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Festival of Literature The Blenheim Palace Festival of Literature, Film & Music Thursday 24 – Sunday 27 September 2015 festival of Box Office 01993 812291 liter ature (11am – 2.30pm) film & Music blenheimpalaceliteraryfestival.com Thursday 24 – Sunday 27 September 2015 The ultimate boutique literary festival festival of Featuring Orhan Pamuk • Dr Maki Mandela • Antony Beevor • Sir Karl Jenkins • Maureen Lipman liter ature Alexander Armstrong • Prince Asserate • Sue MacGregor • Paul Gambaccini • Bel Mooney Max Mosley Douglas Hurd Alfred Brendel Claudia Roden John Suchet Daphne Selfe Courtyard of The Feathers hotel, Woodstock • • • • • film & Music Peter Hennessy • Dan Jones • Gino D’Acampo • Daniel Finklestein • Michael Billington THE PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE Box Office 01865THE 305305 PROGRAMME • blenheimpalaceliteraryfestival.com AT A GLANCE Thursday 24th September Saturday 26th September 12pm Maki Mandela Blenheim Palace 11am Alexander Armstrong Blenheim Palace 12pm James Russell Blenheim Palace 12pm Alfred Brendel St Mary Magdalene Church 2pm Dan Jones Blenheim Palace 2pm Gino D'Acampo Blenheim Palace 2pm Jonathan Fenby Blenheim Palace 4:30pm Martin Jennings, Jamie Muir 4pm Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Blenheim Palace and Ed Taylor Blenheim Palace 4pm Beth Powning, Michael Crummey, 6pm Karl Jenkins St Mary Magdalene Church Serge Patrice Thibodeau and Sue Goyette Blenheim Palace 7.30pm Literary Salon Dinner La Galleria Restaurant 6pm Orhan Pamuk Blenheim Palace 8pm Claudia Roden Dinner The Feathers Hotel Sunday 27th September 10am Two Earnest: Friday 25th September A reworking of Oscar Wilde Blenheim Palace 10.30am Jonathan Fenby, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown 10.30am Sonia Purnell Blenheim Palace and Gwenan Edwards Blenheim Palace 11am Jonathan Bate St Mary Magdalene Church 10.30am Asfa-Wossen Asserate Blenheim Palace 12pm Bel Mooney Blenheim Palace 12pm Dermot Turing and Gordon Corera Blenheim Palace 12.30pm Max Mosley Blenheim Palace 12pm Ann Treneman and Peter Brookes Blenheim Palace 2pm Shaun Evans, Russell Lewis 2.15pm Special Guest and Peter Hennessy Blenheim Palace and Dan McCulloch Blenheim Palace 4pm Paul Gambaccini Blenheim Palace 2pm Michael Billington Blenheim Palace 4pm Andrew Lambert Blenheim Palace 2pm Madeleine Shaw Blenheim Palace 5.45pm John Suchet Blenheim Palace 3pm Andrew Gant St Mary Magdalene Church 5.45pm Hugh Purcell Blenheim Palace 4pm Daphne Selfe Blenheim Palace 6pm Patrick Gale St Mary Magdalene Church 4pm Douglas Hurd Blenheim Palace 7pm Antony Beevor – Black Tie Dinner Blenheim Palace 5pm Maureen Lipman, Jeremy Robson, Jacqui Dankworth, Charlie Wood, Julian Siegel and Oli Hayhurst Blenheim Palace Festival Director’s Welcome A very warm welcome to the 2015 festival established partners HM Government of which has been widened to include film, Gibraltar; English Heritage and The Oxford television and music – art forms which have Times; to our new partners the Rosewood all been enriched and inspired by literature. London Hotel; to Owen Mumford for sustaining our Marlborough School Festival We are hugely grateful to our Royal Patron, and for the continuing generosity of our HRH The Duke of Gloucester, for initiating patron donors, Ian and Carol Sellars, the lecture series that will bear his name Eileen and Munir Majid and Desmond and each year and to our most distinguished Fiona Hayward. inaugural lecturer. Every year our speakers enthuse about the The ITV Network have arranged four great beauty of the festival’s magnificent outstanding preview screenings of major backdrop of Blenheim Palace for which autumn programmes with casts and crew. we thank Their Graces, The Duke and We greatly appreciate the support of Richard Duchess of Marlborough and the estate Klein, director of factual/broadcast ITV plc team. and his colleagues. The historic town of Woodstock offers The festival sees a host of celebrated festival-goers the opportunity to meet and international speakers this year, including talk with novelists, historians and writers Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk, Dr Maki in historic hotels, inns, restaurants and Mandela, Antony Beevor, Prince Asserate, Sir cafes – an atmosphere heavy with autumn Karl Jenkins, Alfred Brendel and four leading wood smoke and unique to Britain’s writers from Canada’s Atlantic coast. ultimate boutique literary festival. The festival is indebted once more to HSBC We look forward to a memorable and and its chief executive, Antonio Simoes, for engaging weekend with you all. their foundation sponsorship; to our long SALLY DUNSMORE Festival Director 1 HRH The Duke of Gloucester KG GCVO Royal Patron of The Festival In recent years the festival has featured an increasing number of international speakers and events and the 2015 roll call is the most impressive to date. I am particularly pleased that my inaugural lecture will see a figure of such distinction in discussion with Lord Hennessy. Blenheim Palace has provided the backdrop for many motion pictures (from the 1930s onwards), so it is appropriate that the festival’s remit has been extended to include both film and music, art forms that have been reflected in so many ways in literature over the past century. RICHARD 2 Blenheim Palace When war broke out in Europe, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, a military genius, was chosen as leader of the allied troops. During 1702 and 1703 Marlborough defended Holland from invasion from the French. In 1704 a decisive battle took place near a small village called Blindheim in Bavaria, Blenheim in English, where Marlborough won a great allied victory over the forces of Louis XIV. In reward, Queen Anne granted Marlborough the Royal Manor of Woodstock and signified that she would build him there a house to be called Blenheim. Sir John Vanbrugh was appointed to design Blenheim Palace and Capability Brown landscaped the park, creating the great lake over which Vanbrugh’s Grand Bridge now stands. Blenheim Palace is one of the largest finest private houses in England, a world heritage site set in 2100 acres of parkland. Its stunning formal gardens include the Italian Garden, the Water Terraces, Rose Garden, Arboretum and Maze. It is home to the 12th Duke of Marlborough and was the birthplace in 1874 of Sir Winston Churchill. Guided tours of the palace run throughout most of the season and ‘Blenheim Palace: The Untold Story’ tells the story of the last 300 years through the eyes of the servants. General Information Opening times: the palace, park and formal gardens open daily until 2nd November. From 5th November to 14th December, the palace and formal gardens are closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. The park is open all year except on Christmas Day. The park opens at 9.00am: the formal gardens at 10.00am and the palace at 10.30am. Last entry to the park and palace is at 4.45pm. The palace closes at 5.30pm and the park and gardens close at 6.00pm. www.blenheimpalace.com Tickets for festival events at Blenheim Palace on all 4 days, Thursday 24th to Sunday 27th September, include free entry to the grounds and gardens on the day of the ticket (price normally £13.80). 3 Festival Patrons, Sponsors and Partners Royal Patron We should like to thank the following for their most generous support of the festival: HRH The Duke of Gloucester KG GCVO Partners Sponsors Patrons His Grace The Duke of Marlborough The Rt. Hon David Cameron MP Lord Fellowes Sponsor of the festival green room Ben Okri Felicity Bryan David Freeman Professor Martin Kemp Ian and Carol Sellars Festival Hotel Eileen and Munir Majid Blenheim Palace Literary Festival Broadcast Television Partner Chairman Bruce Thew Deputy Chairman and Co-founder Jill Dunsmore Festival Director and Co-founder Sally Dunsmore School Events Sponsor Special Adviser Tony Byrne Cultural Partner Festival Administrator Louise Croft Publicity Joe Ogden, Four Communications (0)20 3697 4261 (media enquiries only) Regional Magazine Partner Green Room Manager Rachel Byrne Festival London Hotel Partner Digital Strategy and Website Festival Dinners Administrator Alex Oakes Patron Donors Lawers to the Festival Graphic Design Stafford & Stafford Ian and Carol Sellars Website and Content Editor Derek Holmes Eileen and Munir Majid Website Design Bear Ram Elk Regional Media Sponsor Desmond and Fiona Organisation Support Francie Von Schonfeld Heyward 4 Sponsors Associates City Audio Visual La Galleria Restaurant The Marlborough School St Mary Magdalene Church KT Bruce Photography Save the Children Bookshop Wake up to Woodstock Woodstock Bookshop We should also like to thank all the voluntary festival stewards for their time and generous support throughout the festival. Front cover photo and all Blenheim images New Brunswick, Canada by kind permission of Blenheim Palace Festival Bookseller Woodstock and other photos by kind permission of KT Bruce www.ktbrucephotography.com and Oxford Picture Library www.cap-ox.com All other photos individually credited The festival on-site bookseller is where known Blenheim Palace Retail who provide speakers’ books at all festival venues. For information on sponsorship opportunities for the 2016 festival, please contact Tony Byrne at [email protected] or on Festival Online Bookseller 07801 287510 Programme printed by Oxuniprint, the printing division of Oxford University Press Prestige Publishing Partner The festival is produced by Iconic Programmes Ltd Registered office Greyfriars Court, Paradise Square, Oxford, Oxon OX1 1BE Company number 07180906 5 HSBC and The Blenheim Palace Festival of Literature, Film & Music HSBC is delighted to once again sponsor the Blenheim Palace Festival of Literature, Film & Music, supporting the series of talks and events on ‘leadership’ and ‘women in society’, past, present and future. Our continued association with the festival reflects HSBC’s commitment over the past 150 years to encourage the exchange of ideas, helping to build connections, open up opportunities and strengthen relationships. This year’s festival reflects its increasing focus on events from a wide creative field. We look forward to welcoming visitors to the talks, debates and events taking place over four unforgettable days. ANTONIO SIMOES Chief Executive of HSBC Bank plc 6 , , .
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