Wednesday 15Th - Sunday 19Th September

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.

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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

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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

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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. The first addiction, Loved and Missed, and described Professor of Black Studies will be joining by Philippa Perry as ‘a total pleasure’. Anita Sethi, whose experience of racial hatred on a train journey impelled her to explore our natural landscapes to discover Britain, her home, outlined in her book I Belong Here. They will talk about how we frame identity, how we get comfortable with ourselves, how we accept our backstory and, most importantly, how we all can learn to be tolerant of the identity of others.

Photo by Tobias Alexander

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JENNY PACKHAM How to Make a Dress – Adventures in the Art of Style St Peter’s Church • 4pm • £12 ‘From inspiration to sketch, pattern to fabric, the making of a dress has been the structure that has held me, and my passion to dress others is the momentum of my life.’ Jenny Packham, sister of Chris, is one of Britain’s NATALIE FÉE leading designers and most in-demand How to Save the couturiers, known for her exquisite dresses Planet from Your Front Room made for brides, celebrities and even royalty. Public Hall • 2pm • £14 She’ll be sharing her memoir How to Make a There is no doubt now that humans are Dress, exploring her creative journey from going to have to radically change the way the search for creative inspiration and asking they live to protect the future of the planet, what makes the perfect dress, what do our but it can feel sometimes as if w’re trying clothes mean to us, and why do we dress the to hold back a tidal wave alone. However way we do? Perfect for anyone who has ever even small changes in the way we live loved a piece of clothing. can make a difference. Natalie Fée is an award-winning environmentalist, author, speaker and founder of City to Sea, a UK- based organisation running campaigns to stop plastic pollution at source. In 2018 Natalie was listed as one of the UK’s ‘50 New Radicals’ by The Observer/Nesta. She won the Sheila McKechnie Award for Environmental Justice in 2017 for City to Sea’s #SwitchtheStick campaign to stop manufacturers making earbuds with plastic sticks. With her upbeat and engaging style, she’ll show you how to make those changes covering all key areas of our lives. Photo by Tonje Thorensen

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FESTIVAL BOOK CLUB READ EMMA STONEX The Lamplighters Public Hall • 5.30pm • £10 Inspired by a haunting true story, our inaugural Festival Book Club Read is the JONNY BENJAMIN MBE and gorgeous and atmospheric debut novel LORRAINE CANDY about the mysterious disappearance of three Teenagers – The Lost Generation lighthouse keepers from a remote tower Temple Church • 4pm • £12 miles from the Cornish coast, and about the Branded as ‘snowflakes’ with little resilience women who were left behind. What strange and even less concentration, teenagers fate befell these doomed men? The heavy these days get a bad press. But is that fair sea whispers their names. Read the book when, unlike any generation before them, ahead of the event, and come along to meet they are faced with the threat of climate the author, Emma Stonex, and chat about disaster, the pressures of a judgemental your reaction to the novel. social media world, and a lost social life Books available to buy at a discounted and huge education gap as result of the cost of £10 from The Rowan Tree, Budleigh global pandemic? How do we empathise High Street, in person or mail order from with this confused generation and help to Winstone Books Sidmouth. 10% ticket give them confidence in the future? Jonny discount for book groups of 5 people Benjamin is an award-winning mental health or more. campaigner, film producer, public speaker, writer and vlogger. His book, The Book of Hope, is a collection of stories to inspire recovery and his charity, Beyond, provides mental health support for young people. Former Sunday Times Style magazine editor and podcaster, Lorraine Candy’s book Mum, What’s Wrong with You? is a guide to raising teenage girls.

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Box Office 0333 666 3366 www.budlitfest.org.uk 9 Wednesday 15th Sept FRINGE EVENT GAVIN BARWELL Chief of Staff - Notes from Downing Street St Peter’s Church • 7pm • £12 EAST DEVON WRITERS Once a more sedate affair, over the last ten Mini Marquee on the Green years British politics has witnessed a barrage 7pm • £5 of crises, resignations, general elections and We are delighted to welcome back a talented former aides revealing the often chaotic group of local writers for a return visit after behind the scenes world of Number 10. previous successful events. Join them as they We welcome a man who is intimate with share their writing, which ranges from short the political landscape of the last decade. stories to reflective poetry, magic realism to As Chief of Staff to Theresa May during her real life tales. The group meets regularly to premiership, he’ll share a never-before- support one another in their craft, exchange revealed look behind the famous black door, sources of inspiration and explore new discussing the fraught negotiation as Brexit genres. The last year has meant meeting became log-jammed, the domestic tragedy ‘virtually’, but this has not dampened their of Grenfell Tower, and intense political enthusiasm for challenging and encouraging drama. He’ll reveal what really goes on in the each other. Discover some great local talent corridors of power – and shed a vital light – and try some writing yourself! on May, the most inscrutable of modern prime ministers – and give us insights into her successor – all laid out in his memoir, the definitive record of a momentous episode in Britain’s recent political history.

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MICHAEL CAINES MBE Food for Good Causes Public Hall • 10am • £15 Exeter born Michael Caines, chef/patron of Lympstone Manor, is one of the UK’s most celebrated and acclaimed chefs, a successful and imaginative hotelier, a respected spokesperson for the hospitality industry, and a patron and fundraiser for a number of national and local charities and community organisations. He’ll talk about his stellar LITERARY AND career, what makes a great chef and the MUSIC FESTIVALS JOINT EVENT impact of Covid on the hospitality industry – a situation supported by Chefs at Home, a The Words and Poetry of WWII cookbook which features over 100 recipes St Peter’s Church • 7.30pm • £20 from 54 of the nation’s most acclaimed chefs For the first time, we are bringing together including Michael, Jamie Oliver, Tom Kerridge Budleigh’s two leading festivals in a and Angela Hartnett. Proceeds from the sale celebration of words and music to mark of the book at 80 years since the Second World War. The the event will leading stage and screen actress, Joanna go to the charity David, will read from poems and writings Hospitalty of wartime accompanied by the London Action, which Ensemble led by Sacha Rattle. Pieces include supports Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale Suite, a sardonic industry look at the life of a soldier; Khachaturian’s members Trio full of rhapsodic passion, nostalgia affected by and bittersweet happiness; Brahms’ 2 the impact of Gesänge, Op.91, for the first time arranged lockdown on for violin, with a humanity that longs for their jobs and peace, forgiveness and rest, and the last businesses. movement of Messiaen’s Quartet for The End of Time written during incarceration in a German POW camp in 1943. Piano: Zeynep Ozsuca, Clarinet: Sacha Rattle, Violin: Sini Simonen.

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ALAN JOHNSON The Late Train to Gipsy Hill Public Hall • 12pm • £15 We welcome back to Budleigh the former Labour Home Secretary now award- winning memoirist, who has now turned his considerable writing skills to fiction. His debut novel is a gripping slice of contemporary espionage that takes in a dull commuter called Gary Nelson, shadowy conspiracy, the Russian mafia and a beautiful woman on a train who, whilst applying her make up in the carriage, holds up her mirror and Gary reads the words ‘Help me’. Life will Photo by Jana Lenzova never be dull again. RICHARD DAWKINS Books do Furnish a Life St Peter’s Church • 2pm • £15 We’re delighted to welcome the brilliant science writer, British evolutionary biologist, ethologist and author of The Selfish Gene, voted The Royal Society’s Most Inspiring Science Book of All Time. His other bestsellers include The God Delusion. He is a Fellow of New College, Oxford and both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. In 2013, he was voted the world’s top thinker in Prospect magazine’s poll of 10,000 readers from over 100 countries. His new book is a celebration of science writing. Featuring conversations with leaders in the field including Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley and more, it’s a guide to the most exciting ideas of our time and their proponents.

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CELIA IMRIE Orphans of the Storm St Peter’s Church • 4pm • £18 With Fidelis Morgan Celia Imrie is one of the UK’s most admired actresses best known for her work with Victoria Wood and roles in the Bridget Jones series, Calendar Girls, Nanny McPhee and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. She is also a Sunday Times bestselling author. Her latest MILES JUPP book is the story of a mother’s quest to find History her children against all odds, set against the Public Hall • 2pm • £12 epic backdrop of the sinking of the legendary Clive Hapgood is feeling stuck. The private Titanic. She’ll be talking about the extensive school he teaches at is consuming his life, research for the novel done in partnership the gentle country life Clive envisaged has with fellow actress, author and director, stifled him and left his marriage on the brink Fidelis Morgan, and sharing the challenges and what he needs is a holiday – something of this new string to her extraordinarily to remind him and Helen what life used to successful career. be like. But when things don’t go to plan, and an incident at school begins to weigh heavy on his head, Clive’s life starts to unravel in front of him. So begins the debut novel by the brilliant Miles Jupp - actor, comedian, former NewsQuiz presenter and writer. He played Nigel in the BAFTA winning sitcom Rev, and John Duggan in Armando Iannucci’s The Thick of It, and has made multiple appearances on Have I Got News For You, Mock the Week and Would I Lie to You? Film appearances include The Monuments Men, Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of Love and Made in Dagenham. Miles has appeared on the West End stage in Newville’s Island and at the National Theatre in both Rules for Living and People.

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These events will be available to watch online throughout the Festival. Tickets are available to book: Online at budlitfest.org.uk By phone: 0333 666 3366

VICTORIA GLENDINNING CBE JAMES FOX Family Business: An Intimate History of The World According to John Lewis and the Partnership Colour: A Cultural History £8 £8 A beguiling cultural history of colour, by the BBC presenter and one of the rising stars of art history, exploring mankind’s extraordinary relationship with colour and the ways colour has shaped our culture and imagination. From Bronze Age gold-work to Turner, Titian to Yves Klein, he’ll look at the gilded gods who animated the world in antiquity to the blue horizons which framed the Age of Discovery, the pristine aspirations of Enlightenment, the technicolour innovation which fuelled The award-winning the Industrial biographer and novelist Revolution turns her attention to the and the colour fascinating story behind which most the man who changed the embodies the face of the British high street and founded environmental one of our best loved retail chains, exploring crisis which now the passionate advocacy for the concept of faces us. Partnership, and the future of the company. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, James Tait Black Prize and Whitbread Prize for WITH THANKS TO Biography (twice), her previous biographies OUR FESTIVAL CHAIRS include Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West, Edith Carol Ackroyd Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions, Rebecca West, Clare Clark Lennie Goodings and Anthony Trollope. She is Vice-President David Grayson of English PEN, a Vice-President of the Royal Tim Hubbard Society of Literature, and a Trustee of the Sameer Rahim, Prospect Magazine Man Booker Foundation. Helen Taylor Sponsored by Waitrose & Julia Wheeler Partners Angela Yarwood 30 Box Office 0333 666 3366 www.budlitfest.org.uk Ultrafast full-fibre broadband direct to your door. The difference is huge!

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Wednesday 15th Sept MG LEONARD and CHILDREN’S LIT QUIZ SAM SEDGMAN Adventure on Trains - Marquee • 4pm-6pm • Free Danger at Dead Man’s Back by popular demand! Come and support Pass the finalists in our fiercely competitive quiz Photo by Public Hall • 10am • 8+ yrs • £8 from local primary schools as they vie to be this Jamie Isbell year’s winners and be awarded the Dartington We welcome the creators of the internation- Glass Bowl to take home and display at school ally bestselling Battle of the Beetles trilogy and as the 2021 winners. the non-fiction companion,The Beetle Collec- tor’s Handbook. Beetle Boy won the Branford Friday 17th Sept Boase award and has been translated into 37 languages worldwide. MG and Sam also BOUNCE ‘N’ RHYME co-write the Adventure on Trains Harry the Hippopotamus Series and they’ll be talking about Danger at Dead Man’s Pass, the Mini Marquee on the Green thrilling fourth adventure in the 1.45pm-2.45pm • 2+ yrs • Free best selling, prize-winning series Devon author/illustrator duo, Andy Cooper and as Harrison Beck investigates an Leigh Jackson, share their delightful story of ancient family curse. the little hippo with a very big problem... AARDMAN MODEL Saturday 18th Sept MAKING WORKSHOPS EVENTS FOR KIDS Masonic Hall 10am, 12pm, 2pm • 6-100 yrs • £10 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland A fabulous chance to create your Mini Marquee on the Green own much-loved characters from the 10am-5pm • 3+ yrs • Free brilliant Aardman films created by Roll up, roll up for a day packed with activities, Nick Park under the guidance of one of the makes and takes to celebrate the joy of this company’s model makers. You’ll be shown how enduring children’s story. Meet the Cheshire to create your model step by step and you can Cat, the Mad Hatter and the White Rabbit (if then take your creation home. 10am Gromit, you can catch him), and look out for your head 12pm Shaun the Sheep, 2pm Feathers McGraw when you see the Queen of Hearts! Lots of fun for all ages! JACQUELINE WILSON The Primrose Railway KATZ COWLEY Children The Wonky Donkey and St Peter’s Church • 12pm Other Stories £12 or under 14s £10 St Peter’s School We are thrilled to welcome the 10am-11am • 3+ yrs • £5 multi-million bestselling author Join the illustrator of the inter- whose latest story is inspired by E nationally best-selling Wonky Donkey Nesbit’s timeless classic - a gorgeous, - the lovable three legged ass with heartwarming story of family secrets one eye and a flatulence issue! and new adventures. Meet Phoebe, Discover The Fidgety Itch, The Bee’s Perry, Becks and their Mum as they Sneeze, and Willbee the Bumblebee and join in a leave their lives behind after their fun interactive session. father mysteriously disappears to move to the country and discover the exciting steam trains The Aardman Workshop is sponsored by Michael at the railway station. Suitable for 8-12 yrs. and Valerie Jackaman; Jacqueline Wilson is 32 sponsored by Exeter School Events for Children REBECCA COBB STORYTELLING Aunt Amelia’s House WITH CAT St Peter’s School • 12pm-1pm WEATHERILL 3-6 yrs • £5 It’s a Kind of Magic Meet a very unusual The Green babysitter! Following on 11-11.50pm, 2-2.50pm from the acclaimed Aunt 3 to 100 yrs • Free Amelia, Rebecca shares a new tale filled If you love stories, then you’ll LOVE this! Cat with imaginative fun and adventure about Weatherill is one of the country’s busiest and everyone’s favourite, and very unusual, green best-loved ‘stand-up’ storytellers. She doesn’t and scaly babysitter. The illustrator of the sit in a chair, she doesn’t read from a book... bestselling Paper Dolls and author of the She just tells megatastically good stories! Waterstones Children’s Book Prize winning Laughter, joining-in and oodles of story magic Lunchtime, Rebecca lives in Falmouth and will are guaranteed, whatever the weather. Find out lead you through a fun, interactive session. more at catweatherillauthor.com. ‘Cat is one of our great storytellers,’ Michael Morpurgo. NAOMI AND Suitable for all ages from 3. JAMES JONES The Perfect Fit MARTIN BROWN St Peter’s School Horrible Histories (and 2pm-3pm • 2+ yrs • £5 Other Stories) Cornwall-based husband Temple Church • 2pm • £5 and wife writing/illustration Martin is the face behind team celebrate the joy of difference with a the iconic Horrible Histories fun, interactive session. No matter how hard illustrations. Join him for she tries, Triangle doesn’t roll like the circles, a fun filled, action packed event, or stack like the squares. She sets off to find crammed with history that is horrible friends that look exactly like her. But when she and drawing that everyone can do finds other triangles, playtime isn’t as fun. as he shares stories about how he So she embarks on a new quest… researches his images for the books and draws the hilarious pictures from Sunday 19th Sept the stories. He’ll also tell you about his Lesser Spotted Animal series and his latest EVENTS FOR KIDS book, Nell and The Cave Bear. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Sponsored by Paul Humphries Architects Ltd Mini Marquee on the Green 10am-5pm • 3+ yrs • Free Roll up, roll up for a day packed with activities, makes and takes to celebrate the joy of this enduring children’s story. Meet the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and the White Rabbit (if you can catch him), and look out for your head when you see the Queen of Hearts! Lots of fun for all ages!

Please note children under 14 must be accompanied by a responsible adult and adults are expected to buy a ticket.

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n important part of the Festival’s appearances in Eight in Man Like Mobeen, his Aoutreach work as a charity is taking Radio 4 series TEZ Talks, or panel shows such authors and illustrators into schools, free of as Mock the Week and The Last Leg. charge, to inspire children and young people to read and enjoy books. Our sincere thanks to our Friends and sponsors who recognise how important this work is and support us in doing it.

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Wednesday 15th Sept JONNY BENJAMIN Taking Care of Your Mental Health Colyton Grammar Photo by Birmingham City University The campaigner will talk KEHINDE ANDREWS to years 9-11 about how to cope with emerging Diverse Not Different from a lost year, the Colyton Grammar pressures of social media and how to rise The first Professor of Black Studies will talk above them, and how to make sure you’re a to students in years 11-13 about diversity happy, healthy teenager. and the issues minorities face in the UK, including racism and discrimination - an Thursday 16th Sept especially important topic in view of the CLARE HELEN WELSH Black Lives Matter movement. St Peter’s Primary School TEZ ILYAS Clare is an award winning Diverse not different Devon-based author of many books for younger Exmouth Community College children including Biscuit Author of The Secret Diary of a Blast Offand Poo! Is that British Muslim Aged 13 ¾, will you? A primary school talk to students in years 10-13 teacher herself, she’ll be about growing up as a British inspiring children with her Muslim and about how we funny stories and gently may be diverse but we are not different. Tez engaging them to love books is best known as a stand-up comedian, with and reading. 34 Schools – Outreach

Thursday 16th Sept for younger children and two retellings of stories from Virgil’s Aeneid for teen readers: POETRY SLAM! The Night Raid and Queen of the Silver Arrow. Public Hall • 4pm-6pm • Free Her series for children aged 9+ is The Roman Come and support the students who’ve Quests set mainly in Roman Britain. Her most spent the day working with poet John Paul recent books are The Time Travel Diaries O’Neill of Farrago Poetry learning to create in which a London slam poetry from scratch, as they go head to schoolboy goes back head. to Roman London, and How to Write a Friday 17th Sept Great Story. CAROLINE LAWRENCE We are is giving each Time Travel Diaries child a free Exmouth Community College • yrs 6-7 copy of one Photo by Ed Miller Caroline’s is a brilliant storyteller. Her of Caroline’s first bookThe Thieves of Ostia led to a 17- books. book Roman Mysteries series (which was televised by the BBC). She’s written a spin Outreach authors supported by off series called The Roman Mysteries Scrolls

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36 Box Office 0333 666 3366 www.budlitfest.org.uk Our Headline Sponsor Our Cover Artist 2021 AUDIFY is the Devon CATHY KING, whose work features on this based, independent year’s cover and on the limited edition Black audiology practice Tor Budleigh Festival Beer on sale in the that’s been changing Marquee, is a Devon-based printmaker and the way the world a member of the Double Elephant Print sees hearing. Founder and practice owner, Workshop in Exeter. She works across a Curtis Alcock, who has spoken all over the range of print medium and her inspiration world, says: ‘Hearing is so foundational to is the natural environment, in particular human potential, it’s at the centre of almost Dartmoor and the surrounding Devon everything we do. It’s at least as important coastline. She has also illustrated some of as vision, if not more so, because it enables the historic buildings in Exeter along with still us to connect with one another through life designs. She exhibits widely in galleries language and music. When we created throughout the Southwest and her work is Audify we did so because we wanted to give available from The Brook Gallery, Budleigh people the means to keep their hearing at its Salterton. Cathykingprints.com best.’ In addition to providing hearing checks, hearing technology, hearing protection and tinnitus taming, Audify recently launched the Audify Challenge, an innovative new way for people to discover how well they hear in different situations compared to others. Marquee on the Green

COME AND JOIN US! Our marquee is the heart of the Festival and the place to rest between events, have something to eat and drink, and browse the bookshop. Musicians will be playing for you during Saturday and Sunday lunchtimes and during each early evening from Wednesday 15th September. OPEN: Wednesday to Saturday: 9.30am until 7pm Sunday: 9.30am until 4pm

POSH NOSH CAFÉ Once again Posh Nosh will be providing refreshments throughout the day, serving a range of homemade, locally sourced dishes. On offer for light bites will be sandwiches, cakes and scones; for lunch there will be a range of fresh seasonal salads, homemade tarts and occasional special treats! There will be a different hot dish served each evening FESTIVAL HUB INFORMATION as well as a variety of tapas dishes, and all POINT and BOX OFFICE to the accompaniment of live music every evening at 5pm. Pick up details of what’s on and buy tickets for events (subject to availability). Please OPEN: leave yourself enough time to get to the Wednesday to Saturday: 9am until 7pm venue before the event starts once you have (last meal service 6.30pm) bought your ticket. Payment by cash or card. Sunday: 9.30am until 4pm

The Literary Festival is committed to sustainable waste management. We have engaged Devon Contract Waste to ensure that all waste from the marquee is recycled effectively. Using superior technology they are able to sort waste ensuring that the majority is given a second life as a new product with the balance that cannot be recycled going as refuse-derived fuel. We hope that visitors will support us by using the appropriately labelled bins.

38 Box Office 0333 666 3366 www.budlitfest.org.uk Marquee on the Green

WATERSTONES POP-UP BOOKSHOP and BOOK SIGNING The Festival Bookshop will be featuring books by all the authors appearing at the Festival, and it’s here that most of our authors will be signing after their event. (Some authors will be signing at their venue.) Pop in and buy signed copies by any authors Once again Black Tor will be whose events you might have missed! providing a licensed bar with Payment by cash or card. excellent real ales, spirits and soft drinks. OPEN: Wednesday to Saturday: 11.00am to 7.00pm Sunday: 11.00 am to 4.00 pm

Box Office 0333 666 3366 www.budlitfest.org.uk 39 Places to Eat

THE COSY TEA POT MARCO’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT 13 Fore St • 01395 444016 7 High St • 01395- 442676 Open 10am – 4.30pm Open Mon – Thurs 6pm – 10pm, Fri 5pm – TEA & TITTLE TATTLE 10pm, Sat 12 pm– 2pm, 5pm – 10pm Closed Sundays 4 Fore St. • 01395 443203 Open 10am – 4pm OB’S CAFÉ High St THE CREAMERY (ICE CREAM) 34 Fore St. • 01395 442064 BUDLEIGH FISH & CHIPS Open 9am – 5pm (usually) 7 Chapel St • 01395 442962 http://www.budleighfishandchips.co.uk/ BG COFFEE STUDIO AT BROOK GALLERY Mon closed. Open Tues – Sat 12 -2pm, 5-8pm, www.brookgallery.co.uk Sundays depends on the weather 32 Fore St. GEORGIE PORGIE’S PUDDING SHOP Open 9.30am – 1pm & KITCHEN WESLEYS CAFÉ & COMMUNITY Periams Place • 01395 489223 SPACE CENTRE www.georgieporgiespuddings.co.uk Temple Methodist Church, Fore St Open 10am – 3pm, Sun closed 10am – 4pm (not Sundays) THE GINGER BREAD HOUSE Beach Cafes: 44 High St • 01395 708005 FIFTY DEGREES NORTH Open 8am – 4pm SALTING HILL BROOK KITCHEN ART CAFÉ 07766 402949 60, High St Open 10am – 4pm www.brookkitchen.co.uk THE LONGBOAT CAFÉ Open Wed – Sat 8.30pm to 5.30pm, Sun Marine Parade 8.30am – 3.30pm 01395 - 445619 Open 4pm – 4.30pm GRANNY GOTHARD’S ICE-CREAMS AND DESSERTS WEST END KIOSK 53 High St • 07895 345033 Steamer Steps www.grannygothards.co.uk 10am – 4pm Open Wed, Thurs, Fri 11am – 4pm, Sat & Sun THE SLICE OF LYME BISTRO CAFÉ & 11am – 5pm TAKEAWAY THE FEATHERS HOTEL www.sliceoflyme.co.uk 35 High St 01395 442042 1 Rolle Rd • Open Sun-Fri 12pm-11pm, Sat & Sun 12pm- 12am Wed – Sat 11am – 2pm, 5.30pm – 8pm Sun 12pm – 3pm THE SALTERTON ARMS TAJ MAHAL INDIAN RESTAURANT 22 Chapel St • 01395 445002 https://tajmahalrestauranttakeaway.co.uk/ www.thesaltertonarmssalterton.co.uk 1b High Rd • 01395 446097 Open 11am – 11.30pm Open 12pm – 11pm

40 Box Office 0333 666 3366 www.budlitfest.org.uk How to Book

Please note all ticket prices include VAT. note that doors will be open 30 minutes • Online at budlitfest.org.uk before each event. If there is an event following immediately afterwards, it will • By phone: 0333 666 3366 (open Mon- be necessary for the venue to be fully Sat 9am-5pm) Telephone bookings are vacated before individuals can take their subject to a booking charge of £1.80 seats for the next event. which includes postage of your ticket. • Programmes and performers may be • During the Festival, tickets are also subject to change. We reserve the right available at the Festival Hub Marquee on to substitute a speaker if circumstances The Green subject to availability. Cash or dictate. Please go to budlitfest.org.uk cards accepted. for updates and information before you travel, or follow us on Twitter Booking and Festival Information: @budleighlitfest. TICKETS • All information in this programme is correct at the time of going to press. Seating is unreserved. Tickets cannot be • Children under 14 must be accompanied transferred or exchanged and are non- by a responsible adult (over 18 years of refundable unless the organisers have to age). We cannot accept responsibility for cancel a particular event, in which case your unaccompanied children, and adults are ticket will be refunded. Please note that we expected to purchase a ticket. cannot refund postal charges

For online booking fees and for online DISABILITIES refunds, the Festival’s ticketing agents, The Festival welcomes visitors with Ticketsource, charge a £1.00 handling fee disabilities, and Wheelchair and Registered per refund. Disabled tickets (plus carer who attends free

COVID 19 of charge) are available to purchase online and at the Box Office. The Festival is committed to protecting All our venues offer step-free access. our team and audiences and we will be Please advise our stewards if you have visual observing prevailing Government guidelines or hearing impairment on arrival and we will with regard to mask wearing, social do our best to seat you in a suitable place. distancing and audience capacity. We are grateful for your patience and understanding.

OTHER INFORMATION • All events are an hour long unless stated otherwise. We endeavour to start all events on time. Please

Box Office 0333 666 3366 www.budlitfest.org.uk 41 Become a Friend

The Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival LEAVE A LEGACY TO THE FESTIVAL is a charity and our aim is to encourage If you would consider leaving a legacy to us education and well-being through reading in your will, your gift will enable us to build in young people of all ages. We have an on our important outreach work. To find out extensive education outreach programme more details about how to do this, please which we build on every year. email our chair, Sue Briggs, at suebriggs@ We rely on donor support for our budlitfest.org.uk. work and would be very grateful if you would consider becoming a Friend. Friend Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival is a Membership also makes a tremendous gift charity registered in England: No: 1127885 idea to someone you know who loves books! Annual subscription of £15 per person, KEEP IN TOUCH! £25 for two people per year including: If you’d like to hear news from the • Priority booking Festival by email, you can join our • Invitations to special events mailing list from our web site at • Supporting the work of the Festival www.budlitfest.org.uk Your details education programme will not be shared with third parties.

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Time Venue Event Title Cost Wednesday 15th September 10am-12pm Mini Marquee on Lucia Leyfield Wild Ink Workshops (cost includes all materials) £30 2pm-4pm the Green 10:00am Church on the Paul Arnott LOCAL WRITER Windrush - The Soul of a Ship £10 Green 10:00am Public Hall Laura Thompson Heiresses – The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies £12 12:00pm Temple Church Amy Jeffs and Lucy Holland Myths and Legends £12 12:00pm Public Hall Kehinde Andrews and Anita Who am I? A Case of Misunderstood Identity £12 Sethi 2:00pm St Peter's Church Deborah Moggach OBE and Stories of our Lives £12 Susie Boyt 2:00pm Public Hall Natalie Fée How to Save the Planet from Your Front Room £14 4:00pm St Peter’s Church Jenny Packham How to make a Dress – Adventures in the Art of Style £12 4:00pm Temple Church Jonny Benjamin and Lorraine Teenagers - The Lost Generation £12 Candy 5:30pm Public Hall Emma Stonex Festival Book Club Read - The Lamplighters £10 7.00pm St Peter’s Church Gavin Barwell Chief of Staff - Notes from Downing Street £12 7:00pm Mini Marquee on East Devon Writers Group FRINGE EVENT - Words on the Green £5 the Green Thursday 16th September 10am-12pm Mini Marqueee Ursula Jeakins WORKSHOP - Create Your Own Commonplace Book £30 2pm-4pm on the Green (cost includes all materials) 10am-1pm Masonic Hall Louise Doughty WORKSHOP - Creative Writing - Plot and Narrative £40 Structure 10:00am Temple Church Cathy Rentzenbrink Books and Other Life Changing Events £12 10:00am Public Hall Dominic Selwood Britain in Fifty Documents £12 12:00pm Temple Church Mary Ann Sieghart The Authority Gap £12 12:00pm St Peter's Church Saul David SBS - Silent Warriors £12 2:00pm Temple Church Angus Forbes Global Planet Authority: Time to Protect and Restore £12 the Whole Biosphere 2:00pm Public Hall Kate Mosse OBE City of Tears £14 4:00pm Temple Church Louise Doughty Look Who's Talking £12 4:00pm St Peter's Church Baroness Joan Bakewell The Tick of Two Clocks £15 7:00pm Mini Marqueee Open Mic Evening FRINGE EVENT £5 on the Green 7:30pm St Peter’s Church Dame Darcey Bussell Evolved - The Dance of Life £18 7:30pm Marquee Whisky Tasting FRINGE EVENT (cost includes whiskey tasting) £15

Friday 17th September 10:00am Public Hall Kate Mosse and Lennie The Red Pencil – the role of the editor £12 Goodings 10:00am Temple Church Robert Wigley and Michael The Digital World – A Distracted Generation or an £12 Bhaskar Exciting Future? 12:00am St Peter's Church Tim Harford OBE SUSAN WARD LECTURE: Lies, Damned Lies and £18 Statistics Festival at a Glance

Time Venue Event Title Cost 12:00pm Church on the Gn Sarah Bussy & Angela Yarwood FRINGE EVENT - Local Heroes: Joyce Dennys £10

2:00pm Temple Church Tristan Gooley The Secret World of Weather £15 2:00pm St Peter's Church Sir Anthony Seldon The Impossible Office? The History of the British PM £15

4:00pm Temple Church Richard Ovenden OBE The Past (and Why We Need It for the Future) £12 7:00pm St Peter's Church Dame Harriet Walter and Lucy I, Clara £20 Parham

Saturday 18th September 10:00am Temple Church Patrick Pead and Jo Willetts The Vaccine Pioneers £12 12:00pm Temple Church Dr Alan Desmond Plants on Your Plate £12 2:00pm Public Hall David Rooney About Time £12 4:00pm Public Hall Philip Parker The History of the World in Trade Maps £12 5:00pm St Peter's Church Ann Cleeves From Vera to Shetland – a Life of Crime £15 7.30pm St Peter's Church Literary and Music Festival The Words and Poetry of WW2 £20 Joint Event Sunday 19th September 10:00 AM Public Hall Michael Caines MBE Food for Good Causes £15 12:00 PM Public Hall Alan Johnson The Late Train to Gipsy Hill £15 2:00 PM St Peter's Church Richard Dawkins Books do Furnish a Life £15 2:00 PM Public Hall Miles Jupp History £12 4:00pm St Peter’s Church Celia Imrie Orphans of the Storm £18 Children’s and Young People’s Events Wed 15 Sept Children’s Lit Quiz FREE 1.45pm-2.45pm Mini Marquee on Fri 17 Sept Bounce ‘n’ Rhyme - Harry the Hippopotamus • 2+ yrs FREE the Green 10am-5pm Mini Marquee on Sat 18 Sept Events for Kids - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland • 3+ yrs FREE the Green 10am-11am St Peter's School Sat 18 Sept Katz Cowley - The Wonky Donkey and Other Stories £5 10am Public Hall Sat 18 Sept MG Leonard and Sam Sedgman - Adventure of Trains - Danger at £8 Dead Man's Pass • 8+ yrs 10am, 12pm, Masonic Hall Sat 18 Sept Aardman Model Making Workshops • 6-100 yrs £10 2pm 12pm St Peter's Church Sat 18 Sept Jacqueline Wilson - The Primrose Railway Children • 8-12 yrs £12/£10 u.14 12pm-1pm St Peter's School Rebecca Cobb - Aunt Amelia's House • 3-6 yrs £5 2pm-3pm St Peter's School Sat 18 Sept Naomi and James Jones - The Perfect Fit • 2+ yrs £5 10am-5pm Mini Marquee on Sun 19 Sept Events for Kids - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland • 3+ yrs FREE the Green 11-11.50pm, The Green Sun 19 Sept Cat Weatherill - It’s a Kind of Magic • 3 + FREE 2-2.50pm

2pm Temple Church Sun 19 Sept Martin Brown - Horrible Histories (and Other Stories) £5

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