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3 – 12 October 2014 cheltenhamfestivals.com _ _ Is Democracy at Risk? What Future for Words? Celebrity Culture: Where Will it All End? Is Technology Changing our Brains? What Will the Buildings of the Future Look Like? A Good School For All? Feeding the World or Farmageddon? What Does the Next Century Hold? Does Privacy Exist Anymore? What is the Lure of the Dystopia? ______Brave New Worlds_ Programme A5 pages 1-23 ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 15:35 Page 2 Programme A5 pages 1-23 ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 15:35 Page 3
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Principal Partners Contents_ A warm welcome to the 2014 More than anything, it is the unwavering Cheltenham Literature Festival – support of our fantastic audiences that page 004 - 017 jointly supported this year for the makes Cheltenham so special. As a Behind the programme first time by The Times and The not-for-profit organisation, Cheltenham Find out what’s new and Sunday Times. I am pleased to Festivals must actively raise 96% of discover our event introduce you to this year's our funding every year to bring the arts collections programme, which over the course and sciences live to audiences, Global Banking Partner of 10 days, I hope, will inspire, support emerging talent, and deliver page 018 - 021 challenge, surprise and entertain educational programmes. Please do Festival Guide you in equal measure. support us in any way you can – Your guide to the Festival donating, becoming a patron, dining sites, getting to Cheltenham It has been a year since I took over as with us on site or booking that one and how to find your venue Chair of Cheltenham Literature Festival extra event so that we can continue to and my enthusiasm for the energy, bring you these unparalleled page 024 - 099 imagination and intellectual breadth of experiences and memories. Festival Programme the event only continues to grow. In an Official Wine & Champagne Your day-by-day guide to age of digital consumption, the I hope you are as excited about this what’s on opportunity for readers to meet well year’s programme as we are and known authors, explore new ideas and I look forward to welcoming you to page 110 - 112 discover new talent is ever more the Festival. Index important to our cultural life as a nation. Major Partners A full speaker list Gail Rebuck In order to bring you world-class Chair, The Times and The Sunday page 114 authors and speakers and the most Times Cheltenham Literature Festival Booking Information fascinating debates, we work with an How to book your tickets_ advisory committee of top literary agents, critics, writers and journalists, alongside a number of external programmers and our wonderful guest directors. Of course, none of this would Official Supplier be possible without the exceptional support and dedication of our partners, especially The Times and The Sunday Times, the marvellous booksellers from Waterstones, our speakers and their publishers and our army of volunteers, to whom the Official Cider Festival owes a great deal.
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Prophecies, predictions and dreams - one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays and Aldous Huxley’s prescient masterpiece kickstart this Brave New year’s theme of Brave New Worlds, as we ask: what does the future hold?
Sarah Smyth From the printing press to the aeroplane, Artistic Director every generation likes to think that they’re on Worlds the cusp of a brave new world – but with the advent of the digital age it feels like the ground really has shifted, with every aspect of the world around us becoming fluid and rewritable. Should we celebrate, stick our heads in the digital sand, or just tweet about O brave new it? Just how optimistic should we be?
At the heart of the Festival are our ten Brave New Worlds debates asking: Is democracy at risk? What does the future hold for our world that children’s education? What will the buildings of the future look like and what is the future of food? Is the written word itself under threat? Does the right to privacy exist anymore and is technology rewiring our brains? What will the world really look like in a hundred years’ time? has such Is the idea of the Dystopia a noble or a dangerous one? And finally: celebrity culture – where will it all end?
What does the future hold? We may not know the people in’t! answer but join us to explore the possibilities_
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Introducing our erudite, creative and Shami Chakrabarti_ Amit Chaudhuri_ Sophie Hannah_ Omid Djalili_ energetic quartet of Guest Directors Shami Chakrabarti has been Director Amit Chaudhuri is the author of five Sophie Hannah is the author of nine British-born Iranian comic and actor for 2014. of Liberty since 2003. A barrister by award-winning novels, two books of internationally bestselling Omid Djalili's stage and screen background, she worked as a lawyer essays, a critical study, and a book of psychological thrillers, as well as the performances have won him plaudits Every year we invite our Guest in the Home Office from 1996 until stories. His sixth novel, Odysseus first novel to feature Hercule Poirot the world over. He has starred in a 2001. Since becoming Liberty’s Abroad, is published in the UK next since Agatha Christie’s death. She number of Hollywood blockbusters, as Directors not only to join us on the Director she has written, spoken and year. He is Fellow of the Royal Society lives in Cambridge, where she is a well as fronting two series of The Festival stage, but to work with the broadcast widely about Liberty's work of Literature, and Professor of Fellow Commoner of Lucy Cavendish Omid Djalili Show. As one of the UK’s team to bring unusual and innovative on equality, human rights and the rule Contemporary Literature at the College. Her website is most popular stand-up comedians, he of law. University of East Anglia. He is also an www.sophiehannah.com and she’s on often tours the UK with sell out live events to the programme. Throwing acclaimed musician who has Twitter as @sophiehannahcb1. shows. In 2014 he wrote an England open their contact books and giving “We understand our world through the performed all over the world. World Cup song with accompanying generously of their time and ideas, stories we tell; they shape and move “Cheltenham is one of my favourite video starring the biggest names in us to action, often more powerfully “It’s an honour to be invited to be a literature festivals. I’ve never had British comedy. Like the England team, our Guest Directors are a defining than political polemic or even Guest Director for the Festival, which anything but a great time there, it failed miserably. feature of what makes Cheltenham legislation. That’s why writers have is surely one of the most beloved of whatever the event or occasion. It’s both special and different. Meet our always been a big part of Liberty and English institutions. I’m excited to wonderfully exciting to be attending “I’m flattered and honoured to be Guest why it’s thrilling to be involved with have the opportunity to both involve this year with Hercule Poirot!” Director at this wonderful festival. I’ve fab four_ this brilliant, engaging festival.” writers I admire and to initiate often felt falling flat on your face is discussions on themes that really Look for_ the essence of all learning. The bigger Look for_ interest me, from Indian reworkings of Agatha Christie and The the mistake, the more one learns and Shami Chakrabarti Shakespeare to assessing whether or Monogram Murders as I can think of few mistakes bigger L303, p.087 not the ‘idea of India’ has run out of L177, p. 062 than appointing me as a Guest Does Privacy Exist Anymore? steam. And, of course, to participate Why Do We All Love a Mystery? Director, I feel we're all going to learn L315, p.089 as both writer and musician.” L186, p.063 an awful lot.” Policing the Police Dead Good Crime Fiction L328, p.094 Look for_ events Look for_ India Day Introduction Omid Djalili L250, p.076 L238, p.073 India as an Article of Faith Celebrity Culture: How Will it L257, p.077 All End? Amit Chaudhuri L290, p.085 L268, p.079 Reworking The Classics L287, p.084 The Writing Life L338, p. 095 Join the conversation with #cheltlitfest Programme A5 pages 1-23 ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 15:35 Page 8 Programme A5 pages 1-23 ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 15:35 Page 9
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Supported by Sir Michael Locally Sourced and Lady McWilliam Natural World Poetry Politics & Current Affairs Psychology Religion & Spirituality Science & Technology Spain Sport Studio, Stage & Screen Travel Book ahead and save 10% Thank you to Cheltenham Ladies’ College who support our Inspirational Women events, University of Gloucestershire for their support of the Laurie Lee collection and the Arts & on tickets with Membership Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for their series exploring digital transformations. Programme A5 pages 1-23 ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 15:35 Page 10 Programme A5 pages 1-23 ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 15:35 Page 11
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The Times and The Sunday Times This is the ninth year for The Times and the are delighted to sponsor the first year for its sister paper, The Sunday Times. Writers from both titles will take part Cheltenham Literature Festival in a variety of events over the next 10 days. Columnist Caitlin Moran will talk about her new book How to Build a Girl, and foreign correspondent Anthony Loyd and photographer Jack Hill will recall their ordeal earlier this year in Syria. Robert Crampton will host another popular quiz night and The Times Debate will bring together luminaries of the education world.
Writers A. A. Gill, Camilla Long and Lynn Barber will be talking about the art of Some people like a quiet read. criticism. India Knight will debate the future Then there are the others, those who sit forward of celebrity culture and host a discussion on with eyes, ears, minds and pages open. the rise and rise of the marriage thriller, Rod They learn and discover every day, moving Liddle shares his acerbic views on modern things forward. society, art critic Waldemar Januszczak debates the merits or otherwise of And so do we. contemporary art and chief sports writer David Walsh quizzes Sol Campbell about So for the fi rst time in our 229-year history, racism in football and hosts a revealing we have compiled a collection of short interview with Kevin Pietersen. fi lms, as varied in their scope as they are in time and geography, to celebrate the signifi cant historical and cultural impact that Highlights from the Festival will appear in both The Times & The Sunday Times have had on papers with additional videos and reviews Britain and the world. on our digital platforms. Members of The Times and The Sunday Times can join us in The Unquiet Film Series. our Members Lounge to experience exclusive screenings, events and offers – Robert Crampton foreverunquiet.co.uk bringing you closer to our writers and authors.
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Tóibín, also shortlisted three times, have written what I think are two of the really outstanding novels of 2014, and Cheltenham offers the perfect opportunity to hear them talk about their fine new books. I would thoroughly recommend both. They’re joined by Edward St Aubyn, author of the masterful Patrick Melrose series, and Martin Amis, coming over especially from New York to talk about his new novel and about the life and work of his step-mother Elizabeth Jane Howard. Then there Andrew Holgate are David Mitchell, David Nicholls and Rose Literary Editor, The Sunday Times Tremain, and Richard Ford, whose seminal The Sportswriter would, if I had to choose my Desert Island novels, be high on my list of picks. “Fiction is the emotional heart of any literary festival – its real life-blood – and the fiction that’s I’m thrilled, too, that Mark Haddon has agreed to being celebrated at The Times and The Sunday come to the Festival, to talk about what is not only Times Cheltenham Literature Festival 2014 – the one of the best British novels of the last dozen years, first jointly sponsored by the two newspapers – but also one of the most popular and influential – offers pretty unimpeachable proof of the novel’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. rude and ruddy good health. I can’t remember a With the play of the novel opening on Broadway finer collection of novelists assembling at any this autumn, this is the perfect time to look back British literary festival than are appearing over the with him at the extraordinary effect the book has ten days of Cheltenham this year. had on the reading public.
There are, for instance, seven former winners of Cheltenham is making a point this year of introducing the Booker Prize taking to the stage over the 10 days you to and recommending some of the best new – enough to make a pretty formidable Man Booker novelists on the block, through the Fiction at 6 series, shortlist. So, as well as Margaret Atwood, you can and The Sunday Times will be launching the first in see Howard Jacobson, Hilary Mantel, Ian McEwan, what we hope will be a regular Must Read platform A stellar line-up of crime fiction writers takes to the stage at this year’s Festival. As part of our fiction Salman Rushdie, Ben Okri, and Kazuo Ishiguro, focusing on new writers we particularly admire, with focus in 2014, we present ‘Dead Good’ – a killer series of thrilling events featuring some of the world’s who’s making a special trip to Cheltenham to accept Emma Healey and the Costa winner Nathan Filer top crime writers. Curating the series is Festival Guest Director and author of the new Hercule Poirot The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. talking to me about their much-heralded books, novel The Monogram Murders, Sophie Hannah. Elizabeth is Missing and The Shock of the Fall. Excellence, in fact, is everywhere. Sarah Waters, “I’m so excited about the Dead Good strand of the Cheltenham Literature Festival this year. Some of shortlisted for the Booker three times, and Colm All in all, a real feast of fiction. I do hope you enjoy it.” my favourite crime writers will be there – Ruth Rendell and Val McDermid to name just two. It will be brilliant to see the best of contemporary crime fiction prominently featured at one of the best literary festivals.”
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Experience the magic of the Spiegeltent_
A glorious venue at the heart of the Festival, the tapas, or relax over a very British afternoon tea Spiegeltent is back for 2014 and will cast its with The Archers. Celebrate 75 years of Blue sumptuous spell over Cheltenham this October. Note Records, put your grey matter to the test with our ever popular quiz night with Robert Luxurious red velvet booths, wooden floors and Crampton and follow Scott and Shackleton on stained glass hark back to an ancient theatrical their extraordinary journeys. tradition when travelling entertainers took their shows on the road across Europe, performing Join us for a big night out and satisfy your senses under the gaze of mirrored walls and the soft with an evening of Indian cuisine and glow of lamps. entertainment with Hardeep Singh Kohli, take a trip through the lemon groves of Italy with With a decadent menu of exciting events to Helena Attlee or treat your taste buds with choose from, there is something for everyone in whisky and wine tasting. the indulgent surroundings of the ‘mirrored tent’ at the Festival. Top chefs such as Valentine Whatever your tastes, look no further than the Warner and Rachel Allen present their latest Spiegeltent at this year’s Literature Festival, recipes and cookbooks, as you tuck into a situated in the beautiful Montpellier Gardens, in delicious meal, sample Morito’s freshly prepared the heart of Regency Cheltenham. Programme A5 pages 1-23 ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 15:35 Page 16 Programme A5 pages 1-23 ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 15:35 Page 17
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Laurie Lee Waterstones is delighted to sponsor Cider with Rosie_ and once again be the official bookseller for The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival. You will find us in three beautiful book tents, including one for children, which we warmly encourage you to explore.
The Festival programme becomes ever Malorie Blackman more inspiring and thought provoking with every passing year, and we hope you find our “I was set down from the carrier’s cart at the age book selection to match. It is certainly enormously exciting for our booksellers to of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment host the signings after the events and to and terror my life in the village began.” welcome so many of you to this wonderful celebration of books. “Laurie Lee’s nostalgic memoir of childhood in a This year’s spectacular Festival line-up promises The opening of Cider with Rosie is one of the world’s remote Cotswold village is one of the best-loved to be diverse, inspiring and exhilarating. most widely-read and much-loved descriptions of coming-of-age novels in English Literature. We We are honoured to be sponsoring some very childhood discovery and, of course, rural hope that by making it this year’s Big Read, we special events with acclaimed novelist Ian Gloucestershire. Laurie Lee was born in Stroud in encourage a whole new generation of readers to McEwan, Waterstones Children’s Laureate 1914 and his evocative description of his childhood and a lost world of English rural life has become a discover the writing of Laurie Lee in this centenary Malorie Blackman and winner of the 2003 modern classic. And whilst Cider with year of his birth.” Turner Prize Grayson Perry. Rosie might be a celebration of childhood, As I Walked out One Alice Broderick, Publicity Director, Vintage Midsummer Morning, and A Moment of War went We look forward to seeing you there. Grayson Perry on to become equally powerful evocations of leaving home and reaching out for new horizons. I have so many memories of Laurie and As well as celebrating Cider with Rosie at the my own childhood in Gloucestershire; we Festival this year, we also focus on Laurie Lee’s would walk across the valley and up to poetry. Visit the newly inaugurated Gloucestershire Swift's Hill opposite Slad with great Wildlife Trust ‘Laurie Lee Wildlife Way’ and hear ‘‘ baskets of picnic and to look over towards from his daughter Jessy Lee who explores his art the river Severn to celebrate the seasons. published for the first time this year. Our collection I am hoping that the focus on Laurie's work culminates with a special celebration of his life and this year might introduce him to people contributions from today's admirers of his work. who have not yet read his work and also to introduce him as an artist. Every year we select a different title as our Festival JESSY LEE Big Read, in association with Vintage Classics. This year, we are delighted to share Lee’s wonderful work with you, through our Big Read Book Groups and special Big Read events.
Ian McEwan Michael Morpurgo, Joanna Trollope, Cerys Matthews and Chris Stewart join us to celebrate Laurie Lee's timeless classic in a special event on Saturday 4 October. Also, look out for our ever popular Big Read book groups taking place throughout the Festival. Thank you to University of Gloucestershire for their support of the Laurie Lee collection. Programme A5 pages 1-23 ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 15:35 Page 18 Programme A5 pages 1-23 ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 15:35 Page 19
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CHELTENHAM ILLUSTRATION AWARDS SPINELESS EXHIBITION 2014 CLASSICS TOWN HALL, Getting to the Festival_ MAIN HALL THE DRAWING ROOM Cheltenham is easily accessible from all (ENTRANCE VIA IMPERIAL SQUARE) over the country, by road and rail. For information on public transport and car parks go to cheltenhamfestivals.com/your-visit
Discovery Trail_ FREE – throughout the Festival Finding Our Venues_ Follow the trail around Imperial Gardens IMPERIAL THE SUNDAY TIMES Most events take place on the main and uncover the inspiration behind your CAFÉ GARDEN THEATRE Festival sites, located in central favourite children’s characters. Pick up BOX OFFICE Cheltenham on Montpellier Gardens your entry form at the Dean Close tent. GREEN & (GL50 1UW) and Imperial Square (GL50 CHELTENHAM BLACK’S LADIES’ 1QA) – just a 9 minute walk apart. All BAILLIE VIKING COLLEGE other venues are also within walking CRUISES DEAN CLOSE GIFFORD distance. & DISCOVERY TRAIL THE INKPOT WATERSTONES Waterstones Children’s BOOK TENT Hideaway_ WATERSTONES Venues on Imperial CHILDREN’S Open 9.30am – 6pm, 3-12 October HIDEAWAY Square (GL50 1QA): Come and discover the fantastic THE STUDIO — Cheltenham Town Hall and Drawing children’s book tent – browse through all Room the delightful books on offer and meet — The Sunday Times Garden Theatre your favourite authors after their event. — The Inkpot — The Studio — Waterstones Children’s Hideaway
Fun for all the family Venues in Montpellier for free Gardens (GL50 1UW): 11am-2pm, Sundays 5 and 12 October — The Salon Imperial Square & Waterstones — The Spiegeltent Children’s Hideaway — The Times Forum Come and join in the fun with
MONTPELLIER GARDENS storytelling, dressing-up, free arts and THIS WAY Other Venues_ crafts activities, traditional Punch and
Judy shows, circus skills, and face- Parabola Arts Centre and Dance Studio, Cheltenham Ladies’ College: GL50 3AA painting. To find out more about free (9 MIN WALK) Eat, Drink and be Merry_ activities and the Waterstones Children’s The Queen’s Hotel: GL50 1NN Hideaway, go to The Imperial Café will offer a range of hot Princess Hall, Cheltenham Ladies’ cheltenhamfestivals.com/festival-guide and cold drinks, sandwiches, salads to College: GL50 3EP keep you going throughout the day – Cheltenham College Chapel: GL53 7LD including wine and champagne from Laithwaite’s, cider from Henry Westons Waterstones Book Tent and coffee from Café Direct. The Town Thank you to our suppliers_ Hall Regency Café will serve up a variety Author book signings will be held in the of hot meals and children’s options – and Waterstones Book Tent. the outdoor Garden Bar will be open throughout the Festival.
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Montpellier Café Bar Enjoy a fantastic range of food and drink, including wine and champagne from Laithwaite’s, cider from Henry Westons THE SALON and coffee from Café Direct. Caterers HSBC (ENTRANCE VIA CAFÉ BAR) Relish return to our Montpellier Café Bar HOSPITALITY THE TIMES FORUM LOUNGE for a fourth year, as well as cooking fabulous meals in the Spiegeltent,
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CLUB BOOK TENT Very Short Introductions, THIS WAY WAY THIS IMPERIAL SQUARE SQUARE IMPERIAL WAITROSE FREE, 6-10 Oct,11am RHS MALVERN LAITHWAITE’S BOBOX OFFICE GARDEN WINE Top speakers, authors and specialists THE TIMES AND take to their soapbox for Very Short THE SUNDAY TIMES Introductions to diverse and fascinating MEMBERS LOUNGE topics, in association with Oxford RADIO TIMES University Press. Free intellectual stimulation with your cappuccino! Waterstones Book Tent_ Crosswords with The Times, Author book signings will be held in the FREE, 6-10 Oct,11am-12noon Waterstones Book Tent. TOILETS Make yourself comfy as The Times Crossword Editor takes you through the mysteries of the day’s crossword puzzles with a helping hand or tantalising The Spiegeltent_ hint where needed! A glorious venue at the heart of the The Supper Club Festival, offering a dazzling array of TOILETS New for this year is The Supper Club, unique events. See top speakers, which will host a series of dining authors, chefs and more in this luxurious Venues on Imperial experiences. Set menus for every sitting, setting, as you enjoy everything from a Square (GL50 1QA): creative cookery using wonderful local produce and a reserved dining space in hearty lunch to afternoon tea, from a — Cheltenham Town Hall and Drawing keeping with the Festival experience. delicious dinner to whisky tasting. Room To see what the Supper Club has to offer Getting to the Festival_ — The Sunday Times Garden Theatre visit relishevent.co.uk — The Inkpot Cheltenham is easily accessible from all Book by contacting the Relish team on — The Studio over the country, by road and rail. For 01285 658444. Laithwaite’s Wine — Waterstones Children’s Hideaway Readings_ information on public transport and car parks go to Venues in Montpellier A series of free readings by Festival cheltenhamfestivals.com/your-visit speakers will be held in the Laithwaite’s Gardens (GL50 1UW): Wine tent. See their blackboard outside — The Salon for details. — The Spiegeltent — The Times Forum Finding Our Venues_ Other Venues_ Most events take place on the main Festival sites, located in central Parabola Arts Centre and Dance Studio, Cheltenham on Montpellier Gardens Cheltenham Ladies’ College: GL50 3AA Thank you to our suppliers_ (GL50 1UW) and Imperial Square (GL50 The Queen’s Hotel: GL50 1NN 1QA) – just a 9 minute walk apart. All Princess Hall, Cheltenham Ladies’ other venues are also within walking College: GL50 3EP distance. Cheltenham College Chapel: GL53 7LD For Imperial Square see pages 18 -19. Programme A5 pages 1-23 ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 15:35 Page 22 Programme A5 pages 1-23 ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 15:35 Page 23
With appearances from world-renowned chef Heston Blumenthal, Michelin starred chef Tom Kerridge and cricket legend Geoffrey Boycott, Waitrose is delighted to be serving up such an exciting menu of top notch speakers at this year’s Festival. At the University of Warwick As a university that champions independent Don’t miss Heston discussing his life in food thinking, Warwick’s key strengths include and new book, Historic Heston, Tom sharing we create new ways of our relevance to society and close links with his career highlights and Geoffrey sharing his thinking and achieving. business, industry and the arts – epitomised first autobiographical work for 15 years, The by Warwick Arts Centre and the Warwick Corridor of Certainty. Waitrose managing We’re not afraid to upset the Prize for Writing. director Mark Price will be giving his insight into the world of modern food retailing in his apple cart or put the cat At this year’s Festival you’ll be on the edge conversation session and, as Chairman of among the pigeons. of your seat as you enjoy our Warwick Business in the Community, sharing his Commission Debate: What Future for thoughts on the role of responsible business Words?, chaired by Roly Keating. in our society – can successful business be good business? You will also get the opportunity to hear from Naomi Klein, the first winner of the You will find our stand located within Warwick Prize for Writing, an innovative Montpellier Gardens, we would be delighted literature prize that involves global to see you there. competition.
Hilary Mantel Naomi Klein Thanks to the University of Warwick's involvement in this year's Festival, you can also enjoy two other brilliant events: one featuring Booker Prize-winner Hilary Mantel and the topical debate Are We Too Tolerant of Intolerance?
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Described as a rare combination of Friday 03 October_ scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all life’s diversity, Wade also has a job title to be envied: Early Afternoon Evening Explorer-in Residence at the National Tristram Hunt (L001) IS The Rise of the Anti-Heroine (L016) IS Geographic Society. Named as one of the Explorers for the Millennium, the Roy Strong (L002) MG Caitlin Moran (L017) MG stamps in his passport reflect his work The Times Live (L003) MG Are We Too Tolerant in some of the world’s most exotic Laurie Lee’s Cider With Rosie (L004) IS of Intolerance? (L018) IS places… and now he can add Cheltenham to this list! Modernity Britain: 1959–62 (L005) IS Wade Davis (L019) IS The Great Outdoors (L006) MG Henry Winkler (L020) IS The Pike: Gabriele D’Annunzio (L007) IS The Velvet Revolution (L021) MG Eleanor Marx: A Life (L008) MG Paul Merton (L022) MG David Mitchell (L023) IS
Mid Afternoon Martin Creed (L024) IS Times Eyewitness: Will Self (L025) MG The News in Pictures (L009) IS The Art of Flamenco (L026) IS Bright Bazaar: Embracing Colour for Make-You-Smile Style (L010) IS Michael Rosen (L011) IS Alcázar, Alhambra and the Legacy of the Moors (L012) IS Tweet of the Day: A Year of Britain’s Birds (L013) IS David Mitchell_
Ian McEwan (L014) MG L023, 8.30-9.30pm Irving Finkel (L015) MG From the labyrinth of interlocking , The Art of Flamenco_ century-spanning stories that made up Cloud Atlas to the surprise move to L026, 8.30-9.45pm publishing his latest short story in 140-character bursts on Twitter, David We knew there was more to flamenco Mitchell has quickly earned a than the castanet-clicking stereotype. reputation as a boundary-pushing Full of passion and pain, part ecstasy storyteller who continues to thrill and and part desperation, its history is surprise. We are delighted to complex. Take this unique opportunity welcome one of contemporary to experience flamenco's influences – fiction’s most distinctive and inventive from ancient dances of the Indian voices as he introduces his Hindus to the tortured landscapes of kaleidoscopic metaphysical thriller Andalucia’s mining basins and the The Bone Clocks. musical traditions of Latin America – with live performances curated by one of the brightest rising stars on the UK scene. IS – Imperial Square MG – Montpellier Gardens Go to cheltenhamfestivals.com/booking to create OS – Off Site your Wish List for quicker, easier booking Fri 3 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:31 Page 3 Fri 3 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:31 Page 4
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HISTORY JOURNALISM NATURAL WORLD JOURNALISM SPAIN Tristram Hunt The Times Live The Great Outdoors Times Eyewitness: Alcázar, Alhambra and Ten Cities that Made an Empire Join leader writer Philip Collins, Danny The News in Pictures the Legacy of the What really goes on in the long grass? The final embers of the British Empire are Finkelstein, David Aaronovitch and the Award-winning The Times photographer Moors What lies beneath the mystery of the dying but its legacy remains. In this rest of the The Times leader writing team Jack Hill has travelled the world covering The Islamic presence in the Iberian moor? Which butterflies can tell you how illustrated talk, historian and politician as they debate topical issues and decide the biggest stories of our age. He reflects Peninsula lasted nearly 800 years, leaving far it is to the pub? Writers Will Atkins Tristram Hunt examines the stories and the subjects of the famous leading articles on his nomadic life and shares some of an indelible architectural stamp and a rich (The Moor) and John Lewis-Stempel defining ideas of the most important cities for the following day. the pictures that are most important to body of learning in science, art and (Meadowland) and natural navigator shaped by an Empire. him. philosophy, later transmitted to the rest of Montpellier Gardens, The Salon Tristan Gooley (The Walker’s Guide to Europe. Art historian Lara Eggleton and Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall 12noon-1pm, Outdoor Clues and Signs) discuss the Imperial Square, The Studio * travel writer Jason Webster (Blood Med; 12noon-1pm, £7 Members 10% off L003 great outdoors and our relationship with it. 3.45-4.45pm, Andalus) reveal the cultural legacy of £8 Members 10% off L001 £8 Members 10% off L009 Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum Spain’s Moorish past in an illustrated FICTION 2-3pm, £8 Members 10% off L006 discussion with Lucy Hughes-Hallett. Ian McEwan Imperial Square, The Inkpot The Children Act 4-5pm, £8 Members 10% off L012 HISTORY Should a secular court overrule sincerely THE BIG READ held faith when a life is at risk? Religious The Pike: Gabriele LIFESTYLE Laurie Lee’s Cider D’Annunzio beliefs and adult responsibility are put on With Rosie Bright Bazaar: trial as prize-winning author Ian McEwan The winner of the 2013 Samuel Johnson The Big Read Book Group Embracing Colour for discusses the themes of his new novel, Prize and acclaimed historian Lucy In this centenary year of Laurie Lee’s birth, Make-You-Smile Style The Children Act, with Alan Ward, former Hughes-Hallett charts the controversial we celebrate the Gloucestershire-born Looking to inject inspiration into your Lord Justice of Appeal. Chaired by Alice life and outrageous career of Gabriele author by revisiting his best loved work, home decor? Have your questions at the Thomson of The Times. D’Annunzio; the debauched artist, Cider with Rosie. Join us at one of our ready for leading interior design blogger In memory of Deborah Rogers. daredevil and Fascist who became a book groups – whether you are new to the Will Taylor of Bright.Bazaar, as he offers national hero. Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum book or just want to read it again. his refreshing take on colour in the home. 4-5pm, £10 Members 10% off L014 Imperial Square, The Inkpot Imperial Square, Town Hall, Imperial Square, Town Hall, 2-3pm, £8 Members 10% off L007 The Drawing Room * The Drawing Room * 12.30-1.30pm, 3.45-5pm, £3 Members 10% off L004 £8 Members 10% off L010 NATURAL WORLD Tweet of the Day: A RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY Year of Britain’s Birds HISTORY Irving Finkel With its daily dose of birdsong, BBC Radio Eleanor Marx: A Life The Ark Before Noah 4’s Tweet of the Day has delighted over a In this illustrated talk, the British Museum’s Unrestrained by convention, social million listeners in its first year. Series Irving Finkel decodes one of the world’s activist and literary translator Eleanor producer Brett Westwood and naturalist most famous myths – offering Marx was an exceptional woman. Rachel Stephen Moss discuss their beautifully LIFESTYLE unanticipated revelations surrounding the Holmes tells the story of one of the first illustrated guide celebrating almost 250 story of the flood. Roy Strong modern feminists who helped transform species featured on the programme, and take Remaking a Garden – The Laskett British politics in the 19th century. you through the changing lives of Britain’s Montpellier Gardens, The Salon 4.30-5.30pm, Transformed Montpellier Gardens, The Salon birds – their songs, calls and habits. The Laskett Garden in Herefordshire, the £7 Members 10% off L015 2.30-3.30pm, Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall largest private formal garden to be £8 Members 10% off L008 LIFESTYLE 4-5pm, £8 Members 10% off L013 created in England since 1945, was a labour of love, cultivated over 30 years by Michael Rosen HISTORY Roy Strong and his wife Julia Trevelyan Good Ideas: How To Be Your Child’s Oman. Roy speaks to leading gardening Modernity Britain: (And Your Own) Best Teacher writer Tim Richardson about the decade 1959–62 Former Children’s Laureate, million-selling he has spent recreating the garden Through a rich haul of diaries, letters and author and Book It! 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FICTION AT 6 POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS ART & DESIGN AGE 7 The Rise of the Are We Too Tolerant of TO Martin Creed Anti-Heroine Intolerance? ADULT Works Writer and journalist Rachel Johnson We can either recognise people as equal, Simultaneously subtle and spectacular, talks to Harriet Lane (Her), Zoe Pilger or cultures as equal – we cannot do both. austere and playful, the artist joins us for a (Eat My Heart Out) and Helen Walsh (The Should we tolerate beliefs and behaviour part performance, part talk delivered in his Lemon Grove) about their fictional ‘anti- that we consider repressive? Journalist own highly original style. Expect the heroines’ who are fast becoming poster Abdul-Rehman Malik explores this unexpected. girls for the modern woman. conflict in today’s multicultural Britain Imperial Square, The Inkpot with The Times journalist David Imperial Square, Town Hall, 8.30-9.30pm, Aaronovitch, Claire Fox, Director of the The Drawing Room * £8 Members 10% off L024 Institute of Ideas, Matthew Goodwin 6-7.15pm, £7 L016 (Revolt on the Right) and award-winning Ticket includes a glass of comedian Shazia Mirza. Laithwaite’s wine. STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall Paul Merton 6.15-7.15pm, Only When I Laugh £10 Members 10% off L018 Henry Winkler Only When I Laugh is a rich and Henry Winkler, AKA the Fonz, has a new beautifully-observed memoir from one of generation of young fans following the Britain’s most established and best-loved success of his Hank Zipzer, the World’s comedians. In this revealing interview Greatest Underachiever books – now the Paul Merton offers a witty and evocative number one TV show on CBBC. Joined by account of his life so far. Chaired by the SPAIN Nicky Cox, First News children’s BBC’s John Wilson. newspaper editor, Henry talks about The Art of Flamenco Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum overcoming the challenges of dyslexia, An art form born of suffering and pain, 8.15-9.30pm, reads from his hilarious books and flamenco’s roots lie in Andalusia’s melting £16 Members 10% off L022 answers all your questions. pot of Moorish, Jewish and Christian Imperial Square, cultures. Jason Webster (Blood Med; The Sunday Times Garden Theatre Duende) and James Woodall (In Search 6.15-7.15pm, of the Firedance) explore the origins and traditions of flamenco, brought to life with £7 Members 10% off L020 performances by guitarist Jero Férec, dancer María Vega and vocalist Cécile Evrot. TRAVEL FICTION Wade Davis FICTION Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall Caitlin Moran Will Self 8.30-9.45pm, One River HISTORY £12 Members 10% off L026 How to Build a Girl The Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, The Velvet Revolution Shark Often outrageous and always hilarious, photographer and author of Into the Author and journalist Will Self introduces The Times columnist Caitlin Moran joins Silence joins us to share his extraordinary November marks 25 years since Václav his mind-bending new novel. Loosely us in conversation with Hugo Rifkind to and inspirational stories of exploration and Havel led the extraordinary end of following on from his Man Booker introduce her debut coming-of-age novel; discovery in the Amazon Rainforest. communist rule in Czechoslovakia. shortlisted Umbrella, Shark runs across capturing the terror and joy of trying to Journalist and author Victor Sebestyen several decades and narratives exploring Imperial Square, The Inkpot discover exactly who it is you’ll turn out (1946: The Making of the Modern World) the intersection of pathology and war. 6.15-7.15pm, to be. and Havel’s former press secretary, FICTION £8 Members 10% off L019 Montpellier Gardens, The Salon spokesman and lifelong friend Michael Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum 8.30-9.30pm, Žantovský (Havel: A Life), look back at the David Mitchell 6.15-7.15pm, £8 Members 10% off L025 Velvet Revolution and the remarkable life The Bone Clocks £16 Members 10% off L017 of the man behind it all. Bestselling author of Cloud Atlas and Montpellier Gardens, The Salon Black Swan Green David Mitchell joins 6.30-7.30pm, us to discuss his career and new metaphysical thriller The Bone Clocks. £8 Members 10% off L021 Chaired by writer and critic Nicolette Jones. Imperial Square, Search using the Quickfind Code at The Sunday Times Garden Theatre 8.30-9.30pm, cheltenhamfestivals.com to find £10 Members 10% off L023 your event instantly *These events have unreserved seating Sat 4 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:32 Page 1 Sat 4 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:32 Page 2
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We’re very excited to welcome one of Saturday 04 October_ the world’s leading writers to the Festival. Described by The Sunday Times as “a writer of virtuoso Morning Mid Afternoon diversity”, Margaret Atwood joins us David Hempleman-Adams (L027) IS Kate Atkinson (L045) IS to talk about both the MaddAddam trilogy in which “wit and dark humour Sonic Wonderland: Lizzie Bennet’s Diary (LB16) IS combine with compassionate A Scientific Odyssey of Sound (L028) IS Laurie Lee’s Cider with Rosie (L046) IS tenderness…” (Independent) and her A Spy Among Friends (L029) MG John Browne (L047) IS hotly anticipated and intriguingly titled Raising Teenagers (L030) MG new collection of nine short stories Are You Happy? (L048) MG Stone Mattress. Michael Morpurgo and Afternoon Tea with the Archers (L049) MG Helen Stephens (LB03) IS Emma Freud meets Robert Peston (L050) MG Young Women’s Guide To Life (L031) MG Teen Fiction Picks With Long Live TV Critics! (L032) IS Richard Curtis and Nicolette Jones (L051) IS Mike Scott_ Kazuo Ishiguro (L033) IS The Many Faces of Jonathan Yeo (L052) IS Malorie Blackman (LB08) IS What is the Lure of the Dystopia? (L053) IS L064, 8.45-9.45pm Douglas Adams: A Celebration (L034) MG The 2014 Wellcome Book Prize (L054) MG One of the delights of programming On Writers, Readers and The Times Eyewitness: the Festival is discovering unexpected Losing our Minds (L035) MG World War One (L055) IS and intriguing connections between famous friends. So when we heard about Richard Curtis’s great affection Early Afternoon Evening for Mike (Waterboys) Scott and his music we couldn’t wait to ask them to The Planets (L036) IS How to Get Your Children’s share a stage. Luckily they both said Ears Wide Open: a Sound Walk (L037) IS Book Published (LB22) IS yes, and we look forward to a warm Margaret Atwood (L038) IS Nick Hornby (L056) MG and funny exploration of the power of The Translation Duel! (L039) IS Chris Stewart (L057) IS songs, the art of song writing, and of course the secret of creating one hit Does Christianity Have A Future? (L040) IS Tanya Byron (L058) IS The Times Debate – A movie after another. Good School For All?_ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (LB12) OS Jonathan Meades (L059) OS Jekyll & Hyde (L042) MG Rose Tremain (L060) MG L044 , 2-3.15pm Peter and the Wolf and other Pele Cox (L061) IS With the (recently reshuffled) Michael Russian Tales (L043) MG The Philosopher’s Dinner (L062) MG Gove ruffling feathers at the DofE, the What Will the Buildings of the Frank Gardner (L063) IS proliferation of free schools, faith Future Look Like? (L041) IS schools and academies and complaints Richard Curtis and Mike Scott (L064) MG A Good School For All? from employers that school leavers The Times Debate (L044) MG Managing Change (L065) IS are still not fit for purpose, education was the irresistible choice for The Times Present Tense: Syria (L066) IS Debate. From a home-schooled writer How to Speak Money (L067) MG to a government minister, find out what our eclectic group of original thinkers Stephen Ward Was Innocent, OK (L068) IS makes of the state of our schools.
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Michael Morpurgo and Helen Stephens There’s magic and adventure afoot when Mimi finds a baby dragon in the woodshed. Join Michael Morpurgo and Helen Stephens for this spellbinding event as Michael reads from their latest book together Mimi and the Mountain Dragon while Helen brings the story to life before your eyes with live illustration. STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN Imperial Square, Douglas Adams: The Sunday Times Garden Theatre A Celebration 10-11am, £7 Members 10% off LB03 Malorie Blackman Before the Vogons arrive, Clive Anderson HISTORY turns on the improbability drive as the Join Malorie Blackman with Guest Director author of The Frood Jem Roberts, A Spy Among Friends Michael Rosen as she talks about her TRAVEL LIFESTYLE Douglas Adams’ half-brother James bestselling Noughts & Crosses series, What made Britain’s most notorious spy Thrift and the Adams’ estate curator and David Hempleman- Young Women’s Guide Kazuo Ishiguro why she enjoys writing for teens and her tick? How did he get away with such literary agent Ed Victor share their Adams To Life current role as Children’s Laureate. treachery for so long? The Times The Sunday Times Award for Literary memories of Douglas Adams and his No Such Thing As Failure Associate Editor Ben Macintyre brings to Popular Guardian columnists Hadley Excellence Imperial Square, The Inkpot * work. With exclusive readings from One of the world’s greatest adventurers life Kim Philby’s world of subterfuge and Freeman (Be Awesome) and Sali Hughes Best known for Man Booker Prize winning 11.45am-12.45pm, Monty Python’s Terry Jones, and novel The Remains of The Day and Never takes us through his extraordinary memoir double-cross. (Pretty Honest) bring their incisive and £7 Members 10% off LB08 possibly a sperm whale. and travelogue, detailing many of his witty approach to modern life to the Let Me Go, Japanese-born British novelist Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum daring and record-breaking feats from Spiegeltent, tackling body image, beauty Kazuo Ishiguro is the latest winner of the 10-11am, 11.45am-1pm, across the globe. and feminism head on, while celebrating distinguished The Sunday Times Award £8 Members 10% off L029 £12 Members 10% off L034 the best bits of being a woman. for Literary Excellence – previous Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall recipients have included Ted Hughes, 10-11am, Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * Seamus Heaney, Anne Tyler and Harold £8 Members 10% off L027 10.30am-12noon, £20 L031 Pinter. With new novel The Buried Giant SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Ticket includes an awesome brunch. due in March, he reflects on his work with On Writers, Readers The Sunday Times chief fiction reviewer and Losing our Minds NATURAL WORLD PSYCHOLOGY Peter Kemp. Sonic Wonderland: Raising Teenagers STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN What is the internet doing to readers and Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall writers? Are we entering a brave A Scientific Odyssey of Long Live TV Critics! 11.45am-12.45pm, Sound Imposing discipline, allowing freedom and new world or is the online world accepting constantly changing Has Twitter killed off the professional TV £10 Members 10% off L033 destroying literature, and us as readers? In a world dominated by images, Trevor relationships – psychologist and writer critic? Certainly not, says Radio Times’ Will Self will debate the topic in fine style Cox invites you to open your ears to the Tanya Byron (The Skeleton Cupboard) Alison Graham, who discusses with RT with author and PEN Chair Maureen world’s greatest acoustic phenomena, with broadcaster and columnist Liz editor Ben Preston whether knowledgeable Freely, Penguin Random House’s Dan from the singing sand dunes of the Mojave Fraser (Lifeshambles) explores the many guidance about television will ever be Franklin and Writers’ Centre Norwich’s Desert to the soundtrack of daily life. pleasures and pitfalls of raising teenagers. replaced by social media chatter. Chris Gribble. Part of a National Imperial Square, The Inkpot Montpellier Gardens, The Salon Imperial Square, Town Hall, Conversation led by Writers’ Centre 10-11am, 10-11am, The Drawing Room * Norwich. nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk £7 Members 10% off L028 £8 Members 10% off L030 11.30am-12.30pm, Montpellier Gardens, The Salon FREE L032 11.45am-1.15pm, £8 Members 10% off L035
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BRAVE NEW WORLDS BRAVE NEW WORLDS AGE 8 BRAVE NEW WORLDS TO What Will the Buildings of the Future ADULT A Good School For All? Look Like? The Times Debate Charlie and the Our homes of the future will have to adapt. But what will they look like and Chocolate Factory Education excites the fiercest arguments: should schools promote British who will be able to afford them? George Marshall (Don’t Even Think About values? Should we teach facts or learning skills and what defines a good It), Jonathan Meades (An Encyclopaedia of Myself), Jonathon Porritt What magical wonders await you at this school? Camila Batmanghelidjh of Kids Company, The Times journalist (The World We Made) and Hugh Pearman of The Sunday Times examine unique occasion celebrating fifty Caitlin Moran, Conservative MP and Education Minister Nick Gibb, whipplescrumptious years of Charlie and the challenges that will face politicians, planners and architects. the Chocolate Factory! Join former Educating Essex’s Stephen Drew, and the outgoing Head Master of Eton Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen and College Tony Little join Alice Thomson of The Times to thrash out the big Imperial Square, The Sunday Times Garden Theatre questions about the future of British education. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Guardian journalist Lucy Mangan for all 2-3pm, £8 Members 10% off L041 things astonishing, perplexing and The Planets intriguing about the book – plus quizzes, Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum film clips, readings, music and more! For Space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock 2-3.15pm, £12 Members 10% off L044 takes you on an awe-inspiring journey Chocolate fans of all ages. through the Solar System, with data from Parabola Arts Centre * NASA and the European Space Agency – 1.45-2.45pm, from planets, moons, and asteroids to the £6 Members 10% off LB12 latest Mars rover missions. The Translation Duel! Imperial Square, The Harvill Secker Young Translators’ AGE 8 The Sunday Times Garden Theatre SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Prize TO 12noon-1pm, Two eminent translators go head-to-head Jekyll & Hyde ADULT £8 Members 10% off L036 with rival versions of the same text. Shaun When Gothic tales first appeared, they Whiteside has translated over 50 books, quickened the pulse and sent shivers while Sally-Ann Spencer is a translator, NATURAL WORLD down the spine. As the age of the editor and literary curator. They come biohacker dawns, join Simon Evans Ears Wide Open: armed with independent translations of a (SlingShot) and Anthony Mandal (Cardiff a Sound Walk short German text – expect intriguing University) as they present Jekyll 2.0. Experience Cheltenham like never before discrepancies and heated discussion. Watch as an audience member’s body is with Trevor Cox, Professor of Acoustic Imperial Square, Town Hall, wired up to measure their live reaction to Engineering and author of Sonic The Drawing Room * Stevenson’s classic spine-chilling novel! Wonderland: A Scientific Odyssey of 1.30-2.30pm, Montpellier Gardens, The Salon Sound. On this guided walk hear the £7 Members 10% off L039 2-3pm, £7 Members 10% off L042 everyday acoustic wonders we often Supported by The Harvill Secker Young miss and rediscover the skill of listening. Translators’ Prize Lizzie Bennet’s Diary Depart from Imperial Square Join Marcia Williams, creator of Lizzy 12noon-1.30pm, RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY Bennet’s Diary, for afternoon tea to talk £15 Members 10% off L037 about her love of Jane Austen and Pride Full details at cheltenhamfestivals.com Does Christianity Have AGE 6+ and Prejudice. The perfect introduction to FICTION A Future? Jane and one of her best-loved heroines! STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN FICTION Margaret Atwood Exploring the challenges facing Christianity Peter and the Wolf Imperial Square, Town Hall, in the 21st century - from thorny gender Kate Atkinson The Drawing Room * Multi award-winning Margaret Atwood issues to the church’s often controversial and other Russian Tales is at the top of her darkly humorous and Life After Life 3.15-4.15pm, LB16 role in politics, economics and public life - Join Little Wolf Gang for an enchanting seriously playful game. She joins Nicolette What if you had the chance to live your life £7 Ticket includes afternoon tea. minister and author John Bell (Ten Things performance of Prokofiev’s much loved Jones to discuss MaddAddam, the final again and again, until you finally got it They Never Told Me About Jesus), Francis children’s musical symphony Peter and the part of her dystopian trilogy, and her new right? Bestselling author Kate Atkinson Spufford (Unapologetic) and former Roman Wolf. Listen to accomplished storyteller collection of short stories Stone Mattress. discusses her writing and reflects on her Catholic nun Lavinia Byrne discuss the Martin Maudsley and three virtuoso novel Life After Life. Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall future of the church and its role in today’s musicians on accordion, bassoon and violin 1.30-2.30pm, multicultural society. in the magical setting of the Spiegeltent. This Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall £10 Members 10% off L038 brand new interpretation of the masterpiece 3.15-4.15pm, Imperial Square, The Inkpot £10 Members 10% off L045 1.45-2.45pm, is performed alongside two other £7 Members 10% off L040 marvellously musical tales from Russia. Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * 2-3pm, £7 Members 10% off L043 *These events have unreserved seating Sat 4 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:32 Page 7 Sat 4 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:32 Page 8
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JOURNALISM BRAVE NEW WORLDS Times Eyewitness: What is the Lure of the Dystopia? World War One Welcome to the world of the dystopia: of government and society gone What can we learn from contemporary accounts of the Great War and its impact nightmarishly wrong. From1984 to The Handmaid’s Tale, this image has been on soldiers and the home front? Join a gripping cautionary force. Ken MacLeod (Descent), Jane Rogers (The historians Ben Macintyre of The Times Testament of Jessie Lamb) and Brian Aldiss (Helliconia), join chair Adam and Mark Pottle (Margot Asquith's Great Roberts (Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea) to explore fiction’s greatest War Diary), archivist Nick Mays of The nightmare visions and their enduring appeal. Times and author Izzy Charman (The Great War: The People’s Story) as they examine this rich and invaluable resource, AGE Imperial Square, The Inkpot with the help of rarely seen original 4-7 5.30-6.30pm, £8 Members 10% off L053 material from The Times archive. ART & DESIGN Imperial Square, Nick Butterworth The Many Faces of The Sunday Times Garden Theatre LB17 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Jonathan Yeo 5.45-6.45pm, See cheltenhamfestivals.com for details £8 Members 10% off L055 Are You Happy? Over more than a decade, Jonathan Yeo has gained an international reputation for What is happiness? How do we measure JOURNALISM painting some of the most famous faces it – or increase it? Using the results of an Emma Freud meets of our age, from Stephen Fry to Rupert Arts and Humanities Research Council Robert Peston Murdoch, Tony Blair to Sienna Miller. The funded project, economist Richard Layard, In this very personal conversation, the celebrated artist joins his good friend, Director of the Institute for Creative and AGE 14 fearless BBC Economics Editor shares his columnist and restaurant critic for The Cultural Entrepreneurship Gerald Lidstone TO views on the state of the media, cancer Times Giles Coren, in conversation. and Mandy Rose, Director of Searching ADULT treatment in Britain, how grief is so poorly for Happiness and the Digital Cultures Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall understood today, why football matters, Research Centre, University of the West 5.15-6.15pm, How to Get Your whether the economy is fixed, and more. of England, examine how different people £10 Members 10% off L052 Children’s Book view happiness. Published Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum Montpellier Gardens, The Salon 4.45-5.45pm, Join Barry Cunningham, Chicken House 3.45-4.45pm, £10 Members 10% off L050 MD and famous for signing up JK Rowling, £7 Members 10% off L048 Sophia Bennett, the second winner of The Times/Chicken House Children’s The 2014 Wellcome Fiction competition, Arts Editor of The Book Prize Times Alex O’Connell, and Zoe King, What are the challenges and pleasures of literary agent at the Blair Partnership for BIG READ AGE 12 translating medicine and science onto the an inspiring discussion on what makes a LIFESTYLE TO page? Wellcome Book Prize-shortlisted good book and how to get published. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Laurie Lee’s Cider ADULT authors Adam Rutherford (Creation), Afternoon Tea with the Imperial Square, The Studio * with Rosie John Browne Emily Mayhew (Wounded) and Sarah Archers 6-7.30pm, FICTION Wise (Inconvenient People) discuss their In the centenary year of Laurie Lee’s birth, The Glass Closet: Why Coming Out is £12 Members 10% off LB22 Now in its 64th year The Archers is more we celebrate his vivid memoir, Cider with Good Business books and reveal the fascinating and popular than ever, with a growing online Teen Fiction Picks Rosie, this year’s Big Read at Cheltenham, Homophobia still pervades corporations intriguing stories behind how they were community following the twists and turns With Nicolette Jones by bringing together four Lee devotees; around the world today, creating immense researched, developed and written. of life in Ambridge. The show’s editor Cerys Matthews and Michael Morpurgo, challenges for LGBT employees. John Still hungry after The Hunger Games? Chaired by Vivienne Parry. Sean O’Connor, cast members Charles Looking for a new John Green? The Sunday who introduce the new Vintage Classic Browne, former CEO of BP, addresses the Montpellier Gardens, The Salon Collingwood (Brian Aldridge), Angela Piper Times Children’s Books Editor Nicolette anniversary editions, travel writer Chris issues in his new part memoir, part social 5.30-6.30pm, (Jennifer Aldridge) and Louiza Patikas Jones talks to two readers with their Stewart and Joanna Trollope, who criticism The Glass Closet in conversation £7 Members 10% off L054 (Helen Archer), discuss its enduring regularly names this enchanting classic as with the BBC broadcaster Paddy O’Connell. fingers on the pulse of Young Adult fiction, one of her favourite reads. appeal and share some insider gossip. her daughter Rebecca Clee and teen Imperial Square, The Inkpot Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * book blogger Lucy Powrie, about the Imperial Square, 3.45-4.45pm, latest trends and what to read next. 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LIFESTYLE JOURNALISM The Philosopher’s Present Tense: Syria Dinner Anthony Loyd, The Times war An ethically sourced feast of food, wine correspondent who was recently injured and philosophy with Julian Baggini (The reporting from Syria, evaluates the Syrian Virtues of the Table) and wine philosopher crisis with Diana Darke, author of My Barry Smith. They discuss the pleasures House in Damascus, and questions what of eating and the link between how our might happen next. food is sourced and how it tastes. Imperial Square, The Studio * Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * 9-10pm, £8 Members 10% off L066 7.30-10pm, £50 L062 Ticket includes three-course dinner and accompanying matched wines chosen by Laithwaite’s Wine
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS FICTION PSYCHOLOGY Nick Hornby Tanya Byron How to Speak Money John Lanchester blows open the world Funny Girl The Skeleton Cupboard of finance, exploring everything from the The bestselling author discusses his Inspired by years of training as a clinical STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN trading floor to the jargon-filled language career and best-known works including psychologist and the people that she Richard Curtis and of the economic elite, taken from his book Fever Pitch, High Fidelity and About a Boy treated, Tanya Byron reveals the Mike Scott How to Speak Money. with The Sunday Times Literary Editor frightening challenges that face all mental FICTION Andrew Holgate. He also offers an health staff – and the incredible Richard Curtis, writer of Four Weddings Montpellier Gardens, The Salon exclusive preview of his brand new novel, commitment to their patients. Rose Tremain and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Love 9-10pm, £8 Members 10% off L067 Funny Girl, coming late November 2014. The American Lover Actually joins his musical idol The Imperial Square, The Inkpot Award-winning author Rose Tremain Waterboys frontman Mike Scott – whom Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum 7.15-8.15pm, awakens the senses and uncovers a Richard calls “one of the greatest pop 6.45-7.45pm, £8 Members 10% off L058 dazzling range of human emotions and stars of all time”. With the BBC’sJohn £10 Members 10% off L056 desires in her new and diverse collection Wilson, they discuss how songwriting of short stories The American Lover. and screenwriting try to get to the heart of HISTORY Interviewed by Christopher Cook. the matter. Mike is bringing his guitar. Richard is over-excited. Stephen Ward Was Montpellier Gardens, The Salon Innocent, OK LIFESTYLE 7.15-8.15pm, Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum The 1963 Profumo affair rocked the British £8 Members 10% off L060 8.45-9.45pm Jonathan Meades establishment. It also wrecked lives. The £12 Members 10% off L064 An Encyclopaedia of Myself osteopath Stephen Ward was scapegoated in the scandal and took his Admired for his sharp vision, originality POETRY own life during the trial. Geoffrey and deeply informed journalism, PSYCHOLOGY Jonathan Meades is one of Britain’s Pele Cox Robertson QC and former model Mandy Managing Change Rice-Davies talk to The Times journalist most distinctive cultural commentators. The Mistress Account POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS He introduces his memoir, a lurid portrait Poet Pele Cox performs her latest work, Change doesn’t have to be feared – we Libby Purves about the extraordinary fall- of a disappeared provincial England, and the autobiographical The Mistress Account. Frank Gardner can learn to embrace it. Author of out from the affair, and the miscarriage of talks to writer and critic A. A. Gill. Portraying the arc of a love affair from the Blood & Sand Happiness by Design and Professor of justice that lay at its heart. perspective of the mistress, she seeks to Shot and left for dead while reporting on Behavioural Science at the London School Parabola Arts Centre give voice to the lover’s doomed story. Al-Qaeda, Frank Gardner’s survival story is of Economics Paul Dolan joins Vincent Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall 7.15-8.15pm, a moving and inspiring one. Now updated Deary (How We Are: First Volume of the 9-10pm, £10 Members 10% off L059 Imperial Square, Town Hall, and reissued, his memoir reveals his How to Live Trilogy) to investigate how we £10 Members 10% off L068 SPAIN The Drawing Room * compelling analysis of the ongoing ‘war negotiate change and how to manage it in 7.30-8.30pm, Chris Stewart on terror’. He talks to Washington bureau a positive way. £7 Members 10% off L061 The Last Days of the Bus Club chief of The Sunday Times, Toby Harnden. Imperial Square, The Inkpot Two decades ago, Chris Stewart, of rock Imperial Square, 9-10pm, £8 Members 10% off L065 band Genesis, moved to a remote mountain The Sunday Times Garden Theatre farm in Andalucia. He discusses his latest 7.45-8.45pm, book, the lure of the Alpujarra and the grand £10 Members 10% off L063 tradition of travel writing from the region. Search using the Quickfind Code at Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall 7-8pm, £8 Members 10% off L057 cheltenhamfestivals.com to find your event instantly *These events have unreserved seating Sun 5 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:34 Page 1 Sun 5 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:34 Page 2
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Sunday 05 October_ The British media is awash with Johnsons. We invite patriarch Stanley, award-winning conservationist and Morning Mid Afternoon raconteur, to Cheltenham to hear more Book It! Breakfast with Roger Bannister (L085) MG about his blonde-haired dynasty, his Petr Horacek (LB23) MG successful campaign to save How to Train Your Dragon Canada’s seals and his less successful The Mighty Dead: with Cressida Cowell (LB39) IS stand for Parliament. He is joined by Why Homer Matters (L069) IS Stanley & Rachel Johnson (L086) IS vivacious daughter Rachel - look out Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Meet the Editors (L087) IS for appearances from more Johnsons Death and Brain Surgery (L070) IS throughout the festival! How to Read A Latin Poem (L088) IS 90% of Everything (L071) IS A Slice of Britain: Wade Davis (L072) MG Around the Country by Cake (L089) MG India and WWI (L073) MG The Tempest (L090) MG Treasures from the Garth Nix and Ursula Jones (LB40) IS Radio Times Archive (L074) IS Mary Beard (L091) IS Oh Do Shut Up Dear: The Pleasures and Perils of Ageing (L075) IS Becoming POTUS: The Race for the White House (L092) MG Michael Rosen (LB31) IS The Forward Prizes for Poetry (L093) IS Nicole Cooke (L076) MG Edward St Aubyn (L094) IS Is Technology Changing Our Brains? (L077) IS Melanie Reid and Libby Purves (L095) IS Michael Grant and Charlie Higson (LB43) OS Early Afternoon The Times Live (L078) MG Evening Morito (L079) MG Dylan Thomas: A Celebration (L096) MG A Slice of Britain: David Nicholls_ The Sunday Times Must Reads (L080) IS David Nicholls (L097) IS Around the Country by Cake_ L097, 7-8pm Where Memories Go: Why Dementia Robert Crampton’s Quiz Night (L098) MG Changes Everything (L081) IS W1A (L099) MG L089, 3.45-5.15pm Chronicling the break-ups and make- The Times Guide to the Election (L082) IS The Politics of Cartoons (L100) IS ups of a twenty year love story, One The Literature Festival team is not Day touched a chord with its astute Hatchet Job? (L083) IS The Sunday Times Rich alone in its love of cake. Britain is a portrayal of the extreme highs and Samuel Beckett (L084) MG List Debate (L101) IS land rich in moist, mouth-watering lows of young love. We can’t wait to War Girls (LB36) OS Gloucestershire Writers’ Network (L102) IS flavours, of sponges and scones, hear David discuss his long-awaited fruitcakes and fancies. But what new novel Us, in which he explores Marvel: 75 years (L103) IS separates a Chelsea Bun from a Bath what happens when the flush of first The English (L104) MG Bun, or Grantham Gingerbread from love is replaced by the routine of Whitby Gingerbread? Over a delicious middle age and family life – and the Gareth Thomas (L105) IS afternoon tea, discover the stories lengths you would go to recapture it. behind why, where and when the nation’s favourite cakes originated.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN AGE 8 AGE 2-6 & BRAVE NEW WORLDS 90% of Everything Treasures from the TO FAMILIES Radio Times Archive There are 40,000 freighters on the seas, ADULT Is Technology Changing Our Brains? carrying 80% of the world’s trade and 90% The Radio Times Picture Library is a Who’s On the 25th birthday of the world-wide-web, we debate the implications of a Book It! Breakfast of its energy. Rose George (Deep Sea and Who of television and radio spanning over with Petr Horacek Foreign Going) and Horatio Clare (Down 90 years. Art directorShem Law showcases connected world. Does the use of new technology make us think and interact to the Sea in Ships) steer a course through the best of the best and explains just what with each other differently? Leading neuroscientist Susan Greenfield (Mind the thrilling adventures of life on the high goes into a picture session. Much-loved author/illustrator Petr Change), consultant child psychiatrist Richard Graham and Research seas and the murky waters of Horácek will take children through a Imperial Square, Town Hall, Professor of Cognitive Science Maggie Boden (Creativity and Art) ask if the international shipping. workshop on his animal picture books, The Drawing Room * digital revolution really is causing our brains to function in new ways. and there’ll be goody bags and breakfast Imperial Square, The Inkpot 11.30am-12.30pm, for everyone! (Includes newspapers for 10-11am, FREE L074 Imperial Square, The Sunday Times Garden Theatre the grown-ups.) £7 Members 10% off L071 11.45am-12.45pm, £8 Members 10% off L077 Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * 9.30-11am, £8 Includes buffet breakfast LB23 PSYCHOLOGY TRAVEL Oh Do Shut Up Dear: Michael Rosen Wade Davis The Pleasures and Perils of Ageing Meet the Book It! Guest Director, former JOURNALISM SPAIN Into the Silence – The Great War, Children’s Laureate, author and storyteller The Times Live Morito ANCIENT WORLD Mallory and the Conquest of Everest Horses sweat, men perspire and women extraordinaire as he shares his love of The Mighty Dead: Why The Canadian anthropologist, author and glow. But when it comes to ageing, men poetry and stories. Enjoy Michael’s Join leader writer Philip Collins, Danny Sam and Sam Clark’s critically acclaimed Homer Matters photographer Wade Davis reflects on Into grow distinguished and women become trademark mad-cap and entertaining style Finkelstein, David Aaronovitch and the tapas bar in the heart of London’s Exmouth the Silence; his monumental, award- invisible. Mary Beard, presenter of BBC in this laugh-out-loud event! rest of the The Times leader writing team Market packs a big culinary punch. They Homer’s epic poems of war and suffering winning account of the British adventurers Four’s Oh Do Shut Up Dear, and Lynne as they debate topical issues and decide delve into the fusion of Islamic and communicate the roles of destiny, cruelty, who survived the WWI trenches but went Segal (Out of Time: The Pleasures and Imperial Square, The Inkpot * the subjects of the famous leading articles European traditions in southern Spanish humanity and its frailty. Adam Nicolson on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest. Perils of Ageing), discuss the issue with 11.45am-12.45pm, for the following day. cuisine and explore the unique regional explains why these ancient poems still broadcaster and journalist, Libby Purves. £7 Members 10% off LB31 flavours, as you enjoy a delicious lunch of Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum Montpellier Gardens, The Salon convey so much about what it is to be authentic tapas taken from their new 10-11am, Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall 12noon-1pm, human. cookbook, accompanied by carefully £8 Members 10% off L072 11.45am-12.45pm, £7 Members 10% off L078 Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall £8 Members 10% off L075 selected Spanish wines. 10-11am, Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * £8 Members 10% off L069 INDIA 1-2.30pm, £30 L079 India and World Ticket includes tapas lunch with War One matched wines sourced by AGE Laithwaite's wine. With the help of documents and audio 8+ recordings from the British Library SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY collection, authors Kamila Shamsie (A Do No Harm: Stories of God in Every Stone) and Santanu Das Life, Death and Brain (editor of Race, Empire and First World War Writing) explore what it meant to be FICTION Surgery an Indian soldier serving in the British Neurosurgery requires agonising decision- Army during WWI. The Sunday Times making in the face of urgency and Must Reads Montpellier Gardens, The Salon SPORT uncertainty. Henry Marsh’s Do No Harm 10-11am, Andrew Holgate, Literary Editor of The reveals countless human dramas that occur Nicole Cooke £8 Members 10% off L073 Sunday Times, presents his ‘Must Reads’ in modern hospitals and advocates the The Breakaway of 2014. Debut novelists Nathan Filer (The need for hope when faced with great risk. The only cyclist to be World Champion Shock of the Fall) and Emma Healey Imperial Square, and Olympic Gold Medallist in the same (Elizabeth is Missing) join Andrew to talk The Sunday Times Garden Theatre year. The only Briton ranked no.1 cyclist in about their much-heralded books. 10-11am, the world. The first Briton to win the Tour Imperial Square, Town Hall, £8 Members 10% off L070 de France. She joins us to tell her story. Danger is Everywhere The Drawing Room * Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum David O'Doherty and Chris Judge 1.30-2.30pm, Search using the Quickfind Code at LB32 11.45am-12.45pm, £7 Members 10% off L080 See cheltenhamfestivals.com for details cheltenhamfestivals.com to find £10 Members 10% off L076 *These events have unreserved seating your event instantly Sun 5 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:34 Page 5 Sun 5 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:34 Page 6
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LIFESTYLE ANCIENT WORLD Hatchet Job? How to Read A Latin AGE 12+ Both feared and revered, The Sunday Poem Times journalists A. A. Gill, Lynn Barber Our fearless panel - classics dons Mary and Camilla Long are known for their Beard, Llewelyn Morgan and author and Garth Nix and honest, acerbic and often extremely funny classicist Peter Stothard - explore the Ursula Jones appraisals of books, food, films and masterclasses in brevity that are the witty celebrities. They join us in conversation to (and sometimes saucy) poems of Martial. Calling all fantasy fans! Bestselling writer discuss what makes a good interviewee With translations provided, only minimal Garth Nix is over from Australia and joins and what might drive them to write a knowledge of Latin is required! Ursula Jones, who completed her sister scathing review. Diana Wynne Jones’ final book Islands of Imperial Square, Chaldea, for a fascinating discussion on Imperial Square, The Sunday Times Garden Theatre beginnings and endings and what makes The Sunday Times Garden Theatre 3.30-4.30pm, a classic fantasy. 1.45-2.45pm, £8 Members 10% off L088 £10 Members 10% off L083 Imperial Square, The Studio * 4-5pm, £5 Members 10% off LB40 POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS LIFESTYLE Stanley & Rachel A Slice of Britain: Johnson Around the Country by Stanley I Resume Cake CLASSIC LITERATURE Picking up where his first acclaimed If there’s one thing we Brits never say no to, volume of recollections left off, Stanley PSYCHOLOGY Samuel Beckett SPORT it’s a cup of tea and a slice of something Johnson regales us - in this interview tasty. Caroline Taggart journeys around 25 years since his death, Beckett remains Roger Bannister Where Memories Go: with daughter Rachel - with more rip- the country unravelling the stories behind a fascinating figure. Join leading actor Lisa Why Dementia Changes Twin Tracks roaring tales of his life story and his clan of our national obsession with cake. Sample Dwan, star of the acclaimed one-woman Everything Accompanied by archive footage from outrageously talented children, including a delicious recipes from the book within the trilogy of Beckett plays at the Royal Court Dementia is considered one of the greatest The Times, Roger Bannister looks back at columnist, a Member of Parliament, a beautiful setting of our Spiegeltent. and in the West End, Dan Gunn (co-editor medical, social, economic and moral the moment he broke the four-minute mile banker, a singer, a sustainability expert The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1957 – Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * challenges of our time. Sally Magnusson record and talks to The Times journalist, and, oh yes, a Mayor of London. 1965), and Mark Nixon, editor of 3.45-5.15pm, £15 L089 presents a deeply personal account of the broadcaster and author Matthew Syed Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall Beckett’s story, Echo’s Bones, to explore Ticket includes an ‘around Britain’ disease in The Sunday Times bestselling about his rare and brilliant memoir. 3.30-4.30pm, his writing and hear powerful readings. afternoon tea. memoir Where Memories Go. Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum £10 Members 10% off L086 Montpellier Gardens, The Salon Imperial Square, The Inkpot 3.15-4.15pm, 2-3pm, £8 Members 10% off L084 1.30-2.30pm, £10 Members 10% off L085 CLASSIC LITERATURE £8 Members 10% off L081 The Tempest AGE Shakespeare’s The Tempest is still among JOURNALISM POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS 12+ the most admired of his plays. Former Meet the Editors actress, now lecturer at Birmingham The Times Guide to the University Abigail Rokison, author Kamila Election War Girls AGE Peter Kemp and Andrew Holgate of The ANCIENT WORLD 8 -12 Shamsie (A God in Every Stone) and Erin Sunday Times take you behind the literary Will the UKIP revolt fizzle out? Will Ed Join authors Berlie Doherty, Matt Sullivan, Lecturer and Fellow of the Mary Beard desk of a major national newspaper. You’ll Miliband implode? What issues will swing Whyman and Mary Hooper as they read Shakespeare Institute celebrate this great hear what makes a book worth reviewing, Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, the vote? The Times journalists Ann from their stories from the new War Girls How to Train Your work and explore why it has stood the the pleasures, perils and pitfalls of literary Tickling and Cracking Up Treneman, Philip Collins, Daniel collection and discuss the roles of women Dragon with Cressida test of time. journalism and, because it’s never too What made the Romans laugh? Historian Finkelstein and Jenni Russell, along in the First World War – and how it Cowell early, they offer their Christmas picks for Montpellier Gardens, The Salon Mary Beard explores frivolity, humour, with the pollster Peter Kellner will give changed and shaped the lives of women Be the first to hear about A Journal for the bibliophile in your life (or yourself!). 4-5pm, £8 Members 10% off L090 wit and irony in Ancient Rome – their role their sharp and witty analysis on what will forever. Heroes in Training, learn some Dragonese in courts of law, imperial palaces and even happen in 2015. Imperial Square, Town Hall, Parabola Arts Centre and get the scoop on seeing book the spectacles of the arena. Chaired by BBC Radio 4 Today presenter The Drawing Room * 2.30-3.30pm, characters brought to life for the big screen. Justin Webb. 3.30-4.30pm, Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall £5 Members 10% off LB36 Imperial Square, The Inkpot * £7 Members 10% off L087 5.15-6.15pm, Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall 3.15-4.15pm, £8 Members 10% off L091 1.45-2.45pm, £6 Members 10% off LB39 £10 Members 10% off L082
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POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS PSYCHOLOGY FICTION STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN LOCALLY SOURCED LIFESTYLE Becoming POTUS: The Melanie Reid and Libby David Nicholls W1A Gloucestershire The English Race for the White Purves Us For BBC insiders, the mockumentary Writers’ Network From weather-speak to the reflex apology House In 2010 The Times writer Melanie Reid David Nicholls’ bestselling novels Starter W1A was uncomfortably close to the Local writers and winners of the and the importance of the humble cup of As Hillary Clinton considers whether to broke her neck and back while riding. Since For Ten and One Day were smash hits, bone. For viewers it was simply hilarious. Gloucestershire Writers’ Network tea, eccentricities and unwritten codes of seek the Democratic nomination, we then, she has written her Spinal Column; a both in print and on the big screen. Join Writer, director and comedy genius John competition, judged by poet David Clarke behaviour seem to define our national introduce the key players in the bracingly honest account, sometimes him as he discusses his stellar writing Morton, Executive Producer of Hat Trick and novelist Wilkie Martin, present a character. Social anthropologist Kate Fox complicated and expensive business of funny, sometimes emotional, of her life as career and latest novel Us. Productions Paul Schlesinger, Sarah diverse mix of writing inspired by this year’s (Watching the English) and photographer running for President. Is it increasingly a tetraplegic. Radio presenter and journalist Parish (Anna Rampton, Head of Output) Festival theme ‘Brave New Worlds’. Martin Parr (Think of England) ask what it Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall more theatre than politics? Join the BBC’s Libby Purves talks to Melanie about life and Hugh Skinner (Will the Intern) look means to be English. 7-8pm, £10 Members 10% off L097 Imperial Square, Town Hall, Mark Mardell and Justin Webb, since the accident and the incredible back on the series. The Drawing Room * Montpellier Gardens, The Salon Washington bureau chief of The Sunday response her writing has won from readers. Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum 7.30-9pm, 8-9pm, £8 Members 10% off L104 Times Toby Harnden, National Politics Imperial Square, 7.15-8.15pm, £7 Members 10% off L102 Editor of The Wall Street Journal Aaron The Sunday Times Garden Theatre £12 Members 10% off L099 Zitner and Amy Walter, National Editor of 5.45-6.45pm, The Cook Political Report, to find out. £8 Members 10% off L095 LIFESTYLE Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum The Sunday Times 5.15-6.15pm, Rich List Debate £10 Members 10% off L092 JOURNALISM What do the people on The Sunday Times The Politics of Rich List spend their money on, and what AGE Cartoons are their obligations to society at large, if 12+ any? Joe Cerrell of the Bill & Melinda Every morning Peter Brookes starts with Gates Foundation, The Sunday Times Rich POETRY a blank piece of paper but by 7pm he has List editor Ian Coxon, Freud’s chairman The Forward Prizes Michael Grant and brilliantly skewered a politician or mocked Matthew Freud and John Kampfner Charlie Higson some fatuous policy. The Times cartoonist (The Rich: From Slaves to Super-Yachts) for Poetry tells The Times journalist David Aaronovitch discuss Britain’s wealth and who should Two of the most popular authors in teen In this special event, shortlisted poets Liz how he does it and reveals some of his share in it. Chaired by Eleanor Mills, fiction get together to talk suspense, Berry (Black Country) and Kei Miller (The favourite targets. He will also unleash Editorial Director of The Sunday Times. cliffhangers and scaring teenagers. Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion) his pen on stage and show how he draws Bestselling US author of the Gone series Imperial Square, read from their new collections. They them. Michael Grant joins actor, comedian and The Sunday Times Garden Theatre SPORT discuss their work and the power of writer Charlie Higson (The Enemy). Think Imperial Square, The Inkpot 7.45-8.45pm, poetry to change lives with founder of the Gareth Thomas you know the meaning of suspense? 7.30-8.30pm, £8 Members 10% off L101 Forward Prize, William Sieghart. Proud Think again. £8 Members 10% off L100 Welsh international rugby star and a hero Imperial Square, Town Hall, Parabola Arts Centre * to many, Gareth Thomas joins us in The Drawing Room * 5.45-6.45pm, conversation with his co-writer Michael 5.30-6.30pm, LIFESTYLE £6 Members 10% off LB43 Calvin for a glimpse into his inspiring and £7 Members 10% off L093 Robert Crampton’s Quiz moving autobiography, Proud. Chaired by ART & DESIGN Night The Sunday Times rugby correspondent POETRY Back by popular demand for the third year Marvel: 75 years Stephen Jones. FICTION running, join Robert Crampton ‘Beta Dylan Thomas: In 1939, the first Marvel Comic hit the Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall Edward St Aubyn Male’ columnist at The Times for an A Celebration newsstands, irrevocably changing the 8.45-9.45pm, evening of drink, frivolity and general Life after Melrose face of graphic fiction. Fantastic Four and £12 Members 10% off L105 Celebrate the centenary of Wales’ most Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose knowledge. This is a quiz like no other! X-Men writer Mike Carey (The Girl with treasured poet with Hannah Ellis, Thomas’ series is celebrated for its searing wit and Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * All the Gifts), former Marvel editor Alan granddaughter and editor of Dylan deep humanity. He discusses his best 7-10pm, L098 Cowsill (Marvel Comics: 75 Years of Thomas: A Centenary Celebration, Gillian known character and latest novel, Lost for £32 for team of four, or £60 including Cover Art) and The Hulk writer Monty Clarke National Poet of Wales and Hilly Words; a razor-sharp satire exposing the fish and chip supper for four to be Nero (Death Sentence) discuss the iconic Janes, whose grandfather was a close backbiting world of literary prize-giving. ordered in advance. brand’s enduring success and influence. friend of the poet (The Three Lives of Chaired by Robert Collins. Dylan Thomas). They reflect on his Imperial Square, The Studio * Imperial Square, The Inkpot fascinating life and work with readings 8-9pm, £10 Members 10% off L103 5.30-6.30pm, from his most beloved poems. £8 Members 10% off L094 Montpellier Gardens, The Salon 6-7pm, £8 Members 10% off L096
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There are only twenty-one chefs in Monday 06 October_ Britain with more than one Michelin star, but there is only one chef who has earned two stars by cooking in a Morning Mid Afternoon pub… and he’s a Gloucester boy who OUP’s Very Short Introductions: Ming: 50 Years that went to catering college in Sleep (L106) MG Changed China (L120) IS Cheltenham! We’re so proud to be welcoming Tom Kerridge – a real Crosswords with The Times (L107) MG Robert Crawford and home-grown chef – to the Festival. David Harsent (L121) IS
Early Afternoon The Story of Vita Sackville-West and Her Family (L122) IS Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew (L108) IS Bretton, Europe & Beyond (L123) IS Laurie Lee’s Cider With Rosie (L109) IS Paul Atterbury (L124) MG Roman Emperors (L110) IS The Land Where Lemons Grow (L125) MG Ranulph Fiennes (L111) MG Dancing Horses (L126) MG The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers (L112) MG Evening Lunch with the Bloomsbury Group (L113) MG World War One (L127) IS Art from the First World War (L114) IS God and Mammon (L128) IS Through the Lens: Digby Jones (L129) MG Documenting Addiction (L115) IS The Tribunal Plays at England, Arise: The People, the King, the Tricycle (L130) IS and the Great Revolt of 1381 (L116) IS Gloucester Cathedral Coach Tour (L131) IS Delphi: A History of the Golden Days of the Railways (L132) IS Art from the First Golden Days of the Centre of the Ancient World (L117) IS Can Artists Change the World? (L133) MG World War_ Railways_ Parliament: The Biography (L118) MG Going South with Scott L114, 2-3pm L132, 6.30-7.45pm Simon Heffer (L119) MG and Shackleton (L134) MG Capability Brown (L135) IS As part of a series of special events at In an effort to forget overcrowded the Festival marking the centenary of carriages and insipid sandwiches, we Joan of Arc: A History (L136) IS the outbreak of World War One, we whisk you back to a time when train Black Rainbow: Beating Depression offer Cheltenham audiences a travel suggested luxury and Through Poetry (L137) MG fascinating insight into the Imperial relaxation. Recalling champagne and War Museum’s major retrospective of cigars, discreet porters and elegant Legends of the Beautiful Game (L138) MG war time art. Featuring iconic works dining, we celebrate the heyday of the Tom Kerridge (L139) IS by Paul Nash, Stanley Spencer and railway and some of the wonderful William Orpen, Senior Art Curator poetry that it inspired – and ask Richard Slocombe looks at how artists ourselves if we can ever recapture of various traditions strove to that sense of romance and excitement. represent the unprecedented, epoch- defining events of the Great War.
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OUP’s Very Short ANCIENT WORLD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LOCALLY SOURCED POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS POETRY CAFÉ Introductions: Sleep Roman Emperors The Story of Pain: Through the Lens: Parliament: The Robert Crawford and Russell Foster looks at the biology and The stories of the Roman emperors are From Prayer to Documenting Addiction Biography David Harsent psychology of sleep and the history of remarkable ones full of power, wealth, Painkillers This summer The Wilson Cheltenham Art MP and author Chris Bryant tells the epic Described as “probably the richest sleep in science, art, and literature; as well love, bloodshed and treason. Our panel of We all know what it feels like to be in pain; Gallery & Museum hosted the thought- history of British Parliament in this vivid, imagination working in English poetry as the impact of a 24/7 society and the authors and historical experts Adrian from migraines to scraped knees, from provoking Behold the Man, Marksteen colourful biography: with a cast of today”, David Harsent reads from his role of society in causing sleep disruption. Goldsworthy (Augustus: From Revolutionary childbirth to heartache. Joined by Adamson’s moving study of a local man’s characters whose passions and obsessions, new collection Fire Songs alongside major Montpellier Gardens, to Emperor), Harry Sidebottom (Iron and scientist, writer, broadcaster and struggle with heroin addiction. Joined by strengths and weaknesses laid the Scottish poet, Robert Crawford whose Montpellier Café Bar * Rust) and Peter Stothard (Alexandria: journalist Vivienne Parry (The Truth About photojournalist and lecturer Andrew foundations of modern democracy. new collection, Testament - his first in six The Last Nights of Cleopatra) share their Hormones), author Joanna Bourke Moxon, whose powerful project Class A years - shows how poetry can communicate 11am, FREE L106 Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum literary depictions and portraits of the presents her fascinating investigation into Actions takes an unflinching look at from generation to generation aspects of 2-3pm, £8 Members 10% off L118 ancient world’s greatest leaders. the history of pain and the nature of Gloucester’s drug scene, they showcase what makes us most vulnerably and suffering over the last three centuries. their projects and discuss photography’s engagingly human. Crosswords with The Imperial Square, role in confronting tough social issues. Times The Sunday Times Garden Theatre Montpellier Gardens, The Salon HISTORY Imperial Square, Town Hall, Make yourself comfy as The Times 12noon-1pm, 12.30-1.30pm, Imperial Square, Town Hall, Simon Heffer The Drawing Room * Crossword Editor Richard Rogan takes £8 Members 10% off L110 £8 Members 10% off L112 The Drawing Room * 4-5pm, £5 Members 10% off L121 you through the mysteries of the day’s 2-3pm, £6 Members 10% off L115 High Minds: The Victorians and the crossword puzzles with a helping hand or Birth of Modern Britain tantalising hint where needed! Historian, journalist and author Simon CLASSIC LITERATURE HISTORY Heffer talks to author and military historian Montpellier Gardens, Allan Mallinson about High Minds – an The Story of Vita Montpellier Café Bar * England, Arise: The ambitious exploration of the making of the Sackville-West and her 11am-12noon, FREE L107 People, the King and Victorian age and the Victorian mind. Family the Great Revolt of English author and poet Vita Sackville-West Montpellier Gardens, The Salon 1381 is best remembered for her exuberant POETRY 2.30-3.30pm, The dramatic and shocking events of the aristocratic lifestyle, and her extraordinary £8 Members 10% off L119 Some Desperate Glory: Peasants Revolt of1381 form the backdrop family. Matthew Dennison, author of her The First World War the to acclaimed historian Juliet Barker’s talk, biography Behind the Mask: The Life of Poets Knew as she examines what life was like for Vita Sackville-West and Robert Sackville- Focusing in particular on the life and work ordinary people living in the Middle Ages. West (The Disinherited: A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal) trace the triumph and of the nature-loving Edward Thomas, LIFESTYLE Imperial Square, contradictions of Vita’s extraordinary life acclaimed historian and biographer Max The Sunday Times Garden Theatre Lunch with the and reveal the secrets at the heart of an Egremont takes a transfiguring look at the Bloomsbury Group 2-3pm, £8 Members 10% off L116 poets who fought on the front line. English dynasty. Cookery writer Jans Ondaatje Rolls shares Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall the story of the influential Bloomsbury Set ANCIENT WORLD 4-5pm, £8 Members 10% off L122 12noon-1pm, HISTORY from a unique gastronomic perspective. £8 Members 10% off L108 Enjoy a delicious lunch featuring recipes Delphi: A History of Ranulph Fiennes from The Bloomsbury Cookbook: Recipes the Centre of the BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Agincourt for Life, Love and Art; a must for food and Ancient World British explorer and author Ranulph literature lovers. Journey to the centre of the ancient world Bretton, Europe & Fiennes delves into his own ancestral Beyond Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * with academic, author and broadcaster past to present a uniquely personal THE BIG READ 12.30-2pm, £25 L113 Michael Scott, as he uncovers the The 1944 summit at Bretton Woods saw account of one of the most significant Ticket includes two-course lunch. importance of the city and sanctuary of countries from around the world come Laurie Lee’s Cider turning points in English history. Delphi, right up to the present day. together to bring about a major overhaul With Rosie of the international monetary system. Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum Imperial Square, The Inkpot The Big Read Book Group 12noon-1pm, ART & DESIGN ART & DESIGN Author of The Summit, Ed Conway and 2-3pm, £8 Members 10% off L117 In this centenary year of Laurie Lee’s birth, £8 Members 10% off L111 Art from the First Ming: 50 years that author of The Trouble with Europe, Roger we celebrate the Gloucestershire-born World War changed China Bootle look back on the origins of the author by revisiting his best-loved work, European Union and examine what has Cider with Rosie. Join us at one of our Showcasing some of the Imperial War Co-curator of the British Museum’s major gone wrong since. Museum’s extensive collection, IWM exhibition on the Ming dynasty Craig book groups – whether you are new to the Imperial Square, The Inkpot book or just want to read it again. Senior Art Curator Richard Slocombe Clunas brings to life one of China’s most 4-5pm, £8 Members 10% off L123 offers an insight into the huge range and glorious époques through a close look at Imperial Square, Town Hall, power of wartime art. its art and people. The Drawing Room * 12noon-1pm, L109 Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall Imperial Square, £3 Members 10% off 2-3pm, £8 Members 10% off L114 The Sunday Times Garden Theatre 4-5pm, £8 Members 10% off L120
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LIFESTYLE FICTION AT 6 STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN NATURAL WORLD LOCALLY SOURCED SPORT Paul Atterbury World War One The Tribunal Plays at Can Artists Change the Capability Brown Legends of the Antiques Roadshow: World War One in Join journalist Alex Clark as she the Tricycle World? Responsible for designing over 170 parks Beautiful Game 100 Family Treasures welcomes Anna Hope (Wake), Adele 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the Artists Heather and Dan Ackroyd combine during his illustrious career, Lancelot Two-time FA Cup winner and West Ham A special Antiques Roadshow was filmed Parks (Spare Brides) and Kamila Tricycle Theatre’s first Tribunal Play, Half sculpture, architecture and photography ‘Capability’ Brown changed the landscape hero Trevor Brooking (My Life in Football) at the Somme to mark the WWI centenary. Shamsie (A God in Every Stone) to the Picture. Alongside clips of key with biology, ecology and environmental of 18th century England, as Roger Turner joins The Times chief sports writer Matt Roadshow expert Paul Atterbury looks at discuss their evocative novels based moments from the plays, writers David concerns. Alongside Kathleen Soriano, explores in this beautifully illustrated talk. Dickinson (Bobby Moore: the Man in Full) some of the most fascinating objects and around the time of World War One. Edgar, Gillian Slovo and Richard Norton- former Director of Exhibitions at the Royal Imperial Square, The Studio * and George Best biographer Duncan their moving stories, including examples Taylor and former Labour MP Clare Short Academy of Arts, and author Andrew Imperial Square, Town Hall, 7.45-8.45pm, Hamilton (Immortal) to look back at the from around Gloucestershire. discuss a remarkable and enduring body Brown (Art & Ecology Now), they explore The Drawing Room * £6 Members 10% off L135 careers of three of our most celebrated of work, including Nuremberg, Srebrenica how contemporary artists are responding Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum 6-7.15pm, £7 L127 footballers, and discuss what turns a and Called to Account, which has to growing ecological threats and creating 4-5pm, £8 Members 10% off L124 Ticket includes a glass of great player into a legend. Chaired by captured the drama of politics. positive and lasting impacts on the Laithwaite’s wine. Richard Whitehead of The Times. environment through their work. Imperial Square, Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum The Sunday Times Garden Theatre Montpellier Gardens, The Salon 8.30-9.30pm, RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY 6.15-7.45pm, 6.45-7.45pm, £10 Members 10% off L138 God and Mammon £10 Members 10% off L130 £8 Members 10% off L133 LIFESTYLE The Land Where There was a time when banks were seen as bastions of security and integrity – RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY Lemons Grow today the trust in financial institutions has Enjoy an historical and horticultural tour of never been lower. Ann Pettifor (Just Gloucester Cathedral Italy’s perfumed lemon groves. Helena Money), David Marquand (Mammon’s Coach Tour Attlee maps the citron’s migration from Kingdom) and Ibrahim Mogra, Secretary An exclusive tour giving rare access to the HISTORY Himalayan foothills to southern Italian General of the Muslim Council of Britain, crypt and the tower at night, and an shores, traces the juice of Seville oranges ask if the City can learn from religious opportunity to hear from the Master Mason. Joan of Arc: A History through ancient Roman and Renaissance wisdom and if God and Mammon can Enjoy a private view of the cathedral’s Historian and writer Helen Castor gives a cookbooks and exposes early really coexist. new sculpture exhibition, featuring over fresh and gripping account of Joan of Arc, manifestations of the Mafia during the 100 works by 61 sculptors including featuring first-hand testimony from the Imperial Square, The Inkpot 19th century citrus boom. A unique look at Antony Gormley and Lynn Chadwick; revolutionary figure and those who knew 6.15-7.15pm, Italy’s cultural, culinary and political past. experience Compline by candlelight; and her: a rare survival from the medieval world. £7 Members 10% off L128 explore the architecture and history of this Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * TRAVEL Imperial Square, The Inkpot stunning building. 4-5.30pm, £15 L125 Going South with Scott 8.15-9.15pm, Ticket includes a citrus-inspired Depart from Imperial Square and Shackleton £8 Members 10% off L136 afternoon tea. 6.15-9.45pm, Did Scott’s team die psychologically on £25 L131 discovering that Amundsen had beaten Full details at cheltenhamfestivals.com them to the Pole? How did Shackleton’s SPORT team survive for 16 months after their ship Dancing Horses was crushed by ice? Join us in the PSYCHOLOGY LIFESTYLE Dressage is sometimes criticised as being intimate surrounds of the Spiegeltent and ‘pointless’ but pirouettes and piaffes re-live these two epic stories of struggle Black Rainbow: Tom Kerridge and triumphs of the human spirit with Beating Depression evolved from vital horsemanship skills on TRAVEL Tom Kerridge’s Best Ever Dishes extraordinary storyteller, Rob Caskie. Through Poetry the battlefield, and it is unarguably one of BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Golden Days of the The two Michelin-starred, the most technically demanding Olympic Digby Jones Railways Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * Depression affects 1in 4 women and 1in Gloucestershire-raised chef known for big disciplines. Olympic and Paralympic gold 7.30-10pm, £50 L134 10 men during their lifetime. With Eleanor flavours and beautifully crafted food medallists Carl Hester (Making It Fixing Britain: The Business of Rail travel once meant candlelit dining Ticket includes three-course dinner. Mills from The Sunday Times, and featuring shares his career highlights and discusses Happen) and Natasha Baker talk to Jill Reshaping our Nation with monogrammed cutlery and a live readings of some of the poems, author his new cookbook, which contains more Douglas about performing with the The former CBI Director General, and pianist. When did the railway lose its Rachel Kelly talks about her own struggle than 100 sublime recipes. famous Spanish Riding School and the presenter of BBC Two series The New romance? Andrew Martin (Belles and with depression and how she managed to challenges of their sport. Troubleshooter, Digby Jones reflects on a Whistles), Andrew Roden (Flying recover through the power of poetry. Imperial Square, high profile career and shares his wisdom Scotsman) and Christian Wolmar (To The The Sunday Times Garden Theatre Montpellier Gardens, The Salon Montpellier Gardens, The Salon on business, state and economy. Edge of the World) talk to Paul Atterbury 8.45-9.45pm, 4.30-5.30pm, 8.45-9.45pm, about the halcyon days of the railways. £10 Members 10% off L139 £8 Members 10% off L126 Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum £8 Members 10% off L137 With readings by Sean O’Brien from Train 6.15-7.15pm, Songs: Poetry of the Railway. £8 Members 10% off L129 Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall 6.30-7.45pm, £8 Members 10% off L132 *These events have unreserved seating Tue 7 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:36 Page 1 Tue 7 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:36 Page 2
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As a former student and now teacher Tuesday 07 October_ at the Ballymaloe Cookery School, and best-selling writer and TV chef, Rachel Allen has put Irish cooking on the map. Morning Mid Afternoon Our stomachs are already rumbling at OUP’s Very Short Introductions: Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation the prospect of a deliciously tempting Nelson Mandela (L140) MG in Ireland, 1890-1923 (L153) IS lunch chosen from her own recipes, including an indulgent dessert from Crosswords with The Times (L141) MG Poetry Café (L154) IS her new cookbook, which is King Lear Revealed (L142) IS A History of the 20th Century guaranteed to make your day just a in 100 Maps (L155) IS little bit sweeter.
Early Afternoon The Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Christmas Truce (L156) IS The Architecture of Diplomacy: The British Ambassador’s James Lovelock and Residence in Washington (L143) IS Crispin Tickell (L157) MG Charlotte Green (L144) MG Faber Crime Proof Party (L158) MG Laurie Lee: A Life Through Art (L145) MG Percy Bysshe Shelley (L159) MG Lunch with Rachel Allen (L146) MG Walk the Laurie Lee Wildlife Way (L147) IS Evening Mark Price (L148) IS Kate Mosse (L160) IS Cheltenham: A Literary History (L149) IS Lorraine Pascale (L161) IS King Lear Live! (L150) IS Inspired By... (L162) IS Should We Talk to Terrorists? (L151) MG Doing Well By Doing Good: The Circular Economy (L163) IS The Unexpected Professor: Roaring Girls (L164) IS Shakespeare Mark Price_ Welcome to Just a The Oxford Life in Books (L152) MG Afternoon: King Lear_ Minute!_ Welcome to Just a Minute! (L165) MG L148, 2-3pm Brian May and Denis Pellerin (L166) MG L363 L165, 6.15-7.30 Unusually amongst supermarket James Walton’s Literary Quiz (L167) MG Celebrating the 450th anniversary of chains, instances of communities For nearly fifty years, Nicholas Sarah Waters (L168) IS Shakespeare’s birth, our first campaigning against the opening of a Parsons has been challenging guests Inspirational Houses (L169) IS Shakespeare Afternoon consists of Waitrose branch are vanishingly rare. to talk for sixty seconds without two exciting events which bring King Why is this? We wanted to explore hesitation, deviation or repetition, with Book Group with the Author (L170) IS Lear and its context to life. the Waitrose model and its place in hilarious results. The rules may be Michael Frayn (L171) IS Our special double ticket allows you our affections with the man who has simple, but their interpretation is not. entrance to events L142 and L150 for steered the business to phenomenal As the programme approaches its China: Exploding the the price of £14 Members 10% off growth since 2007. “I don’t believe 900th episode, we asked a panel of Business Myth (L172) IS To book, call our Box Office on 0844 that bigger is better, he says, I just brilliant comedians and players of the Geoffrey Boycott (L173) MG 880 8094. think that better is better” We discuss game to help us celebrate Britain’s what this really means, and much best-loved radio comedy – and its Alan Aldridge (L174) MG more, with the man affectionately inimitable, indefatigable host. known as The Chubby Grocer.
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OUP’s Very Short ART & DESIGN BUSINESS & ECONOMICS POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS POETRY Introductions: Nelson The Architecture of Mark Price Should We Talk to Poetry Café Mandela Diplomacy: The British Essentially Waitrose Terrorists? Award-winning poet Ruth Padel presents Elleke Boehmer examines not only the Ambassador’s With 60,000 employees, 320 branches, a Governments avow to never ‘negotiate her powerful new collection on the Middle great anti-apartheid leader’s life, but also Residence in flourishing online business and two royal with evil’, yet they always have done and East, Learning to Make an Oud in Nazaret. the ways in which images and Washington warrants, Waitrose is middle England's always will. Should we talk to terrorists She is joined by Pascale Petit reading representations have been used to create The British Ambassador’s Residence in favourite supermarket. The Managing and, if so, how? Colin Parry, whose son from Fauverie, a collection that has already the Mandela we know today – an Washington D.C. is a compelling example Director discusses organics, free coffee, Tim was killed in the 1993 Warrington been rewarded with the Manchester internationally recognised icon of freedom. of architect Sir Edwin Lutyens’ work. working in a partnership and more. bombings, government advisor and Poetry Prize for its metaphorical Anthony Seldon reveals its fascinating negotiator Jonathan Powell (Talking to imagination and powerful imagery. Montpellier Gardens, Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall history, featuring previously untold stories Terrorists) and psychotherapist Gabrielle Montpellier Café Bar * 2-3pm, £8 Members 10% off L148 Imperial Square, Town Hall, of visiting royalty and even The Beatles. Rifkind (The Fog of Peace) examine this 11am, FREE L140 The Drawing Room * topical and complex moral issue. Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall 4-5pm, £5 Members 10% off L154 12noon-1pm, LIFESTYLE Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum Crosswords with The £8 Members 10% off L143 Lunch with Rachel 2-3pm, £8 Members 10% off L151 Times Allen TRAVEL LOCALLY SOURCED Make yourself comfy as The Times Bestselling cookery writer and TV chef A History of the 20th STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN Crossword Editor Richard Rogan takes Rachel Allen is known for fun, flavour- Cheltenham: A Literary Century in 100 Maps you through the mysteries of the day’s Charlotte Green filled family food. Join her for a deliciously History The 20th century was a golden age of map- crossword puzzles with a helping hand or The News is Read By… tempting lunch, featuring indulgent Home to the world’s longest-running making. With many never reprinted and tantalising hint where needed! With a voice as lovely as her writing, dessert from her new book, All Things Literature Festival, Cheltenham has become discussed until now, leading specialist Tim Montpellier Gardens, broadcaster Charlotte Green looks back on Sweet – a decadent journey through synonymous with great writing. It was here Bryars and Curator of Antiquarian Mapping Montpellier Café Bar * her 27 year career at the BBC, with journalist homemade delights, guaranteed to satisfy that P.G. Wodehouse stumbled across his at the British Library Tom Harper show 11am-12noon, FREE L141 and reviewer Alex Clark. Listen again to the sweetest of teeth! Jeeves, Lewis Carroll found his looking the storytelling power of maps – from a some of the memorable sound clips that Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * glass and Cecil Day-Lewis first turned his Somme trench to the Edwardian opium captivated a generation of listeners. 12.30-2pm, £25 L146 hand to detective novels. David Elder FICTION trade, from the peak of imperial pageantry SHAKESPEARE AFTERNOON (Literary Cheltenham) and Anne Strathie to rapid post-war decolonisation. Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum Ticket includes two-course lunch and a (Birdie Bowers) explore the town’s rich The Unexpected King Lear Revealed 12noon-1pm, Bottlegreen drink to celebrate their Professor: An Oxford Imperial Square, 25th anniversary. literary heritage in this fascinating discussion. Leading actor Michael Pennington, who £8 Members 10% off L144 Life in Books The Sunday Times Garden Theatre Imperial Square, Town Hall, 4-5pm, £8 Members 10% off L155 has just finished playing King Lear in an Best known for his provocative take on The Drawing Room * acclaimed new production in New York, cultural issues, The Sunday Times chief 2-3pm, £6 Members 10% off L149 joins Shakespearean scholars Jonathan literary critic John Carey is interviewed Bate and Catherine Belsey to discuss by The Sunday Times chief reviewer the enigma that is Lear. They explore the CLASSIC LITERATURE Peter Kemp about his life in books and the CLASSIC LITERATURE SHAKESPEARE AFTERNOON characters and uncover its issues, from events that formed him. family to kingship, and the challenges of Laurie Lee: A Life Walk the Laurie Lee King Lear Live! STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN setting the play in its fascinating historical through Art Wildlife Way Montpellier Gardens, The Salon The Royal Shakespeare Join actor and director Ben Crystal 2.30-3.30pm, context. Join this guided walk through Laurie Lee’s Company’s The Celebrated writer Laurie Lee was also an (Shakespeare On Toast) and his company £8 Members 10% off L152 Imperial Square, The Inkpot accomplished artist. His daughter Jessy Slad Valley, the inspiration behind Cider of actors as they bring the characters and Christmas Truce 11.45am-12.45pm, Lee tells the story of his life through his art with Rosie. Led by Roger Mortlock of language of King Lear powerfully to life. In The RSC’s new show The Christmas Truce Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust and poet £8 Members 10% off L142 (published in Laurie Lee: A Folio) in an this interactive performance event, they HISTORY explores the extraordinary and life- illustrated conversation with Nicolette and author of A Thousand Laurie Lees, take some of Shakespeare’s great affirming events of Christmas Day 1914, Jones. Adam Horowitz, you will discover the speeches and reveal how using the Vivid Faces: The where soldiers in the trenches played a work of Gloucestershire’s most famous original pronunciation can shed a rich and Revolutionary football match in no-man’s land. The Montpellier Gardens, The Salon 20th century writer and the landscape that fascinating new light on a play. Generation in Ireland, RSC’s Deputy Artistic Director Erica 12noon-1pm, inspired him. The Gloucestershire Wildlife 1890-1923 Whyman directs the production and with £8 Members 10% off L145 Imperial Square, Trust’s Laurie Lee Wildlife Way is funded Leading Irish historian and academic Roy writer Phil Porter joins Nicolette Jones The Sunday Times Garden Theatre by the Gloucestershire Environmental Foster presents this searing cultural to discuss the fascinating process of 2-3pm, £8 Members 10% off L150 Trust Company. history of the remarkable generation who bringing this remarkable tale to the stage. transformed Ireland – surveying the lives Depart from Imperial Square Imperial Square, The Inkpot 1.30-5.30pm, £25 L147 and beliefs of the people who made the 4-5pm, £8 Members 10% off L156 Ticket includes a glass of cider Irish Revolution. at The Woolpack Inn. 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NATURAL WORLD LIFESTYLE CLASSIC LITERATURE ART & DESIGN LOCALLY SOURCED BUSINESS & ECONOMICS James Lovelock and Lorraine Pascale Roaring Girls Brian May and Inspirational Houses China: Exploding the Crispin Tickell In this illuminating interview, Lorraine ‘Well-behaved women seldom make history’ Denis Pellerin Châtelaine of Burnt Norton, the house that Business Myth Leading international authority on climate Pascale (How To Be A Better Cook) shares was the provocation for the RSC’s focus The Poor Man’s Picture Gallery inspired the first of T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, As the West becomes increasingly mired change and environmental issues Crispin her inspiring journey from a childhood in on new drama by women, and their Roaring Published to coincide with a six-month Caroline Sandon (Burnt Norton) and Sofka in debt, China grows more confident. But Tickell talks to “the most profound foster care to one of the nation’s best- Girls season focuses on Elizabethan women Tate Britain exhibition, Queen guitarist Zinovieff (The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My with this superpower on the rise, which scientific thinker of our time” (Literary loved and bestselling TV chefs. who dared to live outside the norm. RSC Brian May and co-author Denis Pellerin Grandmother and Me) who inherited facts have become distorted in the telling? Review) James Lovelock – whose new Deputy Artistic Director Erica Whyman, introduce The Poor Man’s Picture Gallery, Faringdon House, the former home of Lord Economics Editor of The Independent Ben book A Rough Ride to the Future presents Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall playwright Alice Birch and critic Kate a collection of 3D Victorian images, Berners, reflect on the extraordinary Chu (Chinese Whispers) and author Tim a radical vision of humanity’s future as the 6-7pm, £10 Members 10% off L161 Aughterson debate the extraordinary lives published by The London Stereoscopic history of these two great houses and the Clissold (Chinese Rules) look at the facts, thinking brain of our Earth-system. of Elizabethan women and discuss women’s Company. In this lavishly illustrated event artistic works they’ve inspired. fiction, and question what we know of the contribution to theatre today. they share their lifelong passion for the world’s most populous nation. Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum Imperial Square, The Studio * FICTION AT 6 extraordinary and beguiling 19th century 4-5pm, £8 Members 10% off L157 Imperial Square, The Inkpot 8-9pm, £6 Members 10% off L169 Imperial Square, The Inkpot art of stereoscopic photography and its Inspired By… 6.15-7.15pm, 8.15-9.15pm, hidden relationship to popular paintings. £8 Members 10% off L164 £8 Members 10% off L172 Journalist Alex Clark invites Jessie 3D glasses provided! FICTION Burton (The Miniaturist), Nikesh Shukla FICTION Montpellier Gardens, The Salon Faber Crime Proof Party (Meatspace) and Naomi Wood (Mrs. Book Group with 6.45-7.45pm, Hemingway) to share the real-life inspiration the Author Join debut crime writers Cal Moriarty £8 Members 10% off L166 behind their novels and to explore how (The Killing of Bobbi Lomax) and Kate “Meet Merlin. He’s Lucy’s bright, beautiful fact and imagination can be the best Hamer (The Girl in the Red Coat) in son – who just happens to be autistic.” In combination in creating fantastic fiction. SPORT conversation with their editors, for tea and LIFESTYLE an exclusive Festival book group, author Geoffrey Boycott a preview of their eagerly anticipated Imperial Square, Town Hall, James Walton’s Kathy Lette discusses her novel The Boy crime novels to be published in 2015. The Drawing Room * Literary Quiz Who Fell to Earth, the personal inspiration The Corridor of Certainty Programmed in partnership with Faber. 6-7.15pm, £7 L162 behind it..., the personal inspiration behind The famously no-nonsense Yorkshireman Ticket includes a glass of The writer and presenter of BBC Radio 4’s it and what she’s got planned next. Chaired has devoted his entire life to cricket. In his Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * Laithwaite's wine. books quiz The Write Stuff, presents a by journalist Alex Clark. latest memoir The Corridor of Certainty, 4-5.30pm, £15 Members only. L158 bespoke pub quiz for the Festival. Pit your Geoffrey Boycott shares his life story with Ticket includes tea or coffee, cake and Imperial Square, Town Hall, literary wits against the pros from The The Times journalist Richard Whitehead, a goody bag of limited edition proofs. The Drawing Room * BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sunday Times and expect questions on offering surprising and fascinating 8.15-9.15pm, £15 L170 anything from Peter Rabbit to David Hare, insights on the game and its players. Doing Well By Doing Ticket includes a copy of the book Dan Brown to Graham Greene, with prizes CLASSIC LITERATURE Good: The Circular (sent by post in advance) and a glass Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum for the winners. Economy of Laithwaite’s wine. 8.30-9.30pm, Percy Bysshe Shelley STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * £12 Members 10% off L173 Waste is food; energy is renewable; Poet and literary critic Michael O’Neill 7-10pm, £20 Members 10% off L167 diversity is strength. This is the circular Welcome to Just a Minute! explores love, hope, and imagination in Bar service available. STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN economy, and as well as being better for the the life and work of Shelley, creator of BBC Radio 4’s Just a Minute host environment it has been called a trillion- some of the world’s greatest lyrical poetry, Nicholas Parsons, who’s yet to miss a Michael Frayn dollar opportunity – a way for businesses before the revolutionary Romantic’s tragic single episode since it started in 1967, Matchbox Theatre: 30 Short to grow under increasingly difficult early death. celebrates Britain’s best-loved radio Entertainments constraints. Mike Barry, Director of Plan ART & DESIGN comedy with panellists Pam Ayres, Michael Frayn, one of Britain’s greatest Montpellier Gardens, The Salon A at Marks & Spencer, Nicky Chambers, Jenny Eclair and Shappi Khorsandi as dramatists (Noises Off, Copenhagen), Alan Aldridge 4.30-5.30pm, Strategy Adviser at Anthesis, and Leo FICTION the show approaches its 900th episode. discusses his extraordinary new book Pipe Dreams £8 Members 10% off L159 Johnson (Turnaround Challenge) discuss Without hesitation, repetition or deviation Sarah Waters Matchbox Theatre – 30 dazzling dialogues Described by John Lennon as “His Royal the possibilities of ethically sound they recall the very best, occasionally The Paying Guests and monologues to be played in the smallest Master of Images to Their Majesties The business. awkward and often hilarious moments Described as having ‘a deep understanding theatre of all: your own imagination. Beatles”, Alan Aldridge’s earlier life was Imperial Square, that have lit up the comedy airwaves of the time and period and especially the a far cry from his later creative success, Imperial Square, The Sunday Times Garden Theatre spanning six decades. literature of the time’, the award-winning as he discusses with Paul Blezard. The Sunday Times Garden Theatre 6.15-7.15pm, Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum novelist of Fingersmith and The Night FICTION 8.15-9.15pm, Montpellier Gardens, The Salon £8 Members 10% off L163 6.15-7.30pm, Watch, discusses her eagerly-anticipated £8 Members 10% off L171 8.45-9.45pm, Kate Mosse £16 Members 10% off L165 novel The Paying Guests. £8 Members 10% off L174 The Taxidermist’s Daughter Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall “In death there can be beauty.” The 8-9pm, £8 Members 10% off L168 bestselling author of Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel presents her enthralling new novel, The Taxidermist’s Daughter – a tale of superstition, ghosts and murder. 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OUP’s Very Short SHAKESPEARE AFTERNOON THE BIG READ DEAD GOOD Introductions: Henry IV Parts I & II Laurie Lee’s Cider Why Do We All Love a Geopolitics Unwrapped With Rosie Mystery? Klaus Dodds uses real-life examples, Join RSC Henry IV Parts I & II Assistant The Big Read Book Group Join author Sophie Hannah together with from the past and present, to demonstrate Director Owen Horsley and members of In this centenary year of Laurie Lee’s birth, Christopher Fowler (Bryant & May - The not only the importance of the links the Acting Company as they demonstrate we celebrate the Gloucestershire-born Bleeding Heart), Kate Mosse (The between political power, geography, and rehearsal techniques used to move a author by revisiting his best-loved work, Taxidermist’s Daughter) and Henry cultural diversity, but also how our scene off the page and onto the stage. Cider with Rosie. Join us at one of our Sutton (My Criminal World) as they geopolitical outlook moulds our book groups – whether you are new to the explore the year on year rise in popularity Imperial Square, understanding of the world. book or just want to read it again. of crime and thriller fiction and our The Sunday Times Garden Theatre seemingly insatiable appetite for a good Montpellier Gardens, 12noon-1pm, Imperial Square, Town Hall, mystery. Montpellier Café Bar * £8 Members 10% off L178 The Drawing Room * 11am, FREE L175 2-3pm, £3 Members only. L183 Montpellier Gardens, The Salon 2.15-3.15pm, £8 Members 10% off L186 Crosswords with The Times
Make yourself comfy as The Times LIFESTYLE Crossword Editor Richard Rogan takes SHAKESPEARE AFTERNOON you through the mysteries of the day’s What to Eat Next with Stagecraft Live! Valentine Warner crossword puzzles with a helping hand or HISTORY tantalising hint where needed! Ever wondered how a stage fight is Tuck into a mouth-watering lunch with the created? Want to know how to pull a George III Montpellier Gardens, food writer and chef passionate about punch? Watch a demonstration led by Montpellier Café Bar * nature and the seasons, showcasing legendary RSC Fight Arranger Terry King Former Controller of BBC Two Janice 11am-12noon, FREE L176 recipes from his bestselling books and that will show you the skills behind Hadlow presents The Strangest Family: BBC Two series, What To Eat Now and staging realistic fights, such as those in The Private Lives of George III, Queen HISTORY What To Eat Next. Hosted by broadcaster the RSC’s current touring productions of Charlotte and the Hanoverians, an Emma Freud. Henry IV Parts I & II. intensely moving account of the king’s Centuries of Change doomed attempt to create a happy, Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * Imperial Square, Acclaimed historian Ian Mortimer guides harmonious family. 12.30-2pm, £25 L181 The Sunday Times Garden Theatre us through the most significant Ticket includes two-course lunch. 2-3pm, £8 Members 10% off L184 Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall developments of the past 1000 years and 4-5pm, £8 Members 10% off L188 examines which century saw the most change, and what this means for our future. Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum 12noon-1pm, SPAIN £8 Members 10% off L179 Spanish Civil War: POETRY CAFÉ Divided Britain The National Poetry ART & DESIGN Competition Winners RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY Recent reports of British nationals leaving these shores for a foreign civil conflict Keep Britain Tidy: And The winners of one of the world’s biggest DEAD GOOD Does God Care What I carry echoes of the past. Richard Baxell Other Posters from the poetry competitions join judge Julia Agatha Christie and Wear? (Unlikely Warriors), Peter Day (Franco’s Nanny State Copus to read from and discuss their The Monogram Murders Is God anti couture and catwalks? Does he Friends) and Mary S Lovell (The Mitford SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY latest work. Linda France details the Public information posters dictate our care about the hijab or Niqab, or notice Girls) discuss what drove Britons to join poetic unfurling of her recent botanic Join Sophie Hannah, author of the new lives – everything from food to seat belts, our hair styles and hemlines? Join Chine the war in Spain – both those who fought Alice Roberts garden Grand Tour experiences, including Poirot novel The Monogram Murders, from alcohol consumption to Keep Britain Mbubaegbu (Head of Media & against Franco and the members of the The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being her winning poem Bernard and Cerinthe. Agatha Christie’s grandson Mathew Tidy campaigns. Cambridge University Communications, Evangelical Alliance), establishment who secretly supported Scientist and TV presenter Alice Roberts Carolyn Jess-Cooke performs her Prichard and curator of the Agatha lecturer Hester Vaizey charts the Jenny Nordberg (The Underground Girls him. gives us a fresh and accessible look at winning poem Hare, and others from her Christie estate John Curran as they changes in social attitudes through this new collection exploring motherhood, of Kabul) and Lindsay Simmonds (Gender Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall our own bodies and our evolution, celebrate the English crime writer and rare collection. Boom! best selling novelist of all time and her Institute, LSE) as they decide if it’s right to 2-3pm, £8 Members 10% off L182 examining the strokes of genius alongside most famous Belgian detective Hercule cover up or doll up in the presence of the glitches and imperfections that make us Imperial Square, The Inkpot Imperial Square, Town Hall, Poirot. Chaired by author and lecturer, Almighty. who we are. 3.30-4.30pm, The Drawing Room * £8 Members 10% off L187 Henry Sutton. Montpellier Gardens, The Salon Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum 4-5pm, £6 Members 10% off L189 Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall 12noon-1pm, 2-3pm, £8 Members 10% off L185 12noon-1pm, £7 Members 10% off L180 £8 Members 10% off L177
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SPAIN LIFESTYLE Sketches of Spain Vogue: The Gown Impresiones y paisajes, published when In this stunning celebration of almost a Federico García Lorca was just nineteen, century of fashion history, Vogue’s is a collection of meditations on Spanish Features Director presents a sumptuous art, landscapes and history, inspired by collection of some of the magazine’s most his travels. Colm Tóibín and Lorca expert iconic gowns. The ‘must-have’ event of Gareth Walters explore this formative the Festival! work by one of the 20th century's greatest Montpellier Gardens, The Salon writers with publisher Stephen Hayward, 4.30-5.30pm, accompanied by Julian Bell's illustrations, £8 Members 10% off L192 which take us to the heart of Lorca's Spain. Imperial Square, LIFESTYLE The Sunday Times Garden Theatre A Novel Afternoon Tea 4-5pm, £8 Members 10% off L190 Join Esther Freud (Mr. Mac and Me) and FICTION Linda Grant (Upstairs at the Party) as they Colm Tóibín present their fantastic new novels and discuss contemporary fiction writing with Nora Webster chair, Kate Mosse. One of contemporary literature’s most INDIA Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * critically acclaimed and beloved authors 4.30-6pm, £20 L193 Madhur Jaffrey talks to The Sunday Times Literary Editor Andrew Holgate about his career and SPORT Ticket includes afternoon tea. Regarded by many as a leading authority writing, in particular his eighth novel Nora on Indian food, Madhur Jaffrey’s BBC Sol Campbell Webster; an evocative and heartbreaking show made her a household name of the The Authorised Biography tale set in Ireland. LOCALLY SOURCED 80s. Interviewed by BBC Radio 4 Food Sol Campbell scaled the professional Gloucestershire Programme presenter Sheila Dillon, she Imperial Square, The Studio * heights to become one of England’s most History: A View from looks back on her career and how 6.15-7.15pm, capped footballers, but along the way he the Bodleian Library attitudes to ‘foreign food’ have changed £8 Members 10% off L198 suffered ostracism, difficulties with family over the years – but also forward, to members, and endured terrible racist and David Vaisey, former Librarian of the where Indian food could be heading next. homophobic abuse. Alongside his Bodleian Library at Oxford, reflects on the biographer, Simon Astaire, he gives a Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall links between the library and frank account of his life and times. Chaired 6.15-7.15pm, Gloucestershire – and how they provide by The Sunday Times chief sports writer £10 Members 10% off L196 evidence for current work on the county’s David Walsh. history. Introduced by John Chandler. Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN Imperial Square, The Inkpot 6.15-7.15pm, 5.15-6.15pm, £10 Members 10% off L199 10 Years of Who Do You BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Think You Are? £6 Members 10% off L194 The Inevitable Crisis Supported by The Honourable Company To celebrate ten years and one hundred of Gloucestershire In his book War and Gold, MP Kwasi episodes of the famous genealogy Kwarteng examines the fascinating documentary, actor Brian Blessed shares history of international finance, revealing TRAVEL his experiences of discovering his past. FICTION AT 6 patterns of debt and war-waging. He is Dan Waddell, author of Who Do You Think joined by the BBC’s Hugh Pym, whose Brigid Keenan Sequels, Prequels and book Inside the Banking Crisis looks at our You Are: The Genealogy Handbook, and Packing Up Spin-Offs own more recent financial troubles. members of the show's production team The author and journalist joins us to share join him to celebrate this much-loved The Bookseller’s Associate Editor, Cathy Imperial Square, stories from the hilarious, hair-raising and British institution. Rentzenbrink, invites Jo Baker The Sunday Times Garden Theatre fabulous follow-up to her bestselling (Longbourn), Susan Fletcher (A Little In 6.15-7.15pm, account of life as a ‘trailing spouse’, Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum Love) and Louisa Young (The Heroes’ £8 Members 10% off L197 Diplomatic Baggage. 4-5.15pm, Welcome) to talk about the art of writing a £12 Members 10% off L191 sequel and the pressure of using a famous Montpellier Gardens, The Salon work for inspiration. 6.45-7.45pm, £8 Members 10% off L200 Imperial Square, Town Hall, The Drawing Room * 6-7.15pm, £7 L195 Ticket includes a glass of Laithwaite’s wine.
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LIFESTYLE What Money Can’t Buy Charm, desire and taste. Difficult to define and even harder to acquire; powerful, but not measurable. Renowned culture and design critic Stephen Bayley explores the origins and meanings of these coveted assets. Montpellier Gardens, The Salon 8.45-9.45pm, £8 Members 10% off L208
SPAIN Hugh Thomas and Kwasi Kwarteng Spanish Conquests Charting the rise and fall of one of the greatest empires the world has ever seen, Hugh Thomas presents World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II. He is STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN joined by historian and politician Kwasi FICTION FICTION Kwarteng, author of War and Gold: A Danny Baker Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Book Group with the Andrew Marr Author Going Off Alarming Adventures and Debt, to examine the Head of State The first volume of autobiography by radio Spanish conquest of the New World. One of Granta’s Best Young British Britain’s most celebrated political DJ, journalist and screenwriter Danny Imperial Square, The Inkpot TRAVEL STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN Novelists of 2013 and winner of the commentator, Andrew Marr, presents Baker was a Sunday Times bestseller, 8.45-9.45pm, Extreme Explorers A Night Out With The prestigious Miles Franklin Award for his debut novel – a gleefully twisted take acclaimed for its non-stop humour and £8 Members 10% off L209 Girls 2014, Evie Wyld joins us for an exclusive on what goes on behind the door of10 anecdotal flourish. He discusses his latest A meeting of two inspirational extreme Festival book group to discuss her novel Downing Street, set against the backdrop instalment with writer and broadcaster explorers. The first man to walk the A girls’ night out full of funny stories from All the Birds, Singing. Chaired by The of the much-awaited 2017 EU referendum. Emma Kennedy. Amazon Ed Stafford reveals his Naked two funny females – comedian Katy Bookseller’s Cathy Rentzenbrink. and Marooned experience - described by Brand (Brenda Monk is Funny) and Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum Imperial Square, Town Hall, Ranulph Fiennes as the ‘ultimate test of wobbly woman Francesca Martinez 8.30-9.30pm, 8.30-9.30pm, The Drawing Room * human limits’ – while Richard Parks’ (What The **** Is Normal?!) join the £10 Members 10% off L205 £10 Members 10% off L207 8.15-9.15pm, £15 L203 Beyond the Horizon tells the incredible inimitable Emma Freud for an evening of Ticket includes a copy of the book story of one man’s journey from drinks, nibbles and laughter. (sent by post in advance) and a glass international rugby player to world record- Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * of Laithwaite’s wine. breaking extreme adventurer. 7.30-10pm, £20 Imperial Square, The Inkpot Bar service available. L202 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS 7-8pm, £8 Members 10% off L201 FICTION What’s Next for Baileys Women’s Prize Google? for Fiction For many people, Google is the internet, Kate Mosse, co-founder of the Women’s and with its move into wearable and Prize for Fiction now sponsored by automotive technology its influence will Baileys, talks to this year’s winner Eimear only increase. UK Sales Director Peter McBride about her debut novel, A Girl is a Fitzgerald gives us an intriguing insight Half-Formed Thing and her career success into Google’s vision for the future. to date. Imperial Square, Imperial Square, The Studio * The Sunday Times Garden Theatre 8.15-9.15pm, 8.30-9.30pm, £7 Members 10% off L204 £8 Members 10% off L206
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Thursday 09 October_ We’re sure that almost every person in the land, at one stage, has either a) dreamt of running away to join the Morning Mid Afternoon circus or b) owned an iconic spotty OUP’s Very Short Introductions: Fields of Blood: Religion and teapot or mug with a chicken on it. Fiction (L210) MG the History of Violence (L222) IS Meet the remarkable and inspiring sisters who have lived the dream and Crosswords with The Times (L211) MG Poetry Café (L223) IS owned not just the teapot, but the Belief Day Introduction (L212) IS The Village Detective Lives On! (L224) IS whole ceramics range! Lawrence of Arabia (L225) IS Early Afternoon Simon Schama: Rembrandt’s Eyes (L226) MG Simon Schama: 101 Legendary Whiskies (L227) MG The Story of the Jews (L213) IS Spain’s Memory Wars (L228) MG Alan Titchmarsh (L214) MG The Writer’s Garden (L229) IS Simon Armitage (L215) MG
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OUP’s Very Short HISTORY INDIA POETRY Introductions: Charles Spencer The Future of India Poetry Café Contemporary Fiction Killers of the King India and its vibrant culture is a land that is Regarded as one of the finest Caribbean Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse After seven years of fighting the bloodiest changing at an incredible pace. Patrick poets of her generation, we are delighted field, now global in dimension, with an war in Britain’s history, Parliament had French (India: A Portrait) and Mark Tully to welcome Lorna Goodison to the Poetry enormous range of novels and writers that overpowered Charles I. Charles Spencer (India: The Road Ahead) take an in-depth Café with her new collection, Oracabessa. continues to grow at a fantastic speed. reveals the shocking stories and look at where the country has come from, She is joined by Karen McCarthy Woolf, Robert Eaglestone explores some of the fascinating fates of the men who signed and where it is heading. whose collection An Aviary of Small Birds major themes, patterns, and debates of the king’s death warrant. is both an elegy to a stillborn son and a Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum contemporary fiction. testament to the redemptive qualities of Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall 2-3pm, £8 Members 10% off L220 poetry. Montpellier Gardens, 2-3pm, ART & DESIGN Montpellier Café Bar * £8 Members 10% off L217 Imperial Square, Town Hall, 11am, FREE L210 SPAIN The Drawing Room * Simon Schama ART & DESIGN 4-5pm, £5 Members 10% off L223 Spain Now Rembrandt’s Eyes Alan Titchmarsh LOCALLY SOURCED Crosswords with The Spain’s new king, Felipe VI, has inherited a More than three centuries after his death, The Queen’s Houses Telling Truths Rembrandt’s work continues to intrigue Times country brought to its knees by the financial FICTION Beloved gardener and broadcaster Alan Local authors Dinah Jefferies, who grew crisis, with alarming unemployment levels and inspire. Reissued to coincide with The Make yourself comfy as The Times Titchmarsh takes us on a tour of the Royal up in and set her novel The Separation and simmering separatist tensions. El País The Village Detective National Gallery’s major Rembrandt Crossword Editor Richard Rogan takes residences, looking beyond the formal during the forgotten war of the 50s, the correspondent Pablo Guimón, HSBC Lives On! exhibition, Simon Schama’s ground- you through the mysteries of the day’s grandeur to reveal the personal family Malayan Emergency, and Joanna Chief European Economist Janet Henry, With over 3 million books sold, M.C. breaking biography explores why. crossword puzzles with a helping hand or stories behind these magnificent buildings. Kurlbaum, whose novel Not Little Stones The Times journalist Matthew Parris and Beaton is Queen of the Village Green tantalising hint where needed! Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum is based on the true story of two teenage chair Jeremy Treglown dissect Spain’s Mystery. Join her as she discusses her 4-5pm, £8 Members 10% off L226 Montpellier Gardens, 12noon-1pm, athletes in 90s Bosnia-Herzegovina, economy, politics and prospects, and their infamous Cotswold-based novels, Montpellier Café Bar * £8 Members 10% off L214 discuss their books and the challenges of impact on the rest of Europe. featuring the bossy yet irresistible Agatha 11am-12noon, FREE L211 translating real events into fiction. Raisin, with crime novelist Simon Brett. Montpellier Gardens, The Salon Imperial Square, Town Hall, 2.30-3.30pm, Imperial Square, The Inkpot The Drawing Room * £8 Members 10% off L221 4-5pm, £8 Members 10% off L224 BELIEF DAY LIFESTYLE 2-3pm, £6 Members 10% off L218 Introduction with 101 Legendary POETRY Abdul-Rehman Malik BELIEF DAY HISTORY Whiskies BELIEF DAY Join journalist and educator Abdul- Simon Armitage Fields of Blood: Lawrence of Arabia Back by popular demand, whisky expert Rehman Malik for an introduction to the The Last Days of Troy Understanding Islam: Religion and the Lawrence of Arabia battled both enemy Ian Buxton takes us on a tastebud- Festival’s Belief Day. One of Britain’s best-loved poets Simon Living and Dying for History of Violence and government to bring about his vision tingling tour of some of the world’s finest Imperial Square, Town Hall, Armitage reads from The Last Days of God From Karen Armstrong, the bestselling for the Arab people, gaining almost and rarest whiskies, revealing The Drawing Room * Troy; his visceral retelling of Homer’s The What does it mean to live for God and, author of A History of God, comes an mythical status along the way. Leading entertaining and unusual stories behind 11.30-11.45am, L212 Iliad and explores his own selection of with hundreds of Britons allegedly fighting exploration of religion’s connection to historians Scott Anderson (Lawrence in their creation along the way. poems from his twenty-five year career, Part of the Belief Day Package in Syria alongside so-called “jihadists”, violence, laying faiths and their violent Arabia) and Anthony Sattin (Young Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * Paper Aeroplane. what does it mean to die for God? Join motives side by side, from the earliest Lawrence) introduce us to Lawrence as a 4-5.30pm, £20 L227 Montpellier Gardens, The Salon University of Edinburgh Professor Mona examples right up to modern young man, journey with him through the Ticket includes five samples, provided BELIEF DAY 12.30-1.30pm, Siddiqui (On Faith and Freedom: A fundamentalism. Middle East and celebrate the man he by John Gordons. Personal Journey), scholar Ahmed Saad was to become. Simon Schama £8 Members 10% off L215 Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall al-Azhari (Director, Ihsan Institute) and 4-5pm, £8 Members 10% off L222 Imperial Square, The Story of the Jews: journalist Abdul-Rehman Malik as they The Sunday Times Garden Theatre SPAIN When Words Fail LIFESTYLE explore the Qur’an for answers. Distinguished historian Simon Schama 4-5pm, £8 Members 10% off L225 Spain’s Memory Wars Imperial Square, introduces the second instalment of The A Change of Appetite Even today, Spain struggles to reconcile The Sunday Times Garden Theatre Story of the Jews; teeming with words of Follow bestselling cookery writer Diana aspects of its recent history and how it 2-3pm, £8 Members 10% off L219 defiance and optimism, music and drama, Henry on her year-long culinary journey has been remembered. Paul Preston (The poetry and politics and a story of hope towards lighter, but no less delicious food. 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NATURAL WORLD POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS LIFESTYLE FICTION FICTION The Writer’s Garden The Party Thomasina Miers Andy McNab Book Group with the In this beautifully illustrated talk about her Conferences: An Chilli Notes For Valour Author new book, the former editor of Garden Insider’s Guide Enjoy a chilli-inspired dinner with the Chaired by John Inverdale, the former “A story of a family trying to work out how Design Journal and The English Garden Having completed the gruelling trio of all MasterChef winner and founder of SAS sergeant Andy McNab presents the to carry on when their world has fallen magazine, Jackie Bennett, reveals the three autumn party conferences, The Mexican street food chain phenomenon latest in his heart-stopping Nick Stone apart – heart-breaking but unexpectedly gardens that inspired some of our best- Times journalists Matthew Parris and Wahaca, showcasing dishes from her series, which will force the reader to funny.” In an exclusive Festival book group, loved authors. Philip Collins hotfoot it to Cheltenham to new cookbook Chilli Notes – recipes to recognise the thinness of the line that Carys Bray talks to The Bookseller’s join the historian Peter Hennessy. They warm the heart, not burn the tongue! separates sacrifice from suicide, and to Cathy Rentzenbrink about the inspiration Imperial Square, The Studio * will share the behind-the-scenes gossip, count the real cost of actions taken in the behind her beautiful debut novel A Song 5.30-6.30pm, Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * the plotting and give their unflinching name of loyalty. for Issy Bradley that explores the outer £7 Members 10% off L229 7.45-10.15pm, £40 L237 verdict on the performance of the three reaches of doubt and faith. Ticket includes three-course dinner. Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall party leaders. 8.30-9.30pm, Imperial Square, Town Hall, Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum £8 Members 10% off L239 The Drawing Room * 6.15-7.15pm, 8.30-9.30pm, £20 L241 £10 Members 10% off L234 Ticket includes a hardback copy of the FICTION AT 6 book (sent by post in advance) and a LIFESTYLE glass of Laithwaite’s wine. New Kids on the Block Yotam Ottolenghi and Join The Bookseller’s Associate Editor, Simon Schama Cathy Rentzenbrink, as she discusses PSYCHOLOGY In this Cheltenham exclusive, British the experience of publishing a debut novel HISTORY with 2014’s freshest new voices: Sara historian Simon Schama talks to the Israeli- Is Competition Crowe (Campari for Breakfast), Natalie born chef and author of Plenty More Victoria: A Life Healthy? Haynes (The Amber Fury) and Nina Yotam Ottolenghi, who has redefined To many, Queen Victoria is shrouded in We depend on competition and expect it Stibbe (Man at the Helm). cooking with vegetables and changed the myth and mystique and the story of her to identify the best, make complicated way people shop, cook and eat. We explore life continues to fascinate. A. N. Wilson decisions easy, to motivate the lazy and Imperial Square, Town Hall, Yotam’s rich and fascinating life in food – reveals the matriarch of Royal Europe as inspire the dreamers. But it has a The Drawing Room * his influences, inspirations and career she has never been seen before. downside: rising levels of fraud, stress, 6-7.15pm, £7 L230 highlights, as showcased in his bestselling inequality and political stalemate. So what Ticket includes a glass of Montpellier Gardens, The Salon books and award-winning TV series. are our alternatives? Join Margaret Laithwaite’s wine. 6.45-7.45pm, Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall Heffernan (A Bigger Prize), and Oliver £8 Members 10% off L235 6.15-7.15pm, James (Office Politics), as they discuss £12 Members 10% off L232 FICTION the issues and options. LIFESTYLE Emma Bridgewater and SPAIN Ian Rankin Imperial Square, The Inkpot 8.30-9.30pm, Nell Gifford Curating Picasso STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN The Beat Goes On £8 Members 10% off L242 Emma Bridgewater’s beautifully distinctive Is there anything left to say about the art Omid Djalili In an exclusive Festival event, number one crockery now sits pride of place in many a world’s greatest names? How do you bestselling crime author Ian Rankin home. She joins us to talk about her book BELIEF DAY capture public imagination and create fresh Hopeful discusses his life, work and Inspector Toast & Marmalade and Other Stories Truth and Uncertainty debate? Tate Britain’s Head of Displays Comedian, actor and Cheltenham Guest Rebus as his short stories are brought alongside her sister Nell Gifford, vintage- and curator of Picasso and Modern British Director Omid Djalili presents his warm together in The Beat Goes On: The Although science attempts to explain the and funny memoir; reflecting on his Complete Rebus Stories. style circus founder and author of Giffords Art Chris Stephens and Courtauld INDIA universe and human existence, a vast unconventional childhood, finding fame as Circus: The First Ten Years, as they reveal Institute of Art’s Sarah Wilson (Picasso/ Imperial Square, majority remains a mystery: exotic, a young Iranian in London and his journey The Holy Grail of the story behind their success. Marx: and Social Realism in France) The Sunday Times Garden Theatre hypothetical and undetected. However, through an unusually British life. Growth confront the challenge of presenting 8.30-9.30pm, Imperial Square, faith rises where certainty falls, supporting Picasso in a new light. Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum £8 Members 10% off L240 Join Guardian journalist Aditya The Sunday Times Garden Theatre our understanding of what cannot be known 8.15-9.30pm, Chakrabortty, Professor of Economic 6.15-7.15pm, for sure. Theologian Alister McGrath, Imperial Square, The Studio * £16 Members 10% off L238 History at LSE Tirthankar Roy and £10 Members 10% off L231 7.30-8.30pm, philosopher Ray Tallis, physicist Tom Patrick French, author of India: A Portrait, McLeish and Michael Perham, Bishop of £7 Members 10% off L236 Supported by as they examine the Indian economy, Gloucester explore the meaning of The Patrons of Cheltenham Festivals growth, sustainability and what it all certainty and the nature of truth. means for a rapidly growing nation. 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Sheila Hancock is a true British legend Friday 10 October_ of the screen and stage, respected for her diverse talents and indomitable spirit. Her searing honesty following Morning Mid Afternoon the loss of her husband, John Thaw, World War One Words (L244) IS Laurie Lee’s Cider with Rosie (L261) IS inspired even greater affection in her legions of admirers and cemented her Natalie Haynes Stands Up for Mughal India: Art, Culture position as one of our best loved the Classics (L245) IS and Empire (L262) IS public figures. She joins us to The Self-Portrait: Jane Austen’s Country Life (L263) MG introduce her new novel and look back A Cultural History (L246) MG Paddy Ashdown (L264) IS at her stellar career. Aldous Huxley: Brave New World (L247) MG Antonia Fraser (L265) IS Crosswords with The Times (L248) MG Heston Blumenthal (L266) MG OUP’s Very Short Introductions: Classical Thrillers (L267) MG Martyrdom (L249) MG India Day Introduction (L250) IS Evening Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale (L251) IS Amit Chaudhuri (L268) IS Notes from a Small Ireland (L269) IS Early Afternoon Victoria Hislop (L270) IS The Great Partition (L252) IS Ann Widdecombe (L271) IS Nature’s Wonders (L253) MG Sheila Hancock (L272) MG A History of War in 100 Battles (L254) MG Kirsty Wark (L273) MG Sediment Lunch: Two Gentlemen Masala Mix: An Evening with and Their Mid-Life Terroirs (L255) MG Hardeep Singh Kohli (L274) MG Blood, Sex & Death – The Brunel University India Day_ Britain’s Wars_ Masala Mix_ Ancient Greek Drama (L256) IS African Poetry (L275) IS L366 L260, 2.45-3.45pm L274, 7.30-10pm India as an Article of Faith (L257) IS David Richards (L276) IS Mindfulness: The Key to Calm (L258) IS The Rise of the Marriage Thriller (L277) IS Join novelist, critic and musician Amit A significant news event such as the This is our idea of a perfect Friday The Canterbury Tales (L259) MG Sci Fi and Fantasy: A Celebration (L278) IS Chaudhuri from 11.30am. on-going withdrawal of British troops night out. Great food inspired by The India Day Pass includes: from Afghanistan often creates a Bombay street cuisine, entertainment Britain’s Wars (L260) MG The Love-charm of Bombs (L279) MG An exclusive introduction in the Town pause for reflection, prompting from the nation’s favourite Glaswegian Salman Rushdie (L280) MG Hall Regency Café,11.30 -11.45am discussion of past events and what Sikh comedian, and the chance to with complimentary tea or coffee they have taught us and what the delight in authentic Bhangra and Entrance to five specially-curated future might bring. We’re thrilled to be Bollywood music and dance. It’s a events: [ L250] [ L252] [ L257] [ L262] joined by such a distinguished panel, curry night, but not as you know it… [ L268] bringing their vast experience and All for the discounted price of £75. differing perspectives to the increasingly To book, call our Box Office on vexed question of whether military 0844 880 8094. intervention in disputes overseas does more harm than good.
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HISTORY CLASSIC LITERATURE INDIA DAY NATURAL WORLD INDIA DAY World War One Words Aldous Huxley: Brave Introduction with Amit Nature’s Wonders India as an Article of From ‘air raid’ and ‘shell shock’ to New World Chaudhuri From the ocean’s depths to the wilds of Faith ‘basketcase’ and ‘cootie’, WWI gave rise Aldous Huxley’s visionary work caused a Join Festival Guest Director - acclaimed your own back garden, discover the The concept of ‘India’ is arguably as to a plethora of new words and phrases. sensation upon its publication. Huxley Indian novelist, critic and musician Amit weirdest, most intriguing creatures that strong as a religion. Festival Guest The Oxford English Dictionary Senior biographer Nicholas Murray (Aldous Chaudhuri - for an introduction to the share our planet. Authors Simon Barnes Director Amit Chaudhuri, historian Faisal Editor, Fiona McPherson, delves into the Huxley: An English Intellectual) examines Festival’s India Day. (Ten Million Aliens), Richard Girling (The Devji, Patrick French (India: A Portrait) linguistic legacy of The Great War. the novel’s roots and explores why, more Hunt for the Golden Mole) and Richard and Sam Miller (A Strange Kind of Imperial Square, Town Hall, than eighty years on, it still has the power Kerridge (Cold Blood) journey around the Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes) ask Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall Regency Café * to challenge and disturb. animal kingdom, covering biodiversity, how this belief shapes India’s secular 10-11am, 11.30-11.45am, L250 conservation and the relationship ideals, its arts and sciences, and how it is £8 Members 10% off L244 Montpellier Gardens, The Salon Part of the India Day Package between man and beast. used by leaders of Hindutva today. 10.30-11.30am, £8 Members 10% off L247 Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum Imperial Square, 12noon-1pm, The Sunday Times Garden Theatre £8 Members 10% off L253 2-3pm, £8 Members 10% off L257
LIFESTYLE PSYCHOLOGY Crosswords with Sediment Lunch: Two Mindfulness: The Key The Times Gentlemen and Their to Calm Make yourself comfy as The Times Mid-Life Terroirs Anxiety and stress levels are rising faster Crossword Editor Richard Rogan takes Eat, drink and be merry with the authors of than ever. Will we ever find the key to you through the mysteries of the day’s Sediment, the book (and blog) about the calm? Drawing on years of experience as crossword puzzles with a helping hand or trials and tribulations of wine drinking. a clinical psychologist, Linda Blair tantalising hint where needed! Like authors Charles Jennings and Paul introduces the increasingly popular Montpellier Gardens, Keers, you don’t need to know much - or, concept of Mindfulness. indeed, anything - about wine to enjoy Montpellier Café Bar * CLASSIC LITERATURE their forays into buying, serving, drinking, Imperial Square, Town Hall, 11-12noon, FREE L248 Once Upon a Time: sharing, and, quite often, ruining it… The Drawing Room * ANCIENT WORLD A Short History of 2.15-3.15pm, Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * Natalie Haynes Stands Fairy Tale £7 Members 10% off L258 Up for the Classics OUP’s Very Short 12.30-2pm, £25 L255 Introductions: British writer and mythographer Marina Ticket includes two-course lunch with A high-speed, highly entertaining trip Martyrdom Warner explores a multitude of tales Laithwaite's wine. through Greek Tragedy from Natalie through the ages, from Red Riding Hood to Jolyon Mitchell provides a historical Haynes (Stands Up for the Classics on Hansel and Gretel, from The Little analysis to understand the contemporary BBC Radio 4). For those who’d like to Mermaid to Pan’s Labyrinth. debates surrounding martyrdom. Using ANCIENT WORLD know their Aeschylus from their elbow… examples from a variety of contexts Imperial Square, The Inkpot HISTORY Blood, Sex & Death – Imperial Square, around the world, he explores how it has 11.45am-12.45pm, A History of War in Ancient Greek Drama The Sunday Times Garden Theatre evolved, and what it means today. £8 Members 10% off L251 100 Battles Medea, Electra, Antigone: Greek 10-11am, Montpellier Gardens, British historian and author Richard Overy tragedies are still packing in West End £8 Members 10% off L245 Montpellier Café Bar * takes us on a journey through the most audiences and their power and relevance INDIA DAY 11am, FREE L249 important battles in history, examining how has never been greater. Edith Hall and The Great Partition armed combat has evolved across the Rosie Wyles (King’s College London) and The 1947 partition of India promised both decades. author Tom Holland join Natalie Haynes for a lively discussion of the blood-soaked, political and religious freedom. In reality, Montpellier Gardens, The Salon fate-driven world of ancient Greek drama ART & DESIGN the geographical divide created an even 12.30-1.30pm, and its enduring appeal. The Self-Portrait: greater schism, exposing huge numbers £8 Members 10% off L254 A Cultural History of the population to desperate and Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall devastating consequences. John Keay 2-3pm, £8 Members 10% off L256 In this illustrated interview, art historian (Midnight’s Descendants), Yasmin Khan James Hall maps the rich history of the (The Great Partition), Basharat Peer self-portrait in an elegant and fascinating (Curfewed Night) and Mark Tully (India: homage to this enduringly popular art form. The Road Ahead) examine the events surrounding this momentous change. Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum 10-11am, Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall Search using the Quickfind Code at £8 Members 10% off L246 12noon-1pm, cheltenhamfestivals.com to find £8 Members 10% off L252 your event instantly *These events have unreserved seating Fri 10 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:39 Page 5 Fri 10 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:39 Page 6
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POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS Britain’s Wars Intervention is as ancient an instrument of foreign policy as diplomatic pressure, negotiations and war. Former Defence Secretary of State Liam Fox (Rising Tides), The Sunday Times Foreign Correspondent Christina Lamb (The Retreat), former Chief of Defence Staff David Richards (Taking Command) and military academic Hew Strachan (The Direction of War) examine the outcomes of the Afghan campaign and debate the efficacy of intervention overseas. Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum INDIA DAY 2.45-3.45pm, HISTORY Mughal India: Art, INDIA DAY £10 Members 10% off L260 Culture and Empire Paddy Ashdown Amit Chaudhuri The Mughal dynasty encouraged artistry, The Cruel Victory: Vercors 1944 reformed government and commissioned Bestselling author Paddy Ashdown tells A Moment of Mishearing: A Musical some of the most beautiful architecture in the long neglected D-Day story of the LIFESTYLE Performance India, including the incomparable Taj Resistance uprising and subsequent Not only an award-winning author, Festival massacre on the Vercors massif – the Heston Blumenthal Guest Director Amit Chaudhuri is also an THE BIG READ Mahal. The British Library’s Mughal India exhibition was the first to document the largest action by the French Resistance Historic Heston acclaimed Indian classical musician. He Laurie Lee’s Cider entire period, from the16thto19thcenturies, during the Second World War. Heston Blumenthal’s unconventional and presents his latest experimental musical With Rosie rule-breaking approach to food places him project, This is not Fusion, performed through more than 200 exquisite objects. Imperial Square, at the forefront of modern gastronomy. worldwide and dubbed a ‘pathbreaking The Big Read Book Group Join the exhibition’s curator Malini Roy The Sunday Times Garden Theatre The multi Michelin-starred chef shares his project’. He is joined by musicians Adam In this centenary year of Laurie Lee’s birth, for a fascinating illustrated talk. 4.15-5.15pm, latest collection Historic Heston and Moore, Paul Williams, Matt Hodges and we celebrate the Gloucestershire-born £8 Members 10% off L264 Imperial Square, The Inkpot reveals how he got to where he is today. Sanju Sahai. author by revisiting his best-loved work, 4-5pm, £8 Members 10% off L262 POETRY Cider with Rosie. Join us at one of our Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum Imperial Square, The Inkpot The Canterbury Tales book groups – whether you are new to the HISTORY 4.30-5.30pm, 6-7pm, £8 Members 10% off L268 book or just want to read it again. £10 Members 10% off L266 Mining Chaucer’s Middle-English Antonia Fraser masterwork for its performance as well as Imperial Square, Town Hall, FICTION AT 6 its poetry and pilgrims, Patience Agbabi The Drawing Room * Perilous Question: The Drama of the gives one of Britain’s most significant 4-5pm, £3 Members 10% off L261 Great Reform Bill 1832 Notes from a Small works of poetry thrilling new life. She is In conversation with military historian and Ireland author Allan Mallinson, the internationally joined by novelist and award-winning Journalist Robert Collins explores the bestselling historian Antonia Fraser ANCIENT WORLD comedian (and recent winner of Celebrity evolution of Irish fiction and its influence vividly brings to life a dramatic and violent Mastermind with the specialist subject of Classical Thrillers on their writing with John Boyne (A History year of pre-Victorian political and social The Canterbury Tales) Mark Watson. Masters of historical fiction Lindsey of Loneliness), Audrey Magee (The history – the passing of the Great Reform This event is part of the Telling Tales tour Davis (Enemies at Home) and Simon Undertaking) and Donal Ryan (The Thing Bill of 1832. produced by ‘renaissance one’. Scarrow (Brothers In Blood) take an in- About December). Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall depth look at the classical settings and Montpellier Gardens, The Salon Imperial Square, Town Hall, 4.30-5.30pm, characters that shape their bestselling 2.30-3.30pm, LIFESTYLE The Drawing Room * £8 Members 10% off L259 £8 Members 10% off L265 novels. Chaired by writer and comedian 6-7.15pm, £7 L269 Jane Austen’s Natalie Haynes, best known for her BBC Ticket includes a glass of Country Life Radio 4 comedy slot Natalie Haynes Laithwaite's wine. Join eminent Austen historian Deirdre Le Stands up for the Classics. Faye for afternoon tea in the Spiegeltent Montpellier Gardens, The Salon as she reveals the rural backdrop to the 4.30-5.30pm, novelist’s life, letters and best-loved £8 Members 10% off L267 works. A must for all Jane Austen fans. Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * 4-5.30pm, £15 L263 Search using the Quickfind Code at Ticket includes traditional afternoon tea. cheltenhamfestivals.com to find your event instantly *These events have unreserved seating Fri 10 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:39 Page 7 Fri 10 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:39 Page 8
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FICTION Sci Fi and Fantasy: A Celebration Once regarded as a niche genre, Sci Fi and Fantasy continues to capture the imaginations of new readers. Four of the genre’s leading voices Ben Aaronovitch (Foxglove Summer), Joe Abercrombie (Half a King), Mitch Benn (Terra’s World) and Sarah Pinborough (Stay with Me) join author and journalist David Barnett to celebrate its rise and discuss their latest work. Imperial Square, The Inkpot FICTION 8.30-9.30pm, Victoria Hislop £8 Members 10% off L278 The Sunrise Bestselling author of The Island Victoria Hislop joins us to introduce her latest novel Salman Rushdie The Sunrise,avivid depiction of the personal HISTORY The PEN Pinter Prize cost and drama of conflict in Cyprus. David Richards The PEN Pinter Prize is awarded annually Imperial Square, STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN INDIA by English PEN to a British writer whom, Taking Command The Sunday Times Garden Theatre in Harold Pinter’s words shows a “fierce Sheila Hancock Masala Mix: An Evening Former Chief of Defence Staff David 6.15-7.15pm, intellectual determination… to define the Miss Carter’s War with Hardeep Singh Richards gives a candid and often humorous £8 Members 10% off L270 real truth of our lives and our societies”. Iconic, award-winning actor and author Kohli account of a rich and fascinating career The 2014 recipient Salman Rushdie joins Sheila Hancock joins us in conversation Spice up your senses, as author and that took him to the highest echelons of us in conversation with the journalist to introduce her debut novel Miss Carter’s broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli hosts a military politics and command. Kirsty Wark. War and to take a look back through her fabulous evening of Indian entertainment. Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall stellar career. With music from rising star DJ Ritu, live Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum 8.30-9.30pm, performance from Akademi South Asian 8.45-9.45pm, Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum £8 Members 10% off L276 Dance UK and a menu inspired by £10 Members 10% off L280 6.30-7.30pm, Carolyn and Chris Caldicott’s exotic and £12 Members 10% off L272 imaginative new cookbook Bombay DEAD GOOD CLASSIC LITERATURE Lunchbox. The Rise of the The Love-charm of Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * Marriage Thriller Bombs 7.30-10pm, £50 L274 Ticket includes three-course dinner. The Sunday Times columnist and author Lara Feigel (King’s College London) FICTION India Knight delves into the genre that introduces her powerful Second World Kirsty Wark has publishers and the book-buying public War history told through the eyes of five The Brunel University in a frenzy with crime writers Paula Daly prominent writers, including Graham The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle African Poetry Prize (Keep Your Friends Close), Louise Greene, Elizabeth Bowen and Rose Much-respected journalist and broadcaster Doughty (Apple Tree Yard) and Natalie Macaulay, whose extraordinary story of A celebration of The Brunel University Kirsty Wark joins us in conversation to Young (Season to Taste or How to Eat the Blitz has never been told. African Poetry Prize, with thrilling live introduce her debut novel – a multi- Your Husband). POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS performances by this year’s winner, Liyou Montpellier Gardens, The Salon generational story of love and belonging Libsekal and runner-up, Nick Makoha, Imperial Square, 8.30-9.30pm, Ann Widdecombe set on the Scottish Island of Arran. chaired by award-winning writer and The Sunday Times Garden Theatre £7 Members 10% off L279 Strictly Ann poet, Bernardine Evaristo. 8.30-9.30pm, With characteristic verve and integrity, Montpellier Gardens, The Salon £8 Members 10% off L277 Ann Widdecombe reflects on her diverse 6.30-7.30pm, Imperial Square, Town Hall, and extraordinary career and the people £8 Members 10% off L273 The Drawing Room * and events that have influenced her along 8.15-9.15pm, the way. Expect humour and controversy £6 Members 10% off L275 in equal measure… Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall 6.30-7.30pm, Search using the Quickfind Code at £10 Members 10% off L271 cheltenhamfestivals.com to find *These events have unreserved seating your event instantly Sat 11 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:41 Page 1 Sat 11 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:41 Page 2
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Celebrated for his nuanced portraits of Saturday 11 October_ contemporary American life, it is an honour to welcome one of our greatest living writers back to Cheltenham. Morning The 1939 Cheltenham Richard’s visit also marks a second The First World War: A New History (L281)IS Booker Prize (L301) IS return: that of the character of Frank What Future For Words? (L302) IS Bascombe, the literary everyman at The History Manifesto (L282) IS the centre of his trio of acclaimed Present Tense: Ukraine (L283) IS Shami Chakrabarti (L303) IS novels. After almost a decade, Growing Your Own (L284) MG Twenty Years of Slam! Qualifier (L304) MG Bascombe makes his much anticipated Penguin Proof Party (L305) MG return and we can’t wait to welcome Rod Liddle (L285) MG both of them back. Wake Up Happy (L286) MG Celebrating Classic Picture Books (LB70)OS Reworking the Classics (L287) IS Alan Johnson (L306) IS Rowan Williams – Law, Rights Martin Amis (L307) MG and Religion (L288) IS What Does the Next Century Hold? (L308) IS Naomi Klein (L289) MG Miklós Bánffy: Celebrity Culture: An Extraordinary Life (L309) IS Where Will it All End? (L290) IS Rowan Williams and Michael Symmons Roberts (L310) IS
Early Afternoon Present Tense: Pakistan (L311) MG Val McDermid (L291) MG Hate, Terror, Riots (LB63) IS Evening Bill Granger’s Italian Lunch (L292) MG Lobsters, Love and Being a Boy (LB72) IS What Are You Like? Wilfred Owen: Poetry and Redefining British Indians (L293) IS Music of the Great War (L312) OS Richard Ford (L313) IS Does Privacy Exist Rebecca Front_ The 2014 Man Booker Prize Anymore?_ Shortlist (L294) IS John Cleese: So, Anyway... (L314) MG L322, 8.45-9.45pm The Book Reborn (L295) IS Does Privacy Exist Any More? (L315) IS L315, 7.15-8.15pm With her onscreen characters having The NHS – What’s the Prognosis? (L296) MG Becoming Freud (L316) IS Shami Chakrabarti examines the to contend with Alan Partridge and Who Was The Greatest Prime You Heard it Here First (L317) IS necessarily secretive presence of Malcolm Tucker, it’s no wonder that Minister Britain Never Had? (L297) IS Blue Note Records: GCHQ and its many ‘listeners’ just on actress and comedy writer Rebecca Feral: Rewilding the Land, 75 Years of the Finest in Jazz (L318) MG the outskirts of Cheltenham. Exploring Front believes there is no such thing the Sea, and Human Life (L298) MG the relevance of the right to privacy in as normal. We’re looking forward to The Times Great Women’s Lives (L319) IS 2014 balanced against external hearing her share some of her own Ben Okri (L320) OS threats to our security and safety, this peculiarities from her debut collection Mid Afternoon is a unique gathering of different of autobiographical stories, discussing Twenty Years of Slam! (L321) MG perspectives. The playwright James a life that is often weird, but certainly Radio Needs Younger Listeners? Rebecca Front (L322) IS Graham also offers the audience a no omnishambles. Whatever. (L299) IS salutary and surprising insight into The Dark Net (L323) IS A Celebration of Elizabeth how easy we make things for those Jane Howard (L300) MG John Lydon (L324) MG who watch and listen. Feeding the World or Farmageddon? (L325) IS IS – Imperial Square MG – Montpellier Gardens Book ahead and save 10% OS – Off Site on tickets with Membership Sat 11 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:41 Page 3 Sat 11 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:41 Page 4
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HISTORY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY The First World War: A BRAVE NEW WORLDS Val McDermid New History Celebrity Culture: Forensics: An Anatomy of Crime A brilliant and profound examination of the Where Will it All End? The dead talk. To the right listener they causes and ideas behind the war that has reveal who they are, how they lived and done most to shape the 20th century by Forget 15 minutes of fame – today it is more like 5. With a smartphone in died - and who killed them. Through one of the world’s foremost experts on the every pocket, are we all paparazzi now? Mark Ellen (Rock Stars Stole My forensic science, a single hair can uncover conflict, Hew Strachan. Life!), India Knight (In Your Prime), The Sunday Times film critic Camilla secrets that allow justice to be done. Drawing on her book and using images, Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall Long and Boyd Hilton, TV and reviews editor of Heat Magazine question the bestselling crime author Val McDermid 10-11am, future of celebrity culture. Chaired by Guest Director Omid Djalili. delves into fascinating forensics with £8 Members 10% off L281 journalist and author Vivienne Parry. Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall Forensics accompanies an exhibition being held at Wellcome Collection next year. HISTORY LIFESTYLE 11.45am-12.45pm, £10 Members 10% off L290 The History Manifesto Growing Your Own Montpellier Gardens, The Salon LIFESTYLE 12noon-1pm, In a world of short-termism, quarterly Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or Wake Up Happy £8 Members 10% off L291 reports and annual audits, US professors allotment amateur, discover how to make of history David Armitage and Jo Guldi your patch work harder for you. Cookery What really makes you happy? Money? are champions of the longue durée. They writer and BBC2’s The Big Allotment Music? A free book? A great breakfast? speak to British historian James Holland Challenge judge Thane Prince (Perfect Join author Stephen May (Wake Up about the way history is taught on both Preserves) is joined by Series One winner Happy Every Day) to discuss the nature of sides of the Atlantic, and whether ambitious, Ed Bond to show you how to squeeze happiness in this unique event. every ounce of goodness from your home- AGE12 long-term narratives can provide better Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * grown fruit and vegetables and share TO answers to contemporary problems. 10-11.30am, £15 L286 expert tips from plot to plate. ADULT Imperial Square, Ticket includes ‘Full English’ breakfast The Sunday Times Garden Theatre Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum 10-11am, 10-11am, £8 Members 10% off L282 £8 Members 10% off L284 INDIA Reworking the Classics
JOURNALISM POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS Indian journalist Basharat Peer, collaborator on the screenplay for Vishal Present Tense: Ukraine Rod Liddle Bharadwaj’s film Hamlet, Daljit Nagra, Russia’s annexation of Crimea in March Selfish Whining Monkeys: How we whose most recent work is a prose verse 2014 placed Ukraine at the heart of a Ended Up Greedy, Narcissistic and edition of The Ramayana, and Festival standoff between Moscow and the West. Unhappy Guest Director Amit Chaudhuri, whose The Times Moscow Correspondent Ben With a sharp eye for the magnificently forthcoming novel, Odysseus Abroad, is RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY NATURAL WORLD Hoyle and Andrew Wilson (Ukraine absurd, The Sunday Times columnist Rod both an homage to and parody of the Crisis: What it Means for the West) Liddle sets light to modern-day Britain. Odyssey and Ulysses discuss the Rowan Williams – Law, Naomi Klein examine Europe’s worst diplomatic crisis Mercilessly exposing the way we live, he challenges and joys of reworking the Rights and Religion This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs since the Cold War, and Ukraine’s examines how the luxuries we take for classics. The Cambridge Coexist Theology the Climate granted have made us complacent and Hate, Terror, Riots ambivalence between closer integration Imperial Square, Town Hall, Lecture Following the powerful anti-austerity irresponsible. with Western Europe and energy The Drawing Room * Are religion and the language of human message of The Shock Doctrine, award- Three outstanding teen fiction writers take dependence on Russia. Montpellier Gardens, The Salon 11.15am-12.15pm, rights uncomfortable bedfellows? This winning author and activist Naomi Klein a timely look at terrorism, prejudice and Imperial Square, The Inkpot 10 -11am, £8 Members 10% off L285 £7 Members 10% off L287 lecture looks for connections between takes on climate change and explores the how the choices we make shape our lives. these potential enemies on the assumption radical implications for our future on this 10 -11am, £8 Members 10% off L283 Benjamin Zephaniah, a distinctive voice that mutual flourishing requires mutual planet. on social and political issues, presents his engagement. Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum new novel Terror Kid, Alan Gibbons’ novel Imperial Square, 11.45am-12.45pm, Hate explores the ‘crime’ of being different The Sunday Times Garden Theatre £10 Members 10% off L289 and Catherine Bruton examines the 2011 11.45am-12.45pm, UK riots in her novel I Predict a Riot. £10 Members 10% off L288 Imperial Square, The Studio * 1.15-2.15pm, £6 Members 10% off LB63 Search using the Quickfind Code at cheltenhamfestivals.com to find your event instantly *These events have unreserved seating Sat 11 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:41 Page 5 Sat 11 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:41 Page 6
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The 2014 Man Booker POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN BRAVE NEW WORLDS Prize Shortlist Who Was The Greatest Radio Needs Younger BRAVE NEW WORLDS What Future For Words? Prime Minister Britain Listeners? Whatever. What Future For Words? Man Booker Prize Literary Director Ion Never Had? The Warwick Commission Debate Trewin chairs this event featuring authors Does it matter if fewer teenagers are The Warwick Commission Debate The way we consume, value and engage shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker The Nick Clarke Debate tuning in? Radio Times radio editor Jane with words is changing fast. What are the Prize, awarded on Tuesday 14 October. Labour politician and author Alan Johnson Anderson believes British stations should The way we consume, value and engagechallenges with words and is opportunities changing fast. facing What a new Join us to hear some of the most exciting (This Boy and Please, Mr Postman), John not give up on young adults or they’ll risk are the challenges and opportunities facinggeneration a new of generation writers in this of writersshifting in names in contemporary fiction discuss Campbell, acclaimed biographer of Roy consignment to the airwaves abattoir. this shifting cultural landscape? Roly Keatingcultural islandscape? joined by Roly novelist Keating A. L.is joined and read from their shortlisted novels and Jenkins, and BBC documentary-maker by novelist A. L. Kennedy, publisher Gail Imperial Square, Town Hall, Kennedy, publisher Gail Rebuck, spoken-word artist Amerah Saleh and answer your questions. Michael Cockerell, who has interviewed Rebuck, spoken-word artist Amerah The Drawing Room * games writer and novelist Rebecca Levene to discuss the future of writing no fewer than eight British Prime Saleh and games writer and novelist Imperial Square, 3.15-4.15pm, in the UK. Ministers, join BBC Radio 4’s Becky Rebecca Levene to discuss the future of The Sunday Times Garden Theatre FREE L299 Introduced by Vikki Heywood, Chair of the Warwick Commission. 1.30-2.30pm, Milligan to debate the fascinating writing in the UK. question: Who Was The Greatest Prime Introduced by Vikki Heywood, Chair of £8 Members 10% off L294 Minister Britain Never Had? Imperial Square, The Sunday Times Gardenthe Warwick Theatre Commission. Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall 3.30-4.30pm, £8 Members 10% off Imperial Square, L302 1.45-2.45pm, The Sunday Times Garden Theatre £8 Members 10% off L297 FICTION 3.30-4.30pm, A Celebration of £XX Members 10% off LIFESTYLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Elizabeth Jane Howard Bill Granger’s Italian The Book Reborn [logo: SGH Martineau LLP / Warwick Lunch Elizabeth Jane Howard, author of The Commission] We are constantly told that the physical This event is held in memory of Nick Clarke, an Cazalet Chronicles and Artistic Director of POETRY Join ‘Australia’s Jamie Oliver’ for a mouth- book is on borrowed time, soon to be a outstanding broadcaster, consummate interviewer the Festival in 1962, has been hailed as watering lunch in the beautiful Spiegeltent dusty memory. The University of Dundee’s and much-loved friend of the Festival for many one of our greatest novelists. Her stepson Twenty Years of Slam! to celebrate the popular TV chef’s latest years. The annual award for the year’s most Qualifier Jon Rogers and Mike Shorter, Bronac outstanding broadcast interview, the Nick Clarke Martin Amis and her biographer Artemis cookbook, Bill’s Italian Food. Italian food is Ferran (The Creative Exchange) and the Award, will be presented at the start of this event. Cooper join Nicolette Jones to discuss Invited performance poets compete for given an inspiring makeover to tantalise Arts and Humanities Research Council’s her extraordinary life and writing with places in tonight’s Twenty Years of Slam! the tastebuds as well as fit around our Andrew Prescott explore how 3D specially-chosen readings from her work celebration [see event L321]. Who’ll be busy lives. technology is transforming the physical NATURAL WORLD performed by Rebecca Front. firing on all syllables and who’ll be feeling book in unexpected ways – with a live 3D too poetrified to qualify? Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * Feral: Rewilding the Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum printing demonstration. 1-2.30pm, £25 L292 Land, the Sea, and 3.15-4.15pm, Montpellier Gardens, The Salon * Ticket includes two-course lunch. Imperial Square, The Inkpot Human Life £10 Members 10% off L300 3.30-5pm, 1.30-2.30pm, £5 Members 10% off L304 Guardian columnist George Monbiot Supported by the £7 Members 10% off L295 INDIA joins us for a deeply personal talk about Patrons of Cheltenham Festivals reconnecting with nature and challenging What Are You Like? what he calls “ecological boredom”, FICTION Redefining British weaving a beautiful and riveting tale of The 1939 Cheltenham Penguin Proof Party Indians wild places, wildlife and wild people. Booker Prize What should you read in 2015? We How does it feel to be both British and POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS Montpellier Gardens, The Salon Which 1939 book deserves to win our welcome Penguin debut novelists Claire Asian? Authors Sathnam Sanghera (also The NHS – What’s the 1.45-2.45pm, very own Booker? You have the vote! Man Fuller (Our Endless Numbered Days), columnist for The Times) and Daljit Nagra £8 Members 10% off L298 Booker Prize Literary Director Ion Trewin Emma Hooper (Etta and Otto and Russell Prognosis? THE SUMMERFIELD EVENT join Bhavit Mehta, Director of the South and our judging panel Clare Clark, Louise and James) and Julia Rochester (The Asian Literature Festival, to examine how Amidst a slew of apocalyptic headlines Doughty, Natalie Haynes, Daljit Nagra Shami Chakrabarti House At the Edge of the World) to share Indian communities in Britain maintain and on-going scandals, can the NHS deliver and John Sutherland discuss the merits their excitement at seeing themselves in AGE On Liberty their identity and culture several the best care and value for the taxpayer? 10+ of Geoffrey Household’s Rogue Male, Festival Guest Director and director of print and read from their as yet generations on. The Sunday Times campaigning journalist Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to advocacy group Liberty, Shami unpublished novels. Chaired by editor Camilla Cavendish, Max Pemberton Imperial Square, Town Hall, Berlin, James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, Chakrabarti joins us in conversation with Juliet Annan. (The Doctor Will See You Now), GP and George Orwell’s Coming Up for Air and The Drawing Room * John Boyne and Rachel Holmes to explore the Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * NHS campaigner David Wrigley and Michael Foreman John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. 1.15-2.15pm, indispensable nature of our fundamental 4-5.30pm, £15 Members only. L305 Cathy Corrie of Reform debate the issues Introduced by John Coldstream. £8 Members 10% off L293 The bestselling authors discuss their new rights and freedoms. Ticket includes tea or coffee, cake and with BBC Health Editor Hugh Pym. From a format devised by Ion Trewin. WWI novels for children. Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall a goody bag of limited edition proofs. Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum LB65 Imperial Square, The Inkpot 3.30-4.30pm, 1.30-2.30pm, See cheltenhamfestivals.com for details 3.15-4.45pm, £8 Members 10% off L303 £10 Members 10% off L296 £8 Members 10% off L301
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BRAVE NEW WORLDS JOURNALISM WhatBRAVE WillNEW WORLDS the World Present Tense: BRAVE NEW WORLDS Look Like in 2114? Pakistan AGE 9 What Does the Next Century Hold? Does Privacy Exist Anymore? TO FromFrom population population issues issues to climate to climate change, change, geopolitics to migration, the world Born out of the partition of the Indian Guest Director Shami Chakrabarti, Privacy playwright James Graham, Luke ADULT geopolitics to migration, the world may be subcontinent in 1947, Pakistan has faced verymay different be very in a1 different00 years’ in time.a100 Philosopher years’ time. Philosopher Nick Bostrom both domestic political upheavals and Harding (The Snowden Files) and Mark Huband (Trading Secrets) explore Nick(Superintelligence Bostrom (Superintelligence), Professor), of Globalisation and Development and Director regional confrontations ever since. The freedom of information, the relationship between the state and corporate Professorof the Oxfordof Globalisation Martin Schooland at Oxford University Ian Goldin (The Butterfly Sunday Times Foreign Correspondent data giants and the limits we can tolerate in the name of personalfreedom. Is DevelopmentDefect and and Is theDirector Planet of theFull?) Oxfordand environmental writer George Monbiot Christina Lamb and historian Ian Talbot Cheltenham, home of GCHQ, really ‘the listening town’? Keep your smart Martin(Feral School) contemplate at Oxford University the global Ian landscape in 2114. (Pakistan: A New History) examine the phone on and prepare to be amazed. Goldin (The Butterfly Defect and Is the biggest challenges to confront the country Planet Full?) and environmental writer today and ask: what does the future look Imperial Square, The Sunday Times Garden Theatre like for Pakistan? Imperial Square, The Sunday Times Garden Theatre 5.15-6.15pm, £8 Members 10% off L308 7.15-8.15pm, £8 Members 10% off L315 Celebrating Classic Montpellier Gardens, The Salon Picture Books 5.45-6.45pm, £8 Members 10% off L311 Lauren Child and Judith Kerr have CLASSIC LITERATURE created some of the most memorable and Miklós Bánffy: An recognisable children's book characters, Extraordinary Life from the Tiger Who Came to Tea to Charlie Diplomat, statesman and novelist Miklós and Lola. Together they discuss their new POETRY picture books The New Small Person and Bánffy (The Transylvanian Trilogy) was a AGE Wilfred Owen: The Crocodile Under the Bed, and how key figure in early 20th century Hungary and one of Europe’s most fascinating 15+ Poetry and Music of childhood memory and imagination has the Great War played into their own creativity. writers, influencing many authors and travellers including Patrick Leigh Fermor. Lobsters, Love and Join biographer Jon Stallworthy and the Parabola Arts Centre * Leigh Fermor’s biographer Artemis Being a Boy Cheltenham College Choir for a powerful 4.30-5.30pm, Cooper and author Julian Evans join evening exploring Owen’s war poem Dulce £6 Members 10% off LB70 With the comic timing of The Marianne Hinton to bring the Austro- Et Decorum Est. Hear works by composers Inbetweeners, the novel Lobsters by close Hungarian Empire to life and to discuss such as Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar friends Lucy Ivison and Tom Ellen this extraordinary man. and Hubert Parry sung in the evocative captures perfectly the expectations and surroundings of Cheltenham College where Imperial Square, Town Hall, awkwardness of being a teenager. Agony memorials mark the 675 former pupils The Drawing Room * Uncle and acclaimed author of Being a who lost their lives in the Great War. 5.30-6.30pm, Boy and brand new This Book Is Gay £7 Members 10% off L309 James Dawson joins them for a Cheltenham College Chapel * FICTION discussion about what really goes on in 7-8.30pm, the teenage mind. £12 Members 10% off L312 Martin Amis RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY Imperial Square, The Studio * Proudly presents The Zone of Interest Rowan Williams and 6-7pm, £5 Members 10% off LB72 What happens when we discover who we Michael Symmons John Cleese really are? Martin Amis joins us to introduce Roberts So, Anyway... his new novel, a violently dark love story Multi award-winning poet and the former A comedy legend and the most senile and a vivid journey into the depths and FICTION Archbishop of Canterbury share a stage member of Monty Python brings his contradictions of the human soul. Richard Ford unique comedic perspective to Chaired by the BBC’s John Wilson. for the first time to present their latest collections. Michael Symmons Roberts’ Cheltenham. He regales us with tales from POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS Let Me Be Frank With You Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum Drysalter won both the Costa and Forward his new book, So, Anyway, giving his In Frank Bascombe, Richard Ford created thoughts on topics as diverse as the Alan Johnson 5.15-6.15pm, poetry prizes and Rowan Williams’ one of the most complex and indelible £12 Members 10% off L307 nature of comedy, the relative merits of Please, Mister Postman collection, The Poems of Rowan Williams: characters of our time. Following The The Musings of God’s Quiet Messenger, cricket and the importance of knowing the Last year’s interview between BBC Sportswriter, Pulitzer Prize-winning dates of all the kings and queens of journalist and broadcaster Becky has been described by The Guardian as an Independence Day, and The Lay of the “arresting and surprising collection”. England. A masterly performance by a Milligan and MP Alan Johnson was one Land, Ford discusses Bascombe’s much master performer. of the highlights of the Festival. Find out Imperial Square, The Inkpot anticipated return. Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum what happened next as they rejoin us to 5.30-6.30pm, Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall reflect on the next instalment of Alan’s 7-8.15pm, £29.50 L314 £8 Members 10% off L310 7-8pm, £10 Members 10% off L313 honest and moving memoir. Ticket includes signed book. 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BRAVE NEW WORLDS Feeding the World or Farmageddon? Global food production is reaching a crucial tipping point. How do we feed a burgeoning world population whilst remaining ethical and sustainable? Charles Godfray, Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food, Joanna Blythman, award-winning journalist and author, and Jack Monroe (A Girl Called Jack) debate the thorny issues, examining the repercussions for the countryside, wildlife and our health.
Imperial Square, The Sunday Times Garden Theatre 9.15-10.15pm, £8 Members 10% off L325
STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN Blue Note Records: 75 Years of the Finest in Jazz FICTION Home of genre-defining artists such as Ben Okri PSYCHOLOGY Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis and Wayne The Age of Magic Becoming Freud Shorter, legendary Jazz label Blue Note The Man Booker prize-winning author and STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN Records celebrates its 75th anniversary one of contemporary literature’s most Rebecca Front Described by the New Yorker as “Britain’s this year. Join acclaimed music biographer gifted storytellers discusses his writing foremost psychoanalytical writer”, Adam and jazz consultant to Universal Richard career and introduces his latest novel, The Curious: True Stories and Loose Phillips documents the largely untold story Havers (Blue Note: Uncompromising Age of Magic. Connections of Freud’s earlier years and how he went Expression) and Clark Tracey Quintet for Actor and comedy writer Rebecca Front Parabola Arts Centre on to shape the field of psychoanalysis. a musical tour through the history of one presents her debut collection of 7.45-8.45pm, Adam is joined by psychologist and Chair of the world’s most iconic record labels. autobiographical stories illustrating that of the Freud Museum in London Dany £8 Members 10% off L320 sometimes things are more ordinary than Nobus, to delve into the history of this Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * you think... and sometimes they’re a whole much respected and controversial figure. 7.30-10pm, £35 L318 lot odder than you can possibly imagine. Ticket includes New Orleans-inspired POETRY Imperial Square, The Inkpot bowl food. Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall 7.15-8.15pm, Twenty Years of Slam! 8.45-9.45pm, £8 Members 10% off L316 Celebrate 20 years of Europe’s grandest £10 Members 10% off L322 STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN HISTORY poetry slam with a line-up of past winners John Lydon The Times Great and present day qualifiers. Marcus LOCALLY SOURCED Moore and Sara-Jane Arbury are Master Anger is an Energy: My Life Women’s Lives SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Uncensored You Heard it Here First and Mistress of Ceremonies as our A Celebration in Obituaries contestants compete with nerve and The Dark Net Better known as Johnny Rotten of the Sex Our popular open-mic session for new Pistols, John Lydon is one of the most A celebration of the lives and legacies of verve on the front line of performance Beyond the familiar online world of writing returns to the Festival, introduced by prominent, often controversial women poetry. Expect power-fuelled poems and recognisable icons in music history. He author Caroline Sanderson. Poetry, prose Google, Facebook and Amazon lies a vast takes a fresh and mature look back on a who have helped shape the last 150 years, rapid-fire rhythms – slamtastic! network of sites, communities and or fiction – bring along a five minute excerpt from Mary Somerville to Margaret Thatcher. remarkable life. Montpellier Gardens, The Salon * cultures where freedom is pushed to its of your work to perform live on stage. With Great Women’s Lives editor Sue 7.45-10.15pm, limits. Jamie Bartlett steers us through Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum Submissions from 7pm with readings Corbett, biographer Valerie Grove and The 9-10pm, £12 Members 10% off L324 £7 Members 10% off L321 the internet’s darker side. from 7.30-9pm Times journalist Melissa van der Klugt. Imperial Square, The Inkpot Imperial Square, Town Hall, Imperial Square, The Studio * 9-10pm, £7 Members 10% off L323 The Drawing Room * 7.45-8.45pm, 7.30-9pm, £7 Members 10% off L319 FREE L317
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Hailed for his sharp one-liners and Sunday 12 October_ sardonic social commentary, few comics have earned the same levels of respect from both critics and Morning Mid Afternoon fellow comics as Kevin Bridges, Napoleon The Great (L326) IS Richard Coles (L341) IS particularly not by the tender age of just 27. The extraordinarily talented The Marshmallow Test (L327) IS Mark Haddon (L342) IS Scottish stand-up tells his story so Policing the Police (L328) MG Damian Lewis & Helen McCrory (L343) MG far: charting his meteoric rise from How to be Well Read (L329) MG Sound Weaves Live! (L344) IS the Glasgow comedy club circuit to arena sell-outs. Allie Esiri’s Poetry Corner (LB77) IS Laurie Lee: A Celebration (L345) MG The Sunday Times Afternoon tea with Val McDermid (L346) MG Literary Breakfast (L330) MG Is there a Con in Germany: The Memories Contemporary Art? (L348) IS of a Nation (L331) IS Sex, Porn and Generation XXX (L349) IS Ruth Rendell (L332) IS Big Data, Big Opportunities (L350) IS Charles Clarke and Hilary Mantel (L351) MG Margaret Hodge (L333) MG Wild Tracks (L352) MG Remembering Márquez (L334) MG
Evening Early Afternoon Mackenzie Crook (LB96) OS The Sunday Times Style Fashion Lunch (L335) MG 40 Years of ABBA (L360) IS Is Democracy at Risk? (L336) IS Russell Kane (L353) IS H is for Hawk (L337) IS The Establishment: And How they Get Away with it (L354) IS The Writing Life (L338) IS Present Tense: North Korea (L356) IS Judi Dench (L339) MG Germany: The Memories Hilary Mantel_ Russell Kane_ Michel Faber (L357) MG Howard Jacobson (L340) MG of a Nation_ Grayson Perry (L358) OS L351, 5.30-6.30pm L353, 7-8pm L331, 11.45am-12.45pm Kevin Pietersen (L355) MG On the Festival’s final day we’re hugely Russell Kane was inspired to write a Kevin Bridges (L359) IS In 2014 we relaunch The Cheltenham looking forward to hearing Hilary play in Shakespearean prose after Chris Tarrant (L361) IS Lecture, which has featured in the Mantel, twice Man Booker Prize- being ‘heckled by a posh kid’ at a Festival programme for over 40 years. winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring literary festival… and we’re very Eclectic in scope and subject matter, Up the Bodies talk about her writing glad he was. We’ll enjoy the informative, entertaining and original, and her new collection of ten short performance of soliloquies from the the lecture is given by a leading expert stories, The Assassination of Margaret play and discuss the difficulties of in their field. This year. the British Thatcher. Displaying all of Hilary writing Shakespearean style prose in Museum's Director guides us through Mantel’s inimitable style and wit, they a contemporary setting with an the history of Germany in 30 objects, reveal a great writer at the peak of Essex twist. bringing alive the past of Europe's her powers. most dominant economic force. This event previews our country focus on Germany in 2015. IS – Imperial Square MG – Montpellier Gardens Go to cheltenhamfestivals.com/booking to create OS – Off Site your Wish List for quicker, easier booking Sun 12 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:42 Page 3 Sun 12 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:42 Page 4
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HISTORY CLASSIC LITERATURE Napoleon The Great How to be Well Read AGE BRAVE NEW WORLDS 7+ The internationally renowned historian Guardian columnist John Sutherland Is Democracy at Risk? and biographer Andrew Roberts creates guides us through 500 great novels and a a true portrait of the mind, the life and the handful of literary curiosities in his latest Is there still any point in voting? How do we encourage younger generations military and political genius of one of the book. A personal take on the most The Power to engage with the political process in an age of voter apathy? Comedian greatest figures in world history. rewarding and remarkable works of fiction Russell Kane, columnists Philip Coggan (The Last Vote) and Owen Jones ever written. Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall (The Establishment) and political writer Stephen Coleman examine the 10-11am, Montpellier Gardens, The Salon challenges democracy faces in 21st century Britain. £8 Members 10% off L326 10-11am, £8 Members 10% off L329 Imperial Square, The Sunday Times Garden Theatre The Power of Sloth 1.30-2.30pm, £8 Members 10% off L336 PSYCHOLOGY Lucy Cooke LB80 The Marshmallow Test See cheltenhamfestivals.com for details A child’s ability to exert self-control is CLASSIC LITERATURE regarded as an indicator of their future AGE 7 Remembering Márquez AGE TO potential. But how flexible and accurate a AGE 9+ ADULT test is this? Walter Mischel (The 9+ DEAD GOOD Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez Marshmallow Test) and award-winning Ruth Rendell created an unforgettable world filled with broadcaster, writer and psychology Allie Esiri’s Poetry avalanches of yellow butterflies and ragged lecturer Claudia Hammond discuss the Corner 50 Years of Inspector Wexford gypsies on flying carpets. Journalist and impacts and issues surrounding Ruth Rendell’s Chief Inspector Wexford translator Nick Caistor, authors Ben Okri Celebrating poetry’s top twenty greatest psychological testing in children. has retired – but his crime solving and Elif Shafak, and literary critic John hits! The award-winning actor and continues. With countless awards, a Sutherland reflect upon the legacy of the Imperial Square, The Inkpot comedian Alexander Armstrong peerage and more than 70 books under most popular Spanish-language writer Jacqueline Wilson 10-11am, (Pointless, Peppa Pig, Dr Who), actor her belt, she joins us to celebrate 50 years since Miguel de Cervantes. LB87 £8 Members 10% off L327 Julian Ovenden (Downton Abbey, Finding of her most famous creation. See cheltenhamfestivals.com for details Neverland) and other guest stars will Montpellier Gardens, The Salon perform poetry’s greatest hits, from A. A. Imperial Square, 11.45am-12.45pm, Milne to Spike Milligan to Roger McGough. The Sunday Times Garden Theatre £8 Members 10% off L334 11.45am-12.45pm, NATURAL WORLD Imperial Square, £8 Members 10% off L332 H is for Hawk The Sunday Times Garden Theatre POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS LIFESTYLE 10-11am, Acclaimed poet, writer and illustrator Policing the Police £7 Members 10% off LB77 The Sunday Times Style Helen Macdonald discusses her quest to Fashion Lunch train a goshawk, Britain’s wildest, most Are the police fit for purpose? How do we The Parent Agency with David Baddiel With fans including the Duchess of lethal bird of prey, and the spiritual journey make sure that policing is appropriate, it led her on. transparent and fair? Festival Guest LIFESTYLE LB82 POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS Cambridge and Samantha Cameron, Director and champion of civil liberties The Sunday Times See cheltenhamfestivals.com for details Charles Clarke and designer Emilia Wickstead defines Imperial Square, Town Hall, Shami Chakrabarti questions and Literary Breakfast Margaret Hodge feminine elegance. Chef to the stars and The Drawing Room * debates the issues with campaigner author Sophie Michell (The Gorgeous 1.30-2.30pm, The veteran broadcaster and acclaimed Doreen Lawrence, former Chief Whip HISTORY The Too Difficult Box Kitchen) has worked in top London £7 Members 10% off L337 debut novelist James Naughtie (The Andrew Mitchell, Professor of Some problems facing our society restaurants and made numerous television Madness of July) and the consummate Germany: The Criminology Lawrence Sherman and continue to defy the efforts of successive appearances. They share insider fashion, thriller writer Charles Cumming (A Colder Memories of a Nation Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police governments. It’s no secret that many food and lifestyle tips with The Sunday INDIA War) join Andrew Holgate of The Sunday Sara Thornton. The Cheltenham Lecture difficult long-term issues are simply set Times Style editor Tiffanie Darke. Times to discuss their gripping and Director of the British Museum Neil The Writing Life aside and disappear from the short-term Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum suspenseful novels set in the murky world MacGregor guides us through the complex political agenda. 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RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY CLASSIC LITERATURE ART & DESIGN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Richard Coles Laurie Lee: Is there a Con in Big Data, Big Fathomless Riches A Celebration Contemporary Art? Opportunities Parish priest, former rock star with The The Laurie Lee Event What distinguishes great art from From economics to stargazing, from Communards and BBC Radio 4 presenter Join us for a special celebration of the life pretentious nonsense? Why do some politics to shopping habits, Big Data and the Reverend Richard Coles joins Peter and writing of Gloucestershire’s most artists make it and others don’t? BBC arts the way it’s used is changing our lives. Guttridge for a rich insight into his famous literary son Laurie Lee, who was editor Will Gompertz (What Are You Leading experts in the field Mercedes remarkable life, explored in his himself a frequent visitor to the Festival. Looking At?), Sotheby’s director Philip Bunz, Mark Coté and Eric Meyer join the autobiography Fathomless Riches. Poets Brian Patten and PJ Kavanagh and Hook (Breakfast at Sotheby’s) and art Arts and Humanities Research Council’s nature writer Tim Dee choose favourite sociologist Sarah Thornton (33 Artists in Andrew Prescott, using hands-on Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall pieces of Laurie Lee’s work, share their 3 Acts) join The Sunday Times art critic examples to explore the fascinating 3.15-4.15pm, memories of Laurie and explore his literary Waldemar Januszczak for a behind-the- implications of big data and how it is £10 Members 10% off L341 influence. scenes insight into the art world. shaping our everyday lives. Montpellier Gardens, The Salon Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall Imperial Square, The Inkpot POETRY 3.45-4.45pm, 5-6pm, £10 Members 10% off L348 5.30-6.30pm, Damian Lewis & Helen £8 Members 10% off L345 £7 Members 10% off L350 STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN McCrory Judi Dench Great Love Poems One of Britain’s best loved actors Judi Join two of Britain’s finest actors, Damian Dench reflects on her remarkable stage Lewis and Helen McCrory, as they journey and screen career and talks about her through poetry, bringing to life some of the fascinating new book Behind the Scenes, greatest love poems of all time, followed joined by her biographer John Miller. by a fascinating onstage interview. Readings from The Love Book by Allie Esiri, Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum presented by Allie Esiri’s Poetry Corner. 1.30-2.30pm, £18 Members 10% off L339 Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum 3.15-4.30pm, £18 Members 10% off L343
DEAD GOOD Afternoon tea with LIFESTYLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Val McDermid Sex, Porn and Generation XXX FICTION Sound Weaves Live! Bestselling crime writer Val McDermid FICTION Mark Haddon Experience extraordinary and exhilarating showcases her two new novels – her As sex saturates social networking sites Hilary Mantel music, images and soundscapes created latest chilling, page-turning crime novel and digital access to porn makes extreme The Curious Incident of the Dog in the by Alex McLean and Dave Griffiths The Skeleton Road; and the second book sexual behaviour seem banal, we look at With two novels both claiming the Man Night-time using powerful computer programming of the Austen Project, a modern re- the “pornification” of youth culture and the Booker Prize, Hilary Mantel is one of Sometimes a novel quite simply changes techniques. They join the Arts and imagining of the much loved Jane Austen effect it has both on teenagers and on Britain’s most accomplished writers. She the literary landscape – becoming an Humanities Research Council’s Andrew classic Northanger Abbey. wider society. Eleanor Mills, Editorial unveils her latest work, a collection of ten instant classic. Introducing an annual Director of The Sunday Times debates the short stories – The Assassination of Prescott for a unique performance and a Montpellier Gardens, The Spiegeltent * series of key interviews with authors of issues with the actor Tyger Drew-Honey Margaret Thatcher. rare chance to explore this intriguing and 4-5.30pm, £15 L346 his favourite contemporary works, The (whose parents worked in the porn cutting-edge new art form. Ticket includes afternoon tea. Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum Sunday Times Literary Editor Andrew industry) founder of Every Day Sexism FICTION 5.30-6.30pm, Holgate discusses with Mark Haddon his Imperial Square, The Inkpot Project Laura Bates and the editor of £12 Members 10% off L351 Howard Jacobson extraordinary work The Curious Incident 3.30-4.30pm, Cosmopolitan Louise Court. of the Dog in the Night-time, which £7 Members 10% off L344 J Imperial Square, spawned a thousand book group Man Booker prize-winning author and The Sunday Times Garden Theatre discussions and is now on Broadway. journalist Howard Jacobson talks to 5-6pm, £8 Members 10% off L349 writer and comedian David Baddiel about Imperial Square, The Sunday Times his writing career and introduces his Garden Theatre latest novel J; a dystopian love story that 3.15-4.15pm, is both tender and terrifying. £8 Members 10% off L342 Montpellier Gardens, The Salon 1.45-2.45pm, £8 Members 10% off L340 *These events have unreserved seating Sun 12 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:43 Page 7 Sun 12 pages ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 14:43 Page 8
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POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS AGE The Establishment: 8+ And How they Get Away with it Behind our democracy lurks an unaccountable network wielding enormous power and reaping huge profits. Alongside The Independent Senior Writer Boyd Tonkin, columnist and author Owen Jones journeys into the heart of our establishment, in a bid to expose this shadowy and ART & DESIGN STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN complex system; from the lobbies of Westminster to the boardrooms and Grayson Perry Kevin Bridges trading floors of Fleet Street. Playing to the Gallery Still just 27, Kevin Bridges is Scotland’s Based on his hugely popular Reith Imperial Square, The Studio * biggest export and one of Britain’s lectures, the artist Grayson Perry takes 7.15-8.15pm, favourite comedians. He reflects on his us on a personal and funny journey £7 Members 10% off L354 rise to fame, shares his career highlights through the art world, reflecting on the and new memoir, We Need To Talk definition of what we see and value as art. About… Kevin Bridges. JOURNALISM Princess Hall, Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall Mackenzie Crook Present Tense: Cheltenham Ladies’ College 8.45-10pm, North Korea 7.30-8.45pm, £16 Members 10% off L359 Mackenzie Crook brings his magical CLASSIC LITERATURE £16 Members 10% off L358 novels The Windvale Sprites and the new STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN North Korea is a notoriously secretive Supported by the McWilliam family in companion book, The Lost Journals of Russell Kane Wild Tracks society, rigidly maintaining its isolation loving memory of Ruth McWilliam. Benjamin Tooth. Written and illustrated by Fakespeare from the rest of the world. Journalist John Wild Tracks – A Conversation Diary with Mackenzie they tell of alchemy, inventions, What if everyone in Essex was forced to Sweeney (North Korea Undercover) and Fiona Maddocks sees one of our greatest and mysterious sprites on the moor. talk in Shakespearean? That’s the premise Roger Boyes of The Times discuss one of living composers, Harrison Birtwistle, of Russell Kane’s play The Tragickal Parabola Arts Centre * the few countries still under nominally reveal the challenges, uncertainties and Savings of King Nigel, in which a city 6.15-7.15pm, communist rule, and ponder the fate of its rewards which have shaped his life and banker and his secretary plot a route £6 Members 10% off LB96 oppressed population. work. The Observer’s chief music critic through the credit crunch. Join the play’s joins him in conversation. author, Russell Kane, actress Nichola Imperial Square, The Inkpot McAuliffe and Peter Guttridge for an 7.30-8.30pm, Montpellier Gardens, The Salon STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN hour of something rather more Fakespeare £8 Members 10% off L356 5.45-6.45pm, 40 Years of ABBA than Shakespeare. £8 Members 10% off L352 Featuring never-before-seen images of Imperial Square, Town Hall, Main Hall the band, ABBA interviewer Mark Ellen 7-8pm, £12 Members 10% off L353 (Rock Stars Stole My Life!), leading Swedish music journalist Jan Gradvall, FICTION photographer Jeppe Wikström (ABBA: The Official Photo Book) and creator and Michel Faber SPORT member of the phenomenally successful The Book of Strange New Things Kevin Pietersen HISTORY ABBA tribute band, Björn Again Rod Author of Victorian thriller The Crimson Chris Tarrant Stephen join Robert Crampton of The Petal and the White, televised on BBC Two, KP: The autobiography Times to celebrate the Swedish Michel Faber introduces his latest genre- In a revealing Cheltenham appearance, Dad’s War supergroup’s unique and enduring appeal. defying novel of over 10 years in the the highest England run-scorer of all time The broadcaster discusses his touching, joins us to tell his own story, from his Imperial Square, making – The Book of Strange New Things. deeply personal account of a much-loved childhood in South Africa, through the father who was involved in some of The Sunday Times Garden Theatre Montpellier Gardens, The Salon highs and lows of his international career, 7-8pm, WWII’s most significant campaigns, 7.30-8.30pm, to the more recent Ashes tour experience. including the Dunkirk evacuation and the £8 Members 10% off L360 £8 Members 10% off L357 In conversation with David Walsh, chief D-Day landings. sports writer of The Sunday Times. Imperial Square, Montpellier Gardens, The Times Forum The Sunday Times Garden Theatre 7.30-8.45pm, 8.45-9.45pm, £16 Members 10% off L355 £10 Members 10% off L361 Search using the Quickfind Code at cheltenhamfestivals.com to find your event instantly *These events have unreserved seating Programme A5 pages 100-116 ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 15:37 Page 1 Programme A5 pages 100-116 ARTWORK_Layout 1 22/07/2014 15:37 Page 2
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Baillie Gifford support some of the most Baillie Gifford is one of the UK’s largest renowned literature festivals in the UK. They independent investment trust managers. In believe that much like a classic piece of all aspects of their work they do their very literature, a great investment philosophy will best to emulate the imagination, insight and stand the test of time. intelligence that successful writers bring to the creative process. This year Baillie Gifford continues to be the official sponsor of the Business and Their free, award-winning Trust magazine Economics strand at The Times and The provides you with an insightful overview of Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature the investment world, along with details of Festival. Courtesy of Baillie Gifford, you can their literature festival activity throughout hear some of the world’s top journalists, the UK. politicians, economists and business minds discuss the most pressing social and To find out more, call 0800 280 2820,* visit A good book is even better with a glass of Courtesy of Laithwaite’s, you can enjoy a economic issues of our time. www.bgtrustonline.com or pick up wine and this year’s The Times and The range of free, intimate readings from some information from their stands in Montpellier Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival of the Festival’s best talent, all accompanied The Business and Economic events will Gardens and Imperial Square during the is even better with Laithwaite’s, official wine by Laithwaite’s wine tasting. Drop into the explore everything from the circular economy Festival. partner for 2014. Laithwaite’s Wine Hub in Montpellier Gardens to Google and what the future holds for this to enjoy complimentary tastings while corporate giant, from China and the Business For us it’s the perfect fit. You see, since we listening to live fiction, poetry and non-fiction Myth to ‘how to speak money’, from the source our wines direct from the growers, readings. Look out for the daily line-up to be 1944 Bretton Woods summit to modern we can tell you the story behind every advertised outside the Laithwaite’s tent. global financial crises. High profile, thought- single bottle. And we’ve been doing just that provoking debates and speakers include since 1969. We look forward to seeing you there. John Lanchester, Kwasi Kwarteng, Peter Fitzgerald, Hugh Pym, Ben Chu and more. www.laithwaites.co.uk
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WHAT DO Tell me all about NEWS ACADEMY: EXCLUSIVE FOR KS3 AND KS5 SCHOOLS THINK? KS3 Monday 6th – Friday 10th October 10-11am KS5 Thursday 9th – Friday 10th October 10-11am Book It! for £6.50 The illustrator had a How do sports writers bring a game alive? What are the tools brilliant rapport with the of a literary reviewer’s trade? How does reporting on Fashion audience. The event Schools 2014_ differ from Features? enabled our pupils to relate illustrations in Spend a precious hour with a journalist from The Times or The books to the process of Sunday Times in one of these exclusive events designed to producing them. We are looking forward to welcoming thousands of HIGHLIGHTS inspire and empower your students to harness the power of pupils and teachers to The Times and The Sunday INCLUDE the written word with greater skill and confidence. Times Cheltenham Literature Festival to share the News Academy is an initiative launched by News UK, built on joy of reading and writing. Our vibrant Book It! for their commitment to securing a sustainable future for high- Schools programme offers six days packed full of quality, professional journalism. News Academy stage events The author event we events and activities to amaze and inspire your Author events with around the UK to give students a valuable insight into the attended raised the pupils. Whether it’s speaking with favourite authors, favourites including profession. profile of all children Michael Rosen, being able to be ‘authors’ poets and illustrators; hearing writers perform their Anthony Browne, Book at cheltenhamfestivals.com/bookit-schools regardless of spelling and work and talk about their creative process; or John Boyne and handwriting ability, which working alongside the foremost writers of today, Benjamin Zephaniah fitted the purpose there’s something to engage and excite everyone. completely for the children we brought.
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Throughout the ten days journalists, columnists, photographers and illustrators from both papers will be at the Festival, giving you a chance to meet the faces behind our pages. Both newspapers will host numerous events that will encourage debate, discussion and opinion. We are also delighted to introduce the Unquiet film series, a collection of short films to celebrate the significant historical and cultural impact our papers have had on Britain and the world. Please do come to The Times and The Sunday Times Members Lounge for a screening of these inspiring films. Waterstones is proud to be official bookseller and sponsor of The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival. We look forward to welcoming you to our book tents at Imperial Square and Montpellier Gardens, and to the Hideaway dedicated to children’s books. To reserve signed books before the Festival opens, call our shop on the Promenade on 01242 571779 or email [email protected] Waitrose is delighted to sponsor The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival. We look forward to welcoming visitors to our stand located within Montpellier Gardens, and hope that they will enjoy some wonderful events. Our speakers include world-renowned chef Heston Blumenthal, Michelin starred chef Tom Kerridge, cricket legend Geoffrey Boycott and our very own Managing Director, Mark Price. We would like to thank them all for their contribution to what will be a fascinating line up at this year’s Festival. The University of Warwick is delighted to sponsor this event, which marks the start of our year-long partnership with all four Cheltenham Festivals. 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So join us in our Wine Hub in Montpellier Gardens to taste a range of delicious wines; and enjoy talks from a number of guest authors throughout the festival. www.hsbc.co.uk Baillie Gifford is delighted to continue sponsoring The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival. We are long-term investors, and we have been supporting the Festival for the past five years. Our event series Business and Economics offers a mix of high profile thought-provoking speakers and debates, includingJohn We are pleased to support Lanchester, Kwasi Kwarteng, Peter Fitzgerald, Hugh Pym, Ben Chu and more. Baillie 4HE 4IMES Cheltenham Literature Festival Gifford is an Edinburgh based investment management firm and one of the UK’s largest investment trust managers. 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A. 38 44 Inverdale John 73 Maddocks Fiona 98 Amis Martin 87 88 Burton Jessie 58 Darke Tiffanie 95 Girling Richard 77 Ishiguro Kazuo 33 Magee Audrey 79 Anderson Clive 33 Butterworth Nick 36 Das Santanu 42 Godfray Charles 90 Ivison Lucy 89 Magnusson Sally 44 Anderson Jane 87 Buxton Ian 71 Davis Lindsey 79 Goldin Ian 88 Jacobson Howard 96 Makoha Nick 80 Anderson Scott 71 Byrne Lavinia 34 Davis Wade 28 42 Goldsworthy Adrian 50 Jaffrey Madhur 64 Malik Abdul-Rehman 28 70 Annan Juliet 87 Byron Tanya 32 38 Dawson James 89 Gompertz Will 97 James Oliver 73 Mallinson Allan 51 79 Arbury Sara-Jane 90 Caistor Nick 95 Day Peter 62 Goodison Lorna 71 Janes Hilly 46 Mandal Anthony 35 Armitage David 84 Caldicott Carolyn 80 Deary Vincent 39 Goodwin Matthew 28 Januszczak Waldemar 97 Mangan Lucy 35 Armitage Simon 70 Caldicott Chris 80 Dee Tim 97 Gooley Tristan 26 Jefferies Dinah 70 Mantel Hilary 98 Armstrong Alexander 94 Calvin Michael 47 Dench Judi 96 Gradvall Jan 98 Jennings Charles 77 Mardell Mark 46 Armstrong Karen 71 Campbell John 86 Dennison Matthew 51 Graham Alison 32 Jess-Cooke Carolyn 63 Marquand David 52 Ashdown Paddy 79 Campbell Sol 65 Devji Faisal 77 Graham James 89 Jha Raj Kamal 95 Marr Andrew 67 Astaire Simon 65 Carey John 57 Dickinson Matt 53 Graham Richard 43 Johnson Alan 86 88 Marsh Henry 42 Atkins Will 26 Carey Mike 47 Dillon Sheila 64 Granger Bill 86 Johnson Leo 58 Marshall George 34 Atkinson Kate 35 Caskie Rob 53 DJ Ritu 80 Grant Linda 64 Johnson Rachel 28 45 Martin Andrew 52 Atterbury Paul 52 Castor Helen 53 Djalili Omid 73 85 Grant Michael 46 Johnson Stanley 45 Martin Wilkie 47 Attlee Helena 52 Cavendish Camilla 86 Dodds Klaus 62 Green Charlotte 56 Jones Digby 52 Martinez Francesca 66 Atwood Margaret 34 Cerrell Joe 47 Doherty Berlie 44 Greenfield Susan 43 Jones Nicolette 29 34 37 56 57 87 Matthews Cerys 36 Aughterson Kate 58 Chakrabarti Shami 87 89 94 Dolan Paul 39 Gribble Chris 33 Jones Owen 95 99 Maudsley Martin 35 Ayres Pam 58 Chakrabortty Aditya 73 Doughty Louise 81 87 Griffiths Dave 96 Jones Stephen 47 May Brian 59 Baddiel David 94 96 Chambers Nicky 58 Douglas Jill 52 Grove Valerie 90 Jones Terry 33 May Stephen 84 Baggini Julian 39 Chandler John 64 Drew Stephen 35 Guimón Pablo 71 Jones Ursula 45 Mayhew Emily 37 Baker Danny 67 Charman Izzy 37 Drew-Honey Tyger 97 Guldi Jo 84 Judge Chris 43 Mays Nick 37 Baker Jo 64 Chaudhuri Amit 76 77 79 84 95 Dwan Lisa 44 Gunn Dan 44 Kampfner John 47 Mbubaegbu Chine 62 Baker Natasha 52 Child Lauren 88 Eaglestone Robert 70 Guttridge Peter 96 98 Kane Russell 95 98 McAuliffe Nichola 98 Bannister Roger 44 Chu Ben 59 Eclair Jenny 58 Haddon Mark 96 Kavanagh PJ 97 McBride Eimear 66 Barber Lynn 44 Clare Horatio 42 Edgar David 52 Hadlow Janice 63 Keating Roly 87 McCrory Helen 96 Barker Juliet 51 Clark Alex 52 56 58 59 Eggleton Lara 27 Hall Edith 77 Keay John 76 McDermid Val 85 97 Barnes Simon 77 Clark Clare 87 Egremont Max 50 Hall James 76 Keenan Brigid 65 McEwan Ian 27 Barnett David 81 Clark Sam 43 Elder David 57 Hamer Kate 58 Keers Paul 77 McGrath Alister 72 Barry Mike 58 Clark Tracey Quintet 90 Ellen Mark 85 98 Hamilton Duncan 53 Kellner Peter 44 McLean Alex 96 Bartlett Jamie 91 Clarke Charles 95 Ellen Tom 89 Hammond Claudia 94 Kelly Rachel 53 McLeish Tom 72 Bate Jonathan 56 Clarke David 47 Ellis Hannah 46 Hancock Sheila 80 Kemp Peter 33 45 57 McNab Andy 73 Bates Laura 97 Clarke Gillian 46 Esiri Allie 94 96 Hannah Sophie 62 63 Kennedy A. 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