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2 The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival Director Festival Assistant Jane Furze Hannah Evans Artistic Director Festival Interns Sarah Smyth Lizzie Atkinson, Jen Liggins Book It! Director development Director Jane Churchill Suzy Hillier Festival Managers development officer Charles Haynes, Nicola Tuxworth Claire Coleman Festival Co-ordinator development officer Rose Stuart Alison West Welcome What words will you use to describe your Festival experience? Whether it’s Jazz, Science, Music or Literature, a Cheltenham Festival experience can be intellectually challenging, educational, fun, surprising, frustrating, shocking, transformational, inspiring, comical, beautiful, odd, even life-changing. And this year’s The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival is no different.

As you will see when you browse this brochure, the Festival promises Contents 10 days of discussion, debate and interview, plus lots of new ways to experience and engage with words and ideas. It’s a true celebration of 2012 NEWS 3 - 9 the power of the word - with old friends, new writers, commentators, What’s happening at this year’s Festival celebrities, sports people and scientists, and from children’s authors, illustrators, comedians and politicians to leading opinion-formers. FESTIVAL PROGRAMME 10 - 89 Your day by day guide to events I can’t praise the team enough for their exceptional dedication and flair in BOOK IT! 91 - 101 curating this year’s inspiring programme. However, there would be no Festival Our Festival for families and without the wonderful enthusiasm of our partners and loyal audiences and we young readers are extremely grateful for all the support we receive. WRITE AWAY 104 - 105 Whatever words you use to describe your experience at a Cheltenham Festival, Creative workshop programme I would like to ask for your help to ensure that you will still be using those festival guide 108 – 110 words in the future. Only 40% of our income comes from ticket sales. Please Your guide to the Festival site and show your support for Cheltenham Festivals by making a donation when you buying tickets buy your tickets so that we can continue to curate inspiring programmes of a high standard, offer free events and continue our work with schools and Even more festival news families. As a cultural organisation, Cheltenham Festivals has charitable status, features and info online... so if you are a UK tax-payer, don’t forget to tick the Gift Aid box so that we can claim Gift Aid on your donation which is worth another 25% to the Festivals. cheltenhamfestivals.com I love the excitement of seeing the brochure for the first time, and then sitting cheltenhamfestivals.com/subscribe down to make my event choices. I’m sure many of you do too. facebook.com/cheltenhamfestivals Turn the page and enjoy! I look forward to seeing you at the Festival in October. @cheltfestivals #cheltlitfest Donna Renney, Chief Executive

Box Office 0844 880 8094 cheltenhamfestivals.com/tickets 3 Artistic Director, Sarah Smyth introduces us to the theme of this year’s Festival

People: Power Welcome to an extraordinary ten days of literary treats and intellectual drama, powerful performances and fierce debates.

As I set out to shape this year’s to ask searching questions: what programme, I was struck by the shape is democracy in today? anger suffusing our political, social Do revolutions – political or digital - and cultural debates. At its heart ever bring what people expect? seemed to be a pervasive sense of What makes a great leader? powerlessness and disconnection Where does global power really lie between citizens and their leaders, today? And what implications do and it seemed timely - a month these power shifts have for our future before America’s presidential election security? We ask what influence, - to explore the relationship between if any, our politicians are actually able people and power as this year’s to wield in the face of the economic Festival theme. shockwaves echoing from Athens to Washington. In an era of unprecedented global turmoil we tackle the relationship In troubled times, we often turn between people and power on many inwards, and I also want to celebrate levels: from the link between citizen the domestic, the local and the and state to the way we relate to particular, with a special focus on each other as individuals, and from personal empowerment and our interconnected online communities relationship with the home. to the still unique relationship between reader and writer. Look for the People: Power event As the economic and geopolitical headings running throughout this certainties of the twentieth century year’s programme. fade, we enter the political arena

4 The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival GUEST DIRECTORS

Carol Ann Duffy JOAN BAKEWELL PETER HENNESSY

Carol Ann Duffy brings poetry Joan Bakewell’s fascination for how Historian Peter Hennessy has to the heart of the festival; as well we present and re-present the past is chosen a great year to survey the as performing her own work, she evident through her own novels and political landscape, past and present. launches our fantastic free Poetry in two of her events she looks back to Starting with the Cold War, “the Cafe programme, showcases three the 1950s and the 1970s to explore greatest power confrontation of our talented poets and introduces our this question. She also joins us for times that didn’t lead to war”, he’s unmissable Poetry Jukebox event. one of our philosophical debates joined by leading political figures We’re keeping Carol Ann busy and, as a champion of older people, from left and right to assess our while she’s with us, as she’ll also be explores how age is represented in turbulent times. In his new book presenting the prize for iF Poems/ classic novels in our Seven Ages Distilling the Frenzy he offers an The Times Young Poet Competition. Of Man series. incisive view into the territory where current affairs meets history. Look for… Look for… Look for… > Sat 6 > L047 > CAROL ANN DUFFY, GILLIAN > Thurs 11 > L219 > MAD MEN TO MOON > Fri 5 > L005 > WRITING HISTORY AS IT CLARKE & JOHN SAMPSON > Page 23 ROCKETS: EXPLORING THE FIFTIES > Page 61 HAPPENS > Page 12 > Sat 6 > L052 > LITTLE MACHINE > Fri 12 > L247 > SEVEN AGES OF MAN: AGE > Fri 5 > L021 > WHAT’S IN A SPEECH? > Page 15 > Page 24 > Page 71 > Sat 6 > L028 > UNLOCKING THE COLD AWR > Page 20 > Sat 6 > L039 > SEAN BORODALE, ANN GRAY > Fri 12 > L331 DOMINIC SANDBROOK & JOAN & ADAM HOROVITZ > Page 22 BAKEWELL > Page 68 > Sat 6 > L024 > JOHN LEWIS GADDIS & PETER HENNESSY > Page 23 > Sat 6 > LB9 iF Poems/ The Times Young > Fri 12 > L231 > THE POWER OF IDEAS Poets Prize > Page 21 > Page 69 > Sat 6/sun 7 > L038 & L076 > Politics in focus > Page 21 & 32 > Fri 12 > L240 > CALL THE MIDWIFE: > Sun 7 > L064 > WHAT MAKES A GREAT REMEMBERING JENNIFER WORTH > Page 70 LEADER? > Page 29

Julian Baggini Philosopher in Residence

Julian Baggini, our very first Philosopher in Residence, has developed a unique Philosophy programme including keynote talks, debates, free informal philosophy cafes, and a brand new philosophy dinner. Join Julian for a Philosophy Day on Friday 12th October. Our Philosopher’s Pass (£15) allows you entrance to a specially curated series of three events - a Philosophy Essentials session plus two keynote debates, an exclusive introduction to the day from Julian in our Literary Lounge at 9.45am and to round off the day, a chance for you to air your views in the Philosophy Café.

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Politics and Religion and BUSINESS AND Current Affairs Spirituality ECONOMICS

From leading politicians to In our Pathways collection, we We’ll be delving into the economic power brokers, diplomats to continue to ask the big questions, issues of the day, hosting top peace-makers we explore the lives exploring personal beliefs and business leaders who’ll reveal how and works of those who wield debating the relationship between they are responding to recurrent power past and present. religion and the search for peace. recession. Look for... Look for... Look for... > LO14 (page 14) > L013 (Page 13) > l0183 (page 54) >l150 (PAGE 47) > l278 (page 79) > l307 (page 85) > L313 (Page 86) > L308 (page 86) > L315 (page 87) > l301 (page 85)

FICTION & storytelling COMEDY STUDIO, STAGE POETRY The beating heart of the Laugh out loud with this & SCREEN We provide platforms for Festival – we’ve picked out year’s fabulously funny We celebrate the films, some of our most striking the very best in new fiction line-up. television programmes and poetic voices as they and performance as well theatre productions that premiere exciting new work as welcoming our most Look for... have made the headlines. and revisit old favourites. > l045 (page 24) renowned literary voices > l249 (page 70) to the stage. Our Horizons Look for... Look for... > l291 (page 81) > L037 (page 25) > l152 (page 25) > L047 (page 23) > l147 (page 46) series introduces writers > l240 (page 70) > l245 (page 70) from all over the world and we’re thrilled to be working with some of Britain’s top literary prizes. Join our Writers in Residence Thomas Enger and Gunnar Staalesen, two of Scandinavia’s leading crime writers for a taste of Nordic Noir.

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Home MILITARY HISTORY HISTORY

We celebrate the hearth and home We are joined by former serving In Turn Back the Clock we focus with events exploring design, food soldiers and leading military on the Regency period covering and drink, gardening, antiques and historians to explore the nature of architecture, food, fashion and the art of homemaking through conflict past and present. theatre, alongside the broader sweep the ages. of history, politics and the arts. Look for... Look for... > L148 (page 46) > l205 (page 61) Look for... > L174 (page 53) > L163 (page 52) > l218 (page 63) > Lt07 (page 38) > l204 (page 61) > l191 (page 55) > l200 (page 60)

Art & Architecture Sport Travel Locally Sourced We bring to life some of A fitting celebration of Join us for some truly Celebrating the rich 2012’s great art exhibitions sport’s greatest events inspirational journeys both community of writers and ponder our built and personalities in this near and far. based locally. environment at its best Olympic year. Look for... and worst. Look for... Look for... > L032 (page 25) > l232 (page 69) > lT08 (page 39) > l126 (page 44) Look for... > l153 (page 47) > l156 (page 47) > l241 (page 70) > l334 (page 44) > l001 (page 12) > l135 (page 45) > l208 (page 61) > l176 (page 53)

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Compass Points World of Surgery Novel Directions In a series of three keynote events Step inside the world of surgery Sample great new fiction this October co-programmed with global banking as we explore the power balance with three new collections at the partner HSBC, we bring together between doctor and patient. What Festival. Meet four of 2012’s most leading experts in their field to happens when you have a heart exciting debut novelists in our free explore the relationships between attack? What is it like to undergo Festival Focus series, experience our the West and the new cultural and clot-busting surgery while you’re still new Literary Salon created by Damian economic powerhouses across the awake? Who makes these life and Barr and our Firestation Book Swap globe, spanning finance, history, death decisions? Join us for a series hosted by Scott Pack and try out our culture, politics and of course, of three fascinating linked events for new Seven Ages of Man series, which literature. a combined price of £15. explores classic literature from the Look for... Look for... cradle to the grave. > L186 (Page 55) > L281 (Page 77) > L216 (Page 62) > L288 (Page 80) Science at Literature > LT17 (Page 71) > L289 (Page 81) > L305 (Page 85) The Literature and Science Festival teams are working together to bring exciting and intriguing science events to fans of the Literature Festival. Join scientists and science signposts enthusiasts like Marcus Brigstocke, Join us to learn new skills in our Jon Ronson, Robert Winston, series of events which look at Steven Pinker and others for personal empowerment. For the great discussions and fascinating first time at the Festival we forge topics. Look for the Science at new partnerships to offer a series of Literature headings throughout the pick and mix talks and workshops pause for thought: programme. If you enjoy science on subjects such as meditation, the search FOR A NEW VOICE at the Literature Festival, join us relaxation, how to worry less and A nationwide talent search with from 4-9 June 2013 for The Times how to take control of our lives. a difference - a search for a new Cheltenham Science Festival. Or join one of our free events broadcaster on matters of faith designed to give advice on anything which culminates in a weekend of from helping your child to read to workshops and training before the opening a new chapter in your career. contestants face a live audience and judging panel at the Festival. Look for... > L342 (page 13) The successful candidate will > L027 (page 20) broadcast on the BBC Radio 2, > L096 (page 37) Vanessa Feltz Show, in the > L166 (page 52) Pause for Thought slot. > L181 (page 55) > L215 (page 62) > L246 (page 70) > L268 (page 78)

Behind the Scenes What really goes on Behind the Scenes? Experts and insiders from some of our great national institutions share their special insights. Look for... > LS24 (Page 12) > L035 (Page 12) > L228 (Page 30)

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Sat 6 Oct Wed 10th Oct CIDER WITH ROSIE (& EVERYONE WHISKIES TO TRY BEFORE YOU DIE! ELSE): With The Thinking Drinkers Page 54 Page 21 JAZZ AND THE BARONESS MICHAEL CHABON, JOJO MOYES Page 55 & ALEX PRESTON: Damian Barr’s Thursday 11 Oct Literary Salon Page 24 LUNCH WITH THE FABULOUS BAKER BROTHERS Sunday 7 Oct Page 61 Book It! Breakfast JANE AUSTEN’S LADIES OF A CERTAIN AGE Page 28 Page 62 GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF: AGATHA CHRISTIE & ART DECO AFTERNOON TEA Page 63 Page 31 Friday 12 October ROBERT CRAMPTON’S QUIZ NIGHT Page 33 FIRESTATION BOOK SWAP The Big Read does Dr No Page 70 Monday 8 Oct In association with You Heard It Here First... BRIDGE MASTERCLASSes Page 69 Vintage classics Page 36 This year we will be revisiting Sat 13 Oct TEA WITH JANE AUSTEN the original novels by Ian Page 38 Taylors of harrogate Coffee Fleming with a focus on Masterclass LINDEMAN’S WINE AND BOOK CLUB Page 76 Dr No to celebrate the 50th Page 39 anniversary of the first ever Poetry. Uk All Stars Poetry GLOUCESTERSHIRE WRITERS’ Bond film. Whether you are Slam! Qualifiers & FINAL NETWORK Page 79 & 81 new to the chosen book or Page 39 fancy revisiting it, join us at one Vintage Cocktail Party Tuesday 9 Oct Page 80 of our ever-popular Big Read FAULTY TOWERS DINING EXPERIENCE Sunday 14 OCT book groups to discuss, debate, Page 47 or simply listen. The Early Edition With Marcus Brigstocke Visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/ Page 4 bigread for more information.

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10am-12pm SIGNPOSTS BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA how to Get a Job mariella frostruP’s in Journalism booK show the 4 o’CloCK show Considering entering the exciting, fast- Sky Arts returns to Cheltenham with BBC Radio 4 Extra’s daily family show off ers paced world of journalism? Want to know its highly acclaimed television show, a cracking line-up of children’s authors. what you can do to get a head-start? Anne presented by Mariella Frostrup, bringing Presenter Mel Giedroyc talks to the writers Spackman, comment editor of The Times, the best of the festival to book lovers about their latest titles, some of their will be joined by a graduate trainee from everywhere. Join us for this exclusive favourite childhood books and the books the newspaper, to give you an insight recording in front of a live studio audience they’d recommend to young readers into the life of a journalist and advice on with an exciting line-up of authors and today. BBC Radio 4 Extra is available on the various routes into the competitive special guests sharing experiences DAB digital radio, digital TV and online at industry. and anecdotes for all types of literary bbc.co.uk/radio4extra. > L027 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER enthusiasts. This show will be recorded for broadcast, GaRDENS > 10-11aM > FREE For broadcast times please visit latecomers will not be admitted. – aDVaNCED BOOKING REQUIRED sky.com/books > L025 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS Doors open at 10.40am, fi lming 11am- > 10-11aM > FREE – aDVaNCED BOOKING 12pm, latecomers will not be admitted. REQUIRED > L029 > SKY aRtS GaRDEN tHEatRE – IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 10.40-12PM > £5

PEOPLE: POWER unloCKinG the Cold war HOME John lewis Gaddis, Peter Hennessy, miChael frayn simon hoGGart Alan Judd & Kevin tebbitt Join our eminent panel of Cold War & John Carey life’s too Short to Drink Bad Wine experts, John lewis Gaddis, America’s Renowned for his plays, novels and Most of us enjoy a decent glass of wine ‘Dean of Cold War Studies’ from Yale, translations; Michael Frayn is that rare but how do we know which wine is Kevin tebbit former head of GCHQ and thing: an English writer as successful as an decent given the vast selection available? Permanent Secretary for Defence, security author of drama as he is of prose. He joins Luckily, help is at hand from Simon expert Alan Judd and leading historian us to discuss his life and writing, and the Hoggart, renowned wine columnist for Peter Hennessy, as they explore the inspiration behind his most recent novel, The Spectator, and the author of Life’s “now-it-can-be-told history of the greatest Skios, with leading writer and critic Too Short to Drink Bad Wine. He talks power confrontation of our times that John Carey. us entertainingly through some of his didn’t lead to war” (Peter Hennessy). In favourite bottles. > L030 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS a Cheltenham exclusive they debate > 11.30aM-12.30PM > £8 RES > L026 > tHE INKPOt – IMPERIaL SQUaRE intelligence, security and strategy, lifting > 10-11aM > £7 RES the lid on Cold War events and taking us behind the scenes of this fascinating confl ict. Programmed by Peter Hennessy > L028 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 10-11aM > £7 RES

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12-2pm PEOPLE: POWER FAMILY EVENT women of substanCe PolitiCs in foCus: Clare Clark, Juliet nicolson, Frances Part one if Poems/ the times Osborne & libby Purves Peter Hennessy, nigel lawson younG Poets PriZe Women have been at the heart of some & Guests Enjoy readings from a stunning new of the greatest stories ever told, but In this special event, Guest Director Peter collection of our best loved poems iF: what are the challenges of translating Hennessy is joined by nigel lawson and A Treasury of Poems for Almost Every their lives into fi ction at some of other eminent right-of-centre politicians Possibility and join a prime crop of history’s pivotal moments? Clare Clark’s and thinkers to discuss the current political budding poets as we celebrate with the compelling new novel Beautiful Lies and economic climate. Focusing on the ups incredibly talented winners of this national opens just before the Golden Jubilee of and downs of the coalition government competition. Hear the winning entries 1887, Juliet nicolson’s Abdication takes and the economic challenges Britain faces, read by the winners themselves in all place in the pivotal year of 1936 whilst they debate where as a nation we are three categories, from under 6 years-old to Frances Osborne’s Park Lane explores the headed and off er their own prescriptions teens. Prizes will be presented by the Poet Suff ragette movement and the First World for moving forward. Laureate Carol Ann Duff y and the Editor War. They join novelist and broadcaster Programmed by Peter Hennessy of The Times, James Harding. libby Purves to discuss the challenges and pleasures of exploring women’s lives > L038 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > LB9 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER > 1-2PM > £7 GaRDENS > 12-1PM > FREE – aDVaNCED through the prism of the past. BOOKING REQUIRED > L033 > tHE INKPOt – IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 12-1PM > £6 RES mariella frostruP’s booK show SPIEGELTENT Sky Arts returns to Cheltenham with its highly acclaimed television show, Cider with rosie presented by Mariella Frostrup, bringing (& everyone else) the best of the festival to book lovers With the thinking Drinkers everywhere. Join us for this exclusive PATHWAYS Presented by The Thinking Drinkers Ben recording in front of a live studio audience McFarland and tom Sandham, this is with an exciting line-up of authors and mary robinson a hilarious whistle stop tour of alcohol special guests sharing experiences Everybody Matters in literature, and famous literary cider and anecdotes for all types of literary Mary Robinson has spent her life drinkers, from Beowulf to Hemingway, and enthusiasts. in pursuit of a fairer world. Here, the from Thomas Hardy to Laurie Lee. Stop For broadcast times please visit former President of Ireland and UN High along the way as The Thinking Drinkers sky.com/books Commissioner joins us to discuss her guide you through a tasting of delicious Doors open at 1.10pm, fi lming 1.30pm- life and her memoir, Everybody Matters. Westons’ ciders (included in ticket price). 2.30pm, latecomers will not be admitted. In a fascinating interview she reveals What’s not to like? what lies behind the vision, strength > L034 > SKY aRtS GaRDEN tHEatRE – IMPERIaL > Lt01 > SPIEGELtENt – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS SQUaRE > 1.10-2.30PM > £5 and determination that has helped her > 1-2PM > £12 RES – INCLUDES CIDER taStING to achieve so much for human rights around the globe, and what it is like to be a member of The Elders - the smallest club in the world. > L031 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 12-1PM > £9 RES

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THE BIG READ 4-6pm the times debate - is James bond - dr no PhiliP Pullman britain still Great? the Big Reading Grimm tales The annual Times Debate is an established Join us for these free live readings from Most famously the author of the His Dark highlight of the festival programme. In Ian Fleming’s gripping and atmospheric Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman has found the year that Britain has celebrated the thriller Dr No. Each reading is narrated inspiration in another kind of fantasy for Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and hosted the either by our suave hero, James Bond, or his latest venture: darker retellings of fi fty Olympic and Paralympic Games, James the eponymous sinister villain, hell-bent classic stories from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, fi rst Harding, the Editor of The Times and a on world domination. Who will you published 200 years ago this year. He joins panel of distinguished guests will consider encounter? the state of Britain in 2012 and ask: Is Britain us to look back at their life and writing, > CINEWORLD > SCREENING ROOMS still Great? and explains how he put the grim back > 3-3.30PM > FREE into the Brothers Grimm. > L041 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 1.45-3PM > £8 RES > L036 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 4-5PM > £9

alexander mCCall smith 2-4pm BBC RADIO 4 The creator of the much-loved fi ctional series: The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency, THE BIG READ the moral maZe 44 Scotland Street; and The Sunday This year the BBC marks its 90th birthday. Philosophy Club joins us to look back at James bond - dr no BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze comes to his hugely successful writing career, and natalie Haynes, Charlie Higson, Cheltenham to ask: Does public service also discusses Precious and the Mystery of tom Rob Smith & Andrew taylor broadcasting have a future and if so, how Meerkat Hill, his latest Botswana-set novel should it be funded? Chaired by Michael Ian Fleming’s dark and stylish Dr No grips starring the inimitable Mma Ramotswe. Buerk who’ll be joined by the panel: the reader with a taut, suave and sensual Michael Portillo, Claire Fox, Matthew > L042 > SKY aRtS GaRDEN tHEatRE stranglehold. We join Fleming fans Charlie taylor and Anne McElvoy. – IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 4-5PM > £8 RES Higson, author of the Young Bond series, the Agent 6 author tom Rob Smith, high- This show will be recorded for broadcast, octane crime writer Andrew taylor and latecomers will not be admitted. the critic and comedian natalie Haynes > L040 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS to explore Fleming’s writing and the Bond > 3.15-4.30PM > FREE - aDVaNCED BOOKING phenomenon. REQUIRED BOOK IT! > L048 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 2-3PM > £8 Zombies! with Charlie hiGson and ian livinGstone Writer, actor and comedian Charlie POETRY CAFÉ Higson, author of the phenomenally successful Young Bond series and zombie sean borodale, ann Gray series, The Enemy, will be talking about his writing and his latest teen book The & adam horovitZ Sacrifi ce with Ian livingstone, co-creator The Poetry Café will be hosting three of the worldwide bestselling gamebook poets chosen and introduced by Guest series, Fighting Fantasy. Ian’s brand-new Director Carol Ann Duff y: Sean Borodale, zombie-slaying adventure, Blood of the author of Bee Journal, Ann Gray whose Zombies celebrates 30 years of these most recent works include The Man I interactive adventures. Be prepared to be Was Promised and At the Gate and Adam scared, very scared! Horovitz whose debut collection, Turning was published last year. Join us as all three > LB17 > tHE INKPOt > aGE 12+ read from their latest works. > 4-5PM > £6 Programmed by Carol Ann Duff y. > L039 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 2-3PM > FREE

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THE BIG READ 4-6pm MEET THE RADIO TIMES 6-8pm POETRY the times debate - is James bond - dr no PhiliP Pullman tv time CaPsule BBC RADIO 4 Carol ann duffy, Gillian britain still Great? the Big Reading Which are your favourite boxed sets? ClarKe & John samPson Grimm tales The annual Times Debate is an established Join us for these free live readings from Join Radio Times Editor Ben Preston with Great Pleasure For this very special event, we bring Most famously the author of the His Dark highlight of the festival programme. In Ian Fleming’s gripping and atmospheric and TV Editor Alison Graham as they together English Poet Laureate, Carol Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman has found Mel Giedroyc chooses some of her the year that Britain has celebrated the thriller Dr No. Each reading is narrated pack their fantasy time capsule with the Ann Duff y and her Welsh counterpart, inspiration in another kind of fantasy for favourite pieces of writing to present Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and hosted the either by our suave hero, James Bond, or best television in the world. But do you Gillian Clarke, the National Poet for Wales. his latest venture: darker retellings of fi fty to the audience, in the company of two Olympic and Paralympic Games, James the eponymous sinister villain, hell-bent agree with their choices? We want your With musical accompaniment from John classic stories from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, fi rst actors. It’s an eclectic and personal mix, Harding, the Editor of The Times and a on world domination. Who will you contributions to what promises to be a Sampson, the stage will be set for a spell- published 200 years ago this year. He joins from books that have both given her panel of distinguished guests will consider encounter? rousing, fun debate. pleasure and marked signifi cant events binding poetic performance. the state of Britain in 2012 and ask: Is Britain us to look back at their life and writing, > CINEWORLD > SCREENING ROOMS > L043 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER over the years. Programmed by Carol Ann Duff y still Great? and explains how he put the grim back > 3-3.30PM > FREE into the Brothers Grimm. GaRDENS > 4.10-4.50PM > FREE – aDVaNCED This show will be recorded for broadcast > L047 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > L041 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS BOOKING REQUIRED on BBC Radio 4, latecomers will not be > 6.30-7.30PM > £7 > 1.45-3PM > £8 RES > L036 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS admitted. > 4-5PM > £9 > L044 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 6-7PM > FREE - aDVaNCED BOOKING REQUIRED alexander mCCall smith BOOK IT! 2-4pm BBC RADIO 4 The creator of the much-loved fi ctional series: The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency, ww2 the moral maZe THE BIG READ 44 Scotland Street; and The Sunday Join two brilliant writers talking about This year the BBC marks its 90th birthday. Philosophy Club joins us to look back at diff erent aspects of WW2. Elizabeth James bond - dr no BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze comes to his hugely successful writing career, and Wein’s heartbreaking tale of a friendship natalie Haynes, Charlie Higson, Cheltenham to ask: Does public service also discusses Precious and the Mystery of between two women, Code Name Verity, PEOPLE: POWER tom Rob Smith & Andrew taylor broadcasting have a future and if so, how Meerkat Hill, his latest Botswana-set novel is partly inspired by her love of fl ying, and should it be funded? Chaired by Michael Ian Fleming’s dark and stylish Dr No grips starring the inimitable Mma Ramotswe. Hollywood screenwriter William Osborne John lewis Gaddis Buerk who’ll be joined by the panel: the reader with a taut, suave and sensual imagines what might have happened if & Peter hennessy Michael Portillo, Claire Fox, Matthew > L042 > SKY aRtS GaRDEN tHEatRE stranglehold. We join Fleming fans Charlie Hitler had had a child in Hitler’s Angel. Eminent scholar John lewis Gaddis has taylor and Anne McElvoy. – IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 4-5PM > £8 RES Higson, author of the Young Bond series, > LB21 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 12+ been hailed as the ‘Dean of Cold War the Agent 6 author tom Rob Smith, high- This show will be recorded for broadcast, Historians.’ He joins Peter Hennessy to latecomers will not be admitted. > 5.30-6.30PM > £5 octane crime writer Andrew taylor and > FREE - aDVaNCED BOOKING REQUIRED discuss his most recent book, George F the critic and comedian natalie Haynes > L040 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS Kennan: An American Life, winner of the to explore Fleming’s writing and the Bond > 3.15-4.30PM > FREE - aDVaNCED BOOKING 2012 Pulitzer Prize for biography. phenomenon. Programmed by Peter Hennessy REQUIRED BOOK IT! > L048 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > L024 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 2-3PM > £8 Zombies! with Charlie > 6.30-7.30PM > £7 hiGson and ian livinGstone Writer, actor and comedian Charlie POETRY CAFÉ Higson, author of the phenomenally successful Young Bond series and zombie sean borodale, ann Gray series, The Enemy, will be talking about his writing and his latest teen book The & adam horovitZ Sacrifi ce with Ian livingstone, co-creator The Poetry Café will be hosting three of the worldwide bestselling gamebook poets chosen and introduced by Guest series, Fighting Fantasy. Ian’s brand-new MEMBERS Director Carol Ann Duff y: Sean Borodale, zombie-slaying adventure, Blood of the GEt author of Bee Journal, Ann Gray whose Zombies celebrates 30 years of these most recent works include The Man I interactive adventures. Be prepared to be Was Promised and At the Gate and Adam scared, very scared! Horovitz whose debut collection, Turning 10 % was published last year. Join us as all three > LB17 > tHE INKPOt > aGE 12+ OFF read from their latest works. > 4-5PM > £6 Programmed by Carol Ann Duff y. > L039 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 2-3PM > FREE

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HORIZONS little maChine Poetry Jukebox andrey KurKov From Sappho and Shakespeare to TS Join Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov for Eliot and Carol Ann Duff y, acclaimed up-to-the-minute a jazzy fusion of black humour, post-Soviet poetry band little MACHine draws festival news! reality and surrealism in his one-man on three thousand years of poetry and show. A much-loved author of fi ction in performs their words in song. Join us for @cheltfestivals #cheltlitfest Russian for both adults and children, his a performance that will by turns make work has been translated and celebrated you fall in love with new poems, and thrill anew to some old favourites. Introduced /cheltenhamfestivals around the world. Flying in from the Ukraine for this hugely enjoyable solo by Guest Director Carol Ann Duff y. TRAVEL STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN event, he improvises on the piano, and Programmed by Carol Ann Duff y discusses his life and books. An evening > L052 > tHE StUDIO – IMPERIaL SQUaRE miChael Palin roGer moore benediCt CumberbatCh not to be missed! > 8.45-10PM > £6 Brazil The London-born son of a policeman, the Sherlock - A thoroughly SPIEGELTENT > L049 > PLaYHOUSE tHEatRE A veritable traveller’s treat is in store ever-debonair Roger Moore has enjoyed Modern victorian > 8-9PM > £6 as Michael Palin, the UK’s best loved an acting career spanning seven decades. What are the challenges of re-imagining HISTORY miChael Chabon, JoJo globetrotter presents a lavishly illustrated He is probably best known however for a great Victorian classic for the modern playing James Bond in seven blockbusting moyes & alex Preston POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS JunG ChanG talk about the subject of his vibrant new age? The actor Benedict Cumberbatch BBC series, and accompanying book: the fi lms of the 1970s and 80s. To celebrate the discusses Sherlock, BBC TV’s triumphant Damian Barr’s literary Salon st This year sees the 21 anniversary of pulsating land of Brazil, through which 50th anniversary of the Bond franchise, remake, and shares fascinating insights Not since the Marquis de Sade have books JaCK straw the publication of Wild Swans, at once and the publication of Bond on Bond, he been this thrilling. Grab a cocktail, pull up a he journeyed from the favelas of Rio de into the creative process that brought this last Man Standing a critically acclaimed history of China; a joins us to discuss his life in acting, and the st chair and get ready for an evening of whip- Janeiro to the depths of the Amazon new detective for the 21 century to our Having spent 13 years and 11 days in tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an rainforest. iconic role of 007. screens. Chaired by journalist and Sherlock smart wit as Damian Barr lets loose his government, including long spells as Home uplifting story of bravery and survival. In > L032 > CHELtENHaM RaCECOURSE > L152 > CHELtENHaM RaCECOURSE co-star louise Brealey infamous Shoreditch House Literary Salon. Secretary and Foreign Secretary, Jack a rare interview, Jung Chang refl ects on > CENtaUR > 12-1PM > £15 RES > CENtaUR > 4.15-5.15PM > £15 RES Three guest authors, exclusive readings, Straw has insights aplenty to off er into the the extraordinary impact of her family > L053 > CHELtENHaM RaCECOURSE revealing interviews and many martinis. complex but always fascinating world of memoir and discusses the role of women > CENtaUR > 8.45-10PM > £15 RES > Lt03 > SPIEGELtENt – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS British politics. To mark the publication of in China today. > 7-10PM > £6 RES his autobiography, Last Man Standing, he > L054 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS joins us to give his personal take on the last > 9-10PM > £9 RES forty years in British politics. STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN > L050 > SKY aRtS GaRDEN tHEatRE – IMPERIaL BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA i’m sorry i haven’t a Clue: SQUaRE > 8.45-10PM > £10 RES the best of 40 years Comedy Club For the fi rst time, BBC Radio 4 Extra, the Barry Cryer, tim Brooke-taylor iain banKs Graeme Garden & Colin Sell digital station for entertaining archive A prolifi c writer of both mainstream fi ction speech radio presents its own stand-up Just what are the rules of Mornington and science fi ction, Iain Banks came to comedy show to be compered by Arthur the Centaur Crescent? And who is the lovely Samantha? widespread and controversial attention Smith. Acts include other familiar names Join Barry Cryer, tim Brooke-taylor, with the publication of his fi rst novel, The from The Comedy Club, the station’s at Cheltenham Graeme Garden and Colin Sell on the Wasp Factory in 1984 and The Crow Road contemporary comedy strand and some piano - the team from the self-styled which was made into a successful BBC TV very special guests. racecourse antidote to panel games, as they celebrate series. He joins us to discuss his diverse This show will be recorded for broadcast, 40 years of being given silly things to do, writing career, and his latest and widely for directions to Cheltenham and delighting their legions of fans across latecomers will not be admitted. acclaimed novel, Stonemouth, which racecourse visit: the world. As heard on BBC Radio 4. returns us to the characters and places fi rst > L055 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN > L045 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS explored in The Crow Road. > 9-10.15PM > FREE - aDVaNCED BOOKING REQUIRED cheltenhamfestivals.com/ > 7.15-8.15PM > £12 RES > L051 > tHE INKPOt – IMPERIaL SQUaRE david suChet J K rowlinG visitorinformation > 8.45-10PM > £8 RES As he starts fi lming the fi nal Poirot series, We’re delighted to welcome J K Rowling the much-loved English actor joins us to back to the Festival to discuss her fi rst refl ect on his 43 -year- long career. From novel for adults. Pagford is apparently humble beginnings as a spear-carrier at an English idyll - but what lies behind the RSC, to playing Agatha Christie’s suave the pretty façade is a town at war. In The Belgian super-sleuth and providing a voice Casual Vacancy J K Rowling has written for Aslan the Lion, he joins Christopher a big novel about a small town, as a Cook to refl ect on the joys of acting and parish council election becomes fraught why he has never been out of work. with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations. A storyteller like no other, she MEMBERS > L037 > CHELtENHaM RaCECOURSE joins James Runcie for a rare appearance > CENtaUR > 2-3PM > £15 RES GEt to discuss her writing. J K Rowling will be signing copies of The Casual Vacancy after the event. In order to allow as many audience members as possible to have their 10 % book signed, it will be limited to one copy OFF only and no dedications. > L046 > CHELtENHaM RaCECOURSE > CENtaUR > 6.30-7.45PM > £15 RES

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And how by the inimitable Barry Cryer, one of aND tHEIR FaMILIES > 9.30-11aM > £5 that brings together BBC Radio 4 and the the best of the festival to book lovers Times have been writing leading articles do our current global political leaders Britain’s truly great comedy writers and British Library and that is now capturing everywhere. Join us for this exclusive to a tight daily deadline. Join the Editor of measure up to the ideal? In this fascinating performers, to celebrate his long career on the nation in conversation and creating an recording in front of a live studio audience The Times James Harding, as he gathers discussion, BBC Newsnight presenter stage, radio and television. 10am-12pm audio bank of personal stories for future with an exciting line-up of authors and his senior journalists for the all-important Gavin Esler, author of a new book on > L066 > tHE DaFFODIL > 12.30-3PM generations. special guests sharing experiences leader conference where they will debate leadership entitled Lessons from the Top, > £40 INCLUDING tWO-COURSE SEt SUNDaY ben maCintyre > L058 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS and anecdotes for all types of literary the key issues of the day and decide on former Secretary of State for Justice Jack LUNCH MENU WItH aMUSE BOUCHE taStER, enthusiasts. the content of the leading articles for Straw author of Last Man Standing, Pulitzer The Times columnist Ben Macintyre > 10-11aM > FREE – aDVaNCED BOOKING th GLaSS OF WINE aND COFFEE. has had huge success with his gripping REQUIRED For broadcast times please visit publication in The Times on Monday 8 Prize-winning journalist and author Anne true-life wartime thrillers, Agent Zigzag sky.com/books October. 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Nick Clarke, an outstanding broadcaster, how to Choose the riGht > L056 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS SIGNPOSTS consummate interviewer and much-loved university for you > 10-11aM > £8 RES SEVEN AGES OF MAN friend of the Festival for many years. uCas - the aPPliCant’s The annual award for the year’s most Are you thinking of applying for a higher education course? With so much Journey Childbirth outstanding broadcast interview, The Nick SIGNPOSTS Clarke Award, will be presented as part of information available on where and what Get an introduction to applying for higher Mark lawson, Brooke Magnanti this event by BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 4 to study, how do you make sense of it all education through UCAS. The UCAS tiPs on ComPletinG your Henry Marsh, Sue Matthias & Ruth Padel Extra Controller, Gwyneth Williams and make the right choice for you? 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What are the dos and don’ts? > L067 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER See Book It page 94 for more information Join UCAS as they share some top tips in fi ction from Anna Karenina and GaRDENS > 1.15-2.15PM > FREE – aDVaNCED > L059 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER on completing your application, giving Tristram Shandy to Frankenstein and The BOOKING REQUIRED > LB25 > tHE PLaYHOUSE > aGE 8+ GaRDENS > 10-11aM > FREE – aDVaNCED you information around writing personal Handmaid’s Tale. In this fascinating event > 10-11.10aM > £6 BOOKING REQUIRED statements and applying to competitive our panel made up of the 2012 Wellcome courses. Trust Book Prize judges authors Brooke INTRODUCING THE CLASSICS Magnanti and Ruth Padel, journalist Sue > L061 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER Matthias and neurosurgeon Henry Marsh how to read Juvenal GaRDENS > 11.30aM-12.30PM > FREE join Mark lawson to discuss births in STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN – aDVaNCED BOOKING REQUIRED Mary Beard, llewelyn Morgan literature and the impact of these scenes mariella frostruP’s & Peter Stothard from a literary, historical and scientifi c ChristoPher eCCleston & Polly findlay booK show Returning for a third successive year, viewpoint each discussing their most classics dons Mary Beard and llewelyn memorable choices. Antigone has been described as a play Sky Arts returns to Cheltenham with about the tension between the duties we its highly acclaimed television show, Morgan and the author, editor and > L063 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS owe the state and those we owe to our presented by Mariella Frostrup, bringing classicist Peter Stothard complete their > 12-1PM > £6 RES personal values. Polly Findlay’s highly the best of the festival to book lovers trilogy of hugely popular classics events by translating and discussing the work acclaimed National Theatre production everywhere. Join us for this exclusive of Juvenal - the greatest of the Roman featured Christopher Eccleston’s powerful recording in front of a live studio audience satirists, whose writing lies behind so performance as Creon, ruler of Thebes. They with an exciting line-up of authors and much modern satire. join us here to discuss this extraordinary special guests sharing experiences production of a remarkable play, and why and anecdotes for all types of literary > L057 > tHE INKPOt – IMPERIaL SQUaRE Sophocles’ moral debate is timeless. enthusiasts. > 10-11aM > £7 RES > L065 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS For broadcast times please visit > 12-1PM > £10 RES sky.com/books Doors open at 1.10pm, fi lming 1.30pm- 2.30pm, latecomers will not be admitted make a date for next year > L068 > SKY aRtS GaRDEN tHEatRE – IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 1.10-2.30PM > £5 Cheltenham Jazz Festival 1 - 6 may 2013 MEMBERS The Times Cheltenham Science Festival 4 - 9 June 2013 GEt Cheltenham Music Festival 3 -14 July 2013 The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival 11 - 20 october 2013 10 % OFF

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He joins us here to explain at the height of the spiritualist craze in America to Baghdad in his new book The Great British Bake-Oﬀ for a delicious on BBC Radio 4 is one of the longest- how boom turned to bust and how we Victorian Britain in Velvet. Set in Georgian Vikings. He joins us to plot the previously afternoon tea baked from their mouth- @cheltfestivals #cheltlitfest running radio programmes in the world. might build a more stable economy, as England, Marie-louise Jensen’s heroine uncharted journey of this extraordinary watering recipes. Join current presenter Kirsty young, outlined in his new book, How do We Fix in The Girl in the Mask is lady by day… thief people, drawing on the latest surprising > Lt02 > SPIEGELtENt – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS /cheltenhamfestivals producer leanne Buckle and author this Mess? by night. 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THE BIG READ PEOPLE: POWER BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA James bond – dr no PolitiCs in foCus: sCienCe fiCtion futures Alyson Rudd’s Book Club Part two Enter the fantastic, visionary world of The Times’ writer Alyson Rudd brings her Peter Hennessy & Guests science fi ction and future fantasy with popular readers’ Book Club to Cheltenham In this special event, Guest Director three classic stories read on stage to tease as she delves between the pages of our Peter Hennessy is joined by eminent your imagination and off er some thought- Big Read title Dr No, and prompts audience left-of-centre politicians and thinkers to provoking insights into what the future discussion of Fleming’s writing and his discuss the current political and economic might hold - or might once have been characters, including the ever-suave James climate. Focusing on the ups and downs expected to hold. Bond and the sinister eponymous villain. of the coalition government and the This show will be recorded for broadcast, > L078 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER economic challenges Britain faces, they latecomers will not be admitted. GaRDENS > 5-6PM > £3 debate where as a nation we are headed > L082 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS and off er their own prescriptions for > 6-7.15PM > FREE – aDVaNCED BOOKING moving forward. REQUIRED Programmed by Peter Hennessy > L076 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 6PM-7PM > £7 6-8pm PEOPLE: POWER what is a university STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN eduCation for? Gavin esler women of downton Andrew Adonis, Phil Baty, Mary Beard lessons from the top Following our sell-out event last year, & Anthony McClaran Broadcaster and Newsnight presenter, we celebrate the return of Downton to As students start to pay substantial fees, Gavin Esler has learnt a lot about what it our screens with a closer look at the we join QAA Chief Executive Anthony takes to be a leader after thirty years spent remarkable female characters in the series, McClaran, Professor Mary Beard, former interviewing world fi gures in business, both above and below stairs. The author cabinet minister Andrew Adonis and culture, the military and even terrorism. Jessica Fellowes, the actors Elizabeth the Editor of The Times’ Higher Education To mark the publication of Lessons From McGovern (Cora Crawley) and Phyllis rankings, Phil Baty, to consider what our the Top, he presents a fascinating fi rst- logan (Elsie Hughes), costume designer expectations of a university education hand view of those who achieve power Caroline McCall and series producer liz should be, and to ask: What makes and their ‘leadership stories’. trubridge share the behind-the-scenes a good university? > L081 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE secrets of this critically acclaimed drama. > L080 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 6-7PM > £7 Chaired by BBC Radio 4 broadcaster > 6-7PM > £7 Kirsty lang. > L083 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 6-7PM > £12 RES

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STORYTELLING Grimm’s fairy tales: the erotiCa: fifty shades bbC international short three snaKe leaves of blue story award the Company of Storytellers Brooke Magnanti, Bel Mooney Michèle Roberts, DW Wilson & Guests Two hundred years after the Brothers Ruth Padel & Bidisha In celebration of this year’s BBC Grimm published their fi rst classic fairytale Fifty Shades of Grey has brought erotica International Short Story Award and the collection, three master storytellers, Ben for women into the spotlight and it’s now enduring attraction of the short story, we Haggarty, Sally Pomme Clayton and at the heart of a publishing boom - but bring together Michèle Roberts, a judge Hugh lupton, have reworked some of course from Sappho to Nancy Friday of this year’s prize, DW Wilson, winner of of the lesser known and adult tales and the Story of O to Jilly Cooper, female the award in 2011, and two of this year’s into a seamless and beguiling journey erotica has been around for centuries if shortlist - and hopefully the winner - for through the Grimm forest. Moving, cruel not millennia. Join Brooke Magnanti, an enjoyable evening of discussion and humorous by turn, enter a richly author of the Belle de Jour books and The and readings. metaphorical world, shot through with Sex Myth, poet Ruth Padel, author Bel > L338 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS evocative music. Mooney and journalist Bidisha as they > 8-9PM > FREE – aDVaNCED BOOKING > L085 > PLaYHOUSE tHEatRE > 7-9.20PM > discuss the Fifty Shades phenomenon and REQUIRED £7 – INCLUDES INtERVaL each choose their own favourite erotica. Which pieces of erotic fi ction do our panel rate and which do they hate? SPIEGELTENT > L086 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE robert CramPton’s > 8-9PM > £7 QuiZ niGht Join The Times’ columnist and beta male STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN Robert Crampton for an evening of drink, frivolity and general knowledge questions. Jenny aGutter tC boyle Not like other quizzes, no boring facts you From her discovery by Walt Disney at the The novels and short stories of award- either know or don’t know, the subject is age of 11, Jenny Agutter’s remarkable winning American writer tC Boyle have the stuff of life itself! career has spanned four decades, both been acclaimed for their sharp portrayals on stage and on television and in classic > Lt04 > SPIEGELtENt – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS of the Baby Boomer generation. His latest fi lms such as The Railway Children and the novel, San Miguel however, is a period > 7.15-9.15PM > £25 > ONE tICKEt aDMItS a mesmerising Walkabout. Now back on tEaM OF FOUR piece, set both in 1888 and 1930, on the our screens in the hit BBC series Call the western most of California’s Channel Midwife, the much loved actor joins us to Islands. He joins us to talk about his life discuss her life and work. and work, and this new story of hard lives > L337 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS pitched against the elements. > 8-9PM > £10 RES > L341 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE 8-10pm > 8.30-9.30PM > £6 STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN ruPert everett Actor, writer and razor-sharp observer of the celebrity circus, Rupert Everett has led a glamorous and eventful life. To mark the publication of Vanished Years, his second volume of memoirs, he joins us in conversation to discuss his brilliant career, his pilgrimage to Lourdes with his father; his fascination with Oscar Wilde and much more. > L079 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 8-9PM > £10

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10am-12pm SPIEGELTENT HOME HISTORY bridGe masterClass the history of the home In a fi rst for the Festival, we welcome As an extension of our everyday lives and a Queen anne: the PolitiCs Britain‘s foremost bridge tutor Bernard place to retreat and recharge, a home is an of Passion Magee for two bridge masterclasses in the essential part of us all. Join Charles Hind, Anne Somerset beautiful surroundings of our Speigeltent. Associate Director and HJ Heinz Curator of With a personal life riven by passion, These classes are for experienced players Drawings at the Royal Institute of British illness and intrigue, Queen Anne presided who want to brush up their tactics and Architects, for a fascinating illustrated talk. over some of the most momentous events gain a deeper knowledge of the game. Featuring the work of William Chambers, in British history. In this fascinating talk, Masterclass 1: Hand Evaluation Lt05 CFA Voysey, Erno Goldfi nger, Tecton and historian Anne Somerset, author of an Masterclass 2: Penalty Doubles Lt06 more, he examines how great architects acclaimed new biography of the monarch have explored and expressed ideas of > SPIEGELtENt – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS house and home. examines Queen Anne’s life and legacy, > Lt05 > 10-11aM > £10 RES recasting her as the most successful of > Lt06 > 11.30aM-12.30PM > £10 RES > L093 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE Stuart rulers. > 12-1PM > £6 > L087 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 10-11aM > £6

MILITARY HISTORY HISTORY Events with Character: Enjoy a delicious saul david sample of Taylors of Harrogate coﬀ ee the romans who shaPed All the King’s Men during the event britain From the Restoration in 1660 to Napoleon‘s David Stuttard downfall in 1815, Britain won a series of HISTORY Roman Britain was created not by major wars against France which helped impersonal historical forces, but by lay the foundations of a global empire. In the buddhas of bamiyan men and women, each driven by this richly illustrated talk, historian Saul llewelyn Morgan ambition, aspiration and passion. In this David, author of All the King’s Men tells the Carved into an Afghan cliff face sometime richly illustrated talk, historian David story of the British army, this extraordinary in the 6th century, the immense and Stuttard, co-author of The Romans Who century and a half of martial success, and monumental Buddha statues at Bamiyan Shaped Britain explores the narrative of the people who made it possible. were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. In Britannia through the lives of a rich cast > L088 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS this beautifully illustrated talk, llewelyn of characters: emperors, commanders, > 10-11aM > £7 Morgan, author of a new book on the governors, offi cials and rebels. statues tells their sad story, against the > L094 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS backdrop of war-torn Afghanistan. > 12-1PM > £7 > L091 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 10-11aM >£7 SEVEN AGES OF MAN TRAVEL love simon Garfield Annalena McAfee, Bel Mooney On the Map Ruth Padel & Alex Preston From the awe-inspiring medieval Mappa 12-2pm From Romeo and Juliet and Pride and Mundi to the satellite renderings on our Prejudice, to E M Forster’s Maurice and smart phones, maps relate and realign our REGENCY Lady Chatterley’s Lover, love has always history. In this captivating illustrated talk, been at the beating heart of some of the Simon Garfi eld, author of the bestselling Pd James world’s greatest novels. We bring together Just My Type turns his inquisitive gaze to Death Comes to Pemberley novelists Annalena McAfee, Bel Mooney the intrigues of cartography, and plots In Death Comes to Pemberley, PD James, and Alex Preston with poet Ruth Padel every aspect of maps: from how to fold the doyenne of modern British crime to discuss love, lust and relationships in them, to the strangest examples on the writing crafts a follow-up to Pride and literature and choose pieces from classic internet; a subject he also charts in his new Prejudice and introduces a detective story fi ction that have made a profound impact book, On the Map. into the world of Jane Austen, a writer on their lives, on and off the page. > L089 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE whose work she has long admired. She Tweet your favourite literary lovers to > 10-11aM > £7 joins us in conversation to explain how she @cheltfestivals #cheltlitfest and have achieved this intriguing blend of genres them discussed in the event. and gives her unique perspective on the > L095 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS language and novels of Jane Austen. > 12-1PM >£7 > L092 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 12-1PM > £8

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SIGNPOSTS HISTORY MILITARY HISTORY how to stay sane banKers at the Gates: the Goldfish Club Modern life places us under immense Peter franKoPan Danny Danziger, Jerry English stress; it can be really hard to feel calm, The role that the West’s international & Art Stacey content or open to new experiences. bankers have played in bringing Greece The men and women who belong to The Psychotherapist, writer and graphic to its knees has powerful and fascinating Goldfi sh Club have one extraordinary thing novelist, Philippa Perry, leads this parallels with Europe in the time of the in common: they have all been forced to practical workshop on facing up to the Crusades. Join Oxford historian Peter bail out of aircraft over water. Join Danny many challenges life throws our way with Frankopan, author of The First Crusade: Danziger, author of a new book on this greater resilience and creativity. The Call From The East, as he explores remarkable fellowship of survivors, in > L096 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER the parallels between then and now, conversation with club members GaRDENS > 12-1PM > £10 the ransacking of Constantinople by the Jerry English who ditched twice in life- crusaders of Western Europe, and brings threatening circumstances and Nimrod vividly to life this fascinating period in pilot Art Stacey, as they recount their Europe’s history looking at how a single unique and fascinating stories of survival. currency can collapse - and how it can > L102 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS be rebuilt. > 2-3PM > £7 > L099 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE PEOPLE: POWER > 2-3PM > £7 the history of Protest PEOPLE: POWER From the Chartists and the Tolpuddle THE BIG READ Martyrs to the Occupy movement and home is where the Arab Spring, popular protest has so the heart is? often been the driver of political change. James bond - dr no Bidisha, Angela neustatter John Gittings, author of The Glorious Art the Big Read Book Group & yvonne Roberts of Peace: From the Iliad to Iraq and leading Suave, seductive, sophisticated, has a historian Clive Bloom, author of Riot City: The roles of men and women in the home licence to kill and likes his drinks shaken, Protest and Rebellion in the Capital each have been grounds for discussion (and not stirred - it can only be Bond, James highlight particularly signifi cant protest argument!) since time immemorial; but as Bond. Join us as we venture in the world of st movements, explore their economic, 21 century roles grow ever more complex, the MI6 agent, following him to Jamaica in political and philosophical roots, and is home still the key to happiness? Join this Festival Book Group with local author consider the potency of popular protest author Angela neustatter, journalist Jane Bailey discussing this year’s Big Read, as a tool for change. yvonne Roberts and author Bidisha to Ian Fleming’s Dr No. explore the challenges women face in > L097 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE balancing home and family with work and > L103 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER > 12-1PM > £6 independence. GaRDENS > 2-3PM > £3 2-4pm > L100 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 2-3PM > £7 HISTORY FESTIVAL FOCUS the viCtorian City: everyday life in diCKens’ noo saro-wiwa 4-6pm london & Chibundu onuZo HOME Judith Flanders Two Nigerian-born debut writers join us In the 19th century, London underwent an to explore their diff erent approaches to Great houses of london unprecedented transformation, expanding chronicling the country they love. noo James Stourton Saro-Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland from a Regency town to the biggest Disguised for the most part behind sober is a journey of re-discovery through the city the world had ever seen. In this facades, the riches within London‘s great land of her childhood holidays - of both fascinating talk, Judith Flanders, author residences are astonishing, yet almost exuberant chaos and calm beauty. In of The Victorian City vividly recreates the completely unknown. In a handsomely The Spider King’s Daughter, Chibundu everyday life of Dickens’ London, from illustrated talk, James Stourton, Chairman Onuzu has written a compelling, tender the streets, slums and sewers to its rivers, of Sothebys UK, and the author of Great and heart-wrenching novel steeped in theatres and gin palaces. Houses of London takes us behind the the contradictions and disparities of closed doors of some of the capital’s most > L098 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE contemporary Lagos. > 2-3PM > £7 magnifi cent abodes, including Apsley > L101 > tHE StUDIO – IMPERIaL SQUaRE House and 44 Berkeley Square. > 2-3PM > FREE – aDVaNCED BOOKING > L104 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE REQUIRED > 4-5PM > £7

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HOME 6-8pm esther rantZen PrintmaKinG worKshoP STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN Best known for presenting long-running Learn how to use simple print making BBC series That’s Life! and for founding techniques to create your own beautiful miChael winner the charity, ChildLine, Esther Rantzen illustrations. Try creating single colour Over the course of his long career as also stood for Parliament at the last images and layering prints and colour to fi lm director and food critic of renown, election. To mark the publication of her create more complex designs. Julie Roberts Michael Winner has worked with a memoir about the charity, Running Out shows you how in this session where you’ll glittering host of stars from stage and of Tears, she joins us to look back on a have the chance to experiment, but also screen, and often dined with them too. life and career packed with incident and come up with more polished prints. With his customary candour, he regales us with riveting anecdotes and stories from campaigns for good causes. > L108 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER his book Tales I Never Told, garnered from > L105 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE GaRDENS > 4 – 6PM > £15 INCLUDES MatERIaLS a lifetime in showbusiness. > 4-5PM > £8 > L111 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE HISTORY PatriCia hodGe > 6.30-7.30PM > £8 & william shawCross orlando fiGes the Queen Mother’s letters SPORT Just Send Me Word: A true Story of love The private letters of Queen Elizabeth the & Survival in the Gulag Queen Mother were full of wit, hilarity and the toP 100 raCehorses Lev and Sveta were young lovers from acute observation . So discovered writer of all time Moscow, separated for ten years after and broadcaster William Shawcross when Edward Gillespie, Robin Oakley the Soviet state sent Lev to the Gulag he wrote her offi cial biography. In this & Brough Scott on a ludicrous charge. Their detailed unique event, he brings to life a rich and Kauto Star? Red Rum? Nijinsky? Arkle? correspondence from that time survives varied selection of her correspondence, Which is the greatest racehorse ever and gives a remarkable and agonising from his new book Counting One’s Blessings to have run in Britain and Ireland? eye-witness account of life in Stalin’s with captivating readings from the letters Three of the most knowledgeable Soviet Union. Historian Orlando Figes tells by acclaimed actress Patricia Hodge. minds in horse racing-Cheltenham their compelling story; as recounted in his > L109 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE Racecourse Director, Edward Gillespie; book Just Send Me Word. > 4PM-5PM > £7 Racing Post founder and biographer > L106 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS of Henry Cecil, Brough Scott; and the > 4-5PM > £7 POETRY CAFÉ BBC’s Robin Oakley, author of The Top 100 Racehorses of All Time - come together to REGENCY ruth Padel debate the matter. Who would you choose? & anna saunders > L112 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE tea with Jane austen We are delighted to welcome to the Poetry > 6.30-7.30PM > £8 Come and enjoy a Regency-inspired Café, award-winning poet Ruth Padel, afternoon tea, as Jane tapley takes you reading from her latest collection The Mara on a journey through Jane Austen’s life Crossing, which contains poems and prose and novels in a fascinating talk exploring on the theme of migration. She is joined by the infl uence of tea on Regency society, Anna Saunders, Director of the Cheltenham the customs and rituals the writer so loved Poetry Festival, who will read from her fi rst and how this is refl ected in her popular published poetry collection, Communion. stories and characters. > L110 > tHE StUDIO – IMPERIaL SQUaRE > Lt07 > SPIEGELtENt – MONtPELLIER > 5.30-6.15PM > FREE SPORT GaRDENS > 4-5.30PM > £10 INCLUDES aFtERNOON tEa STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN will Greenwood In recognition of the Leonora Society lovesonG On Rugby Former England and Lions centre Will ART & ARCHITECTURE Abi Morgan and Scott Graham Greenwood, one of his country’s highest- Exclusively for Members and Patrons artist vs artisan ever try scorers, is now bringing his Meet the writer and the director of this player’s insights to his work as a rugby Ian Hankey, Rungwe Kingdon exquisite piece of theatre in this exclusive pundit. To mark the publication of his & Michael Petry event at the luxury Cineworld Screening book Will Greenwood on Rugby, he joins us Can an artist claim that an object is a work Rooms. Lovesong intertwines a couple in in conversation for an entertaining look of art if it has been made for them by their 20s with the same man and woman a back at his 20 years in the game. someone else? And what is the diff erence lifetime later. Their past and present selves between a work of art and a work of craft? collide in this haunting and beautiful tale of > L113 > tHE FORUM > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS Artist, author and curator Michael Petry togetherness. Both Abi Morgan and Scott > 6.30-7.30PM > £10 RES debates these and other questions with Graham will be attending this very special glassblower and artisan Ian Hankey and screening and answering your questions. sculptor Rungwe Kingdon, responsible > L346 > CINEWORLD – SCREENING ROOMS for casting pieces by Anthony Gormley, Damien Hirst and Eduardo Paolozzi. > 5.30-7.45PM > £20 > L107 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 4-5PM > £6 Frantic Assembly and Drum Theatre Plymouth in association with Chichester Festival Theatre 38 The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival evening mon 8 oCt

SEVEN AGES OF MAN PEOPLE: POWER STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN the soldier what is inner Power? abi morGan Bidisha, Janine di Giovanni Scilla Elworthy From Brick lane to the Iron lady tom Holland & Allan Mallinson What is Inner Power and how can we use it The credits of Abi Morgan are like a roll From Flashman and Thomas Hardy’s to defuse confl ict? From Nelson Mandela call for quality drama – The Hour, Birdsong Sergeant Troy to All Quiet on the Western and Aung San Suu Kyi to US soldiers in and The Iron Lady to name just a few. Here Front, The Cruel Sea and Catch-22, fi ction’s Iraq, Scilla Elworthy, Nobel Peace Prize the acclaimed writer joins us for a revealing relationship with the military is an often nominee and founder of Peace Direct, interview about power, scripting sex scenes, ambivalent but always fascinating one. draws on half a century of action research meeting deadlines, and how a terrible Join military novelists, tom Holland and to illustrate how eff ective use of verbal actress became a terrifi c screenwriter. Allan Mallinson, war correspondent communication and body language can > L119 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE Janine di Giovanni and author Bidisha, prevent violence. > 8.45-10PM > £8 as they choose a favourite novel and > L116 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE discuss the role of the soldier in classic > 7-8PM > £6 SPORT and contemporary fi ction. Tweet your favourite literary soldiers to sam warburton @cheltfestivals #cheltlitfest and have & will Greenwood them discussed in the event. As chronicled in his My Grand Slam Year, > L114 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE 8-10pm Welsh rugby captain Sam Warburton has > 6.30-7.30PM > £7 had an incredible 12 months, from the LOCALLY SOURCED lows of the World Cup in New Zealand, to PATHWAYS leading Wales to magnifi cent victory in GlouCestershire writers’ the 2012 Six Nations. He joins rugby World forGiveness networK Cup-winning legend Will Greenwood as Marian Partington Local writers and winners of the they look back over past career highlights Lucy Partington was murdered by Fred Gloucestershire Writers’ Network and forward to the 2013 British & Irish West, and her remains were discovered 24 competition, judged by poet Alison Lions tour of Australia. Chaired by The years after her unexplained disappearance. Brackenbury and author Roshi Sunday Times rugby correspondent In her book If You Sit Very Still Lucy’s elder Fernando, present a fascinating and Stephen Jones. sister Marian Partington talks movingly of enjoyable mix of writing inspired by the > L118 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS her extraordinary journey to forgiveness, Festival theme of People: Power, with > 8.45-10PM > £10 RES charting her own inspiring narrative of guest poet, Adam Horovitz. healing - guided by powerful dreams and > Lt08 > SPIEGELtENt – MONtPELLIER her strong Quaker faith. “Forgiveness is very GaRDENS > 8.15-9.30PM > £6 RES much about freeing oneself,” she explains. Chaired by Marina Cantacuzino of the Forgiveness Project in Bristol. elif shafaK > L115 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS Honour SPORT > 6.30-7.30PM > £7 RES The author of The Bastard of Istanbul and The Forty Rules of Love is a writer of spirit, Great british rowinG confi dence and charm. Her moving new Greg Searle & Chris Dodd novel Honour is an extraordinary account Twenty years after winning his fi rst of family connection and heartbreak. Olympic gold, Greg Searle is coming out LINDEMAN’S She joins former Festival Artistic Director of retirement for the 2012 Olympics. Join Richard Cohen to discuss her work and Greg as he discusses his incredible story wine and booK Club why she is driven to explore the darkest and new memoir, If Not Now, When, with Tantalise your taste buds and mind and aspects of faith and love. rowing journalist and author, Chris Dodd, join the Lindeman’s Wine and Book Club > L117 > tHE StUDIO – IMPERIaL SQUaRE as they debate the past, present and future evening where you can taste some of > 8.45PM-10PM > £6 of British rowing. Lindeman’s award-winning wines from Australia and beyond, while discussing > L121 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS COMEDY and swapping your favourite books. > 8.45PM-10PM > £8 RES Please bring a book to swap. stePhen K amos STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN > Lt22 > SPIEGELtENt – MONtPELLIER I used to Say My Mother GaRDENS > 6.30-7.30PM > £10 RES Was Shirley Bassey PatriCia hodGe INCLUDES WINE taStING As a guest on panel show Mock the Week, The serious actress, well known for comedian and writer Stephen K Amos playing upper class ice maidens is rapidly is well known for captivating audiences approaching national treasure status as with his humour. In a revealing interview, the embarrassing mum in the hilarious Stephen shares his more personal BBC TV series Miranda. Here she explores experiences - and the material it has her life on screen and on stage, from provided - growing up with a Nigerian working with knighted directors such as family in inner city London. Trevor Nunn to starring alongside Miranda Hart. Such fun! > L120 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 8.45-10PM > £8 > L122 > tOWN HaLL – IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 8.45PM-10PM > £10 RES

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10am-12pm LOCALLY SOURCED HOME ART & ARCHITECTURE the day Parliament antiQues: my Greatest burned down finds the arts and Crafts Caroline Shenton Mark Hill & Judith Miller home Historian Caroline Shenton is the Head Which antiques are currently exciting When William Morris came to Kelmscott Parliamentary Archivist; in this fascinating collectors, and which will be the Manor in 1871, the Cotswolds became the illustrated talk she maps out the history precious antiques of the future? Two centre of the Arts and Crafts Movement, of one of our most iconic institutions, and well-known experts - Judith Miller, which brought art into the home in a reveals the dreadful events of October author of numerous invaluable books on radically new way and fi lled many houses 16 1834, as vividly brought to life in her the subject, and Mark Hill of the BBC’s with colour and pattern never seen gripping work The Day Parliament Antiques Roadshow - share their lifelong before. Join art historian and curator Burned Down. passion for antiques, and showcase some Mary Greensted as she brings to life the eminently collectable objects of their own. fascinating story of Ernest Gimson, Sidney > L126 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS and Ernest Barnsley and their circle in > 10-11aM > £6 > L129 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS a richly illustrated talk. > 12-1PM > £8 > L124 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE viCtoria GlendinninG > 10-11aM > £6 Sir Stamford Raffl es & Singapore Kenneth baKer Founder of both Singapore and London George Iv & the Golden Age of Satire Zoo, the charismatic Thomas Stamford As well as creating some of the best-loved Raffl es was an adventurer, disobedient comic images of the late 18th century, employee of the East India Company, caricaturists such as Hogarth, Gilray, Events with Character: Enjoy a delicious utopian imperialist and linguist, who Rowlandson and Cruikshank also provided sample of Taylors of Harrogate coff ee carved a brief but extraordinary life a crucial comic safety-valve, enabling us after the event for himself in South East Asia. victoria to laugh at our rulers at a time when other Glendinning, author of the fi rst biography European countries were executing theirs. of Raffl es for over forty years, refl ects on In this beautifully illustrated talk, Kenneth THE ALAN HANCOX LECTURE his eventful life and legacy in a fascinating Baker brings George IV to life through illustrated talk. the eyes of the satirists, and explores the from disney to desiGn fascinating role these artists had to play. vance Gerry > L162 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 10-11aM > £7 > L130 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE Animator Vance Gerry created characters > 12-1PM > £7 for such Disney classics as 101 Dalmatians 12-2pm and The Lion King. But his most enduring LOCALLY SOURCED passion was the creation, illustration and MILITARY HISTORY printing of small editions of some of the a GlimPse of emPire most exquisitely conceived books to come Paddy ashdown Jessica Douglas-Home out of America in the past forty years. In the Cockleshell Heroes this richly illustrated lecture, John Randle, Painter and writer Jessica Douglas-Home a long-time Gerry enthusiast pays tribute Operation Frankton was launched by has based A Glimpse of Empire, her third to his genius. Mountbatten’s Combined Operations book, on the diaries of her grandmother. in 1942 to paddle canoes into Bordeaux It’s the story of a young Anglo-Irish > L125 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE harbour and sink the enemy ships at beauty’s visit to Delhi for the 1911 Royal > 10-11aM > £7.00 anchor. In this richly illustrated talk, Paddy Durbar, where King George V is to be Ashdown, himself a former Special Boat proclaimed Emperor. She tells us more HISTORY Service Commander tells the story of in an enthralling talk, illustrated with her that perilous mission, the subject of his grandmother’s own photographs. the extraordinary life new book, A Brilliant Little Operation: The of arthur ransome Cockleshell Heroes. > L334 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 12-1PM > £6 Christina Hardyment > L128 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE Arthur Ransome is most famous as the > 12-1PM > £8 author of Swallows and Amazons, but he was also a literary critic, a foreign correspondent, a sailor and, some believe, a spy. Ransome’s biographer Christina Hardyment discusses the extraordinary story of his life, his classic children’s books, and the people that inspired them, drawing on her new book The World of Arthur Ransome. > L196 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 10-11aM > £6 Even more Festival news, features and information at cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature

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FICTION 2-4pm PHILOSOPHY Great literary deteCtives BEHIND THE SCENES the Power of the mind thomas Enger, James Runcie Julian Baggini, Richard Bentall Gunner Staalesen & Andrew taylor the oriGins of the royal Oliver James & Kathryn Ecclestone From Sherlock Holmes and Lord Peter aCademy We are willing and able to change our Wimsey to Wallander and Rebus, why do Charles Saumarez Smith states of minds more than ever before, by fi ctional detectives play such a powerful In September 1768, an almighty row medication, cognitive therapy or even by role in our imaginations? In this lively broke out among leading artists; at its government policy to improve “subjective discussion event, we bring together our heart a disagreement over the practice of well-being”. But how much can and should Norwegian Crime Writers-in-Residence art in Britain. From this seismic moment we be seeking to alter the way we feel, thomas Enger and Gunnar Staalesen, emerged the Royal Academy of Arts. In and should the government be getting and the British crime authors Andrew this handsomely illustrated talk based on involved? taylor and James Runcie to nominate his book, The Company of Artists, Chief Programmed by Julian Baggini their favourite fi ctional detectives and Executive Charles Saumarez Smith brings discuss how these literary super-sleuths to colourful life the early history of the > L138 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE have infl uenced their own writing. Who Royal Academy. > 2-3PM > £7 would you choose? > L135 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE PEOPLE: POWER > L133 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 2-3PM > £7 > 12-1PM > £6 defenCe of the realm Gordon Corera, John Gearson Pauline neville-Jones & thomas Rid Terrorism has many forms, from the physical threat of the suicide bomber MILITARY HISTORY to the potentially devastating impact ART & ARCHITECTURE of a cyber attack. We join BBC Security bosnia - 20 years on Correspondent Gordon Corera, author of the arts & Crafts Paddy Ashdown, Martin Bell The Art of Betrayal; the cyber security and houses tour & Janine di Giovanni terrorism experts thomas Rid and John Gearson from King’s College London, and The Arts and Crafts Movement, with its Twenty years after the devastating war in Pauline neville-Jones, former head of the rich craft tradition was one of the most the former Yugoslavia, we bring together Joint Intelligence Committee to discuss signifi cant to have developed in Britain in a distinguished panel to refl ect on the the challenges facing the UK’s security the last 200 years. In a fascinating in-depth confl ict and its legacy. Paddy Ashdown, services in 2012 and beyond. guided tour, Mary Greensted gives us former High Commissioner for Bosnia is exclusive access to the unique sites that joined by Martin Bell author of In Harm’s > L139 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS make Gloucestershire the rural centre Way: Bosnia: A War Reporter’s Story and the > 2-3PM > £7 of the Movement, including Rodmarton award-winning war correspondent and Manor, designed by Ernest Barnsley for author, Janine di Giovanni. the Biddulph family, Hilles, designed by > L136 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE Detmar Blow as his family home and a visit > 2-3PM > £7 to the village of Sapperton. Meet at Montpellier Gardens Box Offi ce THE BIG READ > L134 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 1-6PM > £25 James bond - dr no Members’ Book Group THE JOHN MOORE LECTURE Exclusively for Members and Patrons simon armitaGe Suave, seductive, sophisticated, has a licence to kill and likes his drinks shaken, Walking Home not stirred - it can only be Bond, James Events with Character: Enjoy a delicious In the summer of 2010, the renowned poet Bond. Join us as we venture in the sample of Taylors of Harrogate coﬀ ee Simon Armitage walked home penniless world of the MI6 agent, following him before the event to Yorkshire along the Pennine Way, to Jamaica in this exclusive Members earning his living as a modern troubadour Festival Book Group with local author Jane by giving readings in each stop along Bailey discussing this year’s Big Read, the way. He gives us an engaging and Ian Fleming’s Dr No, including martinis - humorous account of this taxing, revealing shaken of course. and very northern English journey, the subject of his book, Walking Home. > L140 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 2PM-3PM > £3 INCLUDES a FREE > L131 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS MaRtINI > 2-3PM > £7

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4-6pm ART & ARCHITECTURE 6-8pm ART & ARCHITECTURE PrePosterous ereCtions MILITARY HISTORY A History of English towers throuGh the aGes Eighteenth-century eye-catchers, the falKlands of bronZe nineteenth-century ego-boosters, - 30 years on Celebrated for its durability, and prized the twentieth-century communicators, Patrick Bishop, Robert Fox, John Kiszely world over as an artistic material, bronze towers continually rise up into our Hugh McManners & Allan Mallinson has long been used for works on all scales, collective consciousness. In this richly Could Britain defend the Falklands again from the minute to the monumental, illustrated talk, Peter Ashley, author in 2012? With tensions rising anew in the and by such luminaries as Rodin, Picasso of the splendidly-titled, Preposterous South Atlantic, thirty years on, two former and Henry Moore. In this handsomely Erections tells the enchanting stories of soldiers who served in the Falklands, illustrated talk, David Ekserdjian, curator uniquely fascinating towers from all over National President of The Royal British of the landmark Royal Academy exhibition, England - from the parkland Brizlee Tower Legion, John Kiszely and writer Hugh celebrates bronze masterworks through in Northumberland to the coastal Doyden McManners; war journalist Robert Fox and the ages. Castle in Cornwall and Gloucestershire’s military historian Patrick Bishop join Allan > L141 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE Tyndale Monument and Broadway Tower. Mallinson to look back at the confl ict, > 4-5PM > £7 > L123 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS and assess the still complex relationship > 4–5PM > £7 between Britain and Argentina. > L148 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE HOME > 6.30-7.30PM > £7 time for tea HISTORY Emma Bridgewater, Mark Hill & Kevin Millward britain’s saCred sites Fancy a cuppa? Contemporary designers THE SUMMERFIELD LECTURE Martin Palmer and pottery experts Emma Bridgewater, From the Rollright Stones to Belas Mark Hill and Kevin Millward take an fiona reynolds Knap, you will see the Gloucestershire enthralling look at how the humble tea the national trust countryside in a new light following this cup has helped brew some beautiful and - For Ever, For Everyone fascinating talk, in which Martin Palmer original ceramic designs; and consider In the year the National Trust celebrates - writer, broadcaster and champion of some iconic pieces and designers along the life and work of one of its founders, sacred sites around the world - reveals the the way. Octavia Hill, Director-General Fiona hidden secrets and meaning of landscapes > L137 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS Reynolds refl ects on the charity’s evolving both local, and further afi eld, as decoded > 4- 5PM > £7 role, its place in the national fabric today, in his book, Sacred Land. and the challenges and opportunities that > L142 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE HOME face it in the future. > 4-5PM > £7 > L149 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE deCorative PaPer > 6.30- 7.30PM > £8 PHILOSOPHY hanGinGs worKshoP Learn how to turn beautiful but unwanted raymond tallis old paper, such as old maps, music In Defence of Wonder manuscripts and tattered books into In this fascinating talk based on his exquisite paper-sculpture hangings with book, In Defence of Wonder and Other a little skill and imagination. Local artist PEOPLE: POWER Philosophical Refl ections, philosopher, Jaynie tricker will show you how to polymath and all-round intellectual create beautiful objects such as butterfl ies, matthew Parris & heavyweight, Raymond tallis tackles angels, hearts, fl owers and birds as individual hangings or elegant garlands. sherard CowPer-Coles some meaty topics - memory, time, the Diplomat language, truth, fi ction, consciousness - > L145 tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER Winston Churchill once said, “Diplomacy is with his characteristic verve, insight and GaRDENS > 4-6PM > £15 INCLUDING MatERIaLS wit. Debunking commonplace truths the art of telling someone to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.” But and exposing woolly thinking, he gets POETRY CAFÉ to the heart of philosophical matters what is the role of the modern diplomat? and challenges us to see, and wonder, yu Jian & PasCale Petit We fi nd out from author Matthew Parris in diff erent ways. and former diplomat Sherard Cowper- We are delighted to welcome to the Poetry Coles who share classic stories from their > L143 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE Café: yu Jian, one of the most prominent new books, The Spanish Ambassador’s > 4-5PM > £6 poets writing in China today to read Suitcase and Ever the Diplomat. Introduced from his work. He joins Pascale Petit, by Andrew Bryson. shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize, who will be reading from her latest collection, What > L144 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE the Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo. > 6.30-7.30PM > £8 > L147 > tHE StUDIO – IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 5.30-6.15PM > FREE

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PATHWAYS 8-10pm SPORT understandinG islam SPIEGELTENT Clare baldinG verses from the Qur’an Popular BBC sports presenter Clare In a unique meeting of minds, we bring faulty towers: Balding grew up on the Hampshire together Shaykh Ahmad Saad al-Azhari, the dininG exPerienCe Downs. Her father was a champion race Imam at London’s Palmers Green Mosque Not for the faint-hearted! Hold onto your horse trainer, the Queen was a regular and Director of the Ihsan Institute, the hats for an evening of chaos and laughter breakfast guest, and she shared her theologian Mona Siddiqui, and Muslim as Basil, Sybil and Manuel serve up madcap life with more than 100 horses, and journalist and commentator Abdul- mayhem and a three-course meal. The fun a pack of boxers and lurchers. In this Rehman Malik to recite, translate and starts as the audience waits to be seated delightful event, she looks back on a comment upon key verses from the and then hurtles along for the next two memorable childhood, as described in her Qur’an. Our distinguished panel will hours. Basil is manic, Sybil domineering, appropriately-titled memoir, My Animals welcome comments and questions from and Manuel - of course - is hopelessly and Other Family. the audience. language-challenged. Everything that > L156 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS can go wrong, does. Just don‘t mention > 8.45-10PM > £12 RES > L150 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS the war! > 6.30-7.30PM > £7 RES Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience is a tribute show performed by professional actors. PEOPLE: POWER SPORT nB Online bookers for this event need to email any dietary requirements to Clare baldinG boxoffi [email protected]. tweets and the streets & franKie dettori Please include your ticket order number. Rory Cellan-Jones, tim Jordan Paolo Gerbaudo & tom Chatfi eld Champion jockey, Frankie Dettori has > Lt09 > SPIEGELtENt – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS seen it all, from arriving at Luton airport > 8-10PM > £50 INCLUDES tHREE COURSE From Tahrir Square to the riots across aged fourteen with no English, to fi nding DINNER aND SHOW Britain, social media has changed the fame and success in and out of the saddle. nature of political protest. Our panelists He talks to BBC racing presenter Clare FESTIVAL FOCUS tim Jordan and Paolo Gerbaudo, Balding, herself a former jockey, about his experts in digital culture from Kings new memoir, Tall Tales from the Weighing sue townsend College London, BBC News technology Room, recounting the jockey rivalries, & raChel JoyCe correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones and disastrous bets, debauched parties and Rachel Joyce’s stunning debut The Unlikely author and cultural commentator tom those seven magnifi cent Ascot wins. As Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was a literary Chatfi eld discuss how social media and an added treat, enjoy a post-event supper sensation, and chronicled the adventures the digital age are reshaping the protest at Montpellier Chapter. Two courses for a of an elderly man on an unusual quest. movement and the relationship between special rate of £10 - book with your Sue townsend’s The Woman Who Went people and power. event ticket. to Bed for a Year fi nds real freedom in the > L157 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > L151 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS confi nes of her bedroom. They join us here > 8.45-10PM > £7 RES > 6.30-7.30PM > £12 RES to discuss journeys: real and imagined, physical and psychological and their wonderful, enthralling books. > L154 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 8.45-10PM > FREE – aDVaNCED BOOKING REQUIRED STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN JeZ butterworth SPORT The award-winning playwright, author of HISTORY the stunning Parlour Song and the West london 2012: the leGaCy End and Broadway hit Jerusalem starring debate Kate summersCale Mark Rylance, joins us in conversation. He laura Oldfi eld Ford, Greg Searle Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace refl ects on the writing process, and being Iain Sinclair & Jim White back home at the Royal Court Theatre with Gripping true crime mystery, The Suspicions his bewitching new play River. A celebration which united people and of Mr Whicher was a huge bestseller and inspired innovative design, or another was later adapted for television. For her > L158 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE heavy fi nancial burden on a disillusioned new book Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace, Kate > 8.45-10PM > £7 society? The nature of our Olympic legacy Summerscale has chosen to unravel a will be debated by an expert panel from rather diff erent mystery. She joins us to tell the worlds of sport and social commentary the compelling and tragic story of Isabella comprising Iain Sinclair, Jim White, laura Robinson, an unhappily married Victorian Oldfi eld Ford and Greg Searle. lady, whose confi dences to her private diary > L153 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE caused a national scandal. > 7-8PM > £7 > L155 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 8.45-10PM > £7

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10am-12pm REGENCY HISTORY husband huntinG the dandy dan snow in the raJ Ian Kelly Battle Castles Regency celebrity Beau Brummel, Castles and their ruins still dominate Anne de Courcy originator in eff ect of the Savile Row suit, the landscape; a stark reminder of a In the days of the Raj, countless young created the cult of the British gent, typifi ed time when violence, or the threat of it, women – collectively christened “The by wit, style, sex, and the fi nest tailoring was a constant presence. In this richly Fishing Fleet” - travelled out to India in in the world. In this most stylish of events illustrated talk, television historian Dan the hope of fi nding an eligible man. From in Regency England’s most stylish city, Snow gets to the heart of the bloodshed tennis tournaments to tiger shoots, Anne Brummel’s biographer Ian Kelly brings and battles of the greatest fortresses of de Courcy, the author of a book about the clothes, fashions and people of early the Middle Ages, to mark Battle Castles, these eager husband-hunters, draws 19th century England vividly to life with his new BBC series and book on six vividly on unpublished memoirs, letters the help of lavish illustrations and some medieval castles and their histories. and diaries to tell some of their enthralling sumptuous props. stories in a fascinating talk. > L164 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > L182 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 12-1PM > £8 > L159 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 10-11aM > £7 > 10-11aM > £6 SIGNPOSTS 12-2pm how to thrive C day-lewis HOME Sean Day-lewis & Peter Stanford in the diGital aGe What is our ‘wired’ life really doing to Poet Laureate C Day-Lewis was one Great 20th Century our minds? This session with leading of Britain’s leading poets of the 20th desiGn technology theorist tom Chatfi eld asks century. He starred in Cheltenham’s very tom Dixon, Jonathan Glancey how our relationship with technology fi rst Literature Festival in 1949 and was Wayne Hemingway & Ghislaine Wood aff ects all aspects of our life, from work a master at Cheltenham College. He From Arne Jacobsen to Philippe Starck, Le and relationship to family and leisure. also had a fascinating alter-ego - crime Corbusier to Robin Day, what makes a good He explores the latest research to off er writer Nicholas Blake - who created designer great? And which designs should practical advice on how we can prosper the unforgettable detective Nigel never have left the drawing board? Wayne in a digital century - without losing our Strangeways. His son and biographer Sean Hemingway is joined by Ghislaine Wood, humanity. Day-lewis and fellow biographer Peter curator of the block-busting V&A exhibition Stanford join us to discuss C Day-Lewis’ > L166 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER on 20th century design and architecture and extraordinary life and legacy. GaRDENS > 12- 1PM > £10 design critic Jonathan Glancey to select > L160 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS and show their favourite design classics and > 10-11aM > £6 debate which objects sit at the pinnacle of British 20th century design. > L163 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 12-1PM > £7 HISTORY MILITARY HISTORY CaPtain sCott’s men PatriCK bishoP SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE SHORTLIST Patrick Cordingley, Anne Strathie Isobel Williams & David Wilson Wings the 2012 samuel Johnson The exploits of aviators have always The story of Captain Robert Falcon Scott gripped the public; and during the World PriZe shortlist and his journey to the South Pole is the Wars, tales of air aces dominated the Antony Beevor & Guests stuff of legend. Much less is known about propaganda of both sides, capturing Eminent historian and author Antony the four men who accompanied him. hearts and dreams in the process. In Beevor chairs this event in which three We bring together David Wilson, Isobel this compelling talk, acclaimed military of the authors shortlisted for this year’s Williams, Anne Strathie and Patrick historian Patrick Bishop; the author of Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction will Cordingley; biographers of Cheltenham’s Wings: One Hundred Years of British Aerial read from and discuss their works. Antony Edward Wilson; Edgar “Taff ” Evans; Henry Warfare, captures their allure, and their was the fi rst winner of this prestigious “Birdie” Bowers and Lawrence “Titus” heroic achievements. prize, which is open to books in the areas Oates, to discuss the lives of Scott’s brave of current aff airs, history, politics, science, companions who perished alongside him > L161 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS sport, travel, biography, autobiography in the Arctic snow. > 10-11aM > £7 and the arts. > L167 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > L165 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 12-1PM > £6 > 12-1PM > £6

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2-4pm THE EUROPEAN LECTURE HOME BUSINESS & ECONOMICS antony beevor the Great home debate the Second World War Angela Brady, Jonathan Glancey GoinG Global Using the most up-to-date scholarship & Roger Graef Why the World loves to Buy British and research, and writing with clarity and What do people want from their homes in From Top Shop to Mulberry, from Burberry compassion, Antony Beevor’s new book, the 21st century? How have our lifestyles to Barbour, British brands are an on-going The Second World War is a gripping narrative changed and what can be done to build global success story. We are joined by the that extends from the North Atlantic to new homes that will last long into the designer Wayne Hemingway, the style the South Pacifi c, from the snowbound future. The president of RIBA Angela commentator Peter york and Sky News steppe to the North African Desert and the Brady joins Roger Graef of the Future Business Presenter Dharshini David to Burmese jungle. He explores the story of Homes Commission and the architecture discuss the enduring appeal of the best World War Two with a particular focus on and design critic Jonathan Glancey to of British. Europe and drawing on new material in this discuss the challenges of housing design, > L168 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS keynote Cheltenham event. consumer power, energy conservation, > 2-3PM > £7 > L170 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE land use and how to create homes for > 2-3PM > £7 the future. > L174 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE PHILOSOPHY > 2-3PM > £6 the Power of identity HISTORY Julian Baggini, Anthony Giddens David Goodhart & tariq Modood wartime farm Over recent decades we have become Peter Ginn & Alex langlands more aware of the importance of cultural, Following the success of Victorian Farm and religious and social identities and also more concerned about their capacity to Edwardian Farm, popular TV archaeologists 4-6pm Alex langlands and Peter Ginn return divide nations. Can too much respect for to treat us to an absorbing and nostalgic diff erence and diversity lead to confl ict illustrated talk about Wartime Farm, their and the break up of society? How should sandy Gall new BBC TV series and accompanying an inclusive, democratic society deal with War Against the taliban book which promises to give us some vivid a plurality of traditions and values? The ever-rising death toll in Afghanistan insights into domestic and farming life Programmed by Julian Baggini is raising increasingly urgent questions during the Second World War. > L172 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE about the way the confl ict is being run. > L169 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 2-3PM > £7 Based on the hundreds of interviews > 2-3PM > £8 in his book, War Against the Taliban, REGENCY distinguished war reporter Sandy Gall sheds new light on the historical failure Guided walKinG tour of of our tactics in that troubled region, and addresses the challenges - political, POETRY literary Cheltenham Take a glimpse of society life in “the religious and military - that still remain. the national Poetry merriest sick resort on earth” on this > L175 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE ComPetition winners fascinating Regency Cheltenham tour, > 4-5PM > £8 with special emphasis on the literary Listen to the poems that won the visitors who gravitated to the town ART & ARCHITECTURE National Poetry Competition and be during the period including John Byng, transported from Scott’s Antarctic Fanny Burney, Jane Austen, Lord Byron blue PlaQue or wreCKinG all the way to Kashmir, via Virginia and Sir Walter Scott. With Mary Moxham, Woolf’s lighthouse with readings ball? Tourist Guide for Gloucestershire and the from prizewinners Allison Mcvety, Stephen Bayley, Owen Hatherley Cotswolds. Beginning outside the front of Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch and & Jonathan Meades Cheltenham Town Hall and concluding on Zaff ar Kunial, chaired by the judge of One man’s Brutalist beauty is another Montpellier Gardens. the competition, Jackie Kay. An event man’s eyesore. If you could knock down organised in partnership with the > L090 > tOWN HaLL – IMPERIaL SQUaRE just one 20th century building, which Poetry Society. > 2-4PM > £10 would it be? Which would you save? Our panel of experts, design critic Stephen > L171 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE HOME > 2-3PM > £6 Bayley, writer and journalist Owen Hatherley and author Jonathan Meades, beGinners CalliGraPhy do battle to decide which modern worKshoP buildings deserve a blue plaque - and Despite the era of the text message, the which the wrecking ball! fi ne art of calligraphy continues to fl ourish. > L176 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE Join calligraphy tutor Elaine Guiding to > 4-5PM > £7 try your hand at this gentle art, and learn how to produce fi ne writing with a few well-placed strokes of a pen. > L173 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 2-4PM > £15.00 INCLUDES MatERIaLS Box Office 0844 880 8094 cheltenhamfestivals.com/tickets 53 wed 10 oCt early evening

4-6pm PHILOSOPHY HISTORY HISTORY PhilosoPhy CafÉ andrew marr What Do We Believe? A new History of the World adam hart-davis Where can our shared values come from? Andrew Marr, author of two bestselling Great Engineers In a post-ideological world of religious histories of Great Britain now turns his From the men who built the Great Pyramid diversity, where can we fi nd the ideals attention to the world. In his new book and in Egypt to the frontiers of space travel and values that are universal and robust BBC TV series A New History of the World, he and the computer scientists of today, enough to guide us into the future? Join takes readers from the Mayans to Mongolia, the pioneering minds of engineers have Philosopher-in-Residence Julian Baggini from the kingdom of Benin to the court of shaped our history. In this richly illustrated to debate the issues and have your say in the kings of Poland. Looking at the Americas, talk based on his book Engineers, Adam our new Philosophy Café. Africa and Asia, as well as Europe, he gives Hart-Davis celebrates some of the greats Programmed by Julian Baggini a fascinating illustrated talk as he reveals in the fi eld, and the stamp they have left the surprising parallels and fascinating on our world. > L271 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER connections in our global history. GaRDENS > 5.15-6.15PM > FREE > L178 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > L185 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 4-5PM > £7 POETRY CAFÉ > 6.30-7.30PM > £12 RES

SCIENCE AT LITERATURE JaCKie Kay & alison braCKenbury understandinG animal We are delighted to welcome to the Poetry researCh Café, award-winning writer, poet, novelist and short story writer, Jackie Kay who was Over the last 20 years, medical research SPIEGELTENT has moved further and further away from also judge of this year’s National Poetry unnecessary animal testing, but some Prize. She is joined by Gloucestershire- based poet, Alison Brackenbury to read whisKies to try before experiments just can’t be done without you die it. What are the life-changing treatments some of their latest work. that depend on animal research? And Slainte! Whisky expert Ian Buxton, the > L180 > tHE StUDIO – IMPERIaL SQUaRE author of 101 Whiskies to Try Before You what does the political landscape look like, > 5.30-6.15PM > FREE both in the UK and abroad? Join scientist Die is our guide on this tastebud-tingling tasting tour of some of the world’s greatest and broadcaster Adam Rutherford and 6-8pm cancer researcher Fran Balkwill to learn malt whiskies, revealing the entertaining how animal research is boosting animal PATHWAYS stories behind their creation along the way. welfare, increasing alternatives to animal Samples provided by John Gordons use and creating tougher regulations on reliGion in the media > Lt10 > SPIEGELtENt – MONtPELLIER animal testing while still making medical What role does religion play in the media GaRDENS > 6.30-7.30PM > £12 INCLUDES breakthroughs. today? And how is it portrayed? Our panel WHISKY taStING > L348 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS members nick Baines, Bishop of Bradford, > 4-5PM > £7 BBC Radio 4 Thought for the Day regular, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS lucy Winkett, and the editor of emel PATHWAYS magazine Sarah Joseph join the journalist hilary devey and commentator Abdul - Rehman Malik Bold as Brass the Power of silenCe to discuss religious literacy in the media, The entrepreneur and Dragons’ Den and how broadcasting can play a role in lucy Winkett sensation’s candid and powerful memoir deepening understanding and tolerance Bold as Brass reveals the full story of How do we quieten our minds and between communities. ourselves in a noisy world? BBC Radio 4 her turbulent life, how she built her Thought for The Day regular and Vicar of St > L183 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE £100 million company, Pall-Ex, and how James, Piccadilly, lucy Winkett discusses > 6.30-7.30PM > £7 she never gave up even when she was the power and importance of silence for so broke she couldn’t aff ord to cook both religious and non-religious people, a Christmas dinner. Witty, warm and and guides us through the practical humorous she joins us in conversation process of fi nding true silence and with The Times’ columnist Deborah Ross. contemplative space. Pam ayres > L189 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 6.30-7.30PM > £9 > L179 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE Since she fi rst came to public attention > 4-5PM > £7 on TV talent show Opportunity Knocks in 1975, much-loved poet and broadcaster, Pam Ayres has been delighting audiences worldwide with her own unique brand of humorous verse. She joins us to discuss her life and writings, and her roundly entertaining memoir, The Necessary Aptitude. > L184 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 6.30-7.30PM > £10

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COMPASS POINTS 8-10pm REGENCY india exPress aa Gill GeorGian london: hiGh Edna Fernandes, Patrick French life and low life the Golden Door: letters to America & Sunil Khilnani Ian Kelly & Hallie Rubenhold Author, food writer and critic AA Gill, joins us India is at an extraordinary turning point th to talk about his life and writing; in particular London in the 18 century was a city of - widely predicted to become one of the his years in the US in the 1970s which were high society and fashion, but also a place of economic powerhouses of the 21st century. among the happiest of his life. In his new sex and scandal which teemed with shady As well as exploring India’s turbulent 20th book, The Golden Door: Letters to America, he characters. Ian Kelly, author of Mr Foote’s century, our panel of India experts, Edna scrutinises afresh our view of America and Other Leg; and historian and broadcaster Fernandes author of Holy Warriors, Sunil Americans, and reveals some of the qualities Hallie Rubenhold, whose fi rst novel, Khilnani author of The Idea of India, from he fi nds admirable about the country and Mistress of My Fate is set in the period, bring King’s College London and India: A Portrait its citizens. Georgian London to life in a fascinating and author Patrick French debate how long beautifully illustrated discussion. this economic growth will continue and > L188 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE explore what the future holds for the > 8.45-10PM > £8 > L177 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE world’s largest democracy. Chaired by > 8.45-10PM > £7 Dharshini David. HOME HOME > L186 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 6.30-7.30PM > £7 RES niGella lawson James wonG nigellissima Homegrown Revolution The relaxed and unpretentious approach As an alternative to the humble spud and to food of renowned broadcaster and cook carrot, why not consider the edible hips nigella lawson has won her many fans. of the fuchsia? James Wong, presenter HISTORY She returns to our screens this autumn of the hugely popular BBC TV series Grow with a new series - and accompanying Your Own Drugs, and now the author of a Jenny uGlow recipe book - Nigellissima, which new book called Homegrown Revolution, Sarah losh: Forgotten Romantic Heroine celebrates the simple and straightforward suggests some more unusual fruit and Born into a radical Cumbrian family, qualities at the heart of Italian cooking. vegetables for us to grow and eat. friendly with Wordsworth and Coleridge, Nigella joins us in conversation to talk > L190 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE and heiress to a great fortune, Sarah Losh pasta, and other culinary matters. > 8.45-10PM > £7 was a visionary Romantic architect and > L191 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS antiquarian. Award-winning writer Jenny > 8.45-10PM > £12 RES FICTION uglow, the author of The Pinecone, a new book about Losh, joins us to discuss the marK haddon life and times of this forgotten Romantic Swimming & Flying heroine, and the strange and radical Best known as the author of much-loved church she built. and award-winning novel, The Curious > L192 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE Events with Character: Enjoy a delicious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, > 7-8PM > £6 sample of Taylors of Harrogate coﬀ ee writer Mark Haddon is also a talented illustrator and screen writer. He joins us SIGNPOSTS SPIEGELTENT for his one-man talk Swimming and Flying. oPeninG a new ChaPter > L193 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS JaZZ and the baroness > 8.45-10PM > £7 RES in my Career Hannah Rothschild Is there more to life than what I’m doing An evening of music and high-society now? How do I make change happen? scandal as Hannah Rothschild retells the Some thought provoking ideas on how to story of The Baroness, the beautiful and go about creating the next phase of your spirited Rothschild heiress, and Hannah’s career, with liz Humphrys, Senior Coach great aunt, who fell under the romantic at global HR Services Group, Penna. spell of the New York jazz scene and in rumi: Poet, ProPhet > L181 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER love with musician Thelonius Monk. With & teaCher GaRDENS > 7.15-8.15PM > FREE – aDVaNCED piano accompaniment from Alex Steele. Andrew Harvey BOOKING REQUIRED > Lt11 > SPIEGELtENt – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS The 13th century Persian poet, Jalaluddin > 8.45-10PM > £8 RES Rumi was a supreme mystic poet and is now one of the most widely read spiritual writers in America. Andrew Harvey, who has been studying Rumi’s work for 30 years, presents a compelling vision of the Sufi poet’s life, mystical journey and Divine philosophy, Events with Character: Enjoy a delicious accompanied by readings of some of his sample of Taylors of Harrogate coﬀ ee during most powerful and captivating poems. the event > L187 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 8.45-9.45PM > £6

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10am-12pm SIGNPOSTS 12-2pm ART & ARCHITECTURE Colour in the home REGENCY See colour in a whole new light with this titian illustrated and inspirational talk, hosted luCy worsley Shelia Hale by international colour consultant Joa George Iv: the Prince of Whales Titian, one of the leading fi gures of the Studholme. Joa will explain how, through The ‘Prince of Whales’ was fat, lazy, Renaissance lived and worked in Venice at the simple use of paint and wallpaper, you irresponsible and addicted to laudanum. the apogee of the city-state’s power and can achieve striking results in your home. And yet at the same time he was one of infl uence and is now the subject of a major > L343 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER the greatest patrons of art Britain has new exhibition at the National Gallery. In GaRDENS > 11aM- 12PM > FREE ever known. Examining the lurid life, the this lavishly illustrated talk, Sheila Hale, – aDVaNCED BOOKING REQUIRED misfortunes and the achievements of author of the fi rst biography of the artist the Prince Regent, later George IV, lucy for over a hundred years, captures both Worsley, Chief Curator at Historic Royal Titian’s genius, and the extraordinary times Palaces, tells some of the stories from in which he lived. her recent BBC TV series Elegance and POETRY > L194 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE Decadence, The Age of the Regency in an > 10-11aM > £7 forward into the illustrated talk. 21st Century > L200 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE Keats The Forward Poetry Prizes for Best > 12- 1PM > £8 Collection, Best Single Poem and Best nicholas Roe TRAVEL The popular perception of the Romantic First Collection are some of the UK’s most poet John Keats is of a spiritual distinguished prizes in the genre. We are delighted to present readings by previous John mCCarthy consumptive rarefi ed by suff ering. In this you Can’t Hide the Sun richly illustrated talk, nicholas Roe, author winner, John Burnside as well as poets of a landmark new biography of Keats, who have been shortlisted for this year’s Writer and broadcaster John McCarthy replaces this myth with a portrait of a hard- awards. Join us for a wonderful hour of recently made his fi rst trip back to drinking, highly sexual man, addicted to poetry live on stage. Chaired by founder Israel and Palestine since his fi ve year snuff and cigars, and driven by ambition. of the prize, William Sieghart. incarceration in the Middle East during the 1980s. He joins us to talk about his new > L198 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > L195 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS book, You Can’t Hide the Sun, refl ecting > 11.45aM-12.45PM > £6 > 10-11aM > £6 both on his travels, and the endless saga of confl ict which makes up the history of the Globe leCture the Holy Land. Abigail Rokison > L201 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS Author Abigail Rokison, (also well-known > 12-1PM > £8 for many acting roles including Primrose Larkin, The Darling Buds of May), is the winner of the inaugural Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award. Join Abigail, together with a Globe actor, to hear how her HOME PHILOSOPHY research and study of actors provides a fresh perspective on Renaissance simon barnes the Power of actors’ parts. Shakespeare’s Globe was Birdwatching With your Eyes Closed bioteChnoloGy reconstructed with the help of scholars’ Tuning into birdsong is a way of hearing Julian Baggini, Steve Fuller research. This award promotes a new the soundtrack of Planet Earth. So believes & John Harris generation of scholars, recognising a fi rst Simon Barnes, The Times’ columnist and Emerging technologies promise - or monograph that has made an important dedicated birdwatcher. In this tuneful perhaps threaten - to radically transform contribution to the understanding of event, he provides some delightful insights human beings, by enhancing some Shakespeare and early modern theatre. into the art and science of birdsong and positive capacities and eliminating other > L197 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS teaches us to recognise diff erent species defi ciencies. Should we fear or welcome > 10-11aM > £6 by ear by playing recordings on stage and these changes, and how should we discussing his book, Birdwatching With manage them? Or should we simply not HISTORY Your Eyes Closed. believe the hype? > L206 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE Programmed by Julian Baggini adam niColson > 11.45-12.45PM > £7 > L202 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS Gentry > 12- 1PM > £7 Honesty, aff ability, courtesy, liberality. Those very English virtues derive directly from gentry life over the past fi ve hundred years, believes Adam nicolson, author of The Gentry. He tells us the absorbing stories of Even more Festival news, fourteen families spanning the period from 1400 to the present day, and explains why features and information at such people, rooted on their land, form the backbone of the England we know today. cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature > L199 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 10-11aM > £6 60 The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival Afternoon thurs 11 oCt

SPIEGLETENT REGENCY 4-6pm lunCh with the fabulous the reGenCy booKer PriZe THE BIG READ baKer brothers Paula Byrne, Kate Chisholm Join your hosts tom and Henry Herbert Hallie Rubenhold & Jenny uglow James bond – dr no of the renowned Hobbs House Bakery and Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein or Big Read Book Group Bistro in Nailsworth for a rustic artisan lunch The Mysteries of Udolpho? Which was Suave, seductive, sophisticated, has a showcasing recipes from The Fabulous the best book published during the licence to kill and likes his drinks shaken, Baker Brothers cookbook, accompanied Georgian period? In our now traditional, not stirred - it can only be Bond, James by delicious Westons ciders. Hear what and perennially popular debate, four Bond. Join us as we venture into the world inspires the two brothers and about their expert panelists who know the period of the MI6 agent, following him to Jamaica continuing crusade to celebrate the best of well - Paula Byrne, Jenny uglow, Hallie in this Festival Book Group with local British traditional food. Rubenhold and Kate Chisholm - argue author Jane Bailey discussing this year’s > Lt12 > SPIEGELtENt – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS the case for works by Jane Austen, Mary Big Read, Ian Fleming’s Dr No. > 12.30-2PM > £15 RES INCLUDES Shelley, Ann Radcliff e and Fanny Burney > L207 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER PLOUGHMaN’S-StYLE LUNCH WItH CIDER respectively. Who gets your vote? GaRDENS > 4.00 - 5PM > £3 > L204 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 2-3PM > £7

MILITARY HISTORY heroes of the sKies lord Ashcroft SPORT PHILOSOPHY Military historian, Conservative peer, PhilosoPhy CafÉ businessman and philanthropist lord stuart broad & miles JuPP Ashcroft owns an extensive collection My World in Cricket technology: Friend or Foe? of British, Commonwealth and Allied Following a packed summer of Test Match Some blame resource-stripping medals awarded for gallantry in the air. cricket against the West Indies and South technology, from fossil-fuel extraction to In this richly-illustrated talk based on Africa, England fast bowler and Twenty20 nitrate fertilizer production for creating his new book Heroes of the Skies, he tells team captain Stuart Broad joins us in some of the gravest problems we face some of the extraordinary and moving conversation with the comedian, actor today. But technology is also seen as our stories of the inspirational airmen whose and cricket nut Miles Jupp to take a look potential way out, with clean energy, decorations feature in his collection. back on the highlights of his sporting carbon capture and so on. So how should career and to mark the publication of his we see technology, friend or foe? Join > L205 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS autobiography, My World in Cricket. Philosopher-in-Residence Julian Baggini > 2- 3PM > £7 RES to debate the issues and have your say in > L208 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS our new, informal Philosophy Café. > 4-5PM > £10 Programmed by Julian Baggini STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN > L212 tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER HISTORY GaRDENS > 1.30-2.30PM > FREE london CallinG - the mad men to moon 2-4pm world serviCe at 80 roCKets: exPlorinG Peter Horrocks, Bridget Kendall the fifties & John McCarthy CraiG brown Joan Bakewell, Sadie Jones Once described as a bulwark against & eleanor bron & David Kynaston tyranny, the BBC World Service is one One on One From Mad Men to Suez, why are we of Britain’s best-loved institutions, with What did the elderly Mark Twain say to the endlessly fascinated by the Fifties - the a global audience of 160 million. The young Rudyard Kipling? How came the decade that bridges the Second World Director of BBC World Service Peter Royal Family to giggling during a recital by War and the moon rockets and free love Horrocks and the journalists John TS Eliot? Satirist and writer Craig Brown of the 1960s? Social historian David McCarthy and Bridget Kendall join us reveals the conversations and connections Kynaston and novelists Joan Bakewell, to tell the remarkable story behind this between some of history’s most unusual author of She’s Leaving Home and Sadie unique organisation, and to ask: What do meetings in an enthralling and unmissable Jones, author of The Outcast, celebrate an the next 80 years hold in store? performance with actor Eleanor Bron. extraordinary era and the challenges of > L209 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > L203 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS recreating the 1950s in fact and fi ction. > 4- 5PM > £7 > 2-3PM > £8 RES Programmed by Joan Bakewell > L219 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 2- 3PM > £7

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SEVEN AGES OF MAN COMPASS POINTS funerals & mourninG the oldie at 20 the rise of China & the Kitty Aldridge, Catherine Arnold Paul Bailey, Richard Ingrams future of the west thomas Enger & tim lott & Roger lewis Jonathan Fenby, John Gittings From Emily Bronte to Jane Austen, James Join Oldie stalwarts Roger lewis, author Martin Jacques & Xinran Joyce to Evelyn Waugh novels often refl ect of What Am I Still Doing Here?, Oldie theatre The popular view of China is one of an how the society of their time has come to critic and biographer Paul Bailey and economic powerhouse set to dominate terms with death, and in their portrayal of the magazine’s founder Richard Ingrams the 21st century, but at what cost? China funerals and mourning sometimes reveal to celebrate the joys and frustrations of experts Jonathan Fenby, author of a mordant humour to illuminate dark growing older in the modern world, and Tiger Head, Snake Tails, Martin Jacques, times. Join novelists thomas Enger and the 20th anniversary of the self-styled author of When China Rules the World, Kitty Aldridge, social historian Catherine ‘Private Eye for Grown-Ups’. writer Xinran, author of Message From An Arnold and tim lott, author of The Scent > L213 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Love of Dried Roses, to discuss their choice of > 4-5PM > £8 and Loss and John Gittings explore China’s novels and explore some fascinating economic ascendancy and the price which fi ctional funerals. has accompanied it. In partnership with The Oldie magazine > L210 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > L216 > tHE INKPOt – IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 4-5PM > £7 POETRY CAFÉ > 6.30-7.30PM > £7 RES MILITARY HISTORY Julia CoPus & ChristoPher reid PatriCK hennessey We welcome to the Poetry Café, two more Kandak award-winning poets. Christopher Reid COMEDY A former offi cer in the Grenadier Guards, was a popular winner of the Costa Book of writer Patrick Hennessey returned home the Year award in 2009 for A Scattering, his miles JuPP from operations in Afghanistan, battle- collection of poems written in tribute to Fibber in the Heat worn, exhilarated, and unsure if he’d ever his late wife. He reads from his eagerly- Actor and comedian Miles Jupp, familiar see the like again. To mark the publication awaited new collection, Nonsense, a quartet to TV viewers for his roles in The Thick of of his book, Kandak, he joins us to give a of works for voice”. He is joined by Julia It and Rev is also a cricket-obsessive. So compelling account of his experiences of Copus, winner of the National Poetry much so that he hatched a plan to blag his fi ghting with the Afghans, and of how he Competition and the Forward Prize, who way onto England’s 2011 Test tour of India sees the future of the British army in their reads from her latest collection, and Pakistan, and wrote a hilarious book homeland. The World’s Two Smallest Humans. about it, Fibber in the Heat. He tells us how > L211 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > L214 > tHE StUDIO – IMPERIaL SQUaRE his fi bs – and the heat – eventually caught > 4-5PM > £7 > 5.15-6PM > FREE up with him. > L347 > SKY aRtS GaRDEN tHEatRE 6-8pm – IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 6.30-7.30PM > £9 RES SIGNPOSTS TRAVEL how to realise your REGENCY Potential ben foGle the Accidental naturalist Whether it’s revisiting an old hobby or Jane austen’s ladies First “clutched to the nation’s collective of a Certain aGe skill, making time for ourselves, or fi nding inspiration in arts and crafts, many of us are bosom” on BBC reality show Castaway, the History Wardrobe now placing renewed emphasis on living a Ben Fogle has gone on to tickle trout Exclusively for Members and Patrons more enriched life. Join Gaylene Gould for on Countryfi le; groom llamas on Animal Spinster, matron, mother, widow. Jane a session which aims to help participants Park and become the face of Crufts. Not Austen’s novels may feature delightful locate their principal passions and grow to mention ice-skate across Sweden, run young heroines, but they are also rich in their seed ideas into absorbing leisure barefoot in the Sahara and row across the female characters a little longer in the activities or even a change of vocation. Atlantic. He joins us for an action-packed tooth, from the chatty Miss Bates to the conversation to celebrate publication imperious Lady Catherine de Bourgh. > L215 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER of his autobiography, The Accidental In a delightful costumed presentation, GaRDENS > 6-7PM > £10 Naturalist. historian and writer lucy Adlington and > L217 > tOWN HaLL – IMPERIaL SQUaRE friends intersperse lively readings from > 6.30-7.30PM > £12 RES Austen’s novels, with fresh insights into the lives of Regency ladies of a certain age. > Lt13 > SPIEGELtENt – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 4-5PM > £8 RES > EXCLUSIVE tO MEMBERS aND PatRONS

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MILITARY HISTORY 8-10pm SPIEGELTENT what maKes a Great STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN aGatha Christie military leader? and art deCo lord Ashcroft, Patrick Hennessey stePhen manGan the History Wardrobe & Allan Mallinson With starring roles in Adrian Mole, Dirk Agatha Christie was born into a world of From the Duke of Wellington to Gordon Gently, Green Wing and Episodes, the Edwardian elegance but later embraced of Khartoum, who are history’s best - and superbly entertaining Stephen Mangan the streamlined modernity of Art Deco worst - military leaders and what can we has hardly been off our screens in the style and found fame as the prolifi c writer learn from them? What makes them, what last ten years. In this revealing interview and creator of enduringly popular sleuths, breaks them, and who would our panel he talks about his approach to acting, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Join nominate as the greatest leader of all working with Matt le Blanc, and what it is historian and writer, lucy Adlington and time? Our distinguished panel of military like to play a pregnant man on stage. friends as they don the dazzling fashions of historians and former soldiers - lord > L222 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS the 1920s and 30s to celebrate the eventful Ashcroft, Patrick Hennessey and Allan > 8.45 - 10PM > £12 RES life of the Queen of Crime, and set us a Mallinson - debate the matter. mystery to solve. > L218 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > Lt14 > SPIEGELtENt – MONtPELLIER > 6.30-7.30PM > £7 RES GaRDENS > 8.45-10PM > £8 RES SPORT STORYTELLING viCtoria Pendleton Between the lines breton fairytales The fi rst British female to win Gold at the Michael Harvey Caitlin moran World Championships in 40 years, victoria Venture into the vibrant world of Breton fairytales; a landscape rich in encounters Moranthology Pendleton is the golden girl of British cycling. To mark the publication of her with beauties, beasts, strange companions, Caitlin Moran, author and columnist for autobiography, Between the Lines, she joins bizarre marriages, and ruthless atonement. The Times, scored a huge bestseller last us in conversation about the highs and lows In a charm-your-socks-off performance, year with How to Be a Woman. Now she’s of her extraordinary sporting career; what storyteller Michael Harvey draws on the back with Moranthology, her uproarious th drives her to succeed; and of course, her collections of 19 century French folklorist refl ections on “the rest of the world”, experiences at the London 2012 Olympics. and Breton poet, Francois-Marie Luzel, to including Ghostbusters, Twitter, caff eine, recast and retell some grown-up tales of pandas and Downton Abbey. Do not miss > L224 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE wonder with a disarmingly light touch. the chance to hear her in person, as she > 8.45 - 10PM > £8 covers all these subjects and more. > L226 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 8.45-10PM > £7 > L220 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 6.30-7.30PM > £12 RES BUSINESS & ECONOMICS HOME life’s a PitCh Kevin mCCloud Philip Delves Broughton HORIZONS the Best of Grand Designs What do a rug seller of Tangier, the king of US cable channels and a guru of the Designer and writer Kevin McCloud Japanese life insurance industry have in nordiC noir is probably best known for his hugely common? Business writer Philip Delves Don Bartlett, thomas Enger popular Channel 4 series, Grand Designs Broughton, the author of Life’s a Pitch has Barry Forshaw & Gunner Staalesen in which he observes ordinary home travelled the globe to meet the world’s developers as they try to turn their How can a translator replicate the spirit best sales people. He joins us to reveal audacious dreams into reality. He joins us and atmosphere of an author’s writing their secrets. - especially in a crime novel? Translator in conversation to look back at some of Don Bartlett (Jo Nesbo, and many others) the show’s highlights, as celebrated in his > L227 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS literary critic Barry Forshaw, author of new book: The Best of Grand Designs. > 8.45-10PM > £8 RES Death in a Cold Climate and our Norwegian > L225 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE Writers-in-Residence Gunnar Staalesen > 8.45-10PM > £10 and thomas Enger discuss this very special working relationship and the challenges of translating crime across borders. > L221 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 6.45 - 7.45PM > £6

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10am-12pm HISTORY 12-2pm bletChley ParK: PATHWAYS the seCret listeners PhilosoPhy day sharinG eden l349 the Philosopher’s Pass Sinclair McKay Harfi yah Abdel Haleem, nathan levy (£15.00) Before Britain could break the German war machine’s code, the enemy’s military & David Shreeve “ I’m delighted to be joined by communications had to be monitored and Authors nathan levy, David Shreeve and a brilliant set of speakers on a recorded by ‘the Listening Service’ and Harfi yah Abdel Haleem discuss Sharing philosophy day which I’m sure relayed to Bletchley Park. In this absorbing Eden, their beautiful and enlightening will be engaging, entertaining illustrated talk, Sinclair McKay, author collection of green teachings from the and serious. Please join us and of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park tells the scriptures. Can the 160 million followers bring your thoughts too.” stories of the men and women posted to of the Abrahamic faiths turn their (Julian Baggini) Cairo, Malta, Gibraltar, Iraq, Cyprus and environmental awareness into a force to other far fl ung outposts to ‘listen in’; as secure a better future for our planet? • Join Philosopher-in-Residence described in his book, The Secret Listeners. Julian Baggini for the Festival’s very > L233 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE fi rst Philosophy Day on Friday 12th > L330 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 12-1PM > £6 October from 9.45am to 5pm. Our > 10-11aM > £7 RES Philosopher’s Pass includes: HISTORY • An exclusive introduction to the day from Julian Baggini in our Literary Lounge from 9.45 to 10am dominiC sandbrooK HISTORY with complementary tea and coff ee & Joan baKewell the Seventies writinG britain: • A special reading list devised by Julian Baggini to complement In the mid-1970s, Britain’s fortunes seemed from wastelands the events to have reached their lowest point since to wonderlands the Blitz. As infl ation rocketed, the pound • Entrance to three specially curated Jamie Andrews, tanya Kirk collapsed and car bombs exploded across & Owen Sheers events: a Philosophy Essentials London, it seemed that the game was up session with Julian Baggini plus From the Yorkshire of Charlotte Brontë for an exhausted nation. But what was life to the 21st century suburban hinterlands two keynote debates, The Power really like behind the headlines? Dominic of Ideas and Power to the People of JG Ballard, the landscapes of Britain Sandbrook joins Guest Director Joan have permeated great literary works. In • Voice your views in the Philosopher’s Bakewell to discuss his book, Seasons this richly illustrated discussion, author Café to round off the day in the Sun: The Battle For Britain, 1974- and poet, Owen Sheers, editor of A Poet’s Visit www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/ 1979 and accompanying BBC TV series Guide to Britain, joins Jamie Andrews and philosophyday for more details recreating this extraordinary period in all tanya Kirk, the curators of British Library its chaos and contradiction, revealing it as exhibition, Writing Britain, to discuss some a decisive point in our recent history. fascinating examples of the ways that ART & ARCHITECTURE Programmed by Joan Bakewell writers have described – and invented > L331 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE – our landscapes. manet > 10-11aM > £7 > L230 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE Mary Anne Stevens > 12-1PM > £6 th The 19 century French artist, Édouard Manet was a pivotal fi gure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Mary Anne Stevens, curator at the Royal Academy of Arts which is staging a major new exhibition of Manet’s portraits next year, presents a lavishly illustrated talk on PHILOSOPHY his life and work. > L228 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE essentials of PhilosoPhy > 10-11aM > £6 Julian Baggini Despite being the oldest and most esteemed of intellectual disciplines, it is notoriously diffi cult to agree on what precisely philosophy is and why, if at all, it matters. Kick off our philosophy day with up-to-the minute this session with Philosopher-in-Residence Julian Baggini, which will try to answer festival news! these thorny questions. Programmed by Julian Baggini @cheltfestivals #cheltlitfest > L333 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 10.15-11.15 aM > £7 RES /cheltenhamfestivals

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HISTORY 2-4pm ART & ARCHITECTURE bletChley ParK: the THE LAURIE LEE LECTURE Gavin stamP truth behind the myth Edwin lutyens: Country Houses Sinclair McKay & Michael Smith robert maCfarlane Edwin Lutyens was one of Britain’s greatest Bletchley Park was a key player in the allied the Old Ways: A Journey on Foot architects, known for the imaginative victory in World War Two and its work has In this enthralling illustrated talk about adaptations of traditional design in at last been justly celebrated on stage his latest series of journeys, the widely- his numerous country houses. In this and screen. Join Bletchley expert Michael admired nature writer Robert Macfarlane beautifully illustrated talk, Gavin Stamp, Smith and historian Sinclair McKay, sets off from his Cambridge home to walk architectural historian, and the author author of the bestselling The Secret Life the ancient tracks, drove roads, holloways of Edwin Lutyens: Country Houses is our of Bletchley Park and The Secret Listeners and sea paths that form part of a vast guide to some of his most celebrated as they reveal some of the extraordinary network of routes criss-crossing the British architectural designs, spanning the many stories and debunk some of the popular landscape. In this event based on his book, phases of his acclaimed career. The Old Ways, he recounts some of the myths that have grown up around > L235 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE stories which emerged from his travels. Bletchley Park. Join them after the event > 2-3PM > £7 to see a real example of the legendary > L232 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS Enigma machine. > 2-3PM > £7 RES > L229 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 12-1PM > £7 RES FESTIVAL FOCUS

HOME helen dunmore & andrea Gillies PHILOSOPHY JanCis robinson turning up the tension Wine Grapes What is the secret of writing a truly chilling the Power of ideas Editor of the Oxford Companion to Wine and suspenseful story? Helen Dunmore’s Julian Baggini, Joan Bakewell and adviser to the Queen on her cellar, critically-acclaimed and spine-tingling Bronwen Maddox & Susan Mendus Jancis Robinson is one of the world’s ghost story The Greatcoat tells the tale In the stories we tell of major political most renowned wine experts. In this of a passion across time, whilst Andrea change, the main protagonists are often enticing illustrated talk, she provides a Gilles’ stunning debut novel The White ideas. The Enlightenment, Communism, fl avour of some of the 1,375 vine varieties Lie explores how a single white lie can Fascism, Islamism: all these have she describes in her authoritative new resonate down the years. Join them been thought to be driving historical book, Wine Grapes. to fi nd out how they create realistic movements. But do ideas really have this characters whilst turning the screw to > L234 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE keep the reader transfi xed until the fi nal power or are social and economic forces, > 2-3PM > £8 or even strong individuals, much more denouement.

important? Should we be looking for ideas > L257 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 2-3PM > FREE – to really change the world? aDVaNCED BOOKING REQUIRED Programmed by Julian Baggini > L231 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 12-1PM > £7 RES PHILOSOPHY THE BIG READ Power to the PeoPle James bond – dr no Julian Baggini, Jesse norman Big Read Book Group Onora O’neill & Jonathan Wolff Events with Character: Enjoy a delicious Suave, seductive, sophisticated, has a From Occupy to the Arab Spring, the licence to kill and likes his drinks shaken, sample of Taylors of Harrogate coﬀ ee Big Society and the legitimacy of the after the event not stirred - it can only be Bond, James European Union, citizens are demanding Bond. Join us as we venture in the world of that they have more of a say in the running the MI6 agent, following him to Jamaica in LOCALLY SOURCED of their countries and institutions. But this Festival Book Group with local author what is the diff erence between people Jane Bailey discussing this year’s Big Read, you heard it here first... power and mob rule, and when does Ian Fleming’s Dr No. Following its very successful debut democracy become the tyranny of the majority? Philosophers involved in public > L237 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER last year, our open-mic session for new GaRDENS > 2-3PM > £3 up-to-the minute writing returns to the Spiegeltent in 2012. policy from academia, the Lords and the From poetry to prose, fi ction and beyond, Commons discuss how much and what festival news! bring along a fi ve-minute excerpt of your kind of power to give the people. work to perform on stage at the Festival Programmed by Julian Baggini @cheltfestivals #cheltlitfest this October. > L236 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > Lt15 > SPIEGELtENt – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 2-3PM > £7 RES /cheltenhamfestivals > 12.30-2PM > SUBMISSIONS FROM 12PM WItH REaDINGS FROM 12.30-2PM > FREE

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SPIEGELTENT PHILOSOPHY SEVEN AGES OF MAN COMEDY firestation booK swaP Call the midwife: PhilosoPhy CafÉ aGe alan Garner dom Joly naomi Alderman & Jonathan lee rememberinG Jennifer How Do you live Well? Joan Bakewell, Rachel Joyce Famous the world over for classic fantasy Comedian and journalist Dom Joly rose Exclusively for Members and Patrons worth What does it mean to live well? What should & Penelope lively novels like Elidor, Alan Garner is one of to fame in the late 1990s as the star of the Robert McCrum called the Firestation Book Joan Bakewell, Suzannah Hart we be pursuing, as individuals and society, From King Lear and Scrooge to Kingsley our most revered writers. In a rare event, Channel 4 show Trigger Happy TV. Now to fl ourish? Happiness? Wealth? Health? Swap “a literary event with a diff erence” David Kynaston & Philip Worth Amis’ The Old Devils and Marquez’s Love he joins us to discuss his life and writing, forging a reputation as a global traveller God? Join Philosopher-in-Residence and his latest novel, the conclusion to a who takes in more unlikely destinations, and it is certainly that. No readings from The hit BBC television series Call the Julian Baggini to debate the issues and in the Time of Cholera, fi ction off ers us authors, no questions about books or Midwife has led thousands of delighted have your say in our new Philosophy Café. a fascinating window on changing story that began fi fty years ago with The Dom Joly joins us to talk about his latest writing but lots of great banter and readers to the writing of Jennifer Worth Programmed by Julian Baggini perceptions of age. We are joined by a Weirdstone of Brisingamen. Introduced by ‘holiday’, investigating monster sightings new voice in fi ction, Rachel Joyce, author Erica Wagner, Literary Editor of The Times. around the world which he recounts in his audience participation. Bring along a book and her warm-hearted memoir of London’s > L318 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER of the coming of (old) age novel The hilarious and fascinating new book, Scary to swap with our literary guests naomi East End in the 1950s. In this celebration of GaRDENS > 4-5PM > FREE > L251 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE Alderman and Jonathan lee and leave Jennifer’s life we are joined by her widower Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, author, > 6.45-7.45PM > £7 Monsters and Supercreeps. your preconceptions at the door. Philip Worth, daughter Suzannah Hart broadcaster and champion of the older > L254 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE and social historian David Kynaston. generation, Joan Bakewell and Booker COMPASS POINTS > 8.45-10PM > £8 > Lt16 > SPIEGELtENt – MONtPELLIER Prize-winning novelist Penelope lively GaRDENS > 3.30-5.30PM > £6 RES Chaired by novelist and broadcaster Joan Bakewell. Events with Character: Enjoy a delicious to discuss their favourite portrayals of age a braZilian odyssey and ageing in literature. > L240 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS sample of Taylors of Harrogate coﬀ ee during Brazil has an utterly distinctive and vibrant 4-6pm Tweet your favourite literary elders to > 4-5PM > £8 RES the event culture, with a rich and complex urban and @cheltfestivals #cheltlitfest and have PEOPLE: POWER POETRY CAFE rural heritage, expressing itself in a thousand them discussed in the event. diff erent ways, from samba to capoeira, COMEDY the arChiteCture sean o’brien > L247 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS carnival to football, literature to fi lm. Join & Power debate > 6.30-7.30PM > £7 RES Alvaro Comin from King’s College London’s & don Paterson King’s Brazil Institute, Brazilian children’s Paul o’Grady Dominic Sandbrook, Gavin Stamp We are delighted to welcome to the Poetry HOME author and arts lover nara videl, Brazilian The hugely popular broadcaster and & Mary Anne Stevens Café, two acclaimed poets. Don Paterson entertainer joins us in conversation to PatriCK leiGh fermor won the Forward Prize for his most cultural campaigner Graciano Soares and From Lutyens’ New Delhi to the Brutalist writer James Woodall, author of A Simple celebrate the publication of the latest architecture of Soviet Russia and Britain’s Artemis Cooper recent collection, Rain, and has recently Kirstie allsoPP published a new Selected Poems. Winner of Brazilian Song, as they explore their personal instalment of his no-holds-barred War hero, and one of the best-loved travel Having found us nice, well-located homes garden cities and high rise estates of the the Forward Prize and the TS Eliot Prize for passions for Brazil, its culture and its heritage. autobiography Still Standing. He recounts writers of our time, Patrick Leigh Fermor to live in, Kirstie Allsopp is now helping sixties, buildings have often become The Drowned Book, Sean O’Brien will read Followed by a thrilling capoeira dance the uproarious adventures of his fi nest was a self-educated polymath, a lover of us to transform them with craft projects, tools of political power. In an illuminating from his new volume of Collected Poems. and music performance from some of the comic creation, the blonde bombshell Lily discussion we invite three historians Greece and wonderful company. Writer incorporating vintage fabrics, furniture > L245 > tHE StUDIO – IMPERIaL SQUaRE country’s leading capoeristas. Savage and her mishap-fi lled journey and architectural experts – Mary Anne and historian Artemis Cooper has drawn and other everyday fi nds. To coincide with to stardom. Stevens, Dominic Sandbrook and on years of interviews and conversations > 5.15-6PM > FREE the launch of Kirstie’s Vintage Home, her > Lt17 > SPIEGELtENt – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS Gavin Stamp - to choose an architect, with Fermor and his closest friends to 6-8pm new Channel 4 series and accompanying > 7-8.15PM > £7 > L255 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS or a building which sheds light on the write a defi nitive biography. She gives us book, she joins us to talk about her love > 8.45-10PM > £10 RES fascinating relationship between buildings her personal view of a remarkable man of SIGNPOSTS aff air with everything handmade. and power. extraordinary gifts. > L248 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > L238 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > L241 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE how to have better > 6.30-7.30PM > £10 8-10pm > 4-5PM > £7 > 4-5PM > £6 Conversations STORYTELLING Our lives are so often fi lled with superfi cial HOME PATHWAYS talk, from offi ce chit-chat to commentaries on last night’s television. How can we have tuuP & sheema muKherJee rose tremain huGh fearnley conversations that inspire us to think in A king is obliged to carry the corpse of a Chris beardshaw & eriCa waGner new ways, that stimulate our curiosity hanged man on his back, but the corpse -whittinGstall the Spiritual Garden More than twenty years ago, the Orange and that prompt us to say things we’ve Events with Character: Enjoy a delicious sample of Taylors of Harrogate coﬀ ee is possessed by a storytelling vampire Rhubarb, yoghurt and granola. Lemon The award-winning garden designer Prize-winning novelist, Rose tremain never said before? Cultural thinker Roman Krznaric leads this practical workshop on after the event whose enigmatic puzzles threaten to burst sole, lemons and mash. Porridge, golden has created a garden which refl ects the wrote Restoration about the rise and syrup and cream. Put Three Good Things fall of a young courtier, Robert Merivel, the art of conversation. the king’s head… In a wild and wonderful particular theologies and aesthetics collaboration, storyteller tuuP and sitar together on a plate and make dishes that of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. during the reign of King Charles II. Now > L246 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER ART & ARCHITECTURE are more than the sum of their parts. That’s she has returned to his compelling story GaRDENS > 6-7PM > £10 virtuoso, Sheema Mukherjee tell trans- This `festival garden’ is to be hosted at globalised versions of this 2000 year old the simply scrumptious idea behind the horticultural locations around the UK in a sequel, Merivel. In conversation with bauhaus: art as life latest book and Channel 4 series from Erica Wagner Literary Editor of The Times, Indian myth, ramming it full of ritual and and internationally. Here he joins us to Catherine Ince bestselling cook and River Cottage doyen, she discusses her writing and explains her mystery. describe his approach to this fascinating From Expressionist beginnings to a Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Find reasons for bringing him back to life again. > L252 > tHE INKPOt – IMPERIaL SQUaRE and unusual commission. pioneering model uniting art and out more as he joins us for this mouth- > 8-10.10PM > £7 INCLUDES INtERVaL > L239 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > L242 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS technology, the Bauhaus became the watering event. > 4-5PM > £7 > 4-5PM > £7 RES modern world’s most famous art school. 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SEVEN AGES OF MAN COMEDY aGe alan Garner dom Joly Joan Bakewell, Rachel Joyce Famous the world over for classic fantasy Comedian and journalist Dom Joly rose & Penelope lively novels like Elidor, Alan Garner is one of to fame in the late 1990s as the star of the From King Lear and Scrooge to Kingsley our most revered writers. In a rare event, Channel 4 show Trigger Happy TV. Now Amis’ The Old Devils and Marquez’s Love he joins us to discuss his life and writing, forging a reputation as a global traveller in the Time of Cholera, fi ction off ers us and his latest novel, the conclusion to a who takes in more unlikely destinations, a fascinating window on changing story that began fi fty years ago with The Dom Joly joins us to talk about his latest perceptions of age. We are joined by a Weirdstone of Brisingamen. Introduced by ‘holiday’, investigating monster sightings new voice in fi ction, Rachel Joyce, author Erica Wagner, Literary Editor of The Times. around the world which he recounts in his of the coming of (old) age novel The > L251 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE hilarious and fascinating new book, Scary Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, author, > 6.45-7.45PM > £7 Monsters and Supercreeps. broadcaster and champion of the older > L254 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE generation, Joan Bakewell and Booker COMPASS POINTS > 8.45-10PM > £8 Prize-winning novelist Penelope lively to discuss their favourite portrayals of age a braZilian odyssey and ageing in literature. Brazil has an utterly distinctive and vibrant Tweet your favourite literary elders to culture, with a rich and complex urban and @cheltfestivals #cheltlitfest and have rural heritage, expressing itself in a thousand them discussed in the event. diff erent ways, from samba to capoeira, COMEDY > L247 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS carnival to football, literature to fi lm. Join > 6.30-7.30PM > £7 RES Alvaro Comin from King’s College London’s King’s Brazil Institute, Brazilian children’s Paul o’Grady HOME author and arts lover nara videl, Brazilian The hugely popular broadcaster and cultural campaigner Graciano Soares and entertainer joins us in conversation to Kirstie allsoPP writer James Woodall, author of A Simple celebrate the publication of the latest Brazilian Song, as they explore their personal instalment of his no-holds-barred Having found us nice, well-located homes passions for Brazil, its culture and its heritage. autobiography Still Standing. He recounts to live in, Kirstie Allsopp is now helping Followed by a thrilling capoeira dance the uproarious adventures of his fi nest us to transform them with craft projects, and music performance from some of the comic creation, the blonde bombshell Lily incorporating vintage fabrics, furniture country’s leading capoeristas. Savage and her mishap-fi lled journey and other everyday fi nds. To coincide with to stardom. the launch of Kirstie’s Vintage Home, her > Lt17 > SPIEGELtENt – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS new Channel 4 series and accompanying > 7-8.15PM > £7 > L255 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS book, she joins us to talk about her love > 8.45-10PM > £10 RES aff air with everything handmade. > L248 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 6.30-7.30PM > £10 8-10pm STORYTELLING HOME tuuP & sheema muKherJee huGh fearnley A king is obliged to carry the corpse of a -whittinGstall Events with Character: Enjoy a delicious hanged man on his back, but the corpse sample of Taylors of Harrogate coﬀ ee is possessed by a storytelling vampire Rhubarb, yoghurt and granola. Lemon after the event whose enigmatic puzzles threaten to burst sole, lemons and mash. Porridge, golden the king’s head… In a wild and wonderful syrup and cream. Put Three Good Things collaboration, storyteller tuuP and sitar together on a plate and make dishes that ART & ARCHITECTURE virtuoso, Sheema Mukherjee tell trans- are more than the sum of their parts. That’s globalised versions of this 2000 year old the simply scrumptious idea behind the bauhaus: art as life Indian myth, ramming it full of ritual and latest book and Channel 4 series from Catherine Ince mystery. bestselling cook and River Cottage doyen, From Expressionist beginnings to a Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Find > L252 > tHE INKPOt – IMPERIaL SQUaRE pioneering model uniting art and out more as he joins us for this mouth- > 8-10.10PM > £7 INCLUDES INtERVaL technology, the Bauhaus became the watering event. modern world’s most famous art school. In > L256 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE this lavishly illustrated talk, Catherine Ince, > 8.45-10PM > £10 co-creator of recent Barbican exhibition, Bauhaus: Art as Life, the fi rst to examine the movement in over 40 years, examines its history and pioneering model. MEMBERS > L250 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE GEt Supported by the Patrons > 6.30-7.30PM > £6 of Cheltenham Festivals For more information visit 10 % cheltenhamfestivals.com/patrons OFF

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He defi cit - how should the government regarded as one of the great artists of the the emerging role of London as a world In this event programmed with the Society Compare the perspectives of patient and joins us in conversation to look back on his encourage growth in the economy? Renaissance, but he was also a pioneer in city four hundred years ago. Shakespeare of Young Publishers, people in the industry doctor through a compellingly realistic full life and music, and explains how his faith We join Kwasi Kwarteng MP, author of the understanding of human anatomy. In experts Jonathan Bate and Dora tell you about their own routes in, give scale simulation. Roger Kneebone and has infl uenced his music. Britannia Unchained, the economist and this richly illustrated discussion, Martin thornton, join us to discuss their new their top tips for getting ahead and advice his creative team from Imperial College > L264 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE author of How Much is Enough? Robert Clayton, curator of Queen’s Gallery book and tell the story of Shakespeare on getting your fi rst job in publishing. London show what actually happens if > 12-1PM > £7 Skidelsky, and business guru Digby exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist, and the Elizabethan stage, exploring how > L262 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER you’re rushed into hospital with chest pain Jones to debate the way forward. and Ross King, historian and author of it shaped national identity and opened a GaRDENS > 10-11aM > FREE – aDVaNCED and have to have surgery. > L266 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE Leonardo and the Last Supper, discuss his window on the wider world, from Italy to BOOKING REQUIRED > 12-1PM > £7 genius from two very diff erent angles. > L281 > CHELtENHaM COLLEGE tHEatRE Africa and America. > 12-1.30 PM > £6 > L258 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > L260 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > L350 > EVENt SERIES £15 > 10-11aM > £6 > 10-11aM > £6 the 2012 man booKer PriZe shortlist event We hope to welcome some of the most exciting names in contemporary fi ction who have all been shortlisted for the SPIEGELTENT 2012 Man Booker Prize, awarded on Kathy reiChs & val mCdermid POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS Tuesday 16th October. Join Man Booker taylors Coffee Prize Literary Director Ion trewin to From Page to Screen STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN Great PolitiCal diaries masterClass hear the panel discuss and read from We welcome two bestselling crime writers their shortlisted novels and answer your POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS Chris Mullin, Ion trewin Join Taylors of Harrogate expert Coff ee riChard burton’s diaries whose writing has inspired successful TV Buyers for a fascinating and educational questions. series on opposite sides of the Atlantic. & Ruth Winstone Robert Hardy & Chris Williams masterclass. Learn about the art of coff ee Kathy Reichs from the US, whose Clive stafford smith The political diarists of the last century > L265 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE blending and how diff erent origins are Full of surprises and revelations, not least Temperance Brennan novels were the & bronwen maddox recorded the lives of those in politics, > 12-1PM > £7 used to create blends suitable for diff erent about his relationship with Elizabeth inspiration for TV series Bones, reveals the Injustice their doubts, ambitions, and emotions. occasions. Discover how and why Taylors Taylor, Richard Burton’s personal diaries next instalment with Bones Are Forever. Ruth Winstone, editor of Events, Dear Boy, British businessman, Kris Maharaj was go to great lengths to make the nation’s also show him to be highly intelligent, And from the UK, val McDermid, whose Events, an absorbing compilation of diary convicted of two murders in the US in favourite roast & ground coff ee. perceptive, articulate, and very diff erent Tony Hill & Carol Jordan novels have 1986, and has been on death row ever extracts, and former MP Chris Mullin, from the jet-setting actor and fi lm star we inspired Wire in the Blood, discusses new since. His case is one of the subjects of himself an acclaimed political diarist, join > Lt18 > SPIEGELtENt – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS think we know. Acclaimed actor Robert thriller The Vanishing Point. Injustice, a new book by prominent civil Ion trewin, editor of Alan Clark’s diaries, > 11.30 aM-12.30 PM > £5 Hardy, a close friend of Richard Burton rights lawyer Clive Staff ord Smith. He to look back at how the likes of Harold joins Chris Williams, editor of the fi rst > L267 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS joins Prospect editor Bronwen Maddox Nicolson, Barbara Castle, Tony Benn, and complete edition of the diaries, to discuss > 12-1PM > £7 to talk about his long campaign against Alastair Campbell have recorded their the real man who emerges from its pages. the death penalty, in this and other high- times. profi le cases. > L263 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > L261 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 12-1PM > £9 > L259 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 10-11aM > £7 > 10-11aM > £7

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12-2pm PATHWAYS BUSINESS & ECONOMICS LABORATORY: WORLD OF SURGERY John tavener the Great Growth debate My Faith and Me Digby Jones, Kwasi Kwarteng emerGenCy room: The distinguished British composer, John & Robert Skidelsky CardiaC arrest tavener is renowned for his sparse and As Britain continues to wrestle with its Behind the Scenes at Casualty hauntingly beautiful, religious works. He defi cit - how should the government Compare the perspectives of patient and joins us in conversation to look back on his encourage growth in the economy? doctor through a compellingly realistic full life and music, and explains how his faith We join Kwasi Kwarteng MP, author of scale simulation. Roger Kneebone and has infl uenced his music. Britannia Unchained, the economist and his creative team from Imperial College > L264 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE author of How Much is Enough? Robert London show what actually happens if > 12-1PM > £7 Skidelsky, and business guru Digby you’re rushed into hospital with chest pain Jones to debate the way forward. and have to have surgery. > L266 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > L281 > CHELtENHaM COLLEGE tHEatRE > 12-1PM > £7 > 12-1.30 PM > £6 > L350 > EVENt SERIES £15 the 2012 man booKer PriZe shortlist event We hope to welcome some of the most exciting names in contemporary fi ction who have all been shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, awarded on Kathy reiChs Tuesday 16th October. Join Man Booker & val mCdermid Prize Literary Director Ion trewin to From Page to Screen STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN hear the panel discuss and read from We welcome two bestselling crime writers riChard burton’s diaries their shortlisted novels and answer your whose writing has inspired successful TV questions. series on opposite sides of the Atlantic. Robert Hardy & Chris Williams Kathy Reichs from the US, whose Full of surprises and revelations, not least > L265 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 12-1PM > £7 Temperance Brennan novels were the about his relationship with Elizabeth inspiration for TV series Bones, reveals the Taylor, Richard Burton’s personal diaries next instalment with Bones Are Forever. also show him to be highly intelligent, And from the UK, val McDermid, whose perceptive, articulate, and very diff erent Tony Hill & Carol Jordan novels have from the jet-setting actor and fi lm star we inspired Wire in the Blood, discusses new think we know. Acclaimed actor Robert thriller The Vanishing Point. Hardy, a close friend of Richard Burton joins Chris Williams, editor of the fi rst > L267 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS complete edition of the diaries, to discuss > 12-1PM > £7 the real man who emerges from its pages. > L263 > MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 12-1PM > £9

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SIGNPOSTS Post GCse (16+) - what i’ve never read sKy sessions are your oPtions? Marcus Brigstocke, Sarah Churchwell Join us at the Sky Sessions for a chance to Stephen Weldon, Guidance Coordinator larry lamb & Andy Parsons sample some of the best Sky has to off er. at Gloucestershire College, will take Back by popular demand after last Tap into your passions and interests with you through your post 16 education year’s sell-out event, join host Marcus exclusive screenings, thought provoking options in this interactive session. Are you Brigstocke from BBC Radio 4’s I’ve Never Q&As and much more. considering the vocational route? Perhaps Seen Star Wars, BBC 2 Review Show’s Sarah For a list of events, please visit you’d like to learn a trade; to develop your Churchwell, comedian Andy Parsons cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature entrepreneurial skills; or to apply for an and actor larry lamb in a light-hearted > L274 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER apprenticeship? Stephen will shine the discussion of their reading likes and GaRDENS > 2-3PM > £3 light on all vocational post GCSE options, dislikes. Each panelist has been asked to supported by local employers. take a literary leap into the unknown as > L268 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER they tackle an unfamiliar book or genre - GaRDENS > 12-1PM > FREE – aDVaNCED BOOKING would they recommend the experience? REQUIRED Join them to fi nd out. > L270 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS BOOK IT! > 2-3PM > £10 RES murder mystery? Meet three of our most compelling crime writers for young adults to fi nd out whodunit? Dead Time is the fi rst in The 2-4pm BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Murder Notebooks series by Anne Cassidy, award-winning author of Looking for JJ. PATHWAYS huGh Pym, robert Street Duty: Knock Down by BAFTA-winning sKidelsKy & Gillian tett screenwriter Chris Ould brings the very betJeman’s ChurChes the Economy: your Questions Answered real world of the police force to life. Gregg Robert Hardy, Candida lycett Green What exactly is quantative easing? Can we Olsen is one of America’s favourite crime & Richard Surman ever rein in bankers’ pay? Why should we writers and explores the dark underbelly Although most famous for his poetry, care about the Euro? Our fi nance gurus, of society in the Betrayal, his latest Empty Sir John Betjeman’s great passion the BBC Economics Editor Hugh Pym, the C o ffi n novel for teens. was churches. We join author and Financial Times columnist Gillian tett, > LB64 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 13+ photographer Richard Surman who has and the economist Robert Skidelsky, updated Betjeman’s Best British Churches help you navigate your way through the > 2.30-3.30PM > £5 and Sir John’s daughter, the architectural economic jargon to a real understanding THE BIG READ historian Candida lycett Green, author of the issues. of Unwrecked England, to share memories Why not tweet your questions in advance James bond – dr no of her much-missed father. With evocative to @cheltfestivals #cheltlitfest? readings from John Betjeman’s poetry and the Big Reading prose by acclaimed actor Robert Hardy. > L272 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE Join us for these free live readings from > 2-3PM > £7 Ian Fleming’s gripping and atmospheric > L269 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE thriller Dr No. Each reading is narrated > 2-3PM > £7 either by our suave hero, James Bond, or the eponymous sinister villain, hell-bent on world domination. Who will you encounter? > L275 > HOtEL DU VIN BIStRO > 3-3.30 PM > FREE when i die Gail Rebuck & Keith Blackmore Before his early death from cancer, the MEMBERS former Labour party strategist Philip GEt Gould wrote an extraordinary, unfl inching account of his `lessons from the death zone’. Keith Blackmore, who edited this inspiring book, and Philip’s widow, Gail 10 % Rebuck look back together on his life and OFF his courageous leaving of it. Chaired by Erica Wagner. > L273 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 2-3PM > £6 RES

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POETRY BUSINESS & ECONOMICS PEOPLE: POWER uK all stars Poetry slam! from tradinG floor ChristoPher meyer Qualifiers to newsroom: business networks of Power Fancy a starring role in the UK’s slam & the media The former ambassador discusses his Sky extravaganza (event L290)? Then take a Paul Mason, Hugh Pym & Gillian tett Atlantic series in which he reveals the stanza on stage and see if your poetry and Does the way that business is reported often surprising truth about who really performance has what it takes. Or come in the media refl ect what is really going holds power and infl uence in six key cities and join the applaudience – there’s all to on? And what was it like reporting at the across the globe. From London to Los cheer for! Including a special performance height of Britain’s economic meltdown? Angeles, from Mumbai to Moscow, he digs from Gloucestershire’s new Poet laureate. Three leading business journalists, BBC beneath the public perception of power Twenty poets only; fi rst come fi rst served; Newsnight Economics Editor Paul Mason, asking: Who are the people that count, contact Marcus Moore on 01285 640 470 BBC Chief Economics Correspondent and how are they connected? or via [email protected] Hugh Pym and Gillian tett, from > L280 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > Lt19 > SPIEGELtENt – MONtPELLIER The Financial Times - refl ect on that > 4-5PM > £7 GaRDENS > 3.30-5PM > £4 RES extraordinary period of upheaval and share their personal highs and lows of FAMILY EVENT reporting from the economic frontline. 4-6pm > L278 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE terry PratChett > 4-5PM > £7 Join terry Pratchett author of the the booK: extinCtion bestselling Discworld series as he or survival? introduces his new novel, Dodger, a tale of skulduggery and dark deeds, set James Daunt, Ian Rankin & Gail Rebuck in Dickensian London. Terry will be in From the rise of the e-book to the conversation with Rob Wilkins. phenomenon that is Fifty Shades Of Grey, many believe that the change faced > LB68 > tHE FORUM > aGE 11+ by publishing right now is the most MEET THE RADIO TIMES > 4-5.00PM > £7 signifi cant since Caxton. Join Chairman and CEO of The Random House Group Gail riP it uP & start aGain BOOK IT! Rebuck, MD of Waterstones James Daunt Join Radio Times Radio Editor Jane life, love and loss and bestselling crime novelist Ian Rankin Anderson and lewis Carnie, Head of to hear the backroom secrets behind Programming at BBC Radio 2, as they rip Join three highly acclaimed writers for a this publishing revolution. Hear their up all the schedules and create a fantasy lively discussion on their extraordinary predictions for the future and how this will station. But they need your help. Who new novels. Mal Peet’s coming of age aff ect the relationship between author, would you like to wake up with in the story Life: An Exploded Diagram is set publisher and reader. morning? How would you like to have your during the Cold War and events leading news, weather and sport delivered? Who up to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Sally > L276 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS Gardner’s novel Maggot Moon is narrated > 4-5PM > £6 RES is going to make you laugh, sing along or fi ll your head with mind-expanding against the backdrop of a ruthless regime thoughts? And, of course, who are you determined to beat its enemies in the race going to go to bed with at night? to the moon and nick lake’s powerful In Darkness vividly brings to life the story of > L279 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER a young boy and a revolutionary leader, GaRDENS > 4.10-4.50PM > FREE – aDVaNCED building a bridge across the centuries of the 1962 Cheltenham BOOKING REQUIRED Haitian history. booKer PriZe > LB72 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 12+ Which 1962 book deserves to win our > 5.45-6.45PM > £5 very own Booker? You have the vote! Join Man Booker Prize Literary Director Ion trewin and our panel of judges, Sarah Churchwell, Katie Hickman, Sam leith, Erica Wagner and Bidisha, as they debate the merits of James Baldwin’s Another Country, Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, John le Carré’s, A Murder of Quality, Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook and Edna O’Brien’s Girl with Green Eyes. With an introduction by John Coldstream. > L277 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 4-5.30 PM > £7 Even more Festival news, features and information at cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature

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6-8pm STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN LABORATORY: WORLD OF SURGERY sKy sessions feliCity Kendal the Craft of surGery In 2012, Felicity Kendal returned to Join Roger Kneebone and his team of Join us at the Sky Sessions for a chance to India, where her parents once ran surgeons from Imperial College London sample some of the best Sky has to off er. Shakespeareana, an eccentric touring and visiting craft practitioners to explore Tap into your passions and interests with theatre company. In this fascinating their shared skills of dexterity and creativity exclusive screenings, thought provoking interview she discusses her life and some - why not see if your skills match up? Q&As and much more. of her greatest roles on stage and screen. For a list of events, please visit > L288 > PaRaBOLa aRtS CENtRE She looks back on her emotional journey > 6.30-7.30 PM > FREE cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature and shares the story of how England’s > L282 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER national dramatist became an iconic fi gure GaRDENS > 6-7PM > £3 in a land far removed from the country of his birth. > L286 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 6.30-7.30 PM > £10 RES SPIEGELTENT THE PROSPECT DEBATE SCIENCE AT LITERATURE vintaGe CoCKtail Party ameriCa: what does the silent witnesses Get your vintage fi nery on and head to our future hold? Stuart Hamilton, Ian Rankin beautiful Spiegeltent for a fi fties-inspired Sarah Churchwell, Edward luce, & Kathy Reichs evening of music and retro glamour. Style Bronwen Maddox & Gillian tett The science and the art of murder come Me Vintage author naomi thompson The US election campaign makes it a together in this fascinating discussion. demonstrates how to source and put timely moment for a keynote discussion The bestselling exponent of taut and together a vintage outfi t as she dresses about America - its position in the world, compelling Scottish noir Ian Rankin, our model, and off er tips on etiquette and its current economic health and how forensic anthropologist and author Kathy how to go for a complete vintage look. history will view America since 9/11 and Reichs, and forensic pathologist Stuart Complete your evening sipping cocktails judge Obama’s fi rst presidential term. Join Hamilton Fellow of the Royal College and listening to our vintage DJ spin those Bronwen Maddox, Editor of Prospect, of Pathologists, join us to discuss the shellac discs. Professor of American Literature Sarah true relationship between writing about > Lt20 > SPIEGELtENt – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS Churchwell, Edward luce, author of Time murder and getting the science right. > 7-9PM > £15 INCLUDES ONE COCKtaIL To Start Thinking: America and the Spectre of Decline and economics expert Gillian tett > L287 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE to take the temperature of America today. > 6.30-7.30 PM > £7 PHILOSOPHY > L283 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 6.30-7.30 PM > £7 RES the PhilosoPhy dinner Julian Baggini & A C Grayling Join philosopher Julian Baggini for a convivial evening of fi ne dining and david bowie philosophical debate at the Festival’s SCIENCE AT LITERATURE Dylan Jones very fi rst Philosophy Dinner. Julian will be No one who saw David Bowie burst onto pairing short philosophical distillations ben miller our screens as Ziggy Stardust in his iconic with each of the courses, giving you It’s not Rocket Science Top of the Pops performance will ever challenging and enjoyable philosophical Comedian Ben Miller was studying for a forget it. 40 years on, GQ Editor Dylan topics to chew over with those around PhD in Novel Quantum Eff ects in Quasi- Jones tells the story of a moment in music you along with the fi ne food. Julian, Zero-Dimensional Electron Systems when history that changed a generation, and special guest A C Grayling and other he left to pursue a career making people made Bowie the biggest star in the world. philosophers will be rotating their places laugh. Now he is aiming to combine the > L295 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE over the course of the evening to keep the two by bringing us this dynamic talk on > 6.30-7.30 PM > £6 ideas and conversation fl owing. the ten most spectacular things in science NB Online bookers for this event need that everyone needs to know; as chosen to email any dietary requirements to for his book, It’s Not Rocket Science. boxoffi [email protected]. Please > L284 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE include your ticket order number. > 6.30-7.30 PM > £9 > L348 HOtEL DU VIN > 7.30-9.30 PM > £25 INCLUDES 2-COURSE MEaL

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8-10pm COMEDY LABORATORY: WORLD OF SURGERY marCus briGstoCKe ian ranKin the Brig Society Since the publication of his fi rst Rebus under my sKin Marcus brings his hotly anticipated new novel in 1987, Ian Rankin has become This highly innovative evening show The Brig Society to Cheltenham, one of our bestselling and best-loved performance uses dance, poetry and which sees him restructuring every crime writers. Talking about latest creation story to capture how the fascinating yet aspect of life in Britain today through the Malcolm Fox and the highly anticipated intimidating world of surgery can aff ect medium of jokes! See the show – WIN a return of John Rebus, he provides a us all and explore the contradictory free hospital or school! Second prize: a sneak preview of his new novel Standing emotions that surgery can arouse. The major High Street bank! in Another Man’s Grave, published in event concludes with a discussion chaired November. by BBC Radio’s Quentin Cooper. > L291 > tOWN HaLL – IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 8.30-11PM > £12 INCLUDES INtERVaL > L293 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > L289 > PaRaBOLa aRtS CENtRE > 8.45-10PM > £8 > 8-10.30 PM > £6 > L350 > EVENt SERIES £15 Jeremy vine It’s All news to Me To mark the publication of his SEVEN AGES OF MAN autobiography It’s All News to Me, popular TV & radio presenter Jeremy vine joins us mid-life Crisis! to look back in candour on his 25 years at Sarah Churchwell, Cressida Connolly the BBC, including his fi rst day at the offi ce POETRY & larry lamb on Black Monday; his days as an Africa From Jane Eyre, Madame Bovary and Mrs correspondent; and the thrills and spills of uK all stars Poetry slam! Dalloway to Martin Amis’ The Information presenting a daily radio show. final and Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity, it’s only > L294 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS Prepare for a poetic fl ight of fancy as fi fteen too clear that the midlife crisis is not a > 8.45-10PM > £9 RES do-or-die versifi ers compete to transport modern phenomenon. Join our panel, you beyond your wildest dreams with their authors Cressida Connolly and Sarah bardic bravado. Which wordster will become Churchwell and actor larry lamb to your ultimate fantasy or worst nightmare? discuss their favourite fi ctional midlife Heavenly hosts Sara-Jane Arbury and crises (and what we can learn from them!). Marcus Moore preside over proceedings Tweet your favourite fi ctional midlife crises while the audience rates the writing, @cheltfestivals #cheltlitfest to have them performance and applause! Remember: discussed in the event. you’re lighting everyone’s pipe dream… > L292 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > L290 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 8.45-10PM > £7 RES > 8.30-10.30 PM > £7

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10am-12pm PHILOSOPHY SIGNPOSTS MILITARY HISTORY aC GraylinG ready to read and write In a captivating talk, renowned Join literacy consultant lorraine Bell for Jonathan dimbleby philosopher and writer AC Grayling fun and games in this workshop looking El Alamein makes a welcome return to the Festival at early literacy. A fascinating event for The true signifi cance of the British stage to discuss the work of pre-eminent parents and those interested in recognising victory at the Battle of El Alamein in 1942 thinkers - notably Aristotle, Descartes, children’s language development and remains unrecognised. Or so believes Nietzsche and Russell - and examines the supporting their progress in emerging the respected writer, broadcaster and reasons behind their lasting impact on the reading and writing. Be amazed at how any fi lm-makerJonathan Dimbleby. In this history of philosophy. of us ever managed to do it! fascinating talk, he gives a dramatic new > L299 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > L300 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER account of the tide-turning battle; the > 10-11aM > £7 RES GaRDENS > 10-11aM > FREE – aDVaNCED subject of his book, Destiny in the Desert: BOOKING REQUIRED The Story Behind El Alamein.

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12-2pm 2-4pm BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ian mCewan HOME From The Cement Garden in 1978 to austerity, the euro & us Solar in 2010, Ian McEwan has long Giles Coren vince Cable, Evan Davis, Oliver Kamm been regarded as one of our foremost How to Eat Out & linda yueh novelists. He joins us to discuss his life and The Times’ columnist and TV presenter, How will the problems in the Eurozone writing career, along with his latest novel, Giles Coren, is also well-known for being an aff ect Britain in the long-term? Is our self- Sweet Tooth; a tale of espionage, set in award-winning restaurant critic, though he imposed austerity a route to prosperity or Cambridge in the 1970s. claims it has taken him a very long time to decline? To debate these vital economic > L304 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS learn how to eat out. In conversation with questions, we welcome vince Cable, the > 12-1PM > £9 RES Erica Wagner, The Times’ Literary Editor, Government’s Business Secretary, linda he looks back on a life “lived mostly in yueh, a leading economist and Evan Davis, restaurants”, and discusses his latest book, the BBC Radio 4 Today presenter. Chaired appropriately entitled: How to Eat Out. by The Times’ leader writer, Oliver Kamm. > L306 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > L301 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 2-3PM > £7 RES > 12-1PM > £8 LABORATORY: WORLD OF SURGERY Power and surGery We explore how issues of power and BUSINESS & ECONOMICS control permeate all aspects of surgery. In our lively panel discussion, ethicist vinCe Cable STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN Hugh Davies, historian of medicine and Away from his hectic role in government, Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow vince Cable is a bibliophile and, as he how to maKe a musiCal Richard Barnett and clinician and cheerfully confesses, a romantic. In this educator Roger Kneebone highlight personal interview, he discusses his life, his tom Chambers, Ruthie Henshall some controversial issues before widening work and talks about the books that have & Julian Woolford the debate to the whole audience. Chaired shaped his life. What books would he pass We are delighted to welcome three by philosopher Raymond tallis. on to future generations of readers? leading lights of West End musical theatre, to discuss all aspects of writing, > L305 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > L307 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE producing and performing in musicals: > 12-1PM > £6 RES > 2-3PM > £10 tom Chambers, star of Top Hat; Ruthie > L350 > EVENt SERIES £15.00 Henshall, Broadway and West End star and the author of So You Want to Be in Musicals? and Julian Woolford, director, librettist and the author of How Musicals Work. > L303 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 12-1PM > £8

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4-6pm riChard ford sKy sessions POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS Pulitzer-Prize winning US writer Richard Join us at the Sky Sessions for a chance to Ford joins us to discuss Canada, his fi rst sample some of the best Sky has to off er. Jeremy bowen novel for six years. A tragedy in three acts, Tap into your passions and interests with the Arab Spring it questions the fi ne line between the exclusive screenings, thought provoking Last year’s so-called “Arab Spring” marked normal and the extraordinary, and the Q&As and much more. a major turning point in the history of the moments that haunt our settled view of For a list of events, please visit Arab region. Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s the world. cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature long-serving Middle East Editor was on the ground during the revolutionary > L321 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > L311 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER protests, and shares his experience in a > 2-3PM > £8 GaRDENS > 2-3PM > £3.00 new book, Unfi nished Revolutions. He PATHWAYS gives his expert analysis of the uprisings, capturing the thoughts and feelings of findinG PeaCe in libya the people involved and putting them in political context. Following the bitter civil war and the fi rst free elections for 60 years, can Libya move > L313 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE forward into an era of peace and stability THE BIG READ > 4-5PM > £9 which takes account of the beliefs of all its citizens? The Libyan activist Zahra’ James bond – dr no langhi, joins Alison Pargeter, author of the Big Reading Libya: The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi , and the Join us for these free live readings from BBC’s Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen Ian Fleming’s gripping and atmospheric to discuss this complex issue. Chaired by thriller Dr No. Each reading is narrated Ed Stourton. either by our suave hero, James Bond, or > L308 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE the eponymous sinister villain, hell-bent david mitChell > 2-3PM > £7 on world domination. Who will you encounter? You may know David Mitchell for his inappropriate anger on TV panel shows > L312 > WatERStONES BOOK tENt like Mock the Week; his look of permanent –MONtPELLIER GaRDENS discomfort on Channel 4 comedy Peep > 2.30-3PM > FREE Show, or just for wearing a stick-on moustache in That Mitchell and Webb david walliams Look. Now he has written Back Story, a These days comedian, actor, children’s “disgusting” book about his life, and joins writer, Britain’s Got Talent judge and charity us to pull it apart. fundraiser, David Walliams is rarely > L314 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS absent for long from the headlines, our TV > 4-5PM > £10 RES screens or the bestseller lists. He joins us for an entertaining and revealing hour of conversation to mark the publication of his autobiography, Camp David, a book that has already been described as a “roller- coaster ride of emotions”. > L309 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 2-3PM > £10 RES

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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS FAMILY EVENT BOOK IT! from a Crisis to a drama Julian baGGini, marCus the inGo ChroniCles with Aifric Campbell, Sarah Churchwell Chown & aC GraylinG helen dunmore John lanchester & Paul Mason Ask Me a Question A brand-new Ingo adventure begins with As Britain struggles to recover from the Why is the sea salty? How far away is the atmospheric and thrilling Stormswept. banking crisis, we examine fi ctional space? What makes me me? These are Immerse yourself in the Mer-world created money men and women from the past just some of the questions posed by by Helen Dunmore and fi nd out what it and present with Aifric Campbell, children in Big Questions from Little People is like to race along currents, swim with author of On the Floor, John lanchester, - Answered by some Very Big People and dolphins and leave the ordinary world author of Capital, literary critic Sarah answered by an illustrious panel of experts behind. Churchwell, and the author of Rare Earth, including philosophers Julian Baggini > LB93 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 10+ BBC Newsnight Economics Editor Paul and AC Grayling and scientist Marcus > 5.45-6.30PM > £5.50 Mason. What do these anti-heroes tell us Chown. In a lively, brain-teasing event about social attitudes to money and the for adults and youngsters alike, join us to 6-8pm money-makers? pose your very own questions live to the > L315 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS experts or tweet them to @cheltfestivals darCey bussell > 4-5PM > £7 RES #cheltlitfest A Dancing life > L317 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > aGE 12+ The distinguished dancing career > 4-5PM > £6 of Darcey Bussell, one of the most celebrated ballerinas of her time, has been captured in A Life in Pictures, a sKy sessions stunning chronicle in images by leading Join us at the Sky Sessions for a chance to photographers including Mario Testino, TRAVEL sample some of the best Sky has to off er. Lord Snowdon, and Mary McCartney. In Tap into your passions and interests with celebration of its publication, she joins Julia bradbury exclusive screenings, thought provoking us to share her memories and personal Wainwright Walks Q&As and much more. anecdotes of a life in dance. The Countryfi le presenter joins us for a For a list of events, please visit > L320 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE highly enjoyable illustrated account of her cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature > 6-7PM > £8 experiences following in the footsteps of > L319 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE – MONtPELLIER famous fell-walker and guide writer Alfred GaRDENS > 5-6PM > £3 SCIENCE AT LITERATURE Wainwright, and tells us behind the scenes tales of the making the popular BBC TV steven PinKer Wainwright Walks series. & aC GraylinG > L316 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE Contrary to popular belief, humankind > 4-5PM > £8 has become progressively less violent, over the millennia, and we are much less likely to die at someone else’s hands than ever before. So claims eminent psychologist and author, Steven Pinker in his controversial recent book, The Better Angels of Our Nature. He joins philosopher AC Grayling to debate the human race’s propensity for good. > L322 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 6-7PM > £8.00

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STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN FESTIVAL FOCUS 8-10pm tom hollander south afriCa, truth STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN The popular actor has starred in & fiCtion Hollywood blockbusters and was a Janet Suzman was born in South Africa twenty twelve memorable Mr Collins in Pride and and has revisited the country in recent The hilarious spoof Olympics documentary Prejudice with Keira Knightley. There was years to produce her stunning post- Twenty Twelve seemed to many viewers widespread acclaim for the Bafta award- apartheid version of Hamlet, whilst Sue to contain an element of plausibility. winning Rev, the series he created with MacGregor started her broadcasting Series writer John Morton, the series writer James Wood. Here he discusses his career in apartheid South Africa and producer Paul Schlesinger and the actor career, the inspiration for Rev and what it was a close friend of political activist Amelia Bullmore (Kay Hope, Head of is like to play Adam Smallbone, the all-too- Helen Suzman. They join novelist Patrick Sustainability) join us to look back on human inner-city vicar. Flanery, author of the gripping new the 2012 Games and ask: What would Ian Fletcher have done diff erently? > L323 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS novel Absolution to discuss South Africa, > 6-7PM > £9 RES truth and fi ction, and the challenges of > L325 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE refl ecting the nation’s recent past on the > 8-9PM > £9 page and stage. > L324 > tHE SaLON – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS > 6-7PM > FREE – aDVaNCED BOOKING REQUIRED tony robinson STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN The Blackadder actor, presenter, and political activist tony Robinson talks anton du beKe about his incredibly varied career on stage, The top ballroom dancer and popular in print and on screen, and why he still SCIENCE AT LITERATURE Strictly star Anton du Beke joins us to talk feels compelled to speak out about the about B is for Ballroom, an A - Z guide for issues of the day. the modern family armchair affi cionadoes of this demanding > L310 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE Many modern families have more than pursuit. Do you know your Botafago from > 6-7PM > £8 two parents, and techniques like IVF, egg your Cucaracha? How did the Foxtrot get its donation and surrogacy have created name and why is the Quickstep so quick? families where there were none before. > L327 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE But now science has the potential to > 8-9PM > £8 create babies with three genetic parents. It could be life-saving for many, but how does society weigh up the consequences of allowing, or not allowing, this procedure to become mainstream? Family psychologist Susan Golombok, scientist Doug turnbull, ethicist Julian Baggini and Mark Henderson from the Wellcome Trust look at the ethics and evidence for the new modern family. > L336 > PaRaBOLa aRtS CENtRE > 6-7PM > £7

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STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN STUDIO, STAGE & SCREEN Janet suZman John simm not Hamlet: Shakespeare’s Women John Simm is one of our most acclaimed Cleopatra, St Joan, Ophelia and Hedda - and versatile actors well-known for his the great Janet Suzman has played all the stage roles in Hamlet and Betrayal as well seminal roles for women in the classical as TV work including Van Gogh in The make a date canon. Here she joins us to discuss her Yellow House, Crime and Punishment and remarkable life and work and explore her Life on Mars. Here he joins us to discuss his for next year assertion that female characters in classical varied and fascinating career including drama are not on a level with their male working with Jimmy McGovern, Paul Cheltenham Jazz Festival Abbott, Abi Morgan and many others. counterparts. She asks why this is, and 1 - 6 may 2013 why, on TV, fi lm and the stage, this remains > L329 > tHE FORUM – MONtPELLIER GaRDENS the case. > 8-9PM > £12 RES The Times Cheltenham > L298 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE Science Festival > 8-9PM > £8 SCIENCE AT LITERATURE 4 - 9 June 2013 the GeeK manifesto Cheltenham Music Festival 3 -14 July 2013 There has never been a better time to be a geek: what was once an insult has The Times Cheltenham increasingly become a badge of honour. Literature Festival From public health and clean energy to education and crime, Mark Henderson 11 - 20 october 2013 argues that science matters to every aspect of society and politics. Hear his rallying call to all geeks and wannabe geeks to join together in a new force our leaders cannot ignore. > L335 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 8-9PM > £7

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Winnie the Witch © Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul, published by Oxford University Press events that I wouldn’t © Winnie the Witch illustration Korky Paul necessarily have gone welCome to booK it! …The FeSTivAL WiThin A FeSTivAL to see. I thoroughly It’s been a great pleasure putting together this year’s programme and I hope you’ll be as excited as I am by the diverse range of events on off er for children and young adults. You can meet everyone from Peppa Pig to Jacqueline Wilson, enjoyed them all.’’ Peter Rabbit to Anthony Horowitz, and take part in over a hundred events. 2012 is the year of the illustrator and we Audience member welcome some of our most esteemed artists including cover designer Korky Paul, Polly Dunbar, Axel Scheﬄ er, and David Roberts. Come and be inspired by this family friendly celebration of storytelling, reading and writing. I hope to see you there! JOIN TODAY FROM £15 | 0844 880 8094 | cheltenhamfestivals.com/membership Jane Churchill, Book It! Director the festival for families & younG readers 5–14 oCtober 2012

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It’s been a great pleasure putting together this year’s programme and I hope you’ll be as excited as I am by the diverse range of events on off er for children and young adults. You can meet everyone from Peppa Pig to Jacqueline Wilson, Peter Rabbit to Anthony Horowitz, and take part in over a hundred events. 2012 is the year of the illustrator and we welcome some of our most esteemed artists including cover designer Korky Paul, Polly Dunbar, Axel Scheffl er, and David Roberts. Come and be inspired by this family friendly celebration of storytelling, reading and writing. I hope to see you there! Jane Churchill, Book It! 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Enjoy readings from a stunning new bear, Hugless Douglas That’s Mr and Mrs her early writing days Anthony Horowitz Or clothes that we can’t believe we collection of our best-loved poems in an afternoon of fun Grunt, who are neither and career in is without question thought were cool (dungarees, anyone?) iF: A Treasury of Poems for Almost Every and creativity with the clean nor clever and journalism, with top one of the world’s Well, Carol Midgley, celebrated journalist Possibility and join a prime crop of bear’s creator, David their son, Sunny, who tips for getting your most celebrated and author of My Family and Other Freaks, budding poets as we celebrate with the Melling. Learn how to has that kind of own magazine off the writers for young shows you how to turn the cringiest incredibly talented winners of this national draw Hugless Douglas, sticky-up hair which ground! And meet the people as well as moments from your life into entertaining competition. Hear the winning entries listen while David NEVER goes fl at, even fi ve very diff erent adults. Hear Anthony anecdotes and hilarious stories, as she read by the winners themselves in all three reads the Hugless Douglas stories and let if you massage glue into it and then jump Tanberry sisters in Summer’s Dream, the talk about the does every week in her column in categories, from under six years-old to loose your imagination with awesome on it. Join Philip Ardagh and Axel latest instalment of The Chocolate Box Girls inspirations, passions The Times. teens. Prizes will be presented by the Poet craft activities. Scheffl er for frankly improbable but very and decide which one is your favourite! and experiences behind writing some of > LB5 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH > aGE 11-15 Laureate Carol Ann Duff y and the Editor funny adventures involving bendy railings, his most loved children’s books, including > 10-10.45aM > £5 of The Times, James Harding. > LB14 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH > aGE 3-6 > LB22 > tHE PLaYHOUSE > aGE 9+ Alex Rider and fi nd out about Oblivion, the > 2.30-3.15PM > £5.50 double-barrelled shotguns, full-fat yoghurt > 6-6.45PM > £5.50 epic and fi nal instalment in the bestselling > LB9 > tHE LItERaRY LOUNGE > aGE 5+ and, always, a beard of bees. fantasy series, The Power of Five. tilly and friends > 12-1PM > FREE-aDVaNCE BOOKING REQUIRED > LB18 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH > aGE 7-9 write on! worKshoPs Join author and illustrator Polly Dunbar winnie’s dinosaur day > 4-4.45PM > £5 > LB1 > SKY aRtS GaRDEN tHEatRE > aGE 12+ as she introduces you to a special little Meet Korky Paul, the World’s Greatest illustrate the basher way > 6.30-7.30PM > £7 girl called Tilly. She lives in a little yellow Portrait Painter and Dinosaur Drawer! th Join Simon Basher, house with her friends, and together they Korky will be reading and sketching from a dear Zoo 30 anniversary the creator and get up to all sorts of adventures! With live number of his bestselling titles, including Join in the animal menagerie and illustrator of the drawing and storytelling, you might just the BRAND-NEW and eagerly awaited celebrate 30 years of this family favourite! bestselling Basher be lucky enough to meet Polly’s other Winnie’s Dinosaur Day. Full of energy, wit Inspired by Rod Campbell’s classic series of science picture book characters too! FAMILY EVENT and enthusiasm, Korky demonstrates how children’s book Dear Zoo, this event will books, as he reading, writing and drawing are such have you roaring like a lion, hopping like demonstrates how he > LB6 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 3-6 Charles diCKens > 11.30aM-12.15PM > £5 fantastic fun! a frog and trumpeting like an elephant on creates his iconic sat 6 oCt In celebration of the > LB15 > tHE PLaYHOUSE > aGE 5-8 our search for the perfect pet! characters and gives FAMILY EVENT bicentenary of the > 2.30-3.15PM > £5.50 > LB19 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 3-5 tips and advice to aspiring illustrators and FAMILY EVENT birth of Charles > 4-4.45PM > £5.50 artists. Get a step-by-step guide to how to really wild adventures Dickens, award- craft your own quirky characters, or Cressida Cowell winning authors and don’t flush! creatures, and help make a special one-off Meet BBC presenter FAMILY EVENT Join the brilliantly talented author and illustrators Mick What have leather, gunpowder, Big Ben Festival character. and author Michaela illustrator, Cressida Cowell, for plenty of Manning and Brita and the world’s most expensive coff ee a year in the forest with Strachan who is here > LB4 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH > aGE 10-14 fun as she presents How to Seize a Dragon’s Granström reveal got in common? The answer: they are all the way from South sally Pomme Clayton > 10aM-12PM > £15 Jewel, the latest title in her hilarious How how the dramatic and all made using pee and poo! In this Africa to talk about Journey into the fairytale forest, under to Train Your Dragon series which then often amusing events in his life, especially fascinating talk, authors Mary and Richard her love of animals dappled sun and falling leaves, over thick became a hit DreamWorks fi lm. Find in childhood, infl uenced some of his Platt explore the many uses of the world’s and her latest book for snow and a carpet of fl owers, as Sally out where her inspiration for new and best-loved stories. Live drawing and most neglected resources: the stuff we children, Really Wild Pomme Clayton tells four classic fairytales terrifying dragons comes from and how audience participation guaranteed! fl ush away as waste - as featured in their Adventures - a from the Brothers Grimm. The stories she develops her characters and plots. If new book Don’t Flush. collection of fun and factual poems about > LB10 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 9+ > 1-1.45PM > £5 follow the seasons, evoking a year of you like events stuff ed full of stories and her encounters with amazing creatures! > LB16 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 7-10 magic, change and transformation. Look humour then don’t miss this one. out for helpful elves; bold girls; a wicked ideas everywhere with > LB7 > tHE PLaYHOUSE > aGE 7+ drawinG the Gruffalo > 2.30-3.15PM > £5 > LB2 > tHE PLaYHOUSE > aGE 7-12 dwarf; a fairy ring that makes you dance; Polly dunbar > 11.30aM-12.15PM > £5.50 and friends robbers and a prince under a spell. > 10-10.45aM > £5.50 Join Polly Dunbar, Axel Scheffl er is the popular illustrator Zombies! with Charlie This performance is not suitable for children under 6. acclaimed illustrator beasts and exPlorers! of works such as The Gruff alo, The Snail hiGson and ian of Tilly and Friends livinGstone > LB20 > tHE PLaYHOUSE > aGE 7-11 Zoe and beans: Pants on and the Whale and Room on the Broom. > 4.15-5.15PM > £6 and Penguin to create the moon Journey across Join him in drawing the Gruff alo and his Writer, actor and a giant picture book treacherous terrain, other fun friends for your eyes only! Don’t comedian Charlie about how to write a Created by father and performing daring miss out on the exclusive introduction Higson, author of the picture book! During daughter team, Mick deeds along the way to the Latin edition of The Gruff alo from phenomenally this creative session and Chloe Inkpen, with Chris Judge, translator Ben Harris! successful Young Bond participants will meet the loveably award-winning series and zombie collectively create the story and set it to lively Zoe and her illustrator of The > LB11 > tHE PLaYHOUSE > aGE 5-8 > 1-1.45PM > £6 series, The Enemy, will an array of glorious images with tips from devoted dog Beans in Lonely Beast and The be talking about his ww2 a pro! a world full of fun, Great Explorer, in this writing and his latest Join two brilliant friendship, magical action-packed adventure session. Learn Poodle Problems and teen book The Sacrifi ce with Ian writers talking about > LB13 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH > aGE 7-10 adventures... and how to draw your very own beast too! dotty dalmations livingstone, co-creator of the worldwide diff erent aspects > 2- 4PM > £15 pants! Chloe Inkpen will take you on a bestselling gamebook series, Fighting of WW2. Elizabeth fun-fi lled ride in this crafty storytelling > LB8 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH > aGE 5-8 If you love animals, you’ll love Anna > 11.30aM-12.15PM > £5 Fantasy. Ian’s brand-new zombie-slaying Wein’s heartbreaking FOR MORE session. Not to be missed! Wilson’s stories! Come and hear how tale of a friendship her pets inspired her to write her latest adventure, Blood of the Zombies celebrates DEtAIlS On > LB3 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 4-6 > 10-10.45aM 30 years of these interactive adventures. between two women, books The Poodle Problem and The Code Name Verity, is WRItE On! > £5 Be prepared to be scared, very scared! Dotty Dalmatian. She will also tell you partly inspired by her love of fl ying, and WORKSHOPS a funny story about Pup Idol which has > LB17 > tHE INKPOt > aGE 12+ Hollywood screenwriter William Osborne mysteriously come to have a life of its own! GO tO > 4-5PM > £6 imagines what might have happened if PAGE 96 > LB12 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH > aGE 7-10 Hitler had had a child in Hitler’s Angel. > 1-1.45PM > £5 > LB21 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 12+ > 5.30-6.30PM > £5

92 The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival booK it! the festival for families & young readers huGless douGlas Party the Grunts the ChoColate box Girls Come and give a big Are YOU ready to Join Cathy Cassidy as hug to the loveable meet The Grunts? she shares stories of bear, Hugless Douglas That’s Mr and Mrs her early writing days in an afternoon of fun Grunt, who are neither and career in and creativity with the clean nor clever and journalism, with top bear’s creator, David their son, Sunny, who tips for getting your Melling. Learn how to has that kind of own magazine off the draw Hugless Douglas, sticky-up hair which ground! And meet the listen while David NEVER goes fl at, even fi ve very diff erent reads the Hugless Douglas stories and let if you massage glue into it and then jump Tanberry sisters in Summer’s Dream, the loose your imagination with awesome on it. Join Philip Ardagh and Axel latest instalment of The Chocolate Box Girls craft activities. Scheﬄ er for frankly improbable but very and decide which one is your favourite! > LB14 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH > aGE 3-6 funny adventures involving bendy railings, > LB22 > tHE PLaYHOUSE > aGE 9+ > 2.30-3.15PM > £5.50 double-barrelled shotguns, full-fat yoghurt > 6-6.45PM > £5.50 and, always, a beard of bees. > LB18 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH > aGE 7-9 write on! worKshoPs winnie’s dinosaur day > 4-4.45PM > £5 Meet Korky Paul, the World’s Greatest illustrate the basher way Portrait Painter and Dinosaur Drawer! th Join Simon Basher, Korky will be reading and sketching from a dear Zoo 30 anniversary the creator and number of his bestselling titles, including Join in the animal menagerie and illustrator of the the BRAND-NEW and eagerly awaited celebrate 30 years of this family favourite! bestselling Basher Winnie’s Dinosaur Day. Full of energy, wit Inspired by Rod Campbell’s classic series of science and enthusiasm, Korky demonstrates how children’s book Dear Zoo, this event will books, as he reading, writing and drawing are such have you roaring like a lion, hopping like demonstrates how he fantastic fun! a frog and trumpeting like an elephant on creates his iconic > LB15 > tHE PLaYHOUSE > aGE 5-8 our search for the perfect pet! characters and gives > 2.30-3.15PM > £5.50 > LB19 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 3-5 tips and advice to aspiring illustrators and > 4-4.45PM > £5.50 artists. Get a step-by-step guide to how to craft your own quirky characters, or don’t flush! FAMILY EVENT creatures, and help make a special one-off What have leather, gunpowder, Big Ben Festival character. and the world’s most expensive coff ee a year in the forest with > LB4 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH > aGE 10-14 got in common? The answer: they are sally Pomme Clayton > 10aM-12PM > £15 all made using pee and poo! In this Journey into the fairytale forest, under fascinating talk, authors Mary and Richard dappled sun and falling leaves, over thick Platt explore the many uses of the world’s snow and a carpet of fl owers, as Sally most neglected resources: the stuff we Pomme Clayton tells four classic fairytales fl ush away as waste - as featured in their from the Brothers Grimm. The stories new book Don’t Flush. follow the seasons, evoking a year of > LB16 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 7-10 magic, change and transformation. Look > 2.30-3.15PM > £5 out for helpful elves; bold girls; a wicked ideas everywhere with dwarf; a fairy ring that makes you dance; Polly dunbar robbers and a prince under a spell. Join Polly Dunbar, Zombies! with Charlie This performance is not suitable for children under 6. acclaimed illustrator hiGson and ian of Tilly and Friends livinGstone > LB20 > tHE PLaYHOUSE > aGE 7-11 > 4.15-5.15PM > £6 and Penguin to create Writer, actor and a giant picture book comedian Charlie about how to write a Higson, author of the picture book! During phenomenally this creative session successful Young Bond participants will series and zombie collectively create the story and set it to series, The Enemy, will an array of glorious images with tips from be talking about his ww2 a pro! writing and his latest Join two brilliant teen book The Sacrifi ce with Ian writers talking about > LB13 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH > aGE 7-10 livingstone, co-creator of the worldwide diff erent aspects > 2- 4PM > £15 bestselling gamebook series, Fighting of WW2. Elizabeth Fantasy. Ian’s brand-new zombie-slaying Wein’s heartbreaking FOR MORE adventure, Blood of the Zombies celebrates tale of a friendship DEtAIlS On 30 years of these interactive adventures. between two women, Be prepared to be scared, very scared! Code Name Verity, is WRItE On! partly inspired by her love of fl ying, and WORKSHOPS > LB17 > tHE INKPOt > aGE 12+ Hollywood screenwriter William Osborne GO tO > 4-5PM > £6 imagines what might have happened if PAGE 96 Hitler had had a child in Hitler’s Angel. > LB21 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 12+ > 5.30-6.30PM > £5

Box Office 0844 880 8094 cheltenhamfestivals.com/tickets 93 sunday 7 oCtober booK it! the festival for families & young readers sun 7 oCt FAMILY EVENT FAMILY EVENT write on! worKshoPs FAMILY EVENT my hamster is a Genius! what is ContemPorary oriGami yoda! viCtorians, GeorGians adventure writinG with Meet nine-year-old art? tom Angleberger, and the blaCK death Josh laCey bestselling author of booK it! breaKfast Benjamin Jinks and his Join Jacky and Suzy Meet three Journey the world The Strange Case of Come along for brilliant breakfast fun with grumpy new pet, Klein as they guide exceptional writers over with Josh lacey, Origami Yoda and plenty of activities from the Walker Books Jasper Stinkybottom. you through the world whose love of history author of The Island of Darth Paper Strikes team and delicious breakfast goodies. Benjamin is a normal of contemporary art. has inspired their Thieves and new title Back is jetting in from Let Petr Horáček, author and illustrator boy who hates maths. Fun and informative, powerful and gripping The Sultan’s Tigers as the USA. He will be of Puffi n Peterand The Fly show you how Stinky is a genius their interactive novels. Mary Hooper he helps you write here to tell you all he makes picture books, and then join hamster, who likes introduction asks kids explores the world of your own adventure about the latest in the in making one of your own! Cuddle the carrots. Together they to get involved, react mediums and the story. Perfect for series, The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee Walker Bear and take away your own are an unstoppable team. Author Dave and respond to some afterlife at the height budding young and you will be making origami creations goody bag. Breakfast and newspapers for lowe wants to know about your genius of the great art of the last 60 years by of the spiritualist craze in Victorian Britain authors, this workshop provides tips and of your very own. parents included! pets and to tell you more about what major artists such as Andy Warhol and in Velvet. Set in Georgian England, advice for writing the best action-packed Places limited to 50 children Stinky’s up to! Damien Hirst. > LB34 > tHE PLaYHOUSE > aGE 9+ Marie-louise Jensen’s heroine in The Girl adventure tales! > LB26 > QUEEN’S HOtEL > aGE 6-9 > 1.30-2.15PM > £5.50 in the Mask is lady by day… thief by night. > LB23 > SPIEGELtENt > CHILDREN aGE 2-6 > LB31 > tHE PLaYHOUSE > aGE 10+ > LB27 > PaRaBOLa aRtS CENtRE > aGE 9-13 > 10-10.45aM > £5 > 12-12.45PM > £5 Sally nicholls talks about All Fall Down, a aND tHEIR FaMILIES > 9.30-11aM > £5 FAMILY EVENT story of survival in the face of real-life > 10aM-12PM > £15 With thanks to Walker Books horror during the Black Death. moomin adventures! maKe a leGo® friends eoin Colfer > LB39 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 11+ > 3-4PM > £5 PlottinG a novel with Moomintroll and Cally mosaiC! A not to be missed, sit daniel finn law - author of The Have fun with LEGO® bricks! A chance to on the edge of your Moomin Adventure get hands-on experience of a large-scale seat event as Eoin Comedy CaPers Join Daniel Finn, Book - will be teaching LEGO® project with help from an expert. Colfer takes you on an Join children’s author, comedian and CBBC author of Two Good little adventurers how Come and meet our LEGO® Certifi ed adrenaline fuelled star Ciaran Murtagh for a wildly inventive Thieves and Call Down to take plaster casts of Professional and help to make a fl oor exposé of teenage session and help him make up some Thunder, for an paw prints, identify mosaic featuring the LEGO® Friends criminal mastermind, stories. You might be juggling with genies inspiring and creative bugs and fl utter-bys characters. As well as hints and tips Artemis Fowl, and or dancing with dinosaurs, but whichever, writing workshop. and build a bee hotel! on building, there’ll be face-painting, talks about the it will be lots of fun! Learn how to write a JaCQueline wilson Stick around after the workshop to learn delicious cupcakes and a goody bag to eagerly anticipated FINAL instalment in story from a place that > LB40 > QUEEN’S HOtEL > aGE 7-10 does not exist and Come and hear the how to pitch a tent and hunt for treasure - take away. the Artemis Fowl series, Artemis Fowl and > 4-4.45PM > £5 make it feel absolutely real. Not to be utterly brilliant Moomin-style! the Last Guardian. > LB32 > QUEEN’S HOtEL > aGE 6+ missed! Jacqueline Wilson > LB28 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 5+ > 1-1.45PM > £6 > LB35 > tHE SaLON > aGE 10+ > 2-3PM > £6 talk about her work > 10.15-11aM > £5.50 the Pirates next door > LB36 > PaRaBOLa aRtS CENtRE > aGE 12-18 including her new Pirates Ahoy! Calling all landlubbers and > 2-4PM > £15 book Emerald Star emma ChiChester ClarK Gym stars swashbuckling hearties - Capt. Duddle is - the third story about bob and the moon tree The creator of Blue Cartwheel into the in town! Known to his friends as Jonny, Victorian foundling, mystery Kangaroo is here to exciting and energetic he’s the person behind the award-winning FOR MORE Hetty Feather. There Everyone’s favourite and bestselling picture books, The Pirate introduce her loveable world of gymnastics DEtAIlS On will be a chance for you to ask your own astronaut Bob the new characters from with author Jane Cruncher and The Pirates Next Door. And questions, and a limited book signing after Man on the Moon is the latest series, lawes. From he’s had a crafty hand in the Aardman fi lm, WRItE On! the event. back with a new Wagtail Town, friendships and The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists. WORKSHOPS adventure, Bob and Best dressed pirates welcome! As we only have Jacqueline for a limited featuring Lulu - a little backfl ips, to GO tO time, the holders of the fi rst 200 child the Moon Tree Mystery. dog with BIG ideas - handsprings and > LB38 > tHE PLaYHOUSE > aGE 5-8 PAGE 96 tickets sold will be able to get their books Simon Bartram and her best friend, homework, gym-mad > 4.30-5.15PM > £5 signed - so book early! celebrates 10 years of Alfi e. Emma will draw them and tell you all Jane will talk about her favourite sport in Bob with this new > LB24 > tOWN HaLL > aGE 9+ > 10-11aM > £7 about them, and there may be a visit from the world, and a few others too. Perfect for FAMILY EVENT picture book. Will there be any aliens to a very special guest… budding sports stars! spot? Come along and fi nd out! > LB33 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 4-7 > LB37 > QUEEN’S HOtEL > aGE 8-11 adventure round the > LB29 > QUEEN’S HOtEL > aGE 4-6 > 1.30-2.15PM > £5 > 2.30-3.15PM > £5 world > 11.30aM-12.15PM > £5 If you love adventure FAMILY EVENT come and meet three FAMILY EVENT amazing writers of elmer and friends action packed stories. GoldiloCKs variations Join master storyteller David McKee for Anthony McGowan FAMILY EVENT Come along and meet a very special event and celebrate the has re-imagined the the adventures of Allan and Jessica publication of his new book Elmer, Rose classic Willard Price Ahlberg. Hear all and Super El. With lots of live drawing from animal adventures for aChilles about their lovely new the creator of King Rollo, Mr Benn and of a new generation of Master storytellers Hugh lupton and book. It has Goldilocks course, everyone’s favourite patchwork readers in Leopard Adventure, Josh lacey’s Daniel Morden open the gates of Troy in it, 33 bears in it, elephant, this event is not to be missed! (Josh Doder) latest Grk story follows Tim and invite you to share The Adventures of talking furniture in it, and his beloved dog Grk to Italy in Grk and Achilles, an enthralling retelling of the Iliad. dancing rabbits in it, a > LB41 > tHE PLaYHOUSE > aGE 5+ > 3-3.45PM > £5.50 the Phoney Macaroni while Andy Briggs The twists and turns of this exciting epic ghost in it... and lots traces Tarzan’s footsteps in search of the have captivated audiences for nearly 3000 more. So, join us, if you can, and have a world’s most deadliest hunter and a years, and this retelling will not disappoint. HAPPY TIME! kidnapped ape in The New Adventures of No prior knowledge of Greek mythology Tarzan: The Jungle Warrior. required! > LB30 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 5+ > 12-12.45PM > £5.50 > LB42 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 9+ > 4.45-5.45PM > £5 > LB25 > tHE PLaYHOUSE > aGE 8+ > 10-11.10aM > £6

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FAMILY EVENT write on! worKshoPs oriGami yoda! viCtorians, GeorGians adventure writinG with tom Angleberger, and the blaCK death Josh laCey bestselling author of Meet three Journey the world The Strange Case of exceptional writers over with Josh lacey, Origami Yoda and whose love of history author of The Island of Darth Paper Strikes has inspired their Thieves and new title Back is jetting in from powerful and gripping The Sultan’s Tigers as the USA. He will be novels. Mary Hooper he helps you write here to tell you all explores the world of your own adventure about the latest in the mediums and the story. Perfect for series, The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee afterlife at the height budding young and you will be making origami creations of the spiritualist craze in Victorian Britain authors, this workshop provides tips and of your very own. in Velvet. Set in Georgian England, advice for writing the best action-packed > LB34 > tHE PLaYHOUSE > aGE 9+ Marie-louise Jensen’s heroine in The Girl adventure tales! > 1.30-2.15PM > £5.50 in the Mask is lady by day… thief by night. Sally nicholls talks about All Fall Down, a > LB27 > PaRaBOLa aRtS CENtRE > aGE 9-13 FAMILY EVENT story of survival in the face of real-life > 10aM-12PM > £15 horror during the Black Death. eoin Colfer > LB39 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 11+ > 3-4PM > £5 PlottinG a novel with A not to be missed, sit daniel finn on the edge of your seat event as Eoin Comedy CaPers Join Daniel Finn, Colfer takes you on an Join children’s author, comedian and CBBC author of Two Good adrenaline fuelled star Ciaran Murtagh for a wildly inventive Thieves and Call Down exposé of teenage session and help him make up some Thunder, for an criminal mastermind, stories. You might be juggling with genies inspiring and creative Artemis Fowl, and or dancing with dinosaurs, but whichever, writing workshop. talks about the it will be lots of fun! Learn how to write a eagerly anticipated FINAL instalment in story from a place that > LB40 > QUEEN’S HOtEL > aGE 7-10 does not exist and the Artemis Fowl series, Artemis Fowl and > 4-4.45PM > £5 the Last Guardian. make it feel absolutely real. Not to be missed! > LB35 > tHE SaLON > aGE 10+ > 2-3PM > £6 the Pirates next door > LB36 > PaRaBOLa aRtS CENtRE > aGE 12-18 Pirates Ahoy! Calling all landlubbers and > 2-4PM > £15 Gym stars swashbuckling hearties - Capt. Duddle is Cartwheel into the in town! Known to his friends as Jonny, exciting and energetic he’s the person behind the award-winning FOR MORE and bestselling picture books, The Pirate world of gymnastics DEtAIlS On with author Jane Cruncher and The Pirates Next Door. And lawes. From he’s had a crafty hand in the Aardman fi lm, WRItE On! friendships and The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists. WORKSHOPS Best dressed pirates welcome! backfl ips, to GO tO handsprings and > LB38 > tHE PLaYHOUSE > aGE 5-8 PAGE 96 homework, gym-mad > 4.30-5.15PM > £5 Jane will talk about her favourite sport in the world, and a few others too. Perfect for FAMILY EVENT budding sports stars! > LB37 > QUEEN’S HOtEL > aGE 8-11 adventure round the > 2.30-3.15PM > £5 world If you love adventure FAMILY EVENT come and meet three amazing writers of elmer and friends action packed stories. Join master storyteller David McKee for Anthony McGowan a very special event and celebrate the has re-imagined the publication of his new book Elmer, Rose classic Willard Price and Super El. With lots of live drawing from animal adventures for the creator of King Rollo, Mr Benn and of a new generation of course, everyone’s favourite patchwork readers in Leopard Adventure, Josh lacey’s elephant, this event is not to be missed! (Josh Doder) latest Grk story follows Tim > LB41 > tHE PLaYHOUSE > aGE 5+ > 3-3.45PM and his beloved dog Grk to Italy in Grk and > £5.50 the Phoney Macaroni while Andy Briggs traces Tarzan’s footsteps in search of the world’s most deadliest hunter and a kidnapped ape in The New Adventures of Tarzan: The Jungle Warrior. > LB42 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 9+ > 4.45-5.45PM > £5

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mon 8 oCt wed 10 oCt fri 12 oCt FUN @ FOUR FUN @ FOUR baby booKworms Have you ever wondered when to hiPPosPotamus with hannah shaw introduce your baby to a book? The Jeanne willis Put on your best answer is probably sooner than you Animals and their stripey tops and be a think! The youngest of babies can enjoy crazy antics feature in raccoon for the exploring texture, shape and sound in this many of Jeanne afternoon! Top author interactive workshop. It is a perfect session Willis’s best-loved and illustrator for parents and babies to enjoy together. books. Join her for a Hannah Shaw (Evil Numbers limited to 10 adult/baby pairs so fun-fi lled picture book Weasel, Erroll and book early to avoid disappointment! event and hear all Crocodiles are the Best about her new book Animals of All) is > WatERStONES CHILDREN’S HIDEaWaY FAntAStIC Hippospotamus! throwing a ‘School for Bandits’ themed > aGE 3-12 MONtHS party. There will be stories from her newest > £8 FOR aDULt/BaBY PaIR > LB43 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 3-6 > 4-4.30PM > £4 books, games, mask-making and even a > LB47 > 1-1.20PM bit of chocolate loot! FROlICKInG > LB48 > 2-2.20PM tues 9 oCt > LB45 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 4-7 > 4-4.45PM > £5 > LB49 > 3-3.20PM FUN @ FOUR FREE storytime with little thurs 11 oCt red ridinG hood FUN @ FOUR Join author and buttons FUN @ FOUR FAMIly storyteller lari Don Meet vivian French for plenty of audience where’s sPot? participation in this and Sue Heap, as they lively and exciting introduce you to their Where’s Spot? Have latest characters, the you seen him? Come Fun retelling of a much-loved tale Buttons family. In this along and join in the where Little Red interactive storytime, fun with this Riding Hood sets off featuring sing-along storytelling session featuring games, on a journey to visit her granny and meets songs, Vivian and Sue JOIn uS On SunDAy 7 & 14 OCtOBER, a handsome grey wolf along the way! will show you how dancing, plus a chance Cherry, Charlie and Baby Lou go through to meet the world’s 11AM-2PM FOR OuR SPECIAl FEStIvAl > LB44 >tHE StUDIO > aGE 3-6 > 4-4.30PM > £4 their fi rst experiences; from starting most lovable puppy! at the fabulous Festival… playschool to going to the doctor! > LB50 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 3-5 > 4-4.40PM > £5 FAMIly Fun tIME. tHERE’S PlEnty OF tICKEtED Guaranteed to entertain and delight your tAlKS AnD WORKSHOPS tO AttEnD, But little ones before they have to take their fi rst steps alone. AlSO lOADS OF FREE StuFF GOInG On… > LB46 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 3-6 > 4-4.30PM > £4 MEEt tHE StARS WHERE’S WAlly? Your favourite characters will be making an appearance at this Wally of Where’s Wally? fame celebrates his 25th birthday this year’s Festival with Blue Kangaroo, Moomintroll, Spot, Peter year. Wow! Join in the fun by searching for Wally, his friends vISItInG tHE FEStIvAl WItH CHIlDREn Rabbit, Winnie the Witch and Olivia all confi rmed to attend. and all of their lost things in Imperial Square Gardens. You Please stick to the recommended age range specifi ed for all Book It! events (those with a LB booking number). These Don’t forget your camera! could win a Where’s Wally? goody bag! Pick up your entry form ages are carefully chosen in consultation with publishers and performers, taking into account the event length, format from the Waterstones Children’s Hideaway. and content. If an event has a + sign after the age though, then this means that the event is suitable for everyone above tHE BREWERy Come down to The Brewery on Saturday 6 October for the given age, so don’t be afraid to bring older children, their siblings, aunties, uncles, or even grannies and granddads! CREAtE! lots of free activities for the whole family to enjoy. Look Help basket-maker Susan Early and calligrapher Andy Afterall, children under 12 years must be accompanied by a responsible person aged 16 or over, approved by the parent/ out for our fun competition in the run up to the Festival Moore make a giant willow open book. Taking place on guardian, and prices are kept as low as possible to allow for this. where you have the chance to win some fab prizes! Visit Sunday 7th October between 11am and 2pm as part of The A responsible person aged 16 or over approved by the parent/guardian can accompany up to six children to an event. thebrewerycheltenham.co.uk and cheltenhamfestivals.com Big Draw, we need young artists and writers to come along Cheltenham Festivals maintains a Child Protection Policy, but cannot act in loco parentis or take responsibility for for a full programme. and help weave the willow, write the next line of the book, unsupervised children. If your child is disruptive you may be asked to leave an event. or add a picture. The fi nished piece will be on show at the For all events except Write On! workshops a ticket must be purchased for each person attending. WAtERStOnES CHIlDREn’S HIDEAWAy Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham, as part of Octoberfest Pop into the Waterstones Children’s Hideaway for a fabulous (6-13 October). programme of free events and activities everyday through the Festival. Check online at cheltenhamfestivals.com. Organised by Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum and the WRItE On! WORKSHOPS Gloucestershire Guild in collaboration with the Cheltenham Our popular series of workshops is specifi cally designed for children. The capacity of these workshops is kept low to tHE DISCOvERy tRAIl Literature Festival. enable the children to be able to engage in more depth with a specifi c subject or to have more dedicated time for a New this year - follow the Discovery Trail and answer make-and-do project. questions about some of the best-loved characters in young You are only required to purchase a ticket for each child attending, and not for any accompanying adults. fi ction. Pick up your entry form at the Dean Close marquee. If you do not intend to remain at the workshop with your child then we ask parents/guardians to drop children off at the venue, sign them in and leave a mobile contact number in case of emergencies. Please ensure that you are able to collect your child from the workshop venue at the specifi ed end time.

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JOIn uS On SunDAy 7 & 14 OCtOBER, at the fabulous11AM-2PM Festival… FOR OuR SPECIAl FEStIvAl FAMIly Fun tIME. tHERE’S PlEnty OF tICKEtED tAlKS AnD WORKSHOPS tO AttEnD, But AlSO lOADS OF FREE StuFF GOInG On…

MEEt tHE StARS WHERE’S WAlly? Your favourite characters will be making an appearance at this Wally of Where’s Wally? fame celebrates his 25th birthday this year’s Festival with Blue Kangaroo, Moomintroll, Spot, Peter year. Wow! Join in the fun by searching for Wally, his friends Rabbit, Winnie the Witch and Olivia all confi rmed to attend. and all of their lost things in Imperial Square Gardens. You Don’t forget your camera! could win a Where’s Wally? goody bag! Pick up your entry form from the Waterstones Children’s Hideaway. tHE BREWERy Come down to The Brewery on Saturday 6 October for CREAtE! lots of free activities for the whole family to enjoy. Look Help basket-maker Susan Early and calligrapher Andy out for our fun competition in the run up to the Festival Moore make a giant willow open book. Taking place on where you have the chance to win some fab prizes! Visit Sunday 7th October between 11am and 2pm as part of The thebrewerycheltenham.co.uk and cheltenhamfestivals.com Big Draw, we need young artists and writers to come along for a full programme. and help weave the willow, write the next line of the book, or add a picture. The fi nished piece will be on show at the WAtERStOnES CHIlDREn’S HIDEAWAy Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham, as part of Octoberfest Pop into the Waterstones Children’s Hideaway for a fabulous (6-13 October). programme of free events and activities everyday through the Festival. Check online at cheltenhamfestivals.com. Organised by Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum and the Gloucestershire Guild in collaboration with the Cheltenham tHE DISCOvERy tRAIl Literature Festival. New this year - follow the Discovery Trail and answer questions about some of the best-loved characters in young fi ction. Pick up your entry form at the Dean Close marquee.

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sat 13 oCt FAMILY EVENT FAMILY EVENT FAMILY EVENT write on! worKshoPs Peter rabbit my Polar animals Journal Gods and warriors Judith Kerr dirty bertie doinG Crime with Come and celebrate with steve bloom Michelle Paver, the Judith Kerr is the Dirty Bertie - the world’s grubbiest trouble Chris ould Renowned photographer Steve Bloom international much loved creator of magnet with nose-pickingly disgusting Peter Rabbit’s 110th Pen the perfect crime takes you on an exciting journey to bestselling author of Mog, The Tiger Who habits - is back! And here’s your chance to birthday! Hop along with award-winning discover polar bears, big cats and other The Chronicles of Came to Tea and meet his creator. Illustrator David Roberts to this charming TV screenwriter and animals with a beautifully illustrated talk. Ancient Darkness, will author of the classic promises an interactive event jam-packed interactive puppet author of the new Steve will tell you how predators survive be talking about her When Hitler Stole Pink with Bertie chaos, lots of laughs show where The Street Duty series, in the wild and will share his adventures writing, inspiration Rabbit. This very and drawing! Tale of Peter Rabbit is Chris Ould. During while photographing them. He’ll also give and research for both special conversation brought to life. Help > LB70 >tHE StUDIO > aGE 6-8 > 4.15-5PM > £5 this workshop you will budding young photographers hints and this and her will include a reading Peter escape from be given expert tips tips about photographing animals at home brand-new series - Gods and Warriors. Set from her new book, The Great Granny Mr McGregor’s garden and help him on his on plotting and story or in the wild. in the Mediterranean Bronze Age, Gods Gang. the aCtion doGs QuiZ journey home. structure, as well as character motivation. and Warriors is the fi rst of fi ve epic Join award-winning > LB51 > PaRaBOLa aRtS CENtRE > aGE 4-7 > LB56 > PaRaBOLa aRtS CENtRE > LB65 > PaRaBOLa aRtS CENtRE > aGE 8+ Warning: contains explicit content. adventures, where two children’s battle for duo, Steve Barlow > 9.45-10.30aM > £6 > aGE 8+ > 11.15aM-12PM > £6 survival collides with myths, magic and > 2.30-3.15PM > £5.50 and Steve Skidmore, > LB55 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH > aGE 15-18 elemental powers. aka The 2 Steves, for > 10aM-12PM > £15 robert muChamore > LB60 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 10+ > 1-1.45PM > £5.50 ladybird storytellinG the supercharged Spring 1943. The war is turning against Pop along to be enchanted by two Action Dogs Quiz how to draw Claude Show! When killer cats Germany, but Hitler isn’t giving up. Find maGiC and mayhem wonderful children’s tales: Cinderella with alex t smith out how CHERUB began with author debi Gliori and Goldilocks and the Three Bears and are clawing for world domination it’s time to Don’t miss your Robert Muchamore, at this exclusive pre- Come and fi nd out all Magic spells, warty enter the world of fairytales told by unleash the Action Dogs! Be ready for a chance to meet the publication event for his brand-new book about award-winning toads, two cheeky our professional storyteller. A perfect doggy-bowl full of fun and laughter... super-talented Alex t in the Henderson’s Boys series, One Shot Kill. author and illustrator mice and a rather introduction to timeless and treasured you’d be barking mad to miss it! Smith! After briefl y Not suitable for younger readers. Debi Gliori’s latest unusual granny! stories. The wonderful world of considering careers in > LB52 > tHE INKPOt > aGE 11+ > 10-11aM book What’s the Time, > LB71 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH space travel and being Mr Wolf? There will be tracey Corderoy > LB66 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH > aGE 3-5 > aGE 7-10 > 5.15-6PM > £5 > £6 comes alive, with a > 2.30-3PM > £5 a rabbit, Alex decided lots of audience to become an participation, session full of stories, FAMILY EVENT fun and crafts based life, love and loss illustrator. And thank including a goodness he did - a rabbit couldn’t hop to around two of Tracey’s recent books: Monty harry and the JaGGedy Join three highly the wolves of masterclass in how to draw one of the Cheltenham to teach you how to draw a and Milli and Hubble Bubble, Granny Trouble! daGGers acclaimed writers for a willouGhby Chase characters from her books. custard-pie-throwing dog called Claude Take to the high seas lively discussion on > LB61 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH > aGE 4-7 and his smelly sidekick, Sir Bobblysock. Celebrating 50 years > LB57 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 4-7 with award-winning their extraordinary Get creative as together you produce a since the publication > 11.30aM-12.15PM > £5.50 > 1-1.45PM > £5 author and illustrator new novels. Mal giant mural of the fun to be had at a of The Wolves of Jan Fearnley as she Peet’s coming of age country fair! Willoughby Chase, join FAMILY EVENT reads from her latest story Life: An Exploded Joan Aiken’s daughter winGs and Co with sally Gardner and david inCredible edibles book Harry and the Diagram is set during > LB62 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH > aGE 7-11 lizza Aiken as she Jaggedy Daggers. Meet the Cold War and > 2-4PM > £15 talks all about her roberts CBBC’s Stefan Gates performs a mind- Harry the Harbour events leading up to the Cuban Missile mother’s wonderful Trains full of brightly blowing mix of science and extraordinary Mouse, discover Crisis. Sally Gardner’s novel Maggot Moon work and her own coloured bunnies, a cooking complete with explosions, Bottlenose Bay and then make and is narrated against the backdrop of a fascinating life surrounded by books. set of mischievous vegetable instruments and some of the decorate your own sailor hat! ruthless regime determined to beat its > LB53 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 9+ > 10-10.45aM > keys, talking cats and most bizarre foods on earth. This is as close enemies in the race to the moon and nick walking shops - it can as food gets to rock ‘n’ roll! > LB67 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH > aGE 5-7 lake’s powerful In Darkness vividly brings £5.50 FOR MORE only be a job for Wings > LB63 > tHE INKPOt > aGE 8+ > 2-3PM > £6 > 3.45-4.30PM > £5 to life the story of a young boy and a & Co! Join award- revolutionary leader, building a bridge DEtAIlS On willow valley winning I, Coriander FAMILY EVENT across the centuries of Haitian history. WRItE On! Meet Riley and author Sally Gardner murder mystery? > LB72 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 12+ WORKSHOPS Mimi-Rose the mice, and Dirty Bertie creator David Roberts for Meet three of our terry PratChett Starla the badger and an enchanting event brimming with > 5.45-6.45PM > £5 GO tO most compelling Join terry Pratchett PAGE 96 Horatio the hedgehog, mystery and magic as they introduce their crime writers for author of the the stars of the brand-new fairy detective agency series. young adults to fi nd bestselling Discworld fantastic new series by > LB58 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH > aGE 7-11 out whodunit? Dead series as he introduces tracey Corderoy. Join > 11.30aM-12.15PM > £5 Time is the fi rst in The his new novel, Dodger, in the fun with Tracey Murder Notebooks a tale of skulduggery and her four little series by Anne and dark deeds, set in helpers - giant hand puppets - and learn PePPa PiG Cassidy, award- Dickensian London. all about these friends and their Giggle and snort your way through a winning author of Looking for JJ. Street Terry will be in adventures in their secret home, Willow riotous event with the irresistible Peppa Duty: Knock Down by BAFTA-winning conversation with Rob Wilkins. Valley. Pig! Enjoy an interactive storytelling and screenwriter Chris Ould brings the very > LB68 > tHE FORUM > aGE 11+ > 4-5PM > £7 > LB54 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH > aGE 6-8 the chance to meet your favourite Pig in real world of the police force to life. Gregg > 10-10.45aM > £5 person. 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FAMILY EVENT write on! worKshoPs Judith Kerr dirty bertie doinG Crime with Judith Kerr is the Dirty Bertie - the world’s grubbiest trouble Chris ould much loved creator of magnet with nose-pickingly disgusting Mog, The Tiger Who habits - is back! And here’s your chance to Pen the perfect crime Came to Tea and meet his creator. Illustrator David Roberts with award-winning author of the classic promises an interactive event jam-packed TV screenwriter and When Hitler Stole Pink with Bertie chaos, lots of laughs author of the new Rabbit. This very and drawing! Street Duty series, special conversation Chris Ould. During > LB70 >tHE StUDIO > aGE 6-8 > 4.15-5PM > £5 will include a reading this workshop you will from her new book, The Great Granny be given expert tips Gang. the aCtion doGs QuiZ on plotting and story structure, as well as character motivation. > LB65 > PaRaBOLa aRtS CENtRE > aGE 8+ Join award-winning Warning: contains explicit content. duo, Steve Barlow > 2.30-3.15PM > £5.50 and Steve Skidmore, > LB55 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH > aGE 15-18 aka The 2 Steves, for > 10aM-12PM > £15 ladybird storytellinG the supercharged Pop along to be enchanted by two Action Dogs Quiz how to draw Claude wonderful children’s tales: Cinderella Show! When killer cats are clawing for world with alex t smith and Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Don’t miss your enter the world of fairytales told by domination it’s time to unleash the Action Dogs! Be ready for a chance to meet the our professional storyteller. A perfect super-talented Alex t introduction to timeless and treasured doggy-bowl full of fun and laughter... you’d be barking mad to miss it! Smith! After briefl y stories. considering careers in > LB71 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH space travel and being > LB66 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH > aGE 3-5 > aGE 7-10 > 5.15-6PM > £5 > 2.30-3PM > £5 a rabbit, Alex decided to become an life, love and loss illustrator. And thank goodness he did - a rabbit couldn’t hop to harry and the JaGGedy Join three highly Cheltenham to teach you how to draw a daGGers acclaimed writers for a custard-pie-throwing dog called Claude Take to the high seas lively discussion on and his smelly sidekick, Sir Bobblysock. with award-winning their extraordinary Get creative as together you produce a author and illustrator new novels. Mal giant mural of the fun to be had at a Jan Fearnley as she Peet’s coming of age country fair! reads from her latest story Life: An Exploded book Harry and the Diagram is set during > LB62 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH > aGE 7-11 Jaggedy Daggers. Meet the Cold War and > 2-4PM > £15 Harry the Harbour events leading up to the Cuban Missile Mouse, discover Crisis. Sally Gardner’s novel Maggot Moon Bottlenose Bay and then make and is narrated against the backdrop of a decorate your own sailor hat! ruthless regime determined to beat its enemies in the race to the moon and nick > LB67 > St aNDREW’S CHURCH > aGE 5-7 lake’s powerful In Darkness vividly brings FOR MORE > 3.45-4.30PM > £5 to life the story of a young boy and a revolutionary leader, building a bridge DEtAIlS On FAMILY EVENT across the centuries of Haitian history. WRItE On! WORKSHOPS terry PratChett > LB72 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 12+ > 5.45-6.45PM > £5 GO tO Join terry Pratchett PAGE 96 author of the bestselling Discworld series as he introduces his new novel, Dodger, a tale of skulduggery and dark deeds, set in Dickensian London. Terry will be in conversation with Rob Wilkins. > LB68 > tHE FORUM > aGE 11+ > 4-5PM > £7

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Inspired by turning children into novels set in Whenever Evie rides puzzles and beastly games to free the gear at the ready - his Weird World of Wonders series he’ll be authors in their own alternative worlds. them, she is whisked beasts from Marvel’s malicious spell. All Festival favourite highlighting all the most important, funny, right! Children will Catherine Fisher is away on a magical warriors will receive exclusive goodies! Andy Stanton is back! strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly collaborate in groups the fi rst ever Welsh adventure in a faraway Join the bestselling Mr and disgusting bits about the Egyptians, > LB90 > PaRaBOLa aRtS CENtRE to imagine, write, illustrate and have Young People’s land. This time, she Gum author for an Romans, British and Greeks. It’s history, > aGE 7-9 > 4.15-5PM > £5.50 published a 20 page story book. Parents Laureate and bestselling author of gets to ride a unicorn! Come to this sparkly unforgettable hour of but not as we know it. will have the opportunity to order copies Incarceron. In her new novel Obsidian session dressed in your best princess outfi t hilarity, mayhem and of the Mirror, time travel and the faery world > LB81 > SKY aRtS GaRDEN tHEatRE > aGE 8+ and join author Sarah KilBride for Mr Gum fun! national GeoGraPhiC fi nished book. collide. Moira young’s debut novel, Blood > 12-1PM > £6 activities and pony fun. QuiZ whiZ > LB73 > tHE INKPOt > aGE 7+ > 10-11aM > £6 Red Road, set in a post-apocalyptic world > LB86 > QUEEN’S HOtEL > aGE 5-7 Are you a Quiz Whiz? Come and fi nd out > LB77 > PaRaBOLa aRtS CENtRE > aGE 7-11 garnered huge praise. Hear her talk about six little ChiCKs > 2.30-3.15PM > £5.50 how much you know about everything > 10aM-12PM > £15 fireman sam’s 25th her inspirations and her hugely Award-winning author and illustrator from animals to space in the National anniversary anticipated follow-up, Rebel Heart. Jez Alborough brings you his latest Geographic Kids Quiz Whiz event. Plus GraPhiC novels > LB78 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 12+ book; a lovely, heart-warming tale of six sePtimus heaP with prizes and animal surprises from the team Calling all Fireman Sam fans! When anGie saGe masterClass with Garen a raging fi re threatens Pontypandy, > 11.30aM-12.30PM > £5 courageous chicks. The rhythmic, rhyming that brought you Infopedia, Quiz Whiz and ewinG text begs to be read aloud. Come along Come and hear Angie 125 True Stories of Amazing Animals! Fireman Sam and the Pontypandy fi re Join comics expert, crew jump to the rescue. Join liz Fost in with the whole family for a fun-fi lled event Sage talk about the > LB91 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 7-12 sir Charlie stinKy soCKs full of storytelling and drawing. diverse and Garen Ewing, author this exciting interactive story event and and the tale > 4.15-5PM > £5 and illustrator of the meet everyone’s favourite hero next door, > LB82 > QUEEN’S HOtEL > aGE 4-7 beautifully developed of two treasures world she has created FAMILY EVENT amazing Rainbow Fireman Sam! > 1-1.45PM > £5 Orchid graphic novels Bestselling author and in her bestselling for a workshop on LB74 > PaRaBOLa aRtS CENtRE > aGE 3-6 illustrator Kristina series, Septimus Heap. asK me a Question everything you need > 10-10.45aM > £6 Stephenson takes us seCret KinGdom Party Find out about the Julian Baggini, Marcus Chown & to know about how to on Sir Charlie Stinky latest book in the A C Grayling You are invited to create a graphic novel. Socks’ most terrifying series, Darke, and news on the movie horrible sCienCe enter a magical world Why is the sea salty? How far away is You will create your own adventure story quest yet! Following a which is currently in production. Are you a budding artist with a fascination of friendship and fun! space? What makes me me? These are just featuring heroes and villains devised by dusty, musty map, join for fungus? Or a crazy cartoonist with So polish up your > LB87 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 10+ some of the questions posed by children you. Garen will then teach you how to Sir Charlie as he enters a passion for poisonous plants? Then tiaras, bring your best > 2.45-3.30PM > £5 in Big Questions from Little People - draw characters, action poses, clothing, a spooky join tony De Saulles, illustrator of the friends, and come Answered by some Very Big People and objects and perspective. Using your new underground world with all manner of FAMILY EVENT bestselling Horrible Science series as he along for some answered by an illustrious panel of experts skills, you will bring your comic adventure tricks, traps and medieval puzzles. With introduces his new book, House of Horrors musical adventures, including philosophers Julian Baggini story to life in just four panels. interactive storytelling, songs, sound that’s life with robert and shows you how to draw the nasty magical games and and A C Grayling and scientist Marcus eff ects and props, this is an event not to be winston > LB85 > PaRaBOLa aRtS CENtRE > aGE 10-15 things you can fi nd in your house. Packed glittery craft activities. With exclusive Chown. In a lively, brain-teasing event for missed! > 2-4PM > £15 full of drawing tips and foul scientifi c facts, goodies for you and your friends to What makes Earth an adults and youngsters alike, join us to pose it’s all horribly here in this not-to-be > LB79 > PaRaBOLa aRtS CENtRE > aGE 5-8 > take home! ideal place for life to your very own questions on philosophy survive? With missed event. 11.30aM-12.15PM > £5.50 > LB83 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 5-8 and science live to the experts or tweet incredible pictures FOR MORE > 1.15-2PM > £5.50 them in advance to #cheltlitfest > LB75 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 8-12 > 10-10.45aM Robert Winston takes DEtAIlS On > L317 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 4PM-5PM > £5.50 maKe monster masKs us way back to Earth’s > aGE 12+ > £6.00 WRItE On! Come and meet sKulduGGery Pleasant beginnings and shows WORKSHOPS nicola l Robinson, us what life needed to you, me and thinG: with dereK landy GO tO author and illustrator Do you need more live and survive and the inGo ChroniCles with the leGend of the what it needs today. From the very big to PAGE 96 loCh ness lilo of The Monster awesome in your life? helen dunmore Machine. Bring along Join Derek landy, the microscopic, meet the animals, plants, A brand-new Ingo adventure begins with Ruby has two best your little monsters creator of the fungi and bacteria that nurture life on the atmospheric and thrilling Stormswept. friends: one is her and have some awesomest series Earth. That’s Life! Immerse yourself in the Mer-world created doughnut-brained monstrous fun around - Skulduggery by Helen Dunmore and fi nd out what it neighbour Jackson, > LB88 > PaRaBOLa aRtS CENtRE > aGE 8+ making monster Pleasant. The latest, is like to race along currents, swim with the other is a small, > 2.45-3.30PM > £6 masks and hearing monster stories... Kingdom of the Wicked, dolphins and leave the ordinary world strange thing - called, GRRRRRR. is out now and like behind. er, Thing - who lives at Derek, guarantees thrills, spills and no frills. martha and the bunny the bottom of her > LB80 > QUEEN’S HOtEL > aGE 3-6 brothers > LB93 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 10+ garden. Keeping cute > 11.30aM-12.15PM > £5 > LB84 > PaRaBOLa aRtS CENtRE > 5.45-6.30PM > £5.50 Meet the irrepressible Martha and her little Thing out of trouble isn’t easy, and > aGE 10-14 > 1.15-2PM > £5 bunny brothers as Martha prepares for her who better to tell you all about that than very exciting fi rst day at school. As well as Karen McCombie (wordies) and Alex t telling you the story, author and illustrator Smith (arty doodlings). Clara vulliamy will show you how to > LB76 > QUEEN’S HOtEL > aGE 6-9 make an amazing felt bunny which looks > 10-10.45aM > £5 just like Martha for you to take home. > LB89 > QUEEN’S HOtEL > aGE 4-6 > 4-4.45PM > £5

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write on! worKshoPs PrinCess evie’s Ponies beast Quest build a booK Princess Evie is crazy Calling all fearless people of Avantia! The Build A Book are about her ponies. But good wizard Aduro needs your help to running a special they are not like any remain triumphant over the evil wizard Festival workshop - other ponies - oh no! Marvel. Participate in battle cries, cryptic turning children into Whenever Evie rides puzzles and beastly games to free the authors in their own them, she is whisked beasts from Marvel’s malicious spell. All right! Children will away on a magical warriors will receive exclusive goodies! collaborate in groups adventure in a faraway > LB90 > PaRaBOLa aRtS CENtRE to imagine, write, illustrate and have land. This time, she > aGE 7-9 > 4.15-5PM > £5.50 published a 20 page story book. Parents gets to ride a unicorn! Come to this sparkly will have the opportunity to order copies session dressed in your best princess outfi t of the and join author Sarah KilBride for national GeoGraPhiC fi nished book. activities and pony fun. QuiZ whiZ > LB86 > QUEEN’S HOtEL > aGE 5-7 Are you a Quiz Whiz? Come and fi nd out > LB77 > PaRaBOLa aRtS CENtRE > aGE 7-11 > 2.30-3.15PM > £5.50 how much you know about everything > 10aM-12PM > £15 from animals to space in the National Geographic Kids Quiz Whiz event. Plus GraPhiC novels sePtimus heaP with prizes and animal surprises from the team anGie saGe masterClass with Garen that brought you Infopedia, Quiz Whiz and ewinG Come and hear Angie 125 True Stories of Amazing Animals! Sage talk about the Join comics expert, > LB91 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 7-12 Garen Ewing, author diverse and > 4.15-5PM > £5 beautifully developed and illustrator of the world she has created FAMILY EVENT amazing Rainbow in her bestselling Orchid graphic novels series, Septimus Heap. asK me a Question for a workshop on Find out about the Julian Baggini, Marcus Chown & everything you need latest book in the A C Grayling to know about how to create a graphic novel. series, Darke, and news on the movie Why is the sea salty? How far away is which is currently in production. You will create your own adventure story space? What makes me me? These are just featuring heroes and villains devised by > LB87 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 10+ some of the questions posed by children you. Garen will then teach you how to > 2.45-3.30PM > £5 in Big Questions from Little People - draw characters, action poses, clothing, Answered by some Very Big People and FAMILY EVENT objects and perspective. Using your new answered by an illustrious panel of experts skills, you will bring your comic adventure including philosophers Julian Baggini story to life in just four panels. that’s life with robert and A C Grayling and scientist Marcus winston Chown. In a lively, brain-teasing event for > LB85 > PaRaBOLa aRtS CENtRE > aGE 10-15 What makes Earth an adults and youngsters alike, join us to pose > 2-4PM > £15 ideal place for life to your very own questions on philosophy survive? With and science live to the experts or tweet incredible pictures them in advance to #cheltlitfest FOR MORE Robert Winston takes DEtAIlS On > L317 > IMPERIaL SQUaRE > 4PM-5PM us way back to Earth’s > aGE 12+ > £6.00 WRItE On! beginnings and shows WORKSHOPS us what life needed to live and survive and GO tO the inGo ChroniCles with PAGE 96 what it needs today. From the very big to helen dunmore the microscopic, meet the animals, plants, A brand-new Ingo adventure begins with fungi and bacteria that nurture life on the atmospheric and thrilling Stormswept. Earth. That’s Life! Immerse yourself in the Mer-world created > LB88 > PaRaBOLa aRtS CENtRE > aGE 8+ by Helen Dunmore and fi nd out what it > 2.45-3.30PM > £6 is like to race along currents, swim with dolphins and leave the ordinary world behind. martha and the bunny brothers > LB93 > tHE StUDIO > aGE 10+ > 5.45-6.30PM > £5.50 Meet the irrepressible Martha and her bunny brothers as Martha prepares for her very exciting fi rst day at school. As well as telling you the story, author and illustrator Clara vulliamy will show you how to make an amazing felt bunny which looks just like Martha for you to take home. > LB89 > QUEEN’S HOtEL > aGE 4-6 > 4-4.45PM > £5

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FULL WEEKEND FIC ‘N’ MIX FROM IDEA TO FIRST HOW TO GET COURSES SESSIONS DRAFT PUBLISHED We offer two-day weekend The Festival offers a series Richard Skinner Rebecca Gray workshops, capped at a of modular three hour maximum of twenty people sessions on all aspects of Where do ideas for novels Rebecca Gray is an editor and suitable for all levels of creative writing including come from? And how do we of fiction and non-fiction ability. Prices are inclusive genres such as comedy, life ensure we make it to the end for trailblazing independent of teas, coffees, and lunch at writing or even speech and of a first draft? Director of publisher Serpent’s Tail, which the hotel restaurant. blog writing. the Fiction Programme at the has championed international Faber Academy and a tutor on award-winning writing for Students can choose from its six-month Writing a Novel 25 years. This workshop will individual workshops or course, Richard Skinner is on help you take the first steps GETTING PUBLISHED: book a combination of hand with an abundance of to publication, from knowing the sessions for a more experience and exercises. when your book is ready, to WRITING TO BE comprehensive course. READ > LW04 Sunday 7 October when and how to approach All of these sessions are capped literary agents. Alison Baverstock > 10:00 am - 1:00 pm at thirty people. So you want to write, but how > Montpellier Chapter > LW07 > Monday 8 October do you reach your audience? > £25.00 > 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Join The Naked Author’s Alison > St Andrew’s Church - Baverstock, Course Leader THE ART OF Garden Room > £25.00 for MA Publishing at Kingston SPEECHES AND HOW TO GET University, for a full weekend PRESENTATIONS PUBLISHED workshop exploring your Philip Collins Richard Skinner GETTING INTO options - from pitching to Ever wanted to stun a CHARACTER From looking for an agent industry professionals, to less room into an awed - rather Chris Sykes traditional methods of sharing than appalled - silence? through to self-publishing on your work. Luckily Philip Collins, former Amazon, never before have Former Creative Writing tutor speechwriter to Tony Blair, there been so many options at Oxford University, and now > LW01 > Saturday 6 open to new writers wanting Director of the International & Sunday 7 October knows exactly what’s needed to give a storming speech or to publish their first novel. Summer School for Creative > 10:00 am - 4:00 pm daily > Award-winning novelist Writing at the University of Hotel Du Vin > £100 make a great presentation. Be remembered for all the right Richard Skinner will negotiate Sussex, Chris Sykes will show reasons, by perfecting this art - their pros and cons, discussing you five key ways to bring your one which we can all learn. how to write synopses, pitches characters to life, with all their BUILDING A NOVEL and letters to agents en route. endearing mannerisms, traits Greg Mosse > LW02 > Saturday 6 October > LW05 > Sunday 7 October and foibles. > 10:00 am - 1:00 pm A novel is like a clock > 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm > LW08 > Tuesday 9 October > Montpellier Chapter > Montpellier Chapter Hotel > 10:00 am - 1:00 pm mechanism, as interlocking > £25.00 sentences unfold the > £25.00 > St Andrew’s Church characters and the events that - Garden Room > £25.00 conspire against them over time. Understand the complex FROM IDEA TO FIRST machinery of plot, character, DRAFT time and place with Greg HOW TO WRITE Rebecca Gray Mosse, Programme Leader for COMEDY Creative Writing at West Dean How do you build on a good College, who brings 20 years’ Marc Blake idea? What does it take to experience of the creative Sitcom, stand-up and comedy write a novel? And how do you process to this full weekend drama have boomed in recent develop a character, your voice workshop. years: could you be their next or a plot? Editor Rebecca Gray success? TV writer, bestselling will discuss exercises, ideas and > LW16 > Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 comic author and comedian techniques to help you arrive > 10:00 am - 4:00 pm daily Marc Blake puts his 20 years at a complete - and compelling > Hotel Du Vin - Chef’s Table of teaching experience into - first draft. > £100.00 a workshop revealing the > LW06 Monday 8 October skills you will need to find and > 10:00 am - 1:00 pm market your inner ‘funny’. > St Andrew’s Church > LW03 > Saturday 6 October - Garden Room > 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm > £25.00 > Montpellier Chapter > £25.00 104 The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival DIALOGUE AND point of view OVERCOMING PAGE WRITING FOR SUBTEXT Scarlett Thomas FRIGHT JOURNALISM Chris Sykes Get inside the minds of your Morag Joss Damian Whitworth Dialogue consists of what characters with Scarlett Turning white at the prospect As a feature writer on The characters say and what they Thomas, author of the Orange of the blank page? Award- Times, Damian Whitworth has mean. But in good dialogue, Prize longlisted The End of winning novelist Morag Joss written on a wide variety of the two can be very different! Mr. Y. Inspired by Chekhov, confronts your fears by taking topics. His subjects range Poet and playwright Chris acting theory, psychology, a fresh look at “inspiration”. from young lives blighted by Sykes, author of the upcoming mysticism and even popular Tutor at both Arvon and economic hardship, to the How to Craft a Great Story, will economics, Scarlett introduces Oxford University, Morag’s ‘flotilla thrilla’ of the Diamond reveal how to write dialogue an innovative approach to ways of generating stories will Jubilee pageant and the with real depth. Make what’s making your creations ring have you discovering a world limerick capabilities of writers left unsaid the most powerful true, in voice and perspective. teeming with people, places, in Cheltenham. He will be part of your fiction. Give your readers something human predicament and revealing the skills needed they can believe in. > LW09 > Tuesday 9 October possibilities for fiction. to become a successful and > 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm > LW12 > Thursday 11 October > LW15 > Friday 12 October versatile voice on a newspaper. > St Andrew’s Church - > 10:00 am - 1:00 pm > 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm > LW19 > Sunday 14 October Garden Room > St Andrew’s Church - > St Andrew’s Church - > 10:00 am - 1:00 pm > £25.00 Garden Room Garden Room > Montpellier Chapter > £25.00 > £25.00 > £25.00

FINDING THE PLOT Shelley Weiner WRITING BIOGRAPHY WRITING FOR Frances Wilson Dissect and discover the CHILDREN elements of the well-laid Royal Society of Literature Julia Green plot with acclaimed novelist Fellow and experienced The Course Director for the MAKING YOUR and tutor Shelley Weiner. biographer Frances Wilson is MA in Writing for Young MARK IN THE Author of the recently released looking for those with a true People at Bath Spa University, BLOGOSPHERE The Audacious Mendacity story to tell. An unmissable Julia Green’s prize-winning Zoe Strimpel opportunity to discuss your of Lily Green, Shelley will be students include Sally You’ve got a voice and lots project in detail, be it fully demystifying the process Nicholls, Lucy Christopher to say. But how do you hook fledged or embryonic, with the behind this intriguing aspect and Elen Caldecott. Author of readers when they have so author of How to Survive the of writing fiction. Is there a young adult novels Bringing much choice? Learn to carve Titanic or The Sinking of J Bruce place for the chaotic, creative the Summer and Drawing out your slice of the online Ismay. force of chance? with Light, join Julia for tips, pie with Zoe Strimpel, The > LW10 > Wednesday 10 > LW13 > Thursday 11 October techniques and advice on Times’ journalist and Mumsnet October > 10:00 am - 1:00 pm > > 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm writing for young people. blogger extraordinaire. St Andrew’s Church - Garden > St Andrew’s Church - > LW17 > Saturday 13 October A punchy, addictive and Room > £25.00 Garden Room > 10:00 am - 1:00 pm intelligent blog is only three > £25.00 > Montpellier Chapter hours away. > £25.00 > LW20 Sunday 14 October GETTING INTO > 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm CHARACTER FINDING THE PLOT > Montpellier Chapter Adam Foulds Scarlett Thomas FADE IN: WRITING > £25.00 Author of the Man Booker Prize Scarlett Thomas, Creative FOR THE BIG SCREEN short listed The Quickening Writing tutor at Kent Lucy Scher WRITE ON! Maze, Adam Foulds invites University, takes you back to Director of The Script Factory WORKSHOPS FOR you to explore the myriad ways Ancient Greece to discover Lucy Scher explores the key TEENAGERS of understanding characters in the enduring principles of principles of good storytelling fiction, and building your own. story craft used by the best for film. Whether you have This year we are offering Sharing a wealth of award- writers today. Author of the been musing on an idea for two workshops for aspiring winning experience, Adam’s recently released Monkeys your blockbuster for years younger writers. practical exercises will provide With Typewriters, Scarlett or started to draft your a firm foundation for your will show how the past can opening scenes, this lively and plotting a novel imaginative constructions. innovate your plots: catharsis discursive session will inspire guaranteed! > Lb36 > Book It! page 95 > LW11 > Wednesday 10 October - and perhaps bring the bright > 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm > LW14 > Friday 12 October lights of Hollywood a little > St Andrew’s Church - > 10:00 am - 1:00 pm closer... doing crime Garden Room > £25.00 > St Andrew’s Church - > LW18 Saturday 13 October Garden Room > 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm > Lb55 > Book It! page 99 > £25.00 > Montpellier Chapter > £25.00

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Beyond the books

Shop till you drop... “ Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” Oscar Wilde knew how to live. Do the same this October at our Festival Marketplace where you’ll find a heaving bazaar of arts and crafts goodies. There are two Waterstones book tents where you can pick up all the new releases and, if you’re lucky, even get them signed by your favourite authors. Waterstones also has a Children’s Hideaway book tent with fun activities for families.

106 The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival Eat, drink, and be merry! “It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like ‘What about lunch?’” Keep hunger at bay, Winnie-the-Pooh style with a delicious smackerel or two from Montpellier Café bar, where you can pop in for a quick coffee, linger over a long lunch, enjoy a glass of wine or a scrumptious supper. There’s also the spectacular Spiegeltent, the Town Hall’s Pillar Room or The Times Café to visit. Taylors of Harrogate will be on site throughout the Festival with an amazing array of coffee for you to enjoy or, if you fancy something a little stronger, then Henry Westons Cider and Lindeman’s wine will also be available. Beyond Official Suppliers the The best things in life are free. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn…” Seize the day Kerouac-style and make the most of your Festival books visit. There’s masses of free stuff going on throughout the Festival and your only obligation is to enjoy as much as you can. The Literary Lounge will play host to a series of free events throughout the Festival. Try our Signposts series of top tips from experts on anything from colour in the home, to university applications, to opening a new chapter in your career. The Radio Times’ editorial team will be hosting free events in The Literary Lounge or drop into The Salon to enjoy some of BBC Radio 4’s and BBC Radio 4 Extra’s best-loved programmes for free. Sky Arts returns to Cheltenham with a unique space where you can come along and be inspired. Here you can relax and enjoy live music daily, be entertained, or learn something new by taking part in a drawing workshop or even a dance class. All activities are free, whether you participate or just sit back and enjoy. Advance booking is not necessary. Come and discover the wonder of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest at the Sky Rainforest Rescue Canopy Walk and take part in some fun activities for all the family. Sky Rainforest Rescue is Sky and WWF’s campaign to help save 1 billion trees in Acre, North West Brazil. Visit sky.com/rainforestrescue for more information. Visitors can join The Times and learn all about why it is one of the world’s most trusted quality newspapers. Explore and interact with the technology that brings the paper to its 1.5 million readers and discover the journey that enables journalists to write award-winning material. ‘Busker-style’ artists will also be on site throughout the Festival and on Saturday 6 October, The Brewery in Cheltenham’s town centre will have its own free activities to tie in with the Festival.

Visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/freefestival for up to date information on all the free stuff

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Imperial Square

Sky Arts Garden Theatre Inkpot

Cheltenham Town Hall

Waterstones Book Tent

Waterstones Children’s Hideaway The Times Café

The Studio Membership Tent SAINTS and The Times

Box Office

Queens Hotel

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108 The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival Montpellier Gardens The Forum

The Salon

Spiegeltent Montpellier Café/bar & Waterstones Book Tent

Writers’ Sky Arts Room

Literary Lounge

Festival Marketplace Sky Rainforest Rescue Box Office & Info Point The Times Canopy Walk

Getting to the Festival The Festival sites are located in the centre of Cheltenham, which is well served by public transport. For venue maps and information on train and bus services, as well as park & ride and car parking, visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/visitorinformation Postcode references for the festival sites are: Imperial Square GL50 1QA Montpellier Gardens GL50 1UW

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110 The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival Thank you

The Times is delighted to sponsor the Cheltenham Literature Festival for a seventh year, with our writers taking part in a variety of events over the ten days of the festival. James Harding, Editor of The Times, will interview Kofi Annan; columnists Giles Coren, Ben Macintyre and Caitlin Moran will discuss their latest books; Robert Crampton will host a quiz night and Times journalists will lead workshops on specialist subjects such as speechwriting. We will also hold our editorial leader conference in front of an audience for the first time and of course there’s the annual Times Debate on Saturday 6 October, when we will ask our panel to discuss “Is Britain still Great?” Highlights from the Festival will appear in the paper with additional videos, blogs and reviews covered on our various digital platforms. We look forward to welcoming you to The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival.

Alex O’Connell, Arts Editor, The Times

Waterstones is proud to be official bookseller and sponsor ofT he Times Cheltenham Literature Festival. In addition to our two book tents at Imperial Square and Montpellier Gardens, this year we can’t wait to welcome our junior readers - and their families - to the Hideaway: a new zone dedicated to children’s books. Paul Auster - in our opinion - is one of this year’s Festival highlights and we’re honoured to be sponsoring this event that brings a contemporary American master to Cheltenham. But we’re also thrilled to be supporting emerging voices too: this year’s Festival Focus events celebrate new novelists, including two writers from our Waterstones 11 campaign: Rachel Joyce and Patrick Flanery. To reserve signed books before the Festival opens, call Waterstones on 01242 571 779 or email [email protected]

Sky Arts returns for a fourth year as broadcast partner of The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival and will once again bring the highly acclaimed Mariella Frostrup’s Book Show to a live audience. Sky Arts also offers festival goers the chance to enjoy live performances and take part in free workshops. Whether you participate or simply sit back and relax, all activities are free of charge. Sky Arts is delighted to be returning to the Festival, part of our on-going support and commitment to the arts, bringing leading literature festivals to booklovers across the UK. We wish everyone an enlightening and enjoyable Festival.

The Scottish American Investment Company (SAINTS) is once again delighted to be a principal sponsor of the festival. This year’s ‘Business and Economics’ series has an incredible mix of high profile speakers who will discuss business, finance and the economy. Speakers include Vince Cable, Robert Peston, Hilary Devey and more. SAINTS is also offering festival-goers the opportunity to win the new iPad and an iPad Smart Cover. Visit www.bgtrustonline.com/cheltenham or look out for information around the festival venues. SAINTS is an investment trust that has been in existence since 1873. The fund is managed by the Edinburgh based investment management firm Baillie Gifford. For more information on SAINTS visit www.saints-it.com

This is the Cambridge Coexist Programme’s second year in partnership with The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival and we are delighted to offer even more special events this year which challenge and celebrate the role religion plays in so many people’s lives. Look out for our contemporary debates on Libya and Religion in the Media, fresh insight in to understanding Islam, as well as inspiring contributions from Chris Beardshaw, John Tavener and Mary Robinson.

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Acknowledgements Milton, Fiona Lindsay, Richard Have you considered becoming a patron? Whitehead, Alice Cooper, Benefits include: Cheltenham Festivals Board Allan Mallinson, BBC • Dedicated patron booking line Peter Bond – Chairman International Short Story Award, • Invitations to special events at each Festival Susan Blanchfield The Wellcome Trust Book Prize. • Opportunities to meet the Festival Directors, performers and speakers Lewis Carnie The Festival would like to • Public acknowledgement of your patronage if you wish Jonathan Carr thank all those who have Patronage starts from £800 a year and Life Patronage is £25,000. Dominic Collier – Vice Chairman provided advice collaboration To find out more contact: Christopher Cook and support: Arlene McGlynn, Patrons Manager 01242 775857 Peter Elliott Our storytelling events are Email: [email protected] Prof. Russell Foster programmed in association with or visit: cheltenhamfestivals.com/patrons Diane Savory Ben Haggarty and The Crick Crack Club. Prof. Averil MacDonald A& C Black, Acumen, Anova Meredithe Stuart-Smith Dr. Gill Samuels CBE We would like to thank all our Books, Arrow, Atlantic, Aurum Patrons for their generous support: Chief Executive Giles and Michelle Thorley Press, BBC International Short Donna Renney Life Patron Michael and Rosie Warner Story Award, Biteback, Bloodaxe, Steve and Eugenia Winwood Mark and Sue Blanchfield Festival Chair Bloomsbury, British Museum Peter and Anne Bond Dominic Collier Press, Canongate, Chorion, Festival Patron Clerkenwell Press, Continuum, Charles Fisher With many thanks to all the Kate Adie Dorling Kindersley, Enitharmon, David and John Hall staff at Cheltenham Festivals Margaret Austen Faber, Francis Lincoln, Granta, Graham and Eileen Lockwood and the Festival volunteers, Michael H Bond HarperCollins (Collins, Fourth Fiona McLeod all of whom help make the Mark and Maria Bentley Estate, HarperPress), Headline, The McWilliam family in loving Festival happen. Mr and Mrs Brenninkmeijer Hodder & Stoughton, Icon, John memory of Ruth McWilliam Festival Advisory Group McKenzie Murray, John Wiley and Sons John and Susan Singer Ltd, J R Books, Little Brown, David and Jane Bruce Fiona Allen Mark and Elizabeth Philip- Louise Greenberg Books, Jonathan and Daphne Carr Keith Blackmore Sørensen Nicholas Clee Michael O’Mara Books, National Fiona and David Symondson Robert Cawthorne and Portrait Gallery Press, Octopus, Catherine White Dominic Collier The Walker Family Geraldine Collinge Orion, Oxford University Press, Simon Collings PanMacmillan, Penguin (Penguin Nick Higham Platinum Patron Mr and Mrs Andrew and General, Penguin Press, Allen Jennifer Bryant-Pearson Jacqueline Coyle Dotti Irving Lane, Michael Joseph), Phaidon, Dominic Collier in memory of Debra Drew and Nigel Browne China Miéville Picador, Princeton University, Karen Hood James Fleming Alex O’Connell Press, Profile, Quadrille, Quercus, Michael and Angela Cronk Kate Fleming Andrew O’Hagan Random House, (Cornerstone, Colin Doak John Foster Caroline Raphael Harvill Secker, Ebury, Yellow Jeremy and Germaine Hitchins Carol and Isabella Freeman Mark Turner Jersey, Vintage, The Bodley Head, Jonathan and Cassinha Hitchins Chatto and Windus, Jonathan Jean Gouldsmith Skinner Erica Wagner Stephen and Tania Hitchins Cape), Self Made Hero, Serpent’s Maurice Gran Cross Festival Simon and Emma Keswick Tail, Short Books, Simon and Professor A C Grayling Advocacy Group Des and ChiChi Mills Schuster, Tate Publishing, Huw and Nicki Gwynn-Jones Lavinia Sidgwick Howard and Jay Milton Thames and Hudson, The Poetry Alex and Hattie Hambro Dominic Collier The Oldham Foundation Society, Tindal Street Press, Mike and Sally Hatcher Marianne Hinton Transworld, V&A Publishing, Adrian and Lizzie Portlock Margaret Headen Jane Churchill Verso, Weidenfield & Nicolson, Dr. Gill Samuels CBE Marianne Hinton Jane Bailey Yale University Press. 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