Petworth Festival Literary Week Saturday 26 OctoberFeaturing - Sunday 3 November 2019 JAMES NAUGHTIE JENNI MURRAY PRUE LEITH OBE TRISTRAM HUNT JENNY ECLAIR and more

Box Office opens Wednesday 2 October See www.petworthfestival.org.uk for tickets and more details Or phone 01798 344 576 AT A GLANCE Saturday 26 October 2.30pm Leconfield Hall Rachel Reeves Women of Westminster 5.00pm Leconfield Hall Steve Richards The Prime Ministers 7.30pm Seaford College James Naughtie in conversation with Douglas Rae Sunday 27 October Welcome to the 3.00pm Seaford College Max Hastings Chastise: The Dambusters Story LITERARY WEEK 7.30pm Seaford College Hugh Bonneville in conversation with Olivia Cole 2019 Petworth Festival Monday 28 October 12 noon St Mary’s Jenni Murray A of the World in 21 Women he ninth Petworth Festival Literary Week is upon us, 3.00pm St Mary’s AN Wilson Prince Albert and welcome to what at first – and indeed second 7.30pm St Mary’s George Alagiah The Burning Land – glance is a wide ranging and exciting series of Tuesday 29 October T events that celebrate this country’s hugely vibrant literary 12 noon Leconfield Hall Steve Jones Here Comes the Sun scene. 3.00pm Leconfield Hall Vic Marks Original Spin 7.30pm Leconfield Hall Jenny Eclair Inheritance I coined a phrase earlier in the year which I feel has pretty much become the Wednesday 30 October strapline for our week of events: ‘Petworth’s Open University’ is indeed open for 12 noon Leconfield Hall Pat Davies and Christian Lamb Women of World War II business. The week offers over 30 opportunities to learn from genuine experts 2.30pm Leconfield Hall Sophia Money-Coutts The Plus One about a huge range of subjects as we dip into history, politics, religion, food, 5.00pm Leconfield Hall Charles Moore Margaret Thatcher sport, poetry and travel and hopefully come out much the wiser – and probably 7.30pm Leconfield Hall Lynne Truss The Man That Got Away with a few extra books for our shelves. As ever, I’d like to welcome and thank Steve Howe and his team from the Petworth Bookshop, all of whom are essential cogs in the literary Thursday 31 October festival’s machine. 12 noon Leconfield Hall David Whitehouse Apollo 11: The Whole Story 2.30pm Leconfield Hall Dominion Audiences have been loving the literary week in rapidly growing numbers over our short life. We hope that 5.00pm Leconfield Hall Jonathan Glancey The Journey Matters the details which follow will ensure that this trend continues. It is proving an exciting journey! 7.30pm Leconfield Hall Mike Read A Thousand Years of a Street Friday 1 November Stewart Collins 12 noon St Mary’s Prue Leith OBE in conversation with Mandy Morton Artistic Director 2.30pm St Mary’s Jonathan Rugman The Killing in the Consulate 5.00pm St Mary’s Richard Porter How to be F1 Champion PS A bit of an ‘elephant in the room’ is that, at the time of writing at least, Thursday 31st October is 7.30pm St Mary’s Tristram Hunt V&A: Preserving the Past, Curating the Future pencilled in as day… You’ll note a number of politicians and journalists are appearing over the week. They will of course expect questions on the subject, but hopefully not to the exclusion of all else! Saturday 2 November 12 noon Leconfield Hall Christopher Tugendhat A History of Britain Through Books 2.30pm Leconfield Hall Amelia Gentleman The Windrush - Betrayal 5.00pm Leconfield Hall In the Shadow of Vesuvius PETWORTH FESTIVAL 2020: 7.30pm Midhurst Rother David Suchet Behind the Lens Tuesday 14 July – Saturday 1 August Sunday 3 November PETWORTH FESTIVAL LITERARY WEEK 2020: 11.00am Leconfield Hall The Petworth Poetry Breakfast Saturday 24 October – Sunday 1 November 2.30pm Leconfield Hall Gillian Moore Rite of Spring 5.00pm Leconfield Hall Adrian Tinniswood The House Party 7.30pm Leconfield Hall Tom Bower Dangerous Hero

www.petworthfestival.org.uk | 01798 344 576 www.petworthfestival.org.uk | 01798 344 576 1 PETWORTH FESTIVAL LITERARY WEEK BOOKING FORM Schools and Community Date Author / Event Number Number Ticket price Total £ of adult of under tickets 18 tickets Sat 26 October Rachel Reeves Adult £10 18 & under £5 Events Sat 26 October Steve Richards Adult £10 18 & under £5 Sat 26 October James Naughtie Adult £12 18 & under £5 In your school Sun 27 October Max Hastings Adult £12 18 & under £5 Sun 27 October Hugh Bonneville Adult £12 18 & under £5 Mon 28 October Jenni Murray Adult £12 18 & under £5 with Andréa Prior Mon 28 October A N Wilson Adult £10 18 & under £5 The first of two extensive schools’ projects. The Petworth Mon 28 October George Alagiah Adult £12 18 & under £5 Tues 29 October Steve Jones Adult £10 18 & under £5 Literary Festival, in association with the South Downs Poetry Tues 29 October Vic Marks Adult £10 18 & under £5 Festival, is working with popular children’s author and illustrator Tues 29 October Jenny Eclair Adult £12 18 & under £5 Andréa Prior, who will be performing readings from her books Wed 30 October Women of World War II Adult £10 18 & under £5 in our local schools. Helping to fulfil Petworth Festival’s mission Wed 30 October Sophia Money-Coutts Adult £10 18 & under £5 to place itself at the heart of our community and for our children Wed 30 October Charles Moore Adult £10 18 & under £5 to enjoy reading poetry and rhyme from a young age, Andréa’s Wed 30 October Lynne Truss Adult £12 18 & under £5 rhymes are written to inspire, entertain and educate children of Thur 31 October David Whitehouse Adult £10 18 & under £5 5-9 years. Her reading sessions encourage children to have fun Thur 31 October Tom Holland Adult £10 18 & under £5 Thur 31 October Jonathan Glancey Adult £10 18 & under £5 with literacy and language. You can find out more about Andréa Thur 31 October Mike Read Adult £12 18 & under £3 on www.andreaprior.me. Fri 1 November Prue Leith OBE Adult £12 18 & under £5 Fri 1 November Jonathan Rugman Adult £10 18 & under £5 Participating schools include Amberley Primary, Conifers Fri 1 November Richard Porter Adult £10 18 & under £5 Midhurst, Duncton C of E, Easebourne C of E, Graffham C of Fri 1 November Tristram Hunt Adult £12 18 & under £5 E, Highfield and Brookham, Northchapel Community Primary, Sat 2 November Christopher Tugendhat Adult £10 18 & under £5 Petworth C of E, St James C of E Coldwaltham, St Mary’s C of E Sat 2 November Amelia Gentleman Adult £10 18 & under £5 Pulborough, Wisborough Green Primary School. Sat 2 November Daisy Dunn Adult £10 18 & under £5 Sat 2 November David Suchet Adult £12 18 & under £5 Sun 3 November Poetry Breakfast Adult £10 18 & under £5 Sun 3 November Gillian Moore Adult £10 18 & under £5 Truth in Nature Sun 3 November Adrian Tinniswood Adult £10 18 & under £5 Sun 3 November Tom Bower Adult £12 18 & under £5 with Antosh Wojcik NB: reserved seating in Leconfield Hall. Please let us know if you have a Grand Total £ preference for raked or floor seating The festival is once again delighted to link up with The Arts I enclose a cheque made payable to ‘Petworth Festival Ltd’ Society to promote the creation and performance of poems with pupils from schools across the area. Working with pupils from Please charge my Mastercard/Visa/Switch/Maestro Card (delete as necessary) schools in Petworth, West Chiltington, Duncton, Bury, Fittleworth, Card Number Plaistow and Kirdford, Antosh will lead sessions in Petworth Park leading to the creation of new poems reflecting the theme Truth Name on card Issue Number in Nature. Come and hear a number of our young poets perform (Switch/Maestro only) their work at the Poetry Breakfast on Sunday 3rd November (see Start Date Expiry Date Last 3 digits of security no. (on back of card) page 19). Name Antosh Wojcik is a poet, drummer and sound artist. His debut Address solo theatre piece, How To Keep Time: A Drum Solo for Dementia combines drumming & spoken word to explore vascular Post Code Telephone dementia. It is produced by Penned In The Margins and debuted at Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe ’18 and has toured the UK Email address throughout 2019 with support from Arts Council England.

Wheelchair/disabled customers please telephone 01798 343 055 to discuss requirements. 2 www.petworthfestival.org.uk | 01798 344 576 www.petworthfestival.org.uk | 01798 344 576 3 Saturday 26 October 2.30pm – 3.30pm | Leconfield Hall Saturday 26 October 5.00pm – 6.00pm | Leconfield Hall Rachel Reeves Steve Richards in conversation with Gerry Foley The Prime Ministers Women of Westminster Political columnist, journalist and presenter Steve Richards talks about his A blockbuster opening day in which we talk politics (although not exclusively!). landmark history of the men and women who have defined the UK’s role in How can you avoid it in these ‘interesting times’? Firstly, we welcome Rachel the modern world - and what makes them special. Reeves MP, in conversation with journalist and broadcaster Gerry Foley, to talk us through the increasing presence and influence of women in Westminster. At a time of unprecedented political upheaval, this magisterial history explains who leads us and why. From Harold Wilson to Theresa May, it In 1919 Nancy Astor was elected as the Member of Parliament for Plymouth brilliantly brings to life all nine inhabitants of 10 Downing Street over the past Sutton, becoming the first woman MP to take her seat in the House of fifty years, vividly outlining their successes and failures - and what made Commons. Her achievement was all the more remarkable given that women each of them special. had only been entitled to vote for just over a year. Steve Richards is a political columnist, journalist, and presenter. He In the past 100 years, a total of 489 women have been elected to Parliament and the regularly presents The Week in Westminster on BBC Radio 4 and has achievements of these political pioneers have been remarkable. Britain has now had presented BBC radio series on Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron two female Prime Ministers, and women MPs have made significant strides in fighting and Theresa May. He also presented the BBC TV programmes Leadership for gender equality, from the earliest suffrage campaigns to Barbara Castle’s fight Reflections: The Modern Prime Ministers and Reflections: The Prime for equal pay to ’s recent legislation on the gender pay gap. Reeves’ Ministers We Never Had. new book features insightful and honest interviews with leading women including Theresa May, Diane Abbott and Harriet Harman, and celebrates the inspirational tickets: Adults £10/ 18 and under £5 achievements of women in parliament over the course of the past 100 years. ‘Fascinating, revealing and entertaining.’ Rachel Reeves is Labour MP for Leeds West and former Shadow Minister for Work John Humphrys and Pensions. Prior to her parliamentary career, she worked as an economist. Saturday 26 October 7.30pm – 8.30pm | Seaford College tickets: Adults £10/ 18 and under £5 “Our past isn’t made up just of his stories, but her stories too - Rachel uncovers James Naughtie the best of them - the lives of those political women who wouldn’t be stopped.“ in conversation with Douglas Rae Laura Kuenssberg James Naughtie is special correspondent for BBC News, and one of the country’s best-known broadcasters. He presented Today on Radio 4 for 21 years and has reported for the BBC from around the world for more than three decades. He has written and presented many documentaries for radio and television, and has chaired every edition of Bookclub on Radio 4 since it began in 1997. His own books include The Rivals, the ground-breaking story of the stormy relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, The Making of Music, a history of classical music which also produced a 60-part radio series, and two novels - the spy thrillers The Madness of July and Paris

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Sunday 27 October 3.00pm – 4.00pm | Seaford College Monday 28 October 12 noon – 1.00pm | St Mary’s Church Max Hastings Jenni Murray JENNI MURRAY Chastise: The Dambusters Story in conversation with Gerry Foley A HISTORY The prolific Max Hastings presents his masterly account of one of the most A History of the World in 21 extraordinary episodes in British history revealing for the first time the full Women OF THE WORLD extent of the human story behind the Dambusters legend. Operation Chastise, the overnight destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams in north-west Germany We welcome the writer and broadcaster and presenter of Radio 4’s Woman’s IN 21 WOMEN by the RAF’s 617 Squadron, was an epic that has passed into Britain’s national Hour since 1987, Jenni Murray, in conversation with Gerry Foley. She legend. discusses her sequel to her bestselling A History of Britain in 21 Women which Published by Oneworld 6 September 2018 celebrates the lives, struggles and achievements of extraordinary women from Chastise offers a fascinating retake on legend by a master of the art. Hastings around the globe: rulers, leaders, pioneers in the arts and geniuses of science Hardback £16.99 sets the dams’ raid in the big picture of the bomber offensive and of the who spoke the truth, fought for change and had a profound impact on the Second World War; of designer extraordinaire Barnes Wallis; the monstrous shaping of our world. Jenni’s 21 women include Joan of Arc, Angela Merkel, ‘Bomber’ Harris; the tragic pilot Guy Gibson, together with superb narrative of Benazir Bhutto, Hillary Clinton, Hatshepsut, Madonna and Coco Chanel. ‘Illuminating and inspiring’ – CHARLOTTE GORDON the action captured so memorably in the classic 1955 film The Dambusters. Jenni Murray is the author of several books, including A History of Britain in 21 ‘Who better than Jenni Murray to curate this whistle-stop tour of the globe and Max Hastings is the author of 27 books, most about conflict, and between Women and Memoirs of a Not So Dutiful Daughter. She lives in North London. introduce twenty-one women who in different times and different places dared 1986 and 2002 served as editor-in-chief of , then as editor to be different?’ - Dr ANNA WHITELOCK of the . He has won many prizes both for journalism and his tickets: Adults £12 & £5 / 18 and Under £5 or Free in books, of which the most recent are bestseller Vietnam, The In the sequel to her bestselling A History of Britain in 21 Women, Jenni Murray Secret War, Catastrophe and Nemesis. He was knighted in 2002 and lives with adult £5 seats celebrates the lives, struggles and achievements of extraordinary women from around his wife Penny in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically. the globe. They ruled empires, they led nations. They were pioneers in the arts and tickets: Adults £12/ 18 and under £5 geniuses of science. They spoke truth to power and fought for change. All have had a Photo: Les Wilson Photo: Toby Madden Photo: Toby profound impact on the shaping of our world.

Sunday 27 October 7.30pm – 8.30pm | Seaford College Monday 28 October 3.00pm – 4.00pm | St Mary’sJenni’s Church 21 women are:

Joan of Arc Artemisia Gentileschi Angela Merkel Hugh Bonneville A N Wilson Benazir Bhutto Hillary Clinton Coco Chanel in conversation with Olivia Cole Prince Albert Dowager Empress Cixi Catherine the Great Clara Schumann Petworth Festival welcomes one of Britain’s most loved actors, Hugh Hatshepsut Wangari Maathai Golda Meir Bonneville. Hugh’s many film credits include Notting Hill, Iris, The Monuments We welcome back A N Wilson to talk about his recentFrida study Kahlo of one of the Toni Morrison Margaret Atwood th Men, Viceroy’s House, the two Paddington films and most recently, Downton 19 century’s most influential figures, Prince Albert.Isabella For more of Castilethan six Cathy Freeman Anna Politkovskaya Abbey written by Julian Fellowes and directed by Michael Engler. His decades, ruled a great Empire at theSirimavo height of Bandaranaike its power, Madonna Marie Curie television roles include the BAFTA-winning Twenty Twelve and W1A (BBC) but beside her for more than twenty of those years was the love of her life, and Robert Crawley in ITV’s global hit, Downton Abbey, for which he received her trusted husband and father of their nine children, Prince Albert. Prince nominations for a Golden Globe, two Emmys and along with his fellow Albert was at the vanguard of Victorian Britain’s transformation as a vibrant cast members won three SAG Awards for Outstanding Performance by an and extraordinary centre of political, technological, JENNIscientific MURRAY and intellectual is a journalist and broadcaster who has Ensemble in a Drama Series. Hugh recently appeared on stage as C.S. Lewis advancement. A composer, engineer, soldier, politician,presented linguist BBC and Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour since 1987. She is the in Shadowlands at Chichester Festival Theatre. bibliophile, Prince Albert, more than any other royal, was truly a ‘genius’. Photo: Stuart McClymont author of several books, including Hsor o ran n and . She lives in He is a patron of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, The National A N Wilson grew up in Staffordshire and was educatedWomn at Rugby mors and New o a o o uu aur Youth Arts Trust, Scene & Heard, The Primary Shakespeare Company and College, . A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature,North London he holds. a the South Downs National Park Trust. prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is a prolific and award-winning biographer and celebrated novelist. He lives in North London. Olivia Cole is a writer and literary editor for British GQ. She writes about Jenni Murray is available for interview. film, books, travel and culture and has contributed to many titles including Vanity Fair, the Evening Standard and , as well as frequently tickets: Adults £10 & £5 / 18 and UnderFor £5 further or Free information, in contact Margot Weale, Publicity Director at Oneworld speaking at festivals and on the radio and TV. Olivia read English at adult £5 seats Tel: 020 7307 8908 email: [email protected] Christ Church, Oxford and is also an award-winning poet and author of the collection Restricted View. Photo: Sam Ardley Photo: Paul Mussos tickets: Adults £12/ 18 and under £5 ONEWORLD, 10 Bloomsbury Street, LONDON, WC1B 3SR www.oneworld-publications.com 6 www.petworthfestival.org.uk | 01798 344 576 www.petworthfestival.org.uk | 01798 344 576 7 Monday 28 October 7.30pm – 8.30pm | Tuesday 29 October 12 noon – 1.00pm | Leconfield Hall St Mary’s Church Steve Jones George Here Comes the Sun Alagiah Our sun drives the weather, forms the landscape, feeds and fuels - but in conversation with Stewart Collins sometimes destroys - the creatures that live upon it, controls their patterns of activity, makes chemicals in the skin that cheer up those who bask in its rays, The Burning Land and for the ancients was the seat of divine authority. In Here Comes the Sun, Steve Jones shows how life on Earth is ruled by our nearest star. It is filled with unexpected connections; between the need to stay One of the most recognisable faces from the cool and man’s ability to stand upright, between the power of memory and the BBC News team joins us to talk about his onset of darkness, between the flow of solar energy through the plants and new novel, a sharp and nuanced thriller set animals and of wealth through society, and between Joseph Goebbels’ 1938 in the land grabs of post-apartheid South scheme to make Edinburgh the summer capital of a defeated Britain and the Africa. The Burning Land is based on real widening gap in the life expectancy of Scottish men compared to that of other events Alagiah witnessed but was unable European men brought on by that nation’s cloudy climate. to report on during his eight years as BBC A much in demand broadcaster and writer, Steve Jones is Emeritus correspondent for South Africa and deals with Professor of Human Genetics at University College London and is a leading themes of political activism, xenophobia, the communicator on evolution and genetics. environment, globalism and what happens when events spiral out of the control of those ‘One of the world’s best writer-scientists’ who sparked them. George Alagiah is presenter of BBC 1’s tickets: Adults £10/ 18 and under £5 News at Six, Britain’s most watched news programme. That role followed ten years as a foreign correspondent, covering the Tuesday 29 October 3.00pm – 4.00pm | Leconfield Hall 9/11 attacks on New York, the genocide in Rwanda, civil wars in Liberia, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone, and Nelson Mandela’s Vic Marks presidency. He has won numerous awards in conversation with Mark Church and an OBE for services to journalism. Original Spin

Tickets: Adults £12 & £5 / 18 and In conversation with sports journalist Mark Church, the much-loved former Under £5 or Free in adult £5 England cricketer, journalist and broadcaster tells the story of his life in seats cricket.

In an irresistible memoir of a life lived in cricket, Vic Marks returns to the heady days when cricketing giants Viv Richards and Ian Botham were young men and yet to unleash their talents on the world stage. After the high-octane dramas of Somerset, playing for England was almost an anti-climax for Marks, who became an unlikely all-rounder in the mercurial side for the 1980s.

Moving from the dressing room to the press box, with trenchant observations about the modern game along the way, Original Spin is a charmingly wry, shrewdly observed account of a golden age in cricket.

Vic Marks is a former Somerset and England cricketer, who played in six

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The first woman to win ‘the Perrier’ - the UK’s top comedy award - in 1995, Sophia Money-Coutts is a journalist who spent five years studying the British Jenny Eclair has also found fame as the author of four critically acclaimed aristocracy while working as Features Director at Tatler. Prior to that she worked novels. She discusses her latest, Inheritance, with Festival Director Stewart as a writer and an editor for the Evening Standard and The Daily Mail in London, Collins, a novel which combines incredible poignancy and unforgettable and The National in Abu Dhabi. So she knows…. characters, all with Jenny Eclair’s trademark wit Published in August, Sophia talks about What Happens Now? to GQ journalist, Olivia Cole (see page 6). In deepest Cornwall, the mansion Kittiwake has seen many pass through its doors since it was bought by American heiress Peggy Carmichael seventy After eight years together, Lil Bailey thought she’d already found ‘the one’ – that years ago. Over the decades, the keys have been handed down through the is, until he dumped her for a blonde twenty-something colleague. So she does family, and now it belongs to Bel’s adoptive brother, Lance. It’s where he’ll be what any self-respecting singleton would do: swipes right, puts on her best bra celebrating his 50th birthday, and Bel is invited. Bel will be returning to the and finds herself on a first date with a handsome mountaineer called Max. What’s place where it all began the worst that can happen? Well it’s pretty bad actually and Lil finds herself single, thirty-one and living in a thimble-sized flat in London. It’s hardly the happily-ever- Jenni Eclair’s latest solo comedy show How to be a Middle-Aged Woman after she was looking for. (without going insane) sold out in venues across the UK and as far afield as Australia. She is the writer of the popular BBC Radio 4 series of monologues, tickets: Adults £10/ 18 and under £5 Little Lifetimes. Eclair and Judith Holder co-host the Menopausal-friendly ‘As fun and fizzy as a chilled glass of prosecco… podcast, Older and Wider and has many TV and radio credits to her name. the perfect holiday read.’ She lives in South-East London. The Daily Express Photo: Ray Burminston tickets: Adults £12/ 18 and under £5 Wednesday 30 October 5.00pm – 6.00pm | Leconfield Hall Wednesday 30 October 12 noon – 1.00pm | Leconfield Hall Pat Davies and Christian Lamb Charles Moore in conversation with Simon Robinson Margaret Thatcher The distinguished journalist and author Charles Moore discusses the latest Women of World War II volume of the prize winning biography of one of Britain’s most remarkable but controversial leaders. In volume 3 he asks how Margaret Thatcher changed and Our Secret War - Veteran Women Remember WRNS, Station X and divided Britain? How did her model of combative female leadership help shape SOE. A unique opportunity to hear from two veteran women and the way we live now? And how did the woman who won the Cold War and three their first-hand accounts of Britain’s Secret War 80 years on. . general elections in succession find herself pushed out by her own MPs? In I Only Joined For the Hat we meet Christian Lamb who, with a Moore’s remarkable account is based on unique access to Margaret Thatcher strong naval background saw the Women’s Royal Naval Service herself, her papers and her closest associates, and tells the story of her last (WRNS) as the obvious choice for a young women ‘wanting to do period in office, her combative retirement and the controversy that surrounded her bit’. And besides it had by far the most attractive uniform - topped by her even in death. It includes the fall of the Berlin Wall, which she had fought for, the splendid tricorne hat. But her hopes were dashed when, joining as a and the rise of the modern EU, which she feared. It also lays bare her growing lowly Wren rating, she found this crowning glory was strictly for officers only. quarrels with colleagues and reveals the truth about her political assassination. It was to be the first of many nasty surprises. Charles Moore joined the staff of The Daily Telegraph in 1979, and as a We also hear the story of Colonel Cary Owtram who, after being captured political columnist in the 1980s covered several years of Mrs Thatcher’s first in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway was appointed and second governments. He was Editor of The Spectator 1984-90, Editor of the British Camp Commandant at Chungkai, one of the largest POW camps. 1992-95 and Editor of The Daily Telegraph 1995-2003, Simon Robinson talks to daughter Pat Davies about her father and his powerful memoire 1000 Days on for which he is still a regular columnist. The first volume of his biography won the River Kwai and about her own war. Her own last mission is to have her father and his contribution in the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, the HW Fisher Best First protecting the 5000 men in his charge fully recognised Biography Prize and Political Book of the Year at the Paddy Power Political Book Awards. tickets: Adults £10/ 18 and under £5 Photo: Jochen Braun tickets: Adults £10/ 18 and under £5 10 www.petworthfestival.org.uk | 01798 344 576 www.petworthfestival.org.uk | 01798 344 576 11 Wednesday 30 October 7.30pm – 8.30pm | Leconfield Hall Thursday 31 October 2.30pm – 3.30pm | Leconfield Hall Lynne Truss Tom Holland in conversation with Simon Brett in conversation with Claire Armitstead The Man That Got Away Dominion Why Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of CRIME! One of the great literary genres. Author and crime expert Simon the ancient world Brett talks to the columnist, writer and broadcaster whose book on punctuation Eats, Shoots & Leaves became an international bestseller. She is In Dominion, Tom Holland places the story of how we came to be what we also an accomplished author of the crime novels A Shot in the Dark and most are, and how we think the way that we do, in the broadest historical context. recently The Man That Got Away. She has written extensively for radio, and From the Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC to the migration crisis in is the author of six previous novels, as well as a non-fiction account (Get Her Europe today, and from Nebuchadnezzar to the Beatles, he explores what it Off the Pitch!) of her four years as a novice sportswriter for . She was that made Christianity so revolutionary and disruptive; how completely it lives in Sussex and London with two dogs. came to saturate the mind-set of Latin Christendom; and why, in a West that has become increasingly doubtful of religion’s claims, so many of its instincts Simon Brett has published over a hundred books, many of them crime remain irredeemably Christian. Whether you are atheist, agnostic or believer in novels. His stand-alone thriller, A Shock to the System, was made into a any faith, Holland’s argument could hardly be more topical. feature film, starring . Simon’s writing for radio and television TOM HOLLAND is an award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster. includes After Henry, No Commitments and Smelling of Roses. He is a prolific author, his bibliography includes Rubicon: The Triumph and plays Charles Paris in the Radio 4 adaptations of his books. In 2014 Simon the Tragedy of the , which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize was presented with the Crime Writers’ Association’s top award, the Diamond for History; Dynasty, a portrait of Rome’s first imperial dynasty and he has Dagger, and he was made an O.B.E. in the 2016 New Year’s Honours ‘for adapted , , and for the BBC. Holland is services to literature’. the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Making History. He has written and presented several TV documentaries on subjects ranging from ISIS to dinosaurs. Tom tickets: Adults £12/ 18 and under £5 appears in conversation with ’s Claire Armitstead. Photo: Charlie Hopkinson tickets: Adults £10/ 18 and under £5 Thursday 31 October 12 noon – 1.00pm | Leconfield Hall Thursday 31 October 5.00pm – 6.00pm | Leconfield Hall David Whitehouse Apollo 11: The Whole Story Jonathan Glancey The Journey Matters An opportunity to hear in detail about one of the 20th century’s most remarkable achievements – the first moon landing. In the most authoritative book ever Known to many as the former architecture and design correspondent of The written about Apollo, former BBC Science Editor David Whitehouse reveals the Guardian and Independent newspapers, Jonathan Glancey’s latest oeuvre true drama behind the mission, telling the story in the words of those who took celebrates the best journeys that ordinary passengers could take by rail, part – based around exclusive interviews with the key players. road, sea and air throughout the twentieth century. His enthralling book takes us from the early rocket pioneers to the shock America received from the Soviets’ launch of the first satellite, Sputnik; from What was it really like to take the LNER’s Art Deco Coronation streamliner the race to put the first person into space, through President Kennedy’s from King’s Cross to Edinburgh, to cross the Atlantic by the SS Normandie, enthusiasm and later doubts, to the astronauts’ intense competition to leave to fly with Imperial Airways from Southampton to Singapore, to steam from the first footprint. Manhattan to Chicago on board the New York Central’s 20th Century Limited or to dine and sleep aboard the Graf Zeppelin? In the course of The Journey David Whitehouse is a regular on BBC Radio 4’s Today, , The Matters, Jonathan Glancey travels from the early 1930s to the turn of the Show and many others, and one of the world’s most cited century on some of what he considers to be the most truly glamorous and journalists. Before becoming a journalist he was a scientist at the Mullard romantic trips he has ever dreamed of or made in real life. Space Science Laboratory of University College London and received his doctorate from Jodrell Bank Radio Observatory. Jonathan Glancey is also a steam locomotive enthusiast and pilot. A frequent broadcaster, his books include Concorde, Harrier, Giants of Steam, tickets: Adults £10/ 18 and under £5 the bestselling Spitfire: The Biography, and The Train: An Illustrated History.

tickets: Adults £10/ 18 and under £5 Photo: Laura Iloniemi 12 www.petworthfestival.org.uk | 01798 344 576 www.petworthfestival.org.uk | 01798 344 576 13 Thursday 31 October 7.30pm – 8.30pm | Leconfield Hall Friday 1 November 2.30pm – 3.30pm | St Mary’s Church Mike Read Jonathan Rugman in conversation with Stewart Collins in conversation with Matthew Stadlen A Thousand Years of a London Street The Killing in the Consulate A familiar face and voice to millions, former Radio 1 DJ Mike Read is also a A senior journalist unveils a terrible story for our times times in popular historian and prolific author. His 40th and latest publication focuses conversation with LBC’s Matthew Stadlen. When Jamal Khashoggi walked into on the iconic Denmark Street in London’s West End – often referred to as the Saudi consulate in Turkey on 2 October 2018, he was expecting to pick up London’s ‘tin-pan alley’. The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Kray Twins, David the documentation that would enable him to marry his fiancé, Hatice Cengiz, Bowie, Karl Marx, Elton John, Casanova, The Rolling Stones, Denis Nilson, who was waiting for him outside. Little did the Washington Post journalist The Sex Pistols, Paul Simon, Charlie Chaplin, and hundreds of other familiar realise he was entering a trap. A fifteen-man Saudi hit squad was lying in wait names, all walked, worked, or wrote in this site and The New Musical Express and within minutes, he would be brutally murdered and his body disposed of. and the Melody Maker were born here. For a century it has been the home of The Saudis thought they would escape detection, but Turkish intelligence had our great songwriters and the British music publishing industry. But Denmark bugged the building and recorded the killing on audio tape. Street has also witnessed a millennium of mass murderers, inventors, serial Based on confidential sources, dramatic new evidence and in-depth research, killers, queens, rebels, rogues, lepers, explorers, arsonists, swordsmen, award-winning foreign correspondent Jonathan Rugman reveals in minute-by- anarchists, racing drivers, reformers, schemers, dreamers, plague victims, minute detail the truth about what happened that day and against the wider great lovers, pioneers, and regicides. It is a great story! background of a battle for regional influence involving Saudi crown prince Mike has been a broadcaster for over 40 years. He spent 5 years Mohammed bin Salman and Turkey’s president Erdogan. presenting the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show from 1981 and has worked Jonathan Rugman has been Foreign Affairs Correspondent at Channel 4 for many other radio stations. As a TV presenter, he’s best known for News since 2006. A BAFTA award-winning journalist, he was previously based Saturday Superstore and the music game show Pop Quiz. He’s currently the in Washington, D.C. and Istanbul. He has reported from Turkey for more than breakfast show presenter for United DJs which was launched last April. twenty-five years and also covered the Arab Spring revolts. He has previously tickets: Adults £12/ 18 and under £5 worked for the BBC and written for The Guardian and . tickets: Adults £10 & £5 / 18 and Under £5 or Free in Friday 1 November 12 noon – 1.00pm | St Mary’s Church adult £5 seats Prue Leith OBE Friday 1 November 5.00pm – 6.00pm | St Mary’s Church in conversation with Mandy Morton Though currently in the limelight because of her role on The Great British Bake Richard Porter Off, Prue Leith has enjoyed a remarkable career over many decades. She has in conversation with Mark Church run her own restaurants, catering and cookery school businesses; she has held Board memberships of companies such as Halifax, Safeway, Whitbread, How to be F1 Champion Woolworths, and Belmond (ex-Orient Express) Hotels; and pursued a deep The author of over 10 official Top Gear titles and two Grand Tour tie-ins, involvement with education: she chaired the first of the companies charged Richard Porter’s How to be F1 Champion is the first and only practical guide with turning round failing state schools and was Chair of the School Food on how to become F1 Champion, for the millions of Grand Prix fans who have Trust, responsible for the improvement of school food and food education. She ever dreamed of making it onto the podium. The book provides the complete has been active in many charities and is the Chancellor of Queen Margaret guide to hitting the big time in top-flight motorsport, with advice on the correct University, Edinburgh. She has 12 honorary degrees or fellowships from UK look, through to more advanced skills such as remembering to insert ‘for universities. sure’ at the start of every sentence, and tips on mastering the accents most frequently heard at press conferences. You’ll also learn how to manage your For the Petworth Festival she talks to journalist Mandy Morton about her entire, social media account and other basics, including the art of Champagne wide-ranging career which has also included publishing 13 cookbooks, a spraying and how to wear a massive free watch. In other words, Porter offers memoir, Relish: My Life on a Plate, and eight novels, the last three a three- us a hugely informative and massively entertaining account of one of the generation trilogy set in the restaurant world with a background of the changing world’s most extraordinary and extreme sports. fashions in food from war-time rationing to modern pop up street food. Richard Porter is also the creator of online motoring satire magazine

sniffpetrol.com (150k users per month; 76k), and is also one of the tickets: Adults £12 & £5 / 18 and Under £5 or Free in adult three presenters on podcast Gareth Jones on Speed, which regularly tops the £5 seats automotive charts with approximately 1,000 downloads a day. tickets: Adults £10 & £5 / 18 and Under £5 or Free in adult £5 seats 14 www.petworthfestival.org.uk | 01798 344 576 www.petworthfestival.org.uk | 01798 344 576 15 Friday 1 November 7.30pm – 8.30pm | St Mary’s Church Saturday 2 November 2.30pm – 3.30pm | Leconfield Hall Tristram Hunt Amelia Gentleman V&A: Preserving the Past, Curating in conversation with Matthew Stadlen the Future The Windrush Betrayal Amelia Gentleman is a reporter for The Guardian newspaper. She was named From the new Exhibition Road Quarter to V&A Dundee, exhibitions on fashion to journalist of the year (Press Gazette) and won the 2018 Paul Foot journalism Food and Cars, the V&A’s past bridges its future. Dr Tristram Hunt will trace the award for her reportage on the , which led to the downfall V&A’s genesis from its Victorian roots, discussing how the Museum’s founding of the Home Secretary and the government loosening its ‘hostile environment’ commitment to the ‘artisan in design’ continues to define its mission today. By policy for migrants. Her new book tells the stories of Paulette Wilson and many re-embracing its early purpose, the V&A is curating a new direction for the civic others who had always assumed they were British. She had spent most of her museum. life in London working as a cook; she even worked in the House of Commons’ Dr Tristram Hunt is the Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London canteen. How could someone who had lived in England since being a primary - the world’s leading museum of art, design and performance. Prior to joining school pupil suddenly be classified as an illegal immigrant? In The Windrush the V&A, Dr Hunt was MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central and Shadow Secretary of State for Education. His Betrayal, Gentleman tells the story of the scandal and exposes deeply doctorate is in Victorian history from Cambridge University and he has written several books, including disturbing truths about modern Britain. Ten Cities That Made an Empire. Also the and Feature Writer of the Year in the British Press Awards, Amelia Gentleman was previously Delhi correspondent for the International tickets: Adults £12 & £5 / 18 and Under £5 or Free in adult £5 seats Herald Tribune, and Paris and Moscow correspondent for The Guardian. Saturday 2 November 12 noon – 1.00pm | Leconfield Hall tickets: Adults £10/ 18 and under £5 Photo: Sophia Spring Christopher TugenDhat Saturday 2 November 5.00pm - 6.00pm | Leconfield Hall in conversation with Stewart Collins A History of Britain Through Books Daisy Dunn There are many ways of studying the tumultuous twentieth century – but In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life one of the most revealing and original must be through the key books of the time. Christopher Tugendhat’s A History of Britain Through Books shows of Pliny how literature both shaped and reflected public concerns over the decades. AD 79. Above the Bay of Naples, Vesuvius is spewing thick ash into the Embracing authors as wide ranging as Doris Lessing, Noel Coward, Evelyn sky. Pliny the Elder, historian, admiral of the fleet and author, dares to draw Waugh, Elizabeth David and George Orwell, Tugendhat’s analysis shines closer to the phenomenon. He perishes beneath the volcano. His 17-year-old new light on world wars, the end of Empire, rapid social change, the nuclear nephew, Pliny the Younger, survives. age, feminism, gay rights, race and immigration. They provide a stunning kaleidoscope of perspectives, unencumbered by hindsights, into the way Adopted as his son, Pliny the Younger inherited his uncle’s vast compendium people lived, the challenges they faced, and the views they held. of notebooks and knowledge including his extraordinary encyclopaedia Natural History. One of the largest single works to have survived from the Lord Tugendhat has had a long and distinguished career in government, Roman Empire, it covers all ancient knowledge - from observations on the business and public service. Since 1993 he has been a Conservative member moon, to elephants, to the efficacy of ground millipedes in healing ulcers. of the House of Lords and currently sits on the Economic Affairs Committee. He was a European Commissioner from 1977 to 1985. In Pliny, Daisy Dunn resurrects this famed ‘father and son’ to explore their beliefs about life, death and the natural world in the first century AD. At its He has been chairman of Abbey National plc (1991-2002) and of Blue Circle heart is a literary biography of the younger Pliny, who grew up to become Industries plc (1996-2001) and is a former chairman of the Civil Aviation a lawyer, senator, poet, collector of villas, curator of drains, and personal Authority (1986-1991), the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham representative of the emperor overseas. House) (1986-1995) and the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (2007- 2011). He is the author of Oil: The Biggest Business (1968), The Multinationals Daisy Dunn is a classicist, art historian and cultural critic. She read Classics (1971), which won the McKinsey foundation Book Award in the US, Making at Oxford, before completing a doctorate in Classics and History of Art at Sense of Europe (1986) and, in conjunction with William Wallace, Options for UCL. She writes and reviews for a number of newspapers and magazines, British Foreign Policy in the 1990s (1988). and is editor of Argo, a Greek culture journal. Her first books ’ Bedspread and The Poems of Catullus, were published in 2016. tickets: Adults £10/ 18 and under £5 tickets: Adults £10/ 18 and under £5

16 www.petworthfestival.org.uk | 01798 344 576 www.petworthfestival.org.uk | 01798 344 576 17 Saturday 2 November 7.30pm – 8.30pm | Sunday 3 November 11.00am – 12.30pm | Leconfield Hall Midhurst Rother College The Petworth Poetry Breakfast David Suchet Picking up where last year’s popular Poetry Breakfast left off, the Festival joins forces with the in conversation with Stewart Collins South Downs Poetry Festival for an event where coffee, orange juice, croissants, the Sunday newspapers, music and poetry will be the name of the game. Topping the bill in this highly Behind the Lens relaxed environment is one of the most admired poets of our times, Grace Nichols, winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Award. Grace Nichols was born in Guyana but has lived in Britain since 1977. Her first book of A special evening with one of Britain’s most poems, I Is A Long-Memoried Woman (Karnac House) won the 1983 Commonwealth Poetry recognisable actors, David Suchet. The much- Prize. Among her other books are the popular, The Fat Black Woman’s Poems, Sunris, loved actor has been a stalwart of British stage winner of the Guyana Poetry Prize and Startling The Flying Fish all published by Virago who and television for fifty years. From Shakespeare also brought out her novel, Whole of a Morning Sky. She was poet-in-residence at the Tate to Oscar Wilde, Freud to Poirot, Edward Teller Gallery between 1999-2000, is a former winner of the prestigious Cholmondeley Award, and to Doctor Who, right up to 2018’s Press, David performs all over Britain and internationally. has done it all. Throughout this spectacular The cast for the breakfast session also includes distinguished South Downs writer, poet, career, David has never been without a camera, playwright and novelist, Jeremy Page. Jeremy is the founding editor of the Frogmore Papers enabling him to vividly document his life in and the author of several volumes of poetry, including Closing Time and Stepping Back. As photographs. In conversation with Stewart last year, there will also be musical interludes and starring performances from young poets Collins, David discusses his memoir, Behind the from the area who have been working in schools with poet Antosh Wojcik (see page 3). Lens, the story of a remarkable life and career, which showcases his wonderful photographs Refreshments generously provided by the Hungry Guest and included in the ticket price. and is accompanied by a revelatory and tickets: Adults £10/ 18 and under £5 engaging commentary.

tickets: Adults £12/ 18 and under Sunday 3 November 2.30pm – 3.30pm | Leconfield Hall £5 Gillian Moore in conversation with Graham Sheffield Rite of Spring On 29 May 1913, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, a new ballet by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, received its premiere. Many of the cultural big names of Paris were there, or were rumoured to have been there: Debussy, Ravel, Proust, Gertrude Stein, Picasso. When the curtain rose on a cast of frenziedly stamping dancers, a near-riot ensued, ensuring the evening would enter the folklore of modernism. While it was the dancing that triggered the mayhem, Stravinsky’s score contained shocks enough, with its innovations in form, rhythm, dissonance and its sheer sonic power. The Rite of Spring would achieve recognition in its own right as a concert piece, and is now seen as one of the most influential works of the 20th century. The Director of Music at London’s Southbank Centre Gillian Moore discusses the explosive events with her former colleague Graham Sheffield, explores the cultural climate that created The Rite, and shows how a scandalous novelty of 1913 became a 21st-century concert staple. She also probes The Rite’s impact on film music (including scores for Star Wars and Jaws); its extensive influence on jazz musicians and by artists as diverse as Weather Report, Joni Mitchell, Frank Zappa and The Pet Shop Boys. Graham Sheffield was Director Arts for the British Council until July 2018. He was previously Artistic Director of the Barbican Centre and Music Projects

Photo: Sarah Hickson Director at London’s South Bank Centre.

Photo: Robin Sinha tickets: Adults £10/ 18 and under £5

18 www.petworthfestival.org.uk | 01798 344 576 www.petworthfestival.org.uk | 01798 344 576 19 Sunday 3 November 5.00pm – 6.00pm | Leconfield Hall Petworth Festival Literary Week Adrian Tinniswood How to book Festival venues The House Party St Mary’s Church, Petworth GU28 0AD Petworth Festival Box Office Leconfield Hall, Market Square, Petworth GU28 0AH The author of fourteen books of social and architectural history and a National Box office opens on The Johnson Centre, Seaford College GU28 0AW Trust ‘insider’ for thirty years, celebrated social historian Adrian Tinniswood Wednesday 2 October Midhurst Rother College, North Street GU28 9DT talks about his recently published evocation of the classic country house Online 24 hours a day party. www.petworthfestival.org.uk There is numbered seating in all venues. Phone 01798 344 576 No intervals in any events. All venues have toilet The House Party explores privilege and leisure from the viewpoint of the guest facilities and wheelchair access. and the host, showing us what it was really like to spend a weekend with the 10.00am – 1.00pm, closed Sundays Most credit and debit cards accepted. Jazz Age industrialist, the bibulous belted earl, and the bright young thing. Parking Tinniswood reveals how the great and good partied at mansions such as By post Parking for St Mary’s and the Leconfield Hall is in the Knole and Dunham Massey, how Nancy Astor held court at Cliveden, and Petworth town car park (GU28 0AP, 2 minutes from the what a discreet weekend gathering at Winston Churchill’s Chartwell might Fill in the booking form on p.2 of this brochure and send it with a SAE to: Leconfield Hall and 5 minutes from St Mary’s Church) entail. Much like the very best country house party, this talk and Tinniswood’s or additional free parking at the Sylvia Beaufoy Centre glorious book will keep you highly entertained. 151 Whites Green Lodge, Lurgashall, Petworth GU28 9BD (GU28 0ET). Please leave entrance to church free for Adrian Tinniswood is a Senior Research Fellow at University of Buckingham The booking form can also be downloaded from the emergency vehicles. Outside church please do not and a Visiting Fellow in Heritage and History at Bath Spa University. In 2013 website park half on the pavement – this is an offence. No he was awarded an OBE for services to heritage. His most recent book is parking in Lombard Street. Ample parking at Midhurst Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the Royal Household. Wheelchair/disabled customers please telephone Rother College and Seaford College, but please leave 01798 343 055 to discuss requirements. extra time at Seaford College as the private drive is tickets: Adults £10/ 18 and under £5 long and narrow. Ticket prices Terms and Conditions

Photo: Helen Rogers Ticket prices are shown below the event information throughout this brochure. Refunds are not given unless the event is cancelled. Sunday 3 November 7.30pm – 8.30pm | Leconfield Hall The information contained in this leaflet is correct at Format of Events the time of printing, but may be subject to subsequent Tom Bower Unless otherwise stated each event will consist of a 40 alterations. in conversation with Andrew Billen – 45 minute presentation from the author followed by an opportunity for questions and answers. The authors : Dangerous Hero will then be available to sign their books which will be for sale. The controversial biographer brings the festival to a close for a second year with his forensic investigation into the ‘marmite’ character that is Jeremy The books are provided by The Petworth Bookshop. Corbyn. After four decades in politics, Jeremy Corbyn has never been closer to power but until his surprise election as Labour leader in 2015, he had not been a major political player. Since then, he has survived coup attempts, accusations of incompetence, charges of anti-Semitism, bullying and not Friends’ Scheme Summer Festival being the master of his brief. Have you thought about becoming a Friend? It’s only £30 per annum per household. In conversation with The Times’ Andrew Billen, Tom Bower reveals the This will help us to keep our ticket prices low and to put on the diverse and high-calibre events in the delightful hidden truths about Corbyn’s character, the causes and organisations he but often small venues for which the Petworth Festival has become renowned. espouses, and Britain’s likely fate under the Marxist-Trotskyist society he has You’ll receive preview information, a priority booking period with reduced ticket prices and an invitation to the championed since the early 70s. Based on eyewitness accounts from those 2020 Festival launch party. who have known Corbyn throughout his life, Bower asks whether a Labour government led by Corbyn would deliver a glowing new era or catastrophe? Or why not become a Patron? For £100 or more per annum you’ll receive a longer priority period and an Tom Bower is an investigative journalist noted for his biographies of invitation to a launch party with our sponsors while helping to support the continuing development of the festival. controversial power-brokers including Richard Branson, Tiny Rowland, Robert Maxwell, Conrad Black, Bernie Ecclestone, Mohamed Fayed, Geoffrey For further details contact Kate Wardle on 01798 343 055 or [email protected] Robinson, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and Prince Charles.. tickets: Adults £12/ 18 and under £5

20 www.petworthfestival.org.uk | 01798 344 576 www.petworthfestival.org.uk | 01798 344 576 21 Sponsorship Sponsorship of the Petworth Festival Literary Week is essential in helping to keep prices low, to attracting the highest calibre of author to Petworth and therefore to creating a diverse and widely attractive programme. Support for the Literary Week starts at £300 so if you would like to discuss supporting Petworth Festival in this way please contact Kate Wardle at [email protected] or by telephone on 01798 343 055. The Petworth Festival is extremely grateful to the following who at the time of going to press have already sponsored the Literary Week: Petworth Festival would also like to thank The Petworth Silver Bookshop for supplying the books and organising the Alan & Sara Bennie book signings, The Arts Society West Sussex Young Tim & Gail Drew Arts for supporting one of our community projects, The Franks Family Truth in Nature, and the Hungry Guest for refreshments. Jonathan & Claudia Golden Petworth Festival is also extremely grateful to its Martin Haslam Principal Sponsor, The Leconfield Estates, for both Veronica Henty financial and in-kind support throughout the year. Sarah & Robert Jeans Kerry & Ian McNally Tina & Gordon Owen CBE And a number of donors who have asked to remain Who’s Who anonymous Bronze President Lord Egremont Lady Barbara Bossom Festival Board Neil Franks (Chairman), Carol Brigstocke Alan Bennie, Lord Egremont, Penny & Robin Bryant Claudia Golden, Sir Geoffrey Pattie, Cherril Corben Kate Wardle and Georgina Willis Peter & Jill Drummond Beth Dugan Mike & Jane Elliott Artistic Director Stewart Collins David & Caroline Fortune Festival Manager Kate Wardle Josceline & Jinnie Grove Event Co-ordinator & Publications Kate Lavender Guilt Lingerie Technical Management Peter Hall Rosemary Harris Rhino Audio Visual Ltd Andrew & Judy Howard Assistant to the Festival Manager Hettie McNeil Kevis House Gallery Venues and Volunteers Manager Liz Harris Peter & Jo Lavender Box Office Carole Field, Pam Hampel, Polly & Jeremy Lewis Judy Howard, Imke Sanderson, David & Jenny Lowe Deborah Taylor & Kate Wardle Sue Marsh Secretary to the Board Sarah Matthews Ian & Caroline McNeil Design & Printing John Good Ltd Tessa Pascoe Petworth Town Council Petworth Festival is a company limited by guarantee Peter & Frances Rhys-Evans – registration number 5710001 and a registered Bryan Scholey charity number 1113784. Roger & Charlotte Ter Haar Penny & James Tree Michael White Robin & Gillian Wilson And a number of donors who have asked to remain anonymous www.petworthfestival.org.uk | 01798 344 576