Fiona Armstrong Fiona Armstrong, a Broadcaster and Writer, Is Now

Fiona Armstrong ‘Maryport’ Zaffar Kunial Fiona Armstrong, a This exciting documentary was made in 1979 by Zaffar is the current Poet-in- broadcaster and writer, Granada TV, directed by Denis Mitchell and presented Residence for the is now presenting by Ray Gosling. Ray Gosling visits Maryport and talks to Wordsworth Trust. He was ‘Border Life’ a current the local people about their feelings on life now and born in Birmingham but lived affairs programme for how it was during the depression. The film contains in Sheffield before moving to ITV Border. This sees her interviews with many Maryport citizens, so audience Grasmere. During his time at making films on subjects members may recognise people they know in the film! Grasmere he will be working from prisons to We are grateful to Lord Bragg and Grevel Lindop for on his first collection of poetry and will run the butterflies. She also tracking down the film, and to ITV and Park Circus Ltd monthly Dove Cottage Poets workshops. His session works as a newscaster for making the film available. at the festival continues our association with the with BBC News, and writes columns for Scottish and Wordsworth Trust. American newspapers. As a producer she has made Cate Haste films on subjects ranging from politics to countryside Cate Haste’s latest Neil Curry issues. One of her loves is fishing and she fronted a biography/monograph on the Neil Curry has lived for many series, ‘Fiona on Fishing’. She has made more than artist Craigie Aitchison: A Life years in Cumbria. Among his twenty films on clan and borderland families. She in Colour follows her award- poetry collections are Ships in also set up the Border Reiver Trail in southern winning work on Cumbrian Bottles, a Poetry Book Society Scotland. Fiona is married to the chief of Clan Gregor landscape painter Sheila Fell: A Recommendation; Walking to and is now working on a biography of a family Passion for Paint. She has Santiago, in which he recounts member who was Scottish literary confidante to written on historical subjects his 500 mile walk along the Queen Victoria. including Prime Ministers’ medieval pilgrim route; The wives and women in Nazi Road to the Gunpowder House; and Other Rooms. Sir Malcolm MacGregor Germany, and as a His versions of plays by Euripides have been widely Sir Malcolm is a highly documentary Director/Producer made films on Cold performed on stage and television. This year has regarded landscape War, End of Empire and The Churchills. Cate is seen the publication of The Fable of the World, photographer and married to Melvyn Bragg and lives in London and translations from the work of the French poet Jules author who has worked Cumbria. Supervielle and a new collection of his own poems, throughout the world. Some Letters Never Sent. He is chief of the Jean Briggs MacGregors and head Jean Briggs’ first historical novel, The Flame of the Terry Jones of the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs. 2014 is the Borgias was a critically acclaimed bestseller, and Poetry competition judge Terry Jones' debut short 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn sympathetically portrayed Lucrezia Borgia’s love collection, Furious Resonance, was published by when the Scots beat the English. On Friday evening affair with a Venetian nobleman. Her second Poetry Salzburg in 2011, the year he was the winner Sir Malcolm will discuss the tribes around at that historical novel, Island in the Mist vividly evokes the of the Bridport Prize for poetry. His poems have time in Scotland and how they developed into the Roman era in Maryport through the eyes of Falavius appeared in all of the major national poetry journals clans that we see today. Valerius Paulus, a promising young lawyer, posted as and magazines. Terry, who took first prize in this commandant to Alauna on the far north-west year’s Mirehouse poetry competition, lives in Margaret Poland frontier of the Empire. Jean Briggs lives in Maryport. Warwick Bridge on the outskirts of Carlisle. He is Margaret is part of a large Maryport fishing family. currently working on a second collection. Her first book The Seagulls are Silent, inspired by her Paula Daly memories of growing up in the town, will be Paula Daly is the author of two Isanna Curwen launched at the festival. She won the Hunter Davies acclaimed psychological thrillers: Isanna Curwen has worked Bursary that enabled her book to be published by Just What Kind of Mother Are and taught in the field of Bookcase. You? and Keep Your Friends creative writing since having Close. She will be talking about completed her MA at the John Spurling her extraordinary book Just University of East Anglia in John Spurling was born What Kind of Mother are You? 2001. Whilst at university, in Kenya in 1936 and based in her home town of she studied autobiography came to England when Windermere. Before becoming a under the tutelage of Lorna Sage. Isanna has worked he was 10. His great- writer she was a freelance as an editor on several anthologies and publications great-great physiotherapist. She still lives in Windermere with and teaches both creative and life writing in grandfather, Thomas her husband and three children and is currently Cumbria. She is currently finishing a novel. Gibson, was Vicar of St working on her third novel. Michael’s Church, Barton, in the Lake District. A BBC Kim Moore Radio announcer for three years, he then became a Catherine Hall Kim Moore's first pamphlet If We full-time writer in 1966. He has written some 30 Catherine Hall was born in the Could Speak Like Wolves was a plays for the stage, TV and radio, contributed book Lake District and worked in winner in the Poetry Business and art reviews to the leading British newspapers documentary film production Pamphlet Competition in 2012. and magazines. He has published critical books on and international peacebuilding, The pamphlet was a runner-up in Graham Greene’s novels and Samuel Beckett’s plays. before becoming a freelance the 2013 Lakeland Book of the The Ten Thousand Things, published by Overlook in writer and editor for charities Year and was shortlisted for the New York and Duckworth in London, is his fourth specializing in human rights and Michael Marks Award. She has novel. development. She is the author recently won a New Writing of three novels: Days of Grace North Award and is currently working on her first full Angela Locke (2008), The Proof of Love (2011), length collection, due from Seren in April 2015. She Angela Locke has had six which won the Green Carnation Prize, and The works part-time as a Peripatetic Brass Teacher for fiction/non-fiction books Repercussions (2014). She lives in London. Catherine Cumbria Music Service. published, which have been will be talking about her latest novel and the tribal translated across the world, influences on her work with her father Ian, see Grevel Lindop four poetry collections and below. Grevel Lindop’s books include A the film script In the Mind of Literary Guide to the Lake District Man, commissioned by the Ian Hall and six collections of poems, Theatre by the Lake, which is Ian Hall is Cumbrian born including Selected Poems (2000) now out on DVD. Her novel and bred, except for and Playing With Fire (2006). Dreams of the Blue Poppy, which is set in Cumbria studying Maths at Oxford Travels on the Dance Floor was a and the Himalayas, was published by Robert Hale in (MA 1970). Apart from a Radio 4 Book of the Week and 2007. Her most recent book On Juniper Mountain seven-year teaching shortlisted as Best Travel Book was inspired by a visit to Nepal and Tibet and her interlude, he has been 2009. The Opium-Eater, his experiences with local tribes. Angela has worked actively involved in fell biography of Thomas De Quincey, is now available as widely in radio and television and leads Creative farming since the age of an e-book. Luna Park, a new collection of poems, is Writing Retreats across the UK. Angela’s workshops eleven, and a non-stipendiary minister (C of E) since due from Carcanet in 2015, and O.U.P will publish for the Senhouse Roman Museum include a series 1988. His debut book Fisherground – Living the Charles Williams: The Last Magician, a biography of for children and for the Maryport Writers Group. Dream is based on his life on an Eskdale farm where the poet, novelist and theologian who was a central Angela was instrumental in the founding of the Catherine grew up. member of the Oxford Inklings, working closely with education and health charity The Juniper Trust. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. .

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