chances Main Walking Home and the power of the past. House In 2010 the highly acclaimed poet, £9 Simon Armitage, walked the 3.30pm Pat Barker Pennine Way, travelling as a modern Main Fiction and the troubadour. Without a penny in his House First World War pocket he traversed the 256 mile £9 Booker prize-winner and author of route, paying his way with poetry the acclaimed ‘Regeneration’ trilogy, readings in village halls, churches, Pat Barker, discusses her new novel living rooms and pubs. He discusses ‘Toby’s Room’; a dark wartime tale his journey through wild landscapes, of intrigue, loss, secrecy, identity local communities, emotional and and betrayal. She talks of her physical challenges, and chance fascination with World War One encounters. and the wounded soldiers who survived, and divulges fresh insights into her latest powerful novel. Simon Armitage Salley Vickers